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Before I get to the point let me remind you about previous word on catalogues, where I’ve covered most of general informations about where to find packages I’m writing about. I will also remind that applications from extras-devel and extras-testing are there because they’re not completely ’safe’ for your N900. This time I will give you step-by-step tutorial how to add them to your device. This thing was mentioned here and there many times, but some of you may have missed it.

First of all run your App manager as usual. Then open menu from toolbar and choose Application catalogues option, which will give you possibility to add new software download sources.

App manager menu

When you have it opened look if you already have extras catalogue, should be installed by default but may be disabled.

Catalogues list in App manager

Catalogue details in App manager

Open catalogue settings and uncheck Disabled field. If you don’t have this catalogue(s) add new with one of following settings:

For extras:
Catalogue name: Maemo Extras
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

For extras-testing:
Catalogue name: Maemo Extras-Testing
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

For extras-devel:
Catalogue name: Maemo Extras-Devel
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

You can check weather package you’re looking for is available in extras, extras-testing or extras-devel using maemo.org Package Interface, which I’ve mentioned before. Just type word from package name and examine findings, package details will give you clue on where to look releases of what you need.

maemo.org Package Interface

From now on I will try to include link to this tutorial every time I post info on extras-testing or extras-devel packages, I hope it will help you.

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Please visit Nokia N900 Forum

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• Do it your way with N900 (part 4)

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The Popular first person shooter Doom explodes its way onto the N900!

Doom is back in the form of prBoom for maemo 5, crossing over from its linux and windows based beginnings and into our palms. The game keeps all of its original graphics and enemies, and is fully customizable through several menus accessed using the backspace key, in which the player can change controls as they wish.

The status bar is also fully customizable, the player can select when to be warned of low health and even how the enemies AI behaves.

The controls are simple the directional keypad controls the player, shift and the z key strafe left and right, the numbers change weapon, the blue arrow key shoots and the space bar is action. All the original difficulty settings are selectable from “im too young to die”, all the way through to “nightmare”. Overall not a bad addition to the N900’s now growing library of games, although there is one annoyance, prBoom was made using the original id shareware version of the game which only includes the first third of the game “knee deep in the dead”, however don’t let this put you off as the game is free to download from the N900’s app manager so its not bad for free.

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MAEMO SDK VIRTUAL DESKTOP IMAGE DETAILS

• Image version: Maemo SDK Virtual Desktop Image - Final
• Image release date: 22.01.2010
• Virtualization techniques supported: VMWare, VirtualBox, QEMU
• Estimated size: 9.5GB (normal) and 1.6GB (compressed - 7-zip format)
• Image download link: http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php

Ubuntu base release

• Distribution: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
• Version: 8.10
• Edition: Desktop, Intel x86
• Date: 30.10.2008
• URL: http://releases.ubuntu.com/intrepid/

Maemo SDK base releases

• Distributions: Maemo Fremantle 5.0 and Maemo Diablo 4.1.2 SDKs
• URL: http://maemo.org/development/sdks/

All the latest official Ubuntu Intrepid Desktop and Maemo SDK updates that were available at image release date are included. For installation you need to have either VMWare environment like VMWare Player 3.0 or 2.5 (2.5 recommended as first 3.x versions have problems maintaining ssh connections), VirtualBox 3.x environment (PUEL version as open source version does not support USB well enough) or QEMU environment (KQEMU accelerator recommended) installed and configured for your computer. For Maemo SDK Virtual Image installation you need to have 7-Zip uncompression tool because standard command line zip tools are not able to handle archives bigger than about 2GB (with zip compression archive size is bigger than 2GB).

FILES INCLUDED TO THIS MAEMO SDK VIRTUAL IMAGE DELIVERY

• Readme_Ubuntu_Intrepid_Desktop_SDK_Virtual_Image_Final.txt
  - readme file for the image
• Changed_Ubuntu_Intrepid_Desktop_Files.txt
  - added and removed packages for baseline Ubuntu release
• License_Agreement.txt
  - license and disclaimer text
• maemosdk_desktop_intrepid-10-08.vmx
  - the configuration file for a VMWare virtual machine
• maemosdk_desktop_intrepid-10-08.vmdk
  - Maemo SDK Virtual Image file

Notice that image delivery files have been compressed using 7-Zip tool (http://www.7-zip.org/).

