Open source video editor for Harmattan from Collabora

Via: @w00teh

Editor: Andrew Olmsted

Robert Swain blogs about an open source, touch screen, video editing tool written by Collabora employees as part of an internal application development competition. I’ve been saving this post for a while until it got accepted and published but the time has come… VideoEditor, an open source touchscreen video editor app for the Nokia N9/N950, is now available on Ovi Store for the grand price of [currency] 0! It has been developed in an open way from the beginning and the full source code is available on github. Awesome. From the description in the Nokia Store: "Video clips can be added to a timeline, reordered, trimmed to adjust transitions within the composition. The composition can be previewed and exported to a new file. The touch interface allows easy editing, zooming and navigation using common gestures like taps, drags and pinches." Sounds awesome indeed.

Unlocking landscape use of Harmattan built-in apps

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

There was an interesting reversal in orientation support from Fremantle to Harmattan, where previously landscape-only applications had been the norm, a lot of the built-in applications in Harmattan support only portrait orientation. This is especially frustrating for N950 users using the device's keyboard. A Talk user "Vesuri" has put together patches for libmeegotouch which alter the orientation locking behavior to allow locked applications to rotate and a theme package that provides landscape layouts for the portrait-only applications.

As the modification requires replacing system libraries (libmeegotouch) and modification of system files, the modification should probably only be applied by those willing to risk a reflash.

Enable traffic updates in N9 Drive app

Via: @jaffa2

Editor: Ryan Abel

William Su went digging in the Drive QML files and found disabled support for traffic and automatic day/night support. Combined with additional patches to fix bugs in Nokia's implementation of the features, they enable both the fetching and display of traffic data on-map, and the automatic toggling of the map theme for day/night. The patches require some familiarity with the terminal to install, and messing up commands could render your copy of Drive unusable, so those without strong affinity for the commandline should probably steer clear.

New version of Shutdown compatible with N9 PR1.3 now available

Via: @GeneralAntilles

Editor: Ryan Abel

Felipe Crochik has updated his Shutdown utility, which provides a simple way to shutdown or reboot the device, with compatibility for PR1.3. Shutdown is available for free from the Nokia Store.