<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <![CDATA[Blogging from N900]]> <![CDATA[/2011/12/19/blogging-n900/]]> 1324311279 <![CDATA[[][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.com) Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Running on the Nokia N900 (pocketnow.com) ]]> <![CDATA[N900 and skype support]]> <![CDATA[/2011/10/02/n900-skype-support/]]> 1317558909 <![CDATA[ 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). And, btw if you flash your N900, you will not lose any contacts, mail, sms or any other data. What you will lose is the applications that you would have installed. Related articles Video demo: Skype for Nokia N900 (share.skype.com) Nokia N900 (vipfun.wordpress.com) Nokia N900 app performs brain scan in the comfort of your home (geek.com) ]]> <![CDATA[Installing Full Blin g theme on N900]]> <![CDATA[/2011/08/03/installing-full-blin-theme-n900/]]> 1312343637 <![CDATA[ I was going through the post : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46739 and found the theme quite intruging but not complete to the point where I can download the deb file and install it in /usr/share/theme/ dir with simple commands “apt-get” or at max just use mkdir command to create the dir and dump everything in that dir. So, I wrote this couple of bash one liners to copy the required files to my N900. 1 2 3 4 5 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; for i in place*; do mv &quot;$i&quot; ${i//place these files in /}; done&lt;br /&gt; for i in Place*; do mv &quot;$i&quot; ${i//Place these files in /}; done&lt;br /&gt; for i in usr*; do j=${i//\./\/}; echo $i $j; done&lt;br /&gt; for i in usr*; do j=${i//\./\/}; echo $i $j; mkdir Bkup_$i; scp -r root@192.168.103.88:/$j/* Bkup_$i/ ;done&lt;br /&gt; for i in usr*; do j=${i//\./\/};scp -r $i/* root@192.168.103.88:/$j/ ;echo &quot;Done with $i&quot;; done &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; Related articles Installing Bling Theme on N900 (amit-agarwal.co.in) ns2 (network simulator) installation in fedora (binaryimmersion.wordpress.com) GPG error on N900 when doing update on command line (amit-agarwal.co.in) Lisp Package Guidelines &#8211; ArchWiki (wiki.archlinux.org) ]]> <![CDATA[GPG error on N900 when doing update on command line]]> <![CDATA[/2011/06/22/gpg-error-n900-update-command-line/]]> 1308707821 <![CDATA[ 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: (Before doing this note down the keys when you are getting the errors/warnings. We will need those keys to get the public keys from the public server. I am taking “010908312D230C5F” as an example here.) 1 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key &amp;nbsp;010908312D230C5F gpg -a --export 010908312D230C5F | sudo apt-key add - &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; and if you need to see the currently active repositories then you can open the following file and check the contents: 1 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; Related articles Weaponizing the Nokia N900 &#8211; Part 3.8 &#8211; Backtrack 5 on N900 (zitstif.no-ip.org) My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile. (amit-agarwal.co.in) Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development Guide: Getting set up (daniel.holba.ch) Slimv Tutorial &#8211; Part Two (kovisoft.bitbucket.org) ]]> <![CDATA[Installing Bling Theme on N900]]> <![CDATA[/2011/06/19/installing-bling-theme-n900/]]> 1308423236 <![CDATA[ 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. So here, is for the benefit of all, I am posting a script that can do the job. The one lines can be run from any bash script (Linus/Windows with cygwin/Mac or even N900). Though the one liners should be self explanatory, if you have a doubt, feel free to ping me. Original Maemo thread is here… you can find the screenshots of the theme in the thread. