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Something Bard's Tale Never Did
I just implemented something that didn't exist in The Bard's Tale. A wider perspective view. I know it seems basic when you think about it, but it's really not...In the original Bard's Tale series, you looked down a hallway. If there was a wall that was one game square to the right and down your view, it didn't render because the game did not really handle perspective. I wanted a bit more "wide screen" look, so I implemented two different perspectives for walls. The game graphics are all provided in full face square, and the game will pre-generate images in the appropriate perspective. Check out these screenshots. Standard "Bard's Tale" perspective: New, one-off perspective:
2007-08-31 20:22 UTC to Planet maemo by Tony Maro Summer teasers
During this summer, I participated conferences such as GUADEC, OSS 2007, and Linux World SF, and met developers and teams in places like India, UK, and US. We also had our closing meetings and presentations for an interesting research project called “Managing OSS as an Integrated Part of Business”. A whole lotta open source going on! So I’ve been making some observations, too. First, open source is really becoming an integral part of any software business. It is very difficult to think of any new software product, service, or initiative that would not include significant open source elements. Somebody told me that VCs have included open source into their funding check list. If your new startup doesn’t base its software operations on open source – no money. I wonder if this is true. Anybody knows?...
2007-08-31 14:34 UTC to Planet maemo by Ari Jaaksi [PluThon] PluThon 0.1.1 has been released
PluThon is an Eclipse Plug-in that provides support for developing Python applications for Maemo Platform. PluThon does NOT require Scratchbox. Developers run and debug applications directly on a Maemo device, speeding up the development time. In this release, Windows support has been added, applications can be stopped, error messages have been improved, some bugs have been fixed, and some improvements have been added. See the PluThon homepage (http://pluthon.garage.maemo.org/) for more detailed information and installation instructions.
2007-08-31 20:29 UTC to Garage News by Glauber Ferreira Tiny Tiny RSS...
Speex encoder on n800’s DSP
[raemo] New release with full API documentation
Extra fonts for MicroB engine
MicroB community development building
Limited resources, in this millennium?
[Other Maemo Weather] Other Maemo Weather 0.18.5 Released!
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Python, Where Have You Been All My Life?
A few years ago, I got a comment back from someone about CheckBook Tracker, the personal finance software I wrote for Linux. He had learned I wrote it in Pascal and wondered "Why didn't you use Python?" I snickered to myself "a scripting language for a personal finance application? You've got to be kidding me!" Now that I've been programming python for a little over three weeks, I wish I'd picked it up a long time ago. Then again, I didn't really have a need to.The problem with Python is that you need the interpreter installed. This is much like Visual Basic, only it feels a little more bloated because you're not just installing a DLL. If you are using Python in Windows, there's a good chance you'll also need GTK installed, and PyGTK python libraries as well. For Windows users, I've already had problems getting them to be able to use my "ldsripper" application that scrapes the scriptures from the web and formats them for Thummim Reader. This isn't because the program is hard to use, but because it requires all the cool Python and GTK stuff be installed properly, which is no easy task unless you find the right...
2007-09-04 16:01 UTC to Planet maemo by Tony Maro Why is there no IP address on the connection menu?
IT2007 has added the signal strength to the connection menu (underneath the 'world' icon on the applets). Yay! But why isn't the IP address listed there as well? Why do I need to bring up the Connection Manager, and then use its "IP Address" entry to tell me the IP address? It's not like the connection menu is full or anything. It's not even a variable-length menu.
2007-09-04 16:28 UTC to Planet maemo by Russ Nelson The Gnome-Mobile, by Walt Disney
Etrunko posted a picture Daniel found in Amazon: Link for the IMDB entry.
2007-09-04 04:52 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil 4 Sep 2007
[KryptPad] KryptPad beta3 release
Ported GPL Connect Four to Maemo
Gnome-Mobile
Free Chordites!
Draft version 0.4 of UME Guide available
Exceptions and Python/C API
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Nokia N800 Home Screen (09.05.2007)
Vicky & Ken has added a photo to the pool: My Nokia N800's Home Screen: Simple Launcher (Xournal, GPE Calendar, GNUmeric, Abiword, Web, Xterm, Control Panel, File Manager, Media Player, Camera, Claws Mail, Pidgin, Skype, Gizmo), RSS Feeds, Clock, OMweather
2007-09-05 21:46 UTC to Flickr Palm Foleo cancelled (Jaffa@maemopeople)
A couple of emails in my inbox this morning from Ed Colligan, Palm CEO, saying the Foleo's been cancelled: http://blog.palm.com/palm/2007/09/a-message-to-pa.html I think the reasons are threefold: A distinct lack of excitement from the existing Palm userbase (apart from some real zealots) - in fact, real hostility from both their base and columnists. A mismanagement of the launch and bringing in software developers: obviously some people were getting devices and SDKs, but no-one in the open source community was (AFAICT). All the software announced to date has been rewrites/ports of existing Palm software. Hardly a paradigm shift. The announcement of the Asus Eee PC and the Via Nanobook platforms killed any chance the Foleo had of success. They're cheaper, more flexible and more open. (2) is an interesting one: it shows that despite all of the mistakes Nokia made with Maemo, they could've got it so much more wrong.
2007-09-05 07:57 UTC to Planet maemo by Andrew Flegg Never use a warning
Aza Raskin writes Never Use a Warning, in which I count him as agreeing with my assessment of the Connection Manager's warnings.
2007-09-05 05:27 UTC to Planet maemo by Russ Nelson The gospel of war?
Why is there no IP address on the connection menu?
Python, Where Have You Been All My Life?
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The Gnome-Mobile, by Walt Disney
[KryptPad] KryptPad beta3 release
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mdamt.net: iPhone Price Drop
No no no this is not a marketing move against the iPhone price :-) I borrowed an iPhone a couple of days ago and play a bit with the thing. Well let's call it iPod Touch instead as the phone didn't work :-) And because it is only for one day and I was also pretty busy that day so I couldn't explore much. read more
2007-09-06 17:12 UTC to Planet maemo by Mohammad Anwari 6 Sep 2007
git-svn quirks Although git is a little more than perfect now a days (git >= 1.5), git-svn however has a few quirks. Lately I got into a few frustrating problems and it turned out to be caused by how git-svn bridges the two very different worlds. What happens is that when you `git-svn rebase` (which is implicitly implied in `git-svn dcommit`), git-svn modifies the commit messages to contain an id, a git-svn-id to be precise using which it track down stuff like which latest commits haven't been committed to upstream svn repo etc. To cut the story short, here are is my advice for people who want to use git-svn on regular bases and branch (which they should): To make life simple, only have one branch sync with upstream svn repo (master branch is the most obvious choice). `git-rebase master` your branches each time after a `git-svn rebase` happens (implicitly or explicitly). Don't ever try to merge a branch once you have done that already and did a `git-svn dcommit` after you first merged it, unless you have followed point#2 above.
