Applications you wish were ported from other platforms
Please list all those apps from other platforms (Symbian, Palm, iPhone, Java etc.) you can't live without, and you wish were available on your new maemo convergence device.
Please list the product name here, also including the operating system, the developer's site (if you know it), and a brief summary of the functionality.
You should include only already existing apps which are today available for other mainstream pocketable devices, not generic "rants" for some generic fancy functionality, or applications meant for desktop computers. This way, we can keep high the signal-to-noise ratio and maybe select a number of developers we should convince to work on the new maemo platform.
Note: See the community wish-list for more general software requests.
[edit] Closed Source
[edit] Communication
| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| BlackBerry Connect/Messenger | connect to Blackberry services from non-Blackberry devices | Symbian
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| Blacklist | an application which blocks calls and SMSs from all the numbers in a black list. Optionally it should also be able to send custom messages when a blocked number calls or sends an SMS | Symbian
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| Business Card Reader | scans business cards using camera and populates an addressbook entry automatically | Symbian
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| Call Recorder | a call recording application with rules for saving conversations for incoming/outgoing calls from known/unknown numbers. It should be able to record call automatically or manually by pressing a button. Recaller is a possible solution in extras (download page) | Symbian
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| Extend Log | Extend the possibilities of the built-in Log. It also gives you much more possibilities, especially by enabling current cost calculations. Extended Log contains two independent modules: Reports and Billing scheme. | Symbian
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| Gravity | THE Twitter App for S60. Witter or Mauku are possible solutions, in extras. | Symbian
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| Handy Safe Pro | password and others manager, also with PC versions for backup/easy maintenance. Possible solutions are Password Safe in extras and Portabase in extras-testing | Symbian
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| Shake SMS | deals with SMS and Phone Lock using the Accelerometers technology, to make you use the phone in an easier way! | Symbian
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| Skebby | send sms messages at low prices or for free. Possible solutions are Www2sms in extras-testing and Web2SMS in extras-devel | Symbian
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| Sms spammanager | blocks sms without giving a signal of the reciving sms, no notification of a new sms. Criteria for blocking is a phonenumber or a word recognizer (case intensive). The sms are not deleted, they are only moved inside the program, so it may be everytime checked if there is a sms which does not belong there. | Symbian
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| SMS Timer | an application which sends SMSs at a time scheduled earlier | Symbian
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| Teamspeak 3 | communication system | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| TruPhone | send SMS at low price and allow cheap VoIP calls (at better than standard SIP quality | Symbian
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| Viber | Free calls, text and picture sharing | Symbian, iOS, Android, WP, Blackberry, Bada
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| WhatsApp | cross-platform mobile messenger that replaces SMS which uses internet data | iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Symbian
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[edit] Education and Reference
| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| Pleco | Chinese dictionary and tools | iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, Palm
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| Wenlin | Chinese wordprocessor and dictionary | Windows Mobile
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| Watchtower Library | Bible research library (JW publications) | Windows Mobile
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| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| N Game | Be warned, N is a highly addictive, sometimes very frustrating game | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Spheres of Chaos | insane asteroids clone | Linux, Windows
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| LiquidWar6 | replacement of LiquidWar5 in maemo | Desktop PC
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| Aquaria | Open-Sourced cross-platform 2D underwater Adventure | iOS, PSP, OpenGL
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| Stick Cricket | Chart-topping… Award-winning… GDP-reducing… Need we say more? Stick Cricket, the world's most popular cricket game | iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android
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[edit] Multimedia
| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| TTPod Musicplayer | Java-based musicplayer for symbian with many posibilitys. | Symbian
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| Amazon MP3 mobile | App to buy and manage mp3 downloads from Amazon MP3 store | iPhone, Android
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| Audials mobile | searches for author or genre, leeches MP3 files from online social radios | Symbian
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| Audiosurf | a music-adapting puzzle racer where one uses their own music collection to create their own experience. The shape, speed, and mood of each race is determined by the chosen song | Windows
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| Coreplayer | Multimedia playback | Symbian, Symbian UIQ, Windows Mobile, Palm, WinCE
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| Gforce | open source version of GForce visualization plugin. Only old libvisual plugin available. Portability unknown | Linux
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| libvisual | portable visualization abstraction layer for *NIX. Portable to ARMEL. May not support PA | Linux
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| Midomi | audio recognition software akin to Shazam ID but can also recognise from humming/singing | Symbian, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android
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| projectM | port of Winamp Milkdrop, uses OpenGL. Portable to ARMEL | Linux
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| Spotify client | Client for streaming music from Spotify service. (Qtify is available from Extras-devel repo) | Android, iPhone, Symbian
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| Shazam ID | listens to music and recognizes author and title | Symbian, Iphone, Blackberry, Android
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[edit] Location Aware
| Applications | Description | Current platforms
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| AroundMe | Based on your location, shows shops, services, facilities etc. Can even search for a specific item and will show you the ones closest to you. Also integrates with maps/GPS for directions to get there. A partial solution is Casual Services in extras | iPhone
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| BuddyCloud | enables users to broadcast their personality and their location to friends and find location specific information | Symbian
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| CoPilot | GPS navigation system. A solution is Sygic Mobile Maps: 1-week free demo version of application and maps is available on Ovi Store, full version can be purchased from company website. | Symbian, iPhone, Android
