Re: Useful applications
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http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=51053 Highlighting poor descriptions, and suggesting improvements would be appreciated by all involved in trying to make Maemo more user-friendly. |
Re: [Maemo 5] What are the "must have" (top, best, most useful) applications?
For more info about these apps/games look them up. I may have mistaken some names but I do not remember every one of them. Some description might not be detailed but I do not play every game I install. I install to test mostly. The ones in bold I consider important. You might like other apps/games though.
Apps: 1. X Terminal - Preinstalled but very useful. Look up for commands that you can use in Terminal, even Ubuntu. 2. AbiWord - Word Processing 3. Ansel-A - Image editing application. It has various features not just cut and crop. 4. Banner - Application that displays text in a banner style. Useless but pretty. 5. Battery Graph - Monitors your battery life. You can use it to know what discharges the battery most, like wi-fi, or cpu etc 6. Candle - Light a candle with touch. Useless but pretty. 7. Chromium - Google Chrome ported to the N900. Alternative web browser. 8. Easy Debian - Downloads a 2GB image file and installs various desktop apps like Open Office (Word Processing) and Iceweasel (Desktop Firefox). 9. Conky - Very useful app that gives you various information like apps running, CPU frequency etc. 10. CPUfreqUI - Thread with Care: Overclocking Application. 11. Currency Converter - A currency converter that gets the rates from the internet. 12. CuteExplorer - A GUI explorer capable of navigating beyond MyDocs 13. DosBOX - A Windows DOS X86 emulator. 14. eSpeakCaller - A text-to-speech app that can say the caller's name when someone is calling. 15. Extended Call Log - Shows more information than the phone's log. 16. FBReader - A very good ebook reader 17. Mozilla Firefox - A mobile version from mozilla codenamed Fennec 18. FM Radio - Can tune to FM radio stations. You need the earphones to be plugged in as an antenna. 20. ForecaWeather - Displays the current weather and predictions. 21. fring - A social media app that lets you add various accounts. 22. Gonvert - A converter of mass, length etc. 23. gTranslate - Translates text using Google Translate 24. Healthcheck - Display information about the phone and has some phone tests. 25. Htop - A task manager that lets you view and kill processes. 26. Irreco / QTirreco - A remote control for TV, Amp etc using the infrared module. 27. KMPlayer - A front end for mplayer. Mplayer can play most formats and is a good alternative to the preinstalled media player. 28. Knots2 - Lets you view streamed media from your PC. Search for its Wiki page to know how to set up the streaming server on your PC. 29. Leafpad - A simple text editor. 30. liqflow - Useless but very pretty. 31. Maep - Displays mapping data. 32. MediaBox - An alternative to the Media Player. 33. Midnight Commander - A file manager that is very useful if you know how to use xterm a bit. 34. Midori a lightweight web browser based on Webkit. 35. Mirror - Lets you use the front camera to see yourself. 36. Sygic Mobile Maps 9 - A GPS navigation app. 37. MussOrgsky - Lets you edit id3 tags of Mp3s so that you can change the artist etc. 38. n900fly - Use with caution - Calculates how high you threw your N900 in the air. 39. Navit - A free GPS navigation app. 40. Petrovich - Lets you transfer files over bluetooth. Will be useless with PR 1.2 41.Pidgin Internet Messenger - Lets you IM contacts and send files. 42. QSportsEvent - Tracks updates (scores games etc) on various sports. 43. QStarDict - A dictionary 44. QTRapids - A bittorrent client 45. Recorder - Lets you record things. 46. Sand - Useless but pretty 47. Search Tool - A useful tool that lets you search for files. 48. Seismeter - Calculates movements using the accelerometer 49. Documents To Go - Preinstalled - A free trial Office viewer. It integrates well with e-mails. 50. KOffice - A free Office viewer. 