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2012-08-11 , 21:46
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I know there's been a thread or two like this in the past, but since I've noticed some new users who are just now purchasing N8x0 devices I figured covering this again couldn't hurt. This thread is intended for apps not found in the standard repositories, but ones hidden through out the forums or elsewhere on the web.

Slide-Rotate: Automatically rotate the screen from portrait to landscape when sliding out the keyboard on the N810. When the keyboard is replaced, the screen will automatically rotate back to portrait. You can also assign a the Home or Power button to rotate the screen as well, making it useful on the N800 as well. It works best if installed after the Community SSU. Also, it breaks compatibility with Diablo-Turbo if ASUI is installed,meaning you have to re-install Diablo-Turbo after installing Slide-Rotate.

Gene Cash's PIM Apps: Calendar, Checkbook, To Do and Database applications. Most people seem to prefer GPE or Seqretary for their calendars for the Home Screen applets. What I like about this calendar is that it automatically opens every night at Midnight, so 1st thing in the morning I can see what needs to be done that day and for the next 3 weeks. The checkbook is THE killer app for me; I can balance all of my accounts on the N810 and have for the past year and a half. These apps do have a bit of a learning curve, especially the checkbook app, but I feel it is well worth the investment of time for the utility they offer.

Picodrive: A multi-system Sega (Megadrive, Genesis, CD) emulator. It is command line only for Diablo, but it works better than most of the other emulators for N8x0 out there. This post by Addison has the scan line codes for the N800; the directional codes are the same for the N810, which means you can have a full screen Genesis emulator on your tablet. This makes me wonder what other apps have been back-ported to Diablo buried in these forums.

Color ls: Provides colors for the default terminal when using the ls command. makes navigating the command line much easier for those times you have to.

Yellow Notes: Multiple (up to 99) sticky notes on your Home screen. I use this for my shopping lists, wish lists, workouts and anything else I need a simple text note for. It's awesome.

Applet Lock: This locks the position of your desktop applets. This should have been provided by default by Nokia; thankfully, someone found a way to provide this utility. It does need to be reset every time you reboot your tablet, but otherwise it is golden. This needs to be installed after the Community SSU.

Community SSU: I include this because despite it's popularity around here, information on how to install it requires digging through multiple threads on the forums. The biggest advantage I see is the ability to rotate my screen, but I consider that a huge requirement in how I use my device.

That's all I got. Hope this helps some of the newer users around here.
 

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2012-08-12 , 00:54
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This here is a good thread.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52124

By far my favorite is the YouTube downloader. I abuse this way too much everyday.

I really like my 1 minute Modest update script with the sound it makes as well.

Here's a great thread to turn your tablet into a free phone.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=80505

If anything, it will at least give you free caller ID if you don't want to answer the phone this way.

Ideas for possible ringtones...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81342

Check out this site...
http://pupnik.de/software.html

I highly recommend the lightweight MTPaint program.

I've got a ton of new Xkbd keyboard layouts if you want me to share those.

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35841

I've also got some great scripts if you like old school gaming, such as ADOM, Nethack, Frotz, and Mudding.

I'm still a big fan on using this...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70091

I learn something new almost every week with this thing and it always gives me smiles.

In fact, I just learned about RSS feeds today and now I'm already an addict to them. *lol*

If you have enough memory and love chess, you should check out Scid.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34518

I'll be making a graphical keyboard for GPsp here soon. I'll post it here in this thread when I'm done with it.

I really wish someone could program in a few requests I made in that Juicer thread...

That would totally rock.
 

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2012-08-12 , 01:23
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I have this script that I call yta (YouTube Audio)

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# version 1.3

# set this to the directory where videos will be downloaded
VIDEO_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/mmc1/Videos"
VIDEO_SAVE_DIR="/media/mmc1/Favorites"

# REQUIRED:
# /usr/bin/youtube-dl-x -- http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
# xclip -- http://asui.garage.maemo.org/_download/xclip
# apt-get install libxmu6

# USAGE:
# yt [URL]      -- download and play video in clipboard
# yt get [URL]  -- download video in clipboard
# yt kill       -- kill all downloads and playback
# yt clean      -- remove all downloaded videos
# yt save [URL] -- move already downloaded video in clipboard to saved video directory

#################################

if [ "$1" = "get" -o "$1" = "kill" -o "$1" = "clean" -o "$1" = "save" ]; then
	VIDEO=$2
else
	VIDEO=$1
fi
[ "$VIDEO" = "" ] && VIDEO=`xclip -out`
[ "$VIDEO" = "" -a "$1" != "kill" -a "$1" != "clean" ] && echo "Copy a youtube URL to clipboard or specify one on the command line" && exit

