HOWTO: clean your camera sensor

You love your compact camera, but lately there is a big dirty blurry dark spot on the screen, and on each photo! Your camera is ruined, you're condemned to buy a new one. Unless... This is a tutorial to get rid off it.

You love your compact camera. It just fits in your pocket so you always have it with you. The photos look very good on your web photo albums, and even prints have a fair quality. For the type of every day life photos that you are doing, this is just perfect.

But since last week you get a big dirty blurry dark spot on all your photos. You can easily see inside the lens a fair amount of small dust. How did it get there? And more importantly how to clean it out?

I've got a STARCK product

When your screen suddenly goes off and any attempt to restart your computer ends up in a whining sounds like "whiiii shtAK!", it most probably means that your hard drive crashed. If you had no backup, you've just lost all your data!

Philippe Starck is a world famous French product designer. His most famous product is undoubtedly the Juicy Salif. You know, the aluminum lemon squeezer that looks like Tintin's rocket with longer legs. Starck said that it was actually not meant to squeeze lemons (...) but to start conversations. One day I almost bought one, but I had second thoughts: I felt I do not have the right house to put around it.

A fascinating person

Hildon/GTK+ update for N800 & N810

You heard it, the new N810 internet tablet is there, and together will come a new OS for both N800 & N810, based on Chinook beta SDK.

On the UI toolkit side, we now proudly ship gtk-2.10, a clean stable hildon API, and a much improved theme framework. The fork of gtk-2.6, experimental code and historical names are now gone!

This colossal tedious work has been done by fer, mdk, tko, and xan in close collaboration with the community, and especially with expert help and support from GTK+ people. It was not easy every day, and took lot of time and energy. They did it, Congratulation to each of them!

The new hildon stack will be stamped 2.0.

Because of the resulting API incompatibility, all applications using GTK+ and Hildon need to be updated. Overall it is a minor technical update, with mostly name changes and other trivial changes. See the migration documentation, and run hildon-audit which can give you hints too. Our toolkit heroes will support You through mailinglist or #irc.

I wish we could get most applications updated before the N810s hit the shops, so we would offer the very best open source applications to all future N810 users too!

Read more at:

• MDK's post
• Xan's post
• Hildon 2.0

To all developers, good luck with the update!

And to all, Enjoy your brand new OS!

Ubuntu and N95

Use case: transfer my N95 pictures to my laptop

Solution: I am using obexfs to mount N95 drives through USB cable.

$ sudo obexfs -u 1 /media/N95/

The '1' comes from:

$ sudo obexftp -u
Found 3 USB OBEX interfaces
Interface 0:
    Manufacturer: Nokia
    Product: Nokia N95
    Interface description: SYNCML-SYNC
Interface 1:
    Manufacturer: Nokia
    Product: Nokia N95
    Interface description: PC Suite Services
Interface 2:
    Manufacturer: Nokia
    Product: Nokia N95
    Interface description: SYNCML-DM
Use '-u interface_number' to connect
Nothing to do. Use --help for help.