PySide 1.0 for MeeGo was released today. In order to use install it properly it requires a Qt update as detailed below. PySide 1.0 is now fully functional on MeeGo, all major Linux distributions, Maemo 5, Mac OS X and Windows. PySide Binaries for MeeGo IMPORTANT INFO: These packages are generated using MeeGo OBS [build.meego.com] facilities. The latest MeeGo image (v1.1.2 for netbook, handset andQEMU) provides Qt [...]

Amino Communications were present at last weeks IP&TV World held at the Olympia in London. This event is where the cream of the crop of the world’s largest and most established IPTV exhibitors gather to strut their stuff. We also caught up with Amino at CES where they were showcasing their Freedom Jump box and here is another video of their product Below is a [...]

Its cool to see the guys at CyberComLab pushing forward with their development on MeeGo and the Nokia N900. Here we have a video of a MeeGo UI running ontop of their Parallax Desktop that we saw running at Mobile World Congress. This is still in development, but yes, We like. Video shows different layers for music, video and dialler. Update: New video showing better [...]

This week Nokia has introduced a New Nokia Font to be used and distributed across its line of devices. This week, Nokia announces a new typeface and a new look for promotional materials. It’s a new brand image that’s simpler, fresher and stronger than before. Whats this got to do with us ? Good question. Talk Maemo.org member Laasonen has packed up the new font [...]

Cool little game written by Juuso Kosonen of jiikoo.com written in Qt Quick. Simple and to the point.     Try to avoid planets with your Darth Flier. Press the game area to go up and release to go down. You can get special powers to your energy sword by hitting the shooting star with it. After that you can destroy the planets with your sword [...]

No rest for the wicked in Nokia MeeGo Land. News in today the N900 Hardware adaption team are progressing the Nokia N900 MeeGo image with the aid of the MeeGo Tablet User Experience (UX). This does mean that the previously closed Intel MeeGo Tablet UX is now Open Source and the code can be found here. This is a testament to the power of MeeGo [...]

Google have announced that they will delay the distribution of the source code for its Tablet Android operating system for at least the foreseeable future. The Operating System referred to as ‘HoneyComb’ is not yet ready to be investigated by developers for other purposes such as modification or porting onto additional devices. Andy Rubin, head of the Android project, says: “To make our schedule to [...]

Peregrine 0.7 Beta 1 is now available in peregrines Repositories. This is a fully MeeGo 1.2 compliant app with new features like adding and deleting identities, orientation support on handset, huge performance improvements through active OpenGL Support and even more to come. Peregrine is a Messaging System for the most common services like jabber, ICQ, Google talk, AIM, XMPP, MSN, Facebook etc, with additional services in [...]

LibreOffice 3.3.2 has been released yesterday, bringing further improvements and stability.   The LibreOffice 3.3.2 changelog: translation and dictionary updates en-US fallback strings for incomplete translations calc: Properly invalidate cached sheet XML streams during reference update. Make sure these values are positive; we use them to resize arrays. Fixed incorrect cursor navigation. Go through all tokens to look for a volatile one. Enable import of [...]

Looks like there still is love from Nokia towards MeeGo (but many didn’t think thats possible). According to a recent story the Finnish cellphone maker is considering its tablet Operating System options and they clearly include MeeGo which Nokia is still developing on, still working on and still have high hopes on for. Nokia’s strategy for entering the tablet computer market may not include Microsoft, [...]

All things Qt are progressing quite well at the moment and here is the one of the directions that Qt Scene graph is going in:     The ShaderEffectItem is simply a rectangle with a custom vertex and fragment shader. The vertices passed to the vertex shader are the corners of the rectangle defined by the “width” and “height” properties of the item. (There is [...]

Mozilla has this evening released FireFox 4 for Android and more importantly Maemo. Download directly onto the Nokia N900 from this link. Heres what Mozilla have to say about FireFox4 Release Candidate: This release offers faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync and improves the overall user experience of Firefox. Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo brings the performance and customization of Firefox to mobile devices [...]

Seems like only yesterday that we saw Glow popup and today we have made a video of it running on the WeTab. The WeTab is a MeeGo device running their Own User Interface ontop of MeeGo 1.1. Now as a recap Glow was developed in Qt and QML and the basic program file (RPM) file was copied over onto the WeTab which is a device [...]

The Maemo Community Council elections were upon us, but it was agreed with the Maemo community to accept the “no election” scenario and full Council-ship was awareded to the following candidates who are now the Q1 2011 Maemo Community Council: RM Bauer (SD69) Alan Bruce (qole) Felipe Crochik (fcrochik) Attila Csipa (achipa) Randall Arnold (texrat) You can communicate with these people through the usual Maemo.org [...]

Maemo.org member jvanhou wasn’t like the rest of us, running around howling at the moon, he was being useful, photographing it with his Nokia N900 and check out the view: Last night, I heard on the evening news that the moon was going to be very close to the Earth, and would be a spectacular opportunity to view at its fullest. After waiting for sunset, [...]