2007-09-06 21:35 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali New release of Pyphantom 0.1.2
* Bugfixes and changes since 0.1.1: * Added a dialogue which enables the user to choose the location of the created .deb package * Some changes to make pyphantom more compatible with the HIG * Added a Window Menu * Added an option do show/hide debug i/o and project files * Added more alert dialogues * Fixed the ctrl+z issue when opening a new file * Project files browser (tree view on the left hand side) * Created a project web page * preview.py is now executed using the same python executable as pyphantom * Added two plugin examples * Fixed some windows bugs * Other bug fixes and improvements Get it here
2007-09-06 18:25 UTC to Planet maemo by Ian Lawrence iPod Touch as a tablet + birthday wishlist
Interesting Marketing
Topaz stuff: Some ideas for Gtk+ 3.x and Gnome 3.x
[Pychord] First PyChord demonstration
WebKit/Gtk+ at LinuxConf Europe 2007
[OpenSSH] OpenSSH 4.3p2-9.maemo6 released.
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Why red hearts matter in maemo news
(Interested in post-Planet scenarios? Keep reading) Three weeks ago we released a revamped maemo news section. It's still in beta stage, some functionality is missing and there are known...
2007-09-07 06:55 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil New Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition released
A new version of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770 is now available for download. This version updates the platform software to the level of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition feature upgrade, to the possible extent. We are still working on improving it, but we have covered the basics. This is not an end-user ready release and it is not officially supported by Nokia. Main improvements All the user space libraries have been updated, as well as all the applications. We expect application portability across the Internet Tablet OS 2007 and the Hacker Edition as long as the code is not compiled specifically for OMAP2. Some applications might suffer hardware limitations as well. Bugs fixed: File manager can handle files properly. Certifications work with browser. Media Player Still bugs but it works quite well. Same limitations as in IT OS 2006 because of the same osso-media engine. libSDL sound Device information (N800 to 770...
2007-09-07 13:24 UTC to Announcements by Quim Gil Nokia: just give us the right hardware!
Ok, maybe now that Apple released it’s products (iPhone, iPod touch) with incredible hardware power (cpu, gpu, … and a smaller screen, or less things to paint) Nokia will think a bit more for the next devices. We (developers) need more power to do the fancy stuff, or at least non-bogus hardware. We already have to work on missing infrastructure bits, having us to work around these technical hardware problems is no fun!
2007-09-07 02:25 UTC to Planet maemo by Gustavo Barbieri Nokia releases the Hildon Input Method Framework as open source
Hildon Input Framework goes open source + 770 news
New release of OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770
vala
Kagu Media Player for Maemo
Python Kinetic GTK Scrolling List for Maemo
Videocenter for Maemo
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Why red hearts matter in maemo news
(Interested in post-Planet scenarios? Keep reading) Three weeks ago we released a revamped maemo news section. It's still in beta stage, some functionality is missing and there are known...
2007-09-07 06:55 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil New Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition released
A new version of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770 is now available for download. This version updates the platform software to the level of the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition feature upgrade, to the possible extent. We are still working on improving it, but we have covered the basics. This is not an end-user ready release and it is not officially supported by Nokia. Main improvements All the user space libraries have been updated, as well as all the applications. We expect application portability across the Internet Tablet OS 2007 and the Hacker Edition as long as the code is not compiled specifically for OMAP2. Some applications might suffer hardware limitations as well. Bugs fixed: File manager can handle files properly. Certifications work with browser. Media Player Still bugs but it works quite well. Same limitations as in IT OS 2006 because of the same osso-media engine. libSDL sound Device information (N800 to 770...
2007-09-07 13:24 UTC to Announcements by Quim Gil The IT's Video Center
Ugh... For some reason... Nokia seems to hate 770 owners. The recently released program titled "Video Center" is supposed to be the killer app for the Internet Tablet. Add video feeds, manage your onboard videos, and add new video "repositories" with one click from Nokia's catalog. Sound too good to be true? Well, sorta. It doesn't work, for me. See that screenshot up there? That's my 770, which has a few videos and about five DVDs on it so far. (Which are in the extremely bland and common .avi format.) None of them come up. There's also the empty feeds space next to it. (I tried to use Nokia's catlog, but, nope.) Nokia no longer even wants to be bothered to port their stuff to the 770, much less design anything original for it. And, some N800 users are having the same luck as me. Several bugs (ok, lots of bugs) have been found in Nokia's app. ("File Format not supported" errors and it won't even install for some.) Those who have gotten this damnable thing to work somehow, though, are a bit impressed....
2007-09-08 13:41 UTC to Planet maemo by Ty Lo Nokia releases the Hildon Input Method Framework as open source
Videocenter with mplayer
mdamt.net: Running Hildon Input Method in Ubuntu Mobile Edition
Hildon Input Framework goes open source + 770 news
New release of OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770
Kagu Media Player for Maemo
Nokia: just give us the right hardware!
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[Video center] The first version of Video center available
Video Center is an application used for streaming, downloading, storing and playing video clips from various services. New services can be added manually or from Video Center Service Catalogue (link in the main page). Install Video center from here: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/dists/bora/install/videocenter.install
2007-09-09 18:28 UTC to Garage News by Jussi Passi [Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller
Announcing the release of PyKinetic, the python GTK kinetic scrolling list. Works much like any other GTK+ widget, drop it on a form and connect to events. See the enclosed sample application for details.
