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Comments on the MeeGo Handset UX Day 1

By fernando | Published: July 1, 2010
The big news of today for Maemo/MeeGo enthusiasts was the release of the Handset User Experience mockups, code and UI guidelines. If you’re a mobile phone enthusiast I’ll assume you already read those completely (if not, you should!) and so I won’t post those as news. I will, however, comment on the UI demos we [...]
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Select new Maemo 5 applications for June

By fernando | Published: June 24, 2010
Despite the title, I don’t plan on making this a monthly series. Not yet at least, who knows if I’ll be able to keep it constant. That said, I found 3 cool new applications in the past couple days, so I thought I’d make a single post for all. Starting with something simple, but really [...]
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Zen Bound for Maemo

By fernando | Published: June 19, 2010
Well, I’m a couple days late in posting about it, but… Zen Bound, is out on the Ovi Store. A port from a best seller in the iPhone App Store, this could be the best game (or a close second to Sonic games on PicoDrive, but yeah) to get out just for the N900, specially [...]
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lol timing

By fernando | Published: May 25, 2010
Well, time to get ready to flash the phone again. at least reinstalling stuff is easy. Update: apt-get install cpumem-applet simple-brightness-applet batterygraph cbrpager conky drnoksnes fmms gjiten gpsjinni grr mplayer kmplayer leafpad mauku mirror picodrive recorder transmission vncviewer mafw-lastfm wordpress (love using apt-get via ssh <3)
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No folders on PR1.2?

By fernando | Published: May 24, 2010
Haven’t posted anything in forever, why? I just kept thinking that my next post would be a little “review” of PR1.2 when it came out and that I’d wait for it. That was 2 months ago, lol. Today I finally lost my patience and flashed it with the leaked PR1.2 RC. So, as it’s customary [...]
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PicoDrive for Maemo

By fernando | Published: March 16, 2010
It’s here, and it’s amazing, full sound, 60fps. Even the UI is perfect (like DrNokSnes) Available in extras-devel, so don’t get the .deb linked. Here, have a bad video meanwhile. Update: Oh boy it can play Sega CD now too! Have a video of Sonic CD too.
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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 [...]
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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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