Snes on n900

Thanks to the great developers of nrnoksnes, we have now snes running on n900 fullscreen. Wiimote supported, as well as tv out.

take a look at the video:



[Edit] I ported wiicontrol on the weekend just to get this awesomness up and running. While it's great that you can play games on the go and to be able to continue later from your couch with wiimote, you can also just bring your wiimote with you and use that to play games. It's just perfect.

And kids, don't pirate games.

Last Official Maemo Community Council Post from Me (for now)...

I must say that the last year has been quite a blast. Not only has being a Maemo Community Council member been fun, but it's been a great learning experience too: it has really exposed my to the inner workings of community management (the good, the bad, and the ugly), even after having been a part of so many open source projects in the past. I am proud of my year-long tennure, though -- as well as the jobs that were performed by the other Council members -- and I feel like we're leaving some rather large shoes to fill. (Still, I am definitely resting assured in the fact that the new lineup will all do an amazing job of shoe-filling.)

Estimating merge costs

After commenting on Mal Minhas’s “cost of non-participation” paper (PDF), I’ve been thinking about the cost of performing a merge back to a baseline, and I think I have something to work with.

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.39

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-09-21 through 2009-09-27

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.39

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-09-21 through 2009-09-27

Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.39

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2009-09-21 through 2009-09-27

[Pidgin On Maemo] pidgin-2.6.2-0nix1 is now in Extras

After a long hiatus, Pidgin is finally up-to-date. It's in extras-devel for both Chinook and Diablo, and should show up in extras soon.

Animated Tabs

During the weekend I got inspired with the question: What could a tab-widget look like when implemented as a QGraphicsWidget and armed with QGraphicsEffects & Qt Animation framework?

This is the first try:


Without explaining any further what/why/how (except that "mouse" icon is there just to show when button is down), I'd like to ask comments on how would you want tabs to behave? Note that the goal here is to have eye candy and usability, not necessarily long battery life... ;-)

Update: To demo how this looks (and performs) in tablets, I built Qt 4.6 tp1 for N810. With reduced effects (it's after all just N810), the prototype behaves like this:


Graphics:
- Background: Aamos & Eelis
- Icons: Tango http://tango.freedesktop.org

Hermes Syncs Your N900 Contacts With Twitter And Facebook

Maemo Community Council Elections

Maemo Community Council now has four new members and one returning council member. There were 9 candidates and 5 open slots on council Candidate line up Gary Birkett (lcuk) Andrew Black (AndrewFBlack) Alan Bruce (qole) Jay Carter (zerojay) Graham Cobb (gcobb) Stephen Gadsby (sjgadsby) Matthew Lewis (penguinbait) Valerio Valerio (VDVsx) The voting system used for the Maemo Community Council elections is called STV (Single [...]

Last Official Maemo Community Council Post from Me (for now)...

I must say that the last year has been quite a blast. Not only has being a Maemo Community Council member been fun, but it's been a great learning experience too: it has really exposed my to the inner workings of community management (the good, the bad, and the ugly), even after having been a part of so many open source projects in the past. I am proud of my year-long tennure, though -- as well as the jobs that were performed by the other Council members -- and I feel like we're leaving some rather large shoes to fill. (Still, I am definitely resting assured in the fact that the new lineup will all do an amazing job of shoe-filling.)

Estimating merge costs

After commenting on Mal Minhas’s “cost of non-participation” paper (PDF), I’ve been thinking about the cost of performing a merge back to a baseline, and I think I have something to work with.

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.39

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-09-21 through 2009-09-27

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.39

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-09-21 through 2009-09-27

Hermes Syncs Your N900 Contacts With Twitter And Facebook

The Nokia N900 User Guide

Need more info on the Nokia N900? The English and Spanish Nokia N900 User Guide (in PDF) is now up at Nokia USA. It’s about 111 pages.

Direct link to the Nokia N900 User Guide (in PDF).
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Tablet-Suite Group Looking For Requests

One of the things that really bothered me about the earlier Tablets, such as the N800 and N810 was the lack of ability to communicate with my PC. Sure, I can connect the device via USB and have it show up as a mass storage device, but there’s no ability to synchronize photos, videos, or music, nor is there an ability to store a backup of my device’s memory on my computer.

Synchro application for Maemo

It was very nice that many people were insterested in the Tablet-Suite application. As I told in the previous post, we are already working in a synchronization tool for maemo called “Synchro”. I decided to show the designed UI here so people could become interested as well. Some alpha version is intended to be released still this year. Comments, suggestions and feature requests are really welcome.

Synchro

The features planned here are:

• Manage PC media (playlists, musics, images and videos)
• Manage device media
• Synchronize media
• Play PC and device media
• Temporary list for instant playback
• Several views

Garage project and mailing lists have been created:

• https://garage.maemo.org/projects/synchro
• synchro-devel@garage.maemo.org

Extensive Nokia N900 Preview

Maemo Community Council Elections

Maemo Community Council now has four new members and one returning council member. There were 9 candidates and 5 open slots on council Candidate line up Gary Birkett (lcuk) Andrew Black (AndrewFBlack) Alan Bruce (qole) Jay Carter (zerojay) Graham Cobb (gcobb) Stephen Gadsby (sjgadsby) Matthew Lewis (penguinbait) Valerio Valerio (VDVsx) The voting system used for the Maemo Community Council elections is called STV (Single [...]

Last Official Maemo Community Council Post from Me (for now)...

I must say that the last year has been quite a blast. Not only has being a Maemo Community Council member been fun, but it's been a great learning experience too: it has really exposed my to the inner workings of community management (the good, the bad, and the ugly), even after having been a part of so many open source projects in the past. I am proud of my year-long tennure, though -- as well as the jobs that were performed by the other Council members -- and I feel like we're leaving some rather large shoes to fill. (Still, I am definitely resting assured in the fact that the new lineup will all do an amazing job of shoe-filling.)

Maemo Summit talks of interest to Mer team members

So, Maemo Summit 2009 is coming up - and many people who are contributing to Mer are going to this event.

N900 and TV-out: I just love it

After I read the post of Urho about Wiimote+DrNokSnes+TVout I couldn't help trying it out right away (except the Wiimote thing that I don't have). That was a funny jump back in time to when I was young and passed the evenings at a friend's apartment trying to finish the (amazing at that time) Super Mario bros on the NES (I didn't have a NES myself).Besides that I tried out for the first time in

Helping a community member get to Maemo Summit 2009

As some of you may know, our friend lcuk (elsie UK) has recently lost his job. He is actively seeking employment, but has ended up a little short, and will not be able to attend the Maemo Summit 2009. lcuk is the creator of Liqbase and an active supporter of the Maemo community. [...]