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46739 1 2 3 4 5 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; for i in place*; do mv &quot;$i&quot; ${i//place these files in /}; done&lt;br /&gt; for i in Place*; do mv &quot;$i&quot; ${i//Place these files in /}; done&lt;br /&gt; for i in usr*; do j=${i//\./\/}; echo $i $j; done&lt;br /&gt; for i in usr*; do j=${i//\./\/}; echo $i $j; mkdir Bkup_$i; scp -r root@192.168.103.88:/$j/* Bkup_$i/ ;done&lt;br /&gt; for i in usr*; do j=${i//\./\/};scp -r $i/* root@192.168.103.88:/$j/ ;echo &quot;Done with $i&quot;; done &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; Related articles Deleting all mails in the N900 (Maemo 5) permanently (amit-agarwal.co.in) Nokia Maemo 6 device on June 21 tips insider (slashgear.com) ovigia: Demo Of MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition On The Nokia N900 | The Handheld Blog (thehandheldblog.com) ]]> <![CDATA[Deleting all mails in the N900 (Maemo 5) permanently]]> <![CDATA[/2011/06/14/deleting-mails-n900-maemo-5-permanently/]]> 1308055226 <![CDATA[ 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. For a handheld, I use the mail only to get the mails and reply them immediately. I do not keep the mails for future 🙂 . If you are one of my kind then you can follow on but if you want to keep any of the mails then DO NOT FOLLOW. Open a terminal, and then do the following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; cd ~/.modest/cache/mail/pop/&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; cd &lt;pop account directory&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; rm -f summary.mmap&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; cd cache&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; rm -fr * &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; Once again, note that this will delete ALL the emails and not just selective ones, so be careful. Remeber not to delete the other files… And if you are lazy just like me then you can copy paste the below script and run it from terminal whenever you want 🙂 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; cd /home/user/.modest/cache/mail/pop/&lt;br /&gt; for i in *&lt;br /&gt; do&lt;br /&gt; cd $i&lt;br /&gt; pwd&lt;br /&gt; rm -rf cache/*&lt;br /&gt; rm -fr summary.mmap&lt;br /&gt; cd -&lt;br /&gt; done &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; 🙂 Related articles My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile. (amit-agarwal.co.in) Weaponizing the Nokia N900 &#8211; Part 3.8 &#8211; Backtrack 5 on N900 (zitstif.no-ip.org) Video: QML Shader Effects on Symbian^3, Maemo 5, Mac OS X, Windows 7 and Ubuntu (jaygohel.wordpress.com) MeeGo-Powered Nokia N9 to Be Called Nokia N950 (gottabemobile.com) ]]> <![CDATA[N900 starts showing junk characters]]> <![CDATA[/2011/06/08/n900-starts-showing-junk-characters/]]> 1307497816 <![CDATA[ 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. To fix, this there was not solution that I could find on the net and thus started searching for a solution on my own. Finally found that that locales package was missing so what you need to do is following, in case you manage to get to similar state 🙂 Open a x-terminal on your Maemo based N900 and issue the following command: 1 &lt;td&gt; &lt;div class=&quot;text codecolorer&quot;&gt; apt-get install posix-locales &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; This should fix the issue. Edit : Fixed the issue with the command not properly displayed in the blog post. Related articles My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile. (amit-agarwal.co.in) Weaponizing the Nokia N900 &#8211; Part 3.8 &#8211; Backtrack 5 on N900 (zitstif.no-ip.org) Video demo: Skype for Nokia N900 (share.skype.com) ]]> <![CDATA[My new Maemo 5 Nokia N900 Mobile.]]> <![CDATA[/2011/05/21/maemo-5-nokia-n900-mobile/]]> 1305928530 <![CDATA[ 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. Not to mention the great integration of the skype and GTalk contacts into the usual contacts and calling them like other GSM calls. First the carry case: [][1]Nokia N900 cover Next the mobile in my hands 🙂 [][2]Nokia N900 And the X-terminal running bash: [][3]bash running on N900 (Nokia) Complete Debian running in chroot environment on the mobile: [][4]Debian on N900 conky running on this: [][5]conky running on N900 mplayer and finally Ovi maps running on the phone: [][6]Ovi Maps on N900 [][7]mplayer on N900 Nokia Related articles Video demo: Skype for Nokia N900 (share.skype.com) Nokia drops Ovi brand, replaces it with Nokia (dgui.wordpress.com) N900 Application Round Up (jeffhoogland.blogspot.com) MeeGo-Powered Nokia N9 to Be Called Nokia N950 (gottabemobile.com) ]]>