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Finland's Jolla Will Be The Ferrari Of The Smartphone World
You have to hand it to the former Nokia employees who decided to set up a company to build the Linux smartphone they believe the market wants. Naming your company 'dinghy' as you leave Nokia to enter the start-up world to produce a new smartphone is very Finnish.
[Atari800 v2.2.1 port] Redefined Keys
These keys have been redefined from the upstream package: F1 – Help key F2 – Option F3 – Inverse F4 – Atari800 Emulator menu (menu button on N810) F5 – F6 – Fullscreen toggle F7 – Select (+ hardware key) F8 – Start (- hardware key) F9 – Break key F10 – Caps key F11 – Reset 2012-01-30 09:35 UTC with score -2
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
gPodder QML Mock-ups by wazd, part 2
Here’s the second part of our mock-up collection for gPodder’s QML UI ( part 1 here ).
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.31
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-07-25 through 2011-07-31 As of 2011-08-01 Extras contains: total items 2627 ( 1) total open items 966 open bugs 558 ( 1) critical/blocker 41 “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 343 ( 1) open enhancements 408 ( 1) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 8 weeks): (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%) 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.
PHP and GObject Introspection
GObject Introspection is one of the hidden jewels of the GNOME stack : you write a library in C or Vala , and it becomes automatically available to a wide variety of languages and runtimes, including Python , JavaScript , Java and Qt . Now I would like to bring GObject Introspection to PHP. Why?
The Nokia Phoenix
I wrote in May of last year asking, only partially rhetorically, if this would be a make-or-break year for consumer electronics giant Nokia. And like many other pundits, I’ve offered my previous employer sound survival advice on more than one occasion [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]
Butaca, IMDb and TMDb
Right now, probably all of you know IMDb . The Internet Movie Database is “the place” you’d go to look up a movie or check the filmography of an actor, writer or director
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.30
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-07-18 through 2011-07-24 As of 2011-07-25 Extras contains: total items 2626 ( 2) total open items 966 ( 1) open bugs 559 ( 1) critical/blocker 41 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 6 “crash” 2 “patch” 4 reopened 6 unconfirmed 344 ( 1) open enhancements 407 ( 2) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 179 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 7 weeks): (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%) 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 17 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