BloggerCon IV – Tuning In is EASY!
If you aren’t going to be at BloggerCon today and tomorrow (I was planning to be there, but had to take my name off the list this morning so I can help out around the house), consider participating over the web! There’s an IRC channel and a WebCast.
Physics For Organizing Your Desktop
This physics and stylus-based prototype for organizing icons on your desktop looks fantastic. “There will be a downloadable executable of the prototype released on this page shortly.” I’m looking forward to running this on my eo, even if it is just a prototype.
Gregarius RSS Aggregator and Multi-User
The Gregarius dev team announced the 3 new features that will define their next release. Multi-User, managed installations, localization and a new feed parser. Multi-User will bring a ton of new developers, because Gregarius will then, hopefully, be adopted for commercial, hosted services – with freely available source code so the hosters will pay no licensing fees. Ideally, those who stand to make money with Gregarius in the future will jump on the development of Gregarius’ multi-user code now, lending a hand to dev team and bringing the release date closer! It’s a chicken-and-egg problem.
Mesk and SCons
Travis Shirk recently announced Mesk 0.1.2, a GTK+ Media Player. There isn’t a Windows build, yet, but I’m excited about it’s ability to change your Jabber status message to indicate which song or audio file you are listening to. Source and Binaries here!
Travis also mentioned SCons to me – a build tool that is apparently much more powerful (and expressive) than make, yet less verbose and more readable than ant. Looks very interesting. The SCons team is preparing a 1.0 and one of their members has been accepted into the Google Summer of Code program.
John Tokash 