DOWNLOAD AND DOCUMENTATION

• download link Maemo Development Environment Downloads page

• documentation can be found from  Garage MaemoVMWare project and Maemo Fremantle Developer Guide

SHORT DESCRIPTION

• This image is out-of-the-box ready Maemo SDK Virtual Image. Image includes the latest version of Ubuntu Intrepid Desktop Edition together with full Maemo Fremantle and Diablo development environments preinstalled and configured.
• This image is based on standard Ubuntu release with only minor updates described in 'Changed_Ubuntu_Intrepid_Desktop_files.txt' file attached to this image delivery.
• This image includes the latest Maemo Diablo 4.1.2 SDK maintenance release and the latest Maemo Fremantle 5.0 SDK release development environments together with the latest Maemo Eclipse Integration Final release.
• With this image developer can use both Maemo Eclipse and command line development environments to build applications for both Maemo Fremantle and Diablo platforms.
• This image includes installation wizards for performance tools available for VMWare and VirtualBox so that user can easily install these tools, for example, to boost GUI and network performance.
• This image is planned to be used by developers who do not want to install anything related to the base line Ubuntu distribution, Maemo SDK releases or Eclipse IDE. In fact, the developer just needs to install this Maemo SDK Virtual Image using chosen virtualization technology and install performance tools using installation wizards provided with image if virtualization technology is VMWare or VirtualBox. After these very simple steps full Maemo development environment is ready to be used.

This image includes

• Ubuntu Desktop 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
• Maemo Fremantle and Diablo SDK environments
• Maemo Host PC Connectivity Final release
• Maemo Eclipse Integration Final release
• Firefox web browser with bookmarks for commonly used programming APIs on Maemo
• Python programming environment on Scratchbox (i386 and ARMEL targets) and on Eclipse IDE
• C/C++ programming environments on Scratchbox (i386 and ARMEL targets) and on Eclipse IDE
• Qt4 programming environments on Scratchbox (i386 and ARMEL targets) and on Eclipse IDE
• Installer for Official VMWare Tools
• Installer for Open VMWare Tools
• Installer for VirtuaBox GuestAdditions

Possible feedback can be sent to eclipse-integration@maemo.org.

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A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla
2010-01-18 through 2010-01-24

As of 2010-01-25 Extras contains 1139 items (+45 this week), including 514 open issues (+16 this week):

• 335 open bugs (+9 this week)
• 16 critical/blocker (-2 this week)
• 2 "easyfix" (no change this week)
• 3 "moreinfo" (no change this week)
• 0 "crash" (-1 this week)
• 4 "patch" (no change this week)
• 6 reopened (+1 this week)
• 145 unconfirmed (-2 this week)
• 179 open enhancements (+7 this week)
• 1 "easyfix" (no change this week)
• 1 "moreinfo" (no change this week)
• 2 "patch" (no change this week)
• 0 reopened (no change this week)
• 57 unconfirmed (+1 this week)

Top Tens

Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes:

(9%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins

(6%) 7413 [ogg-support] Cover art not shown for Ogg Vorbis files (+3 this week)

(4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (+1 this week)

(3%) 4452 [Maemo Mapper] Default SQLite databases format is very slow, especially during maps pre-caching. (+2 this week)

(3%) 4878 [Canola] Support new last.fm api (+2 this week)

(3%) 5181 [gPodder] Automatically download new episodes when on 'home' connection (+2 this week)

(3%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure (+2 this week)

(3%) 5774 [Xournal] Consider using /opt to store the application files (new this week)

(3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (new this week)

(2%) 4243 [Mer] Organize of Applications Panel not responsive

Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote. Registration is easy and free.

Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes:

(8%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request)

(8%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature

(5%) 6990 [Hermes] Request for LinkedIn as data source

(4%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio

(4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (+2 this week)

(4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don't overwrite pre-existing contact info (-1 this week)

(4%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (-1 this week)

(3%) 5230 [ogg-support] No proper tag support for vorbis

(3%) 5564 [Dialcentral] Include links to the voice mail recordings in DC

(3%) 6527 [FM Radio] Provide radio alarm

Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote. Registration is easy and free.

Ten hottest open bugs:

4726 [Mer] Mer Flash Installer, incompatible boot error

7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says 'You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.'

