And here we go again. Have you already pimped up your phone? Have you found the right background, or have you even build one by yourself? A very popular site on wallpapers is N900Wallpapers.com. All kinds of backgrounds can be found there, sorted in many several categories. You may also upload your own creations and share them to others. All you have to do, is to create an account, choose your files and upload.
Another possibility is to create a panorama view of a landscape on your desktop. This video tutorial …

Altough there aren’t so many official applications which are available in the Ovi Store or in the Maemo download section (not mentioned the countless programs, that come with the testing and the devel section), I have already established three of my favorite apps to my own personal list. I have written about them in earlier posts, so you can get more information about the programs by clicking the links. I decided to list useful applications in my point of view, such I am using for my everyday job.
On the …

As the headline already tells you, this is a continued blog about Tips and Tricks on the N900. As in some comments in the last post was mentioned, that most of you already know many of these hints, and others are also findable in the manual, the meaning of this information gathering is just to have all interesting material in one place shareable. I’d also like to get Tips and Tricks from you, so I can add these to our collection.

So here are the next ones:
Selecting text: hold the …

In these following reviews, I will write about wallpapers specially made for the Nokia N900. Sometimes I will also post my own custom made backgrounds, and today I will start with one, which I made sometimes ago for my phone. I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to edit a snapshot of my virtual bookshelf and cropped it to 4 pics with 800 pixels width and 480 pixels height. You can download the pics and use them if you like to.
Here’s a screenshot of how it looks on the phone:

I named this …

I was very curious about the Theme Maker. The new version 1.2.9, which supports also the N900 has been out for a while and I wanted to try making a theme of my own to use it on my phone. After downloading Theme Maker from the Maemo Garage section, there was no installing necessary, just unzipping the folder to the desktop. First I didn’t know how it could work, and the instructions are a little bit exhausting to read. I am also more the learning by doing type.
After getting more and …

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 …

If you dont have discovered yet, your phone holds an extraordinary feature – the FM transmitter.  We have before rumored about this, if the Nokia N900 would transmit over FM, we also looked at the Maemo FM Radio Player, and now let’s look at the FM Transmitter working on the Nokia N900.

I remember always when I wanted to have a radio for my car with an USB or audio input, to play songs from my mp3 player or even from my mobile harddisk. Not long ago this has been such …

If this application makes any sense or not, you have to decide by yourself. It isn’t even a real application. By tapping on the shortcut of Fizwoz you start an adapted website for the N900 browser to log in. The whole idea of this app is to shot pics or videos and upload them to the Fizwoz site from your Nokia N900. There you can prize your media and wait for bidders hopefully to buy just your pic or video. I followed  Fizwoz some days, but there was not really …

On the latest article we had a look on Maemo Internals, but regarding Nokia N900 software packages. This article is for Maemo fans and Linux users. If you use Linux on desktop computer you will eventually face situation when you will need to use console. In many cases it’s easier to copy-paste few lines from website to console and resolve problem in few seconds. It is also possible in Maemo 5 and after some time you will probably find it very useful.
For the start run X Terminal application, that you …

On one of my wanderings through the internet again, I found the BlueMaemo for Nokia N900 application. I read the short instruction, but didn’t really figured out, for what it’s good for. The instruction describes something like using your N900 as a wireless controller for the Playstation over the bluetooth connection. For I have no Playstation, I wondered, if I could connect to my Macbook through BlueMaemo.

I downloaded BlueMaemo from the Extras-Devel and installed it on my N900 through the application manager. Start the application, choose “Wait for connection” on …