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I know there's been a thread or two like this in the past, but since I've noticed some new users who are just now purchasing N8x0 devices I figured covering this again couldn't hurt. This thread is intended for apps not found in the standard repositories, but ones hidden through out the forums or elsewhere on the web.
Slide-Rotate: Automatically rotate the screen from portrait to landscape when sliding out the keyboard on the N810. When the keyboard is replaced, the screen will automatically rotate back to portrait. You can also assign a the Home or Power button to rotate the screen as well, making it useful on the N800 as well. It works best if installed after the Community SSU. Also, it breaks compatibility with Diablo-Turbo if ASUI is installed,meaning you have to re-install Diablo-Turbo after installing Slide-Rotate. Gene Cash's PIM Apps: Calendar, Checkbook, To Do and Database applications. Most people seem to prefer GPE or Seqretary for their calendars for the Home Screen applets. What I like about this calendar is that it automatically opens every night at Midnight, so 1st thing in the morning I can see what needs to be done that day and for the next 3 weeks. The checkbook is THE killer app for me; I can balance all of my accounts on the N810 and have for the past year and a half. These apps do have a bit of a learning curve, especially the checkbook app, but I feel it is well worth the investment of time for the utility they offer. Picodrive: A multi-system Sega (Megadrive, Genesis, CD) emulator. It is command line only for Diablo, but it works better than most of the other emulators for N8x0 out there. This post by Addison has the scan line codes for the N800; the directional codes are the same for the N810, which means you can have a full screen Genesis emulator on your tablet. This makes me wonder what other apps have been back-ported to Diablo buried in these forums. Color ls: Provides colors for the default terminal when using the ls command. makes navigating the command line much easier for those times you have to. Yellow Notes: Multiple (up to 99) sticky notes on your Home screen. I use this for my shopping lists, wish lists, workouts and anything else I need a simple text note for. It's awesome. Applet Lock: This locks the position of your desktop applets. This should have been provided by default by Nokia; thankfully, someone found a way to provide this utility. It does need to be reset every time you reboot your tablet, but otherwise it is golden. This needs to be installed after the Community SSU. Community SSU: I include this because despite it's popularity around here, information on how to install it requires digging through multiple threads on the forums. The biggest advantage I see is the ability to rotate my screen, but I consider that a huge requirement in how I use my device. That's all I got. Hope this helps some of the newer users around here. |
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This here is a good thread.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52124 By far my favorite is the YouTube downloader. I abuse this way too much everyday. I really like my 1 minute Modest update script with the sound it makes as well. Here's a great thread to turn your tablet into a free phone. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80505 If anything, it will at least give you free caller ID if you don't want to answer the phone this way. Ideas for possible ringtones... http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81342 Check out this site... http://pupnik.de/software.html I highly recommend the lightweight MTPaint program. I've got a ton of new Xkbd keyboard layouts if you want me to share those. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35841 I've also got some great scripts if you like old school gaming, such as ADOM, Nethack, Frotz, and Mudding. I'm still a big fan on using this... http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70091 I learn something new almost every week with this thing and it always gives me smiles. In fact, I just learned about RSS feeds today and now I'm already an addict to them. *lol* If you have enough memory and love chess, you should check out Scid. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34518 I'll be making a graphical keyboard for GPsp here soon. I'll post it here in this thread when I'm done with it. I really wish someone could program in a few requests I made in that Juicer thread... That would totally rock. :) |
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I have this script that I call yta (YouTube Audio)
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#!/bin/shThis is really great if you're into audio books and music such as this guy's channel. http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google Don't forget to check out Tarek's daily builds of SCUMM. James Woodcock just released a musically enhanced version for the 7th Guest a day ago. His work is always amazing. <3 One other thing to quickly note is that you can use WinAmp skins with Xmms. I'll think of some more junk later. :) |
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hi
are there pkg you'd like to use on harmattan (not gtk ones please) |
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When I install Slide-Rotate, I have to go into the settings and reflash the kernel before it will work properly. For whatever reason this causes DT to need to be re-installed. Oddly, it doesn't seem to conflict with the Community SSU. |
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Slide-Rotate also breaks on my system when booting from SD. Again, I have no idea why, but it will eventually stop working. If I try to reflash the kernel, it breaks the cloned system causing me to have to re-clone it.
