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1.2 out tomorrow

1.2. You should have it tomorrow the latest. In a nutshell, - The world's first phone with Skype video calls - Google and SIP video calls, too - Other stuff like browser, exchange, browser etc improvements - Qt 4.6 for developers ... this is very...

N900 and Maemo5 playing vp8/webm live stream

On Wednesday, Google announced the WebM project. On Friday, we got flumotion to stream vp8/webm live.Details on a previous...

GSoC 2010 - Porting Canola to Maemo 5 and beyond

It's been a while since Google Summer of Code 2010 results were announced. I will be working again for Maemo on the project "Porting Canola to Maemo 5 and beyond", with the help of Eduardo...

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 17 May 2010

Front Page MeeGo's "big reveal" mentality hurting the project? Carsten Munk, maemo.org distmaster and MeeGo contributor, has asked a question many have been thinking: does the desire...

fMMS 1.0.0 aka “time to sleep i think…”

Finally! 1.0.0! Working it’s way to -testing as you read this! Link for QA: http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/fmms/1.0.3/...

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 3 May 2010

Front Page Nokia Qt SDK beta gives preview of MeeGo application development The next stage in Nokia's Qt strategy, and the evolution of Maemo, Symbian and MeeGo was unveiled this week through the beta of the Nokia Qt SDK. Building on top of the...

Packaging guidelines

After a long discussion on how to proceed with the packaging policy for Fremantle, you can find the result as packaging guidelines in the maemo.org wiki. The idea is that this is the basis for further discussions, with the goal to smooth the extras-testing...

Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 26 Apr 2010

Front Page MeeGo & Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit write-up The ever-excellent LWN covers the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which was held in San Francisco just over a week ago. In addition to a MeeGo workshop, the Maemo community...

Live Wallpapers Come To The N900

Remember the Nexus One with its shiny ‘live’ wallpapers or remember that really old...

Optical character recognition on the N900

This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator....