Tweakr – Additionally Settings For The N900
“Unlock” your phone to a few new cool settings. Tweakr has to be standard in every N900, it should be integrated into the OS
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.
The N900 – Tips and Tricks Series
If you search the internet for some special functions of your Phone, you will find a lot of things, useful and useless just in a subjective point of view, of what you can do with your N900. Of course you will find tips and tricks on several sites described and discussed, but I will try to gather them all step by step here in our tips and tricks blog, so all these informations can be found easily, all in one place.
Text Prediction on GNOME
I was disappointed with the text completion provided by the N900 ( eZiText ) that, on top of that, is closed and I wondered if it was possible to have an Open Source solution to provide text prediction and completion. I searched a bit and besides my original intentions of developing a library to search Free and Open Source dictionaries’ words from a prefix, I found Presage
Maemo Theme Maker For N900 – A Review
I was very curious about the Theme Maker. The new version 1.2.9, which supports also the N900 has been out for a while and I wanted to try making a theme of my own to use it on my phone.
Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2010.09
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla 2010-02-22 through 2010-02-28 As of 2010-03-01 Maemo Official Platform contains 3132 items (+40 this week), including 702 open issues (+10 this week): 498 open bugs (+8 this week) 28 critical/blocker (no change this week) 6 “easyfix” (no change this week) 109 “moreinfo” (+4 this week) 26 “crash” (+1 this week) 19 “patch” (+1 this week) 18 reopened (-1 this week) 174 unconfirmed (+13 this week) 204 open enhancements (+2 this week) 1 “easyfix” (no change this week) 8 “moreinfo” (no change this week) 4 “patch” (-1 this week) 8 reopened (no change this week) 36 unconfirmed (+1 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7026 Can’t get a GPS lock with several satellites at view (5%) 5982 Phone unlocked when receiving call (4%) 5838 Certain directory entries are duplicated (listed twice / doubled) (+3 this week) (4%) 5880 A2DP unstable when WiFi is on. (4%) 6766 Bluetooth Audio Very Choppy and Stuttering (3%) 6063 voice calls inaudible most of the time, but not through speakers or earplugs (+1 this week) (2%) 7633 Enable SmartReflex on N900 by default (+2 this week) (2%) 6694 No audio when playing through playbin2 in “Silent” profile (+2 this week) (2%) 8723 items become totally non-responsive for no reason (new this week) (2%) 6359 Geolocation show the wrong country when more than one country code in cities database (new this week) Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote.
FM Transmitter – A Fabulous Addition
If you dont have discovered yet, your phone holds an extraordinary feature – the FM transmitter. I remember always when I wanted to have a radio for my car with an USB or audio input, to play songs from my mp3 player or even from my mobile harddisk.
Video: Anssi Vanjoki on the future for Symbian and MeeGo
In part 3 of our MWC interview with Anssi Vanjoki, EVP of Markets at Nokia, we discuss the future. How “for the great masses of the world, the first computer they will have will be an extension of the phone based on Symbian”
Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Solutions Edition (Gizmodo Australia)
In today’s Remainders: solutions! Solutions for distilling water vapour into drinkable water; keeping your lunch warm with only a USB port; beaming an entire Springsteen album to your phone in under 10 seconds, and more. (more…)