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Beginners (Part 4of 4)



ReferIt
Developer: abhinav12
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
A simple online dictionary app featuring audio pronunciation.

Download Instructions:
You can download first version from here http://code.google.com/p/referit/downloads/list
Updating can also be found on the same page in days to come as I’ll be improving it gradually.

All those who will be trying, please let run app for sometime on first run. It creates a database of word list for suggestions. I’m using SCOWL word list’s smallest variant for time being . User might also find some missing info in meaning. I’m not able to complete the parser right now.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...p/referit1.png http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...p/referit2.png


ServerMonitor
Developer: kesrut
Category: Network & Communications
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
My app is named ServerMonitor. This summer I started to learn C++ and Qt. It’s my first Qt App. App uses SSH protocol (I’m using libssh2 library) to connect to server and get some information (like uptime/memory usage/loads). It’s tiny app. Not very advanced. It might have bugs or crash. It was hard to develop without real device.

* I learn how to use Qt, QML and C++. App’s most logic done in C++. So for me it was hard understand how to connect QML and C++.
* App uses aegis to store password securely. I had to debug to make aegis work properly.
* Learn how to work with memory management. My app might have memory leaks.
* Many people love Qt. But I found for me my Qt app crashes more than iPhone version. Maybe practice makes everything.
* I started to do my app in summer beginning. I participated on #harmattan channel using heymaster nick. Helpful people helped on app development. Without them i won’t writing these words now.
* I posted whole code on github. It’s my first opensource project.

Download Instructions:
Github page for source code:
https://github.com/kesrut/ServerMonitorN9

Binary image for your Nokia N9 device is stored in file servermonitor_0.0.1_armel.deb. (on github)

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...onitor_001.png http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...onitor_003.png


Server Status Widget
Developer: Ashish Bhate (briggers)
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
Serverstatuswidget is a desktop widget for Maemo 5. It allows you to monitor the status of servers by pinging them periodically.

For more information
1. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86645
2. http://wiki.maemo.org/Serverstatuswidget

I built this widget from scratch. I learnt pymaemo by looking at the source code of the sleeper and recaller widget by Tom Waelti and reading the tutorials on the wiki.
The widget is complete, but I’d like to add some more features to it when I get the time. See the wiki for the list of features I hope to add in the next version.

Download Instructions:
For more information and download details, please see
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86645
I’m working on uploading the package to extras-devel.

For help on using this widget, please see
http://wiki.maemo.org/Serverstatuswidget

Please use the wiki for feature requests and bug reports

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...tuswidget1.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...tuswidget2.jpg


SIM-Switcher
Developer: peterleinchen
Category: Other
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
SIM-Switcher, automated switching with a double (dual) SIM adapter. This package adds some scripts and config files to ease the task of switching the active SIM on a double (dual) SIM adapter. Your adapter needs to support the so-called ”007” mode, i.e. switching via phone code (e.g. 001, **1, 11*, 1#, …). There is no STK (SimToolKit) support in N900. Furthermore it is possible: to define the cell mode (GSM, UMTS, Dual), to change the connection policy (always ask, any, WLAN, GPRS), to connect automatically to a pre-defined IAP and to en-/disable call forwarding … before switching (current SIM) and … after switching (to-be-switched-to SIM).
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...25#post1243525

download here:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/sim-switcher/

Simple switching solution was ready since last year, but triggered by some ’Wow, that is possible?’ I decided to make it available to the community, code and pack it together with some other functionalities, make it user configurable and put it into the repos (see changelog on package site) and of course bug fix it.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...tcher-code.png http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...r-switched.png


Sync Yourself
Developer: adityamhatre
Category: Desktop, System & Utilities
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
This is for you if you think you can count one minute precisely and exactly in your mind without watching clock

Download Instructions:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24425541/syn....0.1_armel.deb

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syncgcontacts
Developer: Paolo Angelelli
App category: Network & Communications
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Harmattan

Application Description:
syncgcontactgs is a command-line application to synchronize N9 contacts with the contacts from multiple gmail accounts.

Syncgcontacts also supports gmail contact groups (even though they are not mapped to phone contact groups, mostly because i find them not very practical), and allows moderately complex queries.

