Re: n900 and laptop with Debian: what application to use on laptop for syncing?

2012-03-31 Thread Kevin T. Neely
If you need a service of some sort to help broker the synchronization, you may want to check out memotoo.com. They pretty much work with everything, but on the N900, syncevolution is the way to go. They even provide instructions for setting it up. K On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Philipp

Re: PR1.3 coming!

2010-10-26 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Just a quik FYI: OTA worked perfectly for me. Based on an email from this list, I removed gltron prior to update. I performed a backup but didn't need it, everything appears like before the upgrade. Mail does seem to be quicker now per the fixed bug, which is the biggest win for me. K --

Re: Opera 10 alpha for maemo

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Just installed it on my N900 and opened up a couple websites. the onscreen keyboard works well enough on that, and I imagine it is better on the larger N800 screen. I am looking forward to giving this a try on my older device when I get home. K On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 05:02:55PM -0700, Gary

Re: Gtalk call doesnt work on 3/3.5 G Network

2010-04-26 Thread Kevin T. Neely
in 3G network. Thanks Khalid On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: It may be your carrier. I notice that on ATT, Skype will not connect, but it will when I am using wifi. What is weird is that using the exact same SIM in a Symbian

Re: Gtalk call doesnt work on 3/3.5 G Network

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
It may be your carrier. I notice that on ATT, Skype will not connect, but it will when I am using wifi. What is weird is that using the exact same SIM in a Symbian phone, I can connect to Skype using Nimbuzz, although that is probably proxied through their own servers. K On Mon, Apr 26,

Re: N900 as an internet device

2010-03-08 Thread Kevin T. Neely
for 1) you can use Joikuspot On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Kevin Kempter ke...@kevinkempterllc.comwrote: Hi all; 2 questions: 1) I've recently seen that there's an app for the palm pre that turns it into w wireless access point. Is there a similar app for the N900 2) Other than a

Re: Indications with maps.

2010-02-19 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I think it's pretty safe to assume that at some point in the near future, the Ovi Maps for Maemo will be free. I suspect the Maps team is very busy updating all the Symbian clients and ironing out the bugs in the recent releases. I was hoping for some Maemo-related announcement during MWC, but

Re: Indications with maps.

2010-02-19 Thread Kevin T. Neely
paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bma...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: I think it's pretty safe to assume that at some point in the near future, the Ovi Maps for Maemo will be free. I suspect the Maps team is very busy

Re: Conversation Facebook plugin

2010-02-10 Thread Kevin T. Neely
It should support XMPP out of the box, looks like the Nokia Blog has instructions already: http://thenokiablog.com/2010/02/10/how-to-add-facebook-chat-nokia-n900-out-of-the-box/ K On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Kahlil Johnson jzare...@gmail.com wrote: Facebook recently change to XMPP

Re: Hands-on: Mozilla's pocket-sized Firefox mobile for Maemo

2010-02-03 Thread Kevin T. Neely
An interesting Reviewer's Guide for the Nokia N900 http://to./i9h side note: really need to look at dumping Xmarks in favor of Weave sync enjoy, K On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Gary g...@eyetraxx.net wrote: in case you haven't already seen this...

Re: Facebook app is just a commercial after update

2010-01-12 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Actually, yes. I'm pretty sure both Gizmo and Skype used this technique in Diablo. K On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Gary g...@eyetraxx.net wrote: On 1/12/10, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Anyway this trick was used also on the N8x0 tablets for Skype. Was it also used for Gizmo? I can't

Re: Google services

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin T. Neely
K On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Andrea Grandi a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2010/1/7 Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com: This might be naive, but since the N900 runs a fully capable mozilla browser (i.e. fennec) why does it need a suite of Google applications? Now

Re: Google services

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin T. Neely
This might be naive, but since the N900 runs a fully capable mozilla browser (i.e. fennec) why does it need a suite of Google applications? Now, if it had the enhanced Google Maps app with voice navigation, that would be something. K On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Andrea Grandi

Re: New N900 user - Few ideas...

