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The Twitter plugin tightly integrates Twitter to the contacts and the conversations. It imports your Twitter friends and saved search queries to contacts, and receives mentions/replies, DMs and Twitter search results as conversation threads. In addition, you can sent replies or DMs to any Twitter friend straight from contacts, simply by tapping on their Twitter IDs. In my opinion this isn’t the best twitter application currently available. Although it’s tightly integrated some necessary functions are missing. However, it’s still in the Extra-Devel repository and some functions might be added in due course. Tell us your thoughts about this plugin.

Check out this cool demo of how Skype is integrated into the Nokia N900’s Maemo operating system, so there is no need to download an additional application. You can make free Skype-to-Skype calls and IM on 3G or WiFi, and call phones abroad at great, low rates.

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Digia@Scene is a YouTube application for the N900 offering you an access to your YouTube account or giving you the opportunity to upload videos straight from the applications. More over you can search for videos or just view the ‘most viewed’, ‘most disczssed’, ‘top rated’ or ‘most recent’ videos. Currently it’s in the extras-devel repository and not final. Compared to ZouTube, another YouTube client we already induced, it’s not as stable and fast. Nonetheless Digia@Scene has its advantages.

Pidgin is a Internet Messenger supporting IM services like MSN, ICQ, AIM, Google Talk and many more. In my opinion it isn’t better than the built in messenger but some of you may love Pidgin.

Maemo is a really special operation system and in many  ways different than Symbian. One difference is the application manager which is based on catalogues. By default only the Nokia Application catalogue is activated. Maemo Extras, a catalogue featuring a bunch of apps, is deactivated by default but can be activated easily.

However, there are also two other big catalogue – Extras-devel and Extra-testing. Developers upload the newest version of their software to Extras-devel. From there the packages go Extras-testing and finally Extras through an automatic and human Quality Assurance process. This is a repository for developers and regular contributors of specific software projects. The applications in Extras-devel and extra-testing are waiting to be tested and aren’t final. There might occur some error so install apps on your own risk.

In order to add Extras-testing and Extras-devel go to the Application manager, select Application catalogs and then new. Than just fill out the detail:

Maemo Extras-Testing

Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New
Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

Maemo Extras-Devel

Application manager –> Application catalogs –> New
Catalog name: Maemo Extras-devel
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free

Now you will find a pretty long list with some really nice and useful application. Enjoy!

One of the PUSH N900 teams have introduced their skateboarding application. This sounds really interesting, not only for all you little Tony Hawks out there. The team from Germany are developing an application that lets you record your tricks and challenge your friends online. Take a look at the video to get an idea of the development progress and the application itself. Read the rest of this entry »

Vodafone UK has officially announced that they will begin selling the Nokia N900 in January 2010. The Nokia N900 is a high performance mobile computer with advanced Maemo 5 software based on Linux. With features like multitasking on a live Dashboard, wide screen video capture, 3.5″ WVGA touch display (800 x 480 pixels), QWERTY keyboard and customisable panoramic desktop, the Nokia N900 also features 1 GB of application memory and up to 48GB of storage.

Source: The Nokia Review

You want to see a few pictures taken with the N900? Yes? Well, here we go! I’ve uploaded a few pictures that will give you a good impression of the image quality. In the next days I’ll post some head to head comparisons with other phones. Thus, stay tuned.

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The Nokia N900 is a Maemo5 powered computer like phone. However, it’s not everything about the specifications but also about the design and the appearance. To show you the N900 we created a big N900 gallery with a lot N900 images.

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Do you remember and love Star Control 2 from 1992, a revolutionary adventure game which featured role-playing elements and 2D arcade-style space combat in the grand tradition of Space War?  If so, you will love the Ur-Quan Masters that is the free release of the Star Control 2 for your Nokia N900.

In your epic quest to overthrow the Ur-Quan overlords, you travel to remote star systems, gather resources, outfit your flagship, recruit alien allies, battle foes, and disrupt an enigmatic enemy tradition in time to prevent the annihilation of the entire human race! So, don’t hesitate and download this game for your N900.

Unfortunately I couldn’t install it on my N900 as I need Joydev. Thus, does it work for you? Please leave a comment.

Download The Ur-Quan Masters