Got my discount code (thanks, Nokia!) and immediately ordered it from Nokia USA. I gather that some people had trouble entering the discount code, but I didn't. Order went through, credit card got charged, everything looked fine. However, on the trackit page they gave me in the confirmation email, I had "Order status:" followed by whitespace. I was patient, but to no avail. The order got stuck somewhere in the process. I had to call NokiaUSA at 1-866-596-6542 option 5. The call center staff gave it a "kill -HUP" and now it's been shipped. Just FYI in case this happens to you.

The Nokia Internet Tablet Connection Manager has UI issues. Since they're all separately fixable, I'll give each one its own paragraph.

When I want to go online away from home, I frankly couldn't give a darn which access point I associate with. Thus, I want to have an option in the "Select connection" dialog which says "Any working connection". It should go through the available connections, one by one, until it finds one which returns DHCP information that successfully lets it ping the default router, and resolve some standard name like "testconnection.nokia.com".

The previous paragraph's issue, if fixed, would make this one go away, but I'm treating them independently. When I select a connection, if it isn't listed in the Connections, I am immediately offered the opportunity to save the connection. Well, what if it doesn't work? That's an extra interaction with negative value to me. Put "Save connection" on the menu for the "World" icon.

The speaker volume is immediately apprehensible from the number of bars. The backlight intensity is immediately apprehensible from the number of bars. A Nokia cellphone gives me the signal strength in the number of bars right on the main screen, all the time. So why is the wifi signal strength not visible in the icon?? It's nice in IT2007 that it's there underneath the menu, as well as the AP name. But that's not half good enough.

The Connections dialog has a sillyness which is endemic to Internet Tablet dialogs. If you pick a connection, and then Delete it, it asks you if you want to delete it! Stupid computer! I just told you exactly what I want you to do! Weren't you paying attention?? Yes, I know that this is an attempt to save people from deleting connections that they actually wanted. So the UI designers put a two-step process to protect people from accidents. That's what's wrong. Next paragraph explains the fix.

The Connections dialog problem should be fixed. When you click on "Delete", it marks that connection for deletion by drawing its name with strikeout. It's not deleted until you click "Done". That's the two-step needed to actually delete. If you select a deleted connection, the Edit button is greyed-out, and the Delete button becomes "Undelete". Or maybe that's wrong, and the Edit button causes undelete?

You probably have read about all the releases, which happened today already. With Qt 4.7.2 a lot of improvements and fixes for Qt Quick have been published. Qt Mobility 1.1.1 includes updates for the supported platforms. Qt Creator 2.1 will allow you to create and design your QML applications from within the IDE nicely.

What has been missing so far is a nice and convenient way to get the whole package, namely the SDK.

Hereby we would like to announce immediate availability of the Qt SDK 1.1 beta. As mentioned in our previous release, the Qt SDK describes a merger between the Nokia Qt SDK, which provided a development environment for mobile targets, and the Qt Desktop SDKs. This allows you to develop applications for all platforms, which Qt supports. Compared to the Technology Preview we have included a significant amount of updates, namely:

• Qt 4.7.2 for Symbian ^1 and Symbian ^3
• Qt 4.7.2 for the Desktop
• Qt 4.7.2 for the Qt Simulator
• Qt Mobility 1.1.1 for Symbian^1, Symbian^3 and the Qt Simulator
• Qt Creator 2.1 final
• Qt Simulator 1.1 beta
• Updates to the Symbian Complementary package, providing the toolchain and build tools for the Symbian platforms

For the Linux and Mac platforms we have also added the sis packages for Symbian, so that developers using the Remote Compiler can install Qt from their development host of choice as well. A full changelog is located in the installation package.

You can download the packages on the Forum Nokia pages or directly here on following links:

Platform Online Installer Offline Installer Microsoft Windows 15MB 1,6GB Linux 32bit 23MB 686MB Linux 64bit 23MB 687MB Mac OS-X 12MB 653MB

If you encounter any problem, please create an entry in our bugtracker at http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com . Please note that the comment section on this article does not suit for handling bug reports and items might be over-read or lost.

The Qt SDK beta 1.1 was launched today. While the SDK is a beta release, the Qt (4.7.2) and Qt Creator (2.1) releases within it are final (i.e. not beta or previews). This means that Qt Quick can now be considered to have been officially released. Qt Quick  is a crucial step forward for Qt, bringing easy UI creation, which allows developers and designers to work together more easily to create applications with great user experience.

Since gPodder gained support for MAFW, and therefore resuming support for the built-in Maemo 5 Media Player, there was less of a reason for me to continue working on Panucci (though some users still prefer Panucci over the built-in Media player). Recently, Jens and Helmuth collaborated on bringing Bluetooth support back into the 0.9 branch in the Panucci thread on t.m.o.
Jens has also fixed some other issues and is now continuing development of Panucci, which is great :) I'll continue to package Panucci releases for Maemo 5, and review the commits and provide feedback, but won't be working on any features myself. Here's a teaser screenshot:

The new version, Panucci 0.99.0, has already been uploaded to Extras-Devel, and will be promoted to Extras-Testing soon. If you want to contribute, check out Panucci on GitHub - patches are gladly accepted!

According to the Finnish site, Taloussanomat, Nokia is offering its in-house MeeGo devs a salary plus 50% bonus to continue with the company and help avoid a mass exodus after the Feb 11 announcement that Nokia was moving to Windows Phone as its primary operating system.

With the help of Google Translate, it appears that the bonus is structured on a quarterly basis. The first slab being end July, followed by September and brought up by the year end. If an employee resigns before a deadline, he/she stands to loose the entire bonus for the said period.

According to Taloussanomat, Nokia has about 13,000 engineers in Finland, half of whom work on MeeGo. Nokia had also been hiring a lot of talent for MeeGo development recently, but because of the February announcement that Nokia was virtually making MeeGo a research project, a lot of people have considered moving on.

Nokia still plans on delivering its first MeeGo smartphone, possibly the N950, later this year and loosing top brains certainly wouldn’t help. But perhaps, the bigger question is, what happens once the phone is ready?

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Canonical is doing the right thing. Yes morally as well. By choosing the MIT/X11 license instead of the GPL the Banshee developer explicitly allow using Banshee in a closed-source for-profit project without giving back anything.

