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Quite often do we run into situations where certain calls are unwanted. Maybe you’re at work and you don’t want anybody outside of the working environment calling you, or maybe there’s just a certain annoying person who you don’t want to talk with. In any case, Callerx is a simple app that will help you solve these problems.
Once launched, you will be greeted with a screen that easily allows you to view all inbound calls and manage your lists with blocked/allowed phone numbers.

Adding new numbers or contacts to the list of blocked/allowed numbers can be done by pressing the ‘Manage Lists’ button, choosing a list of your choice and picking a menu option. It’s that simple.

Callerx also allows you to block any numbers that are not listed by enabling the whitelist mode and has an option to block all unknown numbers.
Being a daemon, it is configured to auto-start at each boot, and can be configured via a command line, by editing ‘blacklist.txt’ and ‘whitelist.txt’ files located under your MyDocs directory and calling
/etc/init.d/callerx loadblacklist for switching to blacklist mode or
/etc/init.d/callerx loadwhitelist for whitelist mode
Easy to use and effective, Callerx is all you need to stop any unwanted calls from ever bothering you.
 

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Some time ago Sam posted loopable wallpaper tutorial, so now you know how to put your favourite pictures on your homescreen. In the end he got it to quite low-level file editing, which apparently can be done in a little simpler way using wallpapercreator application. Take Sam’s steps to the point when you have a 3200×480 picture, save it and upload to your phone. When you have it ready run WPcreator, select the image and when you press crop you can see how it will be divided into parts. Then just press Install, give it a propper name and you can select your new wallpaper when changing desktop background.

When I first made wallpaper this way I wanted it to be visible, not to cover all of it with icons, bookmarks, widgets etc. Also I like to keep some things categorized, I have IP and Dataplan widgets along with MaePad shortcut on one desktop, everyday application shortcuts on second, games and bookmarks on third and inbox widget on fourth, the rest of screen space is empty to show my wallpaper. Also I think some applications could be included in status menu (along with internet connection, sound profile etc.) like BlueMaemo to connect N900 as remote controller via bluetooth. Today I’ve found quick-launch, which allows to do such thing. When it’s installed it gives you additional options in settings menu, there you can choose any 4 of installed applications to be shown as shortcuts in statusbar menu.

Of course this is my point of view, I’m just showing some concept and it’s up to you weather you choose to use it or not. Your N900 should look and work as you want to, this is what I think in the first place.
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Throughout generations, the knowledge was passed in books, manuscripts, scrolls and many other forms of writing. Civilization as we know now tailored idea of books to let it be helpful while broadening horizons, improving skills or just for fun. This is why I like reading, but living fast don’t leave much time to read. Some say that audiobooks are good solution for working people, because all you need is to play and listen. I still prefer paper books, but I still find idea of audiobooks very useful to learn and practice languages for example.
When I first saw Panucci in the app manager, with piece of pizza as and icon it reminded me of ‘Panucci’s pizza’, fictional restaurant from a great TV series – Futurama. I just had to try and it turned out that it’s pretty good audiobook player and something I just needed.
Latest version of Panucci allows you to enqueue few files, navigation buttos allow you to skip 10 seconds or 1 minute forward or barkwards, you can also use progress bar to navigate. You can also find nice feature of running in portrait mode. So what’s the advance from plain media player? When you want to have a break from ‘reading’ you can pause and close application, when you start it again you can continue from exactly the same point. You can also add bookmarks if you need to quickly jump to important parts.
Unfortunately ‘auto-play on headset’ feature works only with Nokia headset shipped with N900, or as some claims any headset with microphone, so since I use my old headphones, just because I got used to it, this option is useless for me. ‘Lock progress bar’ option, that I never use, blocks navigation using progress bar of current media not to jump to random place by accident.
In sum: Panucci is served under simple yet quite funcional UI and has the most important features of audiobook player. It already helps me with my japanese lessons, I hope it can be also useful for you.

For quite some time I was digging application catalogues to find good replacement for my worn-out notebook. Finally extras-devel provided MaePad, fairly simple yet powerful tool.

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Having a Blog up-to-date is not easy for most of the people, including me. That’s why some developers have come up with the solution of creating apps for smartphone in order to able the bloggers to blog-as-you-go. However, none of this mobile blog tools was absolute complete because some were not compatible with most common blog software like WordPress, Blogger, etc. or didn’t have all the tools needed to post like Tags, or Image uploading, etc. That’s why it seems that the Nokia N900 is not only revolution the mobile word as MaStory app has understood all this known issues and the blogger’s needs.
MaStory is an application that allows you to blog from your Nokia N900. It’s compatible with WordPress, Blogger, Live Journal and Drupal and it seems to be the best of its kind according to most of the bloggers, including for the iPhone. MaStory app makes the difference because it packs a varied set of features on a mobile platform such as HTML tags, Image uploading or Flickr or Picasa images, external link addition, Categorising/Tagging, post-editing, posts management, Comments management among others.
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If you are a blogger and you have already a Nokia N900, I encourage you to try the application and share with us your experience.
For more information, you could go to the official web page by clicking here.
For downloading MaStory, please click here.
The guys a Conversations Nokia have made a quick video about it, check it out!

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The title may confuse you but that it´s because the Hermes app is underdevelopment.
Do you remember when you opened a new email account and you needed all your existing contacts on it? Annoying it was. But you can get this trouble solved by some kind of sync. Then something like that happened when updating to your phone contacts. Once again a waste of time. Imagine now when you receive your Nokia N900 and you want to sync all your contacts to bluff about your new N900. But I’m not only talking about the phone contacts, also about your Face Book, Google Talk, Gmail, MSN, Twitter, Skype, etc. In my opinion, this is an important issue and future need of the N900 users that I hope some developer would face to solve somehow.
Andrew Flegg who is developing the Hermes application, got ahead of this need, and created Hermes. Hermes is an application that simples sync the info of your Face Book and Twitter’s Contact with your N900’s contacts. Only some info like birthday, photo, etc. because due to the Face book privacy politics, they can´t send you personal info such as phone number or email.
The app is promising so let´s wait to see the official release. Finally, I want to highlight again that this is an important situation to be solve, and the one who can came up with a really practical and complete solution app would be adored and the app would be on every N900. Hermes has pointed in the direction.

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