2007-09-09 18:28 UTC to Garage News by Tony Maro [pyphantom - Hildon Python plug-in IDE] pyphantom 0.1.2 released
Release notes for pyphantom 0.1.2 About pyphantom is an IDE intended to help developers create python plug-ins for Hildon Desktop. It is completely developed in Python and it is based on pygtk and libhildondesktop. What's new? This new release of pyphantom comes with a lot of changes and bug-fixes. New features: * Added a dialog which enables the user to choose the location of the created .deb package * Some changes to make pyphantom more compatible with the HIG * Added a Window Menu * Added an option do show/hide debug i/o and project files * Added more alert dialogs * Fixed ctrl+z issue when opening a new file * Project files browser (tree view on the left hand side) * Created a project web page * preview.py is now executed using the same python executable as pyphantom * Added two plug-in examples For bug-fixes see changelog. What is in the todo list? * MacOS installer
2007-09-09 18:28 UTC to Garage News by Henry Vieira [StarDict] StarDict for maemo 0.4.0 is out!
Bluetooth Headphones, Made Easy
Custom Splash on the IT
PHD: Pre Holiday disorder (keesj@maemopeople)
Find Steve Fosset from satellite images
Why red hearts matter in maemo news
9 Sep 2007
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New application for the N800 : Videocenter
If you always missed some good video management tool for all you internet video needs, here's a good solution : The videocenter application. The application is a hub for internet videos, local stored videos and in the future for other video sources, like mythTV (explained in arthur's web site here). You ...
2007-09-10 20:26 UTC to Planet maemo by Marcelo Oliveira GTK timeout's Are Driving Me Crazy!
I'm desperately trying to tweak my scrolling widget control. I've found a weird problem however. If you use the click callback from one scroller to destroy that scroller and create a new one (layers of selection), the gtk event loop seems to slow down to about half speed. This means my .1 second "tick" for drawing a new frame happens about every .2 seconds. And, I only get one pointer motion event for every tick, instead of the 10 or 15 you should get between ticks. It also means you might get pointer motion events up to 30 seconds after the user let go of the screen. It's like the gobject.timeout_add is blocking all other processing, and itself is being very slow. I've triple checked all of my routines, and the delay is not specifically happening in any of my code. I can't for the life of me figure out exactly what is causing it. The only thing I know for sure is that if you delete the widget and create it outside of the callback event this doesn't happen. The #pygtk guys have offered no help at this point, so I'm flying blind. It seems to be internal to GTK, but it's just not making sense to me. In the meantime, I'm racking my brain for alternative designs...
2007-09-10 20:29 UTC to Planet maemo by Tony Maro [PyPackager] PyPackager First Alpha Release.
I'm pleased to announce the first alpha version of PyPackager. PyPackager is a small tool to create debian package for maemo on maemo. It's writted in python and is independant, doen't use dpkg tool. PyPackager is based on bdist_maemo scripts.
2007-09-10 10:29 UTC to Garage News by Benoît HERVIER Custom Splash on the IT
GObject skeleton generator for Vim
I want your home screens!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller
[Video center] The first version of Video center available
Bluetooth Headphones, Made Easy
[StarDict] StarDict for maemo 0.4.0 is out!
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KDE on the IT
Yo! Another amazing compilation for the Internet Tablet (n800 and n770). KDE and all it's supporting programs have been compiled for the Internet Tablet, and it works b-e-a-utifully. I've installed this sucker on my N770 and it purrs like a kitten, believe it or not ;) This huge project was undertaken by another genius at Internet Tablet Talk, guy goes by the name of Penguinbait! This is for slightly more advanced users than my usual tutorials, but it is extremely simply if you have ever worked with Linux before. Oh, eh, by the way, you'll need a spare mmc card lying about to install this on, it won't fit on the flash ^^' So, here are the directions... 1. Do this. (Warning: This will erase ALL data on your MMC card! Be careful to save anything you wish to save!) 2. Follow these...
2007-09-10 18:59 UTC to Planet maemo by Tyler L Use MMC cards with Ricoh R5C832 controllers!
The Ricoh R5C832 is a multi-function chip that provides Firewire and four types of memory card support (SD/MMC/Memory Stick/xD). It appears in many laptops including the Dell XPS m1330 that I recently bought for myself. It works great for SD cards, but due to the hardware design, with a separate dedicated MMC controller, it has been impossible, up until now, to use MMC cards on linux. This is because we don’t have specs for the MMC controller, and instead have written a driver for the SD controller (the SDHCI driver) that can additionally handle MMC cards. But for this to work, the SD controller has to be able to see the MMC cards. Unfortunately, the R5C832 detects MMC cards in hardware and directs them to the MMC controller - so the SD controller never sees them! I strongly suspected that there was a way to disable the MMC controller, because some laptops, for various reasons, come with only the SD controller enabled (I believe the recent Thinkpads are configured this way) and these ones can handle MMC cards through the SD controller just fine. But there is a lack of useful documentation for the chip, so we had...
2007-09-11 16:18 UTC to Planet maemo by Philip Langdale Why a unibutton?
Why does the N800 have a unibutton and a hidden button on the top? The 770 had three separate buttons on the top. The left button is now in the middle on the N800. The rocker switch (press left, press right) is now split into two buttons, on left and right. The power menu button on the 770 was arguably too easy to press, so I count the hidden button on the N800 an improvement. But to merge the two buttons into one unibutton which is practically impossible to distinguish?? Why? The only way to distinguish between the buttons is to slide your finger back and forth a few times, trying to feel the subtle slope from the left to the middle and back down on the right. Only then can you take a guess at which button your finger is on. Going back to the 770's buttons would be an improvement. Let's hope that the N830 (or whatever) makes that change.
2007-09-11 04:27 UTC to Planet maemo by Russ Nelson bootmenu updated, USB network recovery mode (beta, N770 only) (fanoush@maemopeople)
Video Center for Maemo
New application for the N800 : Videocenter
GTK timeout's Are Driving Me Crazy!
[PyPackager] PyPackager First Alpha Release.
Custom Splash on the IT
GObject skeleton generator for Vim
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What I belive? Maemo can “transform” products…
We've just released Carman, an slick application that turns your maemo device into one Cars lover useful tool. It provides two views, one pyGTK other using Python (pygame) and let you monitor your car's sensors through OBD-II. The nice thing is that we gave the user 2 options, the pyGTK is ...
2007-09-12 05:26 UTC to Planet maemo by Marcelo Oliveira Canola decisions
So, I was reading Murray's review on Canola and after that reading also comments mainly from some guys in our Canola team, mainly trying to justify some of the things Murray thinks are without reasong. Simply ui design errors. As he was not the first one to talk about that, ...
