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Tango-like rss-feed icon

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Julian
on Sun, August 24 2008
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The other day a friend of mine asked me to make a RSS-icon following the tango icon design guidelines.
He really much likes the look and feel of the original tango icon set but they got a major flaw. They are released under a GPL-incompatible CC-license.

Personally I think it’s a little odd that the probably most used icon set in the open source world isn’t compatible with the most used license. At least the colour-palette is public domain and therefore GPL-compatible and everyone is free to follow the naming and design guidelines.

Anyway, here’s the icon I made.

tango_rss.tar.gz

Ubuntu 16.04, 128-bit

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Julian
on Fri, July 25 2008
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I just read this blog post on ZDNet, where someone is running Ubuntu 16.04 in 2016 which features OpenOffice 6.2 and Firefox 8.

2016: “You’re watching the Linux Channel.” by ZDNet’s Jason Perlow — July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the day before. His morning double espresso with frothed skim [...]

“It’s not just about privacy. It’s about user autonomy”

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Julian
on Thu, July 10 2008
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The sacrifice … is user autonomy. If you decide that Google Docs doesn’t the way you want, you can’t tinker with the software and fix it. If you want to share a map on your website, you need Yahoo’s permission. If you want to use a new social networking site, you have to re-enter all your personal data and re-invite all your friends. The data and code belong to someone else, and they’re hidden behind servers that you, the user, aren’t allowed to touch.

–Evan Prodromou, identi.ca

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Google open sources browser sync

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Julian
on Thu, July 10 2008
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A while ago Google announced the discontinuation of their browser sync addon and service which, at least for some users was a pretty shocking step.

Google now just announced that they released its code into the open source world under a BSD License.

I’m curious and exited at what the community and if they will engage in development, google apps integration? Firefox 3 support is, without a doubt one of the first things you can expect.

What I’d love to see is the support to use personal servers, webspace or maybe even your gmail account to store your browser’s settings and bookmarks. To give users the choice where to store their data is pretty much all I want.

Google launches Lively

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Julian
on Wed, July 9 2008
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Today Google launched Lively, you could mistakenly think of a Second Life clone at first, seeing the pictures. Instead it’s pretty similar to IMVU. If you know IMVU you’ll know what awaits you. If you don’t, well then let me tell you more about it. Continue reading ‘Google launches Lively’