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Kasvopus 0.9.4 with photo albums support

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Few days ago I created a small poll on what features would you like to see in next version of Kasvopus, the Facebook client for Maemo, MeeGo and Symbian. There were hundreds of votes and these are the results:

Most wanted features to Kasvopus

So based on this I made a small changes to Kasvopus and now you are able to go easily to your friends wall directly from the status view and on the wall view you can write a comment on your friend’s wall or browse their photo albums. Please note that some users might have blocked photos from 3rd party apps even they are shown to you on Facebook page. From the albums list you can browse album thumbnails and photos. You can also like or comment individual photos.

Here is a small demonstration of albums feature in Kasvopus:

It’s still beta and buggy but go ahead and try downloading the latest version from kasvopus.com

NewsFlow UI Experiments on WeTab MeeGo Tablet

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One of the most important uses for my tablet is to read news with it. The default browser works pretty well for that purpose but I tweaked my NewsFlow app’s user interface a bit so that it’s more pleasant to use with a tablet’s larger screen and even surpasses the web pages in some ways.

Now it shows the main menu on the left and news items list next to it. Right side of the screen is preserved for the news item content. All three containers are vertically scrollable.

Here is a small teaser of NewsFlow running on WeTab MeeGo tablet:

TwimGo 2.8.0 – Small Steps Forward

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TwimGo on N8 - Share on OviFinished updating few features and fixes to TwimGo, my precious Twitter client. This new release has the following changes:

  • Dialogs no longer leak clicks through (and accidentally open e.g. tweet underneath)
  • Two new feeds:
    • My Tweets
    • Friends
  • Shows “in response to” original tweet in Tweet details view
  • Clicking “Load more…” link doesn’t jump to the top

Download the latest release from Forum Nokia Projects page, here. Unfortunately I had to compile the Symbian version with Qt 4.7.2 so you might need to upgrade your Qt version if you’d like to try out TwimGo.

 

Kasvopus 0.9.3 – Still not ready

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Didn’t expect my Kasvopus app to get that much attention when I released it on last Saturday. There are already over two thousand users according to Facebook app statistics. So maybe I wasn’t alone in need of Facebook app for the Maemo and Symbian devices.

Previous version (0.9.2) was more like a alpha preview (and so is 0.9.3) to get some feedback from the users. There are now over hundred comments on the Kasvopus app page. Most of them are related to installation and authentication problems. Hopefully the Qt 4.7.2 will be included in the future firmware updates so that wouldn’t need users to install development versions of the Qt libraries.

Kasvopus uses WebView component for the authentication and it seems that N900 didn’t render the authentication pages in the same way as e.g. N8. So in this new version I changed the authentication page to use Facebook login page’s “wap” version which hopefully now shows the “Authenticate” button to all users and devices.

This new version also has the following changes:

  • Show notifications on startup (notifications can’t still be marked as read)
  • Smaller lower toolbar for the “Share status” button
  • “Kasvopus” title acts as a menu button to show:
    • Home feed icon
    • Friends list icon
    • User wall icon
    • Events icon
  • Friends and events lists are really basic and they don’t even have paging yet
  • Events view only show your current events without further details

Hope you like it! Go download new Kasvopus 0.9.3 files from http://kasvopus.com

DoodleDrive Alpha Preview Release

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The “game” we created with my son on Wednesday, DoodleDrive, got a lot of attention and many of you wanted to try it out yourselves. I have now created a new project to Forum Nokia Projects where you can download the binaries (sis for N8, E7, C7… or deb for N900). I also uploaded the source code for the game so you can study how to make a simple game in ~300 lines of QML. Go ahead and start coding your own games now :)

projects.forum.nokia.com/doodledrive

DoodleDrive