Archive for November, 2009

Nov

Nokia N900 30-second Videos

Nokia Conversations have been producing 30-second videos to highlight some features of the Nokia N900. If you haven’t seen them, I’ve collected them below:

How to keep it stuffed with the best apps

Multi-tasking pub window showdown

Streaming online video to big TV

Facebook video sharing and playback

Audio and video podcasts made easy

e-coach sport buddy in action

Phone calls and data monitoring skills

Stop motion mini movie battery test

Geotagging and sharing photos online

Custom backgrounds and organizing your desktops

Broadcasting live streaming video with QIK app

Playing nice with Ovi Files and Apple Mac

Motion control and touchscreen gaming

Enhancing your contacts with Hermes App

Subscribe and read RSS feeds

Instant messaging made easy

Eccentric accelerometer apps

Talking clock talktime challenge

Juggling heavyweight tasks

Blogging on the move made easy

Enhance your music with song lyrics

Scientist survival pack

Maemo web browser talents

Facebook & Twitter status updates made easy

Pocket weather station

View important docs on the go

Sketch and send an e-card

Pocket cookbook

Nov

Testing WordPy 2.0

I’m currently testing WordPy 2.0, a blogging client for the N900 that supports Wordpress, Blogger, and Livejournal.

What’s new with v2.0 is it’s Maemo 5 look, sporting new, much professional looking screens and buttons.

It lets you easily pull in images on your blog post from your local N900 drive(s), Flickr, and/or Picasa, and even gives you the option to proportionally resize, crop, roatate, flip, colorize, and change the brightness of images.

You have the option of crearting new tags and categories, although you can pull all your pre-defined tags and categories from your blog system as well. While it works great, I wish the way to select tags and categories would mimic the way you tag images and videos on the Maemo 5 gallery app.

Another feature that I like is that it lets you retrieve previous blog entries, edit, and post changes, direct from your N900. It lets you even manage comments, letting you add, approve, and delete comments on a specific blog entry.

This is easily a killer app for bloggers and I can see myself using it to blog anytime anywhere with just an N900.

WordPy 2.0 is still in extras-testing. Hopefully it gets released in Extras soon.

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

This post was fully created using WordPy 2.0 on a Nokia N900.