Great news! Access just released Garnet VM Beta 2 adding fullscreen support as well as MathLib support. Please verify and report any other enhancements that you find!
Since our launch in November 2007, the ACCESS Garnet VM Beta for Nokia Nseries can boast over 15,000 downloads! Like you, thousands of Garnet VM users around the world still enjoy using Garnet OS applications for their simplicity and their diversity. During the last six months, we have received a tremendous response about the Garnet VM launch. You have shared valuable comments about the features you want to see in the next version of Garnet VM and the improvements you want in the applications. We listened to our GVM community and thanks to your help made some changes. We have added the most requested feature—support for full screen rendering. We have also identified and made other improvements to Garnet VM including providing full support for MathLib that will enable many additional applications to run on Garnet VM.
Today, we are pleased to announce that the new ACCESS GVM Beta 2 for Nokia Nseries is available:
Download the ACCESS GVM Beta 2 from our web site: http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/
Regards,
The Garnet VM Team
Quim Gil has just posted his Maemo LinuxTag Update slides. I would have wanted to hear what he had to say about Diablo, Fremantle, and Harmattan but I guess this slide says a lot:
maemo.org is also hosting a brainstorming session for the next ten days to talk about the future of maemo.org. It aims to consolidate feedback from developers and end-users to draft its mid-term goals, and eventually become the community proposal of the maemo.org product strategty.
Two Wiki pages have been setup so everyone can add their ideas, suggest, and even complain. Head on to the wiki and let your voice be heard (note: deadline is in 10 days)!
Dan Gentleman (aka Thoughtfix) turns back the time and publishes an article on how all the Internet Tablet craze started. He interviews Ari Jaaksi, yours truly (with a lot of embedded member pics!), and a special guest. Check out also his excellent Internet Tablet timeline post.
Thanks for reminding us how everything started Dan!
Nokia released a Nokia N810 survey that basically asks for feedback on most of the N810’s apps and features. It will ask you to rate each standard app that it comes with, what other apps you regularly use, GPS feedback, where you ask for support ( don’t forget to mention Internet Tablet Talk 
), frequency of use, and likes and dislikes. It will also ask for what other features you want it to have. The survey is quite thorough and be prepared to allot about 15 minutes to complete the survey.
At the end, you will be asked (not required) for you name and email address. Filling it up will entitle you for an entry to a raffle where Nokia will give away a multimedia speaker system and headphones. The raffle will take place on August 30, 2008.
For those wondering if the survey is legit, I did get a confirmation from Nokia that the survey actually came from them.
Answer the survey.
Read the terms and conditions.
A new version of the Internet Tablet Video Converter has been released to fix bugs, add API support for Python, Perl, and Java, and now support for Mac OS X.
Victor Brilon, Sr. Product Manager, Home Networking Solutions, Convergence Products posted the following at the Nokia Beta Labs Blog:
Nokia Internet Tablet Video Converter has been updated and we’re thrilled to bring you this latest version. This latest release includes several major updates, including:
- A version for OS X that’ll run on Tiger and Leopard on Intel and PPC platforms. This is our first release for the OS X platform, so we are eager to hear your feedback on how it could be improved
- The codecs for the Windows version have been updated and hopefully we’ve fixed the bugs that the community has reported to us
- The Developer API has been updated based on user feedback. It now supports Python, Perl, and Java as programming languages to access the API. We’re very interested in seeing what the community can cook up using this feature.
Download here.
Thanks to our great Internet Tablet community, we’ve made some really good changes to this software and we hope you like it as much as we do. Please report any bugs you find at https://bugs.maemo.org.
Thanks,
Victor