4089 [Canola] SystemProperties plugin error crash after upgrade to beta11

6886 [PyMaemo] pymaemo-optify should not attempt to migrate files on upgrade

7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins

8445 [bluetooth-dun] Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking and PR1.1/ aka 2.2009.51-1 (new this week)

4083 [Canola] cannot access to video and internet files after upgrade to 2.0.b11 (-1 this week)

3886 [Canola] Interface buttons disappeared: video, podcasts, internet media (+1 this week)

5278 [Mer] Frequent reboots on mer0.16 testing 6 JFFS version (+1 this week)

6267 [Mer] Wifi not working (in version 0.15 it worked !!) (new this week)

Ten hottest open enhancements:

4058 [Canola] Vertical lists are not scrolled properly (+1 this week)

5004 [Attitude] Support theming to give spirit-level view (+1 this week)

5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (+1 this week)

5971 [Dialcentral] An easier way to import contact lists is needed (+1 this week)

6109 [Gonvert] Support for Custom Units (+1 this week)

6324 [FM Radio] Add up a delay option for TDT sync. (+1 this week)

6319 [Quicknote] Highlight searched-for character strings in results (+1 this week)

6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (+1 this week)

6479 [Quicknote] Import, export, send or share function (+1 this week)

6620 [StockThis] Add Commodities to StockThis (new this week)

Ten oldest open bugs:

3472 [Advanced Backlight] LCARS and Hildon iconsets aren't complete

3886 [Canola] Interface buttons disappeared: video, podcasts, internet media

3974 [Browser Extras] webaddons category applications have inconsistent name convention

4005 [Canola] AudioBroadcast UPnP items not showing when browsing

4036 [Canola] Canola cannot properly merge multiple tracks into one album

4050 [mNotes] random comments about make/mnotes_framework

4064 [Maemo Mapper] "the the" is a typo in the first run page

4068 [Maemo Mapper] OK/Cancel references to another localization package break w/ fremantle - hildon_note_new_confirmation changed

4083 [Canola] cannot access to video and internet files after upgrade to 2.0.b11

4084 [Canola] Intermittent hangs on audio play

Ten oldest open enhancements:

4037 [Canola] Ability to switch between "Play Random Track" and "Album" mode

4058 [Canola] Vertical lists are not scrolled properly

4090 [Canola] Own radio stations and playlists are not supportet by canola last.fm plugin

4101 [Mer] zenity list should allow clicking in any column for radio and check lists

4103 [Mer] dpkg message for missing scripts is confusing

4117 [Canola] Tracks in playlists should be sortable by album and track

4255 [Canola] libre.fm support (instead of last.fm/audioscrobbler)

4335 [Mer] Armel slowness

4551 [Mer] Powerlaunch is unable to handle keyboard backlight.

4650 [Mer] Request for nbd kernel module

New Items

38 bugs were opened:

• 8187 [gPodder] Old Podcasts from Geek News Centrals is downloading every day
• 8199 [eCoach] Allow to insert values with keyboard in addition to scrolling a list on the screen
• 8219 [Load Applet] Screencast not working
• 8233 [FM Radio] Radio goes mute when browser is switced to portrait view
• 8250 [Cinaest] Google movie times plugin never returns results
• 8280 [PyMaemo] python-support: upgrade from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6
• 8281 [PyMaemo] python-support: upgrade from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6
• 8283 [Panucci] BT headset buttons not working
• 8301 [Conboy] Note partly disappears - tag closed too early
• 8302 [Conboy] Disappearing Bullets
• 8312 [Catorise] Menu creation after package install/removal takes quite a while
• 8328 [Catorise] all isn't showing All applications (especially the former main screen apps)
• 8331 [TouchSearch] Current search engine not pre-selected
• 8337 [PyGTKEditor] Cannot change default font
• 8341 [Panucci] Panucci doesn't render unicode charaters properly
• 8342 [Panucci] Panucci doesn't render unicode charaters properly
• 8351 [PyMaemo] Sync each package repository contents with its extras-devel counterpart
• 8358 [gPodder] Can't boot GPodder: ImportError: No module named desktop.sync
• 8361 [MaStory] request for enhancement of Blogger support
• 8365 [FriendStatus] msn's status won't be update immly
• 8369 [Hermes] "Something went wrong" error when browser switchboard is installed
• 8381 [OmWeather] Network connection dialog pops up on every update with no active WLAN connection
• 8388 [Conboy] Ubuntu One sync fails with json_get_note_list() returning NULL
• 8392 [TouchSearch] Icon added for custom search engine is not shown on the desktop
• 8393 [TouchSearch] Unable to edit a custom search engine
• 8399 [PyMaemo] Missing hildon_gtk_toggle|radio_button_new functions in python-hildon
• 8408 [FM Radio] Switching to portrait interrupts audio
• 8413 [Miniature] Board is movable and moves out of screen (a few pixels)
• 8422 [OmWeather] Selecting a date scrolls slightly too far in forecast screen and...
• 8423 [Panucci] Panucci paused in background when call is made/received and makes a sound
• 8424 [OmWeather] Updating via 3G/GPRS unsuccessful
• 8427 [simplenotewidget] Segmentation fault when double-clicking notepad
• 8434 [Orrery] LC_NUMERIC localization prevents startup
• 8445 [bluetooth-dun] Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking and PR1.1/ aka 2.2009.51-1
• 8458 [Qt] ProgressBar Text is Illegible (Black on Black Background)
• 8467 [openvpn] OpenVPN fails when --mlock specified
• 8468 [MediaBox] Can't properly reproduce videos using UPNP
• 8471 [cell-modem-control] The activate-deactivate button is only in english language

