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The MeeGo Team is Working at a Quantum Pace…

August 18, 2010 Meego

We’ve all known that MeeGo is coming soon. We’ve seen screen shots, we’ve seen video of MeeGo on tablets, and we’ve seen preliminary builds of MeeGo for the N900 showing a very “alpha” state of affairs. What you might not have known is that the MeeGo team has nightly builds and does a weekly image [...]

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MeeGo: What it is and what it isn’t – Part Deux

July 30, 2010 Meego

Within the past month or so a lot has subsided, namely, Ricky Cadden (of Symbian-Guru) has decided to drop Nokia/Symbian and move to a Nexus One and the Android platform. This (and other things) has sparked a lot of talk concerning Nokia hardware coupled with Google’s Android platform. Kyron cleared a lot of air with [...]

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Documents to Go Premium. A Quick Preview

July 11, 2010 Maemo Apps
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Dataviz’s Documents To Go is a well recognized and popular document viewer and editor. It’s currently available for the iPhone, Blackberry, Android, UIQ, WebOS and now the N900 platform. The DocsToGo viewer came bundled on the N900 with a 30 day trial. Unfortunately the Premium Editor is not available in the Ovi Store nor directly [...]

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Widgetizing your N900

June 3, 2010 Maemo Tutorials

Widgets; love ‘em or hate ‘em – they serve a good purpose – beer included. Most devices that provide a customizable homescreen (Android, WebOS, Symbian and Maemo 5), use widget entries as “feeds” to information or shortcuts to applications. I previously took a look at my favorite weather widgets and decided that while the great [...]

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PR1.2; The Aftermath

May 31, 2010 Maemo News
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Just about a week after PR1.2 hit globally, a lot of users have been able to officially update their N900’s. Some for the worse, the majority for the better. Unfortunately, along with all the bugfixes and improvements that PR1.2 brought, some things were overlooked and others caused popular applications (that had not been updated using [...]

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PR1.2 Hitting the Streets

May 25, 2010 Maemo News
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As of last night at around 1:30 AM, PR1.2 official began trickling out to users in the UK region. Although it hasn’t been long since the leaked release, there has been much anticipation and will be a lot of happy users. Many of you have installed customized tweaks, upgraded kernels and perhaps, the early RC [...]

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N900 Streaming Fun

May 19, 2010 Maemo Tutorials
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One of the major media points on Maemo 5 and the N900 is the ability to pull DLNA-certified streams. Many a nice piece of hardware, such as the PS3, XBOX360 as well as any out-of-the-box Windows computer (XP, Vista and 7) support it. There are also a plethora of excellent free media streaming clients for [...]

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Weather on the N900

May 14, 2010 Maemo Apps
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I’m new to the MaemoFanatics team but not new to the platform. My first post (of many) will be a quick look at Foreca Weather and OMWeather.
I love being able to see what the weather is like, at a quick glance. Both applications provide a desktop widget with current and upcoming conditions.

Both applications feature multiple [...]

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