A typical command line invocation might look like this:
/opt/syncgcontacts/bin/syncgcontacts -a
john.doe+Home+Friends-LosAngeles-Seattle,john.doe.work+IBM+Apple+SanFrancisco-Microsoft

This instructs syncgcontacts to copy into the phone the contacts from the account john.doe@gmail.com, and belonging to the groups "Home" AND "Friends", but neither to the groups "LosAngeles" nor to the group "Seattle", and to also copy into the phone the contacts from the gmail account john.doe.work@gmail.com, belonging to IBM,Apple and SanFrancisco groups, but not to the Microsoft group.

As far as i know, there is no other app to perform such type of synchronization on Harmattan (syncevolution, the only alternative to stock MfE contacts synchronization can only sync one account and no group filtering)

I started developing syncgcontacts from scratch, and it has been published around the middle of August, already attracting some interest from those people that, like me, like to have their phone contacts separated in different accounts, or, at least, in different groups.

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...s_fetching.png http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...gcontacts2.png


Task Poach
Developer: computerinfo21
Category: Other
Beginner: Yes
Platform: Fremantle (N900)

Application Description:
Task Poach (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86681)
A hierarchical todo list/task manager that aims to be compatible with the open source project Task Coach (http://www.taskcoach.org). Currently it only has a small subset of the functionality, but attempts to not lose any information.

*Use the same Task Coach files (.tsk) on computer and phone/tablet
*Help included with the program (Program Menu -> Help...)
*Customizable settings file
*Filter tasks by category
*Shortcut keys for hardware keyboard
*Colors for at-a-glance view of tasks by due date
*Auto save
*Hide completed tasks
*Portrait/landscape switching
*Allows basically an unlimited number of tasks/categories and levels of subtasks/subcategories

Completely written by me in PyQt. At first I attempted to port Task Coach, but that was way over my head, so I instead broke it down into small goals and the current features are all I had time to finish before the competition deadline.

Download:
Announce thread for info/help and download link:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=86681

Repo link:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/taskpoach/

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Re: 2012 Coding Competition
 

Doesn't seem like even I'm eligible to vote. I've only got karma of 5 - but I've been registered on here since 2008. In the days when this forum had a darker theme and was called internettabletalk.

EDIT::: I'm told I need to wait three days.

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Did you link your TMO account to maemo.org account? It takes IIRC 3 days for the linkage to complete...You can contact Reggie too to speed up the process...

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Did you link your maemo.org account with you talk.maemo account?
This should get you enough karma to become eligible to vote.
I read it here somewhere in this thread.

@kojacker: Do you know, how many people are eligible to vote?

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Damn, did not receive a token :/ Probably I've established my maemo.org account too late... Anyway, good luck to all participants!

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Look on the brighter side, you have been spared the difficulty in making a decision on ranking the apps :p

I've voted only in the updates section so far and took me a full 15mins to come to a conclusion on the ranking order of the apps and I've been following all Harmattan apps + a few Freemantle apps...Its abit difficult when a few of your favourites are in the same category...

Btw, kojacker, convey our thanks to X-Fade for the voting system...It works well ;)

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I can't even find your maemo.org profile, I tried using rash.m2k but it doesn't seem to exist, perhaps it's registered under a different name?

http://maemo.org/profile/view/rash.m2k

in any case, as others have suggested, please make sure your accounts are linked. if you've been a member since 2008 I'm sure you'll have a lot more karma than 5.

No idea, hmm.. Woody from the council or X-Fade may know.. I must remember to send Woody a message and ask. (Edit: email sent)

Edit: Yep i think you're right, your account is little over a week old so I think it's filtered you out as a new member.. sorry :o

http://maemo.org/profile/view/donedri/

Indeed, we're very grateful to X-Fade because he's the only know who could send the email out to the list of registered members. But I definitely have to give Woody (woody14619) the credit because it was a lot of his own work to tweak the existing voting system and setting the tables up etc. Really without Woody's work I don't think we'd have the vote, so double thanks to him. I believe the original voting scripts was set up for the elections by Jaffa (who you may know from regularly posting the Maemo Weekly News (MWKN) on here).

