Application name: Faster Application Manager
Author: hqh

Description: Faster Application Manager tries to be what the name says, a fast-to-use graphical front-end for apt-get, written from scratch and optimized for the N900. It's WAY faster than the built-in manager, allowing multiple selections before time-consuming operations, etc, etc...

It can:
- Install, upgrade and remove packages (select multiple before performing operations!)
- Filter packages quickly by category or status, sort packages, search packages and the user can also blacklist them!
- Optionally handle ALL packages, not just user/ categories
- Manage repositories
- Works both in landscape and portrait mode

It can't:
- Integrate into the system's auto-update functionality or Ovi store

- Filtering by date/fetching dates is an experimental feature at the moment and needs to be enabled from the options menu first for it to work for packages that have not been already installed

Screenshots:




Get it from: Extras-Devel. All the standard warnings of extras-devel apply.
http://maemo.org/packages/view/fapman



Application name: FastSMS
Author: realsportscars

Description: This app allows writing SMS using an input style like T9: obviously it isn't the same algorithm, but could be a good starting point.

Features:
*FastSMS comes with italian, english, spanish, french,portuguese and german dictionaries.

*It is possible choose between portait, landscape or autorotate orientation

*Send SMS are displayed in standard conversation window

*New words can be inserted and saved

*PhoneBook managed using MyContacts or Horizontal-Call

Screenshots:




Maemo.org Thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56220



Application name: Gonvert
Author: epage

Description: A conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc. All units converted values shown at once as you type

Features and updates for judging:
• Rewritten to use Qt in preparations for Meego
• "Favorites" for unit categories and units
• Quick Jump
• Recent Conversions selection
• Adding a single window Category, To, From conversion mode.
• More? I can't remember

Screenshots:


Get it from: http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/gonvert/

Maemo.org Thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34403



Application name: KitchenAlert
Author: helihyv

Description: KitchenAlert is a timer application, (to be) designed especially for baking and cooking purposes. This is an early release with not much features, but you can already have multiple timers running simultaneously. The alarm sound can be changed by the user.

Screenshot:


Tip: Please test whether your volume is set loud enough for you to hear the alert from where you will be keeping your N900 before actually using it alarm you of something.

Get it from: KitchenAlert is now in extras-devel and extras-testing.



Application name: NetStory
Author: JereM

Description: Record and view your home network data counter periodically.

This utility consists of two parts: a daemon that records network data counters in background and an GUI application to view hourly, daily, weekly and monthly net traffics.

Screenshot:



Get it from: Extras-Testing

Maemo.org Package: http://maemo.org/packages/view/netstory/



Application name: Push-It
Author: emesem

Brief description: Push-It. One button-stopwatch.

Screenshot(s):


Features/work to be judged: The button

Get it from: extras-devel



Application name: Quick-launch
Author: B0unc3

Description: Quick-launch is an application consisting in a statusbar applet that shows four buttons that you can use to quickly launch your preferred applications and a controlpanel applet where you can configure the statusbar plugin by setting the shortcuts. It has also a small dialog interface that you can decide how to bring up, through the power key press or by opening the lens cover.

quick-launch 0.5 major features :
- launch a dialog through the power key press/camera shutter opening
- possibility to run a command (in terminal or not)
- possibility to clear a slot (or more than one)
- control-panel applet refactoring
- statusbar-applet icon size fixed (48x48)
- other minor improvements

Screenshot:


Get it from: extras-testing

Maemo.org Thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46321



Application name: ShipRolling
Author: CaCO3

Description: Records and visualises the ships rolling.

Due the wind and waves every ship will roll once in the open waters. ShipRolling can measure and visualise the rolling of the ship with your N900.

Screenshot:


Features/work to be judged:
First application that records the rolling of a ship. Also it is my first real N900 application.

Package name and where to find the app:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/shiprolling/

Forum @ Maemo.org:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=730723



Application name: SleepAnalyser
Author: CaCO3

Description: SleepAnalyser records your movement during your sleep.

It is able to visualise it on a graph to show how much you move during your sleep. This can help to indicate how you sleep. Old records can be visualised and you can load records from your friends. SleepAnalyser has also a test function. It will record and visualise much faster. Also it will make a beep when ever your movement goes over the trigger level. It is a similar application like SleepCycle on the iPhone

Screenshot:


Features/work to be judged: See description.

Package name and where to find the app:
http://maemo.org/packages/view/sleepanalyser/

Forum @ Maemo.org:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57419



Application name: Stroke Order Chinese Input Method
Author: Amanda Lam

Description: This software attempts to implement the Stroke Order Chinese Input Method as found in other Nokia Symbian phones sold in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, by utilizing Maemo 5's Hildon User Interface.

Screenshots:

More from http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...7&l=8384833344

Features/work to be judged:
- Inputting Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese characters by pressing one or more of the five basic strokes
- Wildcard character "?" support.
- Showing candidate characters that match the strokes in a TouchSelector control.
- Once a character is inputted, its associated phrases will be displayed for selection.
- Inputting English characters and symbols by clicking through the TouchSelector items.
- Sending SMS to local/international numbers of one or more recipients, and then write the sent record back to the Conversations database.
- Message length detection and breaking long SMS message into multiple ones.
- English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Cantonese User Interfaces are displayed based on current system language.
- Associated phrases are displayed in their Traditional / Simplified Chinese order based on current system language.
- Landscape and portrait mode support.

Package name and where to find the app/repository: strokeorder (maemo.org extras-devel)

Maemo.org thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57141



Application name: URPO
Authors: artohyv & helihyv

Description: URPO Remote printing utility lets you print files from N900 to a computer-attached printer. The computer (LINUX, any UNIX really...) has to run the SSH and CUPS servers. All file types supported by CUPS are printable (text, pdf, PostScript, bmp, gif,jpg etc.). There's some setup to do on the first use, but there are clear instructions in the program's help and its
webpages ( http://urpo.garage.maemo.org/).

Screenshot:


Get it from: URPO is now in extras-devel and extras-testing.

The extras-testing page for URPO is: http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...el/urpo/0.9-3/


That's them all, good luck to everyone