2007-09-12 05:26 UTC to Planet maemo by Marcelo Oliveira QoTD: Michael Mace
Nokia's phones often appear as if their hardware and software were designed by completely different groups and slapped together at the last minute (because, in many cases, that's exactly what happened). Advised by Marcelo, I've just read Michael Mace's post about the imminent "war" between Nokia and Apple. It's really worth reading.
2007-09-12 09:49 UTC to Planet maemo by Eduardo Lima VideoCenter offers local playback, video podcast watching, and video stream downloading
Canola and Carman on Podcasts =)
FBReader on the N800
Things haven’t changed that much in the UI but…
Quake 2 on n800 =)
Carman LIVE review
Canola development update, or : we are not dead =)
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Some lessons learned --- I hope ....
Developing maemo and Internet Tablets has always been a learning journey for us at Nokia. We have learned a lot about using mainstream open source technology in mobile devices, about integrating big company and open source culture together, about shipping open source based products, and about working with communities. An important learning case happened during the last spring. We made some mistakes. No doubt about it! And on top of all, we underestimated the passion people had towards our work and products. We launched the N800 in January. People loved the product. But some of you simply didn't accept that we didn't promise to provide new features and hacker support for the old 770s any more. Back in January -07, we got a lot of comments that eventually made us re-evaluate the 770 software situation. And now, as you know, a few days ago we released an Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770. Not perfect, but we are learning. So thank you. Your enthusiasm, positive...
2007-09-13 17:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Ari Jaaksi 13 Sep 2007
Nothing personal against anyone Olav! I've nothing against you personally, I merely said what i felt and apparently Kalle felt the exact same thing. You presented several different arguments, some i found good enough and some not so good but I don't see anything that could make me change the conclusion I derived from that statement of yours that i quoted, neither in that discussion nor in your reply to my last blog entry. Unless you can provide such an explanation, anyone who reads that statement would come to the same conclusion as i did.
2007-09-13 22:09 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali 
Nokia 770 screenshot
dmai has added a photo to the pool: IT OS 2006 with "Brushed" theme and "Idea" applet. Nokia 770 Tablet is a bargain offer these days. (aprox. 150 €) Got a replacement one on garantee after the predecessor suffered a WSOD (White Screen Of Death). Hoping strongly that this one will survive. 19th century german literature in the train to work with FBReader is a real bummer . Not to mention watching 70ies Soul Funk Videos from YouTube via UKMP. And of course writing Stories with the on-screen thumb keyboard. :)
2007-09-13 22:11 UTC to Flickr Nokia N800: Installing and using a wireless Bluetooth Keyboard
Pyphantom on Ubuntu Mobile
13 Sep 2007
"Red Pill" updates brick N800...
Open source VMware guest tools
QoTD: Michael Mace
Announcing XFCE on the IT
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Some lessons learned --- I hope ....
Developing maemo and Internet Tablets has always been a learning journey for us at Nokia. We have learned a lot about using mainstream open source technology in mobile devices, about integrating big company and open source culture together, about shipping open source based products, and about working with communities. An important learning case happened during the last spring. We made some mistakes. No doubt about it! And on top of all, we underestimated the passion people had towards our work and products. We launched the N800 in January. People loved the product. But some of you simply didn't accept that we didn't promise to provide new features and hacker support for the old 770s any more. Back in January -07, we got a lot of comments that eventually made us re-evaluate the 770 software situation. And now, as you know, a few days ago we released an Internet Tablet OS 2007 Hacker Edition for the Nokia 770. Not perfect, but we are learning. So thank you. Your enthusiasm, positive...
2007-09-13 17:13 UTC to Planet maemo by Ari Jaaksi ThoughtFix explains Bluetooth
I decided that I too often run into situations that could benefit from others knowing a bit more about Bluetooth. I decided to fix that in this video at ultramobilegeek.com. Both Internet Tablets are displayed, naturally. Enjoy!
2007-09-14 03:56 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman
Nokia 770 screenshot
dmai has added a photo to the pool: IT OS 2006 with "Brushed" theme and "Idea" applet. Nokia 770 Tablet is a bargain offer these days. (aprox. 150 €) Got a replacement one on garantee after the predecessor suffered a WSOD (White Screen Of Death). Hoping strongly that this one will survive. 19th century german literature in the train to work with FBReader is a real bummer . Not to mention watching 70ies Soul Funk Videos from YouTube via UKMP. And of course writing Stories with the on-screen thumb keyboard. :)
2007-09-13 22:11 UTC to Flickr Nokia N800: Installing and using a wireless Bluetooth Keyboard
13 Sep 2007
Pyphantom on Ubuntu Mobile
13 Sep 2007
"Red Pill" updates brick N800...
Open source VMware guest tools
QoTD: Michael Mace
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Once again beginning the "long journey"...
Because of this, I’m once again beginning the “long journey” (which I wish was more of this than this). I don’t know if it’s a completely appropriate moniker, but I think it comes close — and, as most Nokia Internet Tablet owners know, it’s a process that can leave one exhausted, dismayed, and searching for water. Wish me luck. Look for me on the other side.
2007-09-15 15:24 UTC to Planet maemo by Tim Samoff The very famous “Test”…
… while writing a real blog post. Sorry for this lame entry but I need a post to test feeds around. This is the blog that is substituting http://desdeamericaconamor.org. Yes, another Wordpress success story. I will write about it later on.
2007-09-15 15:04 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil RMUG Logo!
Yo! This is awesome. RMUG has been up and running for a little more a week now, and in the past four days alone we have had 11,000+ visitors and counting. Thanks so much, everyone! But, there is something missing... I don't have a logo for this site. If I could design graphics I be getting paid a lot more than I am... but I can't to save my life, so I'm turning to the amazing people that are RMUG's readers. I'd love for everyone to create their own logo and submit it. It can be any color scheme, any pictures (so long as it will be legal for me to display and print), and any text with "RMUG" or maybe the whole "Random Musings of a Useless Geek" Just leave a comment and a link. Thanks again everyone! - Ty (The Useless Geek ;) Who's kinda random, too)
2007-09-15 13:55 UTC to Planet maemo by Tyler L Later this week: N800 vs iPod touch
Drawing On The Internet Tablet Screen
KDE Versus XFCE for the IT
Some lessons learned --- I hope ....
