The mobile version of Firefox also known as Fennec has now been updated 1.1 beta. If you have been using Fennec 1.0 on your N900, you would agree with me when I say that the handy tab management and Weave is something, that we N900ers can’t live without now, what say?

Well, the best mobile browser by a mile, is about to get better, much better than any mobile browser can ever dream about: with options like save to pdf (directly from the web page)! If that’s not urging you to head straight to Mozilla webpage to download the latest browser, I don’t know what will! Changelog and more screenshots after the jump. 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 »

You know how the world is heading the 3D way with more than cinemas adopting the most engaging of the video formats. It turns out that apart from those fancy 3D equipped LED/LCD panels that cost you a flesh and bone to add that extra dimension to your personal viewing experience, may not be the only gateway for 3D experience. Our N900s, yeah the very N900 is capable of rendering 3D content and that too in absence of those 60s looking 3D glasses!

Surprised? Yeah, how much graphics capability can you pack in 633 MHz processor after all! But you don’t need all that silicon to render 3D content, as Johny Lee first demonstrated using a Wiimote using the face tracking technology to add third dimension to conventional display panels. Working on similar lines Johannes Kuhlmann has managed to get 3D content on his N900. Catch the video and more details of the project, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Is your N900 battery running out of juice faster than you can get back home after work? Blame it on the power hungry apps constantly pulling feeds from the web via 3G or Wi-Fi, depending on whatever is within your vicinity. But these are the very feeds that differentiate our N900s from iPhones and the like, for not many smartphones boast of  a widgetized customized homescreen.

Is there a way to have the best of both the worlds? Fortunately for N900ers, there is: its called AutoDisconnect, which is still in its early stages of development but looks impressive nevertheless. How effective is it? Let’s find out after the break.

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The first screenshot shows the settings screen of the app and as you can see, you can monitor either or both of  Wi-Fi and 3G/GPRS data connections. Further, you can play around with Interval and Max Idle Traffic to your liking to suit your needs. Coming to how effective it is, calvin_42 of maemo talk tested battery performance using battery-eye, a battery status monitoring app and found that the battery lasted 5 times longer with AutoDisconnect enabled. Now if that doesn’t push you to download the app, I don’t know what will.

AutoDisconnect is available for download in Extras-Devel repository.

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!

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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:

1. 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!)
2. Make sure you have root access and launch Terminal
3. 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 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.

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Now, thats some serious overcloking. If you are willing to dive-in, this Maemotalk discussion should walk you through the process.

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