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| Garmin | GPS navigation system. A solution is Sygic Mobile Maps: 1-week free demo version of application and maps is available on Ovi Store, full version can be purchased from company website. | Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry
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| GeoLives | Topographic mapping and offroad navigation GPS | Symbian, Windows Mobile
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| Google maps for mobile | maps application with points-of-interest taken from the Google search engine | Symbian, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, WebOS, Java MIDP, Windows Mobile
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| Locale | Location based profile settings for phone (specific locations trigger events for ringtone, volume, brightness, GPS/Wifi/Blutooth to be on off) | Android
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| OVI Maps | GPS navigation system (exists but with reduced feature set) | Symbian
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| Route66 Maps | GPS door-to-door navigation. A solution is Sygic Mobile Maps: 1-week free demo version of application and maps is available on Ovi Store, full version can be purchased from company website. | Symbian, Windows Mobile
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| TomTom Navigator | GPS door-to-door navigation with accurate maps and spoken instructions. A solution is Sygic Mobile Maps: 1-week free demo version of application and maps is available on Ovi Store, full version can be purchased from company website. | Symbian, Windows Mobile, iPhone
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| Trapster | Speed camera tracking and warning | Symbian, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Android, WebOS
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| ViewRanger | Topographic mapping and offroad navigation GPS | Symbian
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| Waze | crowd sourced mapping & traffic alerts, navigation and location based pac-man like game | Symbian, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Android
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| WorldMate | Travel information | Symbian, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile
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[edit] Sports/Exercise
| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| iGolf Scorer | An application dedicated to Golfers | Symbian
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| RunKeeper | tracks running through GPS. A possible solution is eCoach in extras. | iPhone
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| SportsTracker | GPS based activity tracker. A possible solution is eCoach in extras. | Symbian
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| StepCounter | Counts your steps, determines the distance you have covered and your energy expenditure, records data. | Symbian
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| Wellness Diary | Monitor and track a ranger of health related parameters | Symbian
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| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| ABBYY Lingvo Mobile | multilingual translation dictionary for mobile devices | Symbian, Windows Mobile
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| Aka Aki | a social mobile network using bluetooth | iPhone
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| Amazon Mobile | ebook reader for Amazon books | iPhone
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| Automatic profile switcher | the profile, theme, wallpaper, audio and all user customizable content can be set automatically based on user location(gps/GSM cell id), time, calendar entry, etc. | Symbian
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| Birthday Reminder | an application that helps organizing and viewing birthdays and anniversaries in a handy way: monthly view of anniversaries found in Contacts applications. It also puts an appointment in the native calendar and sends greeting automaticaly(if user wishes so) | Symbian
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| Device Lock | Mobile security - restrict access to apps, secure data storage, remotely lock/wipe data | Symbian
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| Epocrates | medical drug reference | WebOS, Windows Mobile, iPhone, BlackBerry
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| Expense Tracker | an application to track day-to-day expenses. It should also give nice reports of all the expenses | Symbian
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| Getting Things Done | like ominfocus - with sync capabilities (at least with) the N900 calendar application | iPhone, Mac OS X
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| Lingvosoft PhraseBook Arabic-English | multilingual translation Pharasebooks and Dictionaries. an excellent keep for travelers | Blackberry, Windows Mobile
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| Mode Switch | changes active standby (shortcuts not necessary!), themes and maybe also display light brightness, gsm alerting profile, im status and so on | Symbian
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| Mobile Web Server | makes your device accessible on the Internet. You can access phone features and data via a browser and share your life through a personalized mobsite | Symbian
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| Panoman (dead link) | Make and view panorama images with phone. Company bought by Nokia. A possible solution si Morpho QuickPanorama: both free trial and paid Pro version are available on Ovi Store. | Symbian
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| Pulse News | news reading application that changes your favorite websites into an attractive mosaic of info. | Android, iPhone
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| REV | reads information straight from the OBD-II port on your car and displays it on your iPhone. Rev can display things like vehicle speed, RPM, fuel consumption, calculated engine load, and a host of other parameters. You'll even be able to check and reset engine and error codes. | iPhone
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| StockWatch | financial app to monitor a list of user defined stocks and portfolio's and all financial graphs and data associated with the said stocks. StockThis in extras is a possible solution | iPhone
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| T9 Nav | find anything on mobile device instantly | Symbian
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| Vlingo | control mobile phone by voice | Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, iPhone
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| WaveSecure | allows remote backup, tracking and locking of a stolen phone | Symbian
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| Stanza | ebook reader able toread many ebook format. A possible solution is FBReader in extras | iPhone
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| SPB shell | mobileshell | Windows Mobile (touchscreens),Symbian
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| SPB weather | weather forecast |
Windows Mobile (touchscreens),Symbian
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| Unity3D | a plugin for displaying 3d content |
Windows / MacOS
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| Agendus | a real usable calendar application |
PalmOS, iOS
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| Pimlical | a real usable calendar application with SyncML or Activesync |
PalmOS, Android
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[edit] Open Source
Insert here, instead, those free and open-source application you wish on your maemo 5 device. Being non commercial software, with source available, they might be more straightforward to port, needing only (!) good-will, time and energy.
