Category Archives: Maemo

N800 To The Rescue, Again

I’m about to hop on a plane to New Hampshire. Not a well planned trip, not really all that welcome, but it needs to be done. So just to make sure I could just zip thru what I needed, I … Continue reading

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FBReader on the N800

Russ has raved about FBReader, an ebook reader for Maemo, in the past. I had installed it before and tried it out, but had problems with the format of the books. He walked me through the stuff he was doing … Continue reading

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N800 Home Screen

I was fooling around with the layout of the home screen on my N800 last night: Awww, pretty. I found a bunch of great info in this post on TabletBlog.com and got some tips about statusbar management through Flickr comments … Continue reading

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Scratchbox DNS Issue

Just playing around a bit with the Maemo SDK. I almost forgot about the DNS issue under Ubuntu (maybe others). You need to change the /scratchbox/etc/nsswitch.conf file in order to resolve hostnames from within scratchbox.

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Maemo at SV Linux Users Group

I just got a note from the folks at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group saying that their meeting tomorrow is focused on Maemo. Excellent! I was just rereading the 3.x version of the Maemo developer tutorial this weekend in … Continue reading

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Trying Maemo WordPy on the N800

Just trying out a post from the Python based Maemo WordPy client. I was also fooling around with Minimo, but was having a bunch of issues with the UI. Fortunately it looks like the Maemo version of the Minimo source … Continue reading

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Ubuntu and Scratchbox

I was feeling like I just don’t spend enough time with mobile Linux recently. So I updated the Ubuntu install on my laptop and set out to install Maemo. Ended up having a bunch of problems though. If you’re looking … Continue reading

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Open Source Device Usability

I’ve been pretty insanely busy lately, but that didn’t keep me from borrowing an N800 to play around with. There are little things that make the device a lot nicer, but the price of the thing is way way higher … Continue reading

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Maemo 2006 Application Repository List

The application manager in the new OS release for the Nokia 770 really rocks. However I always have trouble searching up the application repository list for Maemo. I’ve seen a bunch of postings online from folks who also seem to … Continue reading

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