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It has been a long, looooong time since the last tutorial on the Internet Tablet School, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.As the video above explains, a site called All About Maemo has asked me to carry on doing these tutorials for the new generation of Nokia's Maemo-based devices. The first of these new devices, the N900, is the direct successor to the internet tablets. It uses the
It's been quite a while since the last update on the Internet Tablet School, partly due to personal reasons (a house move and extreme delay in getting an internet connection to the new place), and partly because of work.Instead of the usual tutorial we're now presenting a special editorial feature on what will happen to the internet tablets.The future of Nokia, Maemo and the Internet TabletsIn
Wow, a year already!Believe it or not, it's been one whole year since the first article appeared on the Internet Tablet School.Since then we've seen the launch of OS2008 and the N810, and we have a feeling that something even more exciting in the Nokia tablet world should be appearing by the end of the year.In the last twelve months the Internet Tablet School's text tutorials have been read
By far the biggest online community for Nokia's internet tablets is the famous Internet Tablet Talk site with almost 20,000 registered members. However, it's got rather a technology-heavy atmosphere and most of the forums on ITT assume a lot of prior knowledge about computing in general. Some people may find it slightly intimidating, especially if they don't understand what people are talking
So, you've bought a Nokia N810 or N800 internet tablet and you're now wondering what to do with it. To help you out, here's a brief guide to the first things you should do after getting it home.1. Check everything is in the boxThe box should contain: - The tablet itself (probably with a plastic film across the screen for shipping) - Two styluses (one of them may be inserted in the tablet, the
(Thanks to Benson on the Internet Tablet Talk newbie forum for coming up with the method used in this article - click here to read the original message.)There's a public network of wi-fi routers called Fon. The idea of Fon is that everyone who owns a Fon router (also known as a "La Fonera") can use other Fon owners' routers too, with the ultimate aim of building a worldwide network of free wi-fi
One of the main requests heard again and again about the Nokia tablets is that they should have a calendar. It's actually rather odd that the tablets don't have one, because almost all of Nokia's phones and smartphones do.Well, if you are looking for a calendar there's now an extremely easy way to add one to the tablets. In fact there are two methods, and they're both completely free.Method 1:
A slight change of direction now. The Internet Tablet School proudly presents a guide to crocheting a wool pouch for the Nokia N800 and N810 internet tablets.The model for the pouch was an N810, but the N800 will fit just as snugly. It's not a high tech slim streamlined case, but it's thick and cuddly and looks very nice.Here are some photos, click on them to see the full size versions:How to
To get the most out of this tutorial, watch the video above and then read the text below. The tutorial assumes that all tablet owners have upgraded to the latest version of OS 2008. If you want to find out more about upgrading your tablet, click here.If you want to comment on this tutorial, please post in the comments section at the end. If you have any questions or problems regarding your tablet
Nokia have just released an updated version of the N800 and N810 firmware, with the codename "Diablo" (the previous version was called "Chinook", and the one before that "Bora", they're alphabetical).The Internet Tablet School advises people with an N800 and N810 to update to this new version because it brings two VERY significant improvements, as well as the usual tweaks and bug fixes to make it
If you're a regular reader of the Internet Tablet School you may have noticed we've published quite a few tutorials lately on how to connect USB accessories such as keyboards, flash drives and hard disk drives.All of these rely on the same method for connection to a tablet: a female-female USB adaptor combined with the free "USB Control" application. Essentially you connect the device to your
To get the most out of this tutorial, watch the video above and then read the text below. The tutorial assumes that N800 owners have upgraded to OS 2008. If you want to find out more about upgrading your N800, click here.If you want to comment on this tutorial, please post in the comments section at the end. If you have any questions or problems regarding your tablet, please post about them on