Interesting Russian site / Maemo apps
 

I came across this interesting Russian NIT site through a link Kroll posted: http://www.n8xx.com

There's a bunch of interesting discussions and some software development that I don't know if we've seen 'over here'.
Since my Russian is close to non existing I am using the built-in translator in Chrome and even though it does an ok job there is still a lot that doesn't make any sense.

Anyway, do check the site out (in translation mode if you're like me).

Some of the things I'm looking at trying to figure out more about are;

1) 'Sleep' Application for OS2008 that turns off the device/sound after X minutes
Appears to be an applet on the desktop where you can define for how long the device should be on until it shuts down/goes quiet (useful as a 'sleep' mode). Can't seem to find out what version, if any, is one to try.

2) If the HeReader comic reader is also available for Diablo
Looks great but appears to be for N900. I wonder if there is a Diablo version.

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The first is a desktop applet which will stop audio player and switch your tablet to offline mode then the time is up. It's a bit undone, but the creator of it (Mitrandir) works on other project now (Telescope) and I don't whant to divert him. But I promise, when the Telescope will done — I do will make him to make this applet work with any audio players. :D (For example YouAmp 0.6.0~beta4-1 doesn't work)

http://skriblovsky.net/maemo/install.png

I don't think there is a diablo version of HeReader. But you may try to build your own HeReader from the source code.

I know English a little bit better than you know Russian, but I will try to answer your questions.

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I installed SweetDreams and yes, it's a bit basic (I'd love to be able to customize how the applet looks and the 'sleep times', etc) - and I just tried it out for what I personally would use it for: listening to a podcast using Panucci at night whilst almost falling asleep.

I set it for '10 minutes' and started up my podcast and Panucci and what happened was that when the time is up the device goes into 'offline' mode and locks the keyboard. It didn't silence/stop Panucci as that continued to play though.

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silvermountain
Yep, It works well with built-in audio player... It will be "fixed" later :)
Actually I know how to make this applet work with Panucci and other players. But, as I said, Mitrandir works on other project right now...

BTW, where did I poste the link on n8xx?

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I think there was a link to n8xx on a page you linked to for the Tear upgrade.

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Thanks for your interest to our russian forum.

Yes, SweetDreams now stops only builtin media player and players based on it. But any other player support can be easily added once it has dbus or other way to stop it. I'm pretty sure that Panucci has one.

If you know whan dbus call i should make in order to stop panucci, please let me know, and i will add support for it :)

Of course, set of time buttons can be easily changed too.

Also, SweetDreams provides no support for stopping the countdown. It should be certainly fixed, but, you know, fixing the software that i'm personally don't use is not so fun as writing new stuff... ;)


BTW, if there would be any interest, Kroll or me can write posts in english when something interesting appears on n8xx.com

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Let me promote myself a bit more ;)

This can be interesting for ones who use non-english kbd layouts:
LayoutSwitcher is a statusbar applet that:
* shows your current keyboard layout
* can prevent onscreen keyboard appearing (useful for n800 users)
* provides alternative way to copy selected text (useful when there is no corresponding menu, for example in Pidgin's logs)
* also works on OS2006 and OS2007 (but can't block keyboard on OS2006)

http://n8xx.com/topic3956-layoutswit...laviatury.html


By the way, on n8xx.com we use many idioms and metaphors that make a special russian internet-tablets related slang. I wonder how google traslate will understand these words:
таблетка (pron. "tabletka"; literally, "the pill") - the internet tablet (because of consonance with "tablet")
ББ (abbreviated "Большой Брат", literally "The Big Brother") - the desktop PC (from "1984")
... and more :)

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I think there might be something useful for you in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33215&page=7

And, yes from what I saw on the Russian site there might be things/developments that come up there that we might very well be interested in over here so please do make some 'news' posts over here as well if you can find the time :)

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Worthy of an [Announce] post I think. Do it :)

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You can find some "home software" here http://n8xx.com/topic2443-proekty-forumchan.html

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Some "new" stuff from Mitrandir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAdzqPOcNlU

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Thanks!

Some questions, since my Russian (and Google translate) sucks :)

1) Conler
Heard about it before but back then it wasn't in the Extras repo. Might have a look at it now since I need something that I could script for auto-connect at Starbucks for instance (if this would do that).

2) TumbrMe
Do you know if it now has an executable or is still a py script?

