Giving Up the Internet for Lent

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and so starts the 40 days and nights of Lent in the Catholic calendar. As part of Lent you are supposed to give up something, a fast of such, and in past years I have give up Alcohol, sweets and the hardest yet Coffee.

What I have planned to give up this year is the Internet, yes you heard right, I’m planning to unplug from all Social Networks, not look at my Google Reader, turn off Google Buzz and not blog on any of my websites. Can I survive 6 weeks?

I made the decision over the weekend as I realised I spend most of my time checking what’s online rather than looking at what’s offline and right in front of me. I think this will be hard, but hopefully rewarding.

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gerrymoth

Note: Kip Hakes will still be on hand at nokiAAddict.com for comments moderation and news updates.

NEW: WordPress for Nokia

Just testing out the NEW WordPress for NOKIA application on my E71.

Its been written in QT and requires you to install the large 11MB QT Libraries File first before installing the WordPress application. Not good news for N97 owners as its recommended you install to phone memory.

With the new application you will be able to add/edit/view Posts and Pages and also manage all your Comments as well.

The apps in BETA at the moment and has a few issues which the WordPress guys are working on.

If you wish to try the very beta app for S60 or Maemo then head over to
http://dev.nokia.wordpress.org/

The N900 Gets A BIGGER Battery (2400mAh)

Mugen Power Nokia N900 2400mAh Extended Replacement Battery with Battery door. Special Price of $87.95

 

This will give you a bigger battery, but means the N900 just got that little bit thicker as well. Mmm not to sure I’d buy?

UPDATE 11/02/10: Mugen-Power are supplying nokiAAddict.com with the NEW 2400mAh battery extender to test out on my N900, so if you want to know what its like then stay tuned at the end of February when they have promised to deliver to me.

Will the additional back casing make a difference?
How long will the battery last with constant use?
Is it worth the additional money?

YES I’ll be answering allthese questions and anything else you want to know before you buy 🙂

via Buy Mugen Power Nokia N900 2400mAh Extended Replacement Battery with Battery door [HLI-N900XL].

Interview with gerrymoth

My online friend Micky from Nokiausers.net interviewed me the other day and has just posted my answers to his Nokia related questions.

Check it out and see what I think about things 🙂

http://www.nokiausers.net/General/Nokiausers-An-Interview-with-Nokia-Enthusiast-NokiAAddict.html

Tunewiki Social Media Player for N900

TuneWiki SMP for Maemo
http://store.ovi.com/content/23858
http://store.ovi.mobi/content/23858

The N900 finally gets the full Tunewiki experience instead of the rather dull Tunewiki Widget it shipped with, we now have the new Tunewiki SMP for Maemo (SMP = Social Media Player)

With the new Tunewiki SMP you have a music player, youtube music player, Shoutcast Radio Player, lyrics for all music and search for Tunewiki users near you.

I’ve had a quick play with everything and it seems to work very well on my N900.

FREE OVI Maps Navigation

First with the news was Symbian-Guru that the announcement today by Nokia will bring FREE OVI Maps Navigation for selected Nokia devices only? Available for 10 of Nokia’s GPS-equipped devices: the Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia 5230, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6730 classic and Nokia X6.

Noticed no normal Nokia N97, this wont go down well with the already very unhappy N97 users, but I’ve been informed by Nokia Conversations that the N97 is coming soon along with other handsets. Speculation on twitter is its also coming to the N900 (whoop whoop!).

The Nokia Event kicked off at 09:45hrs GMT http://events.nokia.com/ovimaps/index.html

Download: FREE OVI Maps Navigation is here http://maps.nokia.com/explore-services/ovi-maps/ovi-maps-main

FREE with New OVI Maps:
– Worldwide Maps
– Drive & Walk Navigation
– Traffic Info Updates
– Weather (GPS Enabled)
– Events: Cinema Listings (GPS Enabled)
– Michelin Guides (GPS Enabled)
– Share Location with Facebook
– Favourites Online Syncing
– Speed and Safety Spot Warner

GPS Enabled means it takes your position from GPS and gives local information automatically.

