Today, when I looked at my N900, I noted that it had little yellow square next to the battery indicator. It turns out that the Recorder application had an update. I ran the update and then tested the Recorder application again.

One very nice feature is that if you make a phone call in Speaker mode, you can record the whole discussion with the Recorder. I tried this on a call with Kim just to test things out, and then later on a phone call discussing a financial issue.

I wanted to find the version that I was running and found this nice little command: “apt-cache madison package”, in this case I entered Recorder as the package name and found that I was running version 3.3. While I was playing around with apt, I figured I should do an apt-get update to get the last list of applications and then apt-get upgrade to install them. However, when I installed them, there was a message about two programs being kept back.

apt-get upgrade only upgrades currently installed packages. If a package has new dependencies, they will be held back until you do an apt-get dist-upgrade. In this case, my version of Python was being held back because it needed new packages. I ran apt-get dist-upgrade and it upgraded Python. What is even more important to me is that it moved much of Python out of the root file system into an /opt directory.

This freed up enough space in the root file system so that I could install python2.5-qt4. Even better, python2.5-qt4 installed in the new opt area so I still have lots of room to play.

Another thing that I’ve played with is running Pandora from the N900. It works very nicely, except it seems to take up so much of the resources that things get messy if a phone call or a text message.

I’ve also played with the mbarcode application. Until today, the I’ve only used it for tests, primarily on images that I’ve generated. However, today, I stumbled across an interesting website. Toozla is an interesting application for mobile devices that provides audio information based on geographical location. To download Toozla, you can go to m.toozla.com, or you can scan a QR Code. I scanned the QR code and downloaded the application.

Unfortunately, it is a Java based application and I could not get it to successfully install and run. I’ll leave that for another day.

The final application that I’ve played with for this go around is the PDF reader. The default font on the N900 is pretty small for my aging eyes. However, if I create a PDF document that only has text in the left hand side of the document, and I zoom in all the way, the N900 becomes a pretty nice teleprompter. I just may use that this evening.

Anyone else doing anything interesting with the N900?