Canola is out!!!

Wow, we finally released canola. I can't say how happy I am. I want to congrat the whole team for the great work so far. Now for you that can't wait anymore to try it out, do the following:

Add the following repositories to your application catalogue (Application Manager/Tools/Application Catalogue...):

Address: http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/repository
Distribution: scirocco
Components: user

Address: http://repository.maemo.org
Distribution: scirocco
Components: free non-free

If you are using mistral (2.0), just replace distribution with mistral.

Now, refresh you packages list (Application Manager/Tools/Refresh Package List...), then go to "Install new applications" and select canola.

After installation, reboot your device, and enjoy it :-)

Now it's time to get some food :-P.
Any feedback is welcome

It's coming

It's 22:13 here in Brazil and we are almost ready. I can't wait to release canola. We received a lot of feedbacks, and we are working really hard to finish the final details. I really hope you will enjoy it.

We have less than 2 hours to finish it, so let me get back to work :-)

Categories in Blogger

Today i found a nice tutorial explaining how to add categories to blogger posts. This is especially useful if you are aggregated to some blog aggregator, and want to post just related topics.
To check the tutorial go to blogger-tricks.
It's really easy to do, and as a bonus you will have a del.icio.us account if you don't have one already ;-).

Hacking on gstreamer

For over a week now, we at INdT are having a GStreamer training course. Edward Hervey (bilboed, or bilbode for brazilians :P) from fluendo is the guy managing the course. He is hosted in my house and we had some fun this week, lots of beers, hacking, you know :). I will post some pictures here soon. So far, i've learned a lot of interesting stuff and also was able to do some hacking, such as the port of rfbsrc to gstreamer 0.10 and the seek support implementation on neonhttpsrc. In the past i had written some patches and plugins to gstreamer, besides some applications centric development, but nothing big, and now i hope i can help more :-).

If you haven't tried gstreamer yet, you should do it now.

Browsing shared content using DAAP/DPAP

Some time ago i started a new project called libdmapsharing. Its main purpose was to enable canola to browse shared contents (iTunes, iPhoto, rhythmbox, banshee, etc) using DAAP/DPAP.

But what is DAAP/DPAP?
DAAP (Digital Audio Access Protocol) is a protocol used by Apple's iTunes and other digital audio player to share music across a network or the Internet. As DAAP, DPAP (Digital Photo Access Protocol) is a protocol used to share content across a network, but photos instead of musics. The protocol is used by Apple's iPhoto and other photo applications.

Currently libdmapsharing supports only browsing, but in the future i intend to add sharing support also, so you will be able to easily share your musics/photos. The documentation is missing, but i will start writing it soon. As you can see, there is some things to do, so anyone interested in helping (even testing) it would be great.

Hope you enjoy

Yes, it's fast!!!

Marcelo just released a new canola video. This video shows how fast is browsing to a shared library (DAAP) with thousands of musics. As you can see, it's damn fast :-).
Go check it out.

Canola

Long time no posting, but now i have a good reason to do so. As some of you already know, i am being working on a "secret" project for a while now. The project i am talking about is Canola, a great media player for 770 users. There is also a preview video showing some of its features.



We should release a version this month, so be prepared.

Hope you enjoy