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Contacts merger in Maemo extras

Just a quick post to inform the N900 users that didn’t enable the extras-devel or extras-testing repositories that the contacts merger has been promoted to Maemo extras. Just look for “Merge your duplicate contacts” in the application manager...

PR 1.2 firmware for the N900 released with Qt 4.6.2

After a few delays, the PR 1.2 firmware for the N900 is finally released with Qt 4.6.2 shipping by default (see maemo.org for all PR 1.2 related info). This means that...

"Super" testers required to clear up Extras backlog

Many developers feel they are suffering from the quality assurance process being used on maemo.org to ensure that high quality applications get into the Extras repository (which is enabled by default...

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 15 Mar 2010

Front Page Diablo community SSU up and running for beta-testing After months of discussion, a community-run update site for Maemo 4 devices like the N800 and N8x0 is now available for beta-testing. If successful, this will provide a mechanism for providing...

Desktop widgets with Qt & QML

Writing desktop widgets for N900 using Qt is now possible, as Harald Fernengel explained yesterday in Qt Labs. What I wanted to test based on this is that...

BootScreen Lets You Change The N900 Boot Video With One Click

N900 users have been able to change their boot screens for a while,...

The Mer Project - just a bunch of redshirts?

Recently, big news arrived: The MeeGo project. But let me start with some history. In May 2009 some key members of the Mer project met up for the first time 'in real life' at...

Wanna send SMS from your app? Easy to use SMS and Messaging API to Maemo 5

Are you a developer and are you interested in messaging API (on your N900)? Kate Alhola recently released a very interesting blog post about the API she created and it seems that it got under the flood of the MeeGo related posts. So here is her great...