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Curvy blues

I was looking in the past (and some more) at various solutions for efficient hardware-aided curve rasterization methods. Those ideas mostly focused on using the graphical hardware for accelerating the geometry generation process. But what happens, when we completely skip the geometry generation step? Even more blazing performance and totally resolution-independent rendering. Thanks to some tips by Jon and interesting math discussions I had in the past weeks, I’m glad to present my current thinking. Quadratic curves Quadratic curves (second-degree polynomials) consist of a starting point, an end point and one control point. Such curves cannot self-intersect nor inflect. The representation of a quadratic curve is a parabola, a straight line or (a degenerate case) – a point. Quadratic curves are not the most popular ones in modern graphical packages. Cubic types (more about...

2007-10-27 16:39 UTC to Planet maemo by Michael Dominic K.

Vagalume: a Last.fm player for the Nokia N800

These days I have been working on Vagalume: a Last.fm player for the Maemo platform (Nokia N800 and N810, though it’s designed to work on a regular PC Gnome desktop as well). It’s still very small and doesn’t do much (I started it just a few days ago) but since it already works and has the most basic features that a Last.fm player must have I decided to release it. Don’t expect a UI with lots of colours and shiny buttons in this release: I have been concentrating mostly on the protocol so the UI is stripped to the bare minimum. Here’s a sample screenshot (taken from the scratchbox): Features: It plays Last.fm radio streams (using the Last.fm protocol v1.2) You can select any radio (Personal, Neighbours, Loved Tracks …, or any arbitrary URL) It implements the Audioscrobbler Realtime Submission Protocol v1.2, specifically: It sends Now Playing information It scrobbles tracks (so you’ll see what you’ve been listening to in your profile). It is stable, I’m using it everyday and I haven’t...

2007-10-29 10:03 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia

maemo roadmapping process

Maemo roadmapping, revisited. Now it’s better connected to our internal reality. The development platform plans are exposed, although more details should be still provided via wiki pages and enhancement requests. Our aim is also to provide more details about the maemo linux platform itself. We’ll see. The application level (Nokia supported & maemo garage) has been taken out of the way due to confidentiality hurdles and lack of interest, respectively. Let’s concentrate on maemo-maemo. There is a RoadmapWishlist connected to the official roadmap, where anybody can suggest new features. We are having roadmapping meetings of different areas almost on a weekly basis. We will keep an eye on the wishlist and we will discuss, include or leave to the community initiative the features proposed. Changes to be reflected in roadmap & wishlist at the end of each discussion. Please bug us through the RoadmapWishlist if as a developer there is anything you need (to know) about the future plans....

2007-10-30 12:08 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil

Coding some more on TMut

2007-10-29 23:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof3

GTK+ Matters

2007-10-29 08:15 UTC to Planet maemo by Alp Toker3

mediaserv: v0.04 and demo (Jaffa@maemopeople)

2007-10-28 20:12 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrew Flegg4

Maemo/N800 File Synchronisation/Transfer Idea

2007-10-28 17:54 UTC to Planet maemo by Pete Savage3

Bored to default ring tones on N800/N810? Here is the cure!

2007-10-28 00:04 UTC to Planet maemo by Karoliina Salminen3

The Cyclomatic Horror From Outer Space

2007-10-25 17:26 UTC to Planet maemo by Xan Lopez5

Maemo Training at Stanford University on November 6th

2007-10-26 09:15 UTC to Planet maemo by Juha Tukkinen3

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Curvy blues

2007-10-27 16:39 UTC to Planet maemo by Michael Dominic K.

Vagalume 0.1 released: come and get it!