To start whining about moral, now that someone actually takes advantage of this right is somehow premature – in the end you had the choice how to license it, right? If you don’t like what happens change the license! Maybe a proprietary one this time, as open source obviously is not restrictive enough for you and you have to resort to “morality”.

As for me I would be perfectly happy if Canonical would simply keep 100% of the Amazon revenue – after all its their product (yes putting together the pieces makes it something new).

As a user I care most whether the product works and I use ubuntu as it works best for me. And since canonical did a great job so far providing what I want, I think the decision should be up to them whether to spend the money on shiny new icons or to give something back to the banshee developers.

For reference: this and this.

Xtreamer, well-known producer of network HD media players, recently launched new device – Xtreamer Ultra. But if you check its spec you may see that it doesn’t look like previous Xtreamer players. The Xtreamer Ultra sports Intel Atom D525 (dual-core 1.8GHz) processor, 4GB DDR3 memory, NVIDIA ION2 (GT218, 512MB DDR3), eSATA, 6 x USB 2.0 ports, 2.5-inch SATA drive bay, DVI-I, SPDIF, HDMI with 7.1-Channel digital audio BitStreaming + LPCM, external IR, and Gigabit Ethernet. Plus optional external 802.11n adapter will be available soon. So, actually the new Xtreamer product is Ion nettop like Zotac BOX, Acer AspireRevo or ASRock Ion330 HT. But the producer offers a good price – $200 in US and €200 in Europe, thanks to aggressive marketing strategy. Just install there XBMC or Boxee and you’ll have a small, quiet but power HTPC.

The Xtreamer Ultra is demonstrated on CeBit 2011 in Hanover. If you cannot visit it you may see its photos in the Engadget gallery.

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In the course of learning to use QML, I have tried to build a book animation with QML for MeeGo. It not only runs well on the N900 with Maemo5, but also on the WeTab, the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t with MeeGo, my Ubuntu Laptop, and a friend even showed me how he was running it on Windows.
This is truly "Code less. Create more. Deploy everywhere." :)

This is a short video running a tech demo I made for the N900.



Maybe we'll see some MeeGo software with this technology one day. For now it's only a tech demo looking for an application.

Exciting news. Jukka Eklund, Product Manager at Nokia, just announced that Nokia will be officially directing efforts towards supporting MeeGo on the N900 as Developer Edition.  For this purpose, there would be a dedicated team within Nokia who will bring full MeeGo support on the N900. Up to now, getting MeeGo up and running on […]

I recently wrote about kwikwai – device which is used to send control command over LAN, USB or RS232 to the AV equipment connected to it via HDMI. Actually it should replace old school IR transmitters to integrate AV equipment into whole house control system. RainShadow offers similar device but it works opposite way, i.e. it sens commands from AV equipment to the HTPC using HDMI-CEC technology. Currently the HDMI-CEC to USB and RS-232 bridge is supported by both Windows and Linux without custom device drivers.

If you’re interested to buy the HDMI-CEC to USB and RS-232 bridge you can do it now by reasonable price – $134 including international shipping.

The Qt SDK 1.1 Tech Preview's Maemo target unfortunately ships with only QtMobility 1.0.2, however this should not discourage developers wishing to explore new functions (or, well, simply get rid of old 1.0.x bugs). Thus, if you're doing something for Maemo Extras, there is a simple way of changing which version of mobility do you wish to use. Extras-devel already had builds of 1.1.0 but the news with this latest 1.1.1 release is that

• works with QtSDK, too, not just Scratchbox
• works on Windows, too !
• plenty of bugfixes
• will be available in Extras proper (not just devel)

To make your project use 1.1(.1) on both Maemo and Symbian you just need to do:

 maemo5 {   CONFIG += mobility11

} else {
  CONFIG += mobility
 }

To reiterate - this is only for Extras-bound software, people targeting the Ovi store with Maemo still have to use the old 1.0.2. The exact steps and gory details of getting Mobility 1.1.1 and 1.2TP into your development environment can be found here.

Its been possible to run MeeGo on the Nokia N900 for sometime now, but the use case has been limited to a proof of concept instead of giving the users a workable solution that will let them use the N900 as a primary phone, while it is running MeeGo. But fortunately, a developer edition of MeeGo has just been announced for the N900 with the aim of making the N900 ‘usable as a primary phone device for a developer/hacker person’.

The developer edition will be based on MeeGo 1.2 trunk content and the focus will be one meeting  non-functional targets such as performance rather than checking boxes for the number of features. The idea behind the move is to encourage more people to use MeeGo on N900, and continue enhancing the functionality or build new stuff.

The core team is being formed in and around Nokia, including current members of N900 HW adaptation team.

If you want more information or want to help, head over to this wiki on MeeGo.com.

[via: @jukkaeklund]

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I have great delight in telling you that registrations and calls for proposals for the Spring 2011 MeeGo Conference, scheduled for May 23-25 in San Francisco, are now open. As opposed to the developer focused conference that happened in Dublin last year, the San Francisco conference will be more focused on the industry and not just on the developers.

The hosts are encouraging everyone from application developers to platform designers, hardware vendors to open source enthusiasts, anyone engaged in MeeGo is invited to contribute and participate in the Call for Proposals (CFP). However, if you would just like to attend, here is what you have to look forward to:

• Conference Warm-Up, which will be two days filled with tutorials, workshops, and more, organized by the MeeGo community (dates are 5/21-5/22)
• 24hr Hacker Lounge
• 5k fun run
• T-shirt contest

If you are keen on actively participating, proposals have been invited for a wide variety of areas:

• Device/Product development
• App development
• Platform development
• MeeGo project, process, and progress
• We welcome submissions on any other MeeGo related topics

I was fortunate enough to attend the MeeGo Conference in Dublin last year, and San Francisco promises to be even more exciting. If you care about MeeGo, I strongly recommend that you try and attend. Register here. For more information visit sf2011.meego.com, the SFO MeeGo Conference website.

Nokia still plans on releasing one MeeGo device this year and the MeeGo Conference may very well be the venue for the announcement. You will also notice that the MeeGo Conference banner still has Nokia right next to Intel as the host, despite the Nokia’s recent announcements. Intel has already committed to make MeeGo work, no matter what obstacles they face. All in all it promises to be a cracker of an event, which will probably give the world an idea of whether MeeGo will really take off.