Still, considering how I use my device, I'd rather have Slide-Rotate than have a larger partition. |
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To name a few others that you won't find in the App Manager, there's the impossible to ever fully understand Clock game.
talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70401 As well as Outlaw Poker. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=61520 While there is exactly 0% chance of this game ever being fun, I do really like my graphic and sound hack for the default Chess app. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82639 While you can find this in the repositories, no one talked that much about KCHMViewer.... This will allow you to read some of the best books written such as Cecil's Textbook of Medicine, Guyton Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, McGraw Hill Access Medicine on Pathophysiology, Pathophysiology of Disease- an Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics, the 5 Minute Clinical Consult, and even the Drug Information Handbook. I continue to have people that keep wondering why I am hung up on such an old device. To be honest, I became tired of chasing after the latest thing. That road I used to be on never made me happy. Here's a great video on how I feel about everything that is currently being released lately. (nsfw) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ I'm so far behind current technology that I have yet to discover what Twitter is even about. *lol* Things that I still am hoping for is a -scim option to be used with Picodrive like it was done with gpSP. I would absolutely love a touch screen D-Pad. Finally being able to play Cyberball on the tablet would make me squee with joy. <3 For Dosbox, I would love to have on the left and right side, where the screen is blank, a touch screen area that could be used as keys. If that were ever made possible, I could use those two buttons for steering on one of my most favorite and addictive games, Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's Super Off Road for DOS. http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/2392/offroadbw0.png I still continue to have hope that someday, someone will port Mednafen, a Nintendo emulator. But most of all, I'm hoping that Juicer script... http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83959 can be ever so carefully tweaked just a little. To me, it has all of the promise to do for music, what YouTube does for videos. I would love to see that script fully completed one day. <3 Cheers. :) |
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Here are some patches for the default Application Manager, Control panel and Games Wrapper. It gives an easier to use look to the Application Manager and allows Control Panel to be fullscreen.
Gweled is a different version of battlegeweled, but one I find much more enjoyable. Here and here are a couple of mods I'd love to try out but which seem no longer available. I'm particularly interested to have multiple desktops so that I could have a script which tied the switch to screen rotation. It would mean I could actually have a background image again. |
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Yeah, I too have thought about having multiple Desktops.
One solely for music, another for news, one would be strictly for reading, and another for multimedia. I don't think that will ever happen though since you would need to killall hildon-desktop which is super messy to do. :( |
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I would be interested in what all RSS feeds that people here have.
I've got quite a few from this site: http://www.allyoulike.com/ I get updates on new magazines, ebooks, audiobooks, DVDs and medical information. For news, I use CNN but it's a little too fluffy for me. I have another from http://feeds.feedburner.com/Comicsland. The tablet can be great for comics and graphic novels. I also would lke to hear some of the YouTube channels people have subscribed to that aren't well known. I don't have that many to share. For Poker, this is really good. http://m.youtube.com/user/ThePokerAc...ient=mv-google If you like Hitchcock. http://m.youtube.com/user/ahitchcock...ient=mv-google For chess. http://m.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwo...ient=mv-google Spiritual, but you'll need to dig around for the good movies it has there. http://m.youtube.com/user/NylaRossin...-google&view=0 And medical. http://m.youtube.com/user/2011USMLE?...ient=mv-google http://m.youtube.com/user/formedicin...ient=mv-google http://m.youtube.com/user/MedicalVid...ient=mv-google Anyone else that would like to share their crap? :) |
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Last one from me.
I launch all of my programs through ASUI and Personal Launcher. When using Telescope, if you remove all .desktop files from /usr/share/applications/hildon, a long press on the Home button takes you directly to your desktop. Very handy when you're stopped at a light and wish to quickly launch a new app. |
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Good idea.I've found quite a bit just searching but some things are going to be tricky or near impossible to find that way.
