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Your contacts on a map with your N900

Empathy, the GNOME Instant messaging program, can publish your location to your contacts and show their location on a map as explained on

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 10 May 2010

Front Page fMMS, enabling multimedia messages on Maemo 5, on its way to Extras Nokia has been long criticised for the lack of MMS functionality in Maemo 5. MMS, a cousin of SMS, allows the sending of pictures, sounds and text via the mobile network....

It was the Dawn of the 3rd Age...

...and not only is the Shadow War over but it looks like we will have a community OBS thanks to the team formerly known as maemo.org infrastructure :) I'm really excited as I see this as a way for the Maemo and Moblin development communities to transition...

Comparing Maemo & Ubuntu

While I’ve occasionally been critical of Ubuntu as a project, it is a distribution with very open processes, for the most part. I’d like to compare the experience of a casual Ubuntu user, an engaged Ubuntu user, an Ubuntu developer, and...

Every time you scale a pixmap, God kills a kitten.

I've had a fun weekend. Carsten Munk, of Mer and other fame got me interested in insane schemes (once again): this time playing around with libdui...

Operation Qt Shuffle

I know you all like (cough) my long winded and analytical articles,...

Mapper and N900 battery life

In this lovely sunny Sunday I decided to pick up my bike for the first time after the winter...

Maemo Community Council voting open

The voting tokens have just been sent out for the Q1 2010 Maemo Community Council elections. I already have over 100 bounced emails, so if you think that you should have a vote and you have not received an email with a voting token yet, please send...

New Maemo 5 SDK release 5 available

Nokia has just released the Maemo 5 SDK 1.2 available here.  The release contains many different...

Tweakr – Additionally Settings For The N900

“Unlock” your phone to a few new cool settings. Tweakr has to be standard in every N900, it should be integrated into the OS. But for now it can be downloaded in the Maemo testing section and it will install itself to your phone settings as a new...