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We're still working on getting a published list of eligible candidates together for the next Maemo Community Council election nominations. In the meantime, if you have 100 Karma points or above, you are eligible. This being said, please seriously consider declaring yourself as a nominee for the upcoming election.

Nomination declarationss (usually self-nominations, although if you get approval from a candidate beforehand you may nominate someone other than yourself) should be sent to the Maemo Community Development mailing list at maemo-community@maemo.org. If you'd like a look at last session's nomination declarations, you can see them here:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council/Candidate_declarations_for_March_2010

Again, this is an important role within our community and one of the simplest ways to dive in a support Maemo and maemo.org.

Here's another post that for some people is obvious, but there are other (e.g. high level managers) that might not necessarily see the importance of Linux, in fact, I have been surprised by many open source developers who don't seem to be familiar with how Linux works (they think it's just something that works?). The … Continue reading Why Linux is the most important software project in history

I've gone beyond the playing with QML stage and now want to port my first Maemo 5 application, Attitude, to Qt Quick; with the aim of having it run on Maemo, Symbian, MeeGo and Android.

Development environment

I'm using the Qt SDK 1.1 beta on Ubuntu 10.10. I'll deal with developing with this in another post (Eclipse keybindings, the combination of graphical and source editing (and the limitations therein), issues to bear in mind). Here I want to deal with deployment. Qt Creator offers a number of targets:

• Desktop (not relevant to this app)
• Maemo
• Simulator
• Remote compiler

I chose the last three. On Linux, there is no native support for deploying or compiling for Symbian. Compiling can be dealt with by the "remote compiler", but what about deploying?

I can, now, to the following; all from within Qt Creator:

• Compile Qt applications and get a signed SIS file for installation
• Install the SIS file on to a USB-connected N8
• Start the application and get its console output back in the IDE.

Configuring the remote compiler

1. Get a Forum Nokia account, if you do not have one.
2. Install runonphone.
3. Download this script: runonphone.wrap, and put it on your PATH (make sure it's executable).

4. In Qt Creator, select Tools > Options... > Projects > Remote compiler and authenticate with your Forum Nokia details:

   
   
   

5. Open your project, and select Projects > Remote Compiler > Build. Ensure Signed is checked.

   
   
   

6. Switch to the Run tab and create a new deployment and run configuration.

   • Command: runonphone.wrap
   • Working directory: $BUILDDIR
   • Arguments: either install (for deploy) or run.
   
   
   

Configuring the device

1. Go to <QT_SDK>/Symbian/sis/Symbian^3.
2. Send the SIS files under Qt/4.7.2, QtMobility/1.1.0 and TRK to your phone (e.g. via Bluetooth) and install via launching them.
3. Go to the main launcher menu and launch RnD Tools > TRK.
4. Under Options > Settings ensure USB is set as the connection method.
5. Connect your Symbian phone via a USB cable.
6. Select Options > Connect.

Then, when you deploy and run in Qt Creator the SIS file should be sent over the usbserial connection and launched on the device.

Unfortunately, if there's a problem you can sometimes end up in a state where you need to kill -9 the processes blocking the port. It also doesn't seem to like working on /dev/ttyUSB1, only /dev/ttyUSB0 - but these could all be interrelated problems. Improvements to the script very welcome!

I've gone beyond the playing with QML stage and now want to port my first Maemo 5 application, Attitude, to Qt Quick; with the aim of having it run on Maemo, Symbian, MeeGo and Android.

Development environment

I'm using the Qt SDK 1.1 beta on Ubuntu 10.10. I'll deal with developing with this in another post (Eclipse keybindings, the combination of graphical and source editing (and the limitations therein), issues to bear in mind). Here I want to deal with deployment. Qt Creator offers a number of targets:

• Desktop (not relevant to this app)
• Maemo
• Simulator
• Remote compiler

I chose the last three. On Linux, there is no native support for deploying or compiling for Symbian. Compiling can be dealt with by the "remote compiler", but what about deploying?

I can, now, to the following; all from within Qt Creator:

• Compile Qt applications and get a signed SIS file for installation
• Install the SIS file on to a USB-connected N8
• Start the application and get its console output back in the IDE.

Configuring the remote compiler

1. Get a Forum Nokia account, if you do not have one.


2. Install runonphone.


3. Download this script: runonphone.wrap, and put it on your PATH (make sure it's executable).



4. In Qt Creator, select Tools > Options... > Projects > Remote compiler and authenticate with your Forum Nokia details:

   



5. Open your project, and select Projects > Remote Compiler > Build. Ensure Signed is checked.

   



6. Switch to the Run tab and create a new deployment and run configuration.

   • Command: runonphone.wrap
   • Working directory: $BUILDDIR
   • Arguments: either install (for deploy) or run.
   

Configuring the device

1. Go to <QT_SDK>/Symbian/sis/Symbian^3.


2. Send the SIS files under Qt/4.7.2, QtMobility/1.1.0 and TRK to your phone (e.g. via Bluetooth) and install via launching them.


3. Go to the main launcher menu and launch RnD Tools > TRK.


4. Under Options > Settings ensure USB is set as the connection method.


5. Connect your Symbian phone via a USB cable.


6. Select Options > Connect.

Then, when you deploy and run in Qt Creator the SIS file should be sent over the usbserial connection and launched on the device.

Unfortunately, if there's a problem you can sometimes end up in a state where you need to kill -9 the processes blocking the port. It also doesn't seem to like working on /dev/ttyUSB1, only /dev/ttyUSB0 - but these could all be interrelated problems. Improvements to the script very welcome!

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2011-02-28 through 2011-03-06

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Registration open for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco

It was announced after the Dublin conference last year that MeeGo Conferences would fall every 6 months, with a community-oriented conference in the Fall and an industry conference in the Spring. Registration has now openned for the Spring conference: "We're looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco for the Spring 2011 conference being held May 23-25!" The hotel situation for attendees requesting sponsorship wasn't completely clear from the forms. Amy Leeland posted to resolve the confusion: reserve your room, input your card (nothing will be charged if you cancel by May 9th) and the approved attendees will have their rooms put on the master account. If your sponsorship request is not approved, simply cancel your reservation before May 9th.