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Maemo.org doesn't allow periods in username so my username is rashm2k.

http://maemo.org/profile/view/rashm2k/

Oh I see so it will back populate your karma by looking at your previous posts. Didn't know that

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Hi, Im having some problems voting: i am trying to request a token, but i get:

The e-mail address and username you gave do not match an existing voter, or you have already voted.

how possible? i have not voted already, and i am registered on maemo.org (and my account is linked to tmo account)

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Your maemo.org account is showing as registered 11 days so I suspect (again, similar to the others in the same situation on the previous page) what the error message is really telling you is that you're not an existing voter because you've been filtered out as a new user paoletto :( Please see this reply for a little more background.

Just to help people who are having problems and haven't seen the previous replies, your entitlement to vote is linked to your maemo.org account. If you go to the following link (first replacing the XXXX with your maemo.org username) you will see if you are registered, what date you registered is on the top right corner, and how much 'karma' you have. (thanks to Wikiwide for this tip on the previous page ;)).

http://maemo.org/profile/view/XXXX/

If you have not received a voting email with your token, please check your maemo.org account details using the link above as a first step. Check your karma amount, do you have some and is it below 10? Check the date of registration, are you newly registered? These are the most likely reasons you wouldn't have received a voting email and token.

Part of the confusion seems to be because of the infrastructure setup at maemo.org and talk.maemo.org. Right now we're all on talk.maemo.org which is the forums, however it is almost a seperate entity from the maemo.org site which is all the other stuff non-forum related (things like the competition wiki, or the garage pages, etc). It's like two different things lumped together. This is why we keep asking you all to manually link your talk.maemo.org and maemo.org accounts so your karma from the forums is carried across. What is catching a few people out is that they have been registered on talk.maemo.org for a long time and never realised they had to be registered on maemo.org to take part in other site activities such as the vote until recently. It is confusing, I do sympathise :(

On the other hand, if you have checked your account and you have been registered for a while now (probably a few months, if you think of when the competition submissions started) and you have some karma on your account but still didnt get a voting email please let me know so i can chase that up. As far as i'm aware everyone who fulfills the above criteria as of two nights ago will have already received their email and vote token.

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~5000, but only ~1000 of them ever used their right to vote. During last Council's election, only ~230 people voted.

This is one problem with current Karma system - it have TONS of people that are inactive for years, so system need much more effort to send all those mails. there were some ideas to add "karma decomposition", but due to Nokia's pulling out the plug, it was never realized. AFAIK, Texrat did some theoretical (as in ideas and proof of concept, not practical implementation in maemo.org) upgrades to karma system.

/Estel

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Thanks Estel, that matches with Woody's answer - he reckons the email will have reached around 5000 email addresses and there was around 250 voted for the council last time - but our last coding competition had around 450 voters!

Which he thought was kinda sad, but not me :D We're the maemo.org election champions!

Edit: Oh, in other news we also have a new banner on the top right of the page - VOTE NOW! :cool:

http://talk.maemo.org/maemo/resource...ition3-vn2.png

Edit: hadn't realised that qwazix had already made one, it's been updated now

http://talk.maemo.org/maemo/resource...i_vote_now.png

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The banner is cool but I'll leave the voting for the weekend as there are too many app that I should try before I vote :)

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Oh, then it looks like I am out for the race :(
Not so may double SIM adapter users out there, huh?
Never mind ;)

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I always voted based on the idea and how hard it is to do the stuff. Also based on personal preferences, how polite the developer was in the past, how unique the idea is, if I like the color, are there enought typos in the description... :D ...so perhaps... ;)

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While implementing Karma deprecation will be a good things, it ll also to take care of karma for harmattan project apps.

Actually, you only get karma for apps/package for previous iteration of Maemo (fremantle, diablo, chinook, gregale ...)

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Great minds think alike :)

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Sigh, voting is hard work...

The general result is that there is good quality out there. Congrats to everybody.

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Indeed, I've been almost all the weekend testing and reviewing applications.

Congratulations to all developers!

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Alright I have karma of 189!

Edit - I can't vote:

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Congrats on your karma bump, have you followed the steps mentioned on the previous page?

Edit: Your maemo.org account was only created 2 weeks ago, so it appears you've been filtered out as a new account member - sorry :(

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Yikes...rash.m2k you are registered since 10/09/2012 so it won't allow you to vote most probably... :(

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I linked my accounts and my karma is shown as 5...is there a way I can raise this soon enough to vote? I do have a package in extras-devel from a year ago, so my account is definitely more than two weeks old. :)

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I think it takes 3 days for karma to be updated...Maybe send a PM to Reggie and ask him if he could help to speed up the process?