ThoughtFix explains Bluetooth
Nokia N800: Installing and using a wireless Bluetooth Keyboard
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PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
Finally, Pychord is almost ready! All features (about 1.0 version) are working. Now I need to work in two different lines. Source Code improvement [1] Bug Fixes[2] [1] I didn’t have enough knowledge about pygame when I started this project. So I need to change some parts of the code to fix wrong decisions that I made before. [2] If you are using this application, please, give me a feedback and I will try to make it better! Then I will start to develop the 1.1 version ( with some features that I promised before ). In this version, I created a configuration file (/home/user/.pychord.conf), and this file has to have two simple lines: db=/home/user/.pychord.db datadir=/home/user/pychord/data Where: “db” is your DataBase file, with all your chords. Its a sqlite’s file. “datadir” is the folder where pychord will get the chords to put into database file on update process. You...
2007-09-16 16:17 UTC to Planet maemo by Danilo Cesar Lemes de Paula Songbird
Yo! Today I stumbled upon one of the coolest programs I've ever seen. It's a media player called Songbird. This has beaten iTunes and Banshee, hands down. For one thing, the interface is beautiful. Secondly, most media player do exactly the same thing. Songbird does that, and more. It's built off of the Firefox base. It allows you to browse MP3 blogs and sites directly from itself. Awesome stuff :) I spent a little time with Songbird and I have to say that I am never going to use anything else if they keep this up. Songbird is cross platform and it runs beautifully on my Ubuntu box. No command line needed. For Mac, it looks so smooth and shiny and it runs just as well as on my Linux...
2007-09-16 12:02 UTC to Planet maemo by Tyler L 16 Sep 2007
DAAP vs UPnP MediaServer While I believe that Lennart's work on free implementation of Apple protocols is very important for the wide-spread acceptance of free software, I fail to see any fact(s) that could support his claims like "I believe that DAAP is the superior protocol in comparison to UPnP MediaServer". When he was visited our office for his presentation on Avahi, he claimed that Zeroconf is better than UPnP itself, his argument being that Zeroconf uses simple ASCII text files and that makes it much more compatible with other Internet protocols, while UPnP uses XML (corrections welcomed). Here are a few points for him to consider: UPnP is much more than addressing and discovery: Zeroconf defines standards for the addressing and discovery of services on a network but do no define any means for control, events and presentation. While this allows the services to choose any mechanism for any or all of these, the point being that UPnP itself isn't really comparable to Zeroconf but only two of it's parts. ASCII is superior to XML?: how come? Just because MS supports XML or other Internet protocols didn't choose to use it? "Microsoft/Intel started to include a similar technology...
2007-09-16 13:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Zeeshan Ali The very famous “Test”…
Once again beginning the "long journey"...
RMUG Logo!
Later this week: N800 vs iPod touch
Drawing On The Internet Tablet Screen
KDE Versus XFCE for the IT
Some lessons learned --- I hope ....
maemo news highlights
maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo 4.0 Chinook beta SDK released
Nokia has released the beta version of the maemo 4.0 SDK, codenamed Chinook (shortcut for the impatient). Developers are encouraged to port their applications from maemo 3.x Bora to the new version and be prepared for the next Nokia Internet Tablet OS release. You can also use this SDK to create your brand new maemo software. A new Chinook repository has been created to host your new packages. As previously announced, Chinook comes with lots of new features an enhancements, including an upgrade to the upstream GTK+ 2.10 and Glibc 2.5. More details can be found in the release notes and the documentation explaining the API changes between maemo 3.2 and maemo 4.0. If you are developing a GUI application make sure you use the Hildon...
2007-09-17 14:36 UTC to Announcements by Quim Gil Mamona with Enlightenment on N800
It has been a while since I promised a post about Mamona booting on N800. I haven’t post anything before because there is no beauty in a text mode booting. But now Aloisio has been done a good work to setup the Enlightenment in Mamona. He has been used OpenEmbedded to build the packages from Enlightenment’s cvs. Check this out: This is the boot of Mamona + Enlightenment on N800. * Aloisio is a new INdT developer working on Mamona Project.
2007-09-17 22:50 UTC to Planet maemo by Rodrigo Vivi PyChord!
Nokia N800: Connecting to the internet through your mobile phone
Sunburned, parched, and otherwise completey spent, but I have finally emerged triumphant...
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
[sdcv] LightStar - light GUI for sdcv and flite
maemo news highlights
maemo 4.0 Chinook beta SDK released
Nokia has released the beta version of the maemo 4.0 SDK, codenamed Chinook (shortcut for the impatient). Developers are encouraged to port their applications from maemo 3.x Bora to the new version and be prepared for the next Nokia Internet Tablet OS release. You can also use this SDK to create your brand new maemo software. A new Chinook repository has been created to host your new packages. As previously announced, Chinook comes with lots of new features an enhancements, including an upgrade to the upstream GTK+ 2.10 and Glibc 2.5. More details can be found in the release notes and the documentation explaining the API changes between maemo 3.2 and maemo 4.0. If you are developing a GUI application make sure you use the Hildon...
2007-09-17 14:36 UTC to Announcements by Quim Gil Update on my MicroB adventures...
Thanks to the kind James Sparenberg, via the maemo user’s list, I was able to reinstitute the “Set engine” functionality of my N800‘s web browser (read about what happened here) by doing this: edit ~/.browser and change hidden from false to true Thanks, James! In addition, the ever-enigmatic timeless (faithful architect of the MicroB browser) asked that I post this for others who might be running into similar issues: check and save the...
2007-09-18 21:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Tim Samoff Mamona with Enlightenment on N800
It has been a while since I promised a post about Mamona booting on N800. I haven’t post anything before because there is no beauty in a text mode booting. But now Aloisio has been done a good work to setup the Enlightenment in Mamona. He has been used OpenEmbedded to build the packages from Enlightenment’s cvs. Check this out: This is the boot of Mamona + Enlightenment on N800. * Aloisio is a new INdT developer working on Mamona Project.
2007-09-17 22:50 UTC to Planet maemo by Rodrigo Vivi Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
maemo Chinook approaches
[VNC Viewer] gnome vnc server vino fixed
[Maetronome] Metronom application (initial release)
N800 To The Rescue, Again
PyChord!
Nokia N800: Connecting to the internet through your mobile phone
maemo news highlights
Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving). I don’t have any study at hand, but I’d say that free software is not doing very well in these devices… yet. Looking at the technology there is nothing that couldn’t be done, and actually nothing (?) not available already, perhaps with the help of some non-free binaries. maemo has already free (beer/speech) and non-free (beer/speech) navigation products (maemo...
