Blogging from N900

2011-12-19 1 min read Maemo N900
[][1]Image via Wikipedia Can´t get simpler than this. Just install the application called wordpress in your N900, and punch in the details for your blog along with your admin login and password and you have a amazing wordpress client. You can even add photos like the one below: N900 and its applications keep me amazed and happy 🙂 Related articles Nokia N900 Gets Ice Cream Sandwich, Melts Under Pressure (pcworld.com) N900 takes a bite out of Ice Cream Sandwich, suffers Android brain freeze (video) (engadget. Continue reading

N900 and skype support

2011-10-02 1 min read Maemo N900
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I was trying to add my skype account on the N900 today and could not add the account. I did not find any option to add the same. After some googling and searching, I found that I need to re-flash my N900. I had flashed the India image earlier to check out what it would provide me but to my astonishment there is no skype support in the India image, so if you are planning to have the skype account added to the N900, then you need to flash either the Global Image (with the string “MR0” in the name of the image) or the US image (004) and not the India image (004). Continue reading

GPG error on N900 when doing update on command line

2011-06-22 1 min read Maemo N900
Image via Wikipedia If you have added some extra repositories to your Nokia N900 and are trying to do something ( like update, install or any other apt-get operation) you might see some errors or warnings related to the GPG keys. The errors would come because the Public keys for the reporisitories are not present in the gpg database 🙂 Cool, now you know the reason, but what to do… Add them as below: Continue reading

Installing Bling Theme on N900

2011-06-18 2 min read Maemo N900
Image via Wikipedia There is a very nice theme for N900 and it is called Bling theme. There is a problem though with the theme, the theme still does not have a installable .deb file, and thus the files need to be directly copied to “/usr/share/icons” and you have to manually do the mkdir and all such command in the terminal in a N900, which does not seem familiar to quite a lot of people using N900. Continue reading

Deleting all mails in the N900 (Maemo 5) permanently

2011-06-14 2 min read Maemo N900
Well couple of days back, I checked the folder details of one of my accounts configured on the N900 (Maemo 5) and it was showing some 1000 or more emails, whereas I had only 4-5 emails in the Inbox so where are the other emails and how to I get rid of them. This was causing the mail application to become a little slower than usual so do I live with it, I decided not to do so and thus found out how to delete all the mails. Continue reading

N900 starts showing junk characters

2011-06-08 1 min read Maemo N900
Well, sometime back I bought N900, some snaps here. And sooner than later I started playing with it. In an effort to reduce the disk usage for the “/” (root) partition, I removed some packages that were taking too much of space and managed to get the mobile to a stage where a lot of applications started displaying strange and junk characters and also cannot use package manager any more…errors reported. Continue reading

My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile.

2011-05-20 2 min read Uncategorized
Image via CrunchBase I have been thinking of buying the “N900” Nokia mobile for quite sometime but for certain reasons could not get my hands on this mobile so far. Finally couple of days back, I got my hands on this beautiful and powerful piece of software and hardware. Well, here are some snaps for ya ll: BTW before we go to the snaps, there are some things that you will not see in the pics here but makes the first and the best impressions and they are Browsing, Email, Connectivity, Screen Resolution, Size of the icons (big enough to do most of the tasks with bare hands) et al. Continue reading