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This Monday the XIX EESTEC Congress is begining. Is’s going to be a big, funny and interesting event for ever participant. It’s organized by my good friends of Eurielec, an student association which I’m still member of. I’m afraid I’ve … Continue reading →

During last years opera fans have been very worried about the voice crissis. The situation was dramatic in the tenor voice. Most of great tenors (like Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti) were becoming older or dying (like my beloved Kraus) without any … Continue reading →

GNOME: During the “boring” GNOME 2.10 freeze I’ve been done little and funny hacks: A new nautilus extension for seahorse, so I can crypt and decrypt quickly my documents A nautilus pdf thumbnailer using evince pdf backend: Fixed a connect … Continue reading →

GNOME 2.10 is coming this Wednesday, so again, we are going to party: Gnome 2.10 Release party locator

Recently I’ve got some feture requests for GNOME apps via email. Sometimes I forget them, like the one from Eugenia asking for some changes to gnome-keyring-manager. I didn’t made those, because we (mostly James Bowes) are rewriting gnome-keyring UI. But … Continue reading →

We (Tecsidel) are looking for people with experience in the GNOME/GTK+ development world. So if you: Have experience developing with GTK+/GNOME Know what an Open Source Project is Speak English Can move to Madrid …and you want to: Develop cool … Continue reading →

After I released yesterday the muine lyrics plugin my friend Eru told me that today eina, the other cool GNOME music player, has just got a lyrics plugin:It is cooler than mine, because it implents selection of right lyrics when … Continue reading →

I got more and interesting feedback about how GNOME applications should handle devices: Luke Hutchison suggested adding a system to .desktop files for an app that allows for the app to be activated when a specific D-BUS signal was raised. … Continue reading →

My friend arc posted a list of the worst things in GNOME 2.8 (in Spanish). These are my comments (in italic): Non homogeneus and outdated developer docs. BIG CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS! Applets consume too many system resources: arc 5635 0.0 … Continue reading →

The new and fancy Muine plugin system plus the C# and Gtk# combination allow you to do things like this in 100 lines of code:a plugin to show the lyrics of the song you are listening. I’m using http://lyrc.com.ar/because they … Continue reading →