2007-09-18 07:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil N800 To The Rescue, Again
I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I cleared my email inbox down to about 40 messages a wanted access to on the road. A nice small inbox is necessary when doing email from the ‘executive model’ Nokia E61. Otherwise it gets confused and generally crashes, sometimes hangs. Good thing too! Cause as I arrived I noticed that I had written down both the fake flight info for my flight and the real info (one of those ‘operated by’ flights) but forgot to note which was which. Never fear, I have that message right in the creamy middle of my 40 message inbox. So I fire up the messenger client and wait. And wait. And wait. Listen to music for a little while. And then bing! Messages synced. Except the message I’m looking for isn’t there. Almost none of the messages are. Just a bunch of garbage I thought I deleted. Weird, I must have screwed up and not actually comitted the inbox changes? Could be. So I fire up the N800 running the open source Claws email program. It’s a lot more tolerant. It can...
2007-09-18 04:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Mike Rowehl PyChord!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
16 Sep 2007
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
[Simple Launcher] simple-launcher 0.9.5 is released
iPod touch vs. Nokia N800 - Filling the Other Pocket
Mamona with Enlightenment on N800
maemo news highlights
Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving). I don’t have any study at hand, but I’d say that free software is not doing very well in these devices… yet. Looking at the technology there is nothing that couldn’t be done, and actually nothing (?) not available already, perhaps with the help of some non-free binaries. maemo has already free (beer/speech) and non-free (beer/speech) navigation products (maemo...
2007-09-18 07:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil N800 To The Rescue, Again
I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I cleared my email inbox down to about 40 messages a wanted access to on the road. A nice small inbox is necessary when doing email from the ‘executive model’ Nokia E61. Otherwise it gets confused and generally crashes, sometimes hangs. Good thing too! Cause as I arrived I noticed that I had written down both the fake flight info for my flight and the real info (one of those ‘operated by’ flights) but forgot to note which was which. Never fear, I have that message right in the creamy middle of my 40 message inbox. So I fire up the messenger client and wait. And wait. And wait. Listen to music for a little while. And then bing! Messages synced. Except the message I’m looking for isn’t there. Almost none of the messages are. Just a bunch of garbage I thought I deleted. Weird, I must have screwed up and not actually comitted the inbox changes? Could be. So I fire up the N800 running the open source Claws email program. It’s a lot more tolerant. It can...
2007-09-18 04:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Mike Rowehl PyChord!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
16 Sep 2007
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
OMGWTFBBQ
Linux is everywhere
iPod touch vs. Nokia N800 - Filling the Other Pocket
maemo news highlights
Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving). I don’t have any study at hand, but I’d say that free software is not doing very well in these devices… yet. Looking at the technology there is nothing that couldn’t be done, and actually nothing (?) not available already, perhaps with the help of some non-free binaries. maemo has already free (beer/speech) and non-free (beer/speech) navigation products (maemo...
2007-09-18 07:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil N800 To The Rescue, Again
I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I cleared my email inbox down to about 40 messages a wanted access to on the road. A nice small inbox is necessary when doing email from the ‘executive model’ Nokia E61. Otherwise it gets confused and generally crashes, sometimes hangs. Good thing too! Cause as I arrived I noticed that I had written down both the fake flight info for my flight and the real info (one of those ‘operated by’ flights) but forgot to note which was which. Never fear, I have that message right in the creamy middle of my 40 message inbox. So I fire up the messenger client and wait. And wait. And wait. Listen to music for a little while. And then bing! Messages synced. Except the message I’m looking for isn’t there. Almost none of the messages are. Just a bunch of garbage I thought I deleted. Weird, I must have screwed up and not actually comitted the inbox changes? Could be. So I fire up the N800 running the open source Claws email program. It’s a lot more tolerant. It can...
2007-09-18 04:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Mike Rowehl PyChord!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
16 Sep 2007
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
maemo improvements: ideas for Diablo and Elephanta
Gaming on your N800
OMGWTFBBQ
maemo news highlights
Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving). I don’t have any study at hand, but I’d say that free software is not doing very well in these devices… yet. Looking at the technology there is nothing that couldn’t be done, and actually nothing (?) not available already, perhaps with the help of some non-free binaries. maemo has already free (beer/speech) and non-free (beer/speech) navigation products (maemo...
2007-09-18 07:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil N800 To The Rescue, Again
I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I cleared my email inbox down to about 40 messages a wanted access to on the road. A nice small inbox is necessary when doing email from the ‘executive model’ Nokia E61. Otherwise it gets confused and generally crashes, sometimes hangs. Good thing too! Cause as I arrived I noticed that I had written down both the fake flight info for my flight and the real info (one of those ‘operated by’ flights) but forgot to note which was which. Never fear, I have that message right in the creamy middle of my 40 message inbox. So I fire up the messenger client and wait. And wait. And wait. Listen to music for a little while. And then bing! Messages synced. Except the message I’m looking for isn’t there. Almost none of the messages are. Just a bunch of garbage I thought I deleted. Weird, I must have screwed up and not actually comitted the inbox changes? Could be. So I fire up the N800 running the open source Claws email program. It’s a lot more tolerant. It can...
2007-09-18 04:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Mike Rowehl PyChord!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
16 Sep 2007
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
Kagu: Beauty and Brains (disq@maemopeople)
Nokia N800: Using Sketch to draw pictures and email them
maemo improvements: ideas for Diablo and Elephanta
maemo news highlights
Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving). I don’t have any study at hand, but I’d say that free software is not doing very well in these devices… yet. Looking at the technology there is nothing that couldn’t be done, and actually nothing (?) not available already, perhaps with the help of some non-free binaries. maemo has already free (beer/speech) and non-free (beer/speech) navigation products (maemo...
2007-09-18 07:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil N800 To The Rescue, Again
I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I cleared my email inbox down to about 40 messages a wanted access to on the road. A nice small inbox is necessary when doing email from the ‘executive model’ Nokia E61. Otherwise it gets confused and generally crashes, sometimes hangs. Good thing too! Cause as I arrived I noticed that I had written down both the fake flight info for my flight and the real info (one of those ‘operated by’ flights) but forgot to note which was which. Never fear, I have that message right in the creamy middle of my 40 message inbox. So I fire up the messenger client and wait. And wait. And wait. Listen to music for a little while. And then bing! Messages synced. Except the message I’m looking for isn’t there. Almost none of the messages are. Just a bunch of garbage I thought I deleted. Weird, I must have screwed up and not actually comitted the inbox changes? Could be. So I fire up the N800 running the open source Claws email program. It’s a lot more tolerant. It can...