Synchro application for Maemo

It was very nice that many people were insterested in the Tablet-Suite application. As I told in the previous post, we are already working in a synchronization tool for maemo called “Synchro”. I decided to show the designed UI here so people could become interested as well. Some alpha version is intended to be released still this year. Comments, suggestions and feature requests are really welcome.

Synchro

The features planned here are:

• Manage PC media (playlists, musics, images and videos)
• Manage device media
• Synchronize media
• Play PC and device media
• Temporary list for instant playback
• Several views

Garage project and mailing lists have been created:

• https://garage.maemo.org/projects/synchro
• synchro-devel@garage.maemo.org

Hermes Syncs Your N900 Contacts With Twitter And Facebook

The Nokia N900 User Guide

Need more info on the Nokia N900? The English and Spanish Nokia N900 User Guide (in PDF) is now up at Nokia USA. It’s about 111 pages.

Direct link to the Nokia N900 User Guide (in PDF).
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Tablet-Suite Group Looking For Requests

One of the things that really bothered me about the earlier Tablets, such as the N800 and N810 was the lack of ability to communicate with my PC. Sure, I can connect the device via USB and have it show up as a mass storage device, but there’s no ability to synchronize photos, videos, or music, nor is there an ability to store a backup of my device’s memory on my computer.

RSS Feed Handler 2.0

We have been talking about browser integration for all RSS-based apps before, and the initial standalone adaption of Canola's feedhandler (in canola-tuning) was nice, but it was written in Python and therefore startup time was not as fast as it could get (startup time is important for the feed handler, which usually only runs for some seconds, and to the user does not look as if it is a separate application, but rather a "feature" of the browser).

Maemo Summit talks of interest to Mer team members

So, Maemo Summit 2009 is coming up - and many people who are contributing to Mer are going to this event.

Nokia N900 Browser Walkthrough Shows Gestures

The Nokia Conversations blog, Nokia’s official blog, has posted a nice 6-minute video showing off the browser on the Nokia N900, which should hit the market sometime this month. The Nokia N900 uses a new version of the MicroB browser that previous Maemo-powered Tablets have used. This includes a Mozilla-based engine and full Flash support, among other things.

It’s not an earth-shattering video, but it definitely does a great job of highlighting the browser -- which was one thing that I actually hated about previous Internet Tablets. We already know that the new browser has no trouble rendering Maemo-Guru.com. What do you think?

• Tablet-Suite Group Looking For Requests
• Hermes Syncs Your N900 Contacts With Twitter And Facebook
• Only So Excited About the N900
• Nokia N900 Pre-Order Drops To $582 On Amazon
• Irreco Turns The N900 Into A Remote Control

Snes on n900

Thanks to the great developers of nrnoksnes, we have now snes running on n900 fullscreen. Wiimote supported, as well as tv out.

take a look at the video:



[Edit] I ported wiicontrol on the weekend just to get this awesomness up and running. While it's great that you can play games on the go and to be able to continue later from your couch with wiimote, you can also just bring your wiimote with you and use that to play games. It's just perfect.

And kids, don't pirate games.

Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.40

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2009-09-28 through 2009-10-04

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.40

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-09-28 through 2009-10-04

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.40

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-09-28 through 2009-10-04

Nokia N900 Browser Walkthrough

Nokia just released a new walkthrough video of the Nokia N900 browser. Mikko Korpelainen, Senior Product Manager at Nokia and Martin Shüle, Principal Designer of the User Interface team, demo the different features of the browser.

New in this video are the ‘hover and manipulation mode’ that pops-up a contextual menu on flash items (1:55), swiping gesture from the right (edge of the screen) to left to show the browsing history (3:50), selecting text and using copy (Ctrl-C) & paste (Ctrl-V) (4:23), and creating a bookmark to the desktop (5:15).

Full Video:

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Maemo Summit – Informations for Speakers

For those that don’t follow regularly the maemo.org forums, here are some information relevant to Maemo Summit speakers.

Maemo Summit talks of interest to Mer team members

So, Maemo Summit 2009 is coming up - and many people who are contributing to Mer are going to this event.

RSS Feed Handler 2.0

We have been talking about browser integration for all RSS-based apps before, and the initial standalone adaption of Canola's feedhandler (in canola-tuning) was nice, but it was written in Python and therefore startup time was not as fast as it could get (startup time is important for the feed handler, which usually only runs for some seconds, and to the user does not look as if it is a separate application, but rather a "feature" of the browser).

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.40

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-09-28 through 2009-10-04

Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.40

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2009-09-28 through 2009-10-04

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.40

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-09-28 through 2009-10-04

Maemo 5 Downloads now available

For Maemo 5 applications which managed to reach the Extras repository through the community QA testing queue, maemo.org Downloads now has a home.

The Download catalog automatically imports all information for applications in Fremantle Extras. The only thing you need to add is a nice screenshot. (Or more if you want.)

There are quite some applications in the QA testing queue which are almost ready for promotion to Extras. We should see more entries after the Summit.

If you are coming to the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, see you there!

OCRFeeder Repository Relocation and Maemo Preview

It’s been a while since I wrote my last post but I guess this one will compensate.

Flash 10.1 on the N900

At the MAX 2009 conference Adobe demonstrated a new version of Flash, 10.1, running on the Nokia N900. Flash 10.1 is important because it is the first realisation of the Open Screen Project, which looks to create a consistent runtime environment, across multiple platforms, for creating rich multimedia experiences. Key features of Flash 10.1 include support for HD video and hardware accelerated graphics and video.

Important Summit Announcement

Well, it's important if you arrive for the Summit on Thursday and want to meet up for a beer (or, if Copenhagen was anything to go by... an ice-cream) in the evening.

More details here:
  http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009/Schedule

Meet up at 19:00 (so after early registration closes).

There will be free beer available













if someone offers to buy it ;)

Maemo 5 UI Team's YouTube channel

The Maemo 5 UI Team have created a YouTube channel, which they will use to "showcase the interaction design found in Maemo 5". The first video they have uploaded, starring Vilja and Veli (members of the Maemo 5 UI Team), gives a brief introduction to the calendar application on Maemo 5. It demonstrates basic calendar functionality, adding a new calendar entry and a real world example of the potential the benefits of multi tasking.

Maemo Developer Day and Forum Nokia Qt for Mobile Developers training November 18-20, 2009, Copenhagen Denmark

Forum Nokia are giving hosting a training event in Copenhagen about Maemo and Qt. The topics are centered around Maemo and Qt, and the target audience is developers interested in those areas. Commercial development will also be a topic in the event. The registration is free, but needs to be done in advance. [...]

