The Return of Panucci (0.99.0 for Fremantle)
After Thomas Perl added MAFW support to gPodder (and therefore support for Maemo 5's built-in Media Player), he stopped working on Panucci. Evidently some community developers preferred it, though, so they've continued working on patches: Recently, Jens and Helmuth collaborated on bringing Bluetooth support back into the 0.9 branch in the Panucci thread on t.m.o. Jens has also fixed some other issues and is now continuing development of Panucci, which is great :) I'll continue to package Panucci releases for Maemo 5, and review the commits and provide feedback, but won't be working on any features myself. The new update is currently available from Extras-devel (but is on its way to Extras-testing), so recall the usual care intructions.
Paper Toss for Maemo
One of the most popular time wasting games for iOS and Android, Paper Toss, has finally come to Maemo in the form of a clone from Jamie Fuller: Paper Toss, one of the most downloaded games in the App Store, comes to the Nokia N900 through the work of the Maemo community, most notably thanks to Jamie Fuller. The game is written in Python and has no audio, but have captured all the gameplay of the original game. Paper Toss is currently available from Extras-devel, so the usual boilerplate applies.
Kasvopus, a Facebook app for "the rest of us"
A new Facebook application has entered the ring for Maemo 5. Kasvopus, by Tommi Laukkanen, has been developed in Qt Quick and offers Facebook access without the hassle of dealing with the browser: Ever since I started using my Nokia N900 I missed a good Facebook app as the Facebook’s mobile or touch sites didn’t have the same experience that I was having with official Facebook app on my iPod Touch. [...] Now that I was able to develop apps quickly with Qt Quick, QML and JavaScript, I tested how easy it could be to create a simple iPod/Phone/Android style Facebook app. I was mostly concerned how the OAuth implementation could be done but it turned out to be really easy with QML’s WebView component and plain JavaScript functionality. Unfortunate Kasvopus is only available as a .deb from the developer's website, so those interested in testing it out should handle it with care.