After a couple of pre-releases, version 0.1 of Vagalume, the Last.fm client for the Nokia N800, is finally here. This is the first proper release and it comes with full source code licensed under the GNU GPL. There haven’t been many changes since the first pre-release from last monday, but this version includes some nice new features such as: Proper support for loving/banning tracks. Support for tagging artists, tracks and albums (with multiple tags at once). More menu entries to select Last.fm radios. Avoid typing long lastfm:// URLs. I have also compiled packages for Debian etch (x86) and Tablet OS 2008 (using Maemo chinook beta), so if there is any lucky owner of an N810 out there, I’d appreciate feedback ;) I haven’t tried to compile Vagalume for the Nokia 770. I don’t have one of those and I haven’t had the time to find out if it’s easy/possible to make it work there, but if someone tries please let me know. For those interested, this program depends on GTK+2, GStreamer 0.10, libcurl and libxml2. You can get Vagalume from

2007-11-01 15:54 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia

Nokia SU-8W Bluetooth Keyboard Mini-Review

If you have a table, this keyboard is really fine. But without a table… The Nokia SU-8W keyboard has been here for several months now. It wasn’t much fun to use with the Nokia 770 internet tablet’s original operating system, which back then required inofficial drivers, but the Nokia N800’s OS supports this keyboard by default. Pairing is easy, yet a little confusing with the N800 sometimes, and typing in applications is straightforward. The keys have a very good feel and yes, you can comfortably touchtype with it. It has an integrated folding stand that is designed for cell phones which can hold the N800, as well. The SU-8W runs forever on one set of 2 x AAA batteries and a reason other than its low power drain might be that I hardly ever use it. Let me explain why. Originally I expected to use this keyboard for extensive typing while on the go. But Maemo isn’t made for keyboard use (if it is, this user didn’t see the clues needed to learn it), so the N800 needs to be in touch distance since you have to use the pen or a finger for GUI interaction every...

2007-10-31 21:26 UTC to Planet maemo by Hanno Zulla

Always on or On Demand?

2007-10-31 18:27 UTC to Planet maemo by Jonathan Greene3

maemo roadmapping process

2007-10-30 12:08 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil8

Vagalume: a Last.fm player for the Nokia N800

2007-10-29 10:03 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia8

[Pidgin On Maemo] pidgin-2.2.2-0nix0 is now available

2007-10-30 04:39 UTC to Garage News by Gabriel Schulhof4

GTK+ Matters

2007-10-29 08:15 UTC to Planet maemo by Alp Toker3

mediaserv: v0.04 and demo (Jaffa@maemopeople)

2007-10-28 20:12 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrew Flegg6

Maemo/N800 File Synchronisation/Transfer Idea

2007-10-28 17:54 UTC to Planet maemo by Pete Savage3

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Midgard and the Law of Karma

Karma: The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of his existence, regarded as determining his next incarnation. (wiktionary) Many communities struggle with the question of how to recognize their most valuable members. This is true also for Nokia's maemo.org, the community for open source development on internet tablets. With the two latest device releases, Nokia has given hefty discounts to some members of the community, raising obvious questions on who should be entitled to such a developer device. One part of answering that question (and managing the developer device program in general) was developing a CRM system for maemo.org including karma calculations based on community activity. Karma...

2007-11-04 20:16 UTC to Planet maemo by Henri Bergius

Presentation slides from ELC-2007 available

Ok, it’s a long time since my last post, but I’m really busy improving EFL, developing Canola (the whole team is, that’s why you see no posts from them either) and also with some presentations about EFL. Today I’ve presented at CELF Embedded Linux Conference 2007, Linz, Austria, the title was “Fancy and Fast GUIs on Embedded Devices” and is now available online at http://talks.gustavobarbieri.com.br/efl/elce2007/Fancy_and_Fast_GUIs_on_Embedded_Devices.odp Maybe it’s useful to you (trying to get your managers to use something else than GTK/SDL for embedded devices?). The conference was really great, I’ve met some great hackers that I just know from mail/IRC and could talk again with others that I already knew from other conferences. Free software hackers are usually very kind. People’s reaction was quite positive, most...

2007-11-04 02:16 UTC to Planet maemo by Gustavo Barbieri

Allow me to explain …

As in the world of mobile and embedded aggressive changes in technology and devices’ capabilities occur at a high frequency, I decided to make Tinymail’s API very flexible or adaptive. Yet I wanted to provide a certain functionality, which means a message view component that also shows the typical message headers. What if the developer wants to wrap the message view in a scrolled window, have a message viewer as a new window or put the thing that displays the header in an expander? On a mobile device with a limited screen height it is a waste of space to show four or five lines of information. If the user wants this info, he can decide to expand it. Imagine the same software vendor want to adjust the E-mail client for another device? However, nowadays software development must be fast. The change is something that should not destabilize everything that was already working. It must be easy to develop a new version of the message view component that perhaps behaves in a new way. Who...

