My complaints notwithstanding, I use my N800 constantly. * I'm only halfway through my gpe contacts list correcting the import errors, but I'm already relying heavily on it for that. * I finally shoved my reservations aside and have started using Google Calendar to do my time planning. That has worked out very well, so I've also started using the gpe Calendar for offline access to the same information. It works pretty well, but the color scheme is pretty ghastly and hard to read when using a dark Hildon theme such as NCARS. Erminig makes syncing remarkably quick and painless (at least for me). * I constantly use my bluetooth GPSr and Roadmap, Maps, and Maemo Mapper (in that order) for finding my way in addition to some other GPS tools such as GPXView and geopoi to do geocaching, for which the correctness of street data is pretty much irrelevant. I used my ancient Garmin GPS III+ to map my neighborhood on OSM long before the tablets came out, so don't have a lot to do with OSM any more, but I have used my N800 to map a hiking trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. * Media Player - I use the built-in Media Player for audio, and MPlayer for video. I've ripped a couple of DVDs and the entire Firefly series with satisfactory but not perfect results. * Games - I'm addicted to AisleRiot Solitaire, but have sudoku, chess, Pingus, Xword and a number of other games that help to pass the time on the buss or plane. * Alarm Clock while travelling - it's reliable and useful for this, and means one less bit of gear to carry around in my kit. Dali Clock and mClock can be useful for those times when I need to be very mindful of the time and there's no wall clock handy. (I completely stopped wearing a wristwatch about 18 months ago because my cell phone keeps just as good time and doesn't have to be reset for time zone changes.) * Leafpad is great for creating/editing plain text files that I want to be portable to Windows or any other machine with any OS. * Gnumeric Spreadsheet. * PDF reader for ebooks and all manner of pdf files. I have FBReader installed, but have never used it. * I'm experimenting with Pyrecipe and Gourmet Recipe Manager. I have word processing documents scattered about several different storage devices and it would be nice to have them all together in a searchable and handy place. Not being able to print is a considerable shortcoming, though. * OMWeather is very handing for planning my mode of commute to work and recreation, etc. It also gives me quick access to what's going on in other places. * I don't find the Web browsing to be nearly as slow or problematic as some others have mentioned. I never use an offline email app with the tablet - I just access gmail through the browser (and google's calendar as well) and am very happy with that aspect of my tablet. I do wish that the browser supported Firefox extensions, though. This is the one area where I think the tablet really shines. I do have to use the zoom buttons frequently, but they are so accessible and effective that it's not an issue. * OpenSSH for root access as well as the occasional access to pine for checking my work email on the go. I'm far from being a true "hacker", since I can't do any of the programming, but I am definitely a "power user" and do pretty much everything *but* programming. My primary OS at home is kubuntu, with the occasional boot into WinXP for things that I haven't got to work in Linux yet, such as scanning photos and documents or cleaning my printer's heads. I have an Eee PC 1000HE on order (I pre-ordered, but they ran out before they got to me, darn it!), which I will immediately convert to dual-boot with most of the HDD space going to kubuntu, and hopefully it will complement my N800, do all the things that I wish the N800 did, and make my tablet a more positive experience, since the netbook will alleviate the pressure on the tablet to do the things that I expected of it. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
