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Thomas Perl

gPodder 3.0.2 for Harmattan

2011-12-13 23:51 UTC  by  Thomas Perl
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A new version of gPodder (a free podcast, YouTube and Soundcloud downloader) has been released today. It has been uploaded to the Community OBS (Apps For MeeGo) and to Ovi Store, and is waiting in each QA queue for approval. Some new things to look out for:
  • Common Prefix Elimination: A very cool name for a very space-efficient feature. If all episodes in a podcast have the same prefix in their title, the prefix is stripped. This usually gives you more information about the episode on screen without wasting space with repeated information.
  • Audio Player Scrubbing: You probably know the seeking buttons in the media player. These buttons now show their meaning in a text popup when pressed and - and here comes the cool part - allow you to "scrub" through a podcast.
What scrubbing means is that you can touch-and-hold a button and then scrub on the screen up and down (or left and right - it doesn't really matter, just the distance counts) and the action of the button will be carried out multiple times. This lets you quickly navigate through long podcasts or mixes if you are searching for a certain passage.

Some bugs (like the YouTube episode sorting issue) have also been fixed, more on that in the release announcement. gPodder 3.0.2 "Agent 99" will be available in Ovi Store and Apps For Meego shortly.
Categories: meego
Randall Arnold

More Post-MeeGo Musing: Community Echoes

2011-12-13 16:30 UTC  by  Randall Arnold
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Ever since Intel’s MeeGo-cedes-to-Tizen announcement, I’ve been in a slightly unfocused state.  It’s familiar territory– when Maemo was set aside by Nokia for MeeGo, there was the same quandary: what now?  Better yet, what next?

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Categories: Employing Opportunity
Felipe Contreras

A tale of just another Linux kernel bug

2011-12-13 16:00 UTC  by  Felipe Contreras
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As part of a bigger effort to get my Nokia N900 in good shape for development, I decided to track down an issue with the keyboard; I could type 'a', but not 'A' or any special characters, so no 'shift' or 'ctrl' or anything special. Trying to figure out what was going on took me … Continue reading A tale of just another Linux kernel bug

Categories: Development
Andrew Flegg

MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 12 Dec 2011

2011-12-12 09:00 UTC  by  Andrew Flegg
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Intel to stop accepting MeeGo tablet apps in AppUp store

In a somewhat foreseable move, Intel's Bob Duffy has announced that MeeGo tablet applications will no longer be accepted in the Intel AppUp store. "With the Linux Foundation moving forward with Tizen, and without MeeGo tablet devices in market, (correction: without AppUp supported MeeGo devices in market) the AppUp developer program will not be accepting MeeGo tablet app submissions for validation, effective December 2011." The move makes sense given that there aren't actually any MeeGo tablets with AppUp support out-of-the-box but it could be a disapointment for developers who spent a lot of time getting MeeGo tablet apps in the AppUp store in the first place.

Read more (appdeveloper.intel.com)

In this edition (Download)...

  1. Front Page
    • Intel to stop accepting MeeGo tablet apps in AppUp store
  2. Applications
    • Using the N9's Dolby Headphone feature as a cheap encoder
    • Enabling ICQ in N9 instant messaging
  3. Development
    • Major new release of gst-dsp for using N900 DSP from gstreamer
  4. Devices
    • Nokia N9 software update on Mac OS X and Linux
    • The Nokia N9 and the Information Architecture paradox: improving the apps view with search
Stephen Gadsby

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.50

2011-12-12 00:02 UTC  by  Stephen Gadsby
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A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2011-12-05 through 2011-12-11

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Categories: Extras
webhamster

AGTL for Meego/Harmattan/N9: Alpha 2

2011-12-11 23:00 UTC  by  webhamster
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It's finally here! AGTL brings offline geocaching to the N9. Well, not completely: The map is not stored offline right now, but this feature will arrive eventually. This is an Alpha version, meaning there will be bugs. However, I already went geocaching with it and it worked! AGTL features several cool features: Compass view Map view All details and images, the last 20 logs Writing fieldnotes Of course, some settings And best of it all: A unique augmented reality view! Download the alpha h...
webhamster

AGTL for Meego/Harmattan/N9: Alpha 2

2011-12-11 23:00 UTC  by  webhamster
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It's finally here! AGTL brings offline geocaching to the N9. Well, not completely: The map is not stored offline right now, but this feature will arrive eventually. This is an Alpha version, meaning there will be bugs. However, I already went geocaching with it and it worked!

