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2010-02-05 , 15:03
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#81
Originally Posted by VDVsx View Post
I'll try something wearing the council hat.
Thanks for raising this issue.
In the past I was being a good soldier and posted:

Right now the best place to find applications from stable Nokia (OVI store) and community (maemo.org) repositories is from Maemo Select.

You can browse to the page with your N900 and simply click on the "download" link for an app or widget that you want. An install script should then open the Application Manager on your device, add the stable repository from downloads.maemo.nokia.com or repository.maemo.org/extras/ to the list of application catalogs monitored by your device, and begin installation and you will be good to go.
...or something similar on other fora as long ago as 10-11-2009, 17:14 ...

>> http://howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1578077

I thought I was doing readers a service but it may turn out that apps quasi endorsed by Nokia through OVI can be possibly just as harmful as those from any other repository.

Please report back any response as I am about to retract and/or edit all these previous statements if I can find them.
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2010-02-06 , 09:51
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#82
I have to say whilst i love my n900 i'm very disappointed with the level of development from nokia direct.

I'm always checking ovistore everyday like a mad man trying to see if new apps have been released...however i'm learning this is a pointless exercise

The n900 is such a powerful device and i would love to see someone develop games or apps that use the device to its full potential
 
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Originally Posted by YoDude View Post
I thought I was doing readers a service but it may turn out that apps quasi endorsed by Nokia through OVI can be possibly just as harmful as those from any other repository.
DISCLAIMER: Speculation, I have no inside knowledge of Ovi

I think the problem stems from the 'beta' label of Ovi for the N900. It's not beta by any development methodology I know of. It's closer to a tech demo, with the impression that a lot of things were apparently done manually just to have something out the door, and are probably not representative of real-life, yet to come Ovi QA procedures.

@nathaneous: take a look at extras. A lot of good stuff there, though a bit short in the games department.
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2010-02-06 , 11:05
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@nathaneous: take a look at extras. A lot of good stuff there, though a bit short in the games department.[/QUOTE]

I hear what your saying in regards to games and apps via extras. The only problem is that i'm very new to this maemo os and from what i've read quite alot of the extras apps have the ability to brick your phone if your not careful

I would rather be safe than sorry so i only download a few of the apps and games from extras. I trust ovistore to deliver none-harmful content on most occassions so i'm banking on nokia to pull their finger out
 
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@Nathaneous

There is nothing harmful about the apps in extras, so long as you dont enable extras-devel and extras-testing

otherwise it's all good
 

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As cartoon_head says, Extras is fine, and I'd say it has a better QA at the moment than Ovi has If you stay away from the devel and testing stuff you'll be fine.
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2010-02-06 , 13:27
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Thanks for the info guys...i've since disabled extras-devel and extras-testing
 
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has anyone seen a dice simulator video with n900 on youtube yet? that one is pretty useless too, yet i searched everywhere and i can't find it.
 
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Originally Posted by kazuki View Post
has anyone seen a dice simulator video with n900 on youtube yet? that one is pretty useless too, yet i searched everywhere and i can't find it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcfG5uxSOw
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sorry i should be more specific. i meant i can't find that app anywhere, don't know where to download that app.
 
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