2009-12-13 Thread Kevin T. Neely
take the symbian version and install it to maemo. If I remember correctly there was no ovi maps for maemo 6 months ago. And N95 had maps 1.x, N95 was released 2007... Ossipena 2009/12/11 Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com I'm sad Ovi maps is so lacking on the N900 because

Re: N900 battery duration

2009-11-28 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Any smartphone with a fair amount use is going to require charging everyday. If I'm really working it, I can kill mine in a couple hours. I have a charger in my car, at my desk at work and at home, so it's never that much of an issue. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:03 PM, John B. Holmblad

Re: swollen battery

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin T. Neely
This seems appropriate for the conversation http://xkcd.com/651/ On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.comwrote: Get rid of the swollen batteries as soon as possible and do not try to charge them! They may explode or burn! Martin 2009/11/5, Mark

Re: Google Maps Navigation takes a mobile turn

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin T. Neely
wolfm...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently many think that Ovi Maps is just as bad as the tablet version... http://mer-l-in.blogspot.com/2009/10/ovi-maps-really-is-this-best-we-can-do.html On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: Ovi Maps uses Navteq

Re: Google Maps Navigation takes a mobile turn

2009-10-29 Thread Kevin T. Neely
That really works? I've been rocking mobile navigation for a couple years with Ovi Maps (formerly Nokia Maps), and more recently waze. The first is excellent, the latter very promising. I understand that Ovi Maps is not quite ready for primetime on the N900. Maybe one of the reasons they

Re: Google Maps Navigation takes a mobile turn

2009-10-29 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Ovi Maps uses Navteq maps. The engine is different from the mapping application on the N8x0 series tablets. On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Mark wolfm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: That really works? I've been

Re: N800 Cases

2009-10-05 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Nintendo DS cases are perfect for the tablet series K On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:22 AM, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Is anyone able to recommend a case for the N800? I would like one that protects the unit, perhaps has built in slots for space memory cards, and allows easy use of

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I don't understand why that's such a big deal. *all* hardware gets tossed aside eventually. Mobile just happens more often than others because the development space is so fast. If you want something that you can keep around for a while, get a big desktop. That probably has the longest

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Mark wolfm...@gmail.com wrote: You could not be more wrong. I'm still using my Handspring Visor Deluxe every day because it does things that *no* other device can do, When is the last time you had a software update for these devices? -- In Vino Veritas

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Not at all. The complaint I responded to was that Nokia would drop software updates for the N900 as soon as the next hardware came out, which it may or may not do. But it doesn't really matter because the tech moves so fast, older hardware just isn't useful anymore. Maybe the Visor is fine for

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
There's a lot of talk that Nokia should release a Maemo netbook. Is there a working port of Maemo to Intel-based chips? I only know of the ARM version for the tablets. This was partially mentioned above, but I don't think enough weight has been given to the fact that Nokia has just within the

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
difficult and that we'll see one soon after launch. Maybe even from some Linux hobbyists from within Nokia in the same way Sony releases unsupported versions for the Playstation. That would satisfy me. K On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Gary g...@eyetraxx.net wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: I

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
It's not touchscreen, but I believe Maemo can be controlled via mouse keyboard. K 2009/8/25 Ove Nordström ove.nordst...@gmail.com I wondering if the Nokia Netbook is a touch screen tablet? If not, is it really possible to run Maemo 5 on it? /ove 2009/8/25 Gary g...@eyetraxx.net: I

Re: Nokia netbook

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Gary g...@eyetraxx.net wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: I just recall a good bit of the video's focus was aimed at the corporate commuter types (so-called VPN-less connection to corporate email being first in my mind), so I thought that was a market segment

RE: Nokia netbook

2009-08-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
, but it is distinguishable from most. K Sent from my N97 read about it at http://rubbernecking.info -Original Message- From: Alexandru Cardaniuc Sent: 08/25/2009 3:47:24 PM Subject: Re: Nokia netbook Kevin T. Neely ktne...@astroturfgarden.com writes: I just recall a good bit