So those of you requesting sponsorship can go ahead and register for the conference and reserve your room. Just remember to cancel before May 9th if you wont be attending.

Read more (sf2011.meego.com)
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Valtteri Halla to join Intel, after leaving Nokia

One of the higher-profile corporate departures after the Elopocalypse was of Valtteri Halla (of the MeeGo Technical Steering Group) from Nokia. We covered the news in last week's issue, but the results of the move weren't particularly clear, particularly where this leaves the TSG. Although things aren't much clearer this week, the situation has become somewhat more interesting. From a recent tweet: "I will join Intel in April - to continue work with Open Source, mobile&computing technologies and of course - MeeGo" Valtteri currently play's Nokia's part in the TSG, which leaves Nokia unrepressented (unsurprising and unworrisome given their recent shift in corporate strategies). More complicating is that it leaves Intel holding complete control over final say in the project. It's unlikely that Intel would abuse this position, but it seems to hold the potential to scare away other companies from the project if it's viewed as a "By Intel, For Intel" operation.

Read more (twitter.com)

In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • Registration open for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco
   • Valtteri Halla to join Intel, after leaving Nokia
2. Applications
   • Bookmarking N900 browser's password manager
3. Development
   • Prototype transitions.ini editor for Maemo CSSU
   • Reverse engineering the Maemo 5 dialer app
   • Imad Sousou gives timeline for open sourcing of Tablet UX
   • ...and 4 more
4. Community
   • Community Council elections update
   • Call for Papers for MeeGo Conference 2011 in San Francisco open
   • Birmingham (UK) MeeGo meetup
5. Devices
   • Nokia "N950" will be N900 successor, running MeeGo
   • Developer Edition of MeeGo 1.2 for N900
6. In the Wild
   • Bonuses offered by Nokia to MeeGo-based employees to stay
   • Nokia sells Qt licencing business
7. Announcements
   • The Return of Panucci (0.99.0 for Fremantle)
   • Paper Toss for Maemo
   • Kasvopus, a Facebook app for "the rest of us"

Digia, a Finnish software company, has signed an agreement with Nokia to acquire the commercial licensing and professional services arm of Nokia's Qt. The major portion of Qt, including all core development and LGPL licensing remains with Nokia. Nokia plans to continue to invest in the future development of Qt, which remains core to its Symbian (150 million additional devices) and MeeGo (future disruptions) activities. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the month; neither company are disclosing cost details.

Please see this page for more info:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council/Council_election_Q1_2011

Post your nominations on the Maemo Community Development mailing list via maemo-community@maemo.org.

The current Council looks forward to hearing from you!

The alternative browser company, Opera, has announced that the Opera Store is now available for users of the various browsers from the Norwegians. Powered by Appia, the store can be found at mobilestore.opera.com and will be on the initial speed dial for new users to Opera. In tandem with the launch, their Publisher Portal is also open for business.

The latest version of hildon-desktop features experimental support for improved tactile feedback. What this means for you is that if you enable this feature, you will "feel" app menus and dialogs appearing and disappearing, just like on some Symbian^3 devices. It's disabled by default, but you could give it a try and see if it improves your experience.
First of all, you have to install the tactile helper from Extras-Devel (Git repository here). Then, you need to edit /usr/share/hildon-desktop/transitions.ini with a text editor as root and set the value of tactilepopups to 1 (i.e. change "tactilepopups = 0" to "tactilepopups = 1"). Save the file, and the changes should be applied instantly (if you have the latest version of the CSSU installed). Yes, I know that this forks a new process every time a feedback is played, but this keeps the architecture open for experimentation and prototyping of new ideas. It also didn't noticeably hurt my N900's battery life when used for a few days.
One further improvement would be to add support for "tactile" into Hildon, so that it vibrates when you press a button, but it doesn't vibrate if you touch a non-sensitive area of the UI (because right now, it vibrates on every touch when configured to do so, and that's not really tactile feedback of UI elements - you can "feel" the screen anyway, and it doesn't matter if the device registered your touch if the touch turned out to fall into a spot where no action will be carried out). I'm not sure if Qt Mobility's Feedback API already supports controlling the N900's vibra motor, but if not, there would be another great improvement opportunity.
The tactile helper can be easily integrated in other apps, the source should be trivial to understand, and easy to utilize in third party applications. It also comes with an example ('tactile-demo.py') that you can have a look at for a more elaborate example :)

Sebastian Nyström has been appointed as Nokia's head of MeeGo, Qt and WebKit, according to a blog post on the MeeGo website by Peter Schneider, Head of MeeGo Marketing at Nokia. In the last few years Nyström has been responsible for leading Nokia's Qt efforts and has been an eloquent spokesman for the open source framework. His new job gives him responsibility for MeeGo and WebKit activities at Nokia, in addition to his existing responsibilities for Qt. 

Despite the Twitter crazy, I still feel like talking a bit about some recent project of mine.

grmgpsd, an old school Garmin GPS protocol emulator. It was born by merging two of my older projects, nmeagend and garmintalkd. The first one was a NMEA "server" from the N900's liblocation data, while the second one was a Garmin binary PVT (Position - Velocity - Track) protocol server. Both allowed you do moving map on a PC using your N900 as GPS.

However, after implementing the PVT part of the protocol, I knew it would be extremely easy to implement the rest of the Garmin binary protocol. So I tried to find a use case for such implementation ;). The use case is as follows:


Yes, you can now use whatever software you used to manage your Garmin's GPS tracks, etc, to manage your N900's content. You can even use that software to exchange them! And, if the magic keywords are not uttered by the host PC, it will appear to be a off-the-shelf Bluetooth NMEA GPS.

What N900 content? Yes, good question. So far, it's all stored in sqlite database whose format was designed ad-hoc. I also made a very simple track logging application that fills the "Active track log" track in such database.

Yet, my plan is to use someone else's program as storage, like, for example, Columbus.

The source is, as per usual, available on my Gitorious.

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In the coming years another billion people will get online. They will do it with their smartphones instead of what we consider computers. And their experience will be quite different from ours when we initially started using the internet.

I guess neither Tomboy nor Tracker need much introduction. If you have both of them on your computer, you have probably wondered “why Tracker doesn’t index my Tomboy notes?”. Good point. You are not the only one thinking that;  somebody even opened a bug about it and here comes a solution.

