Applicatons

I had decided that I would re-flash my N800 today. Mainly because it felt cluttered with things that I don’t use. I know I could remove things but I am a hoarder by nature and wouldn’t remove things if I felt i might use them again once. Re-flashing forced me to only make the effort to re-install things I knew I would make use of.

The final list was:

Media Players

• ukmp (cool interface and random play all)
• mediacenter (does everything else better than ukmp)
• Quiver (great viewer and being able to see the exif data is cool)
• FMRadio (well you have to don’t you)
• mplayer (plays any video file you can throw at it)

Games

• maemosweeper (kills a few minutes at bed time when I can’t face mahjong)
• penguinpop (ditto)

Applications

• FBReader (for reading everything else)
• Gnumeric (timesheets)
• notecase (every note I don’t want any one else to read)
• WordPy (blogging and Flickr uploads)
• Modest (it’s better than the built in app and fits neater than claws mail even if it’s still buggy)

Utilites

• load-applet (cpu, memory and screen shots all in one place)
• usbcontrol (great when someone throws you a USB key with some stuff on if you have the cable with you that is and a gender changer)
• grsnyc (backup to linkstation)
• rsync (powers the above)
• openssh-client (ditto)
• Camera (the twirly camera on the n800 makes this really useful for odd pics of something other than my ugly mug)

The notable exceptions here are the GPE utilities. I would have kept them if I had been un-installing things but when asking the question “Do I really use it?” the answer was no so I didn’t re-install. I am not sure if any one really cares but I like lists like this sometimes as it gives me ideas about other apps to look at.