51. Speedometer - Calculates your speed using GPS 52. Stopish - A stopwatch like app. 53. Theremin - A composer that has various layouts and instruments. 54. Thread Carefully - Tracker CFG - Lets you modify the tracker behaviour like defining where not to look for media to add to the library. 55. WifiInfo - A tool to determine Wi-Fi signal strength and speed. 56. xarchiver - A compressing/decompressing tool supporting various plugins like unzip and unrar. 57. Xournal - A notebook like app that lets you input text using the keyboard and write/draw notes using the stylus in the same page. 58. zoutube - A youtube videos viewer and downloader. 59. Rootsh - Enables root access Widgets: 1. Media Player Widget - Play songs from the homescreen 2. Tunewiki - Using an active connection it can retrieve the lyrics of the currently playing song. 3. Eyes Widget - Eyes that follow you using the accelerometer 4. Bluezwitch - Enables / Disables Bluetooth 5. Conversation inbox - Displays received messages and is a shotcut to conversations app. 6. Touchsearch - Search using various engines right from the homescreen. 6. Battery Level - Displays the battery level in percentage. 7. Photo Desktop Applet - Displays your photos as a slideshow on your homescreen. 8. Facebook Widget - A useful widget if you use facebook. Shows you status updates amongst other things. 9. Foreca Weather - Displays the current weather and forecasts of where you are. 10. Digg Home Widget - Displays Digg articles 11. ApNews Widget - Displays Top News 12. Comic Widget - Displays Comics Status Applets: 1. Wifi Switcher - Enables/Disables WiFi 2. Simple Brightness Applet - Change the screen brightness with two clicks. 3. 2G/3G selection - Choose whether to operate on 2G or 3G networks 4. Flashlight - Appears only when the camera cover is open. Uses the LEDs as a flashlight. 5. Quick Launch - Displays 4 shortcuts of your choosing. Plugins: 1. Extra codecs pack - Enables the media player to play some other media types. 2. Subtitles - Enables subtitles in the media player. Usuallt .srt 3.Shortcutd - Enables you to use buttons and sensors like the camera key as shortcuts. 4. Tweakr - Enables you to tweak various settings. Emulators: 1.fMSX - An MSX, MSX2 and MSX2+ emulator. 2. iNES - A NES emulator. GUI is very good. 3. Mame - A mame emulator. GUI needs work. 4. PCSX - A PSX emulator. GUI is good but framerate suffers. 5. PSX4All - A good PSX emulator. GUI is good. 6. VGB - A gameboy emulator. Could be more optimized. GUI is good. 7. VGBA - A gameboy advance emulator. Could be more optimized. GUI is good. 8. DrNokSnes - A SNES emulator. GUI is good. Games: 1. Airport - You have to guide airplanes safely to land. Touchscreen. 2. Alien Blaster - A 2D shooter where you control a ship and shoot aliens. Keyboard. 3. Angry Birds - You shoot birds at pigs. Very fun and great physics. Touchscreen 4. Barrage - You shoot tanks, jeeps and infantry with your cannon. Touchscreen 5. Blobwars - An action game where you are a blob on a mission and you shoot other blobs. Keyboard 6. Bounce - You are a ball and you need to roll around the level. Accelerometer 7. Brain Party - A series of tests to measure your brain weight. Touchscreen 8. Burgerface - You have to dodge knives and catch burger by moving your face. This uses the front camera and face tracking. Camera 9. CorsixTH - A port of Theme Hospital. You need the original files from the CD to play. Keyboard and Touchscreen. 10. Cute Square - A 2 player game where you have to try and make squares more than your opponent. Touchscreen 11. Blubbels - Click on 3 or more blubbels to destory them. Touchscreen 12. Discs - A 2 player connect four game. 13. De-Lite - A puzzle game where you have to switch off all the lights. Touchscreen 14. Eightyone - A sudoku clone. Touchscreen 15. Electric Beams - You have to try and light up all the lamps. Touchscreen 16. Enigma - A game where you control a ball and have to catch targets. Accelerometer 17. Evil Plumber - You must choose the correct pipes so that the liquid can flow. Touchscreen 18. Fifteen - Move the blocks to put them in the right order. Touchscreen 19. FluboPuyo - A funny game where you have to make the correct colours meet. Similar to tetris. Keyboard 20. Freeciv - A civilisation port. You need the original data files to play. Keyboard and Touchscreen. 