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July 2009 saw a glorious moment for Maemo unfold - one that was met with great enthusiasm by the community - the creation of the 'Maemo Devices' organization within Nokia.  Melding both software and hardware under one corporate umbrella was a very welcome sign for the future of the Maemo platform, and its importance within the Nokia corporation.  Maemo 5 and the Nokia N900 were the first fruits of the Maemo Devices organization, as the Linux OS was brought into mainstream spotlight.
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“Unlock” your phone to a few new cool settings. Tweakr has to be standard in every N900, it should be integrated into the OS. But for now it can be downloaded in the Maemo testing section and it will install itself to your phone settings as a new menu called extras. Scroll down after opening the phone settings to setup tweakr. First there is the wonderful and long waited setting option to “clean” and trim your desktop. Finally you can arrange your shortcuts and bookmarks on your desktops with “Snap icons ...
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Nokia Maemo Devices is hiring!

2010-03-12 07:06 UTC  to  maemo jobs  by  Kristiina Saaristo

Maemo Devices is where Nokia builds mobile computers on Linux. We build leading-edge devices by combining the most powerful hardware and the best open source software technologies. Our ambition is to deliver a superior user experience dedicated for mobile computers with large touch-screens that fit into your pocket. Using agile development methods and engaging with open source communities define our new way of working. Our latest Maemo product is the N900 - a high-performance mobile computer with a powerful processor, large internal storage, and sharp touch-screen display powered by Maemo 5 OS and applications. Get to know everything about Maemo and the Nokia N900 mobile computer at http://maemo.nokia.com and http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/

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MADDE and Qt Creator Integration

2010-03-10 06:45 UTC  to  Planet maemo  by  Marko Mattila
This article has been in my mind quite a long time already, but now I finally had time to test MADDE and write something about it. MADDE stands for Maemo Application and Debugging Environment. Before going any further, I want to say that this is not a MADDE tutorial, this is about the MADDE and [...]
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Do it your way with N900 – LED Pattern

2010-03-12 16:31 UTC  to  Planet maemo  by  Muhammad Satar
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DISCLAIMER: This software is located in extras-devel package, so it’s considered unsafe for your N900. Moreover it’s altering low-level system settings. If you want to use this software be sure you know what you’re doing! This time I’ve found another interesting piece of software from extras-devel that helps you customize your N900. This time you can alter behaviour of LED notifications on incoming messages, charging etc. LED Pattern installs additional settings applet with a list of all available notifications. Let’s start from the very beginning, N900 has ability to use 3 luminescent ...


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ProClip Nokia N900 Vehicle Mounts Now Out

2010-03-11 22:10 UTC  to  Planet maemo  by  Reggie Suplido
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I just got an email from ProClip USA that their Nokia N900 vehicle mounts are now out. You can choose from three different tilt swivel holders:

Note that along with the holder, you also need to purchase a vehicle mount specific to your vehicle.

Visit ProClip USA.
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

More jobs…

2010-03-10 13:10 UTC  to  Planet maemo  by  Leonid Zolotarev
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We are looking for an experienced software engineer and an architect for the browser team:

Nokia is currently transforming itself from a hardware company to a hardware+services (solutions) company. At MWC 2010, we spoke to Tero Ojanperä, EVP of Services, in order to get an insight into current progress. Over a wide-ranging interview we cover a number of topics around Nokia's service strategy including how Ovi fits into Nokia's software platform strategy, the thought processes that led to free navigation, the importance of services compared to phone hardware, getting content onto the Ovi Store, the importance of partners and much more.

Browser Q&A specialist wanted

2010-03-10 08:51 UTC  to  Planet maemo  by  Leonid Zolotarev
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We are looking for the Browser Q&A specialist.

Do not wait! Apply now!

What our Trainees Learn

2010-03-09 14:46 UTC  to  Planet maemo  by  Murray Cumming
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After our successful year of training at Openismus, I thought I’d publish the rough bullet-point list that we used. Whoever we choose for the following year will repeat much the same process, with in-depth critique and a dose of reality.

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