Of these, 2 were critical/blockers:

• 8358 [gPodder] Can't boot GPodder: ImportError: No module named desktop.sync
• 8445 [bluetooth-dun] Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking and PR1.1/ aka 2.2009.51-1

7 enhancements were opened:

• 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes
• 8238 [gPodder] Add German package description
• 8247 [Gonvert] Gonvert Could Use some speedups
• 8315 [PasswordSafe] Pre-select filter field for text entry automatically
• 8317 [PasswordSafe] Icons and listing font size
• 8329 [Conversations Inbox] Clicking on empty Conversations Widget should open the Conversations Application
• 8397 [openvpn] Signal for openvpn applet to re-check current connections

Resolved Bugs

14 bugs were resolved "fixed":

• 5780 [Load Applet] Screencast video is shown as completely black when played back
• 6202 [FM Radio] FM Radio UI unresponsive while scanning
• 6227 [Load Applet] 'Too many applications opened... ' banner; swap memory consumed heavily by gst-launch-0.10
• 6987 [FM Radio] FM radio RDS character set missing Ö
• 7249 [Call Forwarding] Not able to select which phone number is used
• 7295 [PyGTKEditor] Subsequent searches keep the previous search hits highlighted
• 7659 [desktop-photoapplet] Does not show images after a reboot
• 7710 [Panucci] running latest panucci from git fails
• 7742 [Qt] Apps depending on libqt4-phonon won't install on 2.2009.51-1
• 8108 [ogg-support] Media player does not show duration for Ogg Vorbis files
• 8199 [eCoach] Allow to insert values with keyboard in addition to scrolling a list on the screen
• 8328 [Catorise] all isn't showing All applications (especially the former main screen apps)
• 8337 [PyGTKEditor] Cannot change default font
• 8427 [simplenotewidget] Segmentation fault when double-clicking notepad

4 bugs were resolved "invalid":

• 6306 [Conversations Inbox] Does not work
• 6827 [FM Radio] FM Radio doesn't work at all
• 8154 [Catorise] Too dependent on packages installed from a repository (nc)
• 8399 [PyMaemo] Missing hildon_gtk_toggle|radio_button_new functions in python-hildon

(nc) indicates the bug no longer has listed status.

1 bug was resolved "wontfix":

• 8423 [Panucci] Panucci paused in background when call is made/received and makes a sound

9 bugs were resolved "duplicate":

• 7631 [FM Radio] Pressing the power button once results in lowering the volume
• 7662 [FM Radio] Screen saver causes application to stop producing sound output.
• 8160 [Conboy] Undo (ctrl + z) and Redo (ctrl + y) don't work
• 8219 [Load Applet] Screencast not working
• 8233 [FM Radio] Radio goes mute when browser is switced to portrait view
• 8281 [PyMaemo] python-support: upgrade from 1.0.4 to 1.0.6
• 8342 [Panucci] Panucci doesn't render unicode charaters properly
• 8388 [Conboy] Ubuntu One sync fails with json_get_note_list() returning NULL
• 8408 [FM Radio] Switching to portrait interrupts audio

0 bugs were resolved "worksforme".

0 bugs were resolved "moved".

Resolved Enhancements

0 enhancements were resolved "fixed".

0 enhancements were resolved "invalid".

1 enhancement was resolved "wontfix":

• 8061 [BlueMaemo] stream of the desktop to see whats happening

0 enhancements were resolved "duplicate".

0 enhancements were resolved "worksforme".

0 enhancements were resolved "moved".

