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Sat, 04.09.10
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[New] Shariks - accelerometer controlled game for the N900
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| Shariks from Konstantin Kirpichonock and Vladimir Dmitriev is an accelerometer controlled game for Maemo 5. In this game the player must use the Ball to collect smaller balls (TailBalls), which connect to player's ball using links. On high speeds links will break. There are also CrazyBalls (periodically they start moving fast and may break links between Ball and TailBalls) and Stars (when player's Ball touches it, player loses one life). |
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Thu, 02.09.10
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New rumoured N9 technical specifications appeared
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| On several blogs some new tech specifications of the upcoming Meego-based Nokia N9 have just appeared. Among others, they mention screen resolution of 1280x720 (i.e. matching the HD 720p video size, letting one view 720p video content without any resizing) @ 4.0 inches, ARM Cortex-A8 1 GHz processor and SGX540 GPU, 512 MB SDRAM (finally something that would prevent heavy swapping to kick in as early as on 'stuffed' N900 and badly affect the performance), 1 GB NAND (enough space on rootfs not to have move certain system components from there to slower eMMC at the cost of speed), 64 GB of built-in storage space + support for 32 GB memory cards, HSPA+, Bluetooth 3.0, WLAN b/g/n, HDMI mini connector, USB OTG, 12 Megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording @ 30 fps and more. More details here. Let's hope that these specs are at least half true... |
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[New] Slysics - physics simulation game for the N900
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| Slysics by Wilson Tang is a physics simulation game which involves the user drawing lines in which a figure then sleds or slides down. |
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Wed, 01.09.10
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[New] SuperTux 2 for the N900
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| Daniel Nagy has released a Nokia N900 port of SuperTux 2, a free, open source two-dimensional jump'n'run platform game inspired by the Nintendo Super Mario series. Instead of Mario, the hero in this game is Tux, the mascot of the Linux kernel. |
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[New] Plans Plant - tree based task planning application for N900
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| Plans Plant from Nick Slobodsky is a simple application for planning your tasks using a tree of tasks, subtasks and dependencies as the main tool. Task can have planned times for start and finish, and total amount of time required to complete the task, and can be marked completed by a single mouse click (or tap) on the tree, but only when all of its subtasks and dependencies are completed. |
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[New] Mirror Magic - Deflector/Mindbender type arcade for Maemo
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| Mirror Magic is another port of a classic arcade game from Daniel Nagy. This time a "Deflektor" (C 64) or "Mindbender" (Amiga) type game. |
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Tue, 31.08.10
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[New] GemRB - play Baldur's Gate on your N900
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| GemRB from Bundyo is a port of the open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine. Using it, you can play games based on that engine on your Nokia N900, including e.g. Baldur's Gate 2 or Icewind Dale. |
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Mon, 30.08.10
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[New] Outlaw Solitaire - poker squares for the N900
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| Outlaw Solitaire by Toni Kansala is a game of poker squares. The aim of the game is to create best possible poker hands horizontally and vertically by placing 25 randomly dealt cards to a 5 x 5 grid. |
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[New] Gas-Balls - live wallpaper for the N900
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| Gas-Balls is a live wallpaper from Nokia. Make your desktop and photos alive with balls and colored gas. Animation reacts both to touches and device position in real time. It can run as a desktop wallpaper, as a tranparent layer over the existing desktop wallpaper, or in its own window. |
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[New] Frogatto & Friends - jump-and-run game
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| Frogatto & Friends ported to the N900 by Philipp Zabel is a "platformer" or "jump-and-run" videogame. Like many older arcade/Nintendo/Sega titles, the world is viewed as a cross-section seen from the side, and your character walks and jumps between solid platforms, whilst avoiding being hurt by monsters. |
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Sun, 29.08.10
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[New] TinySMB - small and simple to use SMB server for N900
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| TinySMB from Karl Wintermann is a small SMB server for embedded systems. SMB server allows access to local files via network. Using it, you can very easily access the file system of the N900 from e.g. a desktop computer. |
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[New] KFZcheck-Extras - additional lists for KFZcheck
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| KFZcheck-Extras is a collection of useful lists for KFZcheck, which by default comes with just a list of licence plates. This package adds E-Numbers (food ingredients), Molkereien_de (German dairy companies), ISO codes (German version), top level domains and IATA airport codes. |
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Sat, 28.08.10
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[New] Bambuser client for the N900
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| Bambuser client has just been made available for the N900. Bambuser is an application/service that enables the user to stream live video from your mobile phone using 3G or WiFi. |
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Thu, 26.08.10
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Qt Creator 2.0.1 released
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| Nokia today released version 2.0.1 of Qt Creator, the cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for use with the Qt framework. Qt Creator 2.0.1 brings bugfixes and optimizations based on feedback received from users since the release of Qt Creator 2.0.0. All Qt releases are available for download from http://qt.nokia.com/downloads. |
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[New] Easily activate up to 9 desktops on the N900 with Desktop+
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| Desktop+ by NightShift provides a simple GUI allowing the user easily activate more than 4 desktops. Up to 9 desktops can be activated. |
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[New] Image Set Maker - create N900 desktop image sets with ease!
