Re: first days with N800
 

Jayden ,

Try the Tear browser by Bundyo !

I've been using it for some days, it is much faster than the standard browser,
no more waiting-for-maemo.

Nokia says (covered before in ITT) that 100 mA is max. current N810 can supply through USB.

I'm a newbie too, but also to Linux, so I noted your info and references.
Just what I need to begin to understand what really went on as I cloned etc.

Thanks ! , will read on.

power consumption problem
 

after some applications are installed, the power consumption is abnormally big. hard-reboot and the problem is gone. I think it is necessary to do hard-reboot sometime.

apt-get problem
 

where the device to look for applications when you use apt-get to do installation? not the whole internet but the categories set in application managers. (there is other way to tell the locations, but this is the simplest way). but there still are applications are invisible, like nano, htop, that is why you have to set N800 to red pill mode.

load applet
 

it is very nice. I do not feel the battery is consumed fast after it is installed.
i installed: nano, htop, wget. all of them are commands; personal menu, epdfview, stardict, tear, canola, fmradio, quiver image view, gpe suit, leafpad, xournal, sudoku.
epdfview is good just because it has text selection ability, which i need to use with stardict for translate the words i do not know.

Video conversion
 

I have a camera with which I can take video in .mov format. I cannot install Nokia video converter because the link to the server cannot establish, i do not know why. I use this instead. but it cannot convert the .mov files generated by my camera. I googled and found this. it is free open ware. the trick is to change audio format. after convert .mov files to .avi, i use converter to ....

diary
 

maemopad+ is good for writing diary.

Re: first days with N800
 

This is a strange thread.

...or is it an awesome idea?

I'm gonna start a thread where just I post random things I come across. :-P