I might have a couple to share. XMMS(music player) It works and looks like winamp minus the winamp theme.The repository is listed at http://www.gronmayer.com/it/ IceWM?There's no deb for it AFAIK and it's not really an app but it's the most effecient way that I've found to get a desktop environment while still being able to use maemo apps.It's a minimal desktop but it's fast.You have multiple desktops there, with hotkeys to switch between them.Battery life seems comparable although I can't really tell because the battery meter doesn't work. And maybe Xjig(jigsaw) with easy debian.It seems to work really well.Starts fast, zoom/pan, can use any picture.It's pretty cool.It doesn't have a save feature though, at least with the old version I have. Going to check some of those out now, thanks. |
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One game that didn't get talked about much was Dungeon Master and Chaos Strikes Back. https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=68 There's also T.O.M.E. http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/9...1091713452.png http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/588...1091713282.png http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=76687&page=3 You can find a hacked libvte deb in this thread. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70484 It will let you have a full 800x480 Xterm screen. |
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Actually, here's an old desktop of mine using a Winamp skin. :)
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3920/...1091712115.png |
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Ah, I didn't see that part my bad.
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A lot of good stuff listed in this thread.
Since I tend to read the forums at AtariAge on my N810 quite a bit, I have ported the lastest Atari800 emulator to n810 and haxored it up so that you can make every keypress (N810 keyboard + xkbd). I've also avoided the keys that are being used by Telescope... a big problem for me with the previous version of Atari800 that was ported to N8x0. This isn't in the repos, but it's in my garage page. https://garage.maemo.org/projects/atari800/ You can use it to play some games, but the N810 is just a bit too slow to emulate the system at 100% without doing some frame-skipping... I use it mainly to quickly test things out that people post in the forums. I've also ported Handy_SDL to N810 (Atari Lynx emulator), but there is a proper port for the N900 that is much better... hopefully someone will backport that to the N8x0. Games are playable without sound... and it's CLI only. No garage page for this one yet... I also ported Haxima/Nazghul... but there is a bug that causes it to crash fairly early on in the quests... haven't figured that one out yet. https://garage.maemo.org/projects/nazghul071/ I've noticed that there's not much being developed for the N810 in this community anymore... most activity is on the N900. It's too bad more stuff isn't being backported, but I guess the lack of hardware 3D really hurts. I've been thinking about buying a N900 to get more "up to date" (LOL). |
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If you use Eboard.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=81 If you telnet, SSH, BBS, etc., konwert filters is absolutely wonderful. You can find those files in that ADOM thread I mentioned previously. |
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I don't think this trick has been mentioned before but here is the easiest way to right click on the screen.
All you need is Xbindkeys and Xmodmap. This is what your /home/user/.xbindkeysrc script should simply look like: "xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"" Return "xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3"" Return + Release When you hold the Center D-Pad, or whatever key you decide, and tap on the screen, it will be a right click. When you let go or anything else, it will always be a left click. |
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There's a new build of Scumm available that supports some more great old games. :)
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic....er=asc&start=0 |
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I got the Pandora client "pianobar" ported to my N810. Had it working, then they broke it by requiring AAC (and pianobar uses libfaad2, not in the dev repositories). Just today I extracted the optimised libfaad2 buried within the mplayer port, and have pianobar running with both AAC and MP3 support!
Gotta love this little tablet... Andy |
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^ Could you please post your files?
I thought Maemo 4 lost Pandora support almost like a year ago and I've been missing it ever since. |
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libao.so.4 libpthread.so.0 libm.so.6 libmad.so.0 libgnutls.so.26 libgcrypt.so.11 libjson.so.0 libc.so.6 Looks like the gcrypt, gnutls, libao, and json ones are needed. I can't remember if/what these libraries themselves need. If I dump the libraries and pianobar executable in a tar would you be interested in running it? Note I never touch the installed system, instead put new libraries in /usr/local/lib and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to have them honored by ld.so. And, of course, you're quite welcome to any and all source. Andy |
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There's a fair number of files involved, including libraries for gnutls, json, gcrypt, and ao (libfaad2 is statically linked in). I can tar them up but you'll need some CLI skills to put things in the right place. Personally, I never touch the system directories, instead I keep /usr/local on the SD card and put stuff down there, then use LD_LIBRARY_PATH to involve my local libraries when needed. Let me know... Andy |
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I'm not sure what CLI skills means but I would imagine that I don't have very much or even any of them. :)
I do boot from SD card though so maybe there's a chance I could get this to work as well. Cheers. |
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http://www.vsta.org/andy/pickup/n810_pianobar.tar.gz This tar archive expects to be extracted in /, and puts things in /usr/local/lib, /usr/local/bin, and /home/user. The file for /home/user is the .libao config file to tell libao to use ESD for sound. "pianobar" and "llib" are in /usr/local/bin, and you're expected to start pianobar as "llib pianobar", which will include /usr/local/lib in the library search path. I hope it works for you! I am certainly enjoying having my Pandora One subscription available on my n810. Andy |
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Heya Andy.
