Useful Links
I thought I would share some of the links I have found useful while getting to know my N800. Hopefully this will save people the time of searching in multiple places to find useful information.
http://www.maemoapps.com/ A new blog by Jonathan Greene which will introduce people to the N800 http://www.maemo.org/ Maemo is the application development platform for Nokia Internet Tablet products see http://planet.maemo.org/ for a bunch of blogs http://www.womworld.com/nseries/category/n800/ N800 WOM World http://konttoristhoughts.blogspot.com/ blog by the developer of Media Converter and Theme Maker http://mydigihound.com/ two people producing educational multimedia for mobile devices - n800 how-tos ; how to install Gaim; etc http://www.gamoku.com/ Play free online games on your mobile device http://jaaksi.blogspot.com/ Ari Jaaksi Head of Nokia's open source software operations -- including Internet Tablets and maemo.org. http://tigert.com/ where I found the new Plankton Theme http://openbossa.indt.org/canola/ Where to install Canola from http://marceloeduardo.com/blog/ Handful of Nothing |
Re: Useful Links - GAIM install instructions (chat cllient N800)
I received this set of instructions to install a chat client: Gaim for the N800. It works pretty well. Hope this helps.
1) open application manager ("others menu" -> tools -> application manager) 2) when it opens, open the menu, and choose tools -> application catalogue 3) press "new" and fill in the following to the fields: Catalogue name: maemo hackers Web address: http://maemo-hackers.org/apt Distribution: mistral Components: main leave "disabled" unchecked and press ok 4) press "new" again and fill in the following: Catalogue name: maemo Web address: http://repository.maemo.org Distribution: bora Components: free leave "disable" unchecked again and press ok 5) press "close" 6) when a dialog pops up asking you if the package list should be refreshed, press ok 7) press "browse installable packages" button 8) press "applications" button 9) select "maemo-gaim" and press "Install" from the toolbar 10) click ok to the two dialogs that pop up 11) after the install is complete, go back to browse installable packages, this time select "Protocols" 12) now install all the protocol packages you need the same way that the main package was installed now you should be good to go, you can start maemo-gaim from "others menu" -> extras. Cheers, and good luck |
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