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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 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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#MGoTO 1

May 11, 2010 Maemo News
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A week ago, I attended the very first Mobile Geeks of Toronto at The Drake Hotel event hosted by Tom Hall of WOMWorld. Mobile Geeks of Toronto is a spinoff of James Whatley’s very successful Mobile Geeks of London events. The events provide an opportunity for mobile enthusiasts to get together to talk about mobile [...]

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How To: Overclock Your N900

April 5, 2010 Maemo Tutorials
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WARNING: This is quite possibly the riskiest “How To” article that I’m ever going to post on this site so it is imperative that you take care when following the instructions below. If you are uncomfortable with overclocking your device or aren’t sure exactly what you are doing, STOP! DO NOT read any further, ask [...]

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How To: Install WordPress Client on your N900

February 17, 2010 Maemo Apps

Today’s tutorial is for all of the bloggers out there with an N900 in their pocket. Depending on what kind of blog you write for, there may come a time where you can’t wait until you get to a computer to start putting together a post. Now the N900’s browser is more than powerful enough [...]

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How To: Change the N900’s Boot Screen

February 16, 2010 Maemo Tutorials

It has been stressed up and down that Maemo is the most open mobile OS and that makes the N900 the most open mobile device. I’ve been spending the last few days probing what I can get away with and exactly what can be customized on the N900. I’m going to warn you ahead of [...]

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How To: Flash Your Nokia N900 Part II

February 14, 2010 Maemo Tutorials

We’ve already taken the time to show you have to flash the firmware on the N900 while leaving the Mass Memory intact but this post will show you how to wipe the device’s Mass Storage clean so that you can start completely fresh.
If you’ve read through our post on how to flash your N900 (FOUND [...]

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How To: Flash Your Nokia N900

January 31, 2010 Maemo Apps

One major advantage of the Nokia N900 is that all of its firmware updates so far have been available Over The Air (OTA) immediately. In fact, both firmware updates from 2 weeks ago were available in the device’s App. Manager before users were able to update using Nokia Software Updater on [...]

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