Confirmed Items

11 bugs were confirmed:

• 7294 [PyGTKEditor] Incorrect Help text
• 7586 [Xournal] Colours palette can't be used in portrait mode
• 8095 [Ukeyboard] Problem with Hebrew language
• 8106 [Cinaest] No movies on IMDb
• 8250 [Cinaest] Google movie times plugin never returns results
• 8301 [Conboy] Note partly disappears - tag closed too early
• 8302 [Conboy] Disappearing Bullets
• 8337 [PyGTKEditor] Cannot change default font
• 8365 [FriendStatus] msn's status won't be update immly
• 8408 [FM Radio] Switching to portrait interrupts audio
• 8434 [Orrery] LC_NUMERIC localization prevents startup

3 enhancements were confirmed:

• 8128 [cell-modem-control] Please provide visual feedback when cellular is disabled
• 8238 [gPodder] Add German package description
• 8329 [Conversations Inbox] Clicking on empty Conversations Widget should open the Conversations Application

Reopened Items

1 bug was reopened:

• 8154 [Catorise] Too dependent on packages installed from a repository

0 enhancements were reopened.

Unloved Items

10 bugs were needing love:

• 4381 [Canola] Canola ignores some mp3 tags
• 4550 [Canola] Volume bar not updated when changed from other application
• 8422 [OmWeather] Selecting a date scrolls slightly too far in forecast screen and...
• 7577 [Zoutube] Zoutube videos have no audio with phone profile "silent"
• 4377 [Mer] Deselecting dropdown menu plugin crashes desktop
• 4155 [Canola] Canola videocast not finding items within some feeds
• 5587 [Mer] on-screen keyboard is too wide; right key names are off screen
• 6600 [Transmission] Transmission shortcut disappears on desktop and menu
• 8467 [openvpn] OpenVPN fails when --mlock specified
• 5475 [PasswordSafe] Small icon for Password Safe in application manager

10 enhancements were needing love:

• 7381 [Personal Photo Frame] Show pictures in subfolders
• 5762 [TouchSearch] Add Search History support to TouchSearch.
• 6082 [Pyrecipe] move the icons in the Ingredients list to the bottom in landscape-mode
• 6992 [Hermes] Request for LiveJournal as data source
• 6512 [gPodder] Saving OPML files for later use
• 7237 [gPodder] "All episodes marked as new" view
• 7496 [gPodder] Add Polish translation for XB-Maemo-Display-Name-pl_PL
• 4551 [Mer] Powerlaunch is unable to handle keyboard backlight.
• 7990 [Recorder] Backend the recorder app as a backend phone daemon
• 6631 [Hermes] Option to exclude fields (e.g. birthday) from being updated/retrieved

Keyworded Items (glossary)

0 bugs were tagged "crash".

0 bugs were tagged "easyfix".

1 bug was tagged "moreinfo":

• 8369 [Hermes] "Something went wrong" error when browser switchboard is installed

0 bugs were tagged "patch".

0 bugs were tagged "performance".

0 bugs were tagged "security".

0 enhancements were tagged "easyfix".

0 enhancements were tagged "moreinfo".

0 enhancements were tagged "patch".

0 enhancements were tagged "performance".

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…still discussing some details of the GUI/ More details following soon (:

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The N900 features a FM Transmitter that allows you to play the audio on your device wirelessly to any FM radio, this is especially useful in the car. Unfortunately, there are occasions when the FM transmitter’s performance leaves you wanting and the static in the transmissions renders it worthless.

This happens when the power level of the transmitter drops, such behavior is also triggered when you plug the charger while using it. Fortunately, there is a patch that can fix this and help improve the performance considerably. To download the patch you will need to enable the Extras-Devel repository on your N900. Once you have, simply refresh the Application Manager and look under the ‘System‘ head for ‘fm-boost‘. Simply install it as you would any other application.

From now on, whenever you use the FM transmitter on your N900, run this patch from the Menu and it will jack up the power level to 118, thus improving the transmitter’s performance. Nokia will possibly fix this bug in the upcoming firmware, but till then if you feel the transmitter on your device is not upto it, try using this patch.

I really hope Nokia maximizes the potential of the N900’s transmitter as it is something which is exceedingly useful, but often rendered worthless due to poor performance. Nokia, please do not make a compromise because running it at higher level would eat battery life, just jack it up to the maximum level that the law and hardware can take. If necessary, let users manually control power settings.

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Maemo is a really special operation system and in many  ways different than Symbian. One difference is the application manager which is based on catalogues. By default only the Nokia Application catalogue is activated. Maemo Extras, a catalogue featuring a bunch of apps, is deactivated by default but can be activated easily.

However, there are also two other big catalogue – Extras-devel and Extra-testing. Developers upload the newest version of their software to Extras-devel. From there the packages go Extras-testing and finally Extras through an automatic and human Quality Assurance process. This is a repository for developers and regular contributors of specific software projects. The applications in Extras-devel and extra-testing are waiting to be tested and aren’t final. There might occur some error so install apps on your own risk.

