MWKN Weekly News for Monday, 28 May 2012

Front Page maemo.org and Nokia 770 turn seven On May 25, 2005, Nokia announced Maemo, the Nokia 770 and maemo.org went live. Ferenc Szekely highlighted the go-live of the community on the community's mailing list. At the time of the launch, GSMArena wrote: “Today Nokia announced the new Linux based Internet Tablet product category, the first device in this category is Nokia 770

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Ogg Support

/ 72 votes – 699457 downloads Updated 2011-07-26 18:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Ogg/Vorbis/Flac support for n900 Ogg Support Provides Gstreamer support for various codecs and containers from Xiph.org, namely Ogg container and Vorbis and Flac decoders.

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shaketowake2

/ 0 votes – 2 downloads Updated 2011-07-26 17:15 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Enable/Disable wake up/rest by shaking I optimized the shaking code especially to reduce CPU consuption and I have adapted the widget code to this needs. Initial source code for shaking by Niklas Tanskanen.

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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 ]

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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

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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

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Put Your Music Shelf in Your Pocket – With Harmattan or N900CE

My little app Music Shelf is a MeeGo music player that aims to be simple, easy, and good-looking. It is the proud winner of the 1st WeTab Qt App Challenge in category Entertainment with 67% of votes. Now that the challenge is won, I’m working to target other MeeGo platforms besides the WeTab as well

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SeriesFinale 0.6.8 and the revenge of the clones

Finally I could get a little time to finish SF 0.6.8 release.

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Post Q2 Results, Should Nokia Rethink Its N9 Strategy?

The people at the helm at Nokia could see this and say, heh, do you even know our N9 strategy? Or may be that you’re missing the bigger picture, and how its now a war of ecosystems

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Butaca: getting close to the first release

This time, some screenshots before heading to bed.

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