Nephridium, your thread made me smile, which is quite rare in this community nowadays.

Thank you for caring to write these down!

Nephridium, great posts! brings back old nerdy memories of RPG from the late 80's and early 90's. Nice work!

Nokia Maps

Even though the Nokia Maps UI isn't very slick it does deliver in terms of functionality and being able to view maps offline. This one requires Nokia's Ovi software ( http://europe.nokia.com/support/down...okia-ovi-suite ) on your desktop, which lets you select which maps (countries/states) to download and push onto you N900.

Reward: world map

Mappero

apt-get install mappero

The guy at http://www.mardy.it/mappero actually made a maps app that runs much smoother than Nokia's official one. It lets you choose between Open streetmaps, and google maps as sources.

It also lets you download map tiles by inputting coordinates for offline use.

Reward: world maps

Terminal bashing in 16 colors

For those who like a bit more color in their terminals this one should be useful. Check http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40418 for a version of ls that shows different colors for directories/files etc..

ls.color runs on the standard busybox shell environment, but I prefer to use bash which can be obtained through:
sudo apt-get install bash

Being somewhat thumb-lazy I'm using the following terminal commands to call ls.color:

l = simple color files list
ll = detailed color list, newest files at bottom
lll = detailed color list sorted by extensions

To get these commands I added the following lines into /etc/bash.bashrc :
alias l='/bin/ls.color'
alias ll='/bin/ls.color -lrt'
alias lll='/bin/ls.color -alX --group-directories-first '

To also have the "~/folder/ $" prompt in color you can add this line:
PS1="\e[1;33m\w \e[1;32m\$\e[m "
This will show the folder in yellow and the "$" in green.

More info on the somewhat cryptic "PS1" syntax here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-sh...linux-or-unix/

Now to invoke bash with all its colorly glory simply type "bash". Or if you're as lazy as I am just create a file called /usr/bin/b with this line and make it executable:
/bin/bash
This way you just need to type "b"

With the colored prompt it's easy to see whether bash is already running or just busybox's ksh.

Reward: Upgrades "terminal" minigame from monochrome to EGA mode! CH +1, ST +.5 when in terminal mode

Wonderful post, thank you.

great to see that there are new members with fresh potential to make things better.
so welcome in our maemo world and thanks for sharing your work!!!

I am reading T.M.O since Nov.09 and I say this here is the best thread I ever found. Full of fun, humor and valuable info. Every N900 newbie should be pointed here.
I hope it will be continued...

Video recording Stuttering, ISO with Manual exposure setting doesn't work

Have been Cursed during the battle with theDroid and iPhoney4 boss: Disasterous of Cameraus, ST -5, CH - 4, INT - 2, AGI -1

i love ur thread nephridium