N900 tutorial how-to videos for beginners
 

I used to do the Internet Tablet School site which provided how-to videos for the N800 and N810. I've been sponsored by All About Maemo ( http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/ ) to continue these videos for the N900.

You can see all of these guides on AAM's N900 tutorial index page:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...ips__Hints.php

...and also on AAM's YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/allaboutmaemo

These guides are all aimed at beginners, they do not require any technical knowledge. They try to explain how to get things done step-by-step.

By the way, anyone who thought my old vids were too slow should check out the new ones, they're much faster and shorter. ;)

(We'll also be shortly creating a web page index which I'll link to on here when it's ready.)

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Excellent guide. Keep these up for us newbies :)

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I also would like to see some advanced stuff demonstrated on a video if you don't mind too.. ;)

Maybe basic programming? I tend to learn better when I see things done instead of reading about it..

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Erm... if you're thinking of doing programming you're going to have to do a lot of reading anyway. :)

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Right, here's another video for beginners, this time on how to customise the N900's desktop, including an example at the end:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/news/it..._customisi.php

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Put it in the first post awell so we have a nice beginner guide :)

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Well the first post has the link to the YouTube channel, all the vids are there.

We're going to do a general tutorial index page on AAM too, I'll post the link in the first post when it's finished.

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Very short and sweet tutorial this one:

You can search contacts directly from the desktop by just typing on the keyboard. You don't even need to have the contacts app open, it opens automatically when you type. Here's the vid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuV9yhFSA-U

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Right, AAM has now set up a tutorial index page which will link to all these videos in embedded form, with some explanatory text below the videos too.

I've added a link to the tutorial index page on the original post, and here it is again in case people don't want to scroll:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...ips__Hints.php

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May I reccomend a video about the mouse mode? It seems to be asked quite frequently here :)

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I'll add that to the list Arif... :)

I can't promise anything but will try.

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Another new tutorial, on how to create music playlists using the built-in media player:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php

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more tutorials please. Very interesting and good!

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All About Maemo has published another video tutorial, this time TV Out for beginners:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...ners_guide.php

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A number of beginners seem to wonder where Skype is on the N900, so here's a brief video showing where it is and how to set it up:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php

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I didn't know that, nice touch!

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thanks for this... spent quite a lot of tie on it before i came to the conclusion that it can't be done :p

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I was hoping for a video tutorials when I got my N900. I like all your videos, it may be the beginning of something that will help more ppl come to like and "enjoy" it. I know it may take time, since a lot of other are asking for different video's on things, but I wanted to know if you wouldnt mind eventually making videos for those of us who are a bit more advanced but not on a developer/coder level... one example would be if you could make videos for some of the "mods" like the reboot button mod. I want to try it but like another poster said, i tend to catch on to things when i see them, that way i know i didnt misunderstand what i read. Thanks for taking your time to post the videos that are already up though, it probably saved some ppl a lot of time from scanning these threads for simple answers.

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How about a video tutorial/demo of two way video chatting over voip? I mean that is really something - very, very impressive.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=42890
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40772

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I agree, I would also like that, as it would be very useful.

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Another tutorial, similar to the Skype one but for Google Talk:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php


It is impressive but it might be best to wait for a firmware update to add proper video calling support. There's a very long list of things to go through, we're generally trying to cover features that are already mature first.

If you do a video covering an immature feature, you have to redo it again when the feature gets updated.


It all depends on time, really. These are totally unofficial videos, Nokia isn't paying us for them, so we have fairly limited resources and a lot of topics to cover. The N900 can probably do more things than any other mobile device, which is great if you own one but not so great if you want to do videos covering everything it can do. :)

For the moment we're focusing on beginners' guides, because beginners are the people who are most nervous about using a device, and they tend to be least able to find out information about it.

Also to consider is that there will probably be even more Maemo devices later this year so we would have to cover them too, especially if they're even more mainstream.

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Another video tutorial, this time on how to add MSN, AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, QQ etc support to the N900's own built-in instant messaging and VOIP system:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php

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The media player's internet radio section doesn't really explain how to add more stations, so we've done a video giving an example of how it's done:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...dia_player.php

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We've done a quick video covering N900 widgets for beginners:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...of_Widgets.php

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A beginner's guide to installing apps and games on the Nokia N900:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php

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Yet another guide for beginners, this time covering how to update the N900 firmware:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php

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Another day, another beginnner's tutorial, covering how to unlock the N900's FM radio and how to activate its FM transmitter:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php

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This is a very short video about how to access extra characters and accents from the N900 keyboard. It seems some people have missed this important feature, so here it is in action:

http://www.allaboutmaemo.com/feature...Nokia_N900.php