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This week, the developers at Pico Brothers reached the impressive milestone of 20 million downloads in Ovi Store. Led by Niklas Karlström, Kristian Engsjö and their dog Viggo, Pico Brothers have created more than 65 apps that are available in Nokia’s Ovi Store, from entertainment and utilities to sports. We’ve been excited to see their [...]
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A tweet came across my screen last week which immediately raised my curiosity. It was a father tweeting about his day home with his sick son who spent the day together designing and developing his very own Qt Quick app, the DoodleDrive game. I immediately picked up the phone to talk to this guy to [...]
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With the release of Qt Creator 2.1, we have now passed the official milestone needed to mark the official release of Qt Quick! Qt Quick (Qt UI Creation Kit) introduces exciting new functionality into Qt that lets developers and UI designers work together to rapidly create beautiful, fluid UIs and applications for any Qt platform, [...]
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The WeTab MeeGo Tablet Using Qt It’s true. There are MeeGo devices being commercially distributed and they are built on Qt. The guys at WeTab GmbH have been shipping their MeeGo tablet, WeTab, since the third quarter of 2010. They also recently released an SDK , so all of you Qt enthusiasts can publish Qt-based [...]
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We are continuing our Qt at MWC series. In light of last Friday’s announcements we also continue to search for answers that our community is asking. We are not done communicating on that front, however we want to also show what we are doing at Mobile World Congress. What is NFC? For those that don’t [...]
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As we continue our showcase around Qt-related technologies being demonstrated at Mobile World Congress (hall 1, booth 1E44), we come to one of our favorites: The Chicken Wrangler! First, the concept behind the demo/game: We wanted to explore creating an app that was capable of running on different devices, such as handsets and netbooks yet [...]
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OK. Personal bias alert. I am a snowboarder. I flirted with skiing for a bit last year but this winter I am back on the board and in love with it all over again. This story came across my inbox and I couldn’t resist. Nokia and snowboarding giant Burton have been collaborating on a project [...]
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Late last year, qt-apps.org announced a competition challenging people to port their existing free software Qt apps to Symbian and MeeGo. There was a prize of 10,000 Euros for the best app submitted to the Ovi store, and entries that were submitted before December 31 were eligible for one of five early bird prizes.
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I recently came across an article reporting the rebirth of the Qt port for Firefox 4. When the journalist wrote about rebirth they were referring to work that some bloggers at Tech Freaks 4 You reported two years ago, but it rattled loose an old memory I had from when I first joined Trolltech (way [...]
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Since Qt is cross platform, targeting several platforms with your application should be fairly easy. However, from a practical perspective it can be fairly inconvenient if you want to distribute installable packages for multiple Linux distributions like Debian, Fedora and openSUSE. It can be quite time consuming to maintain distro-specific packages for five or six [...]
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Great news for music loving Nokia owners in the US and Canada emerged yesterday at CES. Slacker, Inc, announced yesterday that their much loved Slacker Radio web radio service is coming to new Symbian devices like the Nokia N8 via a free, Qt-based application. Slacker is a hugely popular service that has a music catalogue [...]
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The tech world’s spotlight has turned to the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and Qt with MeeGo devices is here with our broadest ever presence of shipping and upcoming products. There are 2700 tech companies showing products at CES this year, and an incredible 20,000 (!) new products being introduced across 15 categories. CES is [...]
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Just a few hundred kilometres from our Oslo office in the Swedish city of Hagfors sits one of the foremost independent sources of Qt consulting and mentoring, training and add-on products – KDAB. KDAB is a Qt Certified Partner and they’re a nice bunch of guys and girls too. Recently, KDAB and its partners Intevation [...]
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