if [ "$1" = "kill" ]; then
	killall mplayer
	kill `ps aux|grep "/bin/sh $0"|grep -vE "(grep|kill|clean)"|awk '{print $1}'`
	kill `ps aux|grep "python /usr/bin/youtube-dl-x"|grep -v grep|awk '{print $1}'`
elif [ "$1" = "get" ]; then
	cd "$VIDEO_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
	echo "Downloading $VIDEO..."
	/usr/bin/youtube-dl-x --no-part -f 18 -o "%(stitle)s.%(ext)s" "$VIDEO"
elif [ "$1" = "save" ]; then
	cd "$VIDEO_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
	echo "Saving $VIDEO..."
	FILE=`youtube-dl-x --no-part -c -f 18 -o "%(stitle)s.%(ext)s" --get-filename "$VIDEO"`
	mv "$FILE" "$VIDEO_SAVE_DIR"/
elif [ "$1" = "clean" ]; then
	$0 kill
	rm -f "$VIDEO_DOWNLOAD_DIR"/*
else
	cd "$VIDEO_DOWNLOAD_DIR"
	echo "Downloading $VIDEO..."
	youtube-dl-x --no-part -c -f 18 -o "%(stitle)s.%(ext)s" "$VIDEO" &
	FILE=`youtube-dl-x --no-part -f 18 -o "%(stitle)s.%(ext)s" --get-filename "$VIDEO"`
	while [ ! -f "$FILE" ]; do sleep 5 ; done
	while [ "`/bin/ls -s "$FILE"|awk '{print $1}'`" -lt "4" ]; do sleep 5 ; done
	sleep 30
	mplayer "$FILE"
fi
It will grab the best audio quality of a Youtube video.

This is really great if you're into audio books and music such as this guy's channel.
http://m.youtube.com/user/osirisligh...ient=mv-google

Don't forget to check out Tarek's daily builds of SCUMM.

James Woodcock just released a musically enhanced version for the 7th Guest a day ago. His work is always amazing. <3

One other thing to quickly note is that you can use WinAmp skins with Xmms.

I'll think of some more junk later.
 

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Applet Lock: This locks the position of your desktop applets. This should have been provided by default by Nokia; thankfully, someone found a way to provide this utility. It does need to be reset every time you reboot your tablet, but otherwise it is golden. This needs to be installed after the Community SSU.
Try this much better version instead.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1046
 

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2012-08-12 , 08:45
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Originally Posted by Johnnie Price View Post
Slide-Rotate: Also, it breaks compatibility with Diablo-Turbo if ASUI is installed,meaning you have to re-install Diablo-Turbo after installing Slide-Rotate.
Do you know how it breaks DT when ASUI is installed? If it does something that requires DT to be re-installed then it wouldn't matter if ASUI was installed or not.
 

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2012-08-12 , 10:57
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hi

are there pkg you'd like to use on harmattan (not gtk ones please)
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Please help to list all maemo existing apps :

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I am looking for " 4 inch TFT LCD display screen " for Nokia n950 HandSet

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2012-08-12 , 23:24
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Do you know how it breaks DT when ASUI is installed? If it does something that requires DT to be re-installed then it wouldn't matter if ASUI was installed or not.
I've only ever interacted with DT through ASUI and I lack the skills to troubleshoot the problem.

When I install Slide-Rotate, I have to go into the settings and reflash the kernel before it will work properly. For whatever reason this causes DT to need to be re-installed. Oddly, it doesn't seem to conflict with the Community SSU.
 

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2012-08-12 , 23:47
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Slide-Rotate also breaks on my system when booting from SD. Again, I have no idea why, but it will eventually stop working. If I try to reflash the kernel, it breaks the cloned system causing me to have to re-clone it.

Still, considering how I use my device, I'd rather have Slide-Rotate than have a larger partition.
 

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To name a few others that you won't find in the App Manager, there's the impossible to ever fully understand Clock game.
talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=70401

As well as Outlaw Poker.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=61520

While there is exactly 0% chance of this game ever being fun, I do really like my graphic and sound hack for the default Chess app.
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82639

While you can find this in the repositories, no one talked that much about KCHMViewer....

This will allow you to read some of the best books written such as Cecil's Textbook of Medicine, Guyton Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, McGraw Hill Access Medicine on Pathophysiology, Pathophysiology of Disease- an Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Nelson's Textbook of Pediatrics, the 5 Minute Clinical Consult, and even the Drug Information Handbook.

I continue to have people that keep wondering why I am hung up on such an old device.

To be honest, I became tired of chasing after the latest thing. That road I used to be on never made me happy.

Here's a great video on how I feel about everything that is currently being released lately. (nsfw)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyVh1_vWYQ

I'm so far behind current technology that I have yet to discover what Twitter is even about. *lol*

Things that I still am hoping for is a -scim option to be used with Picodrive like it was done with gpSP. I would absolutely love a touch screen D-Pad.

Finally being able to play Cyberball on the tablet would make me squee with joy. <3

For Dosbox, I would love to have on the left and right side, where the screen is blank, a touch screen area that could be used as keys.

If that were ever made possible, I could use those two buttons for steering on one of my most favorite and addictive games, Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's Super Off Road for DOS.


I still continue to have hope that someday, someone will port Mednafen, a Nintendo emulator.

But most of all, I'm hoping that Juicer script...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=83959
can be ever so carefully tweaked just a little.

To me, it has all of the promise to do for music, what YouTube does for videos.

I would love to see that script fully completed one day. <3

Cheers.
 

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2012-08-13 , 00:55
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Here are some patches for the default Application Manager, Control panel and Games Wrapper. It gives an easier to use look to the Application Manager and allows Control Panel to be fullscreen.

Gweled is a different version of battlegeweled, but one I find much more enjoyable.

Here and here are a couple of mods I'd love to try out but which seem no longer available. I'm particularly interested to have multiple desktops so that I could have a script which tied the switch to screen rotation. It would mean I could actually have a background image again.
 

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