Brainstorm: Sandbox, waiting, category Other

Installer for testing applications

rotoflex@yahoo.com (William Hooper) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 01:12:57 +0000

The backlog of applications in testing and my own struggles with time to fully report on useful-looking applications I download has made me think about possible solutions. It would be useful to have an installer which noted existing conditions on the device such as space useage, CPU useage, etc. As it stands, there are a few applications for spending extra time checking these parameters, but they must be used before installation of an application, various parameters *accurately* noted, and then checked and noted again at intervals. Such actions are not very practical to expect of the majority of casual testers, due to time, accuracy, and levels of understanding of how and what for to check. It would be more realistic to expect and amenable to most who would like to try an application to install it via a testing installer which tracked several metrics, then just make additional operational performance observations while using the application, and when convenient copy and paste the results of a log. The installer would need to work both as a "one-click" installer like the app manager, and for applications that are installed via the command line. It would when opened provide access to a list of applications that have been installed via it, and provide access to reports made during its installation and operation. After the testing period, the installer app could be brought up and the particular application under testing could be released from monitoring by the installer app, & the log files created for the application tested erased. I believe this would increase participation & accuracy in the testing process.

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Brainstorm application to phone

alppix@gmail.com (Jukka Alapiha) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:22:47 +0000

Best ideas come when using the phone, so would be great to create brainstorm via phone. Small application where it would be possible to create new, follow-up, vote and browse brainstorms. Easy to use with good UI for touch screen.

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OVI Suite over IP

TiagoTiagoT+maemo.org@gmail.com (Tiago Estill de Noronha) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:37:40 +0000

We need a way of conecting the N900 to the OVI Suite program via network (even internet if you got the IP)

For security reasons, it might be a good idea to ask for a password on both sides when conecting (encrypt any communication, and of course do not send plain text passwords over the network), and make it so the receiving end has to confirm before allowing the conection to be established.

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Location aware FM transmitter power setting control panel

TiagoTiagoT+maemo.org@gmail.com (Tiago Estill de Noronha) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:42:50 +0000

It would have a slider for the wattage, a checkbox for checking GPS for location and getting the maximum wataage permited by local legislation, a number box for how often check the location, a checkbox for always using the maximum power allowed for the region, a map location picker that is avaiable when not using GPS for choosing location (if you pickt he middle of the ocean where no legislation about maximum power allowed is present, you can use the transmitter up to the maximum power the hardware canhandle)

Perhaps also include a database of airports so if your location is too close to an airport the maximum transmision power is reduced to comply. Also perhaps an option check for altitude and if far enough from the ground to not be on an airplane cut down the maximum allowed to whatever is the safe limit for use on airplanes (even if it's zerio, no transmission power at all)

Also it would be nice to have a button to download an updated database of power restricitons per regions (and the airport database too)

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personal_mediawiki--locally_accessible_via_netbook--mirrored_on_the_web

pierro78@gmail.com (Pierre Pham-Phu) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:16:26 +0000

(sorry if this is not the right spot to post this)

I am thinking of putting a personal mediawiki on an N900 (first thoughts here : http://carrypad.com/2010/02/22/airlife-100-thoughts-6-days-online-battery-and-pricing/#comments ).

I've got 2 issues to solve to make it interesting :

1) make it locally accessible to other devices (netbooks, laptops, etc), for example via bluetooth ?

This is interesting because (a) a bigger device is better to view/edit a mediawiki and (b) even if the mediawiki is mirrored on the web there are some cases where 3G is not good enough and you need to access the mediawiki directly on the N900, preferably with a bigger device than the N900 itself.

So how easy and quick would it be to access the mediawiki on the N900 from another device ?
Any idea what would be the most efficient way of doing that ? maybe with bluetooth PAN ?

2) mirror it on the web so that it's accessible from anywhere (even if there's no 3G connexion on the N900)

(this seems to be doable with “MySQL multi-master replication – circular replication with two nodes” : http://capttofu.livejournal.com/1752.html )

Any idea how this would work ?

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