N900 Videos

Blogger Chris Stobbs took a series of videos of the N900 meetup held in London on Tuesday 17 November 2009.

The third of his videos shows Gary Birkett (who is lcuk on maemo.org) demonstrating his liqbase software which he originally wrote for the N810 but has updated for the N900.

Gary’s liqbase software is remarkable in many ways. He calls it a “playground” and that’s what it is. It’s an easy interface to an eclectic mix of applications. What all of the applications have in common is that they are fast and fluid. Navigation is rapid, by panning and zooming. It really flows well and looks great!

There’s a stylus-driven handwriting note-taker that lets you flick back into its history, and you can merge your notes with photos taken on the device. Switch to the calendar and you can write your appointments over single days or scrawled over a multi-day chunk of the calendar. Switch apps and you can be panning and zooming a London Tube map just as fluently as you were zooming your handwritten notes. You can zoom right out until you see multiple “cards” on the screen, each full of notes and photos.

The audio on this video is very quiet, and it’s hard to make out what Gary is saying, but it doesn’t matter too much because the software shows itself off very well.

We also see the visualization software which Gary showed off at the onedotzero conference. It combines movements of the device (shake and touch) with messages. The movement is the message, as Marshall McLuhan might have said!