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In this edition...

  1. Front Page
    • Mer-based MeeGo Community Edition now named "Nemo"
  2. Applications
    • Khweeteur Twitter client now Woodchuck enabled
    • Talking games with Thomas Perl
  3. Community
    • London-based meetup for MeeGo & Maemo users during Nokia World
  4. Devices
    • Getting cursor keys on Harmattan 1.1 via Swype input method
    • PR1.1 Harmattan update for N950 now available via over-the-air SSU
    • Autumn release of MeeGo Community Edition for N950
    • Provide feedback on N9 email & Mail for Exchange
    • Discuss N9 Contacts & IM issues with the developers
  5. Announcements
    • Ionic e-book reader for Harmattan
    • MeeSpot - an offline-capable Spotify client for MeeGo Harmattan
    • Update to gPodder released for Maemo 4 & 5
    • Toshl expense tracker for Harmattan

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Mer-based MeeGo Community Edition now named "Nemo"

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Flegg

Carsten Munk, guardian of Mer and a member fo the MeeGo Community Edition Steering Group, chaired an online meeting where the future direction of the MeeGo Community Edition was discussed. Of the minutes, the most immediate change was that it was decided the new project name is Nemo, non-namespace-clashing usage should be found and slogan.

The name has sea-related connations, but emphasises that despite many of the same people being involved, it's a separate project and should not be seen as "the" Mer distribution and user interface.

Read more (irclogs.meego.com)
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Khweeteur Twitter client now Woodchuck enabled

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Flegg

Neal Walfield has patched Benoît HERVIER's Twitter client, Khweeteur, to more intelligently use network resources using his library Woodchuck: One feature I particularly like is its support for queuing of status updates, which is useful when connectivity is poor or non-existent (which, for me, is typically when something tweet-worthy happens). It also supports multiple accounts, e.g., a twitter account and an identi.ca account. Deciding when to transfer updates is exactly what Woodchuck was designed for, and recently, I added Woodchuck support to Khweeteur. Now, if Woodchuck is found, Khweeteur will rely on it to determine when to schedule updates (of course, you can still manually force an update whenever you like!). Neal's changes have been merged into the Khweeteur mainline, although a new version has not yet been pushed to maemo.org. Those wishing to use the new feature will either have to build from source themselves, or use a package which Neal has published himself.

Read more (hssl.cs.jhu.edu)

Talking games with Thomas Perl

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Flegg

Thomas Perl writes: I've recently been asked again about the games I wrote for mobile devices, so here it is: The post with an overview of the games, with some not-so-well-known backstories and information on where to get them for different devices. Plus a little teaser hidden somewhere.

The post covers Tennix, That Rabbit Game, qw The Game and GaberIn.

Read more (thpmaemo.blogspot.com)
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London-based meetup for MeeGo & Maemo users during Nokia World

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Flegg

A discussion on TMO is trying (relatively unsuccesfully) to herd the cats^W geeks who will be in London this week for Nokia World. Stephen Spencer wrote: OK, so there's some mutterings on Twitter about Nokia World attendees and non-attendees who are local to London having a meetup dinner sometime during the week. So here's a thread for trying to organise this thing. We'll find somewhere close to the NW venue, for the convenience of attendees, but what evening is best for everyone?

Unless a startling reversion of Nokia's policy occurs, or juicy information on Meltemi continuing the Maemo legacy is announced, this could well be considered a welcome-to-the-world get together for the N9... and a wake for the commercial future of Maemo. So, if you're around, get in touch.

Read more (talk.maemo.org)
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Getting cursor keys on Harmattan 1.1 via Swype input method

Via: @IML337

The inclusion of the Swype input method in Harmattan PR1.1 gives a more traditional alternative to the touch-and-hold, iOS-style magnifying class for positioning the text caret. "IML337" wrote on Twitter: It DOES have arrow keys on the vkbd, thanks to swype! Enable Swype [under Text & Language in Settings]. Go into edit mode (hold on the swype key, and swipe to the next key to the right) and voila!

