Recently I found that the Huffington Post is running a site called FundRace 2008, which allows you to view campaign donation amounts from certain people, areas, job types, or employers. According to their website:
FundRace makes it easy to search by name or address to see which presidential candidates your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors [...]

If you haven’t been following Michael Ventnor’s awesome work on Linux and Firefox integration, then you might have missed this little gem.  Latest builds of Firefox 3 include the new GTK+ Print system instead of the old unix beard print dialog.  Fedora rawhide users will see the new print dialog working right now.

say goodbye to [...]

I thought I’d take some time to review candidate responses for the Online Desktop question of the debate. Not just because it’s a topic I’m interested in, but because I think it speaks a lot to how the candidates view the Board, its powers and goals.
I’ve highlighted some of the candidates responses and bulleted [...]

In a slightly unscientific poll I attempted find out what users prefer, Hardware Sound Mixing or Software Sound Mixing.
Here is a GNOME user enjoying Hardware Sound Mixing, he looks happy and carefree.

Here is a GNOME user enjoying Software Sound Mixing, he also looks happy and carefree.

Thus the toss up, users seem to prefer each type [...]

Iconfactory released another set of cool Halloween Icons into their freeware collection. This years is much better than last years litho series.

I just upgraded my system a bit last night and wanted to grab the new version of Gimp. I’m now using version 2.4.0-rc3 and so far I am really pleased, the number one thing that stood out for me initially was the new cropping system.

The Gimp image cropping interface may not be that [...]

Unlike last year where I unknowingly made travel plans over the same time as the Boston GNOME Summit, I believe I’m going to be around this year. I’ve added my name to the participants list, one of not many people so far. So go sign up if you can make it!

Got a great comment recently about my mashing google calendar and gnome post from a while back. I had tried to use the command line in the original entry and it brought lots of issues because every distribution of linux seems to place the evolution-webcal application in a different pace.
The new solution isn’t [...]

I get tired of these dialogs. I see them as the point at which the development crew just gave up on me and their application.

Make a decision in your software! Be Bold! Be Brave! Don’t lay the impetus on me (the user) to understand certificates, SSL, file version incompatibilities, and other [...]

A little History

A while back when I was working on the OLPC project with Seth we took a good amount of time designing a new way for the people to interact with their documents. The design isn’t specific to OLPC, it was done because they were looking to take a new approach to documents [...]

The photo stock on Big Board is really coming along. With no configuration from me it grabs the photo and video thumbnails from all the people I know through Mugshot and runs them as a small slideshow.

Animated GIF, watch the photos change!

Later we can work on adding information if a photo is new, people [...]

Reading Alberto’s recent post let’s make it easier made me think of last years New York Times article A Star is Made.

The article mentions computer programming and I do think it applies well to GNOME. Some people have been practicing (contributing and coding for GNOME) more than others and many of those people were [...]

I never used to be much of a calendar person, usually I’m late to everything and never know if I’m free for a weekend or not. But since Google calendar came out I started using it pretty regularly and I think it’s actually improved my ability to be punctual and organized… well probably not, [...]

I get a lot of bug mail, way too much in my mind and I’m sure there are people out there getting much more bug mail than I do. The issue isn’t so much the amount of bug mail, though that’s often a problem. The real problem I have with bug mail is [...]

If you’re not on the bahstan social list you missed my email announcing this wed we’re having a release party. Be there if you can.

Is we don’t talk about GNOME Design Team

(johnny asked about GDT yesterday and I don’t want to have to repeat myself )

Colin: I guess I said “launchers” in that entry and that was a mistake. Part of what’s missing in the notifications design is how applets and “desktop service” applications work together. In other words how do we handle programatically added applets and applications like Rhythmbox and Gaim, so we’re not congesting the notification [...]

This is a little step by step tutorial for those struggling to use Arch like I am right now. This assumes you haven’t used it before, but know enough about cvs. I don’t do a lot of the –bclark_redhat–dev–craziness that you see in tutorials because it’s just a little too strange for me, [...]

Today’s word is rictus, meaning a gaping grin or grimace. Probably relating to me miss-spelling yesterdays word in the title or possibly other stupid things I did.

Notifications

Rodrigo makes a bunch of good points in his entry.

The dialogs that Gaim and Evo use are ridiculous and disturbing but just using notification bubbles doesn’t solve that. [...]

Norstrum is my Personalized Google Word of the Day. It means: a questionable remedy.

Saw some discussion of notifications on Rodrigo’s blog and the desktop-devel-list this week. I had done some design work on desktop notification a little while back with Red Hat Desktop team so I figured I’d share what was done.

Some important [...]