Re: N900/Maemo 5 review

2009-08-20 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I have to say, I'm pretty excited about the N900. That looks like Canola in the pictures. If they integrated that into the base system, the Maemo team did a very smart thing there. Looking forward to hearing more about it from Nokia World.announcements. K On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:58 AM,

Re: omweather failure

2009-07-10 Thread Kevin T. Neely
:51 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/10 Peter Bart pe...@petertheplumber.net: On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:36:13 +0100 Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.ie wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: Guess it just wasn't there a couple days back when I checked. Hooray for those omweather

Re: omweather failure

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I am guessing so, as I got this message the other day. Removed/re-added the locations and checked for updates. Still a no-go. K On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.iewrote: Suddely, omweather on my N800 has started popping up messages saying the location cannot

Re: omweather failure

2009-07-08 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Guess it just wasn't there a couple days back when I checked. Hooray for those omweather guys, they're usually only a few days behind weather.com's incessany changing of format/syntax. K On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Dr. Nicholas Shaw d...@docharley.com wrote: Ditto, installed the update

Re: Reading PDFs

2009-07-02 Thread Kevin T. Neely
That's a great tip! For power, look into something like an XPAL portable charger. I have one, and though it charges itself via USB by default, the jack is a standard Nokia one, so I use my Nokia chargers to charge it back up. Very handy. K On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Peter Flynn

Re: replacement battery for N810

2009-07-01 Thread Kevin T. Neely
smartphone would be fine on the tablets. Of course, I have no empirical evidence for any of this. :) K On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.ie wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: Nokia uses the same charger for all its batteries, so I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem

Re: replacement battery for N810

2009-06-30 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Nokia uses the same charger for all its batteries, so I'm sure that wouldn't be a problem. You want to make sure it is the same voltage as the original battery. Greater mAh should simply mean longer run (and longer charge) times. K On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Erik Hovland e...@hovland.org

Re: Rumor mill: Maemo 5 device

2009-06-24 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Peter Flynn peter.fl...@mars.ucc.iewrote: Mark wrote: Also, at this point regular cellular voice would be a requirement for me. I'd rather not. I already have a perfectly working phone, and I don't want to combine phone and PDA: you look such a prat

Re: omweather weirdness

2009-06-20 Thread Kevin T. Neely
What version are y'all running? I see an option to upgrade to 0.21.11, but am running 0.21.6 just fine, and was afraid to upgrade based on the comments. K On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Karl Kobel karlko...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Tim Peter, I also had this 'problem'. Check your

Re: N810 for $180

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Note that the Palm Pre came out before the SDK was even readily available. I'm not sure the SDK is a good metric. Also, most of Mark's arguments tend toward the Internet Tablet is not ready for end users. Taking that as a fact (for sake of argument) then the freezing of the SDK would be the best

Re: N810 for $180

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Mark wolfm...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kevin T. Neelyktne...@astroturfgarden.com wrote: Note that the Palm Pre came out before the SDK was even readily available. I'm not sure the SDK is a good metric. You're comparing apples

Re: maemo.org excrutiatingly slow

2009-03-31 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Everyone is downloading the Fremantle SDK? On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Mark wolfm...@gmail.com wrote: Why is maemo.org so incredibly slow? It's always been far slower than any other site I frequent, but lately it's just getting worse and worse. I don't have that problem with any other

Re: Skype for SIP + N800/N810 - Does it Work?

2009-03-31 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Seems like this is the kind of thing that would be all abuzz a CTIA this week. K On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Greene atmasph...@atmasphere.net wrote: I'm with you ... I just have no idea how to get it to work. I think you need a backend (like Asterisk) somewhere to actually

Re: Skype for SIP + N800/N810 - Does it Work?

2009-03-31 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Can't rtcomm and/or Gizmo interface with Asterisk? Or do you mean the Asterisk server daemons running on the tablet? K On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Erik Hovland e...@hovland.org wrote: I'm with you ... I just have no idea how to get it to work. I think you need a backend (like

Re: How About Google Maps for Mobile for the IT?

