Nokia Spotlight - Interview with Peter Schneider - Part 2
July 2009 saw a glorious moment for Maemo unfold - one that was met with great enthusiasm by the community - the creation of the ‘Maemo Devices’ organization within Nokia.
BUG 2.0 arrived
Some time ago there was decision that BUG 1.x will not be supported with next version of BUG Linux. As a result I ended in situation when I worked on handling device which I never saw
Nokia and University of South Australia Working On X-Ray Scanner Phone Application
In an article titled ‘Phones to offer X-ray vision’ and published on the smh.com.au portal, an Australian professor, Dr. Christian Sandor, revealed that researchers at the University of South Australia working with Nokia to build an ”X-ray vision” mobile phone application which it hoped could be introduced in the next two years. Dr Sandor said the technology could not be used by peeping Toms to see into people’s houses because only the exterior views of buildings and streets were held in the databases
SeriesFinale for Diablo, v0.3
Promises are debts , so I’ve been working on SeriesFinale for Diablo in order to finalize all features that I left unported in previous version. So I’m happy to announce that SeriesFinale for Diablo reaches version 0.3 . Besides finalizing the port, this version also integrates all features that Joaquim provided to SeriesFinale for Fremantle v0.3
Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 8 Mar 2010
Front Page Maemo Community election: nominations open The next Maemo Community Council will have their work cut out for them with the large shifts in Maemo caused by the MeeGo announcement.
Transitioning to MeeGo
As most readers already know, Nokia’s Maemo operating system for handheld devices and Intel’s Moblin for netbooks are merging into MeeGo . I’ve already covered the introduction to MeeGo and what I think it means for the future of mobile devices , so it’s time to delve into what’s going on to make that future happen.
Maemo Official Applications Bug Jar 2010.10
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Applications in Bugzilla 2010-03-01 through 2010-03-07 As of 2010-03-08 Maemo Official Applications contains 3105 items (+41 this week), including 852 open issues (-13 this week): 496 open bugs (-4 this week) 11 critical/blocker (no change this week) 0 “easyfix” (no change this week) 117 “moreinfo” (-8 this week) 5 “crash” (-3 this week) 8 “patch” (no change this week) 22 reopened (-1 this week) 185 unconfirmed (-16 this week) 356 open enhancements (-9 this week) 2 “easyfix” (no change this week) 5 “moreinfo” (-2 this week) 15 “patch” (no change this week) 14 reopened (+1 this week) 67 unconfirmed (-16 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (14%) 3888 IMAP-IDLE not working (5%) 5033 Select/Copy text within email is nonintuitive/broken (5%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (3%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (2%) 3557 Browser tops its windows by itself (N8×0) (+1 this week) (2%) 3762 Performance is unusable on IMAP accounts with a large number of messages in one or more folders (e.g. INBOX) (+2 this week) (2%) 6009 “Enter” key sends wrong keycode to console applications (2%) 7062 Video camera does not record smoothly (+1 this week) (2%) 7190 music stutters while multi-tasking, especially browsing web (+1 this week) (1%) 6045 ENTER key stops working in XTerm (new this week) Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote.
SketchyAetch, gPodder/Qt and living in the present
After the very interesting Nokia Mobile Developers Forum in Hagenberg on Friday and Saturday (Petri Niemi did several interesting Qt introductory talks), I decided to play a bit with QGraphicsView again and this time try to come up with an app that actually does something: SketchyAetch ! Having not done much with C++ for several months, the GCC error messages (at least for C++) are still kind of cryptic.
Optical character recognition on the N900
This week I decided to spend some time playing with something a little different on my n900. Namely optical character recognition. This was inspired by a demo by Cybercomchannel called phototranslator