It is a plugin for Tomboy (a NoteAddin in their terminology) that writes the information of the note into Tracker making it searchable on the desktop (E.G. using tracker-needle). The code is available in gitorious. Checkout, compile and install (you can use make install-data-local in src/ to install it on your $HOME). Well, you also need the latest tracker from GIT until we release 0.10.2 (soon) because i needed to add a “Note” class there.

The current status is “It works on my computer” but is safe to try because this plugin only exports data and never touches the original notes, so there is no risk of losing any information. Feedback is very welcome!

Registration for the MeeGo 2011 Spring Conference, which is being held in San Francisco on May 23rd, 24th and 25th, opened last week. The conference is expected to have a greater industry focus than previous events and will likely showcase some of the first commercial MeeGo products. The conference organisers have also recently issued a call for sessions proposals for those wishing to speak at the event.

SPARQL Update has INSERT and DELETE. To update an existing triple in RDF you need to DELETE it first. You of course already have our INSERT-SILENT but that just ignores certain errors; it doesn’t replace triples.

On Monday, Arjan van de Ven, MeeGo Chief Architect, posted to the MeeGo-dev mailing list about some architecture changes to the platform. They reflect the changing circumstances around resourcing, mainly as a result of Nokia's recent strategy changes. There are some changes to the security direction of MeeGo, the Buteo Sync framework will be replaced by Sync Evolution and the backend of PIM storage (contacts, calendar, mail) will switch from Tracker to Evolution Data Server.

“There is no better tool to debug than printf()”
– Latin proverb from an old Chinese man.

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NDG has been shortlisted for the Just Means 2011 – Social Innovation Awards, an important program which recognizes innovative software in the social and environmental areas. The result will be published during the event “2011 Redefining Value”, which will occur on the 25th of March, in London.

The software is competing in the category ‘Most Strategic Use of Philanthropic Funds’, disputing the prize with other three companies – Nature’s Path Foods, Oracle Corporation and Barclays PLC.

“The initiative to submit NDG to the prize came from Nokia's Corporate Social Investment team. Those involved believe that the work done recently with the software has brought many positive effects to communities in need worldwide and for this reason we have the potential to compete,” explains Ian Lawrence, a software developer at INdT, whom along with Rodrigo Ramos – also an INdT developer – works on the NDG project in Manaus, developing new features and offering support to NGOs and companies which wish to use the tool.

NDG was launched in 2008, and it is used for the collection of field data, substituting the use of paper survey forms and allowing the secure transfer of this information to a server, in real time. In 2009, the State of Amazonas’ Secretary of Health (SUSAM) adopted the software to conduct a campaign to fight Dengue Fever in Amazonas.

The results were so significant that NDG was adopted worldwide by many different organizations. Examples are the Philippines’ Government who along with the WWF use the tool to map the agricultural sector in the country and the Kenyan Government who run child birth registration programs in rural areas.

There is currently quite stern discussion going on between GNOME, Canonical and KDE about collaboration on the free desktop. Angry words have been written, and I believe much of the tension arises from the situation with MeeGo. Suddenly many developers and projects feel much more marginalized than what the future looked like, pre-112. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before the Desktop Summit, and we can again have beers and discuss things together.

According to the election timetable, there are only two days left (until 23:59 UTC on 14 March) to add your nomination to the mix for the next term of the Maemo Community Council. To nominate yourself (or someone else), please send a declaration email to maemo-community@maemo.org.

This community needs you. Don't wait until it's too late to get involved in this amazing experience!

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The work on the Maemo 5 Community SSU continues apace and should be ready for primetime very soon. I thought it would be informative to showcase some of the upcoming features in the form of screenshots. Disclaimer: These screenshots were taken from the latest beta which may differ from the final release. Installation About CSSU […]

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2011-03-07 through 2011-03-13

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Nominations open for Maemo Community Council election

The election for the next Maemo Community Council is drawing near, with nominations about to close. Nokia's recent announcements make maemo.org, and the community council, more important than ever in the future of the Maemo Community and N900 owners everywhere. If you've ever had any interest in participating in the council, please consider nomitating yourself. "According to the election timetable, there are only two days left (until 23:59 UTC on 14 March) to add your nomination to the mix for the next term of the Maemo Community Council. To nominate yourself (or someone else), please send a declaration email to maemo-community@maemo.org. This community needs you. Don't wait until it's too late to get involved in this amazing experience!"

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Nokia appoints new head for MeeGo team

Peter Schneider, Nokia's Head of MeeGo Marketing, has posted an announcement about the replacement head of MeeGo Computers at Nokia: "When Nokia announced its new strategy on February 11th, it also announced that Alberto Torres, the head of Nokia’s MeeGo Computers, would leave the company. I thought you would want to know that Sebastian Nyström has now been appointed to head the MeeGo team at Nokia. Sebastian has been leading Qt at Nokia, making the framework available under open source, free-of-charge LGPL license and now he takes responsibility for our future MeeGo efforts." Peter then goes on to outline the three tasks which Sebastian laid out for staff as part of a memo to staff.

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In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • Nominations open for Maemo Community Council election
   • Nokia appoints new head for MeeGo team
2. Applications
   • Experimenting with tactile feedback in Maemo Community SSU
3. Development
   • Some upcoming MeeGo architecture changes
   • Proof-of-concept shows a way Qt on iOS might be implemented
   • QML Components for desktop Qt
   • camera-ui2 - a re-implementation of Nokia's closed source camera app
4. Community
   • RM Bauer running in Maemo Community Council election
   • Stephen Gadsby nominated for Maemo Community Council
   • Timo Harkonen nominated for Maemo Community Council
   • Proposed icon for the Community SSU
5. Announcements
   • WebOS Games Manager
   • PhoneStreamer - stream front or back cameras, with audio
   • BounceBounce - a Doodle Jump clone

Over the last few weeks there has again been a large amount of tidying going on in the wiki. Spam has now dropped to manageable levels, so it seems that the change to disable page creation for anonymous users was effective. I added some basic documentation for widely-used templates, and I will add some more in the future.

In terms of activity, there have been several additions to the new article on modifications for the Conversations application. Some contributions to the article on Alarmed commands would be appreciated, especially from some experienced users.