I'm not quite sure what I've done wrong here. [1|user@Nokia-N800-43-7|/usr/local/bin]./llib pianobar ./llib: line 9: pianobar: not found [1|user@Nokia-N800-43-7|/usr/local/bin]ls llib pianobar The only thing I did was make llib and pianobar executable. If I try to launch this as root, I then get the following error. [1|root@Nokia-N800-43-7|/usr/local/bin]./llib pianobar pianobar: error while loading shared libraries: libao.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Do I have all of my permissions set wrongly? Also, does Vagalume still work for anyone here? Mine seems to have stopped working several days ago. |
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It looks like you need to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH: PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin I didn't try running it as root, and don't think that's a good direction to try for bringing it up. It should be set up so "user" can execute the binaries and read the libraries, and that should be sufficient to get it running. Andy |
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It might be to do with the changes they've made recently, although I would have expected it to stop working a little earlier.I got an email around the end of November saying it might stop working after Dec 1st. This is the email I got: "We're writing you to let you know that there will soon be a change to Last.fm radio that may affect you. Our stats show that you've listened to radio through an application that uses our old streaming protocol. On 1 December we will deprecate this old protocol, so in some applications radio will no longer work." |
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Hey Andy.
I used Emelfm2 as root and copied all of the files over using it's GUI system. That probably messed up the permissions. Let's just do this by command line only and try again. Could you please post everything that I need to copy and paste into Xterm? Your file is sitting in /media/mmc1/n810_pianobar.tar.gz Thanks.. |
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Something like the following, assuming you are "user" and you've
rooted your device such that you can "sudo" commands in general. sudo su - cd / tar -zxvf /media/mmc1/n810_pianobar.tar.gz exit PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin llib pianobar I can't think why that won't work. If you google "contact andy valencia" you can get in touch with me more directly and we should be able to shake this out in short order. Andy |
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Thanks!
I'll try this shortly and post back. :) |
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Omygosh!
Thank you! Thank you Andy! :D |
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Create, copy, and paste the following to
/home/user/.config/pianobar/config It will auto log you in to Pandora. # This is an example configuration file for pianobar. You may remove the # from # lines you need and copy/move this file to ~/.config/pianobar/config # See manpage for a description of the config keys # # User user = email@where.com password = password # last.fm scrobbling #lastfm_user = username #lastfm_password = password #lastfm_scrobble_percent = 50 # Proxy (for those who are not living in the USA) #control_proxy = http://127.0.0.1:9090/ # Keybindings act_help = ? act_songlove = + act_songban = - act_stationaddmusic = a act_stationcreate = c act_stationdelete = d act_songexplain = e act_stationaddbygenre = g act_songinfo = i act_addshared = j act_songmove = m act_songnext = n act_songpause = p act_quit = q act_stationrename = r act_stationchange = s act_songtired = t act_upcoming = u act_stationselectquickmix = x # Misc # mp3 or aacplus #audio_format = mp3 #autostart_station = 123456 #event_command = /home/user/.config/pianobar/eventcmd |
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This is kind of dorky but it does work, especially if you don't always like dialing your Google Voice number at home, pressing 2 to place a call, and then typing in the 10 digit phone number you want to dial.
http://www.audiocheck.net/audiocheck_dtmf.php Just save the audio files on your memory card. :) |
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Hey Andy.
What does the q and Q letters mean on some of my stations? Example: 1) q Guster Radio 2) Q QuickMix I looked around but couldn't find any info on this. |
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