Archive for December, 2010

QtWebKit and WebGL on MeeGo

An interesting video showing the merits of QtWebKit and WebGL on the MeeGo Platform. Some of the benefits include:-

QtWebKit and WebGL on MeeGo

Easy QML deployment for #N900. No C++ Skills needed

Here is some information provided to us by Mikko about there service to convert QML to a debian .deb file that can be installed on the Nokia N900. Sounds pretty good especially if you don’t like or want C++.

Easy QML deployment for #N900. No C++ Skills needed

Indamixx 2 music tablet now on sale

Yes the Indamixx 2 Music tablet is finally for sale, as I’m sure some of our DJ’ing followers could not take anymore teaser YouTube videos.

Indamixx 2 music tablet now on sale

Qt Mobility 1.2 Technology Preview

Here are the Preview source packages of the Qt Mobility 1.2 APIs and a set of RPM packages for MeeGo compatible devices to provide backend support for MeeGo.

Qt Mobility 1.2 Technology Preview

MeeGo Handset UI running on Archos 5it (Gen7)

Here is another example of the drive of people behind the unreleased handset version of Meego.

MeeGo Handset UI running on Archos 5it (Gen7)

Drag and Drop grid – Qt’s Framework and Qt Quick

Heres is an example of the Power of the Qt Framework and Qt Quick. The following shows a simple Drag and Drop icon user interface, but what is surprising is that the Swedish website claims that it only took 70 lines of code.

Drag and Drop grid – Qt’s Framework and Qt Quick

Arkon Portable Foldup Stand Review

Here is a quick review of the Arkon Portable Foldup Stand. We found it quite a useful gadget to let you stand up and USE a tablet (Apple iPad, RIM PlayBook, Samsung Galaxy Tab). Dimensions wise its about 18cm x 2.5cm x 3cm making it a quite a small size for popping into your Jacket pocket or backpack etc. The unit can be adjusted to [...]

Arkon Portable Foldup Stand Review

MultiTouch Twitter Wall at CES

As many of you might knowm, next month we are off to CES and we are looking forward to some MeeGo fun.This morning though we noticed this Video floating around the next showing the futuristic interaction with Social Networking that we all can possibly see in the future. This wall was designed by MultiTouch a company based in Finland which manufactures table- and wall-sized multitouch [...]

MultiTouch Twitter Wall at CES

Next Adobe Flash Player to Be Ten Times More Efficient

Acording to John Nack (Adobe) the next version of Flash Player (10.2) will be up-to ten times more efficient than previous versions, hopefully making browsing YouTube a less stressing experience. In addition to decoding the data, [Flash] has to convert YUV data to the RGB colorspace and combine the image with other Flash elements. Then it has to cooperate with another application (web browser) to [...]

Next Adobe Flash Player to Be Ten Times More Efficient

Mentor graphics joins the Linux foundation

The Linux Foundation today announced that Mentor Graphics is once of its newest

Mentor graphics joins the Linux foundation

Infosys Develops Smart Home Gateway Using Atom, MeeGo

Utilising Intel’s Atom E600 series processor and the MeeGo open source software Infosys Technologies has developed a digital smart home gateway which allows the end user to control various smart devices through a single user interface.

Infosys Develops Smart Home Gateway Using Atom, MeeGo

Google under fire for promoting own content ahead of competing websites

Yet again google is in the firing line for tuning search results to favour itself. This isn’t exactly a new allegation, but the idea’s spreading fast: Google is tuning search results to favor itself, and perhaps that’s not entirely fair.

Google under fire for promoting own content ahead of competing websites

Super Mario Demo with Pure QML

This is a quick knock up of the old classic super mario sent in to us. The developer is very new to the Qt framework but is surprised at what he is able to achieve in about 4 days. Here’s a game I made with pure QML (no C++), costs around 4 days. QML is very easy to learn, I was a web developer and [...]

Super Mario Demo with Pure QML

Push Notifications as part of the Nokia Qt SDK (Beta)

Included in the latest release of the Nokia Qt SDK is a Notification API. This is available as a plugin to the Nokia Qt SDK and will offer real-time information enabling applications push updates. The challenge Once you dig into the details you uncover some serious user experience problems. Battery life plummets when multiple applications independently implement polling or push processes to drive consumer engagement. [...]

Push Notifications as part of the Nokia Qt SDK (Beta)

Marko Ahtisaari speaks at LeWeb 2010

Today Marko Ahtisaari, Nokia’s SVP of Design & User Experience spoke at the LeWeb conference about the

Marko Ahtisaari speaks at LeWeb 2010