In order to add Extras-testing and Extras-devel go to the Application manager, select Application catalogs and then new. Than just fill out the detail:

Maemo Extras-Testing

Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New
Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

Maemo Extras

Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New
Catalog name: Maemo Extras-devel
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

Now you will find a pretty long list with some really nice and useful application. Enjoy!

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Hi folks, here it goes a free wallpaper for All N900 users. Nokia N900 has lots of great functions but we always need a nice looking wallpaper. For you, N900 owners, here is one of the coolest and one of the most simple wallpapers for the N900. In a near future we will publish a Nokia N900 wallpaper pack to download.

So, here is the wallpaper:

Field and Sunset Wallpaper

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If you have been reading my Nokia N900 posts, then you may be wondering how I am getting all of these additional applications on the N900 since the Ovi Store is not yet open for business. If you have used one of the older Maemo Nseries Internet Tablets then you are familiar with using the Application Manager to access repositories. There are various repositories and I some are highly experimental where “normal” users probably shouldn’t be dwelling too much. It seems that Mark over at The Nokia Blog and I are on the same page and he already assembled a great post on Maemo repositories on the N900 so I won’t repeat all that he wrote here with my own post and recommend you head over there to see how to access repositories.

I was very pleased to see that Nokia has integrated an automatic notification system through the Application Manager so that you receive a yellow notification in the upper notification area when updates to applications you installed are present. You then tap the notification and walk through the update wizard to install the program update.

I have added all the repositories I can find with N900 applications and am currently testing out the following 3rd party applications:

• Almost TI Graphing Calculator
• AP News desktop widget
• Bounce Evolution game
• Classic Gaming Wallpapers
• DialCentral (Google Voice application)
• Documents To Go
• Facebook Widget and Photo Uploader
• FBReader
• FMRadio (enables the FM radio hardware installed in the N900)
• Foreca Weather
• gPodder podcatcher
• Hermes
• Maelstrom game (Asteroids clone)
• Maemo WordPy
• Mauku and Mauku widget
• Mplayer
• mSaber
• Password Safe
• Personal Photo Frame
• Pixelpipe
• Qik
• SolarWolf game
• Plugins (Windows Live for IM, Connection Switcher, Evernote Sharing, Load-applet, Simple Brightness applet)

There are many more apps, especially those for the serious geek such as SSH, Telnet, game emulators, and many more. A large number of these are in early development so make sure you take care when loading up a ton of apps. So far, I have yet to experience any issues with apps I have loaded and enjoy checking the list every couple of days to see what these amazing Maemo developers have added. So far, all of these apps are free too.

2009-10-27 13:38 UTC with score 0

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Today I was thinking...that's been a while no post.Thus here I am showing you how to use your Nokia N900 as a broadband modem with Ubuntu 9.10.It's as easy as connect it via USB and choOse the "PC Suite mode".A Wizard should appear on Ubuntu with few easy step to configure the modem with your provider (attached are the screenshots to document the process).If the Wizard does not appear simply go 2009-10-26 18:26 UTC with score 1

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Reading Maemo Brainstorm I happened upon a complaint: Mediaplayer and other players do not have an equalizer. Though I don’t use equalizers very often, sometimes I did it, and I find a bit upset not having one in such cool device.

Being a MAFW development, I think MAFW can provide this feature. So I made a fork from mafw-gst-renderer, and I’m pleased to announce mafw-gst-eq-renderer, which can be summarized as mafw-gst-renderer + equalizer. It’s totally open, and you can follow its development from gitorious. It must be clear that this plugin is not part of official MAFW, but a community plugin that I did in my free time.

The main goals for this fork were adding equalizing capabilities to mafw-gst-renderer, and providing a graphical equalizer. I think both were achieved.

Both in Gitorious and Projects Maemo you can find two branches/flavours.

MTR (master branch) is the upstream development: this provides Mafw-Gst-Eq-Renderer-Plugin, which creates a Mafw-Gst-Eq-Renderer source, which is accessed through gsteqrenderer UUID. If you install it in your N900, you’ll have two renderers: the original one (mafw-gst-renderer) and the new one (mafw-gst-eq-renderer).

