Hello friends. After selling my N900 to my friend almost 3 months ago. I became bored with Android devices and bought a N900 again yesterday. So can anyone tell me what has been released/updated in these 3 months and what has been changed. I'm using N900 as my primary device but i can still check things which are still in beta or alpha stage.

and one more thing what about Maemo.org's future ? is there any deadline given to Council from Nokia about Maemo.org's closure.

Thanks.

31/12/12 is the deadline...Voting for the Board of the NFP is now open till 18/10/12...Vote now to get the best people in to negotiate with Nokia the taking over the reigns to maemo.org

Well... Let me see.
Hamster Filer 0.6.1 - a new file manager
PowEdit for Fremantle - edit power key menu entries
modern computer flatboat - a mobile pdf viewer
SIM-Switcher, automated switching with a double ( dual ) SIM adapter
genwall a simple iptables firewall
Kana of The Day -- Learn Japanese Letters on N900
ρcam raw/jpg camera application for N9 **and N900** with manual controls
Best wishes.
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Per aspera ad astra...

A lot of new apps came out of the coding competition.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_coding_competition_2012

For a massive performance and battery life gain (due to significantly decreased RAM & swap usage), install the CSSU-Thumb2 updates.
Flash Player 10.1 was finally leaked (no really, I'm serious)!

Edit: Another loosely similar thread has more good info.

thanks everyone. one more question can anyone name a good mapping app with Google maps and offline cache support ? as Nokia maps doesn't support my country yet.

Thanks.

You can try ModRana. I think it has everything you need.

Thanks Leinad.

That's quite an impressive list you ave there (and in your sig - even better, but "quote reply" stripped that off).

I wasn't even aware of the N900 before this July. I only bought it by an eBay accident but never regretted it. It is a 9 years old, no longer officially supported device, yet it has a better support base than any mobile device I have ever used. I found it does everything I ever wanted from my phone and more, and the geek factor is just invaluable.

The only app that I am missing on it is a decent calculator. There are a few basic ones that are usable and a few scientific ones which look cool but have an unusable UI (like TI 48 - cluttered UI with buttons so small as to be unreadable), and of course a few that have an unusable UI without even being cool (I shall not name and shame here ).

Another app that is not essential but would be nice is a media player that does not index my collection. I mean, at all. I have my music organized neatly in folders, that's all the indexing I need. All I want is, click on a folder and play all songs in that folder alphabetically.

Any of the two above would make my N900 an absolutely perfect companion

+1 for modRana.