Nokia 770 users, hackers, and bloggers:
I am going to make a big post on the morning of Dec 25 for all the lucky people who got a Nokia 770 over the holidays. It will include a bunch of tips, tricks, hacks, howtos, and commentary.

What I want from you all:
What are your favorite apps and articles? Thanks!

That sounds great. I guess my new fave app is the built in sketch (until something better comes along that brings more options). I really liked your hardware hacks posts (especially this one: http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/08/nokbook-770.html).

Also, feel free to anything posted on NET9 that might add even more usefulness to your holiday post. It would be great to see some material from some other 770 centric blogs as well.

There are exactly three apps I use almost continuously on my 770:

FBReader (the 770 is the best bookreader I've come across yet), Opera (unfortunately, there's no better browser available for the 770) and Gnumeric (a very nice and well-behaving spreadsheet).

favorite apps? opera, of course - after all, its an internet tablet. the built-in mail-reader: its crap, but its sufficient to check my mail and post a quick reply. xterm, XChat, dropbear.

My favorite apps right now are FBReader (if only it would support multiple bookmarks) and Canola. Oh, and xterm is one frequently used app as well.

In this post I give a bunch of links for new internet tablet users who will be unwrapping their new toys this week. I invite them to take part in this discussion. Fellow community members: what would you tell new internet tablet owners?

I think my number 1 favorite feature of my new 770 is ebook reading, either with FBReader for HTML/Plucker/zTxt/Text formats, or with Evince for PDFs.

As such, I've posted on my blog a small collection of links to where you can find some of the best, high-quality ebooks to plop on your 770 and be in commuter heaven. (For those of you who don't commute, I guess you can enjoy these from your living room couches!)

Take a look:

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2006/12/2...-free-e-books/

note: not all of these links give you ebooks in a format amenable to the 770. PDFs, Pluckers, and HTML/Texts will work fine, but online "e-texts" may need to be mirrored using smart tools like httrack (or winhttrack on Windows).

You might include Baen

http://www.baen.com/

as one of the publishers who eschew DRM. I know, it's "only" science fiction, but Baen are "Good People". They even have a rather extensive free library on offer.

I just posted this same question on Thinkfix's blog, then immediately realized he would probably rather have it posted here. As a new Nokia 770 owner, I hoping this counts as being related to this thread.

I just got a 770 for Christmas, and love it except for one thing. I've got a T-Mobile MDA with the $30 unlimited data plan. I can't get Bluetooth DUN working on it. I can pair with the phone, but when I choose it under "Select Connection" it either gives me an "Internet connection failed. Try again?" message or never times out at all. My laptop can use the MDA via Bluetooth DUN just fine, so it isn't that the phone has DUN disabled.

I've tried everything I can find, such as Thinkfix's new (http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/...martphone.html) tutorial and even the old (http://thoughtfix.blogspot.com/2006/...h-windows.html) one which replaced the icd. When I do the latter, hitting "Select Connection" doesn't work at all, so I can't even use Wi-Fi.

I've got the latest OS 2006 version (2.2006.39-14). Is there a different ICD I should try besides the one at qapf.shackspace.com?

I realize this is not the best place to post this question, but all of the other discussions on the subject seem to have died out.

Thanks!

UPDATE: I finally got the Bluetooth DUN working. The "Mobile operator setup wizard..." for T-mobile enables the "Use PPP compression" option. As a last resort, I was iterating through all the options and discovered that turning that one off does the trick!