Nokia N900 Browser Walkthrough

Nokia just released a new walkthrough video of the Nokia N900 browser. Mikko Korpelainen, Senior Product Manager at Nokia and Martin Shüle, Principal Designer of the User Interface team, demo the different features of the browser.

New in this video are the ‘hover and manipulation mode’ that pops-up a contextual menu on flash items (1:55), swiping gesture from the right (edge of the screen) to left to show the browsing history (3:50), selecting text and using copy (Ctrl-C) & paste (Ctrl-V) (4:23), and creating a bookmark to the desktop (5:15).

Full Video:

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Maemo Summit Day 1 - live

I'm doing live coverage of the Maemo Summit in collaboration with Reggie, from Maemo Talk, and Mark, from The Nokia Blog. We're using Cover It Live, which is embedded below, and lets you read the latest updates, view pictures, vote in polls and add your own comments and questions. This news story contains the coverage from day one. More in the full story.

Brainstorm at Work: Personal Dataplan Monitor

One of the most amazing, yet largely untapped avenues in maemo.org is Brainstorm. That is the place to dream up ideas, propose solutions, and shape the future of Maemo applications. Recently, Community Member zerojay, dreamed up a dataplan monitor widget for Maemo 5. Soon after, a Brainstorm idea was filed, and work began. With fiferboy (of Personal Menu and Personal Launcher fame) doing coding, and joshua.maverick helping with graphic design, it was a truly Canadian solution. The result is an awesome dataplan monitor widget for Maemo 5 - see for yourself:


It is fitting that a dataplan widget for Maemo 5 is brought to our community by a bunch of Canadians - have you looked at the price of our data plans recently! Congrats guys! I am looking forward to using this when I get a Maemo 5 device. When will that be? Hopefully soon.

OCRFeeder Repository Relocation and Maemo Preview

It’s been a while since I wrote my last post but I guess this one will compensate.

Flash 10.1 on the N900

At the MAX 2009 conference Adobe demonstrated a new version of Flash, 10.1, running on the Nokia N900. Flash 10.1 is important because it is the first realisation of the Open Screen Project, which looks to create a consistent runtime environment, across multiple platforms, for creating rich multimedia experiences. Key features of Flash 10.1 include support for HD video and hardware accelerated graphics and video.

Glom on Maemo: navigation video

Here is a quick video (youtube,or .ogv on murrayc.com) showing the initial port of Glom for Maemo 5 as I navigate through the simple Music Collection example. Remember,  viewing and navigation are just a tiny part of Glom’s functionality. More imporantly, remember that the database designer would have implemented this little system (structure and UI) with no code and no SQL.

Important Summit Announcement

Well, it's important if you arrive for the Summit on Thursday and want to meet up for a beer (or, if Copenhagen was anything to go by... an ice-cream) in the evening.

More details here:
  http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Summit_2009/Schedule

Meet up at 19:00 (so after early registration closes).

There will be free beer available













if someone offers to buy it ;)

Maemo 5 UI Team's YouTube channel

The Maemo 5 UI Team have created a YouTube channel, which they will use to "showcase the interaction design found in Maemo 5". The first video they have uploaded, starring Vilja and Veli (members of the Maemo 5 UI Team), gives a brief introduction to the calendar application on Maemo 5. It demonstrates basic calendar functionality, adding a new calendar entry and a real world example of the potential the benefits of multi tasking.

Plasma widgets on Maemo5

Maemo 5 Downloads now available

For Maemo 5 applications which managed to reach the Extras repository through the community QA testing queue, maemo.org Downloads now has a home.

The Download catalog automatically imports all information for applications in Fremantle Extras. The only thing you need to add is a nice screenshot. (Or more if you want.)

There are quite some applications in the QA testing queue which are almost ready for promotion to Extras. We should see more entries after the Summit.

If you are coming to the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, see you there!

MediaBox on the N900

The popular NIT media center MediaBox is coming to the N900. Thanks to lots of user feedback the UI has been further simplified and optmized and of course "fremantlized". :)

maemo.gitorious.org gaining good content

The brand new http://maemo.gitorious.org/ has been getting new content at a good rate! That trend should continue in the future too. A really interesting addition to the different Maemo projects is the technical preview of the Maemo 6 UI. And that is hosted o the Qt side Go see http://qt.gitorious.org/maemo-6-ui-framework ! [...]

Out in the street

We don’t see many products running an OS based on Linux and GNOME advertised on bus stops around here, but look at this one … :-)

Maemo Summit 2009 Kicks Off Today!

Today in Amsterdam, the second annual Maemo Summit is kicking off! The Maemo Summit includes 3 days of nothing but Maemo -- the first day is organized by Nokia, while the second two days consist of community-planned events and presentations. You can check out the full schedule online at the Maemo Wiki, and no doubt we’ll have some updates along the way, as well.

Maemo Summit 2009: It’s cool to be Maemo

Amsterdam

Dr. Ari Jaaksi opened his keynote of the second Maemo Summit by by noting that he had been working with Maemo “before Maemo was cool.”

When his group’s second Maemo devicce acquired the “n” at the beginning of its name, the n800, indicating it was part of the crown jewel, top of the line Nseries — that was a sign of things to come.

The forthoming n900 is designated the Nseries flagship phone (along with the N97). Whatever feature it has should be the best Nokia offers.

What Ari didn’t have to say,  because it is implicit in tha t designation, is that today Maemo is cool.

Maemo Summit 2009

The second Maemo Summit is over.

Nokia N900 Easter Egg – FM Radio!

Blogging From The Nokia N900

Thanks to the kind folks at Nokia’s press offices, I’ve just taken delivery of a pre-production Nokia N900. I’m told this is final hardware, but the software that I’ve got will be updated a few more times before the units are ready to ship. Fortunately, though, the live device will give me a chance to check out the various features on the phone for you.

Maemo Summit 2009 Is A Wrap

Apologies for the lack of coverage here – as I wasn’t attending, it was tough to keep up with all the photos, videos, and posts about the Maemo Summit. However, if you weren’t there, either, you can catch up on all the news in a few places.

Adapting GNOME Applications to Maemo Fremantle (Slides)

So, yesterday I gave my presentation here in Maemo Summit about how you should adapt your GNOME applications to Maemo using the Fremantle guidelines.

