2MB/s with Transmission on Nokia N900

I was actually amazed to see my Nokia N900 downloading torrents with 2MB/s using the Transmission torrent client for Nokia N900. The screenshot taken here shows only 1.95MB/s but I was unable to capture the 2MB+ speed cos my phone was a bit slow and unresponsive during the time of the download. But apart from that downloading speeds like this just make me smile.

The download speed was achieved on while I was connected via WiFi on my home network. Trying to download the same torrent via my Dell laptop just a few minutes later showed that actually the laptop downloaded the torrent slower with just 1.54MB/s while being connected via WiFi.

barrioSquare - Foursquare app for Maemo and Nokia N900

Since there is no official Foursquare app for Maemo and Nokia N900 Chili Technologies decided to make one. The name of the app is barrioSquare, barrio = (neighborhood in Spanish) + square (from foursquare) and it is available in the Extras Devel repository or via the direct download link in our downloads section. For those of you who are not familiar with Foursquare or haven't used the Foursquare app on some other platform click here to learn more. In short:

Foursquare is a cross between a friend-finder, a social city-guide and a game that rewards you for doing interesting things.  We aim to build things to not only help you keep up with the places your friends go, but that encourage you to discover new places and challenge you to explore your neighborhood in new ways.

I will not bore you with details cos it is best to check the barrioSquare app yourself and I think you will like it. Please note that the app is still in development but apart from that it is totally usable.

Remote desktop and Nokia N900

One of the few things I like about my Nokia N900 is the thing that it integrates extremly well with my everyday needs and my current setup of devices. Another great feature or to be more corect an app allowing this feature is "rdesktop" a small app for your Nokia N900 that allows you to create a remote desktop connection to your Windows PC. Why would you need a remote desktop feature on your device I can not tell cos it is different for everyone but, I personally found it very usefull for the simple reason that it allows me to access my PC from anywhere, and do whatever I want to do, like email a few pictures that I forgot to send to a friend and I remembered when I was already out.

Downloading torrents with Nokia N900

Transmission is a torrent client for Nokia N900 that enables you to download torrents just like on your PC. The application is available in the Extras Devel repository which means that the Transmission torrent app is not released for general public yet, due to few bugs (the bittorrent app is still in beta development stage). But apart from that we found that Transmission worked well on our Nokia N900 and we were able to download with ease..

Using Twitter on Nokia N900 with Mauku

Mauku is a free micro bloggin client for the Maemo 5 powered Nokia N900. It is a light and easy to use app that allows you to do some basic Twitter business and not only that. Mauku has support for other micro bloging services besides Twitter, like Laconica and Qaiku. As we learned from the Mauku website, support for Facebook and Jaiku will be added soon.