2009-03-18 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Also, it's not only touch screens that have Google Maps. There's an app for nearly all phones. But, like Jonathan said, it's an app, not viewing via the web client. K On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Jonathan Greene atmasph...@atmasphere.netwrote: keep in mind though that the iPhone and

Re: Ihpone on Steroids to IT G5?

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin T. Neely
they likely don't care about multi-tasking until you give a concrete example of a multi-tasking scenario: say, listening to mp3s while using IM. Or, switching between browsing, IM, and [your favourite iPhone app here]. concepts like multi-tasking tend to go over most people's heads until an

Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

2009-03-10 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Acadia Secure Networks, LLC * * Kevin T. Neely wrote: FWIW, I don't have an iphone, but I do have a $15/mo unlimited (which means 5GB) plan from ATT and I tether my laptop to that. K On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 1:27 PM, John Holmblad jholmb...@acadiasecurenets.com mailto:jholmb

Re: Iphone + tethering - No Way

2009-03-10 Thread Kevin T. Neely
using the original iPhone SIM in various devices for years now and I tether all kinds of mobile devices from laptops, N810, netbooks ... no issues. I've cleared 2Gb a few times, but 5 would be more like your only connection ... On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Kevin T. Neely ktne

Re: Bluetooth headset - N800

2009-01-26 Thread Kevin T. Neely
That is a tricky thing to remember. The first time they are turned on, headsets are automatically in pairing mode. After that, you have to usually hit some sort of button voodoo to get them into it again. K On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Chiron Bloch johnnybadhab...@gmail.comwrote: Are

Re: Moving icon to different menu in task navigator

2009-01-06 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Control Panel Panels Organize. K On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jeffrey Barish jeff_bar...@earthlink.netwrote: After installing Gizmo, it suggested that I install an upgrade. The upgrade moved the icon to Extras. How can I move it to Communication or Internet? -- Jeffrey Barish

Re: Canola2 no video icon

2008-11-16 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I had a similar problem where my install was missing all the Internet-y icons (photostream, last.fm, etc). The problem was I had the extras-devel repo enabled and it basically installed different versions of Canola, and broke the plugins. I had to uninstall, disable the extras-devel repo, and

Re: Installing Easy Debian

2008-11-06 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Doesn't Easy Debian expect that you are running from the built-in memory? Maybe it is confused since you are running from your external card. Since you are already using a custom bootloader, why not install regular Debian for the tablet? just a guess, K On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Rick

Re: What to do

2008-10-26 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Like this? http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24272 K On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Dean Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I recently got given a Dell axim x51v that does the same job as my 770 but im thinking of selling them both and getting an iPhone. I wanna

Re: What to do

2008-10-26 Thread Kevin T. Neely
] mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] backup email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin T. Neely wrote: Like this? http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24272 K On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Dean Chester [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I loaded canola did not work on n770

2008-07-22 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 06:12:14PM -0700, Jeff Treague wrote: I loaded canola on to my sons n770. Would not install. Do I need a program to go with it to get it to work. Can you Help Although I thought they had made this dependency seamless on the 770, Canola requires Python to be installed.

Re: Diablo released

2008-06-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Haven't heard about this: Does A2DP work with Diablo out-of-the-box? thanks, K -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org

Re: OT: Nokia to release Symbian/S60 under open-source license

2008-06-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:42:47PM -0500, mathew wrote: tanguyr wrote: Also, it will commit to moving the platform to open source during the next two years, with the intent to use the Eclipse Public License. Will this mean the death of mandatory code signing for basic functionality

Re: Diablo released

2008-06-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Chinook supports it? The last I'd read was that you needed to jump through some hoops to get it to work. thanks, K On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:51:14PM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: It did previously ... On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Kevin T. Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haven't

Re: Reading Ebooks.

2008-06-21 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:38:01PM +0930, Peter wrote: I was hoping that some else out their may be able to share their experiences with readers for the N810. Sadly, mobipocket has not been ported to maemo. You can, however, install Garnet VM and then install your Palm reader on that. It

Re: Postal address in Contacts?

