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My-Maemo ... My-Meego ... My-Symbian |
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My-Maemo.com is now dedicated solely to the Maemo 5 (Nokia N900) platform. If you are looking for MeeGo Harmattan / Nokia N9 / N950 stuff, please visit My-MeeGo.com. And for Symbian software and news, pay a visit to our 12-year old My-Symbian.com
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   Thu, 31.12.09
[New] BatLevel - desktop widget showing precise battery level |
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| BatLevel by Rama Kurvakat is a simple Qt-based desktop widget showing battery level. Its advantage is that it shows battery level as a percentage, which is more precise than the standard N900 battery indicator.
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  Wed, 30.12.09
[New] PrBoom - free Doom clone for the N900 |
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| Flandry has just uploaded to the Extras-Devel repository PrBoom, a free SDL-based Doom clone.
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[New] NSpeed - futuristic 3D car racing game for the N900 |
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| Sami Kyostila has just released a futuristic 3D car racing game for the N900 called NSpeed.
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[New] QStarDict - international dictionary |
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| QStarDict is an international dictionary written using Qt 4 with full support for Stardict dictionaries.
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  Mon, 28.12.09
[New] FM RDS Notify - caller ID, SMS and music tags on your car audio system |
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| FM RDS Notify by Fabrice Crohas uses the FM Transmitter of the N900 to send more data to the car radio system over RDS. It can display music tags from N900 player, incoming caller ID, or full SMS message text on the car radio display.
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[New] Duke Nukem 3D for the N900 |
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| Duke Nukem 3D optimized and repackaged for the N900 has appeared today in Extras-Devel. There are two packages available: a shareware version that installs the shareware game data (6.7 MB) and a CD version that comes without game data and requires you to copy it from the original CD.
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  Sun, 27.12.09
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| Dumb FTP Server is a simple FTP server for people who can't be bothered to keep proftpd running all the time and are paranoid enough to disable password authentication in the OpenSSH server, but still would want to send some files to/from the N900 outside their caves. You can start it from the menu, generate one-time password, send files, then just close it like any other application. Quick, simple, doesn't leave any holes in your phone security.
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[New] NS Schedule - Dutch train schedule and journey advise |
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| NS Schedule from Giorgos Logiotatidis is a schedule and journey planner for Dutch railways.
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[New] Jagged Alliance 2 - port of the classic tactical role-playing game |
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| Jagged Alliance 2 is a port of the classic tactical role playing game for PC (1999). Original CD with data files is required.
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[New] bpython - interactive Python interpreter interface |
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bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter with the following features:
* In-line syntax highlighting.
* Autocomplete with suggestions displayed as you type.
* Expected parameter list for any Python function.
* "Rewind" function to pop the last line of code.
* Send the code you've entered off to a pastebin.
* Save the code you've entered to a file.
* Auto-indentation.
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[New] gTranslate - Google Translate client for Maemo |
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| Tuomas Siipola has created a simple Google Translate client for the N900 called gTranslate.
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  Sat, 26.12.09
[New] Twitter Plugin for Contacts and Conversations |
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| Twitter Plugin for Contacts and Conversations by Tan Miaoqing tightly integrates Twitter to Maemo Contacts and Conversations. It imports your Twitter friends and saved search querries to Contacts and receives mentions/replies, DMs and Twitter search results as conversation threads. In addition, you can send replies or DMs to any Twitter friend straight from Contacts, simply by tapping on their Twitter IDs.
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  Tue, 22.12.09
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| Would you like to write your own programs for your N900? PyMaemo (Python for Maemo) seems to be the best choice for a wannabe programmer. Read Maemo.org's recently published PyMaemo QuickStart Guide to learn how to set up Python development environment, preparing your N900 for it, writing your own code and running it on the phone. Also worth recommending is TheMaemo's Python For Newbies tutorial: Part 1 and Part 2.
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[New] Pushover - classic platformer puzzle remake for the N900 |
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| Pushover from Bundyo is an en engine remake of the old Ocean puzzle platformer of the same name. The playing field consists of a number of platforms, interconnected by ladders. Most of the platforms hold dominoes. G.I. Ant can rearrange and move them, by carrying one domino at a time. He is allowed to push one domino, and this single push should result in all of the dominoes falling, which opens the exit to the next level.
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[New] Comix - comic book viewer for the N900 |
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| Comix is a comic book viewer. It reads zip, rar, tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives (often called .cbz and .cbt) as well as normal image files. It is written in Python and has a simple user interface using PyGTK.
