Expanding the Sync Space
No screenshots this time, but still good news. Conduit tries to be a good citizen, integrating itself with GNOME technologies. Recently the following hacking has been going on (not all items are complete)
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A Eye Of Gnome plugin allowing photo upload/sync to Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug, Facebook (soon)
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Gnome user documentation
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Themable icons
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Patches to improve FSpots DBus interface to allow two way syncs with photo sites
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Continued work on OpenSync integration. We have limited support for arbitary opensync plugins!
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Canola, n800, Rhythmbox and general music synchronization
There have also been some new contributions
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Two way support for Flickr, Picasa and Smugmug. Now you can move your photos between sites (AKA move my data)
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A youtube dataprovider (sync your fave videos each morning)
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Google calendar support (sync evolution with google calendar, iPod, etc)
Anyway if you are looking to get involved with Conduit now is a great time. I have just updated the docs on how to write a dataprovider. Here are some ideas for dataproviders people may wish to write (hint hint)
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Support thunderbird contacts (mork library here)
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Support Liferea 1.4 feeds (they now are stored in a sqlite database - easy to parse)
There will be some new features landing in trunk soon that will allow arbitrary parameters during the conversion process, i.e. transcoding audio/video to another format, resizing photos, compressing files, etc. Watch this space, download conduit, and go tell people it rocks!