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New Section: Ask a Nokian

New Section: Ask a Nokian

| March 19, 2012 | 6 Replies

Advertisements     We opened up a new page yesterday called, “Ask a Nokian”. http://mynokiablog.com/tips/ask-a-nokian/ I often get emails directed to me as if I was Nokia customer support. Whilst I try to reply to as many as I can, there’s so much more that I’ve missed which is a shame as I’d like to […]

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Video: Dualboot on the Nokia N950

Video: Dualboot on the Nokia N950

| March 11, 2012 | 18 Replies

So if you follow me on twitter, you would know that I had flashed Nemo to my N950 and was fiddling with dual booting. Below is the video I made. It is simple enough really. Turn the phone on like normal, be prompted with a few warnings and a standby screen featuring green text. Now, […]

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HowTo: Get Qt5 on the N9 (Terminal)

HowTo: Get Qt5 on the N9 (Terminal)

| February 26, 2012 | 12 Replies

I was looking at some dev guidelines to help me with my latest app endeavor, and stumbled across a QT wiki page detailing how you can get QT 5 onto your N9. It is pretty simple, but does involve some terminal work. While there is no official support for Qt5 on Nokia N9 and N950 […]

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#N9Hacks: Make Opera (or others) Default Broswer (Terminal) UPDATE: There are flaws

#N9Hacks: Make Opera (or others) Default Broswer (Terminal) UPDATE: There are flaws

| February 22, 2012 | 5 Replies

I’ve shown you how to select which browser you want to act as default, using an app. Sadly, Opera which we brought to your attention yesterday (as well as Helium Web Browser) doesn’t register on this app. To make it your default, follow the instructions below. As always, no responsibility if you brick your device,and […]

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Video: How to create a Symbian launcher icon (Squircles) with your own glyph in Inkscape

Video: How to create a Symbian launcher icon (Squircles) with your own glyph in Inkscape

| February 16, 2012 | 8 Replies

Here’s Nokia’s video on how to make those classic Nokia Squircle style icons for Symbian. You don’t just have to use these for a Symbian app. You can perhaps use them in other places where you find the squircle shape to be an appropriate. You want to – use your own glyph in svg format […]

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Lumia Tip: Find My Phone

Lumia Tip: Find My Phone

| January 17, 2012 | 24 Replies

I came across this by complete accident. Apologies if this has been shown. When you turn on the Lumia, you are asked to create a Live account, in order to access Skydrive and Marketplace, along with other services. Just now, I was fiddling with Windows Live in order to configure some push services with my […]

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Nokia Lumia tips: Read text messages aloud/say incoming messager’s name.

Nokia Lumia tips: Read text messages aloud/say incoming messager’s name.

| January 16, 2012 | 15 Replies

Remember the post where we talked about some Voice Command features for the Nokia Lumia? There’s a really neat feature that I didn’t get to demo personally because I didn’t have it activated (and didn’t see it in settings at the time). The feature you may have seen before allows you to get the phone […]

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Windows Phone Mango Review, Starring the Lumia 800

Windows Phone Mango Review, Starring the Lumia 800

| January 15, 2012 | 64 Replies

The amazing people at Nokia Connects were nice enough to send me a Lumia 800 to trial out for a while, so first off a shout out them for making this possible, they have some truly wonderful people working for them. Now a bit about the extent of my relationship with OSes other than Symbian/S^3, […]

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HowTo: Nemo on the Nokia N9

HowTo: Nemo on the Nokia N9

| January 15, 2012 | 14 Replies

I’ve brought you information on MeeGo 1.3 CE aka Nemo for the N950, and told you there was talk about it on the N9. Well, a few weeks ago, I found a guide on how to install it to the N9. With this method, the N9 installs Nemo, without removing the Meego-Harmattan OS. It is […]

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