[MeeGo Harmattan] Dynamic calendar icon : Daily updated Calendar app icon !

Dynamic calendar icon is just another daily updated Calendar app icon, similar to Calenderr !

[MeeGo Harmattan] WidgetCanvas : Widgets for Harmattan !

Since UX cannot be touched, Giovanni Grammatico has created an application which offers a sort of platform to run widgets : WidgetCanvas !

Widgets can be added and dragged, theirs position is saved and restored at next application startup.

More to read from the original topic ;)

[MeeGo Harmattan] Clock Widget : Live clock icon !

After Calendar and Ip Address widgets, it's time for the clock widget ! Yeah !

Look at the hour on the top right side and compare it with the clock on the icon, it's dynamic !

Warning : it may drain the battery as it updates every minute ;)

Seen over here ;)

[MeeGo Harmattan] IP Address Widget !

Based on experiments with the Calendar Icon Hack, IP Address Widget takes the concept one step further and provides a "Widget" for your Harmattan (N950/N9) application screen that shows your current IP address(es). If you click on it, it will automatically update itself (it takes about two seconds), but that's still easier than firing up the Terminal and typing /sbin/ifconfig or playing with SDK icon on developer mode...

Download it !

If you have problems installing the .deb, please install the packages python and python-imaging (both are in the Nokia Repos) using:

$ devel-su

(enter the root password, usually "rootme")

# apt-get update

# apt-get install python python-imaging

If you are installing from the command line (with dpkg -i), you can use apt-get -f install after it to fulfill missing dependencies.

More infos and support also over here !

[MeeGo Harmattan] Calenderr : Daily updated Calendar app icon !

Calenderr is a simple hack to make the Calendar app icon always show today's date (day-of-month). The existence of calendar icons for each day (1-31) in the theme on the device lets suspect that this feature was either planned and then abandoned or that it will come built-in in some future firmware.

put calendarhack.conf in /etc/init/apps directory (see the comment inside)

put calenderr.sh in /home/user folder  (see the comment inside)

Or simply try this (verified) *deb  file !

More to read (support) over here !

Profile changer widget !

profile changer widget is a Small widget intended to unable an easy change between general and silent profiles.

[How To] Run Opera widgets as native n900 applications !

Since both opera widgets and "QT Web Runtime" uses open web technologies to make native applications, niloy was wondering if its possible to make opera widgets run natively on N900. It turned out to be surprisingly easy.

"QT Web Runtime" needs to be installed from extra-devel if you dont have it installed already.

As the experiment, he tried to run Pipe Mania.

Heres the steps he did to "port" pipe mania:

1) Download pipe mania.

2) It will have .wgt extension which is just a zipped archive renamed to .wgt. Extract the contents.

3) The extracted folder will have all the html, css, js files. The config.xml needs to be edited.

This was the original file:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<widget height="688" version="1.0" viewmodes="floating" width="467">
  <name>Pipe mania</name>
  <description>Old school Pipe Mania game reactivated!</description>
  <icon>icons/icon-128.png</icon>
  <icon>icons/icon-64.png</icon>
  <icon>icons/icon-32.png</icon>
  <icon>icons/icon-16.png</icon>
  <width>413</width>
  <height>605</height>
  <author>
    <name>Opera widgets</name>
    <organization />
    <email />
    <link />
  </author>
  <widgetname>Pipe Mania</widgetname>
</widget>

I modified to this:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" version="1.0" viewmodes="maximized">
  <name>Pipe mania</name>
  <description>Old school Pipe Mania game reactivated!</description>
  <content src="index.html" />
  <icon src="icons/icon-32.png" />
  <width>413</width>
  <height>605</height>
</widget>

4) Select all files & folders including the config.xml and compress to a zip archive. Do not archive the parent folder, it wont work. Change the extension from .zip to .wgt.

5) Copy the file to n900 and run using file manager. The application will be installed and a shortcut will be created in the application menu. Play the game!

More on the original thread !

TV Out Control Home Widget !

 TV out control desktop widget allows you to control different parameters of the N900's TV out that (for some) are not available in the control panel :

- Enable/disable
- PAL/NTSC
- Aspect ratio control - switch between 4:3 and 16:9
- Scale control - scale the display to fill the TV screen area, or make it smaller

Mediabar (XpressMusic-esque) : With mediaplayer controls!

Do you want to display a multimedia bar similar to that on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and other XpressMusic devices? mediabar can do it ! It's activated by holding the proximity sensor for 1.2s, and of course, this is configurable, just edit /home/user/.config/MohammadAG/mediabar containing icons which can be used to quickly launch applications from almost any screen !

Via : talk.maemo.org

MaxCPU : Widget to change CPU clock quickly !

