Archive for December 19th, 2007

You can now get the newest OS for your Nokia N800.   I just finished updating mine and I feel as though I have a brand new toy.  The only thing I dread is reinstalling all my applications.  Hopefully most if not all of them are still compatible with the new OS.  To get the latest update head over to this link.  The download is really large (134mb) and I timed out on my first attempt.  I tried a few more times with no luck.  I then came across Random Weirdness via Maemo.org.  The site belongs to a blogger who has graciously volunteered his bandwidth to host the file download.  Thanks!  Usually my updates are painless, but I was in a rush and didn’t pay close attention to what I was doing.  So that you don’t repeat my errors I have listed the correct  steps to take:

1.  Go to Nokia and download the update wizard. 

2.  Uninstall your current update wizard.

3.  Install the new update wizard.

4.  Install the new update per the wizard’s instructions.  It won’t do an automatic update.  I had to do a manual install by pointing to the bin file I downloaded.

I don’t know the differences or changes made yet.  I will report back later. 

On other fronts, I had really hoped to have the next installment on the Kindle written up and posted by now.  It’s still not done yet, but hopefully it will be up by the weekend.