I’ve just uploaded the slides for this presentation should you want to review them or in case you missed the talk:

Writing MAFW plugins talk @ Maemo Summit

So here is the thing, when I was preparing this presentation I thought it would be a good idea to give the audience some actual source code of both source and renderer plugins for MAFW. Yeah, we already have some plugins in MAFW that you can look into but those are full of optimizations and pack quite many features so I thought they might be a bit complicated to understand the basics. So, I devoted a few hours to write a couple of very simple plugins (a source and a renderer), they are really simple, they only provide the most basic stuff, they are not complete,they sure have bugs, etc but the code is simple, easy to read and understand and it is full of comments to guide readers.

Maemo Summit Liveblog Day 3

I’m in Amsterdam at Maemo Summit for the third and last day of sessions. I am teaming up with Rafe from All About Maemo and Reggie from Maemo Talk to provide you live info, photos, and videos. You’ll be able to comment, ask questions, and vote on polls. The third day’s coverage starts Sunday October 11th at 09:00 CEST. All my photos will be taken and uploaded directly from the Nokia N900!

Maemo Summit 2009 – Day 3
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Maemo Summit 2009-Thank You!

I would like to publicly thank the Maemo Community Council and the Maemo Devices team for all their hard work in organizing the Summit at Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. The event was a great success.

Back from Maemo Summit 2009

So I am back from Maemo Summit 2009. Great people. Great show. Great talks. Great venue: Enjoyed it quite much to walk arround in the Westerpark, Marc-André loved the petting zoo.

Maemo Summit 2009

The second Maemo Summit is over.

Blogging From The Nokia N900

Thanks to the kind folks at Nokia’s press offices, I’ve just taken delivery of a pre-production Nokia N900. I’m told this is final hardware, but the software that I’ve got will be updated a few more times before the units are ready to ship. Fortunately, though, the live device will give me a chance to check out the various features on the phone for you.

Nokia N900 Easter Egg – FM Radio!

Qt Comes To Maemo

Quite some time ago, Nokia paid a pretty penny for Trolltech, which turned into Qt development framework. One of the big things about Qt that got everyone talking is its ability to easily translate to a number of different platforms, including Linux and Windows. Unfortunately, while parts of Qt are currently available for Symbian and Maemo, the entire framework was not integrated into the current version of either operating system, until now.

Maemo 6: slides from the Maemo Summit

Maemo 6, codenamed Harmattan, is the next version of the Maemo platform. With Maemo 6 Nokia aims to deliver 'iconic user experience and integrated Internet services in one aesthetic package'. At last week's Maemo Summit Nokia shared some key information on Harmattan. In the full new story below we've embeded some of the key Maemo 6 presentations, along with a summary of what is essential for you to know.

Mobile Office based KOffice for N900 (Maemo 5)

A key application on any mobile platform, especially for enterprise users, is an office documents viewer and editor. At the Maemo Summit Suresh Chande demoed a Mobile Office application, based on KOffice, running on the Nokia N900. The application support both ODF and Microsoft Office (2003 / 2007) formats. The UI will be open sourced and made available via the extras-devel repository.

Maemo Security - Lockdown or Liberation?

At the Maemo2009 Summit Nokia shared a great deal of information about the security mechanisms that would be available and/or mandated in upcoming platforms.

The concepts outlined include well established favourites in the OSS world (like privilege management) as well as some that are rather less well regarded - such as relatives of the Trusted Computing Platform and DRM.

Inevitably there will be a significant amount of interest and concern about how this affects the open nature of the Maemo platform.

Maemo Summit and N900

Maemo Summit

Maemo 6: slides from the Maemo Summit

Maemo 6, codenamed Harmattan, is the next version of the Maemo platform. With Maemo 6 Nokia aims to deliver 'iconic user experience and integrated Internet services in one aesthetic package'. At last week's Maemo Summit Nokia shared some key information on Harmattan. In the full new story below we've embeded some of the key Maemo 6 presentations, along with a summary of what is essential for you to know.

New gPodder version with automatic downloading

Thanks for all your comments on talk.m.o, Flickr and bugs.m.o and directly at the Summit. The result is a shiny new release with improved UX and automatic feed updating/downloading.

The new version is currently in Extras-Devel (promoted to -Testing, waiting for someone to confirm the promotion). Please take the time to review the new release and rate/comment it on gPodder's maemo.org/packages page.

One thing that did not make it into this release: Direct play/download/delete buttons in the episode shownotes window. I'm thinking of just popping up a list of actions when a episode is clicked and make "display shownotes" one of these actions. What do you think?

Please report bugs, discuss and rate the package. See the complete set of screenshots on Flickr.

Maemo Summit 2009 Concludes – Thank you Nokia!

The Maemo Summit 2009 finale video:

Three days of great talks, fifty sponsored participants, three hundred Nokia N900s, four hundred plus enthusiasts, and the best Maemo device to date. What a summit! Thank you Nokia, and thank you Amsterdam!

Would you believe that it’s less than a year before the next summit? Looking forward to that!

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Debian packaging: Changing permissions and ownership of dirs

Regarding creating users and permissions our beloved Debian Policy [chap. 10.9] tells us:...you must arrange for your package to create the user or group if necessary using adduser in the preinst or postinst script (again, the latter is to be preferred if it is possible). I wanted to stick to the postinst since it's preferrable so I couldn't change the permissions in the rules file.Now the thing

Escaping hotel firewalls with ssh over port 80

I booked a stay at a particular hotel because the web page said "Free WiFi". It didn't say "all outgoing ports firewalled except for port 80 and a few other (useless) ones". Not having SSH access is most painful. Luckily, there's a solution.

Maemo Summit 2009 Opening Video on Youtube

Maemo Summit 2009 Opening video on Youtube

New gPodder version with automatic downloading

Thanks for all your comments on talk.m.o, Flickr and bugs.m.o and directly at the Summit. The result is a shiny new release with improved UX and automatic feed updating/downloading.

The new version is currently in Extras-Devel (promoted to -Testing, waiting for someone to confirm the promotion). Please take the time to review the new release and rate/comment it on gPodder's maemo.org/packages page.

One thing that did not make it into this release: Direct play/download/delete buttons in the episode shownotes window. I'm thinking of just popping up a list of actions when a episode is clicked and make "display shownotes" one of these actions. What do you think?

Please report bugs, discuss and rate the package. See the complete set of screenshots on Flickr.

Video Demo with Andrew Flegg – Developer of Hermes for Nokia N900

I first heard about Hermes on Twitter and knew that it will be popular. It is still under development, but it basically grabs your Facebook and Twitter friends’ info like photos and birthdays, then sync it with your Nokia N900’s contacts. I asked the developer, Andrew Flegg, to get in front of camera to talk about the app. Check it out.

