Karaka is a Skype/XMPP gateway that connects the Skype and XMPP clouds. It is a scalable distributed standards-compliant XMPP transport able to be hosted across a cluster of machines which bridges instant messaging and presence between a user’s Skype and XMPP (e.g., Jabber, GoogleTalk) accounts. It supports full presence and instant messaging exchange plus multi-user chat (“conference rooms”).

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The development of a USB driver brings Android operating system to the E Ink development kit. Now a new world of creative developers can extend the functionality of and write applications for this low-power screen technology.

So it was a great thrill when SDK 2.2 debuted, bring AVAudioPlayer as part of the new AVFoundation class. It provides the same Celestial calls we've seen back since day one, but it does so officially. You can load audio, play it, pause it, adjust its volume and so forth. You can even enable metering and check peak power.

The other day, I posted up some code for playing back a movie on the iPhone and iPod touch using the MoviePlayerUI class. In that post, I mentioned that I couldn’t get Celestial and UIKit to play nice with each other, and that was the reason that I ended up using the MoviePlayerUI framework instead. Well, I did some more sleuthing tonight, and I was successfully able to get Celestial and UIKit to be friends again.

Home Camp is an unconference about using technology to monitor and automate the home for greener resource use and to save costs. This is about low energy devices and servers, reducing your electricity bills, monitoring your mouse traps, home automation, monitoring your water usage, using solar power. This is a hack day.

HOW TO SAVE A TONNE MONEY and help keep Planet Earth Green. If you need a quick way to create new spaces that weren't there before – here's the secret of making your own cardboard furniture.

The latest iPhone update (2-point-something) added touchstart, touchmove and touchend events. We hook at those events to capture finger movements and use the -webkit-transform CSS property to translate the div content up and down simulating the scrolling. You can easily expand the script to scroll in any direction, but I leave this task to the diligent reader

Progressive Technology Project (PTP) was founded by grassroots organizers to support social change community-led organizing in low income communities and communities of color. Our mission is to help community organizations achieve their goals more effectively and efficiently. Our programs help community organizers build their skills and understanding to integrate technology into the work of the organizations.

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The iPhone Maps Library lets you build interactive mapping applications for the iPhone. With this API you can

* Build applications that give users a rich mapping experience on the iPhone
* Benefit from our tile servers which deliver mobile optimized maps to your users
* Easily integrate with the iPhone's location API to show your user's position in real time

Carbon is one of our favorite elements. It makes diamonds, it makes all known life possible, and it makes pencils (and who doesn't love pencils?) Also, it seems that carbon fullerenes (buckeyballs, nanotubes, etc) are going to do a lot in our future. Time to bring a little of that microcarbon goodness into your home and make it work for you now. "Wire Glue" Conductive Glue uses microcarbon technology to make a glue that also conducts electricity.

This page contains carrier APN settings, for setting up your Andriod Phone with other carriers data services.

Google App Engine provides several useful services based on Google infrastructure, accessible by applications using libraries included with the SDK. One such service is the Users service, which lets your application integrate with Google user accounts. With the Users service, your users can use the Google accounts they already have to sign in to your application.

Two weeks ago Sixpoint Craft Ales, in Red Hook, introduced Dubbel Trubbel, an ale made with cacao nibs from Mast Brothers Chocolate. Sixpoint Craft Ales already brews Gorilla Warfare, an American porter made with Ethiopian Yirgacheffe from Gorilla Coffee, the Park Slope cafe and roaster.

MobilED Server is a set of mobile services targeted for mobile learners. MobilED is Open Source.

The current version of the MobilED platform offers Audio Wiki. The prototype makes it possible to use MediaWiki server as the Content Management System of your audio information system.