19 September 2008
17 September 2008
16 August 2008
what I am missing on Nokia Tablets...
yes, what I am really missing on Nokia Internet Tablets is handwriting. Unfortunately lack of TRUE handwriting is systematic, architectural and on purpose - tablets essentially are for browsing/surfing/watching/starring-at/lite-chat/etc and human input is expected at minimum. You may say "but on N810, there is a keyboard". Well, there is but... But it is not ergonomic for me - I find even chat over keyboard making me over-stressed soon.
What I do want is to be able to open "handwritten notes" application and write with stylus as I if wrote on simple paper. And as I progress further, to get ASCII-ed into simple text (well, to be precise UTF-8-ized). I am software developer and I know what I want is not that easy as I say - it is challenging wish. But it is doable. Now, it seem Evernote had it done ages ago and they could do same for maemo.org platofrm. If application were in price range of USD 20-50, I were buy it immediately. But Evernote (so far) has been having "resourcing issues with Linux programmers". I guess I have to shuffle old connections and try to contact them at Evernote. May be, one day...
03 August 2008
Finnish traditional winter game
MikontaloLights, Tetris
Originally uploaded by Ville Nikula
... playing Tetris with window lights in building :)
26 July 2008
all smooth jazz sax show - again me too late
I had been enjoying 10th episode of all smooth jazz sax show already for few weeks - Jur was just in time with fresh wave of sweet music. But it took me this long to write few words - I has been trying to get used for unusual opening tune of this episode by Jimmy Sommers.
The first track is from Jimmy Sommers, after that Eric Darius ft Norman Brown with "Just for the moment", next is a track from Kim Waters, then Boney James, Steve Cole, Mindi Abair's "Smile", "Mandela" from Pep Poblet, Eric Marienthal, Everette Harp, Gerald Albright with a song from his new CD called "Sax for Stax", Angelo Luster, Alfonzo Blackwell, and the last track is from Raw Stylus.
Thanks Jur for treting with good music again. I wish I could contribute too...
28 June 2008
power of big numbers
if all Nokia users would pull off their chargers when not used, we could power 100,000 average European houses.
16 June 2008
more Nokia jobs within open source and Maemo
my colleague Quim Gil has noted that his team is looking for somebody, who is very good at serving developers, i.e. position of product manager of the Maemo development platform at Nokia
also, for those who want to look straight for Maemo software related jobs (i.e. you want to work with Maemo, Linux, Nokia tablets, etc) among all open positions at Nokia , there is special section at maemo.org site named "maemo jobs" - have a look and please don't miss that "next" at bottom, as there is more than one page at the moment ;)