MaxCPU is a home-desktop widget for change of CPU'clock and it works only with kernel titan ;)

Homescreen selector widget !

And another homescreen selector widget The difference between this one and this, is that this one shows all active desktops backgrounds and it supports Matan's modified hildon-desktop (up to 9 desktops) !

[UPDATE] Twitter widget by Nokia

As i pointed yesterday on twitter, The twitter widget by Nokia has been updated, hope the drain battery issue and high CPU consuming were corrected ;-)

App Search Widget : fast access to your installed application !

App Search Widget enables a fast access to your installed application !

K9 Call : Use a T9 inspired method for contact lookup !

K9 Call  is a widget that use a T9 inspired method of contact lookup, if you want to lookup someone who goes by the name "Test Unicode" for example, you would type in 8378 for (Test)

Update : more info over here !

Queen BeeCon Widget - On Desktop Dialer Widget !

Queen BeeCon Widget is a highly customizable and flexible widget-based multi-instance monitoring, alerting and interactive tool for Maemo 5 Fremantle and the N900, like the Desktop Command Execution Widget !

The Widget is based on the execution of external Shell/OS Commands which can be either as simple as one-liner statements or as complex as articulated shell scripts, which, for example, fetch, parse and aggregate contents retrieved from the system, other applications or the Internet.

Anyway now you can Customize Queen BeeCon Widget (>=v0.1.9.6) to display: On Desktop Dialer Widget, ie.
The Beecons will let you dial phone numbers straight from you desktop !

So jump over the official thread and follow instructions and enjoy the great work by the great maemo community !

Sticky Notes : create sticky notes on your desktop !

Sticky Notes is a little application that lets you create as many notes on as many desktops in as many colors as you want!

- It has a sexy UI
- It is easy to use
- It saves your notes automatically
- It is finger-friendly
- It is also optified

FAQ

Q: Why is this stuff better than the existing notes widgets?
A: Because you may have as many notes as you want. There is no limitation about how many notes you can have. You can also set their colour to any colour you like.
Q: What do the buttons do?
A: The first (+) creates another note with same color. The second (•) lets you change the colour, and the third (×) deletes the note.
Easy, isn't it?
Q: Can I have [my favourite feature] implemented?
A: Sure! Just post your idea in a reply in this thread!
Q: Will it crash hildon-home?
A: No, it runs under its own separate process.
Q: How does it work?
A: It saves your text automatically, 3 seconds after you finished typing.
Q: Why does it always run in the background?
A: This is pretty much required for it to operate correctly, see detailed answer here.

Planned features

- Ability to resize the notes
- Ability to change font (size/color)
- Ability to move the widgets around (somehow) without entering edit mode.
- Basic text formatting (bold and such)

If you have some ideas, drop them here !

Pelota : World Cup Widget !

Pelota is a real-time widget that shows status of world cup games's scores, every goal that happens, a beep and vibration indicates you about it !

Update : You can install it by grabbing the .deb file as following :

wget http://184.73.182.199/pelota-repo/dists/fremantle-1.2/pelota-widget_1.0.0-1_armel.deb

And installing it manually with

dpkg -i pelota-widget_1.0.0-1_armel.deb

Also doing this will work for others without having to download the file with wget.

dpkg -i http://184.73.182.199/pelota-repo/dists/fremantle-1.2/pelota-widget_1.0.0-1_armel.deb

Calendar Home Widget : replacement for the built-in calendar home widget !

Calendar Home Widget opens the calendar application with different views (agenda, week, month). Can change dynamically the widget size. Selectable fixed sizes. And you can select which calendar entries (color) should be visible and a time period.

It looks like the built-in widget but with some small ui changes and some setting options.

Features:

- Set visible rows:

Small - 2 Rows

Medium - 5 Rows

Larte - 9 Rows

- Auto - Adjusts the size automatically for upto 9 rows.
- Set the date range to use to show events on the widget (1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, ..., 1 year)
- Select visible calendars .
- Select which calendar view to open, when tapping on the event list (agenda, week, month)
- You can always tap on the day icon to open the agenda view, the week day name always opens the week view and tapping on the month label, well opens the month view.

More to read.

Irreco Widget : Small widget to control your TV etc !

Irreco widget has basic controls to control IR controlled devices directly from your home screen. Main idea is to create a simpler and more easy-to-use version of the full (Qt)Irreco application...

Available at Extras-devel repository :)

Twitter Widget for Nokia N900 by Nokia

Yes you read it right !

The twitter widget is a little widget which display your time-line in the homescreen of the Nokia N900. You can also update the time-line by tapping the little bird saying “Tap me to tweet“

Download it here