2007-11-03 22:52 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof

Polls and Results

2007-11-04 01:09 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman5

The World's Internet Tablet?

2007-11-03 10:52 UTC to Planet maemo by Henri Bergius3

Vagalume 0.1 released: come and get it!

2007-11-01 15:54 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia14

[Maemo Mapper] Maemo Mapper v2.0 Released

2007-11-02 08:33 UTC to Garage News by John Costigan7

N800 vs N810 Roundup

2007-11-02 11:08 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman5

Personalizing your N810 - new variants of the free ring tones

2007-11-02 11:08 UTC to Planet maemo by Karoliina Salminen3

[pyFMRadio] Python module for controlling the FM radio

2007-11-02 08:33 UTC to Garage News by Martin Grimme4

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Tinymail’s pre-release 0.0.4

I decided to do another Tinymail pre release. I haven’t yet run out of numbers, so this is pre-release v0.0.4. Now that TMut is more or less (basic) feature complete, I’m thinking about doing a TMut 1.0.0 too. I don’t know when Modest will be released but I do think it’s almost the time of the Tny E-mail clients. If not Modest then I’ll make a few other E-mail client flavours … like TMut. There are (probably) still small problems here and there in Tinymail. Mostly the kind of problems that can only be found by putting the code in the hands of users. There have been two or three API changes so the Python bindings are not synchronized (Python developers who started using Tinymail might want to stick with pre-release...

2007-11-08 00:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof

Browser-extras is open for a talk.

After getting huge amount of letters from the world about "we'd like to have smth and smth more and ..." ... finally we've made a mailing lists for browser-extras project. Now everyone can participate in our project and have a talk with developers directly. Click to subscribe: - browser-extras-users ...for everyone who have some ideas how to make surfing the Internet better. - browser-extras-devel ...for everyone who would like to be involved into browser-extras development. See next to be in touch Browser-Extras page MozMobile page

2007-11-07 23:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Anton Rogaynis

Modules, modules..

PyMaemo has now two new modules: Cython and Storm. The first one is a fork of Pyrex, to generate code mixing Python and C data types. The second is an Object Relational Mapper. Both are available for OS2007 and OS2008 (Chinook Beta). To install Cython you have to use apt-get install python2.5-cython, because it's targeted to developers. Storm is available through Application Manager. Hope you enjoy it!

2007-11-07 17:50 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf

Midgard and the Law of Karma

2007-11-04 20:16 UTC to Planet maemo by Henri Bergius17

Nokia Internet Tablet - N800 (part 11)

2007-11-06 22:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Jan Jansen3

TMut video demo

2007-11-06 18:12 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof3

[Quicknote] Quicknote initial release

2007-11-06 17:27 UTC to Garage News by Christoph Würstle3

Code in your hands!

2007-11-06 16:44 UTC to Planet maemo by Kenneth Rohde Christiansen3

Rewarding community contributors

2007-11-05 13:15 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil8

N810 Giveaway Contest Reloaded!

2007-11-06 13:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman3

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MicroB ships as the official browser for IT OS 2008

Some people may have noticed, but I'm confirming it for everyone else: MicroB has shipped as the only (and hence default...) browser with IT OS 2008. I'd like to say this is a win for open source. MicroB is the engine used by /usr/bin/browser...

2007-11-09 10:00 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless -

maemo 4.0 Chinook released, Nokia N810 landing

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet is going through the distribution channels as we speak and it will be progressively available in different countries in the next weeks. We will also make a progressive release and...

2007-11-09 12:51 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

500 happy contributors

2007-11-09 23:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil

Vagalume 0.2: it’s amazing and flies!

2007-11-08 23:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia5

Tinymail’s pre-release 0.0.4

2007-11-08 00:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof7

Browser-extras is open for a talk.

