Category Archives: Misc.

Control #crazyflie with #zeemote

Posted on 2014-03-23 by ruedigergad

Recently, I got a Crazyflie. As I also own two Zeemote JS1 remote controls, using these for controlling the Crazyflie suggested itself to me. In a previous post, I introduced QZeeControl 2 which enables using Zeemote remote controls, e.g., on … Continue reading →

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Plasma Active 4: New Rootfs Tarballs for ArchosG9 and Nexus7

Posted on 2013-12-27 by ruedigergad

It has been quite a while since I uploaded the last rootfs tarballs of Plasma Active 4 for ArchosG9 and Nexus7. Now, I just used the holidays to generate and upload new ones. In the meantime, the unpleasant bug with … Continue reading →

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Panoramic Photographies of Cádiz, Spain

Posted on 2013-12-21 by ruedigergad

Here are some more panoramic photographies from Cádiz, Spain. The photos were taken last week during a stay in Cádiz with my trusted N9 cell phone and were stitched with Hugin. From the technical point of view, I think, it … Continue reading →

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Plasma Active 4 for Nexus 7 (2012) and Archos G9

Posted on 2013-09-09 by ruedigergad

Some days ago, Plasma Active 4 was officially announced. Great thanks to all the people who worked so hard on this release. 🙂 Today, I could squeeze in some time to create PA 4 rootfs tarballs for Nexus 7 (the … Continue reading →

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KDE Lock Screen vs. Touch Input

Posted on 2013-08-12 by ruedigergad

With respect to touch input, most parts of KDE can be handled very easily. However, one, imho, very important aspect, simply lacks all touch UI support: the lock screen (and also the login screen), right now, do not support touch … Continue reading →

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Zotero on Nexus7 in Plasma Active, Updated

Posted on 2013-08-03 by ruedigergad

I put a little more work into running Zotero on Plasma Active tablets. First of all, it is now possible to install Zotero via zypper. You can get Zotero from my xulrunner branch repository on Mer OBS. Furthermore, it now … Continue reading →

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Note to self: Resize animated PNG (APNG)

Posted on 2013-08-03 by ruedigergad

Interestingly, animated PNG (APNG) files seem to be so scarce that neither Gimp nor ImageMagick support this format. In fact, it took me quite a bit of searching until I found a way to scale an animated PNG preserving the … Continue reading →

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Some more Panoramic Photos

Posted on 2013-06-23 by ruedigergad

Here, are some more panoramic photos. All these photos had been taken at Heilsberg, Bad Vilbel, Germany. I’ll just quickly post all panoramas in, more or less, chronological order without further comment. I hope you like these.

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More Panoramic Photos

Posted on 2013-06-05 by ruedigergad

It has been quite a while since my first post with panoramic photos. In the meantime, I collected some more panoramas, I’d like to share. This is one of my favorite panoramas. It shows Plaza España in Sevilla. This place … Continue reading →

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Plasma Active for Archos G9 armv7hl

Posted on 2013-02-04 by ruedigergad

I had this lurking on my local disk and in my repositories on cobs @ meego.com far too long. Up to now, Plasma Active for Archos G9 had only been available as armv7l (soft float). Some time ago I was … Continue reading →

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