Seagull Strike
Overview A while back a wrote a little game for the Nokia N9 and N950, mostly as a way to explore the QML Box2D bindings . However, whilst packaging up my StatusNet client I thought I might as well release this as well since it can be a fairly enjoyable distraction
Seagull Strike
Overview A while back a wrote a little game for the Nokia N9 and N950, mostly as a way to explore the QML Box2D bindings .
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.17
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-04-16 through 2012-04-22 As of 2012-04-23 Extras contains: total items 2855 ( 3) total open items 928 ( 2) open bugs 516 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 1 “patch” 5 reopened 7 unconfirmed 307 ( 1) open enhancements 412 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 0 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 6 weeks): (7%) 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%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (4%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (3%) 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.’ (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7500 [BlueMaemo] Hardware keyboard doesn’t work in Maemo5 (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 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 (4%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (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 (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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Aura
In the last weeks Miguel , Calvaris and myself, developed an application for the N9/N950 mobile phone and we called it Aura . Basically it uses the device’s camera (either the main one or the frontal one) for video recording, as a normal camera application, but also it exposes a set of effects that can be applied, in real time, to the video stream. For example, here is a video using the historical effect: Aura is inspired in the Gnome application, Cheese , and it uses many of the effects available in Gnome Video Effects .
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.15
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-04-02 through 2012-04-08 As of 2012-04-09 Extras contains: total items 2849 ( 5) total open items 928 ( 
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