2007-09-18 04:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Mike Rowehl PyChord!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
16 Sep 2007
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
jQuery and CouchDB
[Maetronome] Metronom application (Startup bug fixed)
[kmplayer] KMPlayer 0.7.4
maemo news highlights
Add nav kits to the list of computers to gnomize
Automotive navigation systems started being pretty specialized devices doing a single thing: navigate. Convergence is also hitting hard this sector, and the navigators are becoming more and more multimedia computers, Internet tablets, etc. Now some even have TV & video for your entertainment (hopefully not while you are driving). I don’t have any study at hand, but I’d say that free software is not doing very well in these devices… yet. Looking at the technology there is nothing that couldn’t be done, and actually nothing (?) not available already, perhaps with the help of some non-free binaries. maemo has already free (beer/speech) and non-free (beer/speech) navigation products (maemo...
2007-09-18 07:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil maemo Chinook approaches
Today we have released the maemo 4.0 beta Chinook SDK, and it feels good. Chinook will be a major release with several enhancements, new features and an API break to get a better alignment with the contemporary GNU/Linux desktop (details). This beta still misses some components but it is good enough to port applications from maemo Bora. We have chosen to release this beta SDK as soon as it has been technically possible in order to give more time to developers. We still can’t compromise to a final release date, but you will know it with a decent margin of time. maemo developers will find a modular installer bringing some flexibility to your development environment. Try it out and tell us what you think, we have still time to improve it for the final release. This is a first step towards a next generation SDK to be developed during the Diablo and Elephanta release cycles, but this is another story. I hope you enjoy Chinook’s fresh air!
2007-09-17 19:30 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil N800 To The Rescue, Again
I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I cleared my email inbox down to about 40 messages a wanted access to on the road. A nice small inbox is necessary when doing email from the ‘executive model’ Nokia E61. Otherwise it gets confused and generally crashes, sometimes hangs. Good thing too! Cause as I arrived I noticed that I had written down both the fake flight info for my flight and the real info (one of those ‘operated by’ flights) but forgot to note which was which. Never fear, I have that message right in the creamy middle of my 40 message inbox. So I fire up the messenger client and wait. And wait. And wait. Listen to music for a little while. And then bing! Messages synced. Except the message I’m looking for isn’t there. Almost none of the messages are. Just a bunch of garbage I thought I deleted. Weird, I must have screwed up and not actually comitted the inbox changes? Could be. So I fire up the N800 running the open source Claws email program. It’s a lot more tolerant. It can...
2007-09-18 04:11 UTC to Planet maemo by Mike Rowehl PyChord!
[Python GTK Kinetic Selector] Python GTK Kinetic Scroller updated
16 Sep 2007
New Linux tablet produced in Finland (not by Nokia)
MythTV at Nokia N800
PyChord for Maemo: Get your .install here!
Google maps and more on your N800
maemo news highlights
pygtkbrainy
yerga has added a photo to the pool: It' a simple brain training game for Internet tablets. Now it only have a game, but in future it will have more brainy games.
2007-09-25 16:23 UTC to Flickr by Daniel Martín Yerga GMythStream and libgmyth
After the release of MaemoMyth, some people are having problems with GMythStream, then Melunko[1] created this page[2] to help us to solve the most common problems. Another great news is about Totem[3] and libgmyth[4], Bastien Nocerap[5] is working on totem plugin engine and a plugin to MythTv using libgmyth. And now libgmyth is part of Fedora development project. You can find the rpm packages in this site[6]. [1]http://melunkodev.blogspot.com/2007/09/mythtv-at-nokia-n800.html [2]http://gmyth.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/GMythStream [3]http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ [4]http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmyth/...
2007-09-25 17:57 UTC to Planet maemo by renato filho 
pygtkbrainy - Results dialog
yerga has added a photo to the pool: Other pygtkbrainy screenshot. Dialog shown the results.
2007-09-25 16:23 UTC to Flickr by Daniel Martín Yerga New Linux tablet produced in Finland (not by Nokia)
[Maemo Ogg Vorbis support] Maemo Ogg Vorbis support: Version 0.2 for N800 (IT OS 2007)
Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
MythTV at Nokia N800
Sometimes a thumbs down is needed
Nokia N800: How to set up and use a Gmail / Google Mail account
[maemo-efl] Maemo-EFL now in "extras" repository!
maemo news highlights
New Linux tablet produced in Finland (not by Nokia)
Finland and its 5,3M inhabitants keep surprising me, specially on anything relating to mobiles & Linux (both local inventions). This time is an Internet Tablet (aka MID / Multimedia Internet Device) called EB, manufactured by ElektroBit with Intel and Linux inside. Menlow processor, slide-out keyboard, 3,2Mb camera, GPS, Wlan / Bluetooth / Wimax / HSDPA… A public proto targeting OEMs, it will probably take a while until we see it in the shops. What Linux flavor is shipping? Is Hildon (by Nokia) being used? Too late/lazy to ask tonight. EDITED AGAIN: Yes, it is Ubuntu Mobile Midinux with Hildon. Thanks Julien! (and sorry Matthew)
2007-09-24 21:02 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil Some new C++ bindings
We released some extra C++ bindings recently: gtksourceviewmm-2.0 I updated Dodji’s gtksourceviewmm to wrap the new gtksourceview-2.0 API. Here’s the svn, and the tarball download. libnotifymm and hildon-notifymm Johannes Schmid created libnotifymm (svn, tarball) to wrap libnotify, and we also wrapped Maemo’s hildon-notify, though there’s no documentation to say what this does beyond regular libnotify. I suspect that Maemo should just use a port of libnotify without requiring use of special API. There are lots of examples in the libnotifymm source code. It seems quite simple, and particularly useful for code that uses Gtk::StatusIcon.
2007-09-26 13:47 UTC to Planet maemo by Murray Cumming Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
In my daily check for news, I spotted the "LJPRX-44" just filed today at the FCC's site. Sadly, everything is under confidentiality so we do not get to know more about this. Here's what we DO know. It's not too far off from the N800's LJPRX-34 FCC ID, By contrast, the 770 was LJPSU-17.FCC report includes Wireless LAN and Bluetooth. The FCC label includes a CNC-ID - not present in the N800.The general shape of the device is accurate to the N800I have a doctor appointment RIGHT NOW so can't research this further, but expect more from me in a few hours.
