Wazapp public beta for Nokia N9 - access WhatsApp IM from Harmattan
Via: @Jaffa2
Editor: Andrew Flegg
WhatsApp is a popular IM service which, instead of manually contacting each of your friends to see if they're on the service, matches entries in your phone book directly. This has caused some consternation in the past with the privacy of people's contact details, but the application remains popular. So popular, in fact, that a concerted effort has led to a reverse engineered version being released for Harmattan by Tarek Galal. Since its first release earlier in the week, it's now had an update with numerous bug fixes and a more polished user interface.
Ogre 3D engine and example game to Harmattan
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Editor: Ryan Abel
Recent efforts by Michael Sheldon have resulted in the porting of the Ogre3D rendering engine to Harmattan: Recently I’ve spent a little time getting the Ogre3D engine into a state where it’ll work on the Nokia N9 and N950 MeeGo phones. To test the port out a bit more extensively I decided it’d be a good idea to try porting an existing game, at which point rzr suggested Those Funny Funguloids. So after a fair amount of hacking to make it compatible with my version of Ogre and to make the controls work reasonably on a touch screen device I have a playable version. See the blog post for a video demo, a link to the Funguloids port, and the modified OGRE.
PushUp - fine-grained DLNA/uPNP content sharing on Harmattan
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Editor: Andrew Flegg
Jens Georg announced his "PushUp" DLNA sharing plugin back in April; but your editor had cause to use it recently and it does exactly what you'd expect. Jens describes the background: Ever since the announcement of the N9′s DLNA support people were looking for a feature called DLNA +PU+ which allows you to send media files to e.g. DLNA-capable TVs without enabling content sharing on your device, giving you a really fine-grained control about what and where to share to. Your editor used it to stream a TED video from his N9 to a Linux media PC running XBMC.
reset-root-password for times you've forgotten your root password
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Editor: Ryan Abel
Thomas Perl and Christian Ratzenhofer have put together a small installation package to reset a device's root password: I found myself in a situation where I forgot the root password of my device in closed mode, and I didn't want to go through a reflash, so together with the help of merlin1991, we figured out a way to reset the root password without any "dirty tricks" like open mode or inception. This does nothing more than a "passwd -d root" in the postinst script, and is trivial to rewrite from scratch, but just for convenience, here it is as a nice package. As Thomas notes in his post, this is why it's inadvisable to install random .debs from the internet from untrusted sources—and why your humble editors at this fine publication continually remind you of that point.