2008-06-17 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:41:48AM -0600, Mark wrote: Okay, what problem does it solve? It's not a cellphone, so phone numbers are no help. How many phone numbers do you need to look up To follow your logic, there is no reason that the tablet's contacts profile should have physical addresses

Re: Postal address in Contacts?

2008-06-17 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:34:09PM -0600, Mark wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Kevin T. Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:41:48AM -0600, Mark wrote: To follow your logic, No, you're most certainly *not* following my logic. My logic is that physical

Re: GPE calendar sync?

2008-06-06 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:56:19PM +0200, Magnus Larsson wrote: Just upgraded from a N770 to a N800, and are now trying to get gpe calendar to sync to evolution on a ubuntu laptop. On the laptop I have multisync 0.90, opensync 0.22, inlcuding the libopensync-gpe, and on the N800 the

Re: GPE calendar sync?

2008-06-06 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 07:04:20PM -0700, Lake Stevens Dental wrote: What program do you use to sync your n800 with GC? I've installed GPE in my 800 and couldn't find anywhere to sync with GC. Claws Mail's calendar doesn't seem to have a GC link feature either. I use Ermining. It

Re: Lock, sleep, power-down

2008-06-04 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:07:49PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: One thing I know happens now is that touching the screen turns on the backlight while locked. So sitting in the case in my bag may be turning That shouln't happen. Touching the screen should no bring the backlight up.

Re: Cell Phone As Modem

2008-06-01 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 09:09:07PM +0300, Sameer Verma wrote: Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: service would keep telling me that I could not use Bluetooth because I had not purchased the tethering package. I was at the end of my contract and so, I switched to T-Mobile. It not only connects vis The

Re: Master reset

2008-05-28 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:47:36PM -0500, Kahlil Johnson wrote: Hi I am going to sell my old 770 and I would like to know how can I master reset it, or at least update to the latest build for 770. You can get the flasher and the latest firmware image from Nokia's support site. There is also

Re: Newbie to maemo lookig for advice

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 06:35:55 -0700 Lake Stevens Dental wrote: installable program it doesn't appear there, it typically shows up with appropriate links in the Maemo.org downloadable programs, or in the Maemo garage. It does

Re: Newbie to maemo lookig for advice

2008-05-16 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:51:53AM -0700, lakestevensdental wrote: IMHO, Gizmo has a minor advantage in that you can phone another Gizmo account and leave voice mail for free. Skype charges for that. Gizmo also offers 'connections' to about ten messenger programs like (I fear we are

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:50:54PM +0200, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: MicroB opens my Google Reader page with no issue at all, and is actually quite fast. Lucky, it doesn't work for me. Fennec is still pretty unusable for me on an n800, although i have it installed and am waiting for an

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:53:29AM -0400, Jonathan Greene wrote: I tend to use the mobile version of GR, which I don't really like, but at least it's reliable. They need to do much more than a single item, ust fired up reader on my 800 and it appears to be working, albeit slowly (might blame

Re: Microb Versus Mozilla Fennec

2008-05-09 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:48:33AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my earlier post I said that our browser development is being done nowadays on the Gecko trunk (practically same as Fennec) and we are also willing to embrace the Firefox add-on developer community. Fennec will Will we see

Re: omweather stopped working: bad codes

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:46:16PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote: I am running omweather on my N800 under OS2007. I have been using it since I got the device last year and it seemed to work perfectly. Check the thread Re: omweather recently broken? on this list from earlier today. Weather.com has

Re: Decent PIM for the N8x0

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 05:54:16PM -0600, Mark wrote: actually does out of the box. (And that tiny screen makes the it's only an Internet device excuse extremely absurd - who can stand to browse the Web very long with these things?) It's Nokia that has screwed us all, *including* the

Re: Decent PIM for the N8x0

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:49:56AM -0600, Mark wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Kevin T. Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just look at how Nokia has it marketed: it is an N-series device, which (apart from the tablet) is all smartphones. That's really not true. First of all

Re: Decent PIM for the N8x0

2008-05-02 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Summary: - Developers use Bugzilla as a to-do list for their project, with input from users - Many users are frustrated by the need to remember a login and enter the data - It is not a perfect system Can we move on from the Bugzilla discussion please? If there are still complaints or ideas

Re: English dictionary

2008-04-28 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:35:48PM +0800, jason zhang wrote: Is there an English dictionary Application for OS2800? It will be great if the dictionary can pronounce the word. dict is available for the platform. I use dict for both English and English-German lookups. K -- In Vino Veritas

Re: Hacker Edition (was Re: Is OS2006 still supported?)

