Telescope, Ilya Skriblovsky and Dmitriy Chirva's application to provide Maemo 5/Expose-style task switching on Maemo 4 is now available in Extras. Its package page describes it as a graphical task switcher with live windows previews like in Maemo 5. Fast and lightweight. Once installed, simply press the Home key to show the "dashboard".
The latest version of your editor's Hermes application, which collects photos; birthdays; homepages and - now - phone numbers from social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Gravatar is now in Extras-testing. The main update, apart from numerous bug fixes, is the wider release of the feature that will add phone numbers, URLs and birthdays from LinkedIn. The latest version is now in Extras-testing, for those willing to test it against the QA criteria. Unfortunately, unlike Plaxo and LinkedIn, Facebook do not expose phone number information in their public API; so until that changes (or someone at Facebook allows Hermes to see additional information), it won't be able to get phone numbers from Facebook.
A number of people are trying to reach a pinnacle of N900 game console emulation. The latest attempt seems reasonably successful (if you can get around the fact that the N900 keyboard isn't designed for ergonomic gameplay). "Titanas"' video is a demo of Nintendo 64 F-Zero X emulated at fullspeed on a Nokia N900. Frame rate can be up to 60fps! There's no indication if the N900 has been overclocked, but it's an impressive video either way.
Michael Muth's remote control for the DreamBox (a Linux based set-top-box) is now available with AzBox support: Compatible with all DreamBox Receiver based on (Enigma1 or Enigma2), Kathrein (UFS910) and AZBox (HD Elite, Premium HD and HD+) Required: Installed and running Webinterface plugin and a connection to your receiver via your local W-Lan Network. The latest version is now in Extras-testing, so those with a DreamBox willing to test and vote according to the QA criteria are encouraged to do so.