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Nokia and Intel has announced today the MeeGo Project, a new open source, Linux project for both Maemo and Moblin. The new Qt development environment will feature easy to use and flexible UI for a better app development experience. The Linux Foundation in turn will handle the open source project organization. MeeGo aims to target netbooks/entry-level desktops, handheld computing and communications devices, in-vehicle infotainment devices, connected TVs, and media phones.

Below are several videos about the announcement:

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Laser-Cut Stand for the Nokia N900

Reggie Suplido — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:23:58 +0000

TMO member Fake has just announced his latest invention — a laser-cut stand for the Nokia N900.

The 3-piece acrylic or wood stand is now for sale for only $10, $15 if you buy two, and $20 for three (shipping included). Details on how to order, more stand pictures, and the long discussion is over at talk.maemo.org.

Maemo Weekly News – February 8, 2010 Issue Now Out

Reggie Suplido — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:18:16 +0000

This week’s issue of Maemo Weekly News (MWKN) is now out. Some items I would like to highlight are the following:

Below is the full list of articles in this week’s issue:

Maemo Weekly News – February 8, 2010

Maemo in the Wild

Announcements

Maemo Weekly News Launches

Reggie Suplido — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:43:44 +0000

If you haven’t seen me posting much here at Maemo Talk, it’s because I’ve been helping Andrew Flegg with his new project: Maemo Weekly News.

Maemo Weekly News is a weekly online publication that highlights Maemo specific news throughout the week. What’s good about it is that all the news are community contributed by sending a tweet to @mwkn. Editors (which I am a part of) and sub-editors will then flesh out all the tweets and the best ones will make to the weekly publication. More information here (link).

I will be posting the contents of each issue here at MT. Here’s the full list of the contents of the first issue:

Maemo Weekly News – February 1, 2010

Maemo in the Wild

Announcements

Discuss this at talk.maemo.org.

Nokia N900 30-second Videos

Reggie Suplido — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:21 +0000

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

Testing WordPy 2.0

Reggie Suplido — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:44:59 +0000

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.

Nokia N900 Online/Offline as it Happens Ads

Reggie Suplido — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:14:56 +0000

Nokia Online/Offline as it Happens Ads N900 viral ads have been showing up in YouTube. I can’t really figure out where they are coming from and who the official poster is so let me know if you find the main site that has them or if you find new ones so I can add them to this blog entry. Anyway, here they are, in HD. They are all well made, funny, and definitely highlights the N900.

Wedding Catastrophe

Fishing

Tickets

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liqbase dazzler at YouTube, lcuk appeal

Roger Sperberg — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:39:55 +0000

BY ROGER SPERBERG

Gary Birkett (aka lcuk) has posted several short single-subject videos and a comprehensive overview of liqbase at YouTube.

The overview is presented in a new liqbase presentation app that has live graphics (instead of screen captures) that he clicks into and uses to demonstrate each app along the way. (Mind-blowing when you see it and think back at the long history of buggy, slow and futile efforts to do this sort of thing before.)

Among other people, I have strongly encouraged Gary to follow his imagination and keep creating the fast, visual, and kinetic apps that constitute liqbase. He’s taken our advice to heart and devoted himself full-time to N900-and-maemo (e.g, liqbase) development.

If you want to see the apps continue to flow, you probably want to visit Gary’s website, liqbase.net, and make a PayPal contribution to enable him to keep going. I have. I hope you will too. This is one developer I want to see keep developing.