AGTL features several cool features: AGTL for N9/Harmattan: Augmented Reality view
  • Compass view
  • Map view
  • All details and images, the last 20 logs
  • Writing fieldnotes
  • Of course, some settings
  • And best of it all: A unique augmented reality view!
Download the alpha here. If you downloaded it on the N9, click on the file and follow the instructions. Otherwise, enable developer mode. Run devel-su in the terminal to become root, then run dpkg -i /home/user/MyDocs/Downloads/agtl-alpha.deb (change the path accordingly).

Please report bugs to github and only to github. Please try to provide an output log of the program run. You can start AGTL by running agtl-meego in the terminal. If you run agtl-meego > errorlog.txt 2>&1 it will create a file errorlog.txt containing valuable information for bug hunting.

Please consider a donation if you like AGTL. It will stay free (as in beer) also when it hits the OVI store, although rewriting the UI for Meego took a lot of hours in the last weeks.

AGTL for N9/Harmattan: Coordinate List AGTL for N9/Harmattan: Cache Details AGTL for N9/Harmattan: Compass View AGTL for N9/Harmattan: Map View AGTL for N9/Harmattan: Writing a Fieldnote
madman2k

GNOME Project suffering the NIH disease

2011-12-10 14:03 UTC  by  madman2k
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When I first read about GNOME dropping support for BSD and Solaris, my impression was that this is a good idea to aiming to unify limit resources and get the work done. I was also excited about the idea of the GNOME OS. I think it is necessary to keep the big picture in mind when developing the different components. Previously Ubuntu was the only project that did this and it was also the reason why I started using Ubuntu. Because it made the different parts of Linux work together to achieve the big goal of a great overall system.

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Categories: Articles
admin

Marco writes an obituary for Firefox: I’m a bit sad for Firefox. It used to be the fast, powerful, progressive browser that finally broke IE’s era of stagnant...

2011-12-08 20:03 UTC  by  Unknown author
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Firefox for Mobile Firefox for Mobile Marco writes an obituary for Firefox: I’m a bit sad for Firefox. It used to be the fast, powerful, progressive browser that finally broke IE’s era of stagnant... - http://stechz.com/2011/426/ December 8, 2011 from Benjamin Stover - Comment - Like
Murray Cumming

Discussing Maliit Keyboards and Plasma Active

2011-12-08 14:46 UTC  by  Murray Cumming
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The Maliit developers and the Plasma Active developers, with some Mer developers too, discussed yesterday how they can work together. Reading the irc log, it seems to have been productive, with great input from all groups, and with some first development steps planned.

As always, I’m proud of our Maliit developers at Openismus. We believe that excellent developers must be communicators, or their work is for nothing. That log shows why.

Categories: Maemo
Karoliina Salminen

How to use Nokia N9 as music production tool - encoding your sequencer's tracks with Dolby Headphone using the Nokia N9

2011-12-07 14:25 UTC  by  Karoliina Salminen
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Karoliina Salminen

N9 Software Update with MacOSX or Linux (part 1)

2011-12-07 12:59 UTC  by  Karoliina Salminen
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This has been available for some time, but in case you have not noticed it, the new software release really worths installing as it significantly improves the performance of the device. You can see that for example the scrolling smoothness will be improved after updating from. Latest software release for Nokia N9 via Nokia page is 20.2011.40-4.

You can get a Mac and Linux flasher from here: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php

The flash image is not currently available outside Nokia but is inside the exe that you can download from the Nokia web site for updating the N9. Unfortunately this exe obviously only runs on Windows (I for example don't have any Windows machines around and for me the Windows exe is completely useless).

If someone manages to extract the flash image from the exe, it can be in theory flashed with Mac and Linux flashers. If you manage to succeed with that, please let me know and I will mention about it on my blog. Please write me at karoliina dot t dot salminen at gmail dot com or write to the comments on this post (please note that the comments are moderated to avoid spam and it will take time for me to approve them, so don't be afraid if you don't see them appearing immediately).

I tried to send a question about this to Nokia customer care [about how can I update my N9 with my Mac] but I was unable to do so because the form required all the lengthy numbers like serial number and my personal N9 was not with me today so I could not check it.

UPDATE: Got information that there indeed is a beta version (unstable) Mac Nokia Updater out there. http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-software-updater-for-mac It does not state that it would support Nokia N9. I downloaded it and tried it with my N9. It didn't work, it stated that N9 is not supported.

Also people have been using a software called navifirm to extract the flash image out of the Nokia software updater exe to enable flashing it using Mac. However, according to my Googling this software also runs on Windows, so it may not be so straightforward for Mac users to use that route. Maybe the beta version of the software updater for Mac is the best bet at the moment in case it would start supporting N9 (that I hope but don't know).

It seems I still don't have a solution for this. If you know a working solution how to get N9 flashed with Mac, please let me know. If I will find a solution for this, I will post a new blog post with instructions how to do it with Mac.

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