Maemo5 101

Here will be short introduction to Maemo5 and how it functions.

Video walkthroughs

Here are some short walkthrougs from youtube.

• First boot-up and putting settings to shape

• Calendar Application
• Installing Community Applications
• Contacts Application
• Conference Calling
• Conversations Application
• Games on N900
• HTML Email reading
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Locking N900 with Touchscreen
• Making calls
• Messaging Applications (Email,SMS, IM)
• Media and Camera Applications
• Phone Application
• Settings
• Sharing Images Online
• Taking shortcuts
• Tethering to OSX Mac
• Web Browsing
• Wireless updating of your N900

Tips and tricks

If you want to customize your N900 look and feel go to the Customizing Maemo page

Nokiaexperts.com has made excellent instructions, that can be found from their N900 user guide.

Here's some citations:

Notification light colors
The notification light found on the front of the N900 (upper left corner) changes colors to indicate different states. As stated in the User Guide:
Blue is for application triggered notifications (received text, IM, or email)
Orange is for battery charging
Green is for battery full

Keyboard shortcuts:general
Ctrl + Backspace: From within an application this will take you back out to the visual task manager. (Thanks to Chanse for that one.)
Ctrl + C: Copy text
Ctrl + V: Paste text
Ctrl + X: Cut text
Ctrl + A: Select all
Ctrl + O: Open (if available)
Ctrl + N: Create a new item (if available)
Ctrl + S: Save (if available)
Ctrl + Z: Undo (if available)
Ctrl + Y: Redo (if available)
Ctrl + F: Open search bar (if available)
Ctrl + Right arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the word
Ctrl + Left arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the word