Tried to install Irreco / Qtirreco for the N900 a couple of times in the past few days. I was aiming for the ultimate cool factor – being able to trigger my Canon 450d with the N900. That would have been amazing. Note the tense in the previous sentence. It did not work.

For some reason, the only thing I could trigger was the power switch on my Philips TV. Even that was erratic. For the Canon, no luck at all. There is also an interesting app called simply shutter, which seems to be designed for Nikon DSLRs. The author has promised to make a more flexible version. Hope that happens! Still the fact that such apps are possible makes this the ultimate phone / computer.

In other news, Nokia released the alpha version of Freoffice, a KOffice based viewer for documents (compatible with MS Office and ODF). This is brilliant. Now it will be perfectly possible to make presentations with the phone and a TV Out cable. If they could just find a way of avoiding that wire! Perhaps a DLNA server that does a screencast? The possibilities seem endless.