Let me start by telling you that wiicontrol is just marvelous piece of software. I allows you to pair your wiimote with your tablet. Result: Perfect controller for games and really nice controller for media applications.
So, emulators are now usable, doom / quake: check! pengupop / bomberman. Yeah baby! I cannot take credit of the wiicontrol, as it's really a project JL Diaz started, I just pimped it a bit. It's based on wiimote by Will Woods. GPL2+ for wiimote and gpl3+ for the wiicontrol.
Hey, please take a look at this video to see how very simple it is to use. If you toggle the gyro, it will currently produce wasd events when the you rotate your wiimote. Nice for e.g. strafing in quake/doom. Anyway, this is the first version and I'm sure me and JL will be bringing some cool configuration options and perhaps even mouse cursor support in the near future.
EDIT:
Link to install it is in here:
Wiicontrol 1.04
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Theme Maker 1.1.3 out
I took a bit time off to polish the Theme Maker. The latest version, 1.1.3 now supports also background images. Background images will appear in the image list of the the 'select background image' dialog.
So, what is the Theme Maker anyway?
It's an easy to use tool for creating themes for the Maemo devices like N800 and N810. All you need is a image editor program like gimp of photoshop and a little patience. It works on OSX, Windows (all versions) and Linux. You'll need java from Sun to run it.
Basically, it's all about editing one single image file like this (this is a small part of a theme template only):
and then setting the theme details in Theme Maker like this:
And Clicking build in theme maker. It will produce a nice installable .deb file of your theme. Just copy that to your device (or publish it ... whatnot) and install it as normal. Now just set your theme on your device and it will transform to something like this (well, for NuvoPearl it looks like this):
And, as stated in the first paragraph of this blog, now themes also include the backgrounds so that your theme is more complete. Icons are still not changeable, but let's see what I can do about them in the future...
If you have a bit of artist in you, please try out the theme maker (install java if needed):
ThemeMaker1.1.3.zip
And if you liked NuvoPearl theme pictured above, you can install the latest version from here:
NuvoPearl
So, what is the Theme Maker anyway?
It's an easy to use tool for creating themes for the Maemo devices like N800 and N810. All you need is a image editor program like gimp of photoshop and a little patience. It works on OSX, Windows (all versions) and Linux. You'll need java from Sun to run it.
Basically, it's all about editing one single image file like this (this is a small part of a theme template only):
and then setting the theme details in Theme Maker like this:
And Clicking build in theme maker. It will produce a nice installable .deb file of your theme. Just copy that to your device (or publish it ... whatnot) and install it as normal. Now just set your theme on your device and it will transform to something like this (well, for NuvoPearl it looks like this):
And, as stated in the first paragraph of this blog, now themes also include the backgrounds so that your theme is more complete. Icons are still not changeable, but let's see what I can do about them in the future...
If you have a bit of artist in you, please try out the theme maker (install java if needed):
ThemeMaker1.1.3.zip
And if you liked NuvoPearl theme pictured above, you can install the latest version from here:
NuvoPearl
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Sneak peak to ukmp 1.8
A quick taster of how splendid the latest ukmp looks. Of course, an image is not enough to show how nice UI candy it contains, but it's a taster. As you can see (and deduce the rest), vanilla SDL and python are able to do some pretty nice stuff. Oh, even though there is the reflection, fps is still nice and above the blitting limit of the device.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Theme Maker
I completely forgot to talk about theme maker in my last post. Yes, I finally gave into the dark side. I moved to use Nokia official template for theme maker. This is good and bad. Bad in that if you had made something on the old theme maker, you'll have to port it to the new template. Good in the sense that you'll get all the features in exactly the manner god of this device intended (nokia).
Above, you can see the first test theme that I made with the new theme maker. It's there to also test out how 'light' themes look. As you've noticed, pretty much all the current themes are very dark. So, to balance the 'turn to the dark side', here is the latest (1.2) iteration of the nuvo theme.
So, many people probably don't know what theme maker is. It's an java application for windows/osx/linux that makes a theme out of an png file. So, you open the png in gimp or photoshop, edit it out, open theme maker, specify the theme name, font size and click on make theme. Wait a minute or so and you have a .deb file of your newly created theme. Current version doesn't set the bg, but you can't have it all on day one.
If you are interested in Nuvo, dl it from here:
NuvoPearl 1.2
and for theme maker:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/3418/ThemeMaker1.1.2.zip
When you have new themes, please put them to the maemo.org/downloads for all the world to use!
Just to show the nuvopearl a bit more, here's a screenshot of file manager. Smaller font makes it much nicer looking as well. (and usable)
Above, you can see the first test theme that I made with the new theme maker. It's there to also test out how 'light' themes look. As you've noticed, pretty much all the current themes are very dark. So, to balance the 'turn to the dark side', here is the latest (1.2) iteration of the nuvo theme.
So, many people probably don't know what theme maker is. It's an java application for windows/osx/linux that makes a theme out of an png file. So, you open the png in gimp or photoshop, edit it out, open theme maker, specify the theme name, font size and click on make theme. Wait a minute or so and you have a .deb file of your newly created theme. Current version doesn't set the bg, but you can't have it all on day one.
If you are interested in Nuvo, dl it from here:
NuvoPearl 1.2
and for theme maker:
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/3418/ThemeMaker1.1.2.zip
When you have new themes, please put them to the maemo.org/downloads for all the world to use!
Just to show the nuvopearl a bit more, here's a screenshot of file manager. Smaller font makes it much nicer looking as well. (and usable)
Thursday, February 21, 2008
USBControl and Theme Maker
Just a quick short blog post
As requested, I packed in the weekend USBControl as a seprate package. I also upgraded it so that it works even after a reboot. LOL. the previous one actually only worked until you rebooted the device and lost the access to edit your USB mode after that. LOL indeed. I didn't realize that, as I really don't reboot my device too often. Kudos to nokia for the stable device.
Anyway, the new package runs as sudo, so it's able to edit the file even later on. (security people can now cry iik!).
You can install it from here (yo need to have python installed before though):
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/3443/usbcontrol-1.0_all.deb
I'll put it to repos in a few days time, but before that, try it out and let me know how you like (or dislike) it.
Current version also tells the status of the usb as well as the devices attached to your tablet.
As requested, I packed in the weekend USBControl as a seprate package. I also upgraded it so that it works even after a reboot. LOL. the previous one actually only worked until you rebooted the device and lost the access to edit your USB mode after that. LOL indeed. I didn't realize that, as I really don't reboot my device too often. Kudos to nokia for the stable device.
Anyway, the new package runs as sudo, so it's able to edit the file even later on. (security people can now cry iik!).
You can install it from here (yo need to have python installed before though):
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/3443/usbcontrol-1.0_all.deb
I'll put it to repos in a few days time, but before that, try it out and let me know how you like (or dislike) it.
Current version also tells the status of the usb as well as the devices attached to your tablet.
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