Archives for November 30th, 2011

Nov

2011

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Researchers Put Smartphones on a Power Diet, Drastically Improve Battery Life

Nokia’s Asha handsets already use browser compression to reduce data costs and power consumption for customers in the developing world, but the company’s Finnish neighbours over at Aalto ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Developer Experience: Porting the Antix* Game Player to MeeGo

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The developers at Antix Labs* had an innovative idea: What if people could enjoy high-performance games across all of their devices, just like they’re used to doing with ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Application – iPython for Nokia N9 MeeGo Harmattan

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IPython package is now released to MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan, so interactively using Python and its modules (like NumPy, SymPy, etc) becomes a lot easier. There are two versions ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Application – Rotary Dialer for Nokia N9 – MeeGo Harmattan

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The classic, old-fashioned rotary dialer telephone in an amusing app that allows you to start phone calls in a funny way.Now with sound and feedback effects. Bring back ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Automotive Linux Summit 2011

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Monday, November 28, 2011 · Pacifico Yokohama · Yokohama, Japan The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the Automotive Linux Summit (ALS). ALS is event specifically for ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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New Guides to Help you Develop With Qt Quick – Faster!

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We’ve been busy, and we hope you like what we’ve done! You told us through surveys and direct feedback that the most valuable learning tools are those that ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Application – Celebrity TweetTalk for Nokia N9 – MeeGo Harmattan

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Get the latest Tweets from a range of Popular Celebrities like Barack Obama, Katy Perry, Tom Cruise, Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan, Rihanna, Ashton Kutcher, Bill Gates, Justin Timberlake, ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Application – CubeTimerQML for Nokia N9/N950 – MeeGo Harmattan

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CubeTimerQML is an application for all Speed Cubing fans, because with this App you can train your skills everywhere with your N9 or N950. The App is able ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Application – Firefox (Fennec) for Nokia N9 / N950 – MeeGo Harmattan

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Firefox for mobile (codenamed Fennec) is the name of the build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser for devices such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Swipe UI: MeeGo Harmattan vs BBX

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Comparison of the cutting-edge swipe gestures in the Nokia N9′s Harmattan OS and the Blackberry Playbook’s BBX OS. Source YouTube

Nov

2011

by Ash

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EffChen Running on the Nokia N950

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My small GLSL test also works on the OpenGL ES 2.0-based N950 now. Using the SDL 1.2 Harmattan port. Source YouTube

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Simple Trick to Enable Twitpic from N9 / N950 Gallery!

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1.Open Terminal and enable super user mode devel-su password : rootme 2. Then type nano /usr/share/accounts/services/twitter-share.service 3.Open the twitter-share.service file and scroll till you find something ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Why I am Every Qt Expert’s Worst Nightmare

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This post is from Tabula Crypticum: As I’ve noted before, I have been interested in Qt development for some time and finally got to where I could allocate ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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A MeeGo Forum Viewer for Harmattan

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forum-fmc is a work-in-progress N9/N950 QML UI for the MeeGo forum, similar to its talk.maemo.org counterpart. I’d be happy to get your feedback about it: You can ...

Nov

2011

by Ash

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Keepin’ it Real Fake: Nokia N9 Doesn’t Wait for Mature MeeGo to Launch in China

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As with the N8, so with the N9. Nokia’s first MeeGo device is widely expected to be dubbed the N9 and sport a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, but its ...

Nov

2011

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Pink and Blue Nokia N9 hit Play UK – £509.99

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Is the Nokia N9 in Black not for you ? Want to be more expressive ? Well Play.com has also got the 16Gb version Blue and Pink (magento) ...

Nov

2011

by Sam

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Google Street View Loaded in Nokia N9′s Built-in browser

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This is a quick Proof of concept showing the Javascript version of Google Street View loaded in Nokia N9′s built-in browser Source Twitter

Nov

2011

by Sam

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Application – Netview for Nokia N9/N950 – MeeGo Harmattan

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Netview is a VNC based remote control for your phone. Netview enables you to view and interact with your phone from your laptop via a wifi connection. It ...