Nokia N900 Keyboard Shortcuts Galore

The Nokia N900 is one of the first QWERTY-equipped smartphones from Nokia to come with a junkload of cool keyboard shortcuts. Honestly, there’s so many, you probably won’t remember or use most of them, but there are a few that deserve to be highlighted. Thanks to Matthew Miller at NokiaExperts.com for pulling these out of the manual (and discovering a few others, as well).

Maemo Summit 2009 Concludes – Thank you Nokia!

The Maemo Summit 2009 finale video:

Three days of great talks, fifty sponsored participants, three hundred Nokia N900s, four hundred plus enthusiasts, and the best Maemo device to date. What a summit! Thank you Nokia, and thank you Amsterdam!

Would you believe that it’s less than a year before the next summit? Looking forward to that!

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Maemo Security - Lockdown or Liberation?

At the Maemo2009 Summit Nokia shared a great deal of information about the security mechanisms that would be available and/or mandated in upcoming platforms.

The concepts outlined include well established favourites in the OSS world (like privilege management) as well as some that are rather less well regarded - such as relatives of the Trusted Computing Platform and DRM.

Inevitably there will be a significant amount of interest and concern about how this affects the open nature of the Maemo platform.

Maemo Summit 2009 Opening Video on Youtube

Maemo Summit 2009 Opening video on Youtube

Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome

In the screenshot below, you can see that I’m running 24 different applications on the N900 simultaniously. Any decent smartphone should be able to multitask, and it’s clear that the Nokia N900 has no trouble in doing so. You will notice that after yopu have 16 applications open, the task manager screen starts scrolling up and down, which is nice.

Mobile Office based KOffice for N900 (Maemo 5)

A key application on any mobile platform, especially for enterprise users, is an office documents viewer and editor. At the Maemo Summit Suresh Chande demoed a Mobile Office application, based on KOffice, running on the Nokia N900. The application support both ODF and Microsoft Office (2003 / 2007) formats. The UI will be open sourced and made available via the extras-devel repository.

Ogg Support: Next Steps

Purpose of the 1.0.5 release was to get a decent feature set to Extras repository before the Maemo Summit. There are still some bigger issues to be fixed in the future releases.

Video Demo with Andrew Flegg – Developer of Hermes for Nokia N900

I first heard about Hermes on Twitter and knew that it will be popular. It is still under development, but it basically grabs your Facebook and Twitter friends’ info like photos and birthdays, then sync it with your Nokia N900’s contacts. I asked the developer, Andrew Flegg, to get in front of camera to talk about the app. Check it out.

Glom on Maemo: Slight Improvements

As expected, my Glom talk at the Maemo summit was rather under-attended while people went to the security talk next door. I had still hoped to do an entertaining talk for the video cameras, but my mind when blank and it was a bit of a shambles. The slides (or with notes that I forgot) should give you an idea of what I was trying to achieve.

New gPodder version with automatic downloading

Thanks for all your comments on talk.m.o, Flickr and bugs.m.o and directly at the Summit. The result is a shiny new release with improved UX and automatic feed updating/downloading.

The new version is currently in Extras-Devel (promoted to -Testing, waiting for someone to confirm the promotion). Please take the time to review the new release and rate/comment it on gPodder's maemo.org/packages page.

One thing that did not make it into this release: Direct play/download/delete buttons in the episode shownotes window. I'm thinking of just popping up a list of actions when a episode is clicked and make "display shownotes" one of these actions. What do you think?

Please report bugs, discuss and rate the package. See the complete set of screenshots on Flickr.

Glom on Maemo: Slight Improvements

As expected, my Glom talk at the Maemo summit was rather under-attended while people went to the security talk next door. I had still hoped to do an entertaining talk for the video cameras, but my mind when blank and it was a bit of a shambles. The slides (or with notes that I forgot) should give you an idea of what I was trying to achieve.

Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome

In the screenshot below, you can see that I’m running 24 different applications on the N900 simultaniously. Any decent smartphone should be able to multitask, and it’s clear that the Nokia N900 has no trouble in doing so. You will notice that after yopu have 16 applications open, the task manager screen starts scrolling up and down, which is nice.

Ogg Support: Next Steps

Purpose of the 1.0.5 release was to get a decent feature set to Extras repository before the Maemo Summit. There are still some bigger issues to be fixed in the future releases.

Update on the N900 FM Radio

Success! We can receive FM radio on the N900 now.

Maemo Summit 2009 Opening Video on Youtube

Maemo Summit 2009 Opening video on Youtube

Video Demo with Andrew Flegg – Developer of Hermes for Nokia N900

I first heard about Hermes on Twitter and knew that it will be popular. It is still under development, but it basically grabs your Facebook and Twitter friends’ info like photos and birthdays, then sync it with your Nokia N900’s contacts. I asked the developer, Andrew Flegg, to get in front of camera to talk about the app. Check it out.

All About Maemo Podcast #1 - Maemo Summit

We will be publishing the occasional podcast, here, on All About Maemo, talking about the Maemo platform and Maemo devices such as the Nokia N900. In our very first podcast Rafe discusses the Maemo Summit with Steve. Topics include the Qt port to Maemo 5, Maemo 5 UI, Maemo 6 concepts, open source as business model, platform security and much more. You can listen to the podcast by the using the embed in the full story, downloading the MP3 file, or subscribing to the RSS feed in a podcactcher. Read on for more details.

Glom on Maemo: Slight Improvements

As expected, my Glom talk at the Maemo summit was rather under-attended while people went to the security talk next door. I had still hoped to do an entertaining talk for the video cameras, but my mind when blank and it was a bit of a shambles. The slides (or with notes that I forgot) should give you an idea of what I was trying to achieve.

All About Maemo Podcast #1 - Maemo Summit

We will be publishing the occasional podcast, here, on All About Maemo, talking about the Maemo platform and Maemo devices such as the Nokia N900. In our very first podcast Rafe discusses the Maemo Summit with Steve. Topics include the Qt port to Maemo 5, Maemo 5 UI, Maemo 6 concepts, open source as business model, platform security and much more. You can listen to the podcast by the using the embed in the full story, downloading the MP3 file, or subscribing to the RSS feed in a podcactcher. Read on for more details.

Amsterdam flash marathon

Summit is over, a huge thanks to everyone who attended and made the event memorable! Now that (almost) everyone has gotten home, it’s time to tell you how Soumya, Daniel, Quim, Lasse and me spent our Thursday. The story begins back home at 4:45 in the morning. I connected to the Nokia intranet over vpn to fetch [...]

Downloading Ovi Maps without a network connection (Jaffa@maemopeople)

Unlike Navicore/Wayfinder on previous Maemo devices, Ovi Maps on the N900 downloads maps on demand. This is obviously a problem if you're going somewhere abroad and don't want to pay extortionate data roaming charges.