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:49:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:43:59AM +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Quim Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My personal opinion (and I insist in the personal bit) is

Re: OpenOffice (was Bluetooth keyboard?)

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:15:07PM -0600, Mark Haury wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: I'd love to be able to run office apps on my tablet, but might it not just be easier in situations like the above to use vnc or similar to connect to a desktop machine that can run these apps and viewers

Re: OpenOffice (was Bluetooth keyboard?)

2008-04-25 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:22:08PM -0600, Mark wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Kevin T. Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:15:07PM -0600, Mark Haury wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: I'd love to be able to run office apps on my tablet, but might

Re: gpe contacts import

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:43:26PM -0300, Jonathan Markevich wrote: If OSS doesn't view itself as professional as commercial stuff, then it's guaranteed to fail in the long run. Look at the success stories of OSS; Firefox, Apache, Linux, OOo, and so on. They aren't based around the Oh

Re: gpe contacts import

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:50:08PM -0300, Jonathan Markevich wrote: My point there was that Mozilla/FF always considered itself to be professional, no matter how open the code is. Did anyone from the Mozilla Besides, a typical install installs not only Firefox but the crash reporter... so,

Re: OpenOffice (was Bluetooth keyboard?)

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:15:38PM -0700, Andrew Daviel wrote: I don't want to create documents, I just want to view PowerPoint. And maybe Word. And maybe**2 Excel. Not all in one huge app. For when I'm at I'd love to be able to run office apps on my tablet, but might it not just be

Re: OS 2008 Bluetooth keyboard problems (was: Move from 2007 to 2008 Questions)

2008-04-23 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:39:31PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: Don't just stew, vote for the bug here: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2850 Let Nokia know this is happening to more people and you're not pleased. I can't believe we have only 5 votes for this killer bug.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xournal 0.4.2.1 has been ported to Maemo Chinook

2008-04-20 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:19:38AM +0200, Andrea Grandi wrote: yes, we have to enable this: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ Like a charm, thank you so much for the followup! Well done and very cool app. I like it! K -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com

gps and maps

2008-04-20 Thread Kevin T. Neely
This is kind of a silly question... I'm looking to get a BT GPS for my n800 and I was wondering something about the capabilities of the map programs for the tablets: Does it talk to you? thanks! K -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Xournal 0.4.2.1 has been ported to Maemo Chinook

2008-04-18 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Just wanted to make people be aware I have finished the Maemo port of the latest Xournal versionhttp://anidel.blogspot.com/2008/04/xournal-0421-available-in-maemo-extras.html(v0.4.2.1). The improvements and features look

Re: OS 2008 Bluetooth keyboard problems (was: Move from 2007 to 2008 Questions)

2008-04-17 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:29:24PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote: 1. Based on random criteria I haven't been able to figure out, the Bluetooth keyboard sometimes activates the word-completion I have seen this. Cannot figure out what causes it, either. I am only really typing txt messages

Re: Is OS2006 still supported?

