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Last weekend I attended the N9 Hackathon in Vienna. Nokia kindly sponsored all food and accommodation costs and, at the very end, surprised me with an entirely unexpected gift of a N9 phone. Vienna: great transportation system, delicious food (either that, or I was always extremely hungry when I ate), huge portions, restaurants open until midnight. Shame I didn't have time to see the city itself. The N9 is a gorgeous phone; much more so in real life than in pictures.

Andrew Olmsted built the first FBReader packages for Harmattan, after tweaking the build system a bit. The desktop version of FBReader already used Qt 4, and ran almost unmodified, but with some bugs (segfault on task switch) and ugly UI. I started with the Ubuntu packages for FBReader, since they used a more sane build system for .debs (compared to upstream's funky shell script). Some tweaks were needed to make it build in Scratchbox: since GTK+ and Hildon libraries aren't available on Harmattan, I had to disable the building of -gtk and -maemo versions of libzlui.

Last Thursday I received a package containing something called the Nokia N950 development kit. Sweet sweet hardware, shame it's not going to be sold to end users. The software is visibly an unfinished pre-release version, but shows great potential. There are almost no 3rd-party apps, which is why Nokia is loaning these N950s to random developers. I intend to port GTimeLog to it. Although my more immediate need is to have FBReader, so that I can stop carrying both this one and my N900 with me everywhere.

My N900 has a SIM card with a flat-rate 3G data plan. My laptop hasn't. What do I do when I want to use the Internet on my laptop somewhere that doesn't have WiFi? Well, there are many options: Option 1: N900 as a USB modem Use the provided USB cable to connect the N900 to the laptop. Choose "PC Suite" mode on the N900 when you get the USB connection menu.

Sorry for flooding Planet Maemo -- it was a side effect of changing this feed's URL to only include posts tagged "maemo". I'm not sure if the fault is PyBlosxom's or the aggregator's As a penance, here's a Terminal trick for you: LABELS='[Tab,Esc,Enter,PgUp,PgDn,F2,VKB]' KEYS='[Tab,Escape,KP_Enter,Page_Up,Page_Down,F2,Return]' gconftool -s /apps/osso/xterm/key_labels --type list --list-type string "$LABELS" gconftool -s /apps/osso/xterm/keys --type list --list-type string "$KEYS" This changes the toolbar to have three extra keys (Enter, F2, and a key that acts like Enter when the hardware keyboard is open, and opens the virtual keyboard if the hardware keyboard is closed).