Awn & Awn-Extras 0.4.0 are out!
It's been over 14 months the Awn and Awn Extras teams had interesting news, but the time has come to introduce our latest and so far greatest release. For the past year we've been busy with rewriting...
View ArticleAccepted to GSoC!
I was looking at interesting projects where I could participate in Google Summer of Code, and the project that caught my attention was libzeitgeist - a C-based library (with Vala bindings!) wrapping...
View ArticleAwn + Zeitgeist = enhance your workflow
People say that image is worth thousand words, so take a look at this video instead of me saying all those words:Under the hood there's Awn's window to desktop file matching backed by wncksync (if...
View ArticleLet's make users' lives easier!
Zeitgeist can already make users lives really easy (see my last Awn + Zeitgeist post), but we don't have to stop there, one of things I'd really like to see would be if applications helped us with this...
View ArticleGSoC: Zeitgeist weekly report #1
Hey everyone!This week I've been busy with traveling and moving, but during the past few days I finally managed to work, so here's what I did:I started implementing Zeitgeist dataprovider for Chrome...
View ArticleGSoC: Zeitgeist weekly report #2
Hey!As planned, this week I finished our new Chrome extension together with the NPAPI plugin. In the end the javascript part of the extension didn't turn out to be as straightforward as I expected, but...
View ArticleGSoC: Zeitgeist weekly report #3
Hello,I'll be also a bit early this week, as I'll be traveling starting tomorrow, so here we go:This week I finished moving the build system in zeitgeist-dataproviders[1] to autotools, and even though...
View ArticleGSoC: Zeitgeist weekly report #4
Hey everyone, this week the report will be very short, cause as I mentioned in last week's report I was (and still am) travelling, and in the little spare time I had, the internet connection was very...
View ArticleGSoC: Zeitgeist weekly report #5
Hey there!Another report here with a look-back at what I did this week and what is planned for the next week, so here we go:I started to write a Totem plugin which allows searching for recent media...
View ArticleSezen in your panel aka GSoC report #6
As the reports themselves are quite boring for many people, I'll try to post on the blog more interesting stuff, so it will no longer be a direct copy of the message sent to gnome-soc-list. So let's...
View ArticleMore on Sezen panel applet
There has been quite some work on both Sezen and the panel applet since my last post, and here's what's new on that front:We went through quite a few design iterations of the applet, here is the...
View ArticleExperimenting NL-style...
For the past few days I was (besides watching GUADEC talks) experimenting a little with Zeitgeist and natural language processing... or sort of anyway. Having no real prior knowledge in NL field and...
View ArticleDid you ever wonder...?
how does a certain application do it's widget hierarchy in Gtk? Well lately I did, and therefore I wrote a little class that visualizes the allocation of the widget under your mouse (plus it's...
View ArticleIntroducing Synapse: Acetylcholine
As some of you know, during the summer I was working on a few Zeitgeist-related projects, one of them was Sezen and the panel-applet inspired by Sezen which allowed you to search Zeitgeist log...
View ArticleMore Synapse news
Two weeks passed since the first official Synapse release, and we've prepared another one! As common with first releases, there were quite a few issues which we worked on and fixed in 0.2.2. But...
View ArticleMy work @ Zeitgeist hackfest 2011
As many of you probably noticed, last week there was Zeitgeist hackfest happening at Aarhus, and here's a short summary of what I've done (you probably already read Mikkel's and Seif's posts about...
View ArticleSynapse: Anandamide
Just a quick shout about new release of Synapse - 0.2.4! There aren't too many user visible changes in this release, besides a few new plugins. Mostly polishing and more polishing.Anyhow here's the...
View ArticleNew Synapse again!
In the release-often spirit, we prepared Synapse 0.2.6, which, as opposed to last release, contains lots of user interface tweaks, changes and additions (drag and drop, new theme, improved focus...
View ArticleOpenCL on Ubuntu
Since I work with OpenCL a lot and yesterday I found out that Intel's OpenCL is now finally available for Linux, I thought I'd share a few words of how to get it to work on Ubuntu (even though Intel...
View ArticleDesktop Summit 2011
To make sure I don't forget: I'll be also at this year's Desktop Summit in Berlin, and it'll be my first time on such huge conference, so I'm quite excited. If you have any Synapse / Zeitgeist...
View ArticleNews from the Zeitgeist land
Hey everyone,on behalf of the Zeitgeist team I'd like to announce that today we're releasing the latest version of Zeitgeist (0.8.99-alpha1). It's quite unusual for Zeitgeist to do alpha releases, but...
View ArticleFace detection with OpenCL
I've been meaning to write about the topic of my thesis for quite some time, but didn't really get to it until now, so even though it's almost a year late, here we go.Before I get into some technical...
View ArticleFTS engines - memory usage
Following up on Mathias's great post on Full Text Search engines, I decided to take a look at the memory usage of some of the engines while performing queries. Mathias looked at Lucene++, SQLite,...
View ArticleGUADEC 2012 and Zeitgeist hackfest
As many others, I've been to great La Coruna to meet up with fellow gnomies and zeitgeistians, and even though I arrived on Sunday, I still managed to make it to a couple of interesting talks and on...
View ArticleOpenCL on Ubuntu 13.04
Unfortunately two years after my post about getting Intel's OpenCL to work on Ubuntu, the out-of-box situation for using OpenCL isn't much better - you can install the OpenCL library/headers/package...
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