Good evening from Osnabrück; Tom shares some facts from the day 1 with you, so all I have now (before putting my hand on svn commit) is some graphics. Recently (except for updating opensuse) I have switched from winnt5 to winnt6 on my notebook (thanks Adriaan!).

I need to admit I am regular user of Akregator under Vista now (which is -- repeat-after-me -- fully functional -- aKregator I mean, not Vista ;)). I am also slowly moving to KMail as well on the OS. The latter KDE app runs with POP3/SMTP/IMAP/SASL support offered out of the box.

Read on for the gfx...

As Roberto blogged about how he converted his blog into a blog/podcast hybrid using Talkr, I thought I should tell you about a well-hidden, half-finished feature in Akregator: Basic Text-to-Speech support.

To use it, you need kttsd installed and set up, which does all the heavy lifting for Akregator.

After you have got it running, start Akregator and enable the speech toolbar (Settings->Toolbars->Speech Toolbar in the menu):

Now, just select the articles you want to have spoken and click the parrot to enqueue and play them.

Isn't that great? All the people on PlanetKDE are podcasting to you now!

Ok dudes, now I finally started a blog at kdedevelopers.org. Working on Akregator, a tool that many people read blogs with, I am not really an early adopter when it comes to blogging myself ;-). Well, there is the Akregator blog where we blog from time to time what's going on in Akregator development, so check this out if you're interested.

I look forward to the NL-PIM meeting taking place next week in Annahoeve, Netherlands. It's the first time I actually meet the PIM people. In the last days we were thinking about adding more sophisticated search and filtering functionality to Akregator (maybe using something similar to the labels in GMail). So the challenge is to come up with a concept that is a) powerful and b) easy to grok and use. It might also make sense to have a KDE-wide solution for KDE4, instead of an isolated Akregator-only "we do it all the other way and confuse people" approach. Labels could be stored using Tenor (still waiting for the prototype, Scott ;-) ). I will discuss this on the PIM meeting (having usability people there is really a good thing) and hope that things get clarification.

P.S.: Tomorrow my CVS/SVN account gets one year old. Time for a little birthday party ;-)