HAH! Finally got it to start the flashing process, About the hundredth time I tried. I switched over to a battery that had been fully charged on the external charger.

well, I'm typing this on my N810 in the default browser. I'm really liking iit more than I thought I would. I can stream all of my music from my computer while at home, which I am doing right now. I must have small thumbs or something, because I can comfortably type on the keyboard with all my typos being the wrong button, not hitting several. Until I can get around to installing Tear, the default browser is working perfectly for me.

I just changed over to the touch keyboard, and I much prefer the physical keyboard.
there, back to physical.

Now I'm going through the applications. Anything I should get on principle? I plan on getting notes, xournal, and a messenging client of some sort.

Sure...
As for Tear, see my post here - if you're familiar with desktop Linux distros, it should be easy
Other than that, here are a few suggestions:
- (Media Players) Canola or Mediabox - try both, and figure out which you like. There are a few others, such as ukmp, but those are the Big Two. If you use Youtube a lot, download MyTube, as Youtube tends to stutter in the browser. (and Vimeo? Ha!)
- Leafpad. The Notes app saves in html, and vi in the console doesn't suit everyone; a basic text editor is good. Try Geany if you want basic coding-type features
- ATI85, if you need a full-featured, "normal" calculator (it's a TI graphing calc emulator), or Free42 if you want old-skool RPN goodness (or both)
- BlueMaemo. It turns your N810 into a BT keyboard/mouse combo device - probably a good fit if you have an HTPC

Also worth mentioning is GraphicsMagick - the UI is not pretty, but it gets the job done if you need lightweight picture manipulation tools (e.g. crop/resize/transform/etc.)

Enjoy your N810, and stick around for a while

I have been around for a bit, trying to get involved in the "community", though I've mostly been failing.


Well, I've got Tear, Canola, Xournal, Leafpad, and Mauku. And OMWeather.



Which messaging client does everyone recommend? I know that none really do Yahoo Messenger anymore, but if they can do Windows live Messenger, I can deal because WLM messages Yahoo contacts.

Whatever else you do, add Personal Menu and Quick Clip. And if you like something like Pandora for music, go with Vagalume instead (and register with last.fm so you can make use of it).

I have Canola, and for some reason it doesn't want to play any videos. They just stay black and show no length.

In regards to WLM... you won't find official clients for any proprietary IM networks on Linux (ha!), but you can install either the RTCOMM beta upgrade (built-in IM), or Pidgin Messenger, in order to get WLM and other networks working. If you're in the same situation as I (multiple networks using the same address), you may run into this bug - if so, be sure to let them know, as I can't really do anything to help them with it right now.

Luckily, I plan on only using it for WLM while I'm out, and transferring the three or so Yahoo contacts that NEED to remain in contact with me over to WLM.

Pidgin for YM and other IMs.

Okay, new problem. I'm trying to solve it without video conversion, since the video files have subtitles hardcoded.

I attempt to play an RMVB file, which is supposed to be supported. On all three players I have (default, Canola, and Mplayer), all I get is audio, and only black for video (nothing for mplayer, it even crashes after a little bit)