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  1. Front Page
    • Intel to stop accepting MeeGo tablet apps in AppUp store
  2. Applications
    • Using the N9's Dolby Headphone feature as a cheap encoder
    • Enabling ICQ in N9 instant messaging
  3. Development
    • Major new release of gst-dsp for using N900 DSP from gstreamer
  4. Devices
    • Nokia N9 software update on Mac OS X and Linux
    • The Nokia N9 and the Information Architecture paradox: improving the apps view with search

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Intel to stop accepting MeeGo tablet apps in AppUp store

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

In a somewhat foreseable move, Intel's Bob Duffy has announced that MeeGo tablet applications will no longer be accepted in the Intel AppUp store. With the Linux Foundation moving forward with Tizen, and without MeeGo tablet devices in market, (correction: without AppUp supported MeeGo devices in market) the AppUp developer program will not be accepting MeeGo tablet app submissions for validation, effective December 2011. The move makes sense given that there aren't actually any MeeGo tablets with AppUp support out-of-the-box but it could be a disapointment for developers who spent a lot of time getting MeeGo tablet apps in the AppUp store in the first place.

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Using the N9's Dolby Headphone feature as a cheap encoder

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Karoliina Salminen has a nice article about using the N9 to add Dolby headphone encoding to a track if you do not have it available in your editing suite: Nokia N9 has Dolby Headphone effect, which is gives pretty neat effect - makes the sound being perceived to be less inside the head. I have tried with several tracks that it can be helpful sometimes and I could even use that in my music. [...] However, if you want to spend the time, you can use N9 for the task and here is how. This seems like a cool little trick if you don't have an easier method available to you, and Karoliina seems to have thought through many different aspects (such as digital to analog conversion and track syncing).

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Enabling ICQ in N9 instant messaging

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Bill Ranton has a thread going at talk.maemo.org about integrating new messaging protocols (ICQ, MSN, XMPP, etc) into the Harmattan interface. Dotted around these forums are instructions to add non-gmail jabber accounts, msn, icq or other haze supported protocols on harmattan with mc-tool, you'll have seen that although the accounts are usable, they're not very well integrated. Although this is a long way from a proper implementation, it'll make sure you can see everything properly. Your editor spent an afternoon setting this up for a generic Jabber account, and it really is nice to see the status showing up properly for the account.

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Major new release of gst-dsp for using N900 DSP from gstreamer

Editor: Ryan Abel

A new release of the GStreamer plugins for the DSP in the N900's OMAP3430 SoC is available, Felipe Contreras announced on the lists last week: gst-dsp is a GStreamer plug-in to utilize Texas Intruments' DSP algorithms for OMAP3 platforms using the tidspbridge driver. It's time for another major release of gst-dsp. The major feature is the implementation of parsers for H.263, H.264 and MPEG-4, which are needed for RTP communication. These have been cooking for a long time, but they are finally cleaned up. Also, support for dynamic framesize changes, thanks mostly to Marco You will need to compile your own binaries, of course.

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Nokia N9 software update on Mac OS X and Linux

Editor: Ryan Abel

Those of us on Linux and Mac OS X face a slightly more complicated time when flashing the Nokia N9. Karoliina Salminen has written up a summary of some of the hurdles involved and possible solutions: This has been available for some time, but in case you have not noticed it, the new software release really worths installing as it significantly improves the performance of the device. You can see that for example the scrolling smoothness will be improved after updating from. Latest software release for Nokia N9 via Nokia page is 20.2011.40-4.

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The Nokia N9 and the Information Architecture paradox: improving the apps view with search

Jan Jursa has written up a small proposal to improve the usability of the Harmattan application view by adding search functionality: The Nokia N9 has only one installed apps screen. And that's fine with me. If you happen to have 10 billion apps - well, than you are ripe for some good scrolling pleasure. But it would be so much easier if there would be a little but powerful search which would help to filter those gazillions of apps...

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