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| Image Set Maker by Sybren Dijkstra quickly and easily creates a set of images for the desktop from pictures selected by you. No more bothering about .desktop files for image sets! |
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Detailed review of Trojita email client for the N900
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 dannycamps has written a very detailed review of one of new arrivals to the Maemo platform, Trojita, an IMAP email client written in Qt with an N900 optimized UI. Read on and let us know your thoughts... |
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[New] Font Changer - change UI font family and size
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| Font Changer by Ricky Tournee is a Control Panel applet to change system font family and size for the entire UI. |
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[New] KhtEditor - source code editor for Maemo and Meego
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| KhtEditor from Benoit Hervier is a source code editor specially designed for devices running Maemo and MeeGo Handset. |
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Nokia and Intel open a joint lab and collaborate on 3D user experience
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| This month, Nokia and Intel have established a new, collaboratively owned and run laboratory at the Centre for Internet Excellence at the University of Oulu. The initial focus of the lab will be graphics: making new, next-generation graphical experiences for mobile users. There's already a strong 3D internet research community established at the Centre, and the partners hope to tap into that excellence to help inspire their own projects. The Centre produced realXtend, an open source platform for interconnected 3D worlds, for example. The lab's first projects involve creating new user interfaces for MeeGo and potentially other platforms that use 3D graphics in ways that are new, easy-to-use and enjoyable. Read more.... |
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Wed, 25.08.10
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[New] Crazy Chickens - classic egg catcher
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| Crazy Chickens from Kunal Parmar is the classic egg catching game. Catch all falling eggs before they hit the ground. Touch a hen to make mickey catch egg produced by that hen. |
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[New] Cmd Shortcuts - interactive command launcher
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| Cmd Shortcuts by Anton Kindestam is a launcher program for launching commands, with the ability to open dialogs to ask for user input. |
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Mon, 23.08.10
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[New] Viito - sign language dictionary for N900
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| Viito by Aki Niemi is a free and open source sign language image dictionary application. |
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[New] Chess Clock for the N900
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| Chess Clock by Heli Hyvättinen is game clock software for chess players with N900. Software supports different time controls (time additions, delays, hour glass). Timers are adjustable, different time settings for white and black are available. |
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Sun, 22.08.10
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[New] VCMI - Heroes Of Might and Magic 3 rewrite
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| VCMI Heroes from Daniel Spies is a rewrite of the Heroes of Might and Magic 3 engine. The purpose of VCMI project is to rewrite entire HOMM 3: WoG engine from scratch, giving it new and extended possibilities. It will help to support mods and new towns already made by fans but abandoned because of game code limitations. |
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Sat, 21.08.10
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[New] Qthello - Reversi/Othello game for the N900
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| Qthello by Vadym Khokhlov is a Reversi/Othello game written in Qt for Maemo with support for Human vs. Human and Human vs. Computer modes. |
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[New] noiz2sa - an abstract vertical arcade shooter
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| noiz2sa from Jochen Becher is a classical vertical arcade shooter with an abstract theme and matching electronic music. Control your ship by moving your phone and shoot enemies by pressing your thumb on promity sensor. |
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Fri, 20.08.10
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[New] Rocks'N'Diamonds - Boulder Dash style game
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| Rocks'N'Diamonds is a port of an arcade game in the style of Boulder Dash, Sokoban, Supaplex, etc. |
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[New] 15shki - Fifteen game with accelerometer control
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| 15shki is an accelerometer-based fifteen game. Instead of touching the screen or pressing any buttons just tilt the phone to slide numbered tiles. |
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[New] ASCII pOrtal - port of PC game Portal with text graphics
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| ASCII pOrtal by Daniel Nagy is a port of the popular PC game "Portal" with ASCII graphics. |
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[New] NiceDraw - learn to draw with your N900
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| NiceDraw by D. Schmicker is a simple graphic tool for those making their first steps in drawing/painting. It lets you display a picture in the background and use it as a template for your own drawing. Using a slider you can quickly change the brightness of the template to achieve good visibility of your drawing. |
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Wed, 18.08.10
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[New] Movie Finder - find theatres and movies, watch trailers
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| With Movie Finder by Ikamobile you can quickly find theatres, movies and showtime. Additionally, you can watch high-quality trailers and find cinemas near your location. |
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[New] NITDroid Installer - install Android on N900 the easy way
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| If you wanted to install Android on your Nokia N900 but manual installation was too difficult for you, now you can take advantage of Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh's NITDroid Installer that will do the job for you. Just make sure to have some 2 GB memory card available for the installation. |
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[New] Advanced Power - detailed battery life information in status area
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| Advanced Power from Kirill Playashkevich is supposed to show detailed battery information in the status panel, including percentage and time left when idle or active. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work on my unit (the driver won't start), but maybe that's because of the custom kernel. If it works for you, let us know! |
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Tue, 17.08.10
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[Upd] Live Wallpaper 0.8 - live video and 200 animated screensavers
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| New version 0.8 of Vlad Vasiliev's Live Wallpaper now not only supports animated backgrounds but also live video and over 200 Xscreensaver compatible screensavers as backgrounds for your N900 desktops. And that's not all, each desktop can have a different one and of different type! |
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[New] Advanced Interface Switcher - easy radio interface control
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| Advanced Interface Switcher by Kirill Playashkevich is a status menu plugin to control GSM, Bluetooth and WiFi (turning on and off, state informing (on, off, connected)). Kind of all-in-one radio interface controlling. |
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[New] Khweeteur - simple Twitter client for Maemo
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Sat, 14.08.10
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[New] Lugdulo'V - bike sharing app for the N900
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| Lugdulo'V by Corentin Chary is a bike sharing application. It lets you find availables bikes on bike sharing systems. You can search for bikes and stations by position, name, or using a map. |
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[New] AppLocker - hide your installed N900 applications
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| With AppLocker from CepiPerez you can hide your installed Maemo applications so that their icons do not appear in the menu. Just select or deselect and app on the list to hide or unhide it. |
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[New] LTM - London Underground Map for the N900
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| LTM by Amir Bendjazia is a simple scrollable map of the London's underground system. |
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