[edit] Office
| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| BasKet Note Pads | A powerful Outliner with which you can organize all your notes easily. | Linux
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| GIMP | GNU image manipulation program. Preinstalled within Easy Debian in extras. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Inkscape | scalable vector graphics editor. It can be installed within Easy Debian in extras. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Lyx | excellent word processor, well suited to use with a small screen. Uses Qt toolkit, so should be a straightforward port. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Openoffice.org | open-source, free office suite. Already available for armel architecture in Debian. Preinstalled within Easy Debian in extras. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Siag Office | tightly integrated, free office package | Linux
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[edit] Communication
| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| Cabbage | Send free txts via SMS. Irish only and Java, so unsure if it should be here, but a more sophisticated version would be nice. WebTexter is based on Cabbage | Java
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| mcleaner | SMS and phone call blacklisting | Symbian, iPhone
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| TextSecure | Send and recieve encrypted SMS messages via OTR | Android
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| microblog-purple | microblogging support for libpurble clients, for example Pidgin | Linux, Windows
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| Telegram Messenger | Cross-platform community driven instant-messenger. A libpurple based plugin is available. A ported version of the Android client would be heavily appreciated | Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Firefox OS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
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| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| Angband | Nethack-like | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Armegatron advanced | a tron clone in 3D | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Bub's Brothers | Bubble Bobble clone | Linux
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| Eboard | Chess board interface to ICS (Internet Chess Servers) like FICS and to chess engines like GNU Chess, Sjeng and Crafty | Linux, Diablo
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| Exult Game engine | An engine for Ultima 7 BlackGate and SerpentIsle, also available for symbian from anotherguest.se | Linux, Windows, Symbian
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| FreeCNC / FreeRA | Free and open source engines for Command and Conquer and Red Alert. OpenRedAlert is a fork of FreeRA and a preliminary (rather unstable) version for N900 is available. Installation instructions here. Note: the original Red Alert has been released as freeware in 2008, so it is legal to use the original game files. | Linux, Windows
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| FlightGear | Free open source flight simulator | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, sgi, FreeBSD
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| FreeSynd | A critically-acclaimed RPG with online play | Linux, Windows
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| Frets on Fire | Free open source variant on Guitar Hero | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Hedgewars | Worms clone. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Neverball | Similar game to Bounce, excellent graphics and very nice levels. IN PROGRESS | Linux
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| Quake 1 | http://koti.mbnet.fi/hinkka/Download.html - not fully open source but ported on as many platforms as it gets. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Symbian
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| Rocks 'n' diamonds | Boulderdash clone | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Scid | Chess database application | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Wargus / Stratagus | Wargus is a Warcraft2 Mod that allows you to play Warcraft2 (original DOS version required) with the Stratagus engine, also available for symbian from anotherguest.se. IN PROGRESS, in extras-devel | Linux, Windows, Symbian
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| Application | Description | Current platforms
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| Aeskulap | radiology viewer (or any other that works, for that matter) | Linux, Windows
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| Alexandria | Book collection manager | Linux
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| Blender | 3D modelling | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| dooble | web browser | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows (and any ARMEL platform, including N900 and untested iPhone)
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| Freemind | Mind-mapping application | Java
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| GCStar | collection management | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Gourmet recipe manager | recipe manager. Pyrecipe is a good alternative | Linux, Windows
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| hpcalc | HP Calculator (HP-11c Scientific, HP-15c Scientific, HP-12c Financial, HP-16c Programmer) Emulator | Iphone
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| Hour Power | speaks the current time (see Ovi). An alternative: eSpeaktime | Symbian
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| Hugin | Panorama photo stitcher, With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. Check the Panorama application, available in the Ovi Store | Linux
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| Java | virtual machine for running Java applications. IcedTea6 version of the OpenJDK is available in extras. | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, others
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| J2ME | virtual machine for running 'mobile' (actually micro) edition Java applications. MicroEmulator is available in extras-testing. |
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| Musicbrainz Picard | MP3 tagger | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| PulseAudio Equalizer | provides system-wide equalizer via PA | Linux
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| PuppyBasic | BASIC programming language | Linux
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| Pyjamas | write your own AJAX framework | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Quantum GIS | geographic information system | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| Remuco-Client | duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile phones equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi | Java
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| Shuffle | Android GTD application, similar to OmniFocus | Android
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| Task Coach | task management | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone
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| Tellico | Collection manager, books, videos, etc. | Linux
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| TrueCrypt | Cross platform Disk Encryption, allows encrypted containers or partitions. Command-line port exists, GUI port wanted | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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| x48 | HP 48 calculator emulator | Linux
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| xoscope | digital oscilloscope | Linux
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| Petittrack | A great free/OSS satellite prediction and sky tracking application using NASA TLE elements, designed for handhelds. used mostly for portable amateur radio satellite communications | Trolltech Linux, Sharp Zaurus QTopia
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