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[New] Cellular Modem Control UI - turns phone off, keeps WLAN active |
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| Cellular Modem Control UI provides an option that was present in pre-release N900 firmware but disappeared in the release version. It adds an Enable/Disable Phone button to the "Power key menu", which allows switching the cellular modem on or off individually, without going to the full Offline mode. Handy for having WLAN or Bluetooth enabled but phone off (e.g. flights, hospitals).
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Two new N900 games: BattleGweled and CrazyParking |
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| Mikko Vartiainen has ported two games to Maemo 5: BattleGweled, a Bejeweled clone, and CrazyParking, a puzzle game in which your task is to rearange cars on the parking so that the red car has a clear way to exit.
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[New] AppWatch - repository activity tracker |
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AppWatch lets you track new applications and repository activity, including:
* repository history - list of applications being added, updated or removed
* Hot Apps - list applications by download activity last week
* App Forecast - show applications in QA, in order of expected Extras arrival
* App Stats - download graph of particular applications
* Show a graph with the number of apps in repositories.
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[New] Htop - interactive process viewer |
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| Htop is an ncursed-based process viewer similar to top, but it allows to scroll the list vertically and horizontally to see all processes and their full command lines.
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[New] Asterisk - PBX and telephony toolkit for the N900 |
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| Asterisk by Jeff Moe is a free software Private Branch Exchange (PBX) and telephony toolkit. It is, in a sense, middleware between Internet and telephony channels on the bottom, and Internet and telephony applications at the top. Asterisk can be used with Voice over IP (SIP, H.323, IAX and more) standards.
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[New] Nmap - port scanning utility |
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| Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a free and open source port scanning utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many system and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime.
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[New] OpenConnect - Cisco VPN client |
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| OpenConnect is an open client for the Cisco AnyConnect SSL VPN solution.
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  Sat, 19.12.09
[New] MOD-Support: play Amiga modules on your N900! |
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| MOD Support from Kaj-Michael Lang adds module support to the built-in Media Player, including Amiga .MOD files, Scream Tracker .S3M, Impulse Tracker .IT, Fast Tracker .XM files and all other module formats supported by modplug.
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[New] Browser Switchboard for Maemo 5 |
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| Browser Switchboard by Steven Luo is a Settings applet that allows you to choose which browser to use as the default browser. It supports MicroB, Tear, Fennec / Mobile Firefox and Midori out of the box, and can easily be extended to support other browsers. It can also start MicroB without having a large background process (browserd) running at all times saving memory when MicroB isn't in use.
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[New] mwTube - London Tube status on your N900 |
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| mwTube by Michael Werle is a small application that shows the current status of London Tube lines.
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[New] Stopwatch-Home: simple stopwatch for the Desktop |
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| Stopwatch-Home by Alexander Schremmer is a widget providing simple stopwatch on the Desktop of your N900.
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  Fri, 18.12.09
302 Maemo/N900 applications listed! |
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| This is just a short notice that now we list over 300 applications available for the Maemo 5 platform / Nokia N900. So if you haven't yet, take a look at our Maemo Software Catalog!
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[New] SDL MAME - Arcade Machine emulator for Maemo |
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| SDL MAME is a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. MAME provides emulation of the hardware necessary to run the original machine ROMs. It emphasizes accuracy of emulation over speed.
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[New] QLandkarte M - moving map software for the N900 |
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| QLandkarte M from Fabrice Crohas is a moving map application for mobile devices. As QLandcarte GT it will display mapsets of different resolutions and point to your current location. Additionally it will record your location data for further use with QLandkarte GT.
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[New] Crazycat for the N900 |
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| Crazycat from Mohammed Ilyas is a simple game where your task is to circle the cat in such a way that it gets captured and cannot run out of canvas.
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  Thu, 17.12.09
[New] ScummVM now available for Maemo 5 |
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| ScummVM by Frantisek Dufka is a LucasArts' SCUMM VM machine interpreter enabling you to play famous graphical adventure games including: ierra's AGI adventures, Simon The Sorcerer, Beneath a Steel Sky, Broken Sword, Flight of The Amazon Queen, Gobliins, Inherit the Earth, Legend of Kyrandia, and lots of others. Now ported and optimized for Maemo 5 / N900.