Fortunately, S60 Ovi Maps users also have the same problem, and the solution is straightforward:

Some of the files you may already have, I've chosen to overwrite them; YMMV.

However, as far as I can tell, searching for locations still requires a network connection :-(

Multitasking On The Nokia N900 Is Awesome

In the screenshot below, you can see that I’m running 24 different applications on the N900 simultaniously. Any decent smartphone should be able to multitask, and it’s clear that the Nokia N900 has no trouble in doing so. You will notice that after yopu have 16 applications open, the task manager screen starts scrolling up and down, which is nice.

Ogg Support: Next Steps

Purpose of the 1.0.5 release was to get a decent feature set to Extras repository before the Maemo Summit. There are still some bigger issues to be fixed in the future releases.

Video Demo with Andrew Flegg – Developer of Hermes for Nokia N900

I first heard about Hermes on Twitter and knew that it will be popular. It is still under development, but it basically grabs your Facebook and Twitter friends’ info like photos and birthdays, then sync it with your Nokia N900’s contacts. I asked the developer, Andrew Flegg, to get in front of camera to talk about the app. Check it out.

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2009

You might have heard the rumors, and it’s true: we’ll be holding a WebKitGTK+ hackfest right before Christmas, from the 15th to the 21st of December, 2009.

Nokia N900 Keyboard Shortcuts Galore

The Nokia N900 is one of the first QWERTY-equipped smartphones from Nokia to come with a junkload of cool keyboard shortcuts. Honestly, there’s so many, you probably won’t remember or use most of them, but there are a few that deserve to be highlighted. Thanks to Matthew Miller at NokiaExperts.com for pulling these out of the manual (and discovering a few others, as well).

Theme Maker 1.2.4 released

MAFW and Canola (and other Maemo Summit experiences)

Last week I was pretty busy with various things and I did not have much time to post about Maemo Summit, but here I go:

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.42

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-10-12 through 2009-10-18

Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.42

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2009-10-12 through 2009-10-18

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.42

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-10-12 through 2009-10-18

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2009

You might have heard the rumors, and it’s true: we’ll be holding a WebKitGTK+ hackfest right before Christmas, from the 15th to the 21st of December, 2009.

Keeping the autotools guys happy with qmake

I’m still figuring out how to do the same thing with cmake, but various bloggers and comments appear to be promising that it’ll be even more easy.

How AT&T USA Users Can Get a Prepaid Tmobile SIM Card For 3G Usage on Nokia N900

This is a tip for the USA readers currently under AT&T contract, but want to enjoy 3G data on the Nokia N900. Since the N900 does not support AT&T’s 3G frequency, you have to use a T-mobile SIM card. Tmo’s Flexpay Monthly plan doesn’t require a long-term contract, so you can just get one at their stores without signing your soul away for the next two years.

Maemo Summit - coverage from across the web

As part of my post Maemo Summit follow up I've been keeping an eye on what people have been saying about the event in blogs and other online media. In this news story you will find twenty or so links featuring a wide range of content an opinions from across the web. For those who were unable to attend the summit it should give you a good flavour of what the event was like.

Theme Maker 1.2.4 released

MAFW and Canola (and other Maemo Summit experiences)

Last week I was pretty busy with various things and I did not have much time to post about Maemo Summit, but here I go:

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.42

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-10-12 through 2009-10-18

MAFW renderer plugin with equalizer

Reading Maemo Brainstorm I happened upon a complaint: Mediaplayer and other players do not have an equalizer. Though I don’t use equalizers very often, sometimes I did it, and I find a bit upset not having one in such cool device.

OMWeather 0.3 preview and support

Hello everyone. Last couple of weeks was full of great news connected with Maemo Community. Great Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, 300 devices for participants, Nokia Developer Device Program revealing with addition of quite positive reviews of n900 (even with pre-production software) – all this stuff is breathing fresh air and blood into Maemo Community, hope we’ll [...]

Maemo Summit - coverage from across the web

As part of my post Maemo Summit follow up I've been keeping an eye on what people have been saying about the event in blogs and other online media. In this news story you will find twenty or so links featuring a wide range of content an opinions from across the web. For those who were unable to attend the summit it should give you a good flavour of what the event was like.

OMWeather v0.3 Preview Needs Your Donations

If you’ve ever used a Maemo-powered device, including the older Nokia Internet Tablets, you know that OMWeather is one of the ultimate must-have applications. OMWeather brings detailed weather information straight to your homescreen through a really customizable widget, with transparency and even a few different icon sets that you can use. Newer versions of OMWeather also use the device’s built-in GPS receiver to automatically determine your location, making weather details even more useful.

Nokia N900 discount

On Friday evening I got email from Quim Gil (Nokia) with information that I was selected for Nokia N900 device discount. Yes, even I got it. Not decided yet will I apply for it or not (need to check cash state).

Maemo Summit 2009

After spending three holidays in Amsterdam (rainy but still a wonderful time) we moved from our hotel to the Openismus apartment on the evening before the summit started. Great to see the friends/colleagues again, plus only 5 minutes of walking to the venue. As my laptop had died directly after arriving ...

Panucci - Portrait mode Media Player for the N900

You probably know Panucci from your N8x0 where it allows you to playback, resume and bookmark audiobooks and podcasts. Some users seem to use it as a normal audio media player, too, although the primary design goal is to support resuming for long audio tracks.

Third Council Comes to Order

Hot on the heels of the second maemo.org community council and their excellent work, the incoming third council representatives are ready to roll up their sleeves. Some vital needs identified by the growing community are wiki cleanup and expansion, increased Brainstorm activity and quickly routing newcomers to proper resources. Action plans have already been started, champions identified and progress made!

It’s YOUR maemo.org council

Before I get into the details surrounding my participation in Maemo Summit 2009 and its aftermath, I wanted to make something clear...

N900 expected to start shipping in November

When the N900 was announced, just prior to Nokia World, Nokia specified a Q4 shipping date. Early pre-orders suggested the first retail units would be available in late October, but this is no longer the case. However we now have, direct from Nokia, some extra information: Peter Schneider (Head of Maemo Marketing) has posted in the talk.maemo.org forum that the N900 is 'expected to start shipping in November'.

RDF on the device

I've started work on a memory mapped soprano RDF backend. Given that mobile devices use flash for their permanent storage, an RDF backend designed using primary storage algorithms should work well on maemo.

While the SPARQL implementation is "far from complete", it can already evaluate some common queries very very quickly. I have some triple matching and the ability to have multiple regex filter statements. Other filters and more complete SPARQL lanugage support should follow in time, as time permits... patches accepted etc and so on.