Unfortunately, Mediaplayer only handles mafw-gst-renderer. If you want to use mafw-gst-eq-renderer instead, you must replace mafw-gst-renderer with the MGR flavour (mafw-gst-renderer branch). It provides the same capabilities as MTR flavour, but inherits the names from mafw-gst-renderer: the plugin provided is named Mafw-Gst-Renderer-Plugin, which creates a Mafw-Gst-Renderer source that can be accessed through gstrenderer UUID. Install this flavour and remove mafw-gst-renderer and Mediaplayer will be able to use the equalizer.

Setting equalizer values is as easy as changing values in GConf. If you’re writting your own mediaplayer, you can provide your own equalizer but reading/writting gconf values. For those that doesn’t have an equalizer (like Mediaplayer) a Control Panel applet is provided. With the applet a set of predefined presets are provided, though applet allow to save user configurations.

My aim is to synchronize this development with original mafw-gst-renderer, integrating all relevant changes whenever new versions are released.

I hope you find this plugin useful.

2009-10-21 11:09 UTC with score 2

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I’m still figuring out how to do the same thing with cmake, but various bloggers and comments appear to be promising that it’ll be even more easy.

But this is a message for probably all Nokia teams who are making Qt-based libraries:

First open your src/src.pro file and add this stuff:

CONFIG += create_pc create_prl QMAKE_PKGCONFIG_REQUIRES = QtGui pkgconfig.files = packagename.pc pkgconfig.path = $$(DESTDIR)$$[QT_INSTALL_LIBS]/pkgconfig INSTALLS += target headers pkgconfig

Now open your debian/$package-dev.install file and add this line:

usr/lib/pkgconfig

You’ll be doing all the autotools people a tremendous favor.

Next, open the README file and document that you need to use qmake-qt4 on Debian or make either qmake-qt3 or qmake-qt4 work flawlessly with your build environment. Perhaps also mention how to set the install prefix, how to make qmake find and install .pc files in another location, stuff like that. I find that this is lacking for almost every Qt-based library.

You’ll be doing everybody who wants to use your software a tremendous favor.

2009-10-20 08:14 UTC with score 1

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One of the ‘easter eggs’ hidden on the Nokia N800 was an FM radio receiver. The device shipped without any software to take advantage of the hardware, but the community came through with a solution to allow N800 owners to listen to FM radio through their device. While the Nokia N810 did not have the same little treasure, it appears as though the Nokia N900 does, and there’s already a solution to get it working!

Martin Grimme at Python and More has put together a package called n900-fmrx-enabler which enables the FM antenna when prompted, and then disables it again, to conserve battery. For right now, it’s no easy task, as the sound doesn’t immediately get output to the speakers, so Martin’s come up with a workaround. Unfortunately, this workaround sucks down the battery quite quickly.

If you’re feeling rather daring, you can install fmradio from the extras-testing repository, to give it a go. Is FM radio something you would use often, or do you think it’s rather silly, given the local storage and 3G connectivity that the N900 has?

(Image is from atmasphere.net and shows the FM Radio app on the N800)

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2009-10-12 16:40 UTC with score 0

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Unbelievable! Over 300 developers have been given a Nokia N900 pre-final production version for a 6 month loan. Just two questions, where and why?

The first one would give you a clue for the second one. Where? On the Maemo Summit 2009 that is taking place in Amsterdam which is an annual get-together of the Maemo Community (this is the second one). Technology enthusiasts, apps developers, and platform developers meet to network, share their latest innovation, learn about future trends and just have fun. The Nokia N900 built on Maemo 5 is in the spotlight of this year’s event (more info about this event, click here).

So now you can guess why? I hope that these like guys take advantage of the situation that they have on their hands by creating the most wonderful apps we can expect from the Nokia N900.

If you don’t believe in this news, you can see it with your own eyes (through a YouTube video)

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Nokia N900

Irreco is an application that allows you to use your Nokia Tablet PC (in this case the Nokia N900) as a remote control with the built in Infrared.
You can see the link to the official Irreco site here.

With Irreco and the presence of an IR port on your mobile device you can control Infrared compatible devices like televisions, DVD players and Air Conditioners. Irreco also has a remote editor which you can use to place buttons to the screen and customize the remote in your own way.

Irreco certainly will not change the way we live our life but having a universal remote in your mobile phone is definitely a feature to boast about. Not too long ago, Psiloc had developed a similar software for Nokia S60 v1,v2,v3 devices which was somewhat successful with the aficionados but later lost its way through since many top end Nokia devices did not have the Infrared port, which is necessary for the mobile device to function as a remote.

Nokia tablet PC’s have had a lot of success as tablet PC’s but have never really been a mass market product for Nokia, this could change with the Nokia N900, simply because not only is it going to be Nokias top end cellphone but also a full-fledged tablet PC.

