The world won’t listen

It’s been almost two months since my last blog post so here’s a quick update on the things I’ve been doing lately.
Vagalume 0.8.3
The first thing that I’d like to mention is the upcoming release of Vagalume 0.8.3 (which will probably happen during this weekend). The only changes in this version are that menus and dialogs [...]

Here’s a tip for those of you using an N900 with an English keyboard.
For those who don’t know it, this is how arrow keys are arranged in (some) non-English layouts:

Compare to the English layout:

My N900 has an English keyboard, and I like it because I use the X terminal a lot so having separate keys [...]

Vagalume 0.8 has just been released. This is the first version to come with support for Libre.fm and the Nokia N900.
Here’s how it looks (click to enlarge):

We also have a new logo designed by Otto Krüja:

Many things have changed since the previous version. These are some of the highlights (read the full list here):

Implemented the [...]

Now that the N900 is (almost) here, many people ask me if I’m going to release a new version of Vagalume for Maemo 5.
Progress in Vagalume has been very slow this year, partly because of all the work we’ve been doing in Hildon Widgets.
Fortunately, the next Vagalume release will be out very soon. And yes, [...]

We don’t see many products running an OS based on Linux and GNOME advertised on bus stops around here, but look at this one … :-)

With all the fuss that’s going on around the announcement of the Nokia N900, I honestly didn’t want to write yet another post about it.
But I can’t resist :-)
I’m not going to talk about its features or its specs. I just want to say that it’s really exciting for me to see the world’s largest [...]

So many things happened during the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that it’s impossible to summarize them all, but here’s a list of the ones that come to my mind now:

Alfredo Kraus auditorium is a great venue, and its location couldn’t be better.
The University was less spectacular, but from a functional point of view I think [...]

Following our traditions, last Tuesday we had a very big party on the beach where we set everything on fire (this pic is not from this year, though).

That means one thing: Summer is finally here!
That also means that in less than 10 days I’m flying to Gran Canaria, along with many other Igalians, for the [...]

Now that Last.fm is restricted in most countries, the obvious alternative (already discussed in previous posts) was to start offering support for similar services for people that cannot / don’t want to use Last.fm anymore.
So here is Vagalume with support for Libre.fm:

(this is not ready yet, but expect a new release in a few days/weeks)

The Maemo 5 Beta SDK has just been released. Apart from the many changes introduced since the alpha release, one important milestone is that from now on the development of Hildon and Modest will be open and hosted at the Maemo Garage in a public Git repository.
For Hildon we now have a development mailing list [...]