Ok... so forgive me if this already exists somewhere but I couldn't find it. As a (soon to be) new owner of an N900, I am hoping to get some opinions on 10 or so quick tweaks/apps to add to the N900 to improve it. Think of it as an quick and dirty N900 "must haves" list for noobs

Please try to limit this easily installed packages and assuming little or no Linux experience.

EDIT: Ok thanks so much for everyone who replied so far. I have put together the following list of 35 based on the highly arbitrary and unscientific method of eyeballing the responses and seeing which improvements are mentioned most.

So... if I could ask for some further assistance it would be nice to rank this list in order of importance/popularity. Also, if we could put together general info for us noobs on where to get theses apps (for those not in the garage anyways) that would be great.

And of course the list is open source so subtractions/additions are welcome

1. Install Simple Brightness App (brightness adjust in status menu)
2. Install cpumem-applet (icon in status bar to monitor cpu usage)
3. Install callnotify (icon in status bar to indicate missed calls, sms)
4. Install Autodisconnect (auto disconnect idle connections)
5. Install AdBlock Plus and adflashblock-css (blocks ads in Microb)
6. Install Extra Decoders Support (extra codecs for mediaplayer)
7. Install FM Radio Player and fm-boost (unlocks FM radio, boosts signal)
8. Install headphone daemon (mutes headphones when unplugged)
9. Install rootsh (allows root access in X term)
10. Install kernel-power-settings and use "ideal" (warning: This voids your warranty) (see Overclocking thread for more details and current info)
11. fMMS (send and receive MMS)
12. VIM or Leafpad (Text Editors)
13. Angry Birds (game)
14. Conky (monitor cpu, memory, uptime and more)
15. Battery eye or battery graph (monitor battery usage)
16. Additional audio codecs (extra audio codecs)
17. Tweakr (allows more profiles than general and silent, a couple other nice settings)
18. Call forwarding applet (more options for call forwarding)
19. Vertsms (portrait support for SMS)
20. Live wallpaper (see Live Wallpaper thread for more detail)
21. Desktop Activity Manager (?)
22. Petrovich (send files via Bluetooth, no longer needed since pr 1.2)
23. PicoDrive & DrNokSnes (Megadrive / SNES Emulator)
24. Firefox Mobile Beta
25. Easy Debian! (VM to run Debian apps, comes with Open Office and Iceweasel (Firefox for Linux))
26. Free Office Viewer (view Office docs)
27. Worldtv99 (playlist for live TV, requires KMplayer)
28. Healthcheck (check system health such as uptime, dead pixels, mem usage)
29. Recaller (allows you to record system sounds, mic and phone input)
30. Mobile Hotspot (turn N900 into a Wifi Hotspot)
31. Hermes Sync (enrich contacts w/social network data)
32. Media Box (alternative media player)
33. Pianobar/Pypianobar (Pandora client)
34. Catorise (organize apps menu the same way it is organized in app mgr)
35. KMPlayer (alternative media player)

ever heard of a question mark ( ? )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F

1. Install Simple Brightness App
2. Install cpumem-applet
3. Install callnotify
4. Install Autodisconnect
5. Install AdBlock Plus and adflashblock-css
6. Install Extra Decoders Support
7. Install FM Radio Player and fm-boost
8. Install headphone daemon
9. Install rootsh
10. Install kernel-power-settings and use "ideal" (warning: This voids your warranty)

These will get your N900 rocking and rolling and give it a real solid utilitarian feel.

buy sygic if you need sat nav

sort out im accounts if you use them

use hermes to get contact info

load it with media

loads of stuff you can do with the little box of tricks to many to list here :-) id get reading mate :-)

i agree with the question mark though perhaps a mod could edit the title its a bit misleading

I attempted to add a ? to the title, I guess a mod has to approve it first?

2. I don't recommend you overclock. Drains the battery.
3- Simple brightness app
4- Extra profiles for sound
5- Call forwarding applet
6- Vertsms
7- Live wallpaper
8- Desktop Activity Manager
9- Sleep Daemon for Music player
10- Firefox Mobile Beta
11- Conky
12- Easy Debian!
13- DrNokSnes
14- emelFM2
15- Petrovich
16- Mauku
17- Free Office Viewer
18- QTRapids
19- QStarDict
20- Mobile TV

With yours, that's twenty!

Change the transitions to make it really fly.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...sitions&page=2

Even better! Not like I need to do anything @ work anyways

Heres hoping my N900 shows up on my doorstep sooner rather than later.

does live wallpaper not drain the battery??

i have no problems with overclock, at 900mhz. alls good. Same battery life as my mates at work! 3 of them with n900s...

1. fMMS
2. VIM
3. Angry Birds
4. Conky
5. Battery eye or battery graph
6. Additional audio codecs
7. Abiword
8. To go office viewing suite
9. Simple brightness application
10. Healthcheck

These are all applications that increase my pleasure in using the N900.