Category Archives: Maemo

View in Mowser Opera Mini Bookmarklet

I was taking a look at a few things this morning along the lines of mobile browser support for extensions and customization. Following along the theme of Russ’s post about using Mowser as a search provider in Opera Mini I … Continue reading

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N810 Browser and Calendaring

I was playing around a bit more with the N810 this morning. What I’m aiming to do is not need a laptop when I leave the house. The N810 should be perfect for that. What I was trying to get … Continue reading

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OS 2008 Tests

Trying out a posting from MaemoWordPy on the N810. The keyboard certainly is nice. Still a lot of work to be done in porting apps over from previous versions though. I miss my home screen apps. Calendar and contacts support … Continue reading

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Hacking N810 After Firmware Update

The folks at AdMob got me an N810 as a going away present: Omar took the time to poke around and ask Russ what I was lusting after but didn’t already have, and the N810 was at the top of … Continue reading

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Ruby for Maemo

Russ pointed out a different version of Ruby for Maemo than I had tried before. This one has a hildon library and GTK support, w00t! I tried out a few of the examples but haven’t dug into it too much. … Continue reading

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How Do I Get an N810?

Apparently the N810 is on shelves somewhere. I’m not going to frusterate myself by trying to order it from NokiaUSA however, that would just be stupid. But it’s supposed to be in Best Buy and CompUSA. Neither of the online … Continue reading

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Lean Forward Tablet

The N800 is a fantastic device for web and IM, but I’ve been poking around with how to make it more useful as a production device. Or something more like a personal dashboard. I would like to have the device … Continue reading

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Modifying docpurge

The N800 comes with a package called docpurge that deletes files which for most users are just cruft. I end up installing some packages that install stuff I actually want in places like /usr/share/doc. I want to keep them around, … Continue reading

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N810 – Dead Sexy

The next revision of the internet tablet from Nokia, the N810 looks like one sexy beast. I certainly hope they manage to get this out into retail outlets quick, seeing as how Nokia can’t manage to sell me things online. … Continue reading

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OMGWTFBBQ

I’ve swapped from Gregarious to OMGWTFBBQ a while ago, mostly because it rocks on the N800 when compared to the other stuff I’ve tried. And of course cause I named it, so I think it has a fantastic name. Give … Continue reading

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