App: Camkeyd for Nokia N900 – Shortcut to Dashboard Using Camera Button
Camkeyd is nifty tool developed by Heikki Holstila that lets Nokia N900 users access the dashboard quickly by half-pressing the camera button. It is disabled when the lens cover is open so it doesn’t mess with camera functionality. Read on for the video demo.
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Camkeyd is useful with fullscreen apps like the web browser on the Nokia N900. Without this tool, the usual way to see current open apps from fullscreen is by clicking expand on the lower right corner and then the dashboard icon on the top left. Camkeyd makes it even quicker with just one click. If you already have the keyboard open, pressing Ctl+Backspace provides the same result without installing any other apps.
Camkeyd is currently available in the Extras Development repository. Read the Maemo Extras guide to find out how to download apps from this repo. Make sure not to skip the information about the risks involved by installing apps from there.
N900 User on 2 January 2010:
What is the Google shortcut bar you are using?
Name? Where?
Jade Bryan Jardinico on 2 January 2010:
now another n900 killer feature…PS3 controller was pawned then whats next? universal remote control.N900 is really a beast
Viipottaja on 2 January 2010:
N900 user,
I gather you mean TouchSearch widget? It's very useful, and you can choose which search you want to use (i.e. not just google, but also e.g. Amazon, WikiPedia etc.).
Anonymous on 4 January 2010:
Ctrl backspace also does this.
hopbeat on 4 January 2010:
This functionality is now moved to another applications, shortcutd: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=451607#p...
Be sure to check this out
gotys on 4 January 2010:
Chyba: při této aplikation zahájena, nespustí automatické Telefon aplikacion, při otáčení ve svislé poloze.
mtran66 on 5 January 2010:
i use this a lot
erfizyo on 6 January 2010:
yeah quick access and easy way for out from running aplication..
asjo on 8 January 2010:
Thanks for the pointer, camkeyd is really useful!
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Chyba: při této aplikation zahájena, nespustí automatické Telefon aplikacion, při otáčení ve svislé poloze.
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Alpha42 on 1 April 2010:
Chyba: při této aplikation zahájena, nespustí automatické Telefon aplikacion, při otáčení ve svislé poloze.
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