Have you been finding the kick-stand on N900 not as handy as you wished it would be? I definitely do and so does “Fake” of Maemo talk, who thought he should do something about it and designed this awesome looking stand for N900. Armed with a laser cutter, Fake has built a sturdy yet classy looking stand for the N900.

Not only has he accounted for the phone stability but also a place for stylus which makes it rather handy for handsfree usage in the landscape mode. Before you start exercising your grey matter on how exactly this stand would look like for your N900, do take a look at the demo video released by Fake, and did we mention? Fake is apparently taking orders for this stand; details of which you can catch after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

Maemo 5 is known for its seamless integration of Social Networking Services and VoIP clients within it’s OS and guess what it just got better. With addition of AIM, Facebook and MSN Live, Maemo 5 now covers almost the entire spectrum of the available VoIP services.

Before you get all excited about these services, let me tell you that these can be added via Extra Protocol Plugins for Conversations and Contacts, which are presently available in the Extras-testing repository in the N900 App Manager. So yeah, you can head there straight to get these plugins for your N900, but do take a look at some screenshots and more bits of info on the latest plugins. Read the rest of this entry »

Now we have already told you how BlueMaemo lets you use your N900 as a PS3 controller, but what if you want to do the other way around? That is use a PS3 Sixaxis controller as an input device for emulated games on N900: its possible now. But it’s no simple app that can let you do that but it involves a bit of fiddling around with the kernel and installing a SixA daemon. So unless you want to get your hands dirty, this hack is not for you.

But you don’t have to lose heart. What if you are not brave enough to poke your finger at the core of the OS-kernel, you can always admire the work done by others. So let’s first do that, by taking a look at this demo video released by Tomasz Sterna aka Aberration, who takes the credit of being the first person to connect the PS3 Sixaxis controller to N900. Read the rest of this entry »

Foursquare! What the heck is Foursquare? That’s exactly the same question I asked myself, when I first read about it at Nokia Experts. Apparently Matt from NE has been testing the beta version of the app and has been given the thumbs up from the developers to spill some info on the app, ahead of its release.

So what is this Foursquare all about? Well its a cross-breed between an augmented reality and social networking apps. Confused? Get it clarified, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »

The N900 Hackathon continues! After Android and Windows 98, it’s now the Mac OS X 10.3 aka Panther, which has made an appearance on N900. Thanks to Finnish hacker Toni Nikkanen, who takes the distinction of successfully porting OS X on to a mobile device.

While there are plenty of Mac fans out there who would just love to have this OS on their mobile phones, the present port is of little to no practical use for an average user. But, that’s not gonna stop enterprising geeks from trying this hack, now does it? Before, you take the dive into the hack, do take a look at the demo video. Read the rest of this entry »

Yeah, here it comes! The day when you can seamlessly take your work from your desktop/notebook to your mobile device has finally arrived. Thanks to the Firefox mobile team, for releasing the Maemo 5 version of their popular browser. Just in case you were wondering, how to take your work from desktop/notebook to your N900, the Weave plugin synchronises all your web-activities across firefox browsers on multiple platforms.

In addition to Weave, there are 40 other plugins for the mobile version of the popular browser from Mozilla. So what exactly does Firefox mobile bring to your N900, find out after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

How does the idea of hacking into an N900 sound to you? If exciting is your answer, then the folks at PUSH N900 have something more to offer you: they are willing to pay you for the hack! Yeah, that’s right, they are giving away some cold hard cash for the top 3 hacks of N900. Now you should be wondering, what’s the catch here, right? There is not one but two: the first one being that this one is an US only contest; and second being that your hack has to be innovative or as our friends at Nokia Conversations put it “brilliantly innovative”. Go figure out what that means!

If you have been following N900, you would have probably heard of PUSH N900 is a Nokia team which first invited hacker teams from around the world, to get some more juice out of their N900s. Juice, which we didn’t know existed within N900 but it existed hidden within it somewhere. Presently, the top 5 teams are now battling it out for supremacy with each project being given shape in reality. Taking a leaf from this success story, the PUSH N900 team is now taking the challenge to US hackers and boy, they have some sweet candies for the US folks: US $10,000 for the winner, $5,000 for second and $3,000, for third. Now we are talking right? Hit on the read button to know how to participate in this hacker contest. Read the rest of this entry »

Now, if Android on N900 was cool, I am running out of adjectives to describe what it would be like to have Windows 98 on N900s. I know its overly outdated but I bet there a few geeks like me who would still swear by Windows 98 for its speed and sheer simplicity. Afterall it was designed to run on 500 MHz processors which were the mainstream desktop processor at that time. No wonder, it works great on N900 which boasts of a 633 MHz processor of its own!

The Windows 98 port is courtesy Maemoworld.ru, the Russian maemo community, which has been pretty active online community. Since I have no experience with the Russian script, I had to turn to Google translate to help me decipher the forum post, which unfortunately doesn’t make much sense to me. However, I was able to figure out the steps involved in getting win98 onboard N900:

1. Set dosbox from repositories
2. Download the image section with vindom
3. Create a folder / home / user / MyDocs / dosbox and extract there W98Lite.img
4. Edit config dosboksa / home/user/.dosbox/dosbox-0.73.conf as follows:
somewhere at the top looking fullscreen option and make it true
? at the end of the file in section [autoexec] appends the string:
imgmount c /home/user/MyDocs/dosbox/w98lite.img -t hdd -fs fat imgmount c / home/user/MyDocs/dosbox/w98lite.img-t hdd-fs fat
boot -lc boot-lc
5. Run dosboks and wait for the download

For further details, please refer to the original forum post Google Translated English version or the original Russian version.

Bored of the default N900 themes? If you are then I have some good news for you. MMMOOO, developers of some of the best selling apps in the symbian platform have marked their entry to Maemo 5 bandwagon with the very first paid theme for N900 with AZ. AZ stands for A to Z and symbolises the complete package the theme is.

The theme not only has eye-candy wallpaper but also a nice contrast between background images and highlighted fonts.The menu buttons blend in harmoniously with the overall colour scheme adding on to your addiction for N900. Well, I can go on-and-on praising the latest theme, bu I will leave the screenshots to do the talking themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

As if we were not having enough of Linux in Maemo 5 flavour, bdogg64 has managed to taste the android flavour on his N900. No kidding, he has some video evidence apart from the screenshot I captured from the video, that you see to your left.

So basically what bdogg64 has done is, he/she has added multi-boot capability to the multi-tasking GOD of smartphones-N900. It’s not fully function yet and hence out-of-bounds for laymen N900 users but Linux geeks, would probably get it working on their N900s with little to no help from bdogg64. While the Linux hackers and nerds get their act together, laymen users like me and you can only ogle at their work. Let’s take a look at what bdogg64 did, after the break though. Read the rest of this entry »