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ndi 2010-04-24 14:07
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
festivalnut: scrolling by keys works in all modes?

kobiblack: you have to swipe from outside the screen into it, the touch screen is larger than the actual screen so it knows when you come IN the screen from the "dead" black zone outside.

If this is news to you, swipe from left to right gives you a cursor so you can select text in browser, email and SMSs. Swiping from right in browser pops you into a thumbnailed, animated history. You are missing on your device if you don't swipe from sides. Also works great with images (though those you can swipe each way), but it's less error prone.

rolan900d 2010-04-24 14:10
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by festivalnut (Post 622348)
and before i grow a spare arm to pull that off... what does it do?
It will make me laugh....

assetburned 2010-04-26 16:19
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by treck (Post 623742)
When you connect your n900 to a Mac in Mass Storage mode, then delete some files via the Mac, this folder is created:

/home/user/MyDocs/.Trashes

This contains the deleted items (think Trash or Recycle Bin), which could, eventually, take up a lot of valuable space.

It's safe to delete this folder from the xterm (rm -R /home/user/MyDocs/.Trashes). I freed up about 6gb of space in doing so. >_<
if you empty you bin (while the phone is connected to the mac in mass storage) that folder should also be emptied.
by the way the windows does something similar... recyclebin or something like that is the name of the windows equivalent.

ndi 2010-04-26 17:14
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Windows does no such thing. Stop that.

Remote files mounted via SMB and removable drives such as floppy drives, sticks, (mass storage devices) and pre-written or mounted in packet mode optical drives don't get random folders created on them. Files get deleted.

assetburned 2010-04-27 01:58
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
hmm then I wonder where the folder containing my "deleted" files on the USB disc (connected to an old XP) comes from?!

but you are right, i wasn't able to get that folder on my N900 or the storage card in the N900.

ndi 2010-04-27 12:07
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Likely, formatting it badly, intentional or not. If it was ever configured for booting, installing OS, or an odd FS, it would be partitioned as a USB HDD.

Additionally, some "secure" sticks do this by hiding a partiton until password was correct.

An exception in any case. Normal removable storage doesn't do that. Maybe it was inserted in an old OS or an infected machine. A whole load of silly worms work like that, hiding in recycled folders.

Set files to all visible in explorer. Do you see an autorun.inf?

wongdong 2010-05-01 06:23
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
On the chance that i get off-topic on my own thread:
One thing that annoyed me most on every mp3 player i bought was, that they force you to have your mp3's organized by ID3 tags. Well i don't because i record them via streamripper from internet streams (yeah i actually obtain them legally ;-).

And one of the most excellent features of the N900 is, that the media player automatically imports m3u playlists. And m3u's can be made by a simple find command.

My structure is as follows: I have a Music folder within my .sounds directory, which contaisn subfolders (Trance, Classic, temp, etc..)
In this folder I simply execute:

Code:
cd Music
rm *.m3u
ls -1| awk -F'dmy' '{printf ("find \"%s\" -type f | grep -v mediaartlocal> \"%s.m3u\"\n"),$0,$0;}' > temp.sh
sh temp.sh
rm temp.sh
Yeah i know, my shell coding sucks, but it does the trick ;-)

In the end, i put this command into creathPalylists.sh, of course, which i execute every now and then. You can use it for every directory where you want to create a playlist, of course....

Hope you can use it ;-)

Kajko 2010-05-01 06:52
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by whaleyboy (Post 585734)
Here's one I find really useful...in the web browser you can use ctrl + right arrow to go to the next field in a form (like hitting TAB on a normal keyboard). ctrl + left arrow acts like shift-TAB, going to the previous form field.
Thank you! This tip is what I needed.

Great thread by the way.

lennartb 2010-05-03 14:31
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Just discovered that ctrl+r refreshes the page, and pressing the up and down arrow simultaniously in the browser brings up the adress field

slender 2010-05-03 14:54
Re: Gimmicks you might have missed on the N900
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lennartb (Post 640413)
Just discovered that ctrl+r refreshes the page, and pressing the up and down arrow simultaniously in the browser brings up the adress field
hmmm. Why don't you start typing web address. It should popup in microb automatically.


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