Review: Mobile Phone Tripod Holder – An Amateur Photographer Must Have?

While reviewing the Mobile Fun Desk Genie , I happened to catch this Mobile Phone Tripod in their catalogue and because these things are pretty hard to find, I requested a review unit to see if this one was any good. With camera quality improving all the time and HD video capture coming to a more and more phones each day, it makes a lot of sense to have a one lying around

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Handling phone numbers

I’m often asked questions about the handling and parsing of phone numbers, so I’m going to explain how we do it on Maemo 5. I hope this can be useful also for developers of other applications

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MeeGo wishlist

Because all the cool kids blog about it these days.. Follow the FHS (get rid of workarounds such as Optification ) Remove Maemoisms and Scratchboxisms Follow freedesktop.org specifications (at least bugs 657 , 1303 , 3817 , 3818 , 3828 , 3822 , 3913 , and 4766 according to this wiki page ) Allow many different UI toolkits and languages (it’s OK if you decide to provide official support for only a few of them) Make sure other UI toolkits integrate nicely (mostly covered by following wm-spec , icon-naming-spec and systemtray-spec and not inventing “MeeGo”-specific technologies and non-standard implementations) Make sure notifications work from other toolkits (libnotify-based vs

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MDBus2 for Maemo5

During FOSDEM I attended few talks in Openmoko devroom. During one of them Mickey ‘mickeyl’ Lauer was using his ‘mdbus’ tool to inspect and play with DBus services and methods.

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Testdriving the UI Extensions for Mobile on Maemo 5

Reading about Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile ( sources available ) I wanted to quickly try it myself. So I looked at the provided examples, and this video is the result of what I came up with (well, of course it is FOSDEM -induced).

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Testdriving the UI Extensions for Mobile on Maemo 5

Reading about Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile ( sources available ) I wanted to quickly try it myself. So I looked at the provided examples, and this video is the result of what I came up with (well, of course it is FOSDEM -induced). The provided API allowed me to easily apply my previous Qt knowledge, which is a nice touch

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Testdriving the UI Extensions for Mobile on Maemo 5

Reading about Nokia’s UI Extensions for Mobile ( sources available ) I wanted to quickly try it myself. So I looked at the provided examples, and this video is the result of what I came up with (well, of course it is FOSDEM -induced).

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