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 .

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gPodder/QML status (with screenshot and video)

Ohai February. The winter term is over; time for some gPodder QML hacking

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Canonical to support Qt in Ubuntu

Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Qt libraries will ship in the Ubuntu 11.10 CD. Ubuntu has always been a GTK based Linux

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Ringtoned 0.2.4 (now with vibration!)

I just released ringtoned 0.2.4 with a fix to make the N900 able to vibrate again when a call is received. Ringtoned (displayed in the application manager as “Custom ringtones for your contacts”) is available from extras-devel (that contains a lot of other unstable software!) or from my personal repository: Install from my personal repository (follow the link on the N900 browser) This release fixes the last major reproducible bugs, but I’m sure there are more.

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PyPackager HowTo

PyPackager HowTo On the maemo platform, software is distributed using the Debian package system. If you don't develop in Scratchbox, but directly on the device, you need a tool to properly put together your software for distribution as such a .deb package. To solve this, i've created PyPackager

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N900 Hack: How To Get Faster Scrolling In The Menu Post PR 1.2 Firmware

Post the PR 1.2 firmware for the Nokia N900, the kinetic scrolling inside the menu became painfully slow and coupled with the fact all apps are now displayed on one page, scrolling to the bottom has started taking multiple swipes.

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On the way to 0.5

It’s been a bit since my last post about siggy. But don’t worry.

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Porting ejpi: Tree Models in Qt

For me, one thing that differentiates the quality of a calculator on a mouse or touch driven device is having a calculation history and having it be interactive.

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Porting ejpi: Icon Theming

ejpi includes some custom icons as well as using theme icons. The custom icons are used for a couple of buttons.

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Moving to the next page in MafwGriloSource

Thank Aldon Hynes, who sent me an email with some comments about MafwGriloSource behavior in the N900, I could fix a bug and implement a feature. The bug was a limitation when browsing, as you could only see the first 64 results

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