Maemo: n900 to Android: HTC Desire Z

I had toyed with the idea for a while, and even written a post some time ago suggesting that my next phone would like be an Android one. A couple of weeks ago my n900 decided to stop booting at all, and I had to send it away for repair.

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My New Nokia #N900 #Android Phone

The phone itself isn’t new, nor is the idea of installing Android on a Nokia N900. However, I took a slightly different path which I figure some of my geekier friends might find interesting.

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Review – Theme Customizer

Its rare that I review someone else’s theme work because I rarely uses someone else’s themes.  As I am sure most of theme designers use one of there themes.  I did how ever notice when D-Iivil released his Plastic Theme that came with a settings page to change some things around.  I though man that would be cool to have on my themes because I’m always getting people asking me to tweek certain font colors or sizes, remove icon backgrounds and many other things.   In the past I stayed away from making several versions of my themes to make these people happy.  I talked to D-Iivil once about making a Scheme for the Plastic Theme that looked like maemo-org theme but used his settings window.  Soon after that I took a break for Maemoand theming.  I just recently got started back up and I saw his new Theme Customizer that does what the Plastic Theme did plus more.  I was so excited I installed it right away and started playing with some of my themes.  I even used this to fix a bug on one of my unreleased themes that caused text to be unreadable do to font color.  This application really is one everyone needs on there N900.  Check out the Screenshot and Features List below then check out the t.m.o thread here Here is a list of things you can change using Theme Customizer – change system font family – change system font size – change font colors – save, load and delete color presets – change icon theme – change application shortcut sizes at homescreen – show or hide the backgrounds for application shortcuts at homescreen – change web bookmarks sizes at homescreen – adjust snap to grid value at homescreen – import .ttf and .otf fonts to be used with the device – change opacity of built-in homescreen widgets – change background image for clock, app manager, lockscreen and media player 2010-10-20 07:07 UTC with score 1

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2010.42

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2010-10-11 through 2010-10-17 As of 2010-10-18 Extras contains: total items 2064 ( 17) total open items 761 ( 15) open bugs 461 ( 17) critical/blocker 24 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 ( 1) unconfirmed 261 ( 3) open enhancements 300 ( 2) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 3 reopened 1 unconfirmed 118 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (8%) 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 (5%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (5%) 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%) 5774 [Xournal] Consider using /opt to store the application files (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (3%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2010.42

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2010-10-11 through 2010-10-17 As of 2010-10-18 Extras contains: total items 2064 ( 17) total open items 761 ( 15) open bugs 461 ( 17) critical/blocker 24 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 ( 1) unconfirmed 261 ( 3) open enhancements 300 ( 2) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 3 reopened 1 unconfirmed 118 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (8%) 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 (5%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (5%) 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%) 5774 [Xournal] Consider using /opt to store the application files (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (3%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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n900: The claw arrives!

Clawmotia is a MythTV remote control written using Qt and EFL technology. My repository contains a tarball ready to install clawmotia onto an n900

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n900: The claw arrives!

Clawmotia is a MythTV remote control written using Qt and EFL technology. My repository contains a tarball ready to install clawmotia onto an n900

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n900: The claw arrives!

Clawmotia is a MythTV remote control written using Qt and EFL technology. My repository contains a tarball ready to install clawmotia onto an n900

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n900: The claw arrives!

Clawmotia is a MythTV remote control written using Qt and EFL technology. My repository contains a tarball ready to install clawmotia onto an n900. Desktop shortcut optional :) Simply extract the tarball into /opt on the device.

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maemo.org community meeting (today, 12:00 UTC)

For those who missed it, we settled on a time & date for a maemo.org team & community meeting, to set the short term agenda & evaluate progress. The meeting will be held today, Thursday 16th September, in #maemo-meeting , at midday UTC . The agenda is: Overview of current paid resources for maemo.org , and current thoughts on roadmap/future (Tero Kojo) Overview of Brainstorm roadmap progress & current status: Introduction (Community Council rep) SSO (Tero/Niels) Garage (Ferenc) Packages & Downloads (Niels) Bugzilla (Andre) Wiki (Dave) Planet & News (Henri) Talk (Reggie) Discussion around community handover of maemo.org Next steps (Community Council rep) AOB 2010-09-16 10:31 UTC with score 1

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