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 »
Soon it may start raining Windows applications on the N900! Yeah, the dearth of good apps/games on the platform has convinced a certain Damion Yates to get the Wine running on his N900. Windows applications and Wine! What’s the connection? Well, for the uninitiated, Wine is a program which brings Windows libraries to Linux and is widely a part of many a Linux distros doing the rounds on the desktop platform. Coming the mobile platform, where our Maemo and N900 stretch their wings, unfortunately Wine is not compatible wit ARM processors, which is at the core of our N900 hardware. Thanks to Damion though, who figured out a way around this limitation by using QEMU emulator. The project is still in its stages of infacy and the full tutorial is not out yet. Till then, lust on this video showing Notepad running on Wine, via a stastically compiled ARM QEMU binary, which you can catch after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Looks like Eclairs is the flavour of the day! Yeah, am talking about the latest version of Android and before you think about HTC or any other android manufacturer, let me tell you that our very own Nokia N900 is man enough for this beast of an OS! Thanks to dj_steve of Maemo Talk, you can now get the season’s hot favorite Android 2.1 on your N900. I know you are getting restless to see this in action, and am I am not going to keep you from it for long. Hit the jump button and the demo video and hack details are all yours. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember that Firmware 1.2 that I posted way back in late March? Looks like there is more to it than the super exhaustive changelog we pulled up from Maemo Talk, for this time there is more evidence of this firmware being actually existing in the Nokia servers. It gets better, a video clip showing the new firmware in action on a N900 has landed on YouTube as well. Isn’t that just what we asked for? Perhaps a public release of the firmware by none other than NSU or OTA could be the elixir we are looking for but in the meantime, you can fire up your favorite torrent client, for a version of this firmware is now available for download (.bin). Catch the download link (for torrent), along with the video and changelog after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you been wondering you are not getting enough of exercise for that grey matter of your brains? What with the calculators and computers making things so easy for us, that we hardly rake our brains anymore for day to day calculations. Forget calculations, with the advent of smartphones of the likes of our N900, we don’t even bother remembering our daily schedule as everything is programmed onto the mighty Maemo calendar, which does an amazing job of reminding and updating the schedule to our convenience. So, the bottom line is we are getting rusty and we need to oil the bearings of the very mechanism which keeps us on our toes: yeah our brains. So here comes a game from Hudzilla Games: Brain Party , a game originally written for iPhone and now has been ported to our N900s. Yeah, iPhone games are ending up on N900 now and thats something to rejoice about, for we all know there are tons of games (that rock) for the iPhone and though our N900 is as capable as the iPhone, not many game developers have woken up to its existence. But may be things are changing and after successful ports of Angry Birds and now the Brain Party, drive more iPhone games to the N900 bandwagon. Coming back to Brain Party, catch a brief review and more after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Have you been smitten by the Live Wallpaper of the Nexus One from Google? If you are and are looking forward to seeing something similar on your N900, I have some good news for you. Vasvlad from maemo community has developed a live wallpaper app for the N900, which is still in beta stage at his moment. Though the app is not as interactive as the one on Google Nexus One, the app does a smooth transition of wallpapers in the background giving you the feel of having a time-series wallpaper on your N900. If this is something you fancy, hit the jump button for a demo video and download link!
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 we all know that our powerhouse N900 is locked at 600 MHz and make no mistake that was at the very top of the mobile processors when it was released last year. But then the Snapdragon came up and now with the iPads shipping with Apple’s homegrown A4 processors, both clocked at 1 GHz have been making us N900ers look like the smartphoners of the yesteryears. But what good are our hackers for? Here comes smoothie1000 who has managed to overclock N900 to 1Ghz! Yeah no kidding, but then it’s not advisable to overclock your N900 at these levels as the in-house cooling system cannot handle the heat! Now this one is for our friends in the temperate and polar regions but we tropics can take solace in this demo video below.
Demo video-
Now, thats some serious overcloking. If you are willing to dive-in, this Maemotalk discussion should walk you through the process.
Well, one of the geekiest contests on a smartphone platform to be hosted by a smartphone manufacturer itself has just concluded in the ongoing CTIA Wireless Convention in Las Vegas. Ofcourse, we are talking about Nokia’s PUSH N900 MOD in the USA contest, the one and only of its kind where Nokia themselves threw the door open to hackers to come up with innovative hacks for their flagship device-N900. Hear that Apple? Dare to do something like that with your iPhone? May be Apple can start with first opening up their iPhone with Adobe first, to finally let iPhoners get the feel of Flash on their iPhone.
While the iPhoners can sulk, we N900ers can rejoice: thanks to the open source infrastructure of Maemo and Nokia’s efforts in attracting the hacker community to N900. Coming back to PUSH N900, you would know by now that Niko, the twitter controlled N900 robot, which was earlier covered was in the leading run but “Bike Dashboard”, which pretty much lives up to its name, took the top spot, followed by Niko and “Pit Crew”, bringing slot car racing to the realm of N900s. Catch out more details of the contest, after the break.
Yeah, you read it right! You can actually control this geeky little robot which is powered by our very own N900, just by tweeting the control commands to @N900Niko. How cool is that?
Wondering the rationale behind the whole twitter controlled N900 robot project? I gotta confess I was more than intrigued when I first stumbled upon it, but when I checked the project details, I wasn’t really surprised for I always knew our N900 was capable of some really cool stuff. I still haven’t spilled the beans yet but do you remember that PushN900 contest that Nokia US was hosting, calling for the top hacks for its first Maemo 5 device? This is one of the qualifying hacks and is in the run for the top spot. Catch more details of this project, after the break. Read the rest of this entry »
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