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Really excited to be able to share some information about a project that we have been working on lately!

Pioneer recently released their new service SyncTV in a private beta. What makes it very interesting is that it’s built using GTK+ and GStreamer. SyncTV is an application and service to watch movies and TV-series over the internet.

SyncTV provide this service on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, all through the cross platform capabilities of GTK+. SyncTV also shows that you can make really slick applications with GTK+ that look identical no matter which platform you run it on.

At Imendio we have worked on the project since spring 2007, mainly by improving the GTK+ Mac OS X port, but also packaging the application into an easily installable application bundle.

The project also included making Webkit/GTK+ run smoothly on Mac OS X which involved replacing the font backend to make it use Pango. Sven blogged briefly about this last year.

The observant follower of All Things Imendio (TM) would also realize that part of this project was to create hooks for GTK+ to integrate with the Mac OS X menubar which Mitch blogged about.

For a more in-depth review, see Download Squad.

I’ve had this problem since I got the X61 that the screen is almost black after coming back from suspended mode in Ubuntu. The problem can be solved by switching to terminal and then back to X but today I found a solution in the Ubuntu Forums which solves the problem.

Much kudos to lbharti for sharing this very simple solution.

Edit your /etc/default/acpi-support and set DOUBLE_CONSOLE_SWITCH=true

Upgraded my firewall to Ubuntu Dapper this morning and after that my network interfaces started taking random names (one being eth1 and the other eth2). Struggled or a while to try to get it to load the right card with adding module aliases but couldn’t get it to work.

In the end I found ifrename by the help of Richard which seemed to do the trick.

On a personal level things are rocking, Emma is getting bigger and we are just waiting for the day she takes her first steps without any support. After that, end of quiet life…