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Creating fluid user experiences

Recently we have been co-operating with Linja Design, brainstorming and prototyping UI/UX ideas. One of their concept is branded as "Zax 2.0", idea being to tilt the flickable area so that it reveals more content...

Making flashable rootfs's for the N900

For the N8x0 the way to create flashable rootfs's - that is, rootfs's usable in flasher-3.5 -r rootfs.jffs2 -f -R was through these two steps: mkfs.jffs2 -d $ROOTFS_DIRECTORY -l -n -e 128KiB -o rootfs.jffs2.raw sumtool -l -n -e 128KiB -o rootfs.jffs2...

Video: How to Enable The Hidden Portrait Mode On Nokia N900 Web Browser

I noticed a bug report...

A role change for Niels (X-Fade) in the maemo.org team

I’m happy to inform that Niels (X-Fade) will be taking on a bit more responsibility in the maemo.org team. After thinking and discussing with people how to improve the paid work done on maemo.org, I came to the conclusion, suggested by several...

What will next firmware release for N900 brings?

What will next firmware release for N900 brings? That is common question asked by too many people. Some of them wants impossible things, some wants magic, some mention realistic things. But what really will be included? That’s other story…...

Extras testing, step by step

After some weeks using extras-testing and as the first people have the devices in their hands, one complain I heard is, that the documentation on how to use extras-testing might be not sufficient for some users. This is the reason for this little overview...

Review: Hermes

The other day I was dreading having to get photos of everyone of my contacts so I can have nice pictures of everyone instead of the standard no image icon. I forgot to get my photos off my old phone so I would have to take photos of everyone again....

N900 (and other OMAP3 devices) DSP accelerated Theora

David Schleef’s theora optimisation for the dsp in the OMAP3 will really make open video a reality for the N900...