Here is a quick panning Video showing MeeGo installed on the Acer Aspire One D-250. Its a bit shaky but it shows the look of it:

  Butaca aims to be your best movie companion. Butaca is Free Software under the GPL 3.0 and runs on your MeeGo/Harmattan devices What is Butaca? Butaca is an application which allows accessing a lot of movie-related information. Using  The Movie Database as a backend, Butaca lets you search for a movie and get the title, rating, release date, overview, cast… and a lot of [...]

  Looks like timoph has been a busy little bee: I spotted today that the needed KDE and plasma active packages compile succesfully for arm in theMeeGo community OBS so I just had to try to run it on top MeeGo N900 Community Edition. Heres a Video of the Action: I think the KDE people are on the right track with this and really hope that the MeeGo community edition will [...]

  Another video clip taken by the yet unreleased Nokia N9 of Shanghai China Skyline Please make sure to select HD 720p at bottom right. A clear video of the Shanghai Skyline while cruising on the expressway superb footage and no annoying music. This vid was filmed on a prototype Nokia N9 which i picked up from Nokia Centre in Shanghai, the final release version [...]

  Introducing the EmuMaster project: The aim of EmuMaster project is to emulate popular consoles like NES, SNES, GB, C64 and more. I know that there is a lot of emulators out there. But what I saw is they are not so easy to use or lack some cool features. So I decided to bring my ideas to the world of emulation. I have started [...]

  Woo. One of these games where you rotate your device under time pressure. Don’t judge this one by its looks.     Download it from that page or enjoy direct linking goodness: orientation_1.0.0_armel.deb. Woo! Best played with techno music, dancing around the streets. Bonus points for finding all the easter eggs in this one!   Source MeeGo

  Here is Timoph kicking off this blog with a status update on what he has been doing for MeeGo QA-tools for the past few weeks. The goal of the work that I’ve been doing is to enable test automation in MeeGo context. I started by bringing the tools needed to automate test execution. The tools have been developed inside Nokia and have been recently [...]

  For the launch of the N9 (yes, we are one of the countries in which the N9 will be officially available, and at least 3 of 4 operators will offer it with a contract), Nokia Austria is organizing a N9 Hackathon around the N9 on the second weekend of October (2011-10-08 + 2011-10-09) in Vienna. If you live in or around Austria, or wanted [...]

  Porting of InternetRadioPlayer to Harmattan OS. Standalone player to listen to streaming radios. It uses an sqlite database (actually the same of the Fremantle version) to store data. Default list size is over 110 stations, but QMediaPlayer is not able to load asx and other formats (???).       Could have not provided lyrics download and cronology logging since QMediaPlayer does not load [...]

    QFunzel is a simple “flashlight” / “electric torch” app. It simply displays a white screen to shed some light. “Funzel” is colloquial German for a dim or weak light source. As long as QFunzel is displayed in full-screen the display will not be dimmed or shut down automatically. Note: as soon as you minimize or close QFunzel the dimming setting is restored to [...]

  Look like Nokia Developer forums taken down yesterday to investigate a security breach. Apparently their database has been subjet to a SQL injection hack and the email DataBase has been stolen, but no passwords. Here is the link to the Website.     Here is an email that we received: You may have seen reports or received an email from us regarding a recent [...]

  Mozilla forge ahead with their rapid development of FireFox. This time its the Maemo variant and in particular Firefox Mobile 7.0 beta 2 for the Nokia N900 is now available for download. I’m in a bit of a rush at the moment so I won’t have a chance to install and for any hands on. Download from here (instant download). Thanks to @alextootchie for [...]

  Soon the Nokia N9 will be released and it looks like there will be a synching solution for the PC and Mac that is readying itself in the shadows by the name of “Nokia Link”. Yes, that was not a typo earlier there is some Mac “Love” on its way as well. You can use the the software to keep your Nokia N9′s Music, [...]

  Looks like Acer does like our little MeeGo operating system. Not just content with releasing the Acer Aspire One D257 on Amazon in Germany, it looks as if they have gone for the double. This time is the Acer Aspire 5749 which is a Intel Sandy Bridge Core i3-2310M processor. Prices at EUR399 including VAT and Free shipping this looks quite an interesting proposition. [...]

    Minor update to TwimGo this weekend. Release notes for v3.0.6: Pull down timeline to refresh Scroll to bottom to automatically load more tweets Reply to direct message is sent as direct message It was pretty easy to add the auto “load more” functionality as both GridView (used in landscape mode) and ListView (portait mode) have a property atYEnd to check if user have scrolled to [...]