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[New] KeePassX - secure password manager for the N900 |
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| KeePassX by Timothy Redaelli is a cross-platform password manager which helps you to manage your passwords and other confidential data in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database which is locked with one password or keyfile. Databases are encrypted using AES or Twofish algorithms.
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[New] Conky - system monitor for Maemo |
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Conky by Darren Long is a highly configurable system monitor based on Torsmo. It shows CPU frequency and usage, memory usage, free disk space, network traffic, running processes, and much more.
N.B. It's interesting how Conky shows different CPU frequencies (between 250 and 600 MHz) depending on system load. If it's correct, it would mean that CPU clock is being adjusted dynamically, like in case of e.g. SpeedStep technology. Great power saver....
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maeMaps - Web based Google Maps for the N900 |
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| While there is still no native, dedicated Google Maps application for the Maemo platform, you may try maeMaps by Thomas Waelti, a web based Google Maps "interface" with N900 optimized design. It allows you to find places, supports routing, different map types, traffic, Wikipedia and Streetview layers, and more. In order to use your N900's GPS, maeMaps requires "maemo-geolocation" MicroB browser extension package to be installed (available in Extras-Devel).
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  Wed, 16.12.09
[New] Digia @scene for the N900 |
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Digia @scene is a YouTube client for Maemo for superior consumption and contribution of video content of YouTube. Key features include:
* Finger touch operation
* Search and Play
* Automatic full-screen playback
* Save to Favorites
* Playlists
* YouTube service plugin
* Offline playback
* Web feeds (RSS) - Top rated, Most viewed, Most discussed, Most recent
* Community features - Comment, Share, Rate, Upload, Messages
* History
* Statistics.
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[New] BurgerSpace - Burger Time game clone for the N900 |
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| BurgerSpace is a clone of the classic game "Burger Time". You play the part of a chef who must create burgers by stepping repeatedly on the ingredients until they fall into place. And to make things more complicated, you also must avoid evil animate food items while performing this task, with nothing but your trusty pepper shaker to protect you.
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New network tools in Extras-Devel |
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Several new Internet/networking tools have appeared today in the Extras-Devel repo, including:
* Aircrack-ng - a set of tools for auditing wireless networks and an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.
* MACchanger - utility for viewing/changing the MAC address of the network interface.
* Cert and Password Manager for MicroB - selfexplanatory :-)
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  Tue, 15.12.09
[New] Flashlight for the N900 |
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| Flashlight by Roman Moravcik allows you to use flash LEDs as a flashlight. It adds small applet in the status menu which you can tap to switch the flashlight on or off.
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Capsule 3D - cross-platform, multipurpose 3D engine running on the N900 |
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Capsule 3D by SVS Innovations is a cross-platform, multi-purpose 3D engine designed to run both on desktop computers and embedded systems. It uses the latest 3D technologies to deliver the best quality and performance achievable on the underlying system. The engine supports a wide range of 3d visualization options and can be tailored for multiple purposes. As a first use case for the Capsule 3D engine the company has developed a 3D viewer application for the Nokia N900 with the following features:
* Photorealistic real-time 3D model visualization
* Multi-user sessions for distributed group work
* Support for the general purpose Collada 3D file format.
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[New] Vagalume - Last.fm client |
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| Vagalume is a small Last.fm client providing basic Last.fm features, such as scrobbling, tags, recommendations, etc., as well as other Last.fm-compatible services such as Libre.fm.
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[New] Claws-Mail: powerful email client for the N900 |
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| Lucas Maneos has released and unofficial "port" of Claws-Mail for the N900. If you consider the built-in Modest email client too simple, try Claws-Mail and you won't be disappointed as it includes all features you'd expect from a powerful and feature rich email client!
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[New] Hatari - Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator now available for the N900 |
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| Eero Tamminen has just released an N900 compatible version of Hatari, an Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon emulator. Hatari tries to emulate the hardware of a ST as close as possible so that it is able to run most of the old ST games and demos.
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[New] AccDisplay for the N900 |
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[New] Qalculate! - desktop calculator for Maemo |
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| Qalculate! by Simon Pickering is a powerful and easy to use scientifical desktop calculator. The UI is not fully Hildonized yet so it looks a bit messy but other than that it works just fine...
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  Sun, 13.12.09
FreeCiv - Civilization clone repackaged and working on the N900 |
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Mikko Vartainen's port of FreeCiv has been repackaged (and fully optified) and now works OK on the N900.
