APT Woodchuck for smarter scheduling of Maemo update checking

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Neal Walfield has released a small utility application for Maemo called "APT Woodchuck" to replace Hildon Application Mananger's automatic update functionality:

On installation, APT Woodchuck disables HAM's automatic update feature and registers itself with Woodchuck. When Woodchuck decides APT Woodchuck should perform an update, it starts it (using DBus). APT Woodchuck then updates the package list (it uses HAM's apt-worker utility to ensure that all of HAM's usual update mechanisms are performed, including tickling the update widget, if necessary). APT Woodchuck also prefetches packages for which an update is available. The Woodchuck project "is a research project investigating how to improve data availability on mobile devices."

GroundWork - a poor man's AirPlay/x11vnc for Harmattan

Via: @Jaffa2

"kemargrant" has published the initial versions of "GroundWork" which lets you broadcast your screen over a wifi network. Although described as similar to Apple's AirPlay feature, it also sounds like x11vnc - a tool which lets you expose your existing X11 session over the VNC protocol.