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maemo.org Bugzilla: Minor tweaks

Incoming reports in the last weeks As I’m quite busy with the normal “Triaging and Syncing” business already (as seen above, a first increase of bug reports happened right after Maemo Summit in week 41, but I expect way busier times...

Maemo 5 final release: firmware and updated SDK

The Nokia N900 is landing in the hands of real users with the Maemo 5 final release that we have been polishing in the last weeks. The fortunate users of a pre-production Nokia N900 are encouraged to flash completely their devices in order to have...

Google Docs, Calendar, and more work fine on the Nokia N900

To answer some reader questions and get some visibility for the N900 in the enterprise world I just posted this article over on my ZDNet blog and think you will be pleased to see Google Docs...

UX meets Code hackfest in December @ Barcelona: confirmed!

Quim Gil just confirmed the UX hackfest in Barcelona for 4, 5, 6 december:...

Extras-testing Marathon – Next Saturday

Are you a lucky N900 owner ? Want to help the Maemo Community ? This call is for you. In the next Saturday(Oct 31) from 2pm till 7pm(UTC/GMT) we’ll host a testing marathon at #maemo-testing@Freenode, in order to make more awesome community...

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...

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? ;-)

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...

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 … :-)