FreeCiv is a free SDL clone of the turn based strategy game Civilization. In this game, each player becomes leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goal: the extinction of all other civilizations.
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New in Extras-Devel: Kimi, SheepDrawing, Stopish, WorldTV99 |
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The following are the most recent uploads to the Extras-Devel repository:
* Kimi - calendaring software with Google calendar support
* Stopish is a simple stopwatch
* SheepDrawing - a simple drawing application; draw something and upload to talk.maemo.org
* WorldTV99 - a playlist for KMPlayer containing streamed TV and video content from all around the world.
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| Fat-Label by Corey O'Connor is a small desktop widget which basically shows fat, large customizable text on your desktop to remind you about something or just to have something shown there ;-) Source: Maemo Talk.
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  Fri, 11.12.09
Firefox: Release Candidate next week, final version in a couple of weeks |
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| According to Jay Sullivan, Vice President of Mobile at Mozilla, Release Candidate version of Firefox Mobile will be available by the end of the next week and the final version will be released in just several weeks. Read more @ Cnet.com.
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  Thu, 10.12.09
Garnet VM - run thousands of Palm OS applications on your N900 |
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| Garnet VM from Access enables Maemo users to run thousands of Garnet OS (formerly Palm OS) applications. Garnet VM supports some of the most popular applications in the mobile market including, Google Maps, Snappermail, DateBk5 and perennially popular games like Bejeweled, PacMan and Sudoku. Choose from a wide variety of application types including, document processors, database managers, messaging, enhanced PIMs, life management tools, and more. Even though the current version has been created for previous Internet Tablets (up to OS2008), it works just fine on the N900.
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N900 Fly - completely useless but funny :-)) |
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| N900 Fly by Clovis Peruchi Scotti uses the accelerometer to measure the time your N900 was flying. So... just throw your phone in the air, watch it falling down and then - if it still works, that's it :-) - read the time of flight and altitude... And, if you want to impress your friends even more, you can additionally launch Braek to emulate a broken screen :-)
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New in Extras-Devel: Bluetooth DUN Upstart, Gjiten, SeriesFinale |
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| Three new packages have just appeared in Extras-Devel: SeriesFinale by Joaquim Rocha is a TV series browser and tracker, Bluetooth DUN by Philip Langdale is an upstart scritp to automatically start and stop Bluetooth DUN, Gjiten from Botond Botyanszki is a Japanese dictionary with advanced word and kanji lookup features.
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  Wed, 09.12.09
Documents To Go Viewer Edition now available |
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Actually, it's been available since the beginning, preinstalled on the N900. But only as a trial version. Starting from today, it's officially available for purchase, and at the special introductory price of $9.99, compared to the regular of $19.99.
Documents To Go Viewer Edition provides robust viewing of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments (including Office 2007 formats). Key features include:
* Multi-Level Zoom
* Live Hyperlinks
* Links in Table of Contents as well as Website hyperlinks
* Find and Go To Cell
* Password Protection
* Footnotes/Endnotes and Comments.
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See how skinnable the Maemo 5 / N900 UI is.... |
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| Many people complain about the Nokia N900 UI being too grey or too black'n'white... I always reply that it's just the default theme and the UI is fully skinnable so one can change it almost completely. But so far having no time to make my own theme I could not demonstrate this. However, Theme Maker's author Urho Konttori has recently created a sample theme and now it can be used to show how skinnable the N900 is. You may like this theme or not, it's obviously a matter of personal taste and preferences, but it's simply an example of what can be done, or actually just a part of it as this theme does not change icons or some buttons which can be changed as well... It proves that the N900 can be skinned into actually almost everything else. Even iPhone fans will be able to make the N900 look like the iPhone :-) OK, enough talking, simply take a look at the screenshots on our Maemo discussion forum. And...get the Theme Maker and start creating great themes!
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[New] Vulture's Eye - Nethack for N900 with 3D interface a la Diablo RPG |
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| Marat Fayzullin, known from his great emulators of 8-bit computers and game consoles for virtually all operating systems, today brings Maemo users Vulture's Eye, a version of NetHack with graphical 3D interface similar to Diablo RPG. NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game with emphasis on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight.
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[New] Maep - tile map browser with Google Map, VE and OpenStreetMap |
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| Till Harbaum has just uploaded (to Extras-Devel) new application: Maep is a simple tile map utility showing your current GPS location and letting you browse maps from the following services: Google Maps, OpenStreetMap (I and II), OpenCycleMap and VirtualEarth (normal, satellite and hybrid).