2008-04-17 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:39:10PM -0400, Don Birdsall wrote: Question: Is there any advantage for me to upgrade the OS to the last that will run on this machine which I guess is the Hacker Edition? Canola was not trivial for me to install on OS2007HE. I got it working with some excellent

Re: BECOMEROOT

2008-04-15 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:01:45AM +0200, sebastian maemo wrote: 2008/4/15, Frantisek Dufka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can install lots of applications in my cellphone (also a Nokia). But I can install only a few applications in the 770, unless I do a (non-trivial) Can you? I have an S60 phone and

Re: Move from 2007 to 2008 Questions

2008-04-14 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Terminal is installed by default. I have GPE cal, etc. running fine on my OS2008. Also got Ermining to work, and it is syncing my calendar w/ gCal like a charm. gainroot works. Installed it on a friend's device I upgraded for her. For me, I just install openssh and login as root. cheers

Re: Support for external screen

2008-04-14 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Funny you should ask. I was just perusing the S60 blogs, and there was a link to the NoBounds project on the internettablettalk.com forums. Give it a search, there's a video, and it looks to be what you are looking for. (sadly, the video is not working on my tablet, so you may need to unt up

Re: Move from 2007 to 2008 Questions

2008-04-14 Thread Kevin T. Neely
And, lastly, for the applications that require no changes, e.g. no new binaries, will they show up after I upgrade or do I have to re-install them? You'll have to reinstall them. When upgrading within a major release (e.g. from 2.2007.50-2 to 2.2007.51-3) you can use the backup function

Re: GPE Google calendar

2008-04-02 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Swaying a bit from the topic, but this was just posted to #800 on jaiku: Maemo Sync Packages http://fl0rian.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/maemo-sync-packages/ Looks a bit rough, but it is always nice to see progress in this area. A frontend will go a long way to what people have been asking for. K

Re: Flash Full Screen on n810/800??

2008-04-01 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:53:54PM +1100, Tim wrote: Has anyone run Flash (or YouTube, same thing) full screen on N810/800? If you view YouTube videos using Canola2, you can tap once on the video and it will switch to full screen. K -- In Vino Veritas http://astroturfgarden.com

Re: GPE Google calendar

2008-04-01 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Larry Battraw wrote: There's a second option: using gpesyncd and opensync but I've not tried it before and I belive it works with the Evolution Email/PIM software instead. Just something to look for when trying to find a way to make it happen. I Just

Re: GPE Google calendar

2008-04-01 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:19:42PM -0400, James Knott wrote: Ryan Pavlik wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:25:46PM -0400, Larry Battraw wrote: There's a second option: using gpesyncd and opensync but I've not tried it before and I belive it works

Re: N810 built-in flash: unreliable?

2008-03-30 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:52:10PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: I'm now trying to see if I can find a safe partition size that I can use without losing my data. I initially thought this might be related to https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2802 It seems like the tablets are plagued

Adding internet content to Canola

2008-03-22 Thread Kevin T. Neely
I have beta 7 installed for Canola2. I am unable to add internet content (photo feeds, podcasts, etc.) I tried to add my Flickr photo stream using the rss link at the bottom of my page, Canola gave me an error saying it couldn't find anything. Likewise, I tried to add the splendidtable.org

Re: Someone with an IT2006 on Nokia 770 please help...

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:36:13AM -0600, david feldman wrote: Ryan and I have been exchanging posts about a missing bluetooth control icon my Nokia 770 with IT2006 upgrade. Can someone with this device look at theirs and tell me if there is a control dialog for Bluetooth? I am trying to

Re: Canola2 Beta6 and Beta7

2008-03-21 Thread Kevin T. Neely
Just a quick note, running OS2007HE, I was able to (using the comment out all repos other than the canola ones, and running update) upgrade to the latest canola: Preparing to replace canola2 2.0.0~beta5-maemo4 (using .../canola2_2.0.0~beta7-maemo1_all.deb) ... so that all seems to be good and

Re: Internal Memory Read Only?

2008-03-17 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:45:54AM -0500, Scott Carr wrote: Quoting Ryan Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, there are two different internal memories - the 256 system and the 2gb fake internal card with map data. (I have no idea how to get map data back, presumably from within the program. I

Re: strange hardbutton behavior

2008-03-11 Thread Kevin T. Neely
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:00:33PM +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: Hi, ext Paul Gear wrote: Kevin T. Neely wrote: The behavior of the hard buttons on my tablet has changed and I am not sure why. Before, if I clicked the home button, i would get a list of currently open windows. Now, when

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