Linpus, a provider of open source operating system solutions, demoed its MeeGo based tablet solution at CeBIT last week. Linpus have created a ready-to-go tablet solution, based around MeeGo, with a custom user interface and application suite. The solution is aimed at OEMs and ODMs who are looking to get a tablet product into the market as easily and as quickly as possible.

As of 23:59 UTC last night, we had a total of five people either nominate themselves, or accept nominations for themselves, as candidates for election for the next term of the Maemo Community Council.

This is an unprecedented event and a conversation about what to do is currently under-way on the Maemo Community Development mailing list. So far, the consensus is that we should not hold an election and just appoint these five candidates (all whom are excellent, long-standing community members) as the next Council. But, before making a final decision, it is clear that the rest of the community should have a say as well.

Here is the list of the five candidates:

• RM Bauer (SD69)
  Nomination Declaration: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2011-March/004701.html
• Alan Bruce (qole)
  Nomination Declaration: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2011-March/004712.html
• Felipe Crochik (fcrochik)
  Nomination Declaration: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2011-March/004715.html
• Attila Csipa (achipa)
  Nomination Declaration: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2011-March/004723.html
• Randall Arnold (texrat)
  Nomination Declaration: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2011-March/004717.html

 

You should recognize some of these names because they were former Council members. Moreover, these are the names of people who have been pillars of maemo.org and of the Maemo Community in general.

To clarify the rules for electing the Community Councils, please refer to the documented Election Process. Since we don't have fewer than five candidates, we are faced with a decision of what to do next. Each of these five people have proven their worth to our community. It is because of this that the current Council (as well as many community members) endorses their election without a vote. If there is good reason to continue to hold the election, please speak up on the mailing list, or comment below.

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Hello all.

Since I’m not a big fan of boring lectures, tribunes or formal declarations of any kind, I’d like to introduce new format for my talk at the San Francisco conference, which, in my opinion, suits the idea of open collaborating community much better. I want those of you, who want their application to be re-designed in a fancy way, to send me links and descriptions of your work and I’ll do it not only for free (as always :), but using techniques that I’ll be talking about on stage. And I’ll use your particular application to show things in real world. To my mind it’s a totally win-win solution. I’ll have great examples to show during the talk, much better than imagining fake ones, and you’ll have nice UI/UX mockups to use (or not to use if you’d like to) in your application. Actual presence in the room during my talk is a great bonus :)

So don’t be shy and post your applications right here in comments!

P.S.: No commercial software is allowed. Sorry, folks.

A few weeks ago we were asked to improve data entry performance of Tracker’s RDF store.

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I think I'd like a new challenge. If anyone out there could make good use of a creative C/GTK/C++/Qt/object Perl/Python hacker based in Philadelphia with the ability to work in the US and EU, they can find my resume/CV at http://is.gd/thurman.

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I think I'd like a new challenge. If anyone out there could make good use of a creative C/GTK/C++/Qt/object Perl/Python hacker based in Philadelphia with the ability to work in the US and EU, they can find my resume/CV at http://is.gd/thurman.

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After several days of allowing people to offer their opinions about whether or not to hold an election for the five Maemo Community Council candidates, it has become very clear that almost everyone in our community who is engaged in this process will accept the "no election" scenario and grant the candidates full Council-ship.

This being said, it brings me great pleasure -- and pride -- to announce the new, Q1 2011 Maemo Community Council:

• RM Bauer (SD69)
• Alan Bruce (qole)
• Felipe Crochik (fcrochik)
• Attila Csipa (achipa)
• Randall Arnold (texrat)

As stated plenty of times in the past, these five maemo.org contributors have put in timeless hours supporting our community, Maemo, MeeGo, and Nokia. They are all people who our community has expressed much support for and who will do what it takes to see to it that this community remains vibrant and active.

In speaking for the entire previous Council, of which I was the standing Chair, I'd like to offer a warm welcome (and welcome back to a few of these folks) and wish them a happy and productive term!

Remember, the position of Community Council member is completely voluntary and unpaid. These fine people are serving you, the Maemo Community, in their free time, out of the goodness of their hearts and a passion for what Maemo is and means. Please join me in my welcoming and remember to use the Council as much as you can -- their job is to listen to the community (via talk.maemo.org, the Community Development mailing list, council@maemo.org, planet.maemo.org, etc.) and attempt to coordinate community efforts and communicate the important stuff to Nokia.

Once again, thank you all for the ongoing support. This Council only exists because of you.

Checked out this nice app at the Ovi Store. Its a simple and easy to use utility that allows you to set up reminders quickly which trigger the standard system alarm. Reminders can be from simple ones that trigger after a set time to more sophisticated ones with various options for recurrences like ‘Forever’, ‘Until’ […]

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A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2011-03-14 through 2011-03-20

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Meet the new (Q1 2011) Maemo Community Council!

Last week, the call for candidate declarations for the next term of the Maemo Community Council closed, resulting in five total candidates. Because of this, the idea of foregoing a formal election and issuing a blanket acceptance of these candidates as elected was posed. This situation had been anticipated when the election process was drafted (as was the possibility of getting fewer than the requisite number of candidates); with the aim to ensure there were either three or five members on the Council.

The community response agreed on allowing these candidatess to step into their elected seats without an election. Tim Samoff, announcing the conclusion, introduced the new Council and reminded us "the position of Community Council member is completely voluntary and unpaid. These fine people are serving you, the Maemo Community, in their free time, out of the goodness of their hearts and a passion for what Maemo is and means." So, please congratulate the five, newly elected Maemo Community Council: RM Bauer, alan bruce, Felipe Crochik, Attila Csipa (aka 'attila77'), and Randall Arnold.

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Call for papers for MeeGo Conference gets extended period

The call for papers for the next MeeGo Conference in San Francisco in May 2011 has been extended to Friday March 25th, 2011 at 23:59 Pacific Time (2011-03-26 06:59 UTC): "From application developers to platform designers, hardware vendors to open source enthusiasts, anyone engaged in MeeGo is invited to contribute and participate. Much of this event will be the same as in Dublin. There will be MeeGo Warm-Up events on site the weekend before the conference and there will be lots of time to network and talk (the ever important "hall-way track")." Be sure to go to the MeeGo Conference website to submit your talk proposal.