2007-11-07 23:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Anton Rogaynis7

Modules, modules..

2007-11-07 17:50 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf5

Midgard and the Law of Karma

2007-11-04 20:16 UTC to Planet maemo by Henri Bergius17

Nokia Internet Tablet - N800 (part 11)

2007-11-06 22:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Jan Jansen3

TMut video demo

2007-11-06 18:12 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof3

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maemo 4.0 Chinook released, Nokia N810 landing

2007-11-09 12:51 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

Upgrading Maemo SDK 4 Beta to Maemo SDK 4 final release

The final version of Maemo SDK 4 is out. Like most other people I couldn't wait for the final release and I installed the beta version. The big question, when I did read about...

2007-11-11 15:01 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrea Grandi

API stability? whazzat?

I haven’t posted in a while, so some news first: I’ve joined the OpenedHand crew. So far it’s been great: interesting projects, smart people and a really nice and telework-approving atmosphere (I had...

2007-11-10 20:55 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen

MicroB ships as the official browser for IT OS 2008

2007-11-09 10:00 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless -

500 happy contributors

2007-11-09 23:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil

Reinteract on Maemo

2007-11-11 14:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima3

Vagalume 0.2: it’s amazing and flies!

2007-11-08 23:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia6

Tinymail’s pre-release 0.0.4

2007-11-08 00:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof7

Browser-extras is open for a talk.

2007-11-07 23:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Anton Rogaynis7

Tip Line Now Open

2007-11-08 23:36 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman1

Modules, modules..

2007-11-07 17:50 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf5

My Work on MediaBox

2007-11-07 11:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Martin Grimme2

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The 500 fortunate applicants to the N810 maemo device program

Here you have the list of 500 contributors accepted to the N810 maemo device program. We got around 900 applications full of great ideas and commitment. We are sending today a confirmation email to everybody, accepted (including the discount code)...

2007-11-12 12:27 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

maemo 4.0 Chinook released, Nokia N810 landing

2007-11-09 12:51 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

N810 and geo-mapping

My proposal has been selected by Maemo Developer Device programme for Nokia N810 device. This time (I’ve been accepted into 770 and N800 programmes as well) I’d like to concentrate on a bit different things than usual: geo-mapping. ...

2007-11-12 15:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Alexander Bokovoy

500 happy contributors

2007-11-09 23:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil

Upgrading Maemo SDK 4 Beta to Maemo SDK 4 final release

The final version of Maemo SDK 4 is out. Like most other people I couldn't wait for the final release and I installed the beta version. The big question, when I did read about...

2007-11-11 15:01 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrea Grandi

API stability? whazzat?

2007-11-10 20:55 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen8

MicroB ships as the official browser for IT OS 2008

2007-11-09 10:00 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless -15

Reinteract on Maemo

2007-11-11 14:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima3

Vagalume 0.2: it’s amazing and flies!

2007-11-08 23:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia6

Tinymail’s pre-release 0.0.4

2007-11-08 00:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Van Hoof7

Browser-extras is open for a talk.

2007-11-07 23:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Anton Rogaynis7

Tip Line Now Open

2007-11-08 23:36 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman1

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The 500 fortunate applicants to the N810 maemo device program

2007-11-12 12:27 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

maemo 4.0 Chinook released, Nokia N810 landing

2007-11-09 12:51 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

Chinook Ogg Support

One of the contentious points in the user community is the Internet Tablet’s support for Ogg files. While this is not something I’ve been personally...

2007-11-13 20:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Jonathan Greene

ACCESS Garnet for maemo - First Look

The ACCESS Garnet VM is the familiar interface for Palm devices, so there...

2007-11-13 03:33 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman

Run 30,000 Palm OS apps on your Nokia Internet Tablet

ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc., formerly PalmSource, Inc. has just released Garnet VM Beta for the Nokia...

2007-11-13 14:01 UTC to Internet Tablet Talk

N810 and geo-mapping

2007-11-12 15:42 UTC to Planet maemo by Alexander Bokovoy5

500 happy contributors

2007-11-09 23:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil14

Upgrading Maemo SDK 4 Beta to Maemo SDK 4 final release

2007-11-11 15:01 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrea Grandi6

API stability? whazzat?

