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After 2 years using facebook, and even though I’ve to recognize is a great tool for a bunch of things, today I decided to quit since it’s no longer useful for me for anything but just to waste the little spare time I have nowadays, which I obviously prefer to spend in much better and productive things.

If you had me added as a “friend” don’t get angry because of me removing you from the list, since that’s something I did for every contact I had before going ahead with the “delete account” hidden-link, along with every photo, tag of mine, membership to groups… and so forth. I just wanted to make sure that, as much as possible, every piece of information of mine in the network was deleted before leaving facebook since who knows which pieces of information under my name will remain in facebook after my leave. Hope you all understand my (maybe too paranoid) reasoning.

So, no more “me” under this profile. Just drop me a line or give me a call if you want to contact me from now on.

See you in the real life!

After coming back from an awesome week of holidays in Paris (lovely city, btw!), today I finally managed to get some time for making up what it became the second upstream release of frogr: frogr 0.2

Just trying to give a brief update on “what is new”, here you have an excerpt from the NEWS file:

• Generate ChangeLog from git log with ‘make dist’
• Added .spec file for fedora 11 packaging system (thanks Adrián Pérez)
• Added drag’n'drop support for loading pictures in frogr
• Added support to add tags to pictures (instead of just replacing)
• Fixed (legacy) support for libgnome2 to compile in debian lenny
• Use accesor functions instead direct access and removed some deprecated GTK+ symbols (thanks Javier Jardón)
• Added i18n support and a es_ES lang file (thanks Alejandro Piñeiro, aka API)
• Support silent build rules with automake 1.11 (thanks Javier Jardón)
• Bugfixes and several minor improvements

Entering in more detail, and as you can easily extract from the list above, the main improvements from the user’s point of view are:

• Drag’n'drop now supported, so having to add pictures through the filechooser is no longer the only method to load pictures in frogr.
• New “add tags” dialog, very handy to add tags to some specific pictures before uploading them.
• i18n support, which should make easier to get more contributions for frogr in further releases, in the form of new translations to make it even more accessible for people all over the world (did I say we’re eager for new language files?)

At last, just to mention that you already can find pre-compiled packages for some distros at the web of the project, as well as the source code tarballs in gzip and bzip2 formats. And of course, get the source code from the git repository at gitorius, in case you prefer to directly clone the source tree to make up wonderful and nice patches to contribute with, or just to provide new pre-compiled packages for your favourite distro

So… what else could I say? Just go and get it… Hope you enjoy it as much as I do

Update [2009/10/14]: It seems the other day my mind was still a bit “on holidays” and I screwed it up when creating both the pre-compiled packages and the source tarballs uploaded to the web of the project, so they would just not  work as they should when installing frogr (basically, they would not install files under the proper path so frogr just would not work).

I realized of this yesterday and now everything should be fixed in packages (and tarballs) uploaded in the “Downloads” section of such a web, so if you experienced any problems two days ago just try now again and everything should be fine.