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Forum: General 2011-12-01, 22:23
Replies: 4
Views: 2,791
Posted By dov
Pentomino and TetraVex games under development for maemo

Based on the pygoocanvas package that I uploaded to meamo-testing in the beginning of the week I have ported a couple of puzzle games to the N900. They are still not ready for release, but if someone...
Forum: General 2011-01-06, 07:56
Replies: 69
Views: 19,237
Posted By dov
Re: A New Goal: Throw Out Your Desktop

I image having a set of devices that are totally synced in terms of their contents, and you choose the device you want to work on based on factors like requested screen size, input abilities,...
Forum: Applications 2011-01-06, 07:42
Replies: 17
Views: 7,217
Posted By dov
Quick add new task to Calendar?

Is there any way of accessing the calendar from the command line? E.g. I would like to write add a calendar quick add widget that does the follows:

1. Pops up a small entry widget in which I would...
Forum: Development 2010-11-02, 15:58
Replies: 21
Views: 6,780
Posted By dov
Re: I want to start developing.

I personally find Python/Gtk to be the easiest platform to work with on the N900. I usually add a couple of whatifs in the beginning of the programs so that I can test and use the gtk programs on my...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-10-21, 08:09
Replies: 32
Views: 8,815
Posted By dov
Re: Touchsreen not very smooth !

Curl your finger so that only the right side of the nail of your right hand index finger (left side of left index finger if you are lefthanded) touches the screen, and use that as a stylus. I even...
Forum: Applications 2010-10-12, 22:16
Replies: 4
Views: 2,516
Posted By dov
Re: what is the best text editing application that can do this...?

Do the following in your xterm shell:

iconv -f iso8859-xx -t utf-8 mysub.srt > mysub-utf8.srt

where iso8859-xx is your current encoding, which, as vvaz correctly points out, you have to figure...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-09-22, 10:49
Replies: 10
Views: 6,344
Posted By dov
Re: user password? for ssh to the non-root account

Read wotevah's reply, who answered this question. The user account is locked and need to be unlocked with "passwd -u user". You can then connect to it.
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-09-12, 06:15
Replies: 5
Views: 5,342
Posted By dov
Re: FN + SYM key for special characters DOES NOT WORK

I have investigated this a bit and found that the Fn+Sym is opened when the the Multi_key is pressed. But there are a number of keyboard mappings floating around that don't map this key. If you have...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-09-07, 15:19
Replies: 237
Views: 76,947
Posted By dov
Re: How do you use multitasking in N900?

There are really two different uses here:

1. Being able to quickly swap between different applications.
2. Having two applications that actively multitask.

For number 1 above it is enough to...
Forum: Buy & Sell 2010-09-05, 11:32
Replies: 784
Views: 196,000
Posted By dov
Re: Laser-Cut Stand for N900

For what it is worth (and I'm not sure this is the right thread), I'm showing some home made stands made out of Lego that may be usable to others. Enjoy:

http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/s1.jpg...
Forum: Brainstorm 2010-09-01, 04:44
Replies: 100
Views: 98,573
Posted By dov
Re: Front Camera of NOKIA N900

The following command records a snapshot from the front camera:

gst-launch v4l2camsrc device=/dev/video1 num-buffers=1 ! omx_jpegenc ! filesink location=test.jpg

Of course this totally...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-08-12, 12:47
Replies: 10
Views: 6,344
Posted By dov
Re: user password? for ssh to the non-root account

Usually I don't deal with passwords when using ssh, but use ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from the client that I append to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server. But I can't get this to work on the n900 for the...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-08-12, 09:23
Replies: 129
Views: 47,421
Posted By dov
Re: What Will Make MeeGo Succeed

Ok, thanks for explaining. This dismisses the notion that you can take any Qt program and just recompile it and run it under MeeGo. I.e. there has to be an active concern for the developer to make...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-05-13, 05:36
Replies: 17
Views: 12,807
Posted By dov
Re: n900 headphone remote

Regarding remote controlling the phone when it is in your pocket. I had the idea of trying to use the acceleration sensor to sense "taps" on the phone from the outside of the pocket. It's like giving...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-05-09, 13:37
Replies: 5
Views: 3,020
Posted By dov
Re: ScreenSaver trigger?

1. I wrote that I intend this application to run when the unit is connected to the power cord. Thus no problem with battery drain.

2. I intend to write the application with clutter, though I still...
Forum: Multimedia 2010-04-28, 06:00
Replies: 217
Views: 63,178
Posted By dov
Re: [ANNOUNCE] nQa Audiobook Player

I'm also listening a lot to audiobooks in Pannucci and I solved the problems of multiple files of the book simply by doing:

ls *.mp3 > book.m3u

from the terminal and then loading the m3u...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-04-01, 10:26
Replies: 23
Views: 14,035
Posted By dov
Re: Will MeeGo be as hack friendly?

It's more than rumors. See:

http://lwn.net/Articles/373780/
Forum: Applications 2010-03-01, 10:11
Replies: 4
Views: 3,757
Posted By dov
Re: How to open zip files?

You've got "unzip" in the command line.
Forum: Development 2010-02-28, 18:16
Replies: 1
Views: 8,741
Posted By dov
Re: Using zoom-in and zoom-out keys in Python

Since I got no answer, I wrote a python module in C that does the necessary glue. I'm including it verbatim here in case it is useful for someone else:

hardkeys.c:
...
Forum: General 2010-02-25, 10:48
Replies: 68
Views: 22,851
Posted By dov
Re: have stolen nokia "call home" with its ip address

I totally agree with what Alan said, and in addition you have the problem that the the thief theoretically can ssh into your box and erase the files. You want some kind of a write only storage for...
Forum: Nokia N900 2010-02-25, 10:00
Replies: 22
Views: 10,809
Posted By dov
Re: Use N900 as a Wireless dongle

In the discussion below I assume that your laptop is also running Linux. If you are running Window your are on your own.

The solution is two step.

1. Setup IP over USB between the N900 and...
Forum: General 2010-01-28, 21:30
Replies: 2,070
Views: 732,061
Posted By dov
Re: New members say hello !

I've had my N900 now for a week and I love it.

I'm a hard core geek with lots of gtk experience (I have even written part of the BiDi support used in gtk).

Tonight I have tried to connect the...
Forum: Applications 2010-01-23, 23:03
Replies: 569
Views: 152,096
Posted By dov
Re: Panucci Podcast and Audiobook Player

I'm a new user of Panucci, and I'm really happy with having a audio player that doesn't forget the position in the stream!

But I have one question and one suggestion:

1. Is it possible to load...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-01-16, 21:55
Replies: 67
Views: 42,550
Posted By dov
Re: remapping n900 keys

Has anyone any idea of what is going on with Multi_key interpretation? As an exercise I tried modifying the Q key to be Multi_key. My idea was that to steal that key and then to type q you would e.g....
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2009-12-22, 10:09
Replies: 170
Views: 71,701
Posted By dov
Re: Poll - do you want voice dialing on the N900

Here's yet another interesting link:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Speech_to_Text
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