{"id":77,"date":"2007-12-14T03:55:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2007\/12\/14\/its-been-a-hard-days-night\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T03:55:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:55:39","slug":"its-been-a-hard-days-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2007\/12\/14\/its-been-a-hard-days-night\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a hard day&#8217;s night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost a month since I last posted something here, but it&#8217;s because these last weeks I have been really busy.<\/p>\n<p>However it was definitely worth it. Last Wednesday the first beta of <a href=\"http:\/\/modest.garage.maemo.org\/\">Modest<\/a>, the new e-mail client for the Maemo platform was released.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2007\/12\/modest.png\" alt=\"Modest\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working on Modest with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/svillar\/2007\/12\/12\/be-modest-my-friend\/\">some colleagues at Igalia<\/a> for some time now and we have been doing our best to create a good e-mail client. Modest is still in beta, but I think that it&#8217;s reasonably usable now and we&#8217;re looking forward to improving it. The reviews we&#8217;ve seen so far have been positive and that encourages us to keep on working! Thank you all!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to thank <a href=\"http:\/\/pvanhoof.be\/blog\/\">Philip<\/a>, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinymail.org\/\">Tinymail<\/a>, for all his help and contributions and for being such a nice guy. <\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the great <a href=\"http:\/\/djcbflux.blogspot.com\/\">Dirk-Jan<\/a> from Nokia, the best possible leader and an amazing guy who had the good taste to announce Modest quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/djcbflux.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/automatic-for-people.html\">one of the greatest records ever made<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/djcbflux.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/friday-blues.html\">he even uses Vagalume!<\/a> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Well, and what happened to <b>Vagalume<\/b> then? Of course I haven&#8217;t forgotten about it, it&#8217;s just that I haven&#8217;t had much time to work on it. However I managed to introduce some new features and bugfixes, so <b>Vagalume 0.4 is here<\/b>. As usual, details in <a href=\"http:\/\/people.igalia.com\/berto\/\">my webpage<\/a> but for the impatient here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New dialogs for tagging and recommending tracks<\/li>\n<li>Ability to edit existing tags for a track, and to see the list of the most popular tags set by other people<\/li>\n<li>HTTP proxy support so you can use Vagalume at work \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>ConIc support: Vagalume will connect your N8x0 to the Internet if it&#8217;s offline (thanks Calvaris!)<\/li>\n<li>New Vagalume icon (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/femorandeira\/\">Felipe<\/a>!)<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and some other optimizations and minor fixes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Vagalume looks on a PC:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/files\/2007\/12\/vagalume.jpg\" alt=\"Vagalume 0.4\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>By the way, this time I compiled Vagalume packages for Ubuntu too. I haven&#8217;t tested them but they should work.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all! I hope you enjoy both programs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost a month since I last posted something here, but it&#8217;s because these last weeks I have been really busy. However it was definitely worth it. Last Wednesday the first beta of Modest, the new e-mail client for the Maemo platform was released. 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