July 2007 archive

Jul 31 2007

Google News στα ελληνικά!

To Google News έχει τώρα έκδοση ειδικά για την Ελλάδα. Η υπηρεσία είναι σε δοκιμαστική κατάσταση (Beta). Περιλαμβάνει ειδήσεις από τις ηλεκτρονικές εκδόσεις εφημερίδων, ειδησεογραφικούς δικτυακούς τόπους και άλλες πηγές. Αν κάποιος δικτυακός τόπος θέλει να προσφέρει τις ειδήσεις του, μπορεί να δει τη σχετική σελίδα για του εκδότες. Simossimos.info

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Jul 23 2007

Important MO file optimisation for en_* locales, and partly others

During GUADEC, Tomas Frydrych gave a talk on exmap-console, a cut-down version of exmap that can work well on mobile devices. During the presentation, Tomas showed how to use the tool to find the culprits in memory (ab)use on the GNOME desktop. One issue that came up was that the MO files taking up space …

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Jul 16 2007

GUADEC Day #2

(see http://www.guadec.org/schedule/warmup) At the first presentation, Quim Gil talked about GNOME marketing, what have been done, what is the goal of marketing. He showed a focused mind on important marketing tasks; it is easy to get carried away and not be effective, a mistake that happens in several projects. The next session was by Tomas …

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Jul 16 2007

GUADEC Day #1

I am writing this in the morning of the second day (posted at the end of the second day). Just had breakfast and there is a bit of time before making it to the conference venue. Yesterday Sunday, was the first of the two days of warm-up for the GUADEC conference. At 11am the registration …

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Jul 06 2007

Google Groups: Member Invite Request Approved

When creating a Google Group, you have the option of auto-subscribing a list of e-mails. That is, the owner of the email address does not have perform the subscription task. To avoid the apparent spamming opportunity, Google Groups puts a human to review those requests. After you pasted the e-mail addresses, you press Submit and …

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