Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 31 Jan 2011

Front Page Maemo 5 & N900 get community OS updates One of your editors, Andrew Flegg , posted – on behalf of the Maemo Community Council and Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh – the announcement of the Fremantle Community SSU project. “Seamless Software Update (SSU), is the term Nokia used to brand the over-the-air updates of Maemo.

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Angry Birds Rio Lands Feature Film Crossover

Rovio’s highly-successful mobile game series Angry Birds is getting a tie-in film from the makers of the Ice Age animated film franchise — it’s called Rio, an dit’s due to release around Easter this year, the developer said. Including free and paid downloads from the App Store, Android platform, Palm WebOS, Symbian^3 and the Nokia N900, Angry Birds has been downloaded 50 million times. The …

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Angry Birds Rio Lands Feature Film Crossover

Rovio’s highly-successful mobile game series Angry Birds is getting a tie-in film from the makers of the Ice Age animated film franchise — it’s called Rio, an dit’s due to release around Easter this year, the developer said. Including free and paid downloads from the App Store, Android platform, Palm WebOS, Symbian^3 and the Nokia N900, Angry Birds has been downloaded 50 million times

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Synchronizing your application’s data with Tracker’s RDF store

A few months ago we added the implicit tracker:modified property to all resources.

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Gigaom encourages Nokia to stick to its guns

After the publication of Nokia’s 2010 Q4 results , there has been much fevered discussion across the Internet about why Nokia, with (ex-)Microsoft’s Stephen Elop at the helm, may turn to other operating systems for its phones. The alternative operating systems in the spotlight being Android ( Q4′s biggest seller ) and Windows Phone 7. Here at All About Symbian, we have been considering these options and finding that they just do not stand up to a reasoned analysis.

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wordpress

/ 0 votes – 3 downloads Updated 2011-01-31 08:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license WordPress blogging client A blogging client for WordPress based blogs that enables posting and moderation while on the move. Author Antti Kosonen Links Homepage

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Back to testing and Voting

Been away from the testing scene lately because I have been carrying my new Blackberry from work instead of the N900. I tried carrying both together for a while but it turned out to be too inconvenient. Anyway, the testing queue is growing ever longer

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.05

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-01-24 through 2011-01-30 As of 2011-01-31 Extras contains: total items 2269 ( 25) total open items 843 ( 17) open bugs 497 ( 7) critical/blocker 28 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 unconfirmed 298 ( 4) open enhancements 346 ( 10) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 4 ( 1) reopened 1 unconfirmed 146 ( 8) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 13 weeks): (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (5%) 5181 [gPodder] Automatically download new episodes when on ‘home’ connection (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 7413 [ogg-support] Cover art not shown for Ogg Vorbis files (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 5504 [ogg-support] No seeking for Flac (1.0.5) (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 12 weeks): (7%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (6%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (6%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file (2%) 5564 [Dialcentral] Include links to the voice mail recordings in DC Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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Qt in the mix: An interview with Chris Watt of TigerSpike

TigerSpike is a Sydney, Australia, based business — with offices in London and New York — that has been offering solutions in the personal media space for eight years. The company has recently started working with Qt and I (Richard Bloor) caught up with Chris Watt, product director at TigerSpike to find out about the company’s initial impressions.

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imgur upload

Anyone fancy beta-testing imgur upload for Maemo? Let me know how you get on.

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