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In this edition (Download)...

1. Front Page
   • Meet the new (Q1 2011) Maemo Community Council!
   • Call for papers for MeeGo Conference gets extended period
2. Applications
   • Use main camera live image as desktop background
3. Development
   • Performance comparison between EDS & Tracker for storing contact data
   • Caller ID daemon to use web to find caller
4. Community
   • Launch of meego-central.org app catalogue for MeeGo
   • Robin Burchell nominated for Maemo Community Council
5. Devices
   • MeeGo Community device programme looking for champions
   • Customising N900 keyboard & X Terminal
6. In the Wild
   • Nokia, Qt and Digia, facts and fiction

Syabas who produces well-known HD networked media tanks Popcorn Hour and media streamers PopBox, just announced a support of Matroska 3D container on its devices. That feature will be available via free firmware update. The owners of the Popcorn Hour C-200 and the A-200/210 can get support of MK3D even now. PopBox update is on the way.

Actually this is a nice feature. Especially no other media streamers can do that. But the problem with to find some 3D movie converted from 3D Blu-ray to MK3D. I guess only Torrents will an option.

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Samsung announced its new $99.99 remote control included QWERTY keyboard. It’ll make navigation through various online media services added to Samsung Smart TVs more convenient.

The new Samsung QWERTY TV Remote will come bundled with LED D8000 and D7000 Series and Plasma D8000 Series Smart TVs. It’ll be also compatible with LED D6300 Series models and up.

As part of last week's MeeGo Technical Steering Group meeting several nominations to new Working Groups (WG) were approved. Notably these included nominations for LG and China Mobile to the Handset WG. Working Groups are governance structures within MeeGo, which are currently being formed, that will be dedicated to discussion around a specific vertical. Membership of a Working Group is meritocratic, with an emphasis on overall contributions to the MeeGo project and a commitment to create a MeeGo product in the specified vertical.

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Opera has announced the new versions of its mobile browsers, Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mini 6. These bring an updated user interface, improved text wrapping, and most significantly, multi-touch zoom. Overall performance is improved too, with native handling of heavy sites appearing to load faster in Opera Mobile 11 than with Opera Mobile 10. Read on for more about the update.

A couple of weeks ago, we updated Tracker to load its configuration using GSettings instead of its own old-fashioned .cfg files. GSettings is an API to manipulate key=value pairs that abstracts the backend (keyfiles, gconf, dconf…) where they are actually stored.

This was a good change in a lot of senses, but it was breaking our functional tests. We have a suite of tests that we like to run once Tracker is installed in the system. They check if the basic functionality is working fine: the store starts, the miner starts, basic Sparql is processed fine, crawling/monitoring a directory is ok… Some of those tests rely on booting tracker with an specific configuration and with gsettings that isn’t as easy as defining a new XDG_CONFIG_DIR anymore. Well, lets fix the tests then.

My first idea was to hack our GSettings object to load data from the system or from a keyfile, depending on an environment variable: very portable, but is an ugly hack and the code paths start to differ a lot. Then i discovered the DConf profiles. Only works when gsettings is using dconf and needs to install a system-wide profile, but otherwise (in code and test setup) is nice.

It took me more time than expected due some stupid mistakes here and there using dconf:

• Profile names can only use alphanumeric and underscore characters. A profile like “tracker-test” won’t work (because is not a valid dbus name), but “trackertest” is fine. (Wiki updated now)
• Do NOT set XDG_CONFIG_DIR in the environment (Bug reported). I guess that the client is using the variable to look for the DB but the writing daemon is not, so the results are not the expected
• If at the same time you are changing the dconf schemas, make sure to remove old files from /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas, run /usr/bin/glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas and remove any old dconf database (in ~/.config/dconf) including “user”. Otherwise if some code is using the old schema, it won’t complain but the values will be wrong.
• DConf uses the GVariant serialization, so be careful when setting lists.

I hope this saves some time to the next person trying to test something that uses dconf for its settings.

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Hello everyone,

We are going to be holding a public meeting on Saturday, 26 March, at 1400 UTC. This meeting is intended to allow the community to meet and greet the new Council and take part in a discussion in which the old Council hands-over the reigns, etc.

Time:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx?y=2011&mo=3&d=26&h=14&mn=0

Place:
irc.freenode.net/maemo-meeting

Agenda:
1. Introductions
2. What was done during last term
3. What was not done during last term
4. Past Council reflections/comments
5. New Council comments/questions

This meeting should take no longer than an hour.

Thank you... I hope to see a lot of the community there!

Tim

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http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2011-March/004739.html

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Firefox for Mobile Firefox Gone Mobile SXSW Recap - http://cmlooney.wordpress.com/2011... March 23 from Caitlin Looney's Blog »... - Comment - Like

NAVTEQ, the Nokia-owned company behind Ovi Maps, have announced a new product called “Destination Maps”, which aims to provide the data that would enable guidance services inside public buildings. Initially, the data will cover more than 200 shopping malls in the U.S. One of the possible indoor location technologies that could use this data was previewed at Nokia World 2010, where I interviewed one of the development team about this technology. Read on for more information on its background and implementation.

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Firefox for Mobile Cloud Printer – Print from Firefox Mobile - http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog... March 24 from Mark Finkle's Weblog » Mozilla - Comment - Like

I’m pleased to finally be able to announce that my CrystalHD support patches have been accepted into FFmpeg and MPlayer – if you grab the latest source from each of the projects, you’ll be good to go. As before, you’ll need the latest driver and userspace library from Jarod Wilson’s git tree. The driver that’s included in the Linux kernel’s staging directory, and the library on Broadcom’s website are both too old.

A few weeks ago we were asked to improve data entry performance of Tracker’s RDF store.

I published new versions of the MeeGo Input Methods (framework and keyboard plugin) on the project's Launchpad PPA. It contains the API/ABI break that was announced in the beginning of this month.

At first I thought I would do this packaging only for others but I have to admit that I start to enjoy using my host system for input method development - it's really easier than having to use the MeeGo SDK or scratchbox even.

