The Channel
Over the Channel
GPS information in the air
In case you're wondering why your WHOPPER tasted fishy...
The river Liffey at night
River promenade at the Liffey
Ha'Penny Bridge
At the theatre in the Docklands
The old mill in a creepy light
Google's EU headquarters
One of the two Google buildings in Barrow Street
Entrance to Ballsbridge Towers and Ballsbridge Inn hotels
Scoop-a-Poop
St. Stephens
Huge Nokia N8 advertisements all over the city
Famine
Invasion of the birds
Eye to Eye
A gift from Germany
"In Dankbarkeit für die Hilfe, die das irische Volk deutschen Kindern nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg gewährte." Roman Herzog Präsident der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1997
Inside Stephen's Green Shopping Centre
Joseph apologizing to Mary, who is worshipping the severed Hand of God, which is crushing the Baby Jesus, while sheep and ox and donkey are watching the scene pitifully.
This scene reminds me of Final Fantasy IX somehow
Welcome to the Shopping Centre
The entrance to the Stephen's Green Shopping Centre in Grafton Street
If it's green, it's not for litter, but for mail
Justitia deliberately turning her back to the city at the entrance to the Dublin Castle
Inside the Dublin Castle
Castle Tower
Garda is the Irish police
Entrance to the Dubh Linn garden where the dark pond was once located that gave the city its name (dubh linn = dark pond)
View from the Dubh Linn Garden to the Castle
Friendly Garden Gnome
The Three Gnomes
Christ Church
The Brazen Head is Ireland's oldest pub
The Guinness Brewery
Drive Dead Slow
Guinness Brewery
Sir William Temple who gave the Temple Bar district its name
Funny sightseeing tour with Vikings on board
Scoop-a-Poop in Gaelic
Bridge Building Contest at the MeeGo Conference Early Birds Events
Dave testing the bridges
Adding bottle after bottle to the basket
until...
... the bridge breaks
Testing another bridge
Will it hold?
This bridge looks quite fragile
The most beautiful bridge titled Miss "MeeGo" Bridge
This bridge is so high the basket had to be tied to it with a scarf
Adding bottle after bottle, the bridge did not break
More than 25 bottles (25 kg) didn't fit into the basket
The miserable end of Miss "MeeGo" Bridge
The builders of the undestroyable winning bridge
If bottles can't break it, maybe a girl will do
A room of people trying to download the MeeGo SDK all at the same time via the hotel's WiFi. Of course it didn't work in time.
Too bad we couldn't get to the development step as we did not succeed in downloading the SDK
The Ballsbridge hotel welcoming its MeeGo guests
Preparing the Aviva Stadium the evening before the conference
Inside the Aviva Stadium
Outside the Aviva Stadium
Inside a pub
What enormous chunks of fish on chips
Contents of the MeeGo Conference Kit
Queuing for registration and the Conference Kit
Sponsored continental breakfast
A Conference Kit for everyone
Keynote sessions begin
WeTab, the first MeeGo tablet on market, presented by Intel's Doug Fisher
Demonstration of interaction between a MeeGo netbook and a MeeGo TV
This Lenovo IdeaPad Convertible with touchscreen is free for attendees of the conference. Just find the room deep down in the basement where they gave it away and install MeeGo on it immediately.
Impressive photo viewer application as a demo of what can be done with Qt Quick technology
The Amilo settopbox for IPTV
The settopbox will be sold by Telecom Italia
The MeeGo Technical Steering Group
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director The Linux Foundation
Valtteri Halla, Director Nokia MeeGo
Imad Sousou, Director Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation
The FM Radio application on the right side is mine (but this version does not use Qt)
Quick demo of QML (Qt Quick) coding
Python is an important player
Entrance to the Aviva Stadium
They are serious about this in Aviva Stadium
People getting their Lenovo IdeaPad for free and installing MeeGo on it
The wooden prototype of a palm PDA
Stephan Odörfer, CTO of 4tiitoo, showing the WeTab to interested people and talking about new features.
Get the Hildon Style Guide here
And get free fonts here
MeeGons on the big screen in the stadium
KOffice on the WeTab
Car Racing Game on the WeTab
A First Person Shooter on the WeTab
A Puzzle Game on the WeTab
MeeGo makes the games run everywhere
Normal KOffice without touch-optimized UI on the WeTab
Touch-optimized KOffice on the WeTab
Sir Arthur Guinness, father of Guinness Beer
Free premium level ticket to the soccer match Ireland vs Norway in Aviva Stadium
Intel's Dawn Foster giving instructions about what an "Unconference Day" is
Nomovok showcasing a tablet UX prototype written with QML
Software on the N900. Will this ever be released?
Qt everywhere
Some companies using Qt... and many more do so
A MeeGo Summit in Finland
Texas Instruments with the OMAP4 Panda Board
Don't touch the Panda Board, it'll bite!
MeeGo handset UX running on the Panda Board
In Vehicle Infotainment with MeeGo
IVI application for a car's dashboard
Demo of a 3D homescreen with 360° rotation and application launchers
Netbook MeeGo with Linpus Additions
The Linpus Tablet UX
Sessions of the "Unconference Day"
MeeGo advertisements for the stadium
MeeGo - Anywhere with You
MeeGo DOES Rock!
Wayland, Intel replacing the X server
The football match is about to start. People sell merchandise in the streets.
Ballsbridge Hotel Lobby
The Dubliner Pub in the Ballsbridge Hotel
Pre-Match Hospitality with free drinks and food in the President's Suite
Soccer match in the Aviva Stadium
Ireland makes the first goal
The first MeeGo advertisements are shown to the public
MeeGo - Software for Mobile Devices
The "friendly" guy in the yellow dress is the "Tobacco Control"
Ireland on the way to losing the game
Ireland lost against Norway 1:2
After the match
Street names in Gaelic and English
Ireland in Crisis
Paulaner Bräu München
and an "Oktoberfest" in Dublin
The Trinity College
Religion Does More Harm Than Good
Entrance to the Trinity College Campus
Good Bye, Dublin!