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 University have taken a totally different approach. By using a network proxy to squash traffic into bursts rather than a constant bit rate, and by forcing a smartphone’s modem into idle mode between each burst, [...]

    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 music, photos, videos, and documents? The Antix Game Player* (AGP) is a middleware layer that allows users to do exactly this. AGP abstracts the operating system, chipset, screen size, and orientation and input device, providing [...]

    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 to choose to download : IPython 0.10.2 IPython 0.10 IPython 0.10.2 x IPython 0.10 packages: v0.10.2 is newer (09/04/2011) than v0.10 (04/07/2009); v0.10.2 doesn’t have HTML and PDF documentation, so it takes 8.0 MB after [...]

    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 old times with Rotary Dialer!   Source Ovi Store

    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 the automotive industry and the growing cross-industry ecosystem for future mobility solutions. The Automotive Linux Summit is the premier vendor-neutral business and technical conference for companies and developers using or looking to use Linux and [...]

    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 give you practical hand-on experience – tutorials, examples, code samples. We’ve combined all of these and more into two brand new Qt Developer Guides just published at http://qt.nokia.com/learning/guides/. One of the guides helps you develop [...]

    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, Kesha, Hugh Jackman, Jim Carrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tiger Woods and many more. You can see tweets of your favorite celebrities with his/her followers count, Tweets per day (TPD) and Joining date. Always stay connected with [...]

    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 to stop your time, store your best, last and average times, also it gives you scramble commands and a selectable inspection time.   Source Ovi Store

  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).     Firefox for mobile versions use the same Gecko layout engine as their Firefox counterparts. Its features include tabbed browsing, password manager, location-aware browsing, and the ability to synchronize with the user’s computer Firefox browser [...]

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

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

    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 like below     <!– <mime>image/*</mime> –> <!– <mime>video/*</mime> –> 4. Once you find these lines just remove comments from this code and press ctrl on the on-screen keyboard and press X and then press [...]

    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 the hours to learning.  I missed out on local Qt training a while back so I’m dependent on documentation along with patient people online. The latter have been a huge help.  I’ve encountered some weird [...]

  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 download the latest version via Apps For MeeGo. The source code is on gitorious.org: https://gitorious.org/forum-qml/forum-tmo For now it can: show the main forum list, show the forums’ thread lists, show each threads’ post list, use [...]

    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 elongated time to market has given Chinese KIRF artists the chance to beat Finland with their own device. Parsing together leaked pictures and perhaps some insider info we’re not privy to, some crafty folks have [...]