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

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