Post Tagged with: "N900"

Gas-Balls for Maemo; Interactive, Accelerometer controlled Live Wallpaper

There’s a new Live Wallpaper App for Maemo 5, called “Gas-Balls“. As painful as the name might sound, the app is kinda cool. It displays a transparent live wallpaper thats both interactive, and resorts to the position of the Accelerometer. Make your desktop and photos alive with balls and colored gas. Animation reacts both to [...]

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NITDroid Android Port for N900 Nearing Completion

The folks behind the NITDroid project have been trying to get the Android OS fully ported on to the Nokia N900 for a short while now, and it looks like they’re close to completion on it. You see, one of the few things lacking on the Android Port is the ability to, well, actually make [...]

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Btw the Nokia N900 can do real-time Face Tracking

The Nokia N900 just keeps getting more awesome. Today the buzz around the blogosphere, is a little something called “MoBio” or “Mobile Biometrics“. Developed by the University of Manchester, the app tracks 22 facial features using the front facing camera on the N900, all in real time! This prototype from the University of Manchester (UK) [...]

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Intervalometer lets you take Time Lapse Pictures on your N900

If you’ve wanted to do Time Lapse Photography on your Nokia N900, there’s an app for that. Intervalometer by Tomi Suviola, is a simple little uhh…. intervalometer for the N900, which can be used to take time lapse pictures. Very useful since the N900′s camera doesnt have this particular feature built-in. And that’s all there [...]

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Collada 3d Viewer for Maemo; View your created 3D models

Collada, is a royalty-free XML schema that enables digital asset exchange within the interactive 3D industry. And now, users who want to show off their created 3D models, can do so on their Nokia N900s. This is possibile thanks to the “Collada 3D Viewer” app for Maemo that was released over the Maemo repository this [...]

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Want to make a Call on your N900? Just Think

In what must be one of the most awesome things I’ve seen a phone do, the Nokia N900 can now also phone calls, just by thinking about it. Whaaaaaaaaaaaat? Well it’s quite easy you see. This has been possible by a Qt based application called ThinkContacts, paired with a NeuroSky MindSet. All the interaction between [...]

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Game Gripper for the Nokia N900; Grip it like you’re playing it

If you’ve ever played a game on the Nokia N900 for more than a couple minutes, you’d know that the whole experience could definitely be a bit better. Especially for all those emulators we love. Enter the Game-Gripper. Basically, a slide-on gaming keyboard for the N900, it highlights certain keys that you’ll be using for [...]

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Nokia N900 version of Documents To Go Premium Edition Now Available

After appearing on almost every other Mobile platform, the guys at DataViz have bought their popular “Documents to Go” mobile office suite to Maemo 5 and the Nokia N900. Apart from being a very decent Word and Excel file editor, almost all Microsoft Office files are supported, including Office 2007 and 2010, and password-protected documents. [...]

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Fcam for Nokia N900; Open-source photography platform

Over on Nokia Conversations, they mentioned the release of a new open-source digital photography platform yesterday, called “FCam“. From the blog post: “FCam allows the creation of new digital camera applications that help users overcome some of the shortcomings of their devices or create interesting new types of imagery. It is part of the Camera [...]

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Opera Mobile 10.1 released for Maemo

Opera Mobile 10.1 for Maemo was released today. For now it’s only available in the extras-testing repository (extras-devel for the N800/N810 build). Once the Opera team are satisfied that there are no major regressions or stability issues they will push it to their own repositories. Here is a short changelog for this build: – Geolocation [...]

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Set a Different Ringtone for Each Contact on your Nokia N900

Thanks to the MeeGo Blog, we’ve gotten to know that there’s finally an app out there, that lets you assign a different ringtone for different contacts on your Nokia N900. [Image credit: the MeeGo Blog] Ringtoned by Marco Barisione allows you to set custom ringtones for each contact in the N900′s phonebook. The app weighs [...]

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Firefox for Maemo v1.1 Released and Out of Beta

Firefox for Maemo 5 has now officially come out of Beta, and is available as version 1.1. Users already running Firefox for Maemo will receive a software update. If you havent gotten Firefox on your N900 yet however, you can download it by visiting Firefox.com/m on your device. This release includes a couple new features, [...]

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MeeGo Handset UX Installed & Demoed on a Nokia N900

Following the Instructions on the MeeGo Forums, a young fella by the name of trowerpower35 has manged to get the MeeGo Handset UX installed on his Nokia N900. As such, here’s short video showing off how it looked on the aforementioned N900. Remember y’all,there’s no actual reason to install this on your N900 (yet). There [...]

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And now the Nokia N900 can run Android 2.2 (Froyo)

A young fella by the name of dj_steve has been porting Android to the Nokia N900. And by the looks of it, things are going pretty well. Behold, Android 2.2 (aka Froyo) running on the N900. Ofcourse, some things arnt working too well yet though. Functional: Dual boot with Maemo 5 (requires R&D mode) Sound [...]

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Rotatedaemon allows 360 degree screen rotation on Nokia N900

One of the few complaints with the Nokia N900, is that most things on it are done in landscape mode. Ofcourse, this is by design (according to Nokia atleast), and in the last couple firmware updates they have managed to sneak in portrait mode for a select few apps, like the web browser and dialing [...]

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