With the success of the N900, the usage of Irreco is bound to be appreciated, we shall wait to see the impact Irreco has on the N900 users, depending on that, nokia might just favour a version of Irreco for the Symbian users as well. Besides, we might see the IR port coming back to Nokia devices on mass market level again. Will the IR port ever be back on all nokia devices?

That remains to be seen, until the N900 is launched and Irreco is judged.

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The online part of a big german Weekly magazine (spiegel.de) has a nice little review on the N900. We are very proude, that they mentions the VNC software in the short list of important applications. http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/gadgets/0,1518,645529,00.html Hopefully we will have a chance to test it on a N900 soon:-) It is uploaded to fremantle-extras-builder. If anybody has a real N900 device, we would be happy to read what you. I will open a bug report for your comments (subject: Unknown status on N900).
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mrawviewer_1.0-maemo1 is the first stable release. Since the last beta version I've added two nice arrows over the currently displayed image when a long touch is detected to load the previous / next image in list.
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Hello! I'm pleased to announce the fourth version (v0.0.4) of the PyFinancial Calculator. Please, let me know if you have any problem on running the calculator, suggestions and improvements that you provided for the calculator. What is PyFinancial Calculator? =========================== It is a financial calculator for Maemo based at HP-12c. It uses Qt for Maemo at GUI. TODO List ======== - Make more improvements at GUI CHANGELOG ========== - Improvements at GUI - Math operations like: e^x, ln, y^x, etc - Implement data persistence - Installation script that install all the dependencies (see README file at https://garage.maemo.org/svn/pyfinancial/trunk/PyFinancialCalculator/) How to contribute? ============== Please, contact me at felipelcoutinho [at] gmail [dot] com Where is PyFinancial Calculator? ================= The PyFinancial Calculator is under version control of the PyFinancial Calculator project. Development: http://garage.maemo.org/projects/pyfinancial/ Download: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/6106/pyfinancial-calculator_0.0.4_all.deb Requirements ========== - Maemo Diablo - Python 2.5 - Qt4 Core - Qt4 Gui - Python bindings for Qt4 Core components - Python bindings for Qt4 Gui components Best regards, Felipe Leal Coutinho. References: [1] http://code.google.com/p/pyfinancial
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It’s cool Nokia 5800 automatically rotates the screen to landscape/portrait according to phone orientation. However, you do not want that to happen always when developing Flash Lite applications. Apparently there is no way to disable this ‘freature’ directly from Flash Lite [1]. Below is a hack to disable auto rotation / orientation change from a [...]
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So, Advanced Power splitted into 2 packcages: - Advanced Power Monitor (APM) 0.4.0 - Advanced Power (AP) 0.3.5 First one is a daemon, that emitts signals on properties changes, second is still statusbar item, but now it gets information from APM via D-Bus. And, of course, advanced-power package now also depends on advanced-power-monitor.
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I've just discovered that the latest version of KDEPIMPI (2.10), compiled for the Open Embedded project, combined with the libqt-mt.so.3 library (for Zaurus qt3 compatibility) produce a working, stable, PIM suite. The menus, icons, and functions are much better, though it isn't Hildonized. The calendar/to-list is much better, the address book is fully functional, and synchronizing works. The mail progam (ompi) and cell-phone data exchange (kammu, based on gammu) each run but are untested. Many thanks to: Zautrix (the original author of KDEPIMPI), yonggun on OESF for compiling the package, and tz1 for the qt3 library. The .deb package is available via the OESF forum (for members) or on the Maemo Garage kdepimpi site.
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You have been using VirtualBox, but you don�??t need it anymore. Or you need free space as I did. Well, in that case you might want to remove VirtualBox from your Mac. Uninstalling is easy, drag-drop-done, right? Yes it is, but it won�??t take long for you to figure something is wrong. Eventhough you removed [...]
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Here is a PHP-MySQL-Flash Lite tutorial by Miriam. I�??ve written a short tutorial on Flash Lite interaction with MySQL. Through this tutorial I will try explaining how data can be sent from Flash Lite into a MySQL database using PHP as a middle language. Please note, at the time of releasing this tutorial, I have changed [...]
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Developer Justin Dolske has compiled Thunderbird (aka Shredder) on Maemo and checkout the results:

How�??s it run? Fairly well, from my brief testing. The UI isn�??t optimized for small-screen mobile usage, but it seemed responsive enough that I�??ll try using it in coming days.

I wish he would share his experiment.

Read his full blog entry.

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