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Re: Things to do while waiting for your N900

Reading about the N900 limits, missing features and bugs while thinking how to workaround/patch them ;)

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praying God for money falling from the sky !!!

let's pray with me my brothers !

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Go to..ehh.. you know..those.. ehhrr.. kind of..well..you know..websites..
Ohwell, you know what we all do when we're bored, don't you? :D

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As my USB backup drive make strange noise I build a small data backup home server:
up to 8 Slots, Dual-Atom 330, UPS, Boot-System on 1GB CF-Card

Bye

Thorsten

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Hating on the 300 dudes at the Maemo dev summit who got loaned free N900 (while poor dudes like me who pre-ordered the device get to watch their show off videos and reviews everywhere i look) :(

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Originally Posted by bni (Post 358175)

2. Collecting avatar images of all my friends.
I have saved them from MSN, Facebook, photos and so on. Important here is to have a nice photo that is 1:1 like 200x200 px or something like that.

Smart thing! That will be my next project!

Other things i did:

1) Exporting my Strip passwords (Palm OS) to keepass format and reorganizing

2) ordering a bluetooth headset that charges by solar light (it's at the postoffice, getting it tomorrow)

3) ordering a N900 screen protector (it's in)

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Originally Posted by bni (Post 358175)

Hello everybody, this is my first post here :)

Just bored out of your head waiting for your preorder?
What better to do than getting ready.

Things I am doing to enhance my experience when I get mine:

1. Organizing/unifying all my contacts
What I do is I use Gmail's Contacts for this. I have collected all my contacts from my current mobile phone, MSN, Skype, Facebook, Email, and unified them all. The great thing is you can enter all kinds of IM information on each contact. My plan is to sync this to my N900 with Mail for exchange when i get it. I do hope this will sync correctly for the Contacts app, like Skype and MSN and so on. Sadly the contats images on Gmail is very low quality and probably wont sync.

2. Collecting avatar images of all my friends.
I have saved them from MSN, Facebook, photos and so on. Important here is to have a nice photo that is 1:1 like 200x200 px or something like that.

3. Tagging my music collection
Making sure ID3 tags are correct, compilation albums are sorted correctly etc, I use Banshee for this. I have also collected album art and saved it as folder. jpg for each album. Great tools for this is Banshee and albumart.org. Sure hope the media player can pick up folder.jpg and dont need them album art embedded as ID3.

Anyone else doing things like this to "get ready"? :)

wouldnt the phone directly get photos of your friends via facebook already?

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Originally Posted by colourblind (Post 358308)

wouldnt the phone directly get photos of your friends via facebook already?

No but there's an app in development for that:

http://hermes.garage.maemo.org/

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There's a lot of packages in extras to check for optifiedness; you don't want to wait for your N900 only to fill it's root filesystem up within minutes of getting it.

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feel like my n97 is a caveman phone.