Bird demolition with Angry Birds

One of my favorite games on the Nokia N900 is Angry Birds. In the game you got 5 different kinds of birds with different abilities that you send off with a slingshot to try to kill some green pigs. The game loads fast and is great if you just have a few minutes to spare. Unfortunately there are too few levels BUT it seems like the Maemo community have come up with a solution - user made levels. I have not tried the user made levels myself yet but I'll post when I do. The new levels and information can be found here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40591.

If you are playing Angry Birds try to slide your finger up and down at the middle of the screen that will zoom in and out.

I wanted to post some screenshots but I think the video from the Angry Birds website is very good so I embedded that instead:



The game is also available for iPhone

Series database on my N900

One of my favourite apps on my Nokia N900 is SeriesFinal. I always keep forgetting how many episodes I've watched of each of the TV-shows that I follow and with Series Final I don't have to anymore. Basically what SeriesFinal does is download the information about a show that you choose so that you can see how many seasons it has been running, how many episodes there have been and even a little information about the episode itself. Then next to each episode there is checkbox so you can checkoff every episode you have watched.

I've made a few screenshots so you can see how it works.

The N900 as a TV-remote

Yesterday I got my Nokia N900 to work as a TV-remote. For that I needed Irreco to get that I went to http://irreco.garage.maemo.org/ in the MicroB browser on my N900, I clicked on "Download" and then on the "Click to Install" arrow on the grey banner. That opened the the app manager on the N900 and let me install the Irreco.

I have a old Phillips 32" TV so I opened Irreco and in the app menu I chose "Download remote" then "TV" then "Philips" then "22PFL5403D" then "peter.olby", then "2010-01-02 14:43:32" and then "Download". Then Irreco downloaded the remote and the theme and that was it, my N900 is now also my remote.

Thank you to Peter Olby who ever he is for making that remote.

Google Latitude and N900

I've been a great fan of the concept of Google Latitude for awhile now, but since nobody I knew used it I've not had the opportunity to really test it until now. After I got my Nokia N900 I managed to convince 3 of my friends to try Google Latitude - they have not been too impressed but they have used it enough to let me see it in action.

So how is it to use Google Latitude on a N900? Well the experience could have been much better...

First I used Google Latitude through the MicroB browser. To do that you need to use the mobile version of Google Maps by installing the MicroB extention Maemo-Geolocation and using this URL: http://www.google.com/maps/m. This will update your position and you'll be able to see where your friends are at but it has some shortcomings - you cannot zoom, you cannot scroll, the blue spot you use to center the position on yourself is underneath the "exit full screen button" so you cannot use that in full screen mode and also the whole thing is not touch optimized so it's very hard to use without the stylus.

What to do then? Well there is really no solution for most of the inconveniences of using the Google Maps website just yet, but there is an app that at least makes it a bit easier to update your position. The app is called Google Latitude Updater. This app is still in the Extra Testing Repository so it's basically a beta release, but it does what it promises it updates you position in Google Latitude and in the app menu you can choose between the map-view and the "app-view". What I would like to see in the future from this app is some kind of autoupdate ec. every 5, 10 or 15 minutes.

I've added some screenshots to show how Google Latitude looks on the N900:

My position shown in MicroB:

Friend list shown in MicroB:

Friend options and settings in MicroB:
Friend shown on map in MicroB:

"App-view" in Google Latitude Updater:

Map-view in Google Latitude Updater:

Danish Radio on my N900

I love listening to the Danish radio station DR P1 so I wanted to be able to play that station on my Nokia N900. Therefore I downloaded the FM Radio Player from Extras Repositories. But I was far from satisfied with the usability of the FM Radio Player, I could not figure out how to search for channels and also I had to keep the headphones plugged in to be able to use the player. Therefore I decided to add the channel to the Internet Radio in the build in Mediaplayer. Here is how I did it:

First I needed to find the stream - it can be found here.

Second I opened the Mediaplayer

Third chose Internet Radio

Fourth in the app Menu I chose Add Radio Bookmark

Fifth added a name and the stream.´

The station was added and all I had to do was to find the channel in the channel list and click it. Enjoy :-)

Danish TV on my N900

Yesterday I managed to setup streams for three Danish TV-channels on my Nokia N900. The channels I managed to find streams for were DR1, DR2 and DR Update. Here is a small walkthrough to how I did it:


First I installed KMPlayer from the Extras Repositories


Second I found the URLs for the channels and typed in KMPlayer

DR1: http://www.dr.dk/Forms/Published/PlaylistGen.aspx?qid=786405

DR2: http://www.dr.dk/Forms/Published/PlaylistGen.aspx?qid=786410

DR Update: http://www.dr.dk/tjenester/podcast/update.asx?gid=288417


Third I marked the channels as favourites

Enjoy :-)

All this is of cause only possible from a Danish IP-adress

Green Driving

Today I just heard about a gadget called the Vexia Econav. It's a GPS for your car that helps drive more environmental friendly and also save money on you fuel bill. They say that you can save up to 30% of your CO2 emissions. The Vexia Econav will "informing you in real time about: efficient gear change, excessive acceleration, inadequate braking". If I had a car I would want one.

http://www.vexia.co.uk/default.htm

Blue Foundation at Pitstop

This picture is the inside of the toiletdoor in Pornobaren at Pitstop in Kolding.

Vonsild

Kransekage

View over Kolding

Udsigt over Kolding

This picture is uploadet with Pixelpipe and this edit is done with MaStory on my N900..