2007-11-10 20:55 UTC to Planet maemo by Jussi Kukkonen8

MicroB ships as the official browser for IT OS 2008

2007-11-09 10:00 UTC to Planet maemo by timeless -15

Reinteract on Maemo

2007-11-11 14:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima3

Vagalume 0.2: it’s amazing and flies!

2007-11-08 23:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia6

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Amazon Kindle could be the library of the working nomad

Amazon's e-book reader Kindle was launched today,...

2007-11-19 17:58 UTC to Planet maemo by Henri Bergius

Jablet - Tablet Services

Zerojay and Texrat from the Internet Tablet Talk forums and (more recently) Jaiku...

2007-11-19 03:27 UTC to Planet maemo by Jonathan Greene

New OS2007 HE for the Nokia 770 with Mozilla engine and memory corruption bugfix

A new version of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770 is now available...

2007-11-13 23:55 UTC to announcements by Quim Gil

GL colorspace conversions

A fellow sushi-lover MacSlow was blogging some time ago about various cool things that can be done with OpenGL and video. Mirco writes: ”The...

2007-11-17 13:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Michael Dominic K.

mediaserv + tablet-encode = mediautils (Jaffa@maemopeople)

My command-line video conversion script, 770-encode is very widely used; however its name is obviously something of an anachronism. So with the imminent availability of the N810, it was time to...

2007-11-19 10:50 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrew Flegg

installable fix for bug #2006 - Memory corruption during WLAN use (fanoush@maemopeople)

2007-11-16 15:02 UTC to Planet maemo by Frantisek Dufka8

Mamona 0.1 Released

2007-11-16 00:32 UTC to Planet maemo by Rodrigo Vivi13

Installing qemu-arm-eabi patch into Scratchbox

2007-11-16 21:54 UTC to Planet maemo3

A port of Liferea for mobile linux handheld devices

2007-11-16 19:14 UTC to Planet maemo2

Internet Tablet School Update

2007-11-16 13:02 UTC to Planet maemo by Krisse Juorunen2

Chinook SDK Tools

2007-11-14 22:34 UTC to Planet maemo by Juha Kallioinen11

Reinteract News

2007-11-15 00:10 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima5

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Vagalume 0.3: now with some images too

I’ve just released Vagalume 0.3, the Last.fm client for Gnome and Nokia 770/N800/N810. Although I said that I’d begin to improve the UI after releasing version 0.2, I finally decided to implement some other basic features first. Fortunately...

2007-11-21 14:47 UTC to Planet maemo by Alberto Garcia

Nokia != Marketing

Zerojay’s just found that N810’s release date was pushed back to Dec 19th, at least on NokiaUSA. Not a good news for me, and the other 499 dev/users who received the discount code. To be honest, N810 doesn’t even show a release date...

2007-11-21 21:17 UTC to Planet maemo by William Maddler

Nokia launch Internet Tablet Video Converter (Jaffa@maemopeople)

Nokia have launched the Internet Tablet Video Converter which is, by far and away (IMHO), the single best video converter for Windows for owners of the Nokia Internet Tablets. Interface ...

2007-11-20 14:59 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrew Flegg

PyGtk with glade support

A new PyGTK, with glade support, is available at chinook extras repository. It was generated using libglade2-0 (2.6.2-1indt1) (2.4 provided by Maemo SDK). Just refresh application list and update python2.5-runtime package. Other bugfixes and unstable...

2007-11-20 16:47 UTC to Planet maemo by Luciano Wolf

iPhone like keyboard on Canola

So after creating the framework to allow different input methods for Ecore...

2007-11-20 23:34 UTC to Planet maemo by Andre Moreira Magalhaes

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Chinook SDK feedback wanted!

We as the team behind the latest maemo 4.0 SDK (Chinook) would like to hear from you! Please give us your comments on the SDK and its tools and documentation. You can drop an anonymous comment here at this blog or send your feedback to chinook-feedback@maemo.org....

2007-11-23 13:07 UTC to Planet maemo by Juha Tukkinen

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