We’ve received a couple of e-mails asking how to add shortcuts on the Nokia N8 homescreen. And here we got a very brief and simple tutorial on how to do this. I think you can add as many as you want. Check this screenshot of the shortcuts:

The first thing you have to do is to add the shortcut widget. To do this you have to:