Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

Install and try liqbase too.

Its a great program - very fast, nice smooth scrolling - you can draw, doodle and take handwritten notes - and everything is saved by datetime ... for later viewing.

As a relaxation app - try out the NumtyPhysics - very simple but addictive.
If you show that to your wife, thats the point when she might want the N810 back for herself :-)

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

I too recommend Feedcircuit. There are lots of ways to customize this program. With the right tweaks (I can fill you in if you're interested), this program works great in portrait mode. Indeed, any html doc that is heavily text-based works great in portrait mode, either with the "fit width to view " option built into the stock browser (which is called "microb"), or else with Tear, which word-wraps automagically on many text-heavy sites (including many of the mobile sites you spoke of earlier).

As for implementing rotation, I'm going to have a look at the issues you're having and post in that rotation thread when I can. Sorry to have made this so taxing.

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

Thanks, all. I installed feedcircuit, liqbase, mytube and a couple others (can't remember), but couldn't find numtyphysics. I'm assuming this youtube app is handier than going to youtube or the mobile youtube site.

Im2 -- I'll fiddle with Feedcircuit. If i can find the right sites/feeds that my wife is interested in, I'm pretty sure she'll start yanking the device from my hands. Let me know if you have any more suggestions about installing the screen rotation program.

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

NumtyPhysics is here.

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

With regard to feed circuit, let us know if the program is not downloading all the content from a feed item that you want (i.e., if it's leaving the post's title out, etc.). There are many hard ways to fix this, and one easy one that works for me. But best not to get into that unless you need it.

As for rotation, check back to that thread dedicated to rotation. See if you can't get it working with my new suggestion. If you can't, perhaps you'll want to check out the instructions bunanson links to there. But I'd try my steps first. His seem a bit more involved.---In any case, I think I explain why you hit your latest rotation roadblock, so see if my suggestion helps.

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

Should be in Extras too, but it may just be in the Extras Devel repo.

Tim

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

I'm a newbie to this too - I installed rotation using these instructions I found in wiki.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Rotation

tagtool is great for organising genre information fields in MP3's.

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

That is the better way for newbies i don`t know why people don`t point to that very often, also try to copy that to your notes and save it for future use, any time i needed to flash my devivce i use that from my notes just two steps and you are rotating like the Jackson5.

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

I keep forgetting that the maemo wiki is wikid awesome.

Also, when I drafted the post I linked to before, the outpost files had vanished. So I was hosting the necessary files and thus thought it was my prerogative to draft unnecessarily complex instructions. :)

Re: Please talk me into keeping my N810 ...
 

Im2,

Not sure how or why, but after leaving my tablet for about three hours in the standby mode, I fired up the Tear browser to look up something last night, and for grins, I clicked the advanced backlighting icon, and voila, the screen rotation icons were there. I think the tablet gods decided that I'd tried hard enough, so they just made it happen.

Anyway, I fiddled with it for a few minutes before I crashed for the night. I like having that option. Now, onto to new, fun challenges. Like being able to view my hotmail easily ... I'll do some thread-hunting on this dilemma.

Thanks again for all your help.