Tethering (using you’re mobile phone to get your laptop/notebook online) is a quite important feature for me, when I’m at a meeting I do not wish to rely on wireless connections from my customers or the hotel/cafe where I’m at. With my Nokia E90 I used JoikuSpot, which turns the E90 into a wireless accesspoint, worked like a charm but drains the batteries extremely fast. One very big advantage of creating a Wifi-accesspoint is speed; I have 7.2 mbit 3.5G subscription (the E90 only got to 3.2 mbit though), which is too fast for bluetooth, you usually get about 1 mbit from bluetooth.. With wifi I was able to use the full 3.2 mbit my E90 was able to provide.
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buTTon Nokia N900, linux Bluetooth, Internet Sharing, Nokia N900, Tethering, ubuntu
There are not a lot of notifiers for Google WAVE available. I found one for Firefox, which is a small statusbar icon and doesn’t really attract my attention, and there’s one for Chrome (which I don’t use). I’d rather have something for my desktop (Gnome-panel-gadget or Gnome-Do-plugin) that shouts ” YOU HAVE A WAVE” at me, but I haven’t found anything yet. What I did find is another solution; The XMPP-bot “wave-xmpp@appspot.com”. If you add this bot into a Wave and press subscribe you’ll receive an instant message from Google Talk when someone adds something to the wave. Since GTalk messages are received on my Nokia N900 I know there’s wave activity anywhere I am, and only from the Waves I’ve subscribed to. Check out the XMPP-Lite page
Also check out this list of other Wave-bots and gadgets;
buTTon Google Wave Tips Google Talk, Google Wave, Notifier, XMPP
Nokia N900
Yay! Got my N900 directly from Nokia yesterday and I’ve been playing with it a lot. Overall I’m very happy with this new phone, finally something that beats the Nokia E90.
My findings for now;
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buTTon Nokia N900, linux Maemo, N900, Nokia