2007-09-25 10:37 UTC to Planet maemo by Daniel Gentleman 23 minute hands on with the N800
Full of Surprises lately!
N800 and your in-car setup
MythTV at Nokia N800
ThoughtFix is the Biggest Nerd Ever
[Maemo Ogg Vorbis support] Maemo Ogg Vorbis support: Version 0.2 for N800 (IT OS 2007)
maemo news highlights
27 Sep 2007
Nokia ITT and WiMAX Looks like there'll be a new Internet Tablet with WiMAX in 2008. Intel has the details...
2007-09-27 10:48 UTC to Planet maemo [Maemo SDK VMWare Appliance] Release 0.2
Release 0.2 of the Maemo SDK VMware Appliance. This version features the Maemo 4.0 (Chinook) Beta environment, along with Vala compiler and its Hildon bindings, and some samples (in C and Vala).
2007-09-27 04:28 UTC to Garage News by Marcelo Lira New Linux tablet produced in Finland (not by Nokia)
Finland and its 5,3M inhabitants keep surprising me, specially on anything relating to mobiles & Linux (both local inventions). This time is an Internet Tablet (aka MID / Multimedia Internet Device) called EB, manufactured by ElektroBit with Intel and Linux inside. Menlow processor, slide-out keyboard, 3,2Mb camera, GPS, Wlan / Bluetooth / Wimax / HSDPA… A public proto targeting OEMs, it will probably take a while until we see it in the shops. What Linux flavor is shipping? Is Hildon (by Nokia) being used? Too late/lazy to ask tonight. EDITED AGAIN: Yes, it is Ubuntu Mobile Midinux with Hildon. Thanks Julien! (and sorry Matthew)
2007-09-24 21:02 UTC to Planet maemo by Quim Gil Some new C++ bindings
MythTV at Nokia N800
Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
23 minute hands on with the N800
ThoughtFix is the Biggest Nerd Ever
[Maemo Ogg Vorbis support] Maemo Ogg Vorbis support: Version 0.2 for N800 (IT OS 2007)
maemo news highlights
New maemo 4.0 Chinook documentation released
Nokia has released new documentation for the upcoming maemo 4.0 Chinook. A new architecture document describes the maemo Chinook architecture in detail. Also, a set of 14 other how-tos have been updated to Chinook. More are coming up in the near future. The table of contents of the upcoming maemo 4 Quick Start Guide is also now available waiting feedback that you can send to documentation@maemo.org.
2007-09-28 12:27 UTC to Announcements by Juha Tukkinen Printing Support on the N800/N770 is Here
Yo! More amazing work from penguinbait, here is the announcement and instruction for install :) "I have compiled cups and supporting software to be able to print from the IT, here is what you get!! cups 1.2.12 espgs 8.15.4 openldap 2.3.38 openssl 0.98e openslp 1.2.1 jpeg 6b libpng 1.2.20 tiff 3.8.2 zlib 1.2.3 samba 3.0.25c (kerberos support was not installed, cups 1.2 does not support it) 100MB uncompressed, with the majority of the data in /usr/local Cups itself is installed in /usr INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 1) DISABLE DOCPURGE docpurge is located in /usr/sbin (/usr/sbin/docpurge) I am not really familiar with docpurge, but I do know it will delete any files located it /usr/share/doc/ and this is where cups resides. Fix by running the following: mv /usr/sbin/docpurge /usr/sbin/docpurge-disabled If anyone else knows how to exclude the /usr/share/doc dir from docpurge, please let me know. 2) Download Tarball 30MB http://penguinbait.com/CUPS12.tar.bz2...
2007-09-27 17:19 UTC to Planet maemo by Tyler L Canola in the Mini Cooper car
Today I fell over this photo on Arstechnica: Now back to working on the upcoming version...
2007-09-27 18:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Nokia N800: Listening to internet radio stations, including the BBC
Some new C++ bindings
New Linux tablet produced in Finland (not by Nokia)
Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
MythTV at Nokia N800
[Maemo Ogg Vorbis support] Maemo Ogg Vorbis support: Version 0.2 for N800 (IT OS 2007)
Sometimes a thumbs down is needed
maemo news highlights
New maemo 4.0 Chinook documentation released
Nokia has released new documentation for the upcoming maemo 4.0 Chinook. A new architecture document describes the maemo Chinook architecture in detail. Also, a set of 14 other how-tos have been updated to Chinook. More are coming up in the near future. The table of contents of the upcoming maemo 4 Quick Start Guide is also now available waiting feedback that you can send to documentation@maemo.org.
2007-09-28 12:27 UTC to Announcements by Juha Tukkinen Printing Support on the N800/N770 is Here
Yo! More amazing work from penguinbait, here is the announcement and instruction for install :) "I have compiled cups and supporting software to be able to print from the IT, here is what you get!! cups 1.2.12 espgs 8.15.4 openldap 2.3.38 openssl 0.98e openslp 1.2.1 jpeg 6b libpng 1.2.20 tiff 3.8.2 zlib 1.2.3 samba 3.0.25c (kerberos support was not installed, cups 1.2 does not support it) 100MB uncompressed, with the majority of the data in /usr/local Cups itself is installed in /usr INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS 1) DISABLE DOCPURGE docpurge is located in /usr/sbin (/usr/sbin/docpurge) I am not really familiar with docpurge, but I do know it will delete any files located it /usr/share/doc/ and this is where cups resides. Fix by running the following: mv /usr/sbin/docpurge /usr/sbin/docpurge-disabled If anyone else knows how to exclude the /usr/share/doc dir from docpurge, please let me know. 2) Download Tarball 30MB http://penguinbait.com/CUPS12.tar.bz2...
2007-09-27 17:19 UTC to Planet maemo by Tyler L Canola in the Mini Cooper car
Today I fell over this photo on Arstechnica: Now back to working on the upcoming version...
2007-09-27 18:43 UTC to Planet maemo by Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Nokia N800: Listening to internet radio stations, including the BBC
Some new C++ bindings
New Linux tablet produced in Finland (not by Nokia)
Third Nokia Internet Tablet hits the FCC
MythTV at Nokia N800
[Maemo Ogg Vorbis support] Maemo Ogg Vorbis support: Version 0.2 for N800 (IT OS 2007)
Sometimes a thumbs down is needed