MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 22 Aug 2011

Front Page Upcoming vote for Maemo Community Council and referendum on the future of maemo.org One of the bigger long-term issues resulting from the Elopocalypse in February is the status of maemo.org and its funding through next year. RM Bauer is looking to have a conclusion to these issues with a referendum as part of the election of the next Community Council: “Community members should be considering whether they want to stand for Council.

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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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ANN: LightMediaScanner 0.4.4 released

I’m proud to announce LightMediaScanner 0.4.4 was released and I’d like to take some time to remind you of this awesome project While 0.4.4 is no big leap ahead of 0.4.3 I’m doing this post more to make clear people that the project is still alive and it may be the right tool for you, particularly if you need fast media scanning on your desktop or embedded device. Introduction (History) LightMediaScanner (LMS) was born in 2007 during the development of Canola2 media player for Nokia N800 Maemo device. We did a previous try at media scanners for Canola1 and did learn a lot, that would be the foundation of LMS

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.33

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-08-08 through 2011-08-14 As of 2011-08-15 Extras contains: total items 2633 ( 5) total open items 964 ( 1) open bugs 557 critical/blocker 40 “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 5 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 342 ( 1) open enhancements 407 ( 1) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 180 ( 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%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (+1 this week) (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (-1 this week) (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%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure (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

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Ovi Store Beta Debuts On The MeeGo Harmattan Powered Nokia N950

Nokia has rolled out a beta of the Ovi Store for the developer only Nokia N950. While the release is still beta, it does give us an idea of what the Ovi Store will look like on the not so widely available Nokia N9. The design of the store is based on the MeeGo Harmattan UI that can be seen on the rest of the device with certain similarities with the Ovi Store on Symbian

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Online Retailer Lists The Nokia N9, Says Expected In India Come October

Online retailer Indiaplaza has listed the Nokia N9 on its website, with an expected availability date of October 2011. They’ve even gone on to list the price at a cool Rs. 32,368 which translates to a little over 700$.

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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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Popular Symbian Facebook Client fMobi Comes To The N900, Next Stop MeeGo

The popular and perhaps the best Facebook client for Symbian devices, fMobi is now available for the Nokia N900 as well. The full featured client packs in all the Facebook functionality that you would want like notifications, access to the news feeds, messages and even chat.

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WIFI Hacking Gets Easier With Cleven On The N900

The popular network security tool Aircrack-ng has been available on the N900 for a while now, but using it needed quite a bit of understanding of the technicalities involved, along with a mastery over the terminal. Enter Cleven , a user interface for the aircrack-ng app that that makes compromising WIFI networks a matter of hitting a few buttons.

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Nokia N9 HD Video & Photo Samples

While we wait for Nokia to ship the N9, here’s something to give you a taste of the HD video capture goodness inside it. Bill Perry has taken 30 videos from a pre-production N9 and stitched them into one 2 minute clip that shows-off the N9′s capabilities capturing close-ups, how it handles direct sunlight and the detail that it can pull off

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