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| Theme Maker has been updated again to 1.2.6, adding Ovi store support and ugly hack to get HAM icons visible. Get it here.
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[Upd] MRAWViewer 1.1-1 now in Extras-Devel |
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Luca Donaggio has released new version 1.1-1 of MRAW Viewer. RAW is an image format supported by e.g. dSRL cameras and is a kind of "digital negative" containing unmodified data read from the imaging sensor suitable for advanced postprocessing on PC. MRAW Viewer makes it possible to view RAW images directly on the N900. The latest version brings several improvements, including:
* zoom in/out using volume keys
* larger image details layer
* last image is stored and automatically loaded upon next startup
* support for device orientation.
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  Tue, 08.12.09
Theme Maker 1.2.5 - Fremantle beta - now available |
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Urho Konttori has released a new version of Theme Maker - 1.2.5. Improvements include optification (.deb files generated by it now go to /opt and thus don't consume space on root), optification of icons, theme selection working without device reboot, and fonts working again and being stored in home/user (which shares storage space with /opt). Another version is supposed to come soon adding support for changing App Manager's new icons and theme based transition turning. Theme Manager is available for download here.
Source: Urho Konttori's blog.
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  Mon, 07.12.09
Braek, Web Texter, HideUserAgent, Witter and Camkeyd |
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Several new, and quite useful, packages have appeared in the Extras-Devel repository over the last couple of days. These include:
* Camkeyd give the Camera button a new function: while the Camera cover is closed, pressing the Camera button half-way (as if you were trying to get focus) minimizes the current application and opens the Task Switcher screen
* Witter is a simple Twitter client with timeline and mentions/direct messages/public timeline/trends/search.
* HideUserAgent lets you modify the UserAgent string of the built-in web browser, which may be useful if e.g. your favoirite website stubbornly redirects you to a mobile version while you want to browse the normal one
* WebTexter is an application to send texts to Irish mobile and VoIP operators' subscribers
* Braek is a funny little application that.... emulates the broken screen :-)
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Our Maemo software catalog - nearly 270 applications |
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As mentioned below, one of the most important parts of this website which we intend to update daily is our Maemo Software Catalog. At the moment, it contains nearly 270 applications for Maemo 5 / Nokia N900, including virtually all end-user packages from the Extras, Extras-Testing and Extras-Devel repositories, as well as from several other repositories. It's probably the only place at the moment that lists all these packages in one place, with descriptions and screenshots. Even if you don't indend to use software from Testing or Devel, our Catalog can give you an impression of what is available there and what may reach the Extras repository very soon. We will be also listing applications from other, independent repositories (e.g. developer's own ones) as well as software that was written for previous Maemo platform releases, yet compatible and working properly on the N900.
If you have any suggestions, comments or opinions to share with us regarding the Software catalog, or if you would like to let us know about Maemo 5 software that is not yet listed, please contact us using our Contact form or simply by posting a message on our Discussion forums.
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My-Maemo.com (beta) launched! |
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After several weeks of preparations, we're now ready to launch My-Maemo.com!
Yet another, new Maemo site? Well, not really new, and not really just 'yet another'. It's based on my 10 year experience with running My-Symbian.com, the oldest Symbian OS community site in the Internet. And it's going to be different than other existing sites, and unique, with its own flavor.
We're not starting with just empty pages. Right now, the site offers you the following content:
* our own Maemo Software Catalog with over 270 applications listed, with screenshots and short descriptions. For now, it's probably the biggest online catalog of Maemo 5 software.
* our own Maemo Downloads where we will be sharing applications which are not currently available in other Fremantle repositories. In the beginning, they will be mainly applications written for previous Maemo releases and devices, not yet ported to Maemo 5, but tested by us and found to be running just fine
* our own Software repository which will contain the same files as in Downloads, just easier to install and maintain via your phone's App Manager
* F.A.Q pages containing answers to the most frequently asked Maemo related questions
* Useful Tips & Tricks letting you use your device easier and quicker
* Our Nokia N900 preview - please read it if you haven't yet as it is a good base for our full review coming next week
* Our Maemo Discussion Forums - even now, at site launch, with almost 2500 posts and almost 70 threads.
We're launching the site with this old (yeah, we know, quite dated) design not to further delay it, but we consider it just a "beta" phase, so stay tuned for a brand new look and much more features coming soon!
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