I just got an email from ProClip USA that their Nokia N900 vehicle mounts are now out. You can choose from three different tilt swivel holders:
Note that along with the holder, you also need to purchase a vehicle mount specific to your vehicle.
Visit ProClip USA.
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.
Below is the full list of articles in this week’s issue:
Maemo Weekly News – February 15, 2010
Nokia and Intel has announced today the MeeGo Project, a new open source, Linux project for both Maemo and Moblin. The new Qt development environment will feature easy to use and flexible UI for a better app development experience. The Linux Foundation in turn will handle the open source project organization. MeeGo aims to target netbooks/entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones.
Below are several videos about the announcement:
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.
TMO member Fake has just announced his latest invention — a laser-cut stand for the Nokia N900.
The 3-piece acrylic or wood stand is now for sale for only $10, $15 if you buy two, and $20 for three (shipping included). Details on how to order, more stand pictures, and the long discussion is over at talk.maemo.org.
This week’s issue of Maemo Weekly News (MWKN) is now out. Some items I would like to highlight are the following:
Below is the full list of articles in this week’s issue:
Maemo Weekly News – February 8, 2010
If you haven’t seen me posting much here at Maemo Talk, it’s because I’ve been helping Andrew Flegg with his new project: Maemo Weekly News.
Maemo Weekly News is a weekly online publication that highlights Maemo specific news throughout the week. What’s good about it is that all the news are community contributed by sending a tweet to @mwkn. Editors (which I am a part of) and sub-editors will then flesh out all the tweets and the best ones will make to the weekly publication. More information here (link).
I will be posting the contents of each issue here at MT. Here’s the full list of the contents of the first issue:
Maemo Weekly News – February 1, 2010
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Nokia Conversations have been producing 30-second videos to highlight some features of the Nokia N900. If you haven’t seen them, I’ve collected them below:
How to keep it stuffed with the best apps
Multi-tasking pub window showdown
Streaming online video to big TV
Facebook video sharing and playback
Audio and video podcasts made easy
e-coach sport buddy in action
Phone calls and data monitoring skills
Stop motion mini movie battery test
Geotagging and sharing photos online
Custom backgrounds and organizing your desktops
Broadcasting live streaming video with QIK app
Playing nice with Ovi Files and Apple Mac
Motion control and touchscreen gaming
Enhancing your contacts with Hermes App
Subscribe and read RSS feeds
Instant messaging made easy
Eccentric accelerometer apps
Talking clock talktime challenge
Juggling heavyweight tasks
Blogging on the move made easy
Enhance your music with song lyrics
Scientist survival pack
Maemo web browser talents
Facebook & Twitter status updates made easy
Pocket weather station
View important docs on the go
Sketch and send an e-card
Pocket cookbook
I’m currently testing WordPy 2.0, a blogging client for the N900 that supports Wordpress, Blogger, and Livejournal.
What’s new with v2.0 is it’s Maemo 5 look, sporting new, much professional looking screens and buttons.
It lets you easily pull in images on your blog post from your local N900 drive(s), Flickr, and/or Picasa, and even gives you the option to proportionally resize, crop, roatate, flip, colorize, and change the brightness of images.
You have the option of crearting new tags and categories, although you can pull all your pre-defined tags and categories from your blog system as well. While it works great, I wish the way to select tags and categories would mimic the way you tag images and videos on the Maemo 5 gallery app.
Another feature that I like is that it lets you retrieve previous blog entries, edit, and post changes, direct from your N900. It lets you even manage comments, letting you add, approve, and delete comments on a specific blog entry.
This is easily a killer app for bloggers and I can see myself using it to blog anytime anywhere with just an N900.
WordPy 2.0 is still in extras-testing. Hopefully it gets released in Extras soon.
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.
This post was fully created using WordPy 2.0 on a Nokia N900.
Nokia Online/Offline as it Happens Ads N900 viral ads have been showing up in YouTube. I can’t really figure out where they are coming from and who the official poster is so let me know if you find the main site that has them or if you find new ones so I can add them to this blog entry. Anyway, here they are, in HD. They are all well made, funny, and definitely highlights the N900.
Wedding Catastrophe
Fishing
Tickets
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.
BY ROGER SPERBERG
Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) has posted several short single-subject videos and a comprehensive overview of liqbase at YouTube.
The overview is presented in a new liqbase presentation app that has live graphics (instead of screen captures) that he clicks into and uses to demonstrate each app along the way. (Mind-blowing when you see it and think back at the long history of buggy, slow and futile efforts to do this sort of thing before.)
Among other people, I have strongly encouraged Gary to follow his imagination and keep creating the fast, visual, and kinetic apps that constitute liqbase. He’s taken our advice to heart and devoted himself full-time to N900-and-maemo (e.g, liqbase) development.
If you want to see the apps continue to flow, you probably want to visit Gary’s website, liqbase.net, and make a PayPal contribution to enable him to keep going. I have. I hope you will too. This is one developer I want to see keep developing.
The Maemo Summit 2009 finale video:
Three days of great talks, fifty sponsored participants, three hundred Nokia N900s, four hundred plus enthusiasts, and the best Maemo device to date. What a summit! Thank you Nokia, and thank you Amsterdam!
Would you believe that it’s less than a year before the next summit? Looking forward to that!
Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.
You can follow what’s going on at Day 3 of the Maemo Summit 2009:
Maemo Summit 2009 – Day 3
