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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by cddiede
I know this may seem like a stupid question, but it has happened to me before where a widget has popped up on a different desktop than the one I was currently using and I thought it wasn't showing up at all. Could this be happening?
Really excited to download this package!
However, I just grabbed it from the app manager and it's not showing up on my desktop. I know it's enabled since it shows as installed and doesn't appear in my list of inactive widgets in my desktop's "add widget" dialog.
I've seen this problem before ( looking at you DiggHomeWidget...) but a reboot usually solved it. This time, I've rebooted twice and still can't see the touchsearch widget.
Any tips?
It is normal for TouchSearch not to show up until you reboot, but once you do, it should always show up. If it really is not showing up at all, please report back which version you are using (you can see in the App. Manager).
Thanks.
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Author of TouchSearch -- web searching software for Maemo 5.
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Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 -> Nokia N900
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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by sorodoros
MaeMaps is working OK for me today.
Anyone getting broken MaeMap (Google Maps) pages with any search from the bar? I get the search query text and broken page backgrounds.
Also, I cannot edit the name of Google Maps to MaeMaps, or edit the text. All changes are not kept.
Why not call it MaeMaps, since that what it is, and add a real Google Maps?
I'm thinking of switching to http://www.google.com/maps/m for maps. Once you enable "Selection Mode" in the browser, all features work perfectly (and it's fast!). Sorry twaelti -- I don't know if MaeMaps will remain preinstalled. 
Great widget. Thanks!
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2010-01-08
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Hi brent - first: thanks for your work; just installed the 2.x version - nice. Still - not being able to edit the google search is not so cool. I do not want to end up on your google ads driven account. I fully understand that you want to make some money with the conversions - still these pages do not return full google index results but only ads keyword results....
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2010-01-08
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Another question:
What do I have to regard when i want assign a custom picture to a search engine?
What do I have to regard when i want assign a custom picture to a search engine?
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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by BoeMatic
read his help file - it's a png file you have to place... ahrg: read the authors help ;-)
Another question:
What do I have to regard when i want assign a custom picture to a search engine?
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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by BrentDC
I've got touchsearch ver. 1.3-2
I know this may seem like a stupid question, but it has happened to me before where a widget has popped up on a different desktop than the one I was currently using and I thought it wasn't showing up at all. Could this be happening?
Thanks.
I'vew checked & the widget isn't hiding behind anyrhing or on some other desktop.
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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by HugoSon
Hi,
Hi brent - first: thanks for your work; just installed the 2.x version - nice. Still - not being able to edit the google search is not so cool. I do not want to end up on your google ads driven account. I fully understand that you want to make some money with the conversions - still these pages do not return full google index results but only ads keyword results....
When I started this project I had the idea that it would be a fairly popular widget, that would be easy to create, and I could sell it on Nokia's OVI store. Unfortunately, that was hardly the case.
I have written the widget in Python, which usually makes things easier, but in this case made things much harder. When I started, I was the first person using Python to write home widgets for Fremantle. By definition, there were a lot of problems getting started, almost all of which have since been now sorted out. I had to file numerous bugs with Python and work with the Python team (who are fantastic, by the way) just to get home widgets working.
On top of that the documentation was very thin so I had to figure out the API's mostly without any help -- this took lots of time and work. I even had to buy a device to be able to fully test things. This set me back several hundred dollars.
Finally, I was able to get developing at a steady pace and was ready to release my widget to OVI. Except, where is OVI? On top of it not even existing yet, I started hearing things like you need to be incorporated to even join OVI and you need Million-dollar liability insurance. Maybe it was poor planning on my part, but I needed to find an alternative.
The alternative was to incorporate Ads into Google search results (heck, they will be there anyway) so that I could try to offset some of my costs. So that is what I did. I released it for free instead of for the (small) fee I was planning with the one compromise being a Google CSE instead of regular results.
It wasn't my first choice, but seemed like a decent compromise.
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Author of TouchSearch -- web searching software for Maemo 5.
Mobile Device lineage: Palm Z22 -> Palm TX -> Nokia N800 -> Nokia N900
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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by cddiede
I am not sure what the issue could be -- no one has ever reported this happening before.
I've got touchsearch ver. 1.3-2
I'vew checked & the widget isn't hiding behind anyrhing or on some other desktop.
Could you try uninstalling and reinstalling? I'm really guessing here
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Author of TouchSearch -- web searching software for Maemo 5.
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2010-01-08
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Originally Posted by BrentDC
Didn't realise that, actually. But I totally understand your reasoning. Plus, it's quite clever idea to crank out few extra $$$ too, hmm.... :)
The alternative was to incorporate Ads into Google search results (heck, they will be there anyway) so that I could try to offset some of my costs. So that is what I did. I released it for free instead of for the (small) fee I was planning with the one compromise being a Google CSE instead of regular results.
It wasn't my first choice, but seemed like a decent compromise.
Good question, I'm not sure I'm thinking of switching to http://www.google.com/maps/m for maps. Once you enable "Selection Mode" in the browser, all features work perfectly (and it's fast!). Sorry twaelti -- I don't know if MaeMaps will remain preinstalled.
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Also, I cannot edit the name of Google Maps to MaeMaps, or edit the text. All changes are not kept.
Why not call it MaeMaps, since that what it is, and add a real Google Maps?
Great widget. Thanks!