Nokia Event 21st January 2010

http://events.nokia.com/countdown

I have my seat reserved ONLINE 😀

Freoffice for N900 – KOffice Office Viewer

Nokia have just released Freoffice a KOffice Office Viewer for ODF (ODT and ODP), Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint documents only at the moment.

The MS Word 2003 documents I’ve tried with it don’t show the full page very well and seem to miss half the information on it or put in on multiple pages. Don’t think it likes tables in word documents.

Hopefully we will get more updates to fix and improve this FREE office viewer. We want FREE Office Editor and Viewer????

Freoffice is avalable via ‘Maemo Extras-Devel’ repository.

What’s Installed on the N900 (19th Jan 2010)

Especially for @lookatbowen over on Twitter who is waiting for his N900 to be delivered, here is what’s installed on the gerrymoth’s N900:

*Added since 21/12/09:

*3G/2G Mode Selection Applet
Adblock Plus
Appwatch
*Airport (Game)
*Amazon Widget
*Angry Birds (Game) + Level Pack 1
Conboy
Conversations Inbox Desktop Widget
*Countdown Timer
*Cube (game)
*Disc (Game)
Documents to Go Viewer Edition
*DrNokSnes (Game Emulator)
eCoach
*EggTimer
Extras Decoders Support
Facebook Widget and Photo Uploader
*fAPN
Feedhandler
Flashlight
FM Radio Player
*fMMS
ForecaWeather Widget
GPE File Manager
gPodder Podcast Client
greasemonkey-webaddon
*gTranslate
*Headphone daemon
*Jamaendo Player
KMPlayer
*Labyrinth Lite (Game)
*Maemo-Geolocation
MaStory
*Matrix (Theme)
mbarcode
*MGutenberg E-Book Reader
mplayer
*OGG Support
*Panucci resuming Audiobook and Podcast Player
Password Safe
Petrovich
Pixelpipe Upload and Share
Pyrecipe
QIK
Recorder
rootsh
SIB
*Simple Brightness Applet
*Simple FMTX Desktop Widget
*Solitaire (Game)
*SuperTux (Game)
TouchSearch
Transmission
*TuneWiki Desktop Widget
*Unzip Add-on for the File Manager
Vagalume
*Variations on Rockdodger (Game)
*VGBA (Game Emulator)
Witter
WorldTV99
*XChat
Xournal
*Xploder (Game)
*YaSpot (Spotify Client in very early development)
*YouTube Video Uploader (Pixelpipe Plugin)
Removed since 21/12/09: Bullshit Bingo, Countdown Home Desktop Widget, desktop-photoapplet, digiaatscene, Fennec (Firefox), FriendStatus IM Statuses Aggregator, Hermes, load-applet, Personal Dataplan Monitor, Personal IP Address, Stopwatch, Wormux, Zoutube

The applications removed since December all work fine, I just didn’t really use them.

More N900 Firmware Updates – PR1.1 Released

Two Firmware updates for the N900 in one week, oh Nokia you will be spoiling us 😀 The N900 gets a major firmware update to v2.2009.51-1 and will be available via OTA, NSU and Maemo Flasher as of 7am on 14/01/2010 in Finland and distributed worldwide throughout the day.

Changelog for the firmware update is here
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_5/PR1.1

I wish all Nokia firmware updates followed the Maemo guys method and published exactly what the changes consist of?

The new firmware brings changes from Nokia and from Bug Reports the Maemo Community have raised.

I’ve heard people saying if you’re having problems installing the new firmware to disable Maemo Extra-devel repository and also remove some of the devel apps? Can’t confirm this as I haven’t updated myself, stuck on a 2G T-Mobile area at the moment 😦

New FW Easter Egg: In web browser press CTRL-SHIFT-0 you’ll like it 🙂

UPDATE 15/01/10: I refreshed the Application Manager on my N900 and it had the new FW Update, so when I got home I tried to update OTA, but the update stated I had to update via NSU, so I plugged my UK N900 into my laptop and fired up NSU which told me I had the latest FW already v44?

I checked to see if there was a firmware image available to download and flash to my N900 and noticed they didn’t have a UK firmware image, that’s why NSU didn’t see it. Instead I flashed my N900 using the Global Firmware Image.

Instructions for flashing the N900 can be found HERE
Firmware Images can be downloaded HERE