Read more (twitter.com)

PR1.1 Harmattan update for N950 now available via over-the-air SSU

Editor: Ryan Abel

Nokia has released an update for N950 devices which brings its software more closely in-line with the PR1.1 release of Harmattan for the N9. We covered the plans for this last week, but the update finally hit Wednesday. Highlights include: Application close by swiping from top to bottom is now always on, improved memory handling to boost application startup and overall performance, multilanguage keyboard and support for Swype, support for Chinese language (separate variant), added plugin support for Google, Picasa, Flickr and YouTube, number of small UI tweaks e.g status bar notification icon updates, number of bug fixes and changes have been implemented, Galaxy on Fire application has been added, need for Speed Shift application has bee added, and Widgets Gallery and QT Quick components gallery application have been removed. Many users have had issues with the update, beginning with Nokia's usual network-related issues for new updates and continuing with seeming package-management problems (which are difficult to resolve given the lack of detail in Harmattan's error messages). A flasher image isn't yet available.

Read more (harmattan-dev.nokia.com)

Autumn release of MeeGo Community Edition for N950

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Jukka announced on the MeeGo Handset mailing list the availability of the Autumn release of the MeeGo Community Edition (CE) for the N950. I am happy to announce all needed is now available to work with Community Edition Fall release on a N950. See:http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N950. Thanks for everybody involved and for the patience, we had somewhat a long last mile with this one. It looks like this is the last release that will be named "MeeGo Community Edition." Going forward we will see Nemo releases.

Read more (lists.meego.com)

Provide feedback on N9 email & Mail for Exchange

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Valério Valério has started a talk.maemo.org thread to provide assistance and clarification on issues users may be having with email and Mail for Exchange on the N9. now that the N9 is shipping, in the good open source spirit, we are looking for constructive feedback on the email and mail for exchange clients, please post here any problems, annoying behavior or suggestions that you might have. Valério has been helping a lot of people and letting users know what they can expect to see fixed in upcoming releases.

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Discuss N9 Contacts & IM issues with the developers

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

In a similar vane to the MfE story above, "abustany" has started a thread at talk.maemo.org to discuss bugs and possible enhancements to the contacts and messaging applications for Harmattan. Feature requests are accepted too, but we now have limited resources on Nokia side to implement them... The good thing? All our middleware is open source! Which means you can too contribute the features you'd like to see. There has been good response in the thread and the creator is quite active in responding to questions and comments.

Read more (talk.maemo.org)
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Ionic e-book reader for Harmattan

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

Akos Polster has released a port of his EPUB reader for Maemo, Dorian, for Harmattan as Ionic, with a new QML front-end. Ionic is an e-book reader for EPUB format books. Key features are: Read non-DRM EPUB books, navigate with touch or volume keys, navigate to chapters, manage bookmarks, a library that can import books from the file system. For those who remember Dorian, the EPUB reader for Maemo: Ionic is a port of Dorian to the N9/N950, with the UI completely rewritten in QML. Ionic is available from the Nokia Store.

Read more (forum.meego.com)

MeeSpot - an offline-capable Spotify client for MeeGo Harmattan

Via: @marseyeah

Editor: Andrew Flegg

A new Spotify client, built on top of Spotify's own library, has been made available through the Nokia Store: MeeSpot brings Spotify music streaming to the N9. Listen to music whenever you like by streaming it over 3G, 2.5G and Wi-Fi. Access your playlists or search for new tracks, albums and artists. You can sync your playlists for offline listening.

Your editor's tried it and it does work really well. As with all mobile clients you will need a Spotify Premium account to use it.

Read more (twitter.com)

Update to gPodder released for Maemo 4 & 5

Via: @Jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

Thomas Perl has released an update for gPodder, his podcast application: A new release of gPodder is out - this release is the last 2.x release before the "tres" release. Various bugfixes have been integrated, as well as new artwork merged from the tres branch and some updated translations from Transifex. The most important fixes: Fix download filename with invalid headers, skip images in Media RSS if audio/video available, use the standard logging module for liblogger, and fix the annoying AttributeError bug with gPodderWelcome. Updated packages for Maemo 4 and 5 are currently available from maemo.org, packages for Ubuntu and Windows will follow.

Read more (blog.gpodder.org)

Toshl expense tracker for Harmattan

Via: @Jaffa2

In a pretty, although somewhat self-indulgent announcement, Toshl - an expenses/budget tracker - is unveiled for Harmattan: The star of the show appears, seemingly unfazed by this whole existentialist commotion. The enclouded audience gasps with bewilderment. Is it late? Is it part two? For the year is 2011, yet this black monolith appearing on stage looks exactly the same, but not quite, like the monolith of Space Odyssey 2001. It earns the "but not quite" distinction with it's slender, curvy figure, perhaps reminiscing of the Kubrick's monolith's younger, more attractive days. Toshl is available for free from the Nokia Store.

Read more (toshl.com)
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