The Ludicrous N900 Powermat Mod

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

Inspired by the whole problem of the USB port becoming loose on the N900 I started to mod my N900 “a little bit”. Essentially, I added a Powermat receiver to the back of my N900 such that it can now be charged wirelessly. The pictures give some impressions of the brute force applied. Not necessary to mention that this for sure voids any warranty. Furthermore, if you do something similar you do this all at your very own responsibility and risk. Please see also the other disclaimers in the talk.maemo.org thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72753

Above pictures show the first version of this mod. I am currently using the third(?) version of this mod.

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libswt-hildon

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

As I also wanted to use To-Do-O (which uses Java and SWT) on my N900 I started to port SWT to the Hildon UI as used in Fremantle. The result is called libswt-hildon and is available in the extras-testing repository in binary form and on the Maemo garage site in source form as one big patch.

The whole thing started off with a simple patch taken from https://evolvis.org/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/jalimo/index.php/Maemo. During the development I added many more features like support for the touch UI, native Hildon dialogs or support for the Fremantle version of Mozilla Firefox (Fennec). For more details please see the linked thread below and the patch itself.

This all was possible as Hildon essentially extends GTK and SWT ships with a GTK version as well. So much of the work was to figure the Hildon additions to GTK out and how to meaningfully integrate these with SWT. During this work I learned quite a lot about GTK, Hildon, the GObject system, SWT, and JNI. 🙂

The Maemo garage site is located at: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/swt-hildon

A talk.maemo.org thread about this is located at: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40778

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QBinaryClock

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

QBinaryClock is a simple clock widget displaying the time in binary representation. QBinaryClock is available for Linux, Windows, and Maemo Fremantle (N900).

QBinaryClock can show the time in many different formats and representation.

A talk.maemo.org thread about QBinaryClock is available at: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66964 Please note that the Maemo Fremantle version is just called “binaryclock” and is available from extras-testing.

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Zeecontrol

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

Zeecontrol is a front-end to libzeemote for Maemo Fremantle (N900). With Zeecontrol you can control your N900 via the Zeemote Bluetooth remote control.

Zeecontrol can be downloaded from the Maemo Fremantle extras repository via the application manager. A port to MeeGo / Harmattan will be done as well.

The Zeecontrol source code is available on the Maemo garage site: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/zeemote

A talk.maemo.org thread is available for more discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=51209

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VUMeter

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

VUMeter is a fun-tool to display the sound level. VUMeter presents the current sound level using different views.

Furthermore VUMeter provides many configuration options. You can e.g. store the recorded sound levels to a file, trigger a command based on sound level, or configure the colors shown in some views. Please note that VUMeter is intended as “fun application” and does most likely not display the exact sound level.

VUMeter is currently available for Maemo Fremantle (N900) and can be installed via the application manager from the extras repository. A port to MeeGo / Harmattan is in work.

The source code is available on the Maemo garage page: https://garage.maemo.org/projects/vumeter

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StultitiaSimplex

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

StultitiaSimplex is a simple sound board application. With StultitiaSimplex you have your silly sound snippets quickly and easily at hand whenever you need them.

StultitiaSimplex is available for Linux, Windows, and Maemo Fremantle (N900). A port to MeeGo / Harmattan is in work.

With StultitiaSimplex you can easily record short sound snippets and play them back. The user interface is designed to be as simple as possible. In the main window you simply have an array of buttons of configurable size where each button can be configured to play a different sound. The buttons are labeled with configurable titles.

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To-Do-O

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

To-Do-O is a simple, cross-platform To-Do List organizer. To-Do-O is available for a wide range of platforms: Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 and up (5th ed. etc.), and Maemo Fremantle (N900).

The user interface is optimized for mobile devices. The main view shows the To-Do entries organized in a simple tree view. Further features are, e.g., functionality to sync different To-Do-O installations via WLAN and options for automatic marking, moving, and deletion of entries. The desktop version also features a widget that can be freely placed on the desktop and shows the most important unfinished entries. The sort order etc. of the entries shown in this widget can be configured by the user.

The To-Do-O homepage is hosted at sourceforge: http://to-do-o.sourceforge.net/

To-Do-O can be downloaded directly from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/to-do-o/files/

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What’s next?

Posted on 2011-08-04 by ruedigergad

So, first things first. Some of my projects are already quite old. I’ll try to add these in chronological order. While I do this I also want to work out how to structure such a blog in a good way. So most probably the content and structure will change a lot in the near future. 😉

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Blog Created

Posted on 2011-08-03 by ruedigergad

This is the first entry in this blog. The blog is intended as a central place primarily for my Open Source activities. I hope to provide useful information for you and that you enjoy the content I put up here.

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