Snuggle – Cell Tower Geolocation

/ 0 votes – 6 downloads Updated 2011-09-07 23:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license The Snuggle application uses the cell tower information to locate the geolocation coordinates. It captures the CellID parameters (available from the connected GSM network) and by using Google APIs translates those to locate your position in a map. Additional information on the usage, settings and implications can be found in the wiki page Author Christos Saturn Links Homepage

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osmapper

/ 0 votes – 0 downloads Updated 2011-08-28 20:45 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Tracker for OpenStreetMap. This is a tool for those who is mapping the world for OpenStreetMap

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Qt5 + Distance Field Effects

Yoann Lopes blogged recently about Text Rendering in the QML Scene Graph using distance field alpha testing. This technique brings smoothly scalable fonts with fast OpenGL rendering to Qt5. Distance field is of course not limited for just fonts (although they are the most usual use-case), same technique can be used also with suitable images

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AwOken Icon Theme

/ 0 votes – 1 download Updated 2011-08-21 02:30 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Stylish silver icon theme to use with Theme Customizer Icons originally designed by alecive87 http://alecive.deviantart.com Resized, organized and added application icons for N900 by Almehdi. Use Awoken Extras application to change icons located in pixmaps-folder.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.32

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-08-01 through 2011-08-07 As of 2011-08-08 Extras contains: total items 2628 ( 1) total open items 963 ( 3) open bugs 557 ( 1) critical/blocker 40 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 5 ( 1) “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 341 ( 2) open enhancements 406 ( 2) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 178 ( 1) 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) (4%) 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%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (+2 this week) (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (-1 this week) (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure (-1 this week) (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 : (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%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (+1 this week) (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (-1 this week) (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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Enhanced BusyBox shell

/ 0 votes – 0 downloads Updated 2011-07-23 02:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems – enhanced package BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.

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Enhanced BusyBox shell

/ 0 votes – 0 downloads Updated 2011-07-23 02:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems – enhanced package BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It is the default shell used in Maemo. This package overwrites the default BusyBox executable with the latest upstream version

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Confessions of an APPathetic User

I’m going to confess something that’s likely to cost me Twitter followers, kill future career prospects and launch a mild Comment war: I’m not much of an app user. And I can’t understand those who are, either.  Well, I can align with the casual user

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Using C++ enums in QML

When mapping Qt/C++ API’s to QML, or, to put it more precisely, making a Qt/C++ API available to QML, road bumps are to be expected.

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The Nokia N9 Stars In The World’s Quickest Ads, 6 Ads In 60 Seconds

The Nokia YouTube page has just been updated, its all about the N9 now. But Nokia doesn’t believe in simple videos these days, remember the pretty cool interactive N8 unboxing

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