For those interested, see soprano-boostmmapbackend on my main sf.net page.

About boring cars

Getting close now!!

MicroB Add-ons AbBlock Plus extension installation

Example about how to install and use AdBlock Plus extension with MicroB browser

WebKit on (multitouch) steroids!

While being in Maemo Summit or in Qt Developer Days, did you notice this guy below? Did you ask from him "Have you been working with multitouch-enabled WebKit lately?" Why not? ;-)


Kimi has been working in project called "Starlight" and part of the project is to bring multitouch into WebKit. So while you look at the video below and think "Hmm, just another multitouch photo rotate&scale demo..." please notice that this is all done inside browser with just HTML, CSS & JavaScript! In other words: It's just a normal web page without any black magic.





Starlight has now public website here, more videos available in here, and a developer guide with API & examples here.

Isn't it just convenient that this was published about simultaneously with the information that Maemo 6 will support multitouch... Sure beats my lame N810 multitouch hack! ;-)

Download client for applications

Some time ago I started a Qt based open source project, which is basically a download client for community applications in the extras-repository. The client should be used in addition to the native application manager and provide easily more information for the inexperienced user. The client will: ease finding and sorting applications based on different criteria [...]

git send-email tricks

I recently found out a few awesome tricks for git send-email that have made my life much easier, so I decided to share them here First, git send-email is an essential tool in every git guru’s arsenal, as it’s the preferred way of submitting patches. All you need to do is generate your patches [...]

It’s YOUR maemo.org council

Before I get into the details surrounding my participation in Maemo Summit 2009 and its aftermath, I wanted to make something clear...

MicroB Add-ons AbBlock Plus extension installation

Example about how to install and use AdBlock Plus extension with MicroB browser

RDF on the device

I've started work on a memory mapped soprano RDF backend. Given that mobile devices use flash for their permanent storage, an RDF backend designed using primary storage algorithms should work well on maemo.

While the SPARQL implementation is "far from complete", it can already evaluate some common queries very very quickly. I have some triple matching and the ability to have multiple regex filter statements. Other filters and more complete SPARQL lanugage support should follow in time, as time permits... patches accepted etc and so on.

For those interested, see soprano-boostmmapbackend on my main sf.net page.

About boring cars

Getting close now!!

N900 expected to start shipping in November

When the N900 was announced, just prior to Nokia World, Nokia specified a Q4 shipping date. Early pre-orders suggested the first retail units would be available in late October, but this is no longer the case. However we now have, direct from Nokia, some extra information: Peter Schneider (Head of Maemo Marketing) has posted in the talk.maemo.org forum that the N900 is 'expected to start shipping in November'.

Nokia N900 Gallery

This is AAM's photo gallery of a pre-production Nokia N900. This gallery should give you a good visual overview of the Nokia N900. For each photo I have added additional commentary to highlight some of the key features of the first Maemo 5 device. Also included are a number of comparison images, with the N900 side by side against the Nokia N97, Samsung i8910, Nokia E55 and two earlier Nokia Maemo devices (N810 and 770).

git send-email tricks

I recently found out a few awesome tricks for git send-email that have made my life much easier, so I decided to share them here First, git send-email is an essential tool in every git guru’s arsenal, as it’s the preferred way of submitting patches. All you need to do is generate your patches [...]

MicroB Add-ons AbBlock Plus extension installation

Example about how to install and use AdBlock Plus extension with MicroB browser

Third Council Comes to Order

Hot on the heels of the second maemo.org community council and their excellent work, the incoming third council representatives are ready to roll up their sleeves. Some vital needs identified by the growing community are wiki cleanup and expansion, increased Brainstorm activity and quickly routing newcomers to proper resources. Action plans have already been started, champions identified and progress made!

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.43

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2009-10-19 through 2009-10-25

Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2009.43

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla
2009-10-19 through 2009-10-25

Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.43

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla
2009-10-19 through 2009-10-25

How to Create Loopable Wallpapers for Nokia N900

I know it’s not out yet, but you can prepare by creating your own loopable wallpapers for the Nokia N900. Sometimes visuals are better than words, so I created this video to show you how to do it.

A Guide to Maemo Extras for More Nokia N900 Applications

When I was at Maemo Summit, I kept hearing the terms ‘Maemo Extras’ and ‘Extras Testing.’ As a new user to the OS, I was totally clueless! I did some digging and found out these were repositories or places where applications from the community can be found. I’ll share with you what I learned and how you can use it when you get the Nokia N900.

Show me your home screen!

To me the empty home screen* of the N900 looked like an invitation, so I tried to fill it up with useless stuff as quickly as possible. The home screen configuration menu offers app launchers (shortcuts), bookmarks, widgets and contacts. Let's go through all four options in detail:

Wired.com posts great Nokia N900 video

I know a few of you may be sick of hearing about the Nokia N900, but it is the hottest Nokia device at the moment and I will be writing much more about it this week. I just watched a great video overview of the N900 at Wired and was pleased to see that they understand what the device really is and that is much more than a smartphone. Spend a couple minutes checking out the video and stay tuned for more tips & tricks of the N900.

N900 tips & tricks: Where can you find 3rd party apps?

If you have been reading my Nokia N900 posts, then you may be wondering how I am getting all of these additional applications on the N900 since the Ovi Store is not yet open for business. If you have used one of the older Maemo Nseries Internet Tablets then you are familiar with using the Application Manager to access repositories. There are various repositories and I some are highly experimental where “normal” users probably shouldn’t be dwelling too much. It seems that Mark over at The Nokia Blog and I are on the same page and he already assembled a great post on Maemo repositories on the N900 so I won’t repeat all that he wrote here with my own post and recommend you head over there to see how to access repositories.

The future of Linux for the mass market?

There was a little uproar in the open source community here in the UK when the BBC covered the Windows 7 launch. It was rightly pointed out that Apple didn't get any coverage for Snow Leopard and Linux in general never really gets a shout at all so what's going on?

MicroB Add-ons AbBlock Plus extension installation

Example about how to install and use AdBlock Plus extension with MicroB browser

N900 tips & tricks: Where can you find 3rd party apps?

If you have been reading my Nokia N900 posts, then you may be wondering how I am getting all of these additional applications on the N900 since the Ovi Store is not yet open for business. If you have used one of the older Maemo Nseries Internet Tablets then you are familiar with using the Application Manager to access repositories. There are various repositories and I some are highly experimental where “normal” users probably shouldn’t be dwelling too much. It seems that Mark over at The Nokia Blog and I are on the same page and he already assembled a great post on Maemo repositories on the N900 so I won’t repeat all that he wrote here with my own post and recommend you head over there to see how to access repositories.