I also added some patches so that the on-screen keyboard docks itself to the bottom of the screen. For MeeGo Touch applications, focus widget relocation will work on the desktop now. If that's not enough for you then how about a slightly translucent keyboard background? For this to come true, you only need to modify the keyboard's SVG file, located at:

/usr/share/themes/base/meegotouch/svg/meegotouch-virtual-keyboard.svg

Search for this section:

<g id="meegotouch-keyboard-background">
  <g>
     <rect x="100" y="100" width="64" height="64"/>
  </g>
</g>

and add a opacity style property to the rect element like so:

  <rect style="opacity:0.5;" x="100" y="100" width="64" height="64"/>

You need to restart the meego-im-uiserver process to see the effects though. I will explain the other theming possibilities in another blog post.

The packaging problems I encountered in my last blog post are also solved: A Launchpad PPA keeps all packages in one repository, so one needs to explicitly mention the Ubuntu version in the package names, otherwise they can easily supersede each other.

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2011-03-21 through 2011-03-27

Firefox for Mobile New Recommended Add-on: Adblock Plus! - http://blog.mozilla.com/mobile... March 27 from Mobile Blog - Comment - Like

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If you thought that development on Maemo was slowing down, think again. SomePlayer is a feature packed audio player with a simple yet well-designed UI. Based on Qt, it is fast and offers all the things that were missed in the stock ‘Media Player’ like playlist management, Equalizer, and most of all, full-portrait support. SomePlayer […]

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Khweeteur Next Release 0.5.0 : Progress Report

As many users ask me how the development of the next Khweeteur is going on i'm creating this post.

I've play with QML for the UI, but to be honest, QML isn' t ready yet to be use for something else than short demo. Indeed no components was release yet. This mean that a developer should do everything himself. For example, on a button you must design it yourself, and also design the feedback give to the user. Also, if you are using listView, without fixed height, there is a huge cpu use to calc everytimes the height of rows. So the result is that the scrolling isn't smooth compared to a custom delegate where you can cache the size. Even if it s a bit faster in fullscreen, this mean that you should also write yourself a custom status bar for closing or switching app.

All this reasons plus the fact i didn't really like the syntax push me to come back to a QWidget UI.

The next release of Khweeteur use a daemon for retrieving and sending post. This daemon can run all time to provide notifications on new tweets, dm, or mentions while the ui isn't running. Of course this is optionnal. The communication between the daemon use dbus and so didn't require to create thread on the ui, which use less memory and cpu. This result on a faster ui, while the daemon do the hard work in background.

Currently only basic features are coded :

• Posting tweets
• Retweeting
• Retrieving Timeline, mention and dms
• Reply
• Notifications
• Toolbar badge notification
• Opening tweet urls
• Preferences with theme : Support now multi account with preferences to said if acocunt should be used for post or not, use webkit for oauth and doesn't require anymore to copy paste the oauth pin code

Planned features still need to be coded before release :

• Lists
• Search
• Favorite
• Follow
• UnFollow
• Delete of your own tweet

I've try to keep the ui simple with easy access to features. The toolbar displays action possible depending on context :

• Home : Which give quick access to timeline, mention, dm, search and list with a badge to notify user of update

• Edit : To post a new tweet, a twitpic, or a reply

• Action : Which is show when selecting a tweet

To follow the development take a look on http://gitorious.org/khweeteur in the experimental branch. Your are also welcome to participate if you want.

It's true that development progress slowly, as i didn't have many free time to code, specially as i'm still looking for a full time job as python developers with partial telecommuting possibilities near Paris.

Better later than never. Today i promoted Mussorgsky to extras-testing. Now it needs some thumbs up from the power users to get into the famous extras repo, reaching a wider audience.

If you have used it, and think it passes the Q&A checklist, please give mussorgky some karma!

PySide was accepted as a project under PSF umbrella. Any student who want to submit ideas related with PySide can contact us, or any PySide mentor, to discuss the ideas and prepare some proposals. Feel free to propose new ideas, do not get stuck only in the current ones be creative and good luck. You can get more information on Python GSoC wiki, PySide GSoC wiki, and #pyside on freenode.

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Iomega launched two new HD media players in the ScreenPlay lineup – Iomega ScreenPlay DX HD Media Player and its lightweight model, Iomega ScreenPlay TV Link DX HD Media Player. Both of them offer access to services like Netflix and Pandora, are DLNA certified, support 1080p video playback with Dolby / DTS decoding. Players can be connected to LAN over WiFi using USB adapter. The wireless controller with QWERTY keyboard makes navigation in the media library or web pages easy and comfortable. So, the Iomega ScreenPlay players look nice. But I’d like to see the Iomega Boxee model more.

The prices of new Iomega players are reasonable. The ScreenPlay DX HD Media Player with internal 1TB HDD can be found in B&H at $199.95. 2TB model is priced at $299.99. The diskless ScreenPlay TV Link DX HD Media Player is $149.99.

[via eHomeUpgrade]

Mozilla launched Release Candidate version of Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo devices last week. Now the stable version is available to download that comes with lots of changes and is much faster. Developed using same technology used for building desktop version of Firefox, this also comes with tabbed browsing, one touch bookmarking and Firefox … Continue reading "Mozilla Firefox 4 Stable for Android and Maemo now available"

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Long time platform nVidia Ion didn’t have any competitor in case if it’s needed compact, noiseless HTPC with 1080p support. Maybe that’s why its second generation was mostly marketing ploy. But now situation changed. AMD launched its new platform AMD E-350 APU which combines CPU and GPU on one chip. And according to information Hot Hardware and AnandTech it beats Intel Atom D525 with ION 2 on all categories except gaming – productivity, music, PCMarks, communications, and movies. Moreover, AMD E-350 APU supports Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA bitstreaming over HDMI. So, looks like nVidia should know what new features and improvements will be in the third generation of Ion. If it’ll be released, of course.

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Company Vesternet launched a few interesting Z-Wave products in UK. First of all its plug and play transceiver comes with on board drivers and a Z-Wave application for managing devices. So, by attaching it to PC or laptop we immediately will have Z-Wave controller. Clever solution for £49.99 device indeed.

Also Vesternet offers two kinds of kits – Energy and Security. Both of them include free Z-Wave USB stick. Additionally Energy kit contains nine Homepro On/Off Sockets and AeonLabs 3-Clamp Power Meter. Security kit has three Everspring Door & Window Sensors, three Homepro Motion Detector and three Everspring On/Off sockets. Sure you can buy any device included into kit separately.

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