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http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog lists that the GPE PIM suite supports opensync for syncing. Opensync support evolution, kitchensync, irmc and syncml

Not a port, but a hack: A wee thing to turn *off completely* the screen's backlight. At least in the unit I fondled, there was no way to do so. Don't need the backlight when sitting in a park on a bright sunny day just reading an ebook. Might also add an hour or so to battery life!

I just found a linux version of Archon. Its called xArchon and its at xarchon.seul.org. If someone could port that program I would be happy.

There are a few applications I'd like to see.

Top of my list is -- regrettably -- a closed-source, commercial product: PhatWare's Calligrapher handwriting recognition (http://www.phatware.com/calligrapher/index.html) or even -- dare I dream? -- the whole PenOffice. Unfortunately it's a Windows-only (both desktop and WinCE) product, so...

The other one would be a port of Gournal (http://www.adebenham.com/gournal/). Or perchance Evernote (http://www.evernote.com/en/)? Again non-free I'm afraid, but at least one of the developers once told me in a mail that a Linux version was "under consideration".

In case anyone wonders about my mental sanity: I used to be a Newton geek.

I already emailed Apple in regards to this idea, but what about having a port of iTunes?

You plug your iPod into your Nokia 770 through the USB port, load up iTunes Jr, connect to the iTunes Store, buy or download whatever you want through your 770 into your iPod.

It doesn't check to see if your audio files are in the 770's library (and thus delete them when it finds they are not) ... iTunes Jr should be set to "add files only" and never delete them.

Thus, it never asks itself if the 770's records match your iPod's records, so it never deletes what it can't find like it does normally on a standard PC when one of our songs goes missing suddenly and then gets erased off the iPod without my permission. I hate that.

With iTunes Jr., we could still purchase stuff through Apple's site, we just wouldn't need our computer, or any computer at all, in order to actually USE our iPods. I hate that they made the iPod so PC-centric, but this idea would free up the iPod for full-time supercoolness.

In my humble opinion, anyway. Thanks for your time. You also have many great ideas on here already, keep them coming!

Oh, and how about a new version of Kazaa, like ... Kazaa-lite LITE!

Or a new version of Napster called the Nipster? Or Napnip? It's the catnip of P2P, small but addicting!

Or how about something called the P2P Pipsqueak?

Or... Tiny Torrent?

Peer-to-Peer Pressure? Huh? Whadya think?

Okay, okay, I'll leaving.

Bye.

I'm just dreaming of the day when the 770's application catalog can rival that of the NSLU2 (ostensibly just a network-attached storage device), which currently has 6702 packages available.

I second this!

If you want command line/remote access stuff only (since the NSLU2 doesn't have a display/touchscreen etc.), the 770's already got more than the NSLU2: 15490 packages.

You can even get them working without root. Admittedly, a nice apt port & GUI would make it easier, but the software is there.

Precompiled binary packages, that you can just pull down and install through something like apt-get, without having to compile the source in scratchbox yourself?

If so, that's pretty sweet -- but how do you access them? I see /etc/apt/sources.list on my system, but no apt-get... and dpkg doesn't appear to have the apt-get-like functionality of ipkg on the NSLU2.