I’ve now had the N800 for two weeks and would like to share some lessons learned.
- First of all, upgrading to the latest version of OS2008 is critical to avoid the power on bug. (Instructions).
- It is useful to add additional software repositories. A good list is contained at gronmayer.com
- The maemo garage is where much of the active software development happens and a lot of good news updates are available there.
- The main maemo site has a fairly comprehensive list of available software as well as ratings and reviews. The top rated applications are listed here.
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Internet Tablet Talk is a forum and an invaluable resource of Nokia internet tablet information.
Games
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Battle Gweled: a bejeweled clone
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EightyOne: implementation of sudoku
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PenguPop: bust a move clone
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ScummVM: implementation of several adventure game engines, for playing older graphical adventures
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DosBox: PC emulator with built in Dos implementation
Media
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Canola2: blinged out media player; currently in rapid development
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MPlayer: versatile media player, used by Canola2 and others
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fmradio: allows access to the built in FM tuner
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video camera: take videos with the built in webcam
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handbrake: not an internet tablet application, but a handy one for converting video for playback; settings that worked for me: 400x240 for anamorphic videos, 448x192 for 2.35 widescreen (with automatic clipping enabled) mp4 video, aac audio and “size to X megabytes” (250-400 in my case).
E-Books
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Rapier: simple yet functional SWORD front end for reading of bible texts
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FBReader: nice and flexible e-book reader; the text looks amazing on the high resolution screens of the Nokia internet tablets
Note Taking
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Xournal: graphical notepad with cool features like a “highlighter” and export to PDF
System Tools
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DiskUsage: graphically shows current disk usage for all mounted partitions
- becomeroot: allows you to become root from the xterm shell; install this repository to get the package.
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openssh: ssh client and server, ‘nuff said
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load applet: process list with CPU load, memory usage and the ability to kill processes
Other
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maemo-mapper: nicely built road mapping software with the ability to download maps and gps tracking
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omweather: desktop applet with weather display
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skype: internet -> phone and internet -> internet calling; does not currently support the built in webcam