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Hi all,

I just want to check, because I already caused trouble in the past (better be safe than sorry) :)

According to the official competition rules "there will be a feature freeze on entries during the voting stage of the competition." The voting is open until September 27th, 2012, 23:59 UTC.

If I'm not totally wrong that means I can publish a new version of the app at the following Friday / weekend, right? Or will the voting be delayed / prolonged?

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Oh I don't remember any trouble.. :) Anyway, I can't imagine any reason why the voting would be delayed or prolonged, so once it ends on Friday everyone's welcome to do whatever they like - it will be too late to change the outcome or affect the results.

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Hi kojacker!
Karma == 56, but still not able to get a token...
My maemo.org account (chrm) is also very fresh ;-)

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Hi chrm, yep your karma is great but (as you say) your maemo.org account is very fresh - only 5 days old - so I suspect you are in the same situation as the other new account owners. The reason you wouldnt have received a token is that new accounts are filtered out automatically by the voting system. Unless your maemo.org account is over a few months, then all the karma in the world doesn't help you this time I'm afraid :o

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How often does the system refresh karma? I linked my TMO and maemo.org accounts and the change finally went through - I have 202 karma - but I still get:
I haven't voted, and I should be eligible, right?

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Kojacker, you should put somewhere clear requirements for voting to avoid these questions over and over again.

For example:
To vote you must have account older than 3 weeks and at least 10 karma.
on app list page and voting page.

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Hey Skyler, your account has been around for a long time and you now have plenty of karma so it looks like you should be eligible. However, perhaps you didn't have enough karma when the voting emails were sent and I'm not sure if you can now request a voting token. I'll contact woody to ask if that's possible and update to let you know.

Lol yeah maybe, though it's 3 months rather than 3 weeks I believe :) It is mentioned in the rules that only accounts created before the beginning of the competition and have the 10 karma at the time of voting are entitled to place a vote. At the time of voting, ie when the emails were sent out, I suspect a snapshot was taken of the maemo.org accounts right then at that moment, and from these the eligible accounts were assigned a token. When Woody replies to my email I should be able to confirm or not if it's possible to request a token during the voting period.

Edit: I'm afraid you have no luck this time Skyler, Woody confirmed it's not possible to request a token once an election has started. He explained that it's very very difficult to update the electorate tables and add new users without risking messing up the votes already cast. Sorry about that.

But he reminds you that with your new score you can now run for council and/or vote in the forthcoming council/board elections if you fancy doing that :)

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Thanks for the quick update kojacker. Beat me to it.

Just as clarification, the link to the election is this, not the png link above. ;)

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*ninja edit*
I have no idea what you mean...? *whistles innocently*

http://www.reactionface.info/sites/d...1015555398.jpg

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I'm currently packaging a new version of my WPx Emulator to upload it to the Nokia ovi store. I've done the updates during the voting period but I'm sure the store QA will ensure the new version will not hit the community before the voting is done. If they are this time incredible fast I have to apologize, it was in this case not intended. :D

Edit: Are everybody fine with this or should I just withdraw it and push it Friday again to the QA team? I'm not sure if 3 days are save or not... :rolleyes:

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Darn :) Oh well. Just wanted to vote for modRana, because it's awesome. Good luck everyone!

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After couple of days thinking I finally gave my final vote. There are many good apps and it was very difficult to order them :)

I don't think you should worry about the update. Updates are always good for any app (although exception exist: maps in iOS 6 ;) ) so in my opinion the sooner the better. I think that Nokia should give you a special prize Nokia Lumia 920 :)

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It s not a prize, but a poisoned trojan horse !

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I'd also be very surprised if they will finish their QA and update it within 3 days - I'd be more worried about them pulling it, I'm not sure how you managed to sneak your WPx Emulator past them in the first place lol :p

Last day of voting is tomorrow.. time flies :)

Edit: skykooler did you email the competition email address about electronic doorlocks? lol

Just in case anyone is interested in electronic doorlocks, Skyler might be able to do you a good deal - ask for a maemo.org discount!!

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Well I think Store QA isn't getting enough apps to analyze... See this...1 day to go thru' QA :eek:

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Wait, what?? Am I missing something here?