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Harmattan Widgets Demo (or, how MeeGo will act like!)

By fernando | Published: February 16, 2010
So hey, while I’m still organizing my thoughts on the Maemo/Moblin merge (I have a 500 words draft here in this blog wtf), I thought I’d post my impressions/highlights of the Harmattan Widgets Gallery demo the UI Framework team just released yesterday, and linked here. It’s a drag from the top container, reminding me of the [...]
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Notes on the N900, on Maemo et al.

By fernando | Published: February 14, 2010
So! I got an N900 last week! It is awesome and stuff, and so I held off writing about it until I thought I was more or less familiar with the inner workings of Maemo and stuff, even though I played a lot with my N800, lots of things changed for Maemo 5. I’ll list [...]
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Wordpress for Nokia is looking kinda amazing! (or, Qt and the future of Symbian)

By fernando | Published: February 11, 2010
Wordpress.org announced they were going to make a mobile app “for Nokia.” (that means Qt based targeting both Symbian and Maemo) There’s an early, feature incomplete development version on dev.nokia.wordpress.org, and it’s kinda amazing! The app’s interface really feels like its iPhone and Android counterparts (in terms of how it’s structured, not how it looks, [...]
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Oh hey, Ovi Maps is now free (also new 3.03 build)

By fernando | Published: January 21, 2010
In a pretty important piece of news, Nokia made all their Ovi Maps services free of charge today. Imagine all the fuss around Google Maps Navigation. Now imagine that for around 20 million phones (none of this Droid/Nexus One only shenanigans), all over the world (none of this US only shenanigans), with preloadable maps (none [...]
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5800 v40: Kudos to Nokia

By fernando | Published: January 13, 2010
We asked nicely, and today, V40 for the 5800 came out, with the new 5530 style homescreen and kinetic scrolling. Awesome? Also as you can see, the transparency for it doesn’t work if you’re using the default Sound waves theme, so I suggest using Stripes Blue from the 5530. Almost the same but better compatible with the [...]
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RE: 5800 homescreen shenanigans

By fernando | Published: December 21, 2009
A while ago I had posted about how the 5800 was the only S60v5 phone with a sucky homescreen, and that the newer XpressMusic ones had the best one. Well, turns out that since this November, you can add more homescreens thru h4x, with just c2z and files lifted from other phones. Pretty nifty. My favorite [...]
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When will the recursion end?!

By fernando | Published: November 24, 2009
With a lot of thanks due to my fav internet e-homie, I just got a N800 for practically nothing! Now I can start exploring the magical & mysterious world of Maemo. (that and try webkit browsers to further expand my blog rendering recursion pic!) Awesomeness~ this might have been the most “dear diary” type post here [...]
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Opera Mobile 10 Beta 1

By fernando | Published: November 5, 2009
After months of teasing, Opera finally released a beta of version 10 for Symbian, available here or at m.opera.com/next It’s all fine and dandy, it’s basically Opera Mini 5 beta, with Opera Turbo and all their fast magic, only faster because it’s a native app. I know some people that swear by Opera Mini, and this [...]
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Maemo meetup, Chicago

By fernando | Published: November 4, 2009
I was there! Yesterday night, after some years meaning to go to the “Evening with S60″ events in Chicago, I finally was able to go to one. This post won’t have many pictures, mostly because I was more excited about playing with the N900s than about taking pictures. :P So, things I found noteworthy, in [...]
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Mobbler 0.07 (beta) finally scrobbles songs on S60v5!

By fernando | Published: October 19, 2009
Finally! Only took Nokia about an year to release the APIs needed by the Mobbler team to enable scrobbling on S60v5 amirite? 0.07 is still not out for the public, but I am participating in the beta test. Haven’t found any bugs yet, so it’ll probably be out soon! Update: Hey it’s out, go get it [...]
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