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It's just a script ('cause author doesn't know how to build a .deb and he created this program for himself and just decided to share it with n8xx.com users), but author use the Personal Launcher to run it easily.

My English is too bad to understand the first question O.o
Sorry :)

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No problem, I figured #1 out anyway :)

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tumblr-me deb package here : https://garage.maemo.org/projects/tumblr-me

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Hello, I'm author of HeReader ;)

There is no Diablo version yet because I don't have N810 to test it. However, I'll try to download and install Diablo SDK to build HeReader for Diablo this weekend.

Currently HeReader supports xkcd.com and xkcd.ru (russian translations of xkcd), feature requests are welcome!

Thanks.

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My requests :)
Pearls Before Swine - http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/
What the Duck - http://www.whattheduck.net/
Dilbert - http://www.dilbert.com/
cyanide and happiness - http://www.explosm.net/comics/new/

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+1. Russian or English. (I prefer Russian)

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You can get dilbert via the rss feed and you can subscribe to comics.com to get pearls before swine via rss too.
What the duck also seems to have an rss feed.

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Heroes of M&M II on Diablo.
http://n8xx.com/post49452.html#p49452

It already has its thread on this forum: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...445#post624445

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http://n8xx.com/post47475.html#p47475
PS
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/panucci/dbusinterface.py

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svs57, thanks, i have inserted your d-bus call pausing panucci and pushed new SweetDreams 0.1.1 into repository at http://skriblovsky.net/maemo

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aas i'm russian, i check several russian sites, so i'm not sure if all programs i see their are announced in this forum, so i would post in this thread

somebody ported Metromap (metromap.antex.ru) to N900.
It shows maps of subway of Moscow, Kiev, London, Berlin and St. Pettersbusg for now (i think you can add more). It can track the stations you have to change to get to distanation as i understand.

http://maemos.ru/wp-content/uploads/...12-650x390.png

http://maemos.ru/wp-content/uploads/...21-650x390.png

metromap_0.1.2-1_all.deb

author - users.livejournal.com/_pine_
news from maemos.ru

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This looks awesome.

I wonder;
a) How hard it would be to add things like California public transport info, and
b) How hard it would be to make it work for Diablo,

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I think you should contact author and also check the site of original program (it's in english) i think if u success to port it there it can work on maemo edition too. about diablo port - i'm the last person to ask, sadly i'm not that good in that.

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I believe I saw the Diablo version about year ago... I will check it and notify you later if I will find something usefull.

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Thanks, I did email the developer but the mail bounced back.
If it runs on Diablo and not too hard to add your own local public transport details/maps this would be an awesome application.

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Here you are. Use the translator, please. http://n8xx.com/topic482-metromap-dlya-os2008.html

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pmetro.info/Maps.html - all maps.

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Thanks just installed 0.1.2 from here: http://unatine.ru/downloads/
It's a beast at 7Mb but seems to run well and looks amazing.

This is seriously an AMAZING application and I can't believe it hasn't been noted over here before. The ability to select the start and end route by clicking on the nodes in the map, the options that can be hidden or called to the front by clicking the screen, this is fantastic!

Will see how hard/easy it is to get my local maps and public transit info into it.

ANYONE who likes to see what great programming can do on the N8x0's should install this right away.

Thanks!

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Thanks, you just gave me a project for tonight :)

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Looking at comments # 23 and 24, this program does look awesome! Kudos to the developer!!!

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Install it and play with it. It's incredible.

Tip:

You select the start and end node you want to travel between by clicking on the stations in the map.

Tap-and-hold on the screen to get a mini-menu at the stylus and select 'compact mode toggle' to switch between having the input menu on top show or not.

(Or select 'Help' which gives you the options in English).

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It's just an Interesting Russian site, thats all what I can say :)

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Just downloaded the three US city maps that I 'need' and trying to find the folder to add them to.

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You can email me using maintainer info from metromap-fremantle package (in extras-testing now), or just PM me

Just for reference - topic for MetroMap is http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...light=metromap

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One day I'll go through all the debs here http://old.n8xx.com/uploads.php

:)

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Needs Python, unfortunately =(

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About browsers... You gonna like it http://n8xx.com/topic2685-arora-kros...zer-na-qt.html

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Hey, I thought you said it was slow ;)

The first one I'm gonna check out on that list is that manga/comics reader I've never heard of before...

And wtf, get back to your finals! :)