Category: "Netbook"

Raspberry PI gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator !!!

  Like many of us you have possibly ordered a Raspberry PI and waiting patiently for it to get dispatched (well it has to be made first). Of all the use cases of it I would not of thought that someone would manage to port a ZX Spectrum emulator onto it !!!     Andy Taylor currently volunteers at the UK Computer Museum, an organization [...]

Raspberry PI gets a ZX Spectrum Emulator !!!

MyMoves 0.2.1: Vibra Feedback, Bring back Simple 3-Finger Gestures

    Looks like sandst1 is happy to receive his first patch for MyMoves. Read on for the Blow by Blow: Wohoo, MyMoves got its first patch! \o/ Thanks to this patch from ledimies, we’ve now got vibra feedback support in the application. It follows the system feedback profiles, so if you turn off the feedback, MyMoves won’t vibrate either. The vibra feedback is played [...]

MyMoves 0.2.1: Vibra Feedback, Bring back Simple 3-Finger Gestures

WeTab – Release Notes – Version 2.4.1 (19.01.2012)

    Below are the release notes for the latest version of OS for the WeTab v2.4.1 Version 2.4.1 (19/01/2012) Upgrade to kernel version 3.2 with support for more external devices Optimized power settings functionalities Increased graphics and video performance Improved G-Sensor rotation Increased WIFI and Bluetooth network stability General improvements on performance and stability Bugfix for “forgotten password” problem Several other bugfixes Version 2.4 [...]

WeTab – Release Notes – Version 2.4.1 (19.01.2012)

MeeGo v1.2.0.5 Netbook Update has been released

    This update is recommended for Netbook users running MeeGo 1.2.0. It includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your devices, including these fixes: Supported playing audio CD in media player Added network settings to gnome control center Fixed several email client issues Enhanced several panels: devices panel, applications panel, people panel, networks panel, and zones panel Detailed [...]

MeeGo v1.2.0.5 Netbook Update has been released

MeeGo Tablet App Submission to Come to a Close by the end of year

    Now that MeeGo will no longer be progressed by Intel or the Linux foundation and without MeeGo tablet devices in market, the AppUp developer program will not be accepting MeeGo tablet app submissions for validation, effective December 2011. However MeeGo Netbook app submissions will continue for AppUp. MeeGo’s replacement Operating System Tizen will initially support MeeGo netbook applications but it is thought this [...]

MeeGo Tablet App Submission to Come to a Close by the end of year

Cedartrail MeeGo 1.2 Beta Release Notes

  This is the Beta Release of MeeGo* 1.2.0 for the Cedar Trail Platform. The image name is meego-netbook-ia32-20111123.5.img. This image includes components supporting the Cedar Trail Netbook chipset: Kernel component: Enables the display driver and includes a kernel service which intercepts commands from user-space and passes to micro-kernels running on GPU. This code is licensed under GPL. User Space driver (PVR545): Closed-source user space [...]

Cedartrail MeeGo 1.2 Beta Release Notes

Mer/Plasma Active on Archos G9 Tablet

    Plasma Active is innovative technology for a smarter mobile user experience…the latest member of the Plasma Workspaces family from KDE. The touchscreen interface is more than just an application launcher. Rather than the commonplace grid of applications, an Activity view shows a single project, task or idea, gathering all related documents, people, web sites, media and widgets. By creating multiple Activities, a mobile [...]

Mer/Plasma Active on Archos G9 Tablet

Swipe UI: MeeGo Harmattan vs BBX

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

Swipe UI: MeeGo Harmattan vs BBX

MeeGoExperts Tech MeetUp – Birmingham UK – 3rd Dec

    Time again for another meet up. Its been a while since we sat down and discussed the world of Tech. So come along and have a natter about MeeGo, Tizen, Mer, Nemo and anything else tech related that takes your fancy. Chill in a relaxed environment and if you have anything that you want to show off then drag it along (tech!!!)   [...]

MeeGoExperts Tech MeetUp – Birmingham UK – 3rd Dec

Nemo Running on HP TouchPad

    This is a quick video showing Nemo Running on the HP TouchPad. Its early days but we can hopefully see this maturing as Nemo does   Source Youtube

Nemo Running on HP TouchPad

PandaBoard, Mer and XBMC

  Article from Sage’s Technology Blog: It has been a while when I posted anything about my Pandaboard+MeeGo+XBMC HTPC project, this “pause” has been mainly because of lack of time. Now when Intel announced Tizen and MeeGo was announced to be more or less discontinued as such community started a new project called Mer. Mer supports more architectures from the beginning than MeeGo did as [...]

PandaBoard, Mer and XBMC

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

    Sources close to Adobe that have been briefed on the company’s future development plans have revealed this forthcoming announcement to ZDNet: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS [...]

Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

Fake resellers hit Raspberry Pi

    Seems like theres a Con around every corner and it looks like Raspberry Pi have become a target. Here is a post from them regarding fake resellers: It’s just been drawn to our attention that there’s a Russian site (www.raspberrypi.ru) purporting to be an official reseller, which is already offering preorders. We’re sending a takedown notice (although I’m not sure how much traction [...]

Fake resellers hit Raspberry Pi

IRU Pad Master is a 11.6 Inch WeTab Tablet With a MeeGo Version Installed

  Story by Tablet News: It’s been a while since we heard about the WeTab tablet, right? Now, the device is back with iRU on board, a platform based on the MeeGo OS, that has been made famous by the Nokia N9. However, things looks different in the tablet version.     The device you see here is a 11.6 inch tablet with the iRU [...]

IRU Pad Master is a 11.6 Inch WeTab Tablet With a MeeGo Version Installed

OpenMobile goes into Asia with their 300,000 Android Apps !

    Since being featured on MeeGoExperts and other tech sites (that Engadget fella comes to mind) OpenMobile has been shunned into the limelight with its Technology that allows any non-Android / non-iOS device to seamlessly run the approximate 300,000+ Android apps (and counting). Obviously we are looking forward to these apps running on MeeGo and also Tizen in the future. They have received huge [...]

OpenMobile goes into Asia with their 300,000 Android Apps !