maemober: Archive

Jan 11th

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Dec 15th

Desktop vs mobile metaphores.

While messing with various twitter options, it’s apparent that obviously all ‘real’ web based twitter clients work just fine. (I havent tried tweetdeck, not sure if its linux version will play ball). BUT they kinds don’t really work as they are designed for mices not stubby fingers, I know theres a stylus, but I haven’t used it once - whereas I use it all the time on...

Dec 13th

Dec 11th

Dec 10th

twitter false alert!

arghh just spent ages looking for an N900 twitter app, announced and RT’d this am but it seems it does not exist :( dabr.co.uk will keep me tweeting on the go.

Dec 10th

Dec 7th

Dec 6th

Dec 4th

Watch

I went to a gig at the O2 indigo2, on the way over I installed QIK (on the bus, no problem) and gave it a quick trial (pun intended) you can see the videos it produced here. Not bad, esp in tricky light, or lack of light.

Dec 4th

little update on album art...

someone on nokiausers asked how amazon mp3’s were…. I’ll try amazon mp3 purchases, they never worked for me on S60 (ie the album art showing up) the only ones that ever work on S60 one was iTunes purchases which is odd as 7 Digital/ Amazon ones have album art in iTunes, without manually doing the ‘get art’ like you have to when you rip your own cd’s ok just put...

Dec 3rd

Dec 2nd

Dec 1st

A whole new interface.

The N900 is a real shift in how you use a mobile phone. As it’s not really a phone, the phone is just an app, as much as anything. The Maemo interface has 4 modes, three navigations modes plus in an application. You have: The multi screen ‘desktop’ which holds widgets and shortcuts. The application ‘icon’ menu, most like a traditional nokia grid view, though it...

Nov 30th

Commuters rejoice.

The N900, really comes into its own commuting, having a desktop like experience on the train is awesome, and I’ve yet to try video and music while I travel. I’m getting used to the keyboard now so can type at a reasonable speed with about the same amount of errors I get with any mobile text entry. Or even a desktop keyboard. The other side-issue bonus is that using a t-mobile sim, I...

Nov 30th

Nov 29th

Nokia Messenging

I’ve been using nokia messaging, with its push email and collating several accounts via one log in for a while now. Luckily its on the N900, so all I had to do was enter one username/password combo and i got 3 email account syncing. SWEET AS. Though on set up it takes a while downloading the last weeks worth of email, with a lot of vibrating alerts. But once you are up and running its...

Nov 27th