Microfeed could be to status updates what Telepathy is to instant messaging

Microfeed is a new D-Bus service for handling status updating and microblogging entries from various services. Just like Telepathy allows various applications to utilize instant messaging connections, Microfeed does the same for microblogging:

Catch Me Offline As It Happens To Trial An N900

Nokia’s ‘Online as it Happens‘ campaign has inspired a series of mockumercials entitled “Offline as it Happens”. In these short films the main character, John, finds himself caught in a set of unfortunate and embarrassing circumstances as he leads a life “Offline as it Happens”. Obviously, John could have easily avoided any of these situations had he been connected with the new N900.

My first day as maemo.org distmaster

Starting from today, I will be officially starting my work as maemo.org distmaster. Nokia has gracefully sponsored this position for the community at the request of the maemo.org community council.

First User N900 Meetup In San Francisco October 29th

Not too long ago, Nokia announced it would be sponsoring N900 Meetups at its Flagship stores, and while that’s all good and well, there are now hundreds of Maemo community members, myself included, with preview devices, and they should all be able to host their own N900 Meetup. I know the folks at Nokia are working out a way to help these people setup their meetups, but our friends Matthew Bennett and Tnkgrl have taken things into their own hands. With the help of WOM World, they’ll be hosting an N900 Meetup in San Francisco on October 29th (that’s tomorrow)!

Frets on Fire for Maemo - Update

Back in March, when Fremantle SDK was released, I had ported Frets on Fire to it. Subsequent discussion made it clear that modifications were required to actually make it run on the device. I created a stripped down version which could run without the OpenGL code. This made it suitable for n900 (and even n810). But due to lack of actual device, I couldn't test it.

How to Create Loopable Wallpapers for Nokia N900

I know it’s not out yet, but you can prepare by creating your own loopable wallpapers for the Nokia N900. Sometimes visuals are better than words, so I created this video to show you how to do it.

Review: Simple Brightness Applet for Nokia N900

I’ve been checking the Maemo Downloads site and found this cool little applet called Simple Brightness for the Nokia N900. It adds an option to the top control panel that lets you quickly adjust the screen brightness. I made a video to show you how it looks.

Not enought space on device

Installing packages and applications on n900 from extras-devel or extras-testing result most of the time on a nice error : ‘Not enougth space on device’. This happen most of the time because you have installed package which aren’t yet optified.

My first day as maemo.org distmaster

Starting from today, I will be officially starting my work as maemo.org distmaster. Nokia has gracefully sponsored this position for the community at the request of the maemo.org community council.

Nokia N900 Online/Offline as it Happens Ads

Nokia Online/Offline as it Happens Ads N900 viral ads have been showing up in YouTube. I can’t really figure out where they are coming from and who the official poster is so let me know if you find the main site that has them or if you find new ones so I can add them to this blog entry. Anyway, here they are, in HD. They are all well made, funny, and definitely highlights the N900.

Wedding Catastrophe

Fishing

Tickets

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool final for Fremantle and Diablo released

The Maemo Eclipse Integration 2nd Edition project has now released it's first final release, Maemo Flasher-3.5 Tool. Installation packages for Linuxes, Mac OS X and Windows are now available from Maemo Development Environment Downloads page. Maemo Flasher-3.5 tool supports flashing of N8x0 devices with Diablo images and N900 device with Fremantle images.

Maemo Community Hosts Test Marathon for Apps Before Nokia N900 Hits Retail

On October 31st, developers, beta testers, and anyone lucky enough to have a pre-production Nokia N900 are doing a test marathon of applications before the mobile computer hits the shelves. The Maemo community will host the event from 2-7PM to make more apps available for end users. Applications that pass the tests will appear on Maemo Extras.

Extras-testing Marathon – Next Saturday (Oct 31)

Let's spread this piece of news:Quim just sent this e-mail, please participate and test apps!It'll be fun! :)Forwarding this email from the maemo community council to Summit Participants with an N900. Please re-forward to anybody you know using the N900.http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5has currently 22 applications ready for end users.http://maemo.org/packages/repository/qa/

A Guide to Maemo Extras for More Nokia N900 Applications

When I was at Maemo Summit, I kept hearing the terms ‘Maemo Extras’ and ‘Extras Testing.’ As a new user to the OS, I was totally clueless! I did some digging and found out these were repositories or places where applications from the community can be found. I’ll share with you what I learned and how you can use it when you get the Nokia N900.

Maemo Community Hosts Test Marathon for Apps Before Nokia N900 Hits Retail

On October 31st, developers, beta testers, and anyone lucky enough to have a pre-production Nokia N900 are doing a test marathon of applications before the mobile computer hits the shelves. The Maemo community will host the event from 2-7PM to make more apps available for end users. Applications that pass the tests will appear on Maemo Extras.

Preview: FM radio for N900

Hello everybody. N900 release was delayed a bit, but you shouldn’t be upset cause this only means that Nokia cares bout end quality of the product and don’t want to give you half-cooked buggy brick. Meanwhile community developers have more time to polish their existing software (like we’re doing with OMWeather) and even create new one. Community [...]

Nokia N900 Online/Offline as it Happens Ads

Nokia Online/Offline as it Happens Ads N900 viral ads have been showing up in YouTube. I can’t really figure out where they are coming from and who the official poster is so let me know if you find the main site that has them or if you find new ones so I can add them to this blog entry. Anyway, here they are, in HD. They are all well made, funny, and definitely highlights the N900.

Wedding Catastrophe

Fishing

Tickets

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

I want my MythTV: Clawmotia

I noticed that there are many packages which turn a maemo device into a remote control. Unfortunately, the MythTV ones I saw either didn't install or were not what I was looking for. Thus clawmotia was born yesterday.

Liveblogging the NYC Nokia N900 Meetup Using a Nokia N900

The Nokia NYC flagship store is hosting a Nokia N900 meetup and I’ll be liveblogging it… using the Nokia N900. I’ll share live updates and photos while I meet with Nokia reps and fans at the event. It will be different from my previous liveblog because I will not be using a laptop for updates. Come back to this page when the meetup starts at 7:30PM Eastern, October 30th and see if the Nokia N900 can handle the task.

Encuentro Linux 2009 – GNOME Day

Back in Helsinki after attending last week, sponsored by GNOME Foundation, to the Encuentro Linux 2009 in Valparaiso, Chile. My original plan was to talk about Tracker in the dedicated GNOME Day; but from the very first day it was clear that the people was very curious about maemo5 and specially the n900, so i [...]