Archive for February, 2009

Pongo – a inexpensive UI lab

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Ever wish you had your own UI-lab, but can’t build one with all the expensive cameras, big boxes and one-way-mirrors in your house right now?

Pongo 0.1 (requires python and istanbul)

It catches sound and video from your web cam, records your desktop and merges it together into a ogg file that’s ready to publish on the web.
Hope anyone finds it useful. We’re planning on a more proper UI and something that catches the key and mouse presses.
Here is a short screencast (sorry for the colors, don’t hesitate to send fixes if you know what’s wrong)

Big thanks to Daniel and Olivier, who helped me with some initial tests and Jan, who put together the final python code.

promising and forgetting

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Went to FOSDEM during weekend. As always at conferences, I got a lot of requests for artwork for various things. As I tend to have somewhat of a goldfish memory, can everyone who asked me for stuff please add it to the GNOME Artwork requests page?

Thanks and apologies.
- Your humble pixel pusher