Thoughts: The ‘We Want Nokia To Keep MeeGo’ Petition

Its been just about 24 hours since Nokia announced the N9 and since then the interwebs have been going crazy with tons of N9 chatter, every small seemingly inconsequential detail is also being lapped up, every hands on scrutinized and people are still hungry for more.

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Thoughts: The ‘We Want Nokia To Keep MeeGo’ Petition

Its been just about 24 hours since Nokia announced the N9 and since then the interwebs have been going crazy with tons of N9 chatter, every small seemingly inconsequential detail is also being lapped up, every hands on scrutinized and people are still hungry for more. Not for a long time has there been so much excitement about a Nokia device, not even the N8 produced the kind of euphoria that has swept across Nokia fans the world over. Even Nokia’s harshest critics have come out with words of praise, something that perhaps has come as a pleasant surprise to Nokia itself

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[Marble] Become the Voice of Marble!

Today we’re starting the “Voice of Marble” contest to collect voice guidance speakers from the community. We’re looking for an English speaker to be shipped with the Marble packages. And we’re looking for alternative speakers for each language supported by KDE — at least one each, and that’s a lot! Please participate in the contest and spread the word among your friends

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.24

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-06-06 through 2011-06-12 As of 2011-06-13 Extras contains: total items 2589 ( 6) total open items 943 ( 2) open bugs 543 ( 2) critical/blocker 36 “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 328 ( 1) open enhancements 400 “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 ( 1) “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 171 ( 2) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (2%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 11 weeks): (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 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 (3%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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ReSiStance 0.9.2 released

Every now and then I try to devote some spare time to add new features to ReSiStance. For this release there are 3 major changes: Item window new appearance Open links in external browser Labels support The item window (aka the window that shows the contents of a particular blog post/news/whatever) has been completely reworked

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ReSiStance 0.9.2 released

Every now and then I try to devote some spare time to add new features to ReSiStance. For this release there are 3 major changes: Item window new appearance Open links in external browser Labels support The item window (aka the window that shows the contents of a particular blog post/news/whatever) has been completely reworked. The header (with the title of the post, the name of the author and the date) used to be an static label on the top that was always visible.

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MIR Translator Lets You Translate Text Captured By Your N900′s Camera

The MIR Translator app, borne out of a school project, turns your N900 into a handy translation tool that covers over 30 international languages. All you do is click a picture of the text, select the phrase you want to translate, select the to and from languages and wait for the app to work its magic.

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MIR Translator Lets You Translate Text Captured By Your N900′s Camera

The MIR Translator app, borne out of a school project, turns your N900 into a handy translation tool that covers over 30 international languages. All you do is click a picture of the text, select the phrase you want to translate, select the to and from languages and wait for the app to work its magic. Just the kind of app I needed when I was in Hong Kong, traveling with my N900 and trying to order off a incomprehensible menu.

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Tracker and GObject-introspection

Hello planet GNOME , glad to be in this planet after so many years reading it. Probably you were able to skip my Tracker presentations in different conferences… so now I try via blog.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.14

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-03-28 through 2011-04-03 As of 2011-04-04 Extras contains: total items 2487 ( 20) total open items 908 ( 5) open bugs 527 ( 3) critical/blocker 31 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 6 ( 1) “crash” 1 “patch” 4 reopened 8 unconfirmed 314 ( 1) open enhancements 381 ( 2) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 0 ( 1) “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 155 ( 4) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (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%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (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.

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