Did you heart just skip a beat seeing the landscape menu on the N900? Mine did the very moment my eyes fell on this screenshot! As you must be knowing Nokia for reasons unknown decided to leave out the landscape mode for the default menu and the third party developers obliged by leaving out the same in their apps that found their way into the Application manager and the beleaguered Maemo Ovi store.
With over 6 months since it’s launch, Nokia seems to have forgotten about this much requested feature. Thankfully that won’t leave the N900ers like you and me brooding over the absence of such a feature. An enterprising developer going by the name of Robin Burchell has decided enough is enough with the Nokia’s Engineering team and went ahead to code this little daemon called Rotatedaemon, which as you would expect brings 360 degrees screen rotation to our N900s. Find out how to get this daemon working on your N900 and more, after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember Hermes? That handy little application I reviewed way back in December last year? It turns out that the app has been just updated to v0.8.2. So what are the additions in the new version? Well, I let one out in the title of this post and am afraid you will have to hit the read button to find about the rest. Read the rest of this entry »
The phrase: Third Time Lucky, couldn’t have been any more apt than it’s for the v1.2 N900 firmware saga. The blogosphere was strife with speculations way back in March, when an exhaustive changelog was posted over at the Maemo Arena.
Then the fire doused for a while, only to re-emerge in early May, with an unofficial release in torrents and other file sharing services. Nokia insisted it was an incomplete release and went on to warn the N900 community against installing this update. Finally laying to rest all the build-up to the v1.2 firmware, Nokia officially announced the availability of the firmware update over “Over The Air” channel, first in UK, followed by phased launches in other parts of the world. I know you have seen the changelog on more than one occasion of this firmware, but those were mostly unofficial compilations. Let’s see what Nokia has to say in their changelog, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »
The original browser of the Maemo platform is back in its latest avatar. Yeah, Opera the team behind the browser on the first Maemo device Nokia N770 has now released a preview build of Opera Mobile 10 for the Maemo 5 platform. The Opera Mobile browser as you may know brings the legendary data compression technology of Opera Turbo, along with other Opera goodies like the Bookmark and Speed Dial Sync across Opera browsers on multiple platforms. Find out more about what goodies Opera have packed in their latest Maemo package, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember JoikuSpot, that I covered way back in January this year? Well, if you should know, the maemo version of Joikuspot has been in market since early February and if you haven’t already invested on a license of JoikuSpot, I found a free alternative with does just the same (well not the entire range of functions).
The app is called Mobile HotSpot, and its still in it’s stages of infancy and is presently available as a free download in Extras Devel repository. What features does it offer and how does it compare to JoikuSpot? Find out after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last month or so you would have probably heard of the latest toy from Apple, yeah I am talking about the iPad. While there are a hundred things that iPad lacks when compared to our N900, what’s important is that it boasts of a better eco-system and big wigs like Google have launched a customized version of their popular email service just for this tablet. How does that matter to us N900ers? Well, for starters the iPad version is more optimized for large touchscreen devices and two we can fool the gmail servers to render the iPad version of GMail to our N900s. Do I have your attention now? Am sure you are now reading between the lines and let me tell you how to get this hack working, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, if you have been yearning for some chrome action on your N900, you don’t have to wait for long for our friends at MeegoPortal have found a way to get this awesome browser onboard our N900, without having to wait for the Google guys to release the Maemo version of their popular browser. Whether Google will ever release an official version of the Chrome browser for Maemo is not known yet but then our linux gurus have already found their way around the system. Hit the jump button for more screenshot and a brief tutorial on installing Chrome on N900.
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Now that should disperse any second thoughts you had about the flash experience on Chrome. I will not waste any more words and blurp out the instructions for the installation:
- Download libxss-1.1.3.deb and chromium-5.0.369.2.deb from this site ( and thank Jace Kowski for all the good work!)
- Make sure you have root access and launch Terminal
- Type the following commands:
cd “wherever you downloaded the packages into”
dpkg -i libxss-1.1.3.deb
dpkg -i chromium-5.0.369.2.deb
That’s it.. You are now ready to browse the web the Chrome way from your N900!
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It may be a while before Google releases their chrome OS to public and it eventually landing on N900 but till then enjoy the chrome browser on your N900!
Have you ever thought about connecting your desktop keyboard and mice to your N900? Perhaps you thought you would need a pricier bluetooth versions of these accessories to connect them to your N900. You cannot be more wrong. No, there ain’t a Wi-Fi version of these peripherals yet but you don’t really need to wait that long. May be now you are thinking am talking about some wired accessory that allows you to connect your existing peripherals to the N900. Am sorry you are wrong again, for it’s now possible to connect the very keyboard and mice you are using to browse this page (if not on N900) to control your N900 wirelessly. Surprised! I was too when I first stumbled upon this tiny little app, which goes by a tinier name “x2x” by . Catch the demo video and more details after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Now that there are a few hundreds of apps/games for our N900, managing them kinda gets into our nerves at times. Well there are 4 home-screens to keep the frequently used apps handy but at times we just run out of space on our homescreen or may be we just need a faster way to access our favorite or rather most commonly used apps. This is where our handy little app-Quick Launch pitches in, by bringing easy access to as many as 5 apps from the quick launch menu. Find out more about this little app, after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Just shelled a couple of grand (probably more and am talking about USD here) on that unibody Macbook or Macbook Pro? It does burn a hole in your pocket and it hurts especially when you haven’t got a deep one to start with. Anyways, lest you be thinking of getting that Apple remote which unfortunately isn’t part of the standard package, let me save you 20 bucks (that’s like 1/10th of the Macbook, but then still it’s money saved), by suggesting this amazing desktop widget going by the name of RaeMote, which lets you control your Macs (Mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro) via the N900’s CIR (consumer infrared) port. It’s available in the Maemo’s Extras repository and before you jump there, let me show you the widget in action, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »
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