I wanted to take a moment and mention The One Ring. It's a project that caught my eye a few weeks back, after reading a post in the telepathy mailing list. Today Ed Page, the founder of the project, made the official announcement. "The One Ring is a plugin (Telepathy Connection Manager) that integrates Google Voice into Empathy, Maemo 4.1 RTComm, and Maemo 5 RTComm."The features include support for Google Voice contacts, sending and receiving calls to and from any number, text messaging, and much more. Check out the announcement at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=488632. For the official website and download, please visit http://theonering.garage.maemo.org/download.html.One thing I would like to mention is that Empathy support is still very early in development and may not work (I haven't been able to get it completely working in Karmic) so good luck! #planet-ubuntu#
Ubuntu User Days is a set of courses delivered over IRC in one day to help beginner and intermediate Ubuntu users get around their system better. The next one is going to be this Saturday, starting at 7am EST. Join in to learn about things like installing Ubuntu, using the command line, reporting bugs, and much more. I will be teaching a course on Restricted Drivers at 11am (which I still have to do some work for!) and hope to see you there.For more information visit User Days in the Ubuntu Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays #planet-ubuntu#
Today, I have released a brand new personal website! The idea is to have a very simplistic site (as you can see). I'm going to be adding more relevant information soon, but for now, I felt that this was good enough to go up. The site is built with Django, and the blog is hosted in Posterous. You can read more about me and the site at http://jamalfanaian.com/about.
It's not that the default Grooveshark Notifications are bad. I just want my system to be consistent. So I decided to go in and write a little python script that will use the currentSong.txt file updated by Grooveshark Desktop and display a gorgeous notification. The album art is pulled from Amazon because it was convinient.
So you want multiple Exchange accounts? Well, the big Apple said no. So are you still itching at being able to have your Google Sync and work Exchange accounts working? Then we have a solution. Obviously, you'll need a jailbroken iPhone to do this as it requires diving into the iPhone's filesystem and changing configuration files. And let me warn you, it can be tedious. I would backup first if I were you (actually, I didn't).
First, figure out how to SSH into your phone. All your mail configuration is stored in /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.accountsettings.plist. If you look into the file, you'll notice its full of binary, let's fix that. You need Erica Utilities which you can find in Cydia. Once you've got that, open your favorite SSH client and get into your phone. Run plutil -convert xml1 /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/com.apple.accountsettings.plist to convert the file to XML which you can edit. Find where <key>ASAccountEmailAddress</key> starts, you will have to duplicate everything between <dict> and </dict>. The easiest way I found to do this was to first backup my Google Sync configuration, then through the iPhone's setting (read, not SSH) delete the account. Add my work's Exchange account, and then paste my backed up Google Sync configuration back into the plist. You will have to convert the file to XML again, as the iPhone converts it back into it's binary format when it touches it. Once you're done, you should see both accounts in your settings. You will have to go back and add your passwords manually on the iPhone, but all should work well. Good luck!
I have to admit, I take quite a few sharp turns regarding my music listening. I go from the likes of Darkest Hour, to this. It's always about your mood, isn't it? Anyways, I wanted to share an awesome song by a band I've really been digging lately.
Also, they just released a new album, "In Never Out", which seems to be pretty good as well, although I have yet to listen to the whole thing.
