Archive for April, 2010

Hacking furniture

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The cat litter box in the hall being the first thing you see when you enter our apartment always bugged us, so we decided to do something about it. We bought a cabinet at a flee market for 20 SEK (about $3 USD). Took it home, made sure the litter box fitted inside it and measured out a hole in the side. Then we used one of these guys to prepare a small hole to fit the jigsaw, sawed up the big hole and used an rasp and sandpaper to finish it up.

step 1 step 2 step 3 step 4 step 5

The cats seems to think it’s ok.

Thunderbird Migration Assistant

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

In order to ease the migration for current Thunderbird 2 users to Thunderbird 3, Blake, Bryan and myself have been working on a migration assistant that we plan to ship in the upcoming 3.1

migration assistant

Before we merge it in we need your help to run it and try it out.

Windows | Mac OS X | Linux

Please leave feedback on GetSatisfaction or in the comments.

See Blake’s blog post for more info.

Opening the GNOME Store

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

[disclaimer, today the Internet sucks, but I'm going to pretend it's not April 1st, because I wanted this blog post out today, so sorry, no pranks in this post]

GNOME Store

GNOME 2.30 was released yesterday. Lots of neat stuff in this release such as neater looking games (thanks to Clutter), support for Iphones (without any need for jailbreaking), better Tomboy notes sync, easier to set up Facebook chat in Empathy etc.

With the 2.30 release, we’re also opening the GNOME Store, where you can get yourself GNOME t-shirts and other gear. Been working on and off on this for quite a while now, so it’s nice to officially declare it as done!
The store currently sports 7 t-shirts and two mugs, but we’re gradually going to expand it and are looking for more sweet designs.

GNOME Store

To celebrate the 2.30 release, we’re going to have some beers tonight at Gnutiken in Gothenburg around 18.00. Be there!