Fixing MIME type bug in Nokia Publish

Nokia Publish developers, who had published MeeGo/Maemo debian file under Qt content item would know that a recent bug has caused the website to reject upload of new updated deb files.

Here's how you can fix it
Use any utility like FireBug to edit the web page. Inside the 'submit changes' button, delete the class 'disabled'
And you can happily push the button to submit.
I just submitted my updates. Have you?

Source :: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1329747andpostcount=694

Clipbook Reloaded

  

Clipbook , one of my most interesting and useful apps, available for Symbian, s60 and MeeGo devices, the one which was awarded LinuxTag App Contest award has been hugely improved to v2.3 and released as a paid version (update only for Harmattan devices) .

The new version improvements are as follows, including most requested autostart and daemon features :-

• Redesigned UI 
• Background processing ability to keep saving entries even if app is turned off 
• Swipe to delete 
• Write to text file 
• User selectable auto start option 
• Optimized for minimum power usage (approx only 0.01% extra load)
• Minimum memory usage (few KBs)

It's been an pleasure to uphold the honor of that award and work on perfecting the app that gave me my first recognition in the developer world. Thanks go again to maemo.org community for their support and feedback.

The app will be soon available from Nokia store, as soon as it passes QA.
Download Link


The earlier free version, which doesn't have autostart or daemon and runs on an old algorithm is still available over at Nokia Store link . Due to some bugs at Nokia Store, I can't update that item to incorporate the new algorithm. If the store bug is not fixed soon, I will publish it as a new free app, (without autostart and daemon)

More updates are planned in recent times and works for Symbian and S60 version will be carried out if possible.

      

Maemo Talk Forum App

We had a very good app for our Maemo Talk Forum, created by ph5, who had done an amazing job in carrying out such a huge task, that too, for free. Unfortunately, some minor bugs and usability issues hampered daily use of this app, and the app deserved some maintenance.

Carrying over from Philipp Zabel's earlier works ,
I have taken up the development of this app, and regularly updating and improving it. 

The repository is on github https://github.com/anandbibek/forum-qml-new

The main thread is on maemo talk forum at http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=88475

I have been working on this since December 2012. And the app is currently in a stable and much improved state.

   

Changelogs :

forum-qml (0.1.8) stable; urgency=low

  * Random crash decreased

  * Image loader progress status

  * Code segments in post text-wrapped properly

  * Long press menu added/removed in appropiate places

 -- unknown <>  Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:48:46 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.7) stable; urgency=low

  * Bugfix on handling ANNOUNCEMENTS threads

  * Added fastScroll in postView

  * Banner on link press, font size settings

  * Improved editing from toolbar

  * Minor bugfixes

 -- unknown <>  Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:36:27 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.6) stable; urgency=low

  * Copy text option, edit posts without losing previous quotes or images

  * Loseless editing

  * Better multi-window usage in editor

  * Post date display fix

 -- unknown <>  Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:10:42 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.5) stable; urgency=low

  * Post editing ability

  * Text editor toolbar

  * Fixed link color

  * Fixed post link opening in browser

  * Dragging of Editor window (highly experimental)

 -- unknown <>  Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:34:57 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.4) stable; urgency=low

  * Fixed a bug that logged out user on (un)subscribing to threads

  * Email notification style select while subscribing to thread

  * Jump to page index option

  * Profile avatar display (toggle in settings)

  * Online/Offline status indicators

  * Changed few important theme images to be system independent

  * Forum Meego support partially deprecated

 -- unknown <>  Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:43:52 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.3) stable; urgency=low

  * Previous quotes scrapped while "Quote and Reply"

  * User stats included

  * UI refinements

 -- unknown <>  Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:10:44 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.2) stable; urgency=low

  * Fixed https image handling

  * Attachments are now handled much better while "Quote and Reply"

 -- unknown <>  Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:17:53 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.1) stable; urgency=low

  * New settings page

  * Full UI touch ups

  * Dark theme

 -- unknown <>  Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:29:26 +0530

forum-qml (0.1.0) stable; urgency=high

  * New Release

  * fixed abrupt termination of list display

  * blank date display fix

  * image scaling and some eye candy (long press to open in browser)

  * smoother scrolling everywhere (cacheBuffer ftw)

  * Attachments enabled

  * any other Minor changes you may find

 -- unknown <>  Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:12:42 +0530

forum-qml (0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * previous build

 -- unknown <>  Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:05:14 +0530

ShareBoard for N9 (Meego-Harmattan) ....and Symbian

Just a small functionality I missed in N9 was that I had no option to fast-share a status update or post to both social networks from a single page.

ShareBoard has been made to fill in that gap.
The app loads up quite fast, so that you can start sharing whenever you wish.
You can post one photo along with a status update.
Toggle switches below set which networks update will be shared to.
Have a nice time trying out the app, and give feedbacks and suggestions. Also, you can notice that I'm not a good icon artist :p Any help in that field would be appreciated.

Content is currently available from Nokia Store.
And symbian version is under review and will be available soon.

Now available from nokia store : http://store.ovi.com/content/342672





This app uses the socialConnect QML library from http://projects.developer.nokia.com/socialconnect

Photo upload coming to Blob

Blogger and WordPress client for Symbian and Meego, Blob will be finally getting the much requested "Photo upload" feature. Thanks to ShwStppr (Abhishek Kumar) for helping me out with the C++ stuff of file handling. Update is possible only because of him :)

The upload mechanism isn't 100% polished and might have small bugs here and there. (Mostly because my 1 year old C7 has been acting weird recently and giving a different result than my beta testers). Anyway, I've submitted the update for Blob paid version in Symbian. Hopefully, which might go live by next weekend. I'm looking forward to feedback and fix bugs (if any) and then update it for MeeGo also.
The update for Symbian free version will also be pushed soon.

Download links :
Blob Paid : http://store.ovi.com/content/266320
Blob Free (MeeGo and Symbian) : http://store.ovi.com/content/266343

Custom keyboard for N9 with Swype style long-press chars.

Here's something interesting for those N9ers who, like me are used to the long press functionality of Swype keyboard. But unfortunately the long press choices in stock keyboard aren't much useful.
For that, I present you English (XT) keyboard that has long press chars as in Swype. Actually I made it for my personal use, but decided to share it.



The installation instructions are a little unorthodox since I haven't made any installer. But this techniques are familiar to most N9ers ;)

(Also an easy way : use the MesInput app from Nokia store, and download this keyboard with id : 1064020 . And you are done!! )


Download the xml file from here.
http://db.tt/a3SGeiY1

Put it directly in MyDocs

Enable developer mode in your N9,
Go to terminal and type

$ devel-su (password is rootme)
# cp /home/user/MyDocs/en_ext.xml /usr/share/meegotouch/virtual-keyboard/layouts/


Go to text inputs setting and activate the English(XT) keyboard

Swipe KB to access XT variant.

Enjoy long-pressing :)

MeeGo on Symbian? Almost ;) Meet MeeCal

Meet MeeCal, a simple calculator that is a clone of the default calculator in N9. Only difference is that it runs on symbian :D

The UI and UX has been optimised and designed for maximum match with the MeeGo app. Along with the inherited awesome graphics style.

The most awesome feature being swipe down to close the app. And swipe sideways to minimize. You've to start the swipe from the extreme edge of the screen.

Also the superfast startup time is something to look forward to :)

A paid and free version is submitted to QA and will be available by next weekend.

Hope you enjoy the swiping on your symbian