Task:Remarkable community projects
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| - | Add your comments supporting/against the candidates listed below. | + | Add your comments supporting/against the candidates listed below. Please provide links to their pages at http://maemo.org/downloads to get more information, see screenshots and try them out. |
; Abiword : Abiword's another desktop application which has a really nice port to maemo. A document editor which is very powerful and lightweight. | ; Abiword : Abiword's another desktop application which has a really nice port to maemo. A document editor which is very powerful and lightweight. | ||
; Camera : This is the first 3rd party application I installed on my tablet. | ; Camera : This is the first 3rd party application I installed on my tablet. | ||
Revision as of 20:27, 27 June 2008
This is a subtask of Task:Defining maemo and is looking for volunteers
There are hundreds of community projects around Maemo, but some are especially remarkable, providing a unique contribution to the project.
Getting a list of these projects would help to
- Improve their quality and promote them as ready to primetime.
- Highlight to externals some of the amazing stuff the Maemo platform can offer.
- Bring attention, testing, contributions, new users to them.
- Indicate to Nokia what is really worth promoting in their Maemo related activities.
- Cheer up the ego of promoters and contributors. :)
Criteria
Propose criteria to select projects.
- Alive: Maintained regularly and available in the last stabe release.
- Open: community feedback and contributions are part of the project - open source is a very good factor but not a must.
- Stable: feature set complete, installs flawlessly, works, doesn't harm the system, secure.
- Finger/thumb UI: stylus to be required only in exceptional and evident cases (e.g. drawing apps).
- Decent design: visually attractive and/or simple interface that works just as expected.
- maemo.org active: available in extras, complete information page in Downloads.
- Non commercial: Not developed by Nokia or commercial partners.
Proposals
Add your comments supporting/against the candidates listed below. Please provide links to their pages at http://maemo.org/downloads to get more information, see screenshots and try them out.
- Abiword
- Abiword's another desktop application which has a really nice port to maemo. A document editor which is very powerful and lightweight.
- Camera
- This is the first 3rd party application I installed on my tablet.
- Erminig
- Allows a two-way sync between Google Calendars and the GPE calendar on the N810.
- Dates & Contacts
- Both part of the Pimlico suite of applications, these allow me to use the N810 as a personal calendar and address book, with desktop synchronisation to boot.
- FBReader
- The best free e-book reader.
- Gnumeric
- Gnumeric is a great spreadsheet application, and the maemo port has been very nicely done.
- GPE Suite
- Calendar, Contacts and To-Do List are quite useful. Use Erminig to sync Calendar with Google Calendars.
- GPXView
- A complete geocaching solution including GPS navigation.
- Gourmet Recipe Manager
- A neat way to plan meals.
- GrandCentral Dialer
- A simple GUI allows use of the N810 as an ip phone.
- Labyrinth
- An idea-mapping tool with a lot of potential.
- Maemo Mapper
- The best map application for the N810 that I'm aware of. Can interact with lots of different mapping sites, including OpenStreetmap.
- Maemo Recorder
- Turn your N8X0 into a dictaphone. Very useful.
- Maemo WordPy
- Blogging software that hooks to WordPress and Blogger accounts, allows image uploads, post creating and editing, tagging. Especially notable for its finger-friendly menu.
- MaemoPad+
- Tree-based notes and sketching application
- MLB Viewer
- For baseball fans, simple UI, subscription to mlb.com required for video, audio is 'free'.
- Numpty Physics
- This game is educational, hard, fun. Made for the stylus.
- Pidgin for Maemo
- Instant messaging application, ported from the desktop.
- PhoneLink
- Send SMS using GPE Contacts and a bluetooth-enable mobile phone.
- Vagalume
- Last.fm is my favourite music site, and Vagalume is my favourite Last.fm client.
- VCURLs72
- Major US TV channels on your tablet. Best Edutament without monthly fee
- Weightjinni
- A simple way to track food consumption, weight loss/gain (still in alpha).
- WorldTV99
- TVs around the world on your tablet. Best Edutament without montly fee
- XChat
- IRC on your tablet. Nice port.
- Xournal
- A great notes/sketch utility. One of few apps that utilize the pressure sensitivity of the screen! Invaluable to create and annotate PDF documents on a pocket computer.