21. Frozen Bubble 2 - A bubble bobble clone. Keyboard. 22. GLTron - A futuristic motorcycle game. Keyboard 23. Gweled - You have to move gems in order to group three or more. Touchscreen 24. Hangman - Guess the letters quickly or the guy might die. - Touchscreen 25. Hex-a-hop - A puzzle game where you have to hop and destroy all green platforms. Touchscreen 26. I have no tomatoes - A game similar to pacman but with more features. Keyboard 27. Jagged Alliance - A port of Jagged Alliance for Maemo. You need the original data files to play. Keyboard and Touchscreen 28. Kobo Deluxe - You pilot a spaceship and destroy anything you see. Keyboard and Touchscreen 29. Labyrinth Lite - You move a ball through a maze to the end. Accelerometer 30. Liquid War - A single player or multiplayer game where you control and army of liquid. Touchscreen 31. Mad Bomber - A crazy guy is throwing bombs that you have to catch. Keyboard and Accelerometer. 32. Maelstorm - An asteroids clone. Keyboard 33. mSpede - Test your speed by pressing the flashing buttons. Touchscreen 34. N-Speed - A futuristic race game. Keyboard 35. Numpty Physics. You have to make the red object meet the yellow object. Amazing physics. Touchscreen 36. OpenArena - An excellent FPS game. Accelerometer, Kayboard and Touchscreen 37. OpenTTD - A simulator where you take care of trains. Keyboard and Touchscreen 38. Pool for Maemo - A pool (billiards) game. Touchscreen 39. PrBoom - A doom clone - Keyboard 40. Super Mario War - Jump on other Super Marios. Keyboard 41. SuperTux - A super mario clone. Keyboard 42. TechnoballZ - A brick breaker clone. Keyboard 43. Teeworlds - A 2D multiplayer game where you have to shoot other players. Keyboard and Touchscreen 44. Tennix - A 2D table tennis game. Keyboard 45. Them Bloody Ducks - You have to shoot ducks in this game. Keyboard and Accelerometer 46. Tuxfootball - A 2D football game (real football not american). Keyboard 47. tuxrace - You have to control tux as he races from point to point while collecting fish. You can also do tricks. Touchscreen and Accelerometer 48. Ur-Quan Masters - You control a space ship as you travel collecting information etc. - Keyboard 49. VoR (Variations of rockdodgers) - Fun game where you dodge asteroids. - Accelerometer 50. Vulture's Eye - A nethack clone. Keyboard and Touchscreen 51. WoK - A game where you have to catch and throw stuff into the yellow bar. Touchscreen 52. Wormux - A worms clone using tux. Keyboard |
Re: [Maemo 5] What are the "must have" (top, best, most useful) applications?
Virtual Girl for Maemo plz.
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Re: [Maemo 5] What are the "must have" (top, best, most useful) applications?
Maybe someone will eventually build a Wakoopa clone and we'll see what we REALLY do with our N900s. :-)
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N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...
Just a curious post about what apps you lot are using often besides the browser.
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Re: N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...
I'm gonna have to tip on redtube.
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Re: N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...337#post626337
My post is in that thread :) What about you, OP? What did the guy mean about Redtube? |
Re: N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...
Don't play shy on me, fox.
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Re: N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...
Lol
I know what it is. I just don't know what you mean. |
Re: N900 Users... quick question(s) about what programs you use often...
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Less often but still used are SiB and KMPlayer, VNC + SSH, WiFiEye. I have Vim + Ubuntu configs installed for the above Ruby and miscellaneous system fiddling. |
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