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Yeah, I'm an M. Doughty fan have been since I heard Bus to Beezlebub at an indie coffee shop in 1996. I went out and bought the CD that day. I saw Soul Coughing in concert one during their El Oso tour and M. Doughty at a small venue when he was pimping his first solo CD.

Some n800 stuff:

1. Maemo Mapper When you download maemo-mapper, pull down the menu and select Maps > Manage Repositories. Your default repository is Open Street, but if you select downlaod and click ok, it should add Google and VE maps. This is much better than searching the forums for the urls.

Next, with auto download on, I used the Open Street map to get to my general area. This centered my map with the correct latitude and longitude without having to look them up (I don't have a GPS).

At this point, I turned off auto-download, and switched to google maps. I opened up the Map Manager and downloaded zoom levels 1-4 [with the following settings: Under the setup tab check "by area", under the zoom tab click on zoom levels 1-4 and click OK].

This didn't cover all the area I wanted, so I clicked on the screen til black covered half the screen and then downloaded again. The maps were downloaded to fill in the black area of my screen.

Hope that makes setting up Maemo Mapper easy.

2. TV Links I found an easy way to watch some TV on the lunch break. Visit www.tv-links.co.uk/ or http://www.yourtvlinks.com/

These sites have links to other sites that host TV episodes. Not all the links work or are in a format supported by the N800. However, many links work quite well, and I've watched episodes of Monk and South Park.

To make the process run smoother click on the window of the video until a menu appears and choose settings. Slide the widget all the way to the right (unlimited), pause your playback for a minute or so, and then start up. It should run pretty smooth.

3. Moving Program Icons: A lot of progams will install themselves in extras and if you don't pay attention your extra folder will fill up real quick. Here's how to move those programs around:

Open up your control panel and select navigation. Click Organize. From this window you can move your progams from folder to folder or create new folders.

4. Blogger Relations Site: Here is a link to the Nokia blogger relations site: http://n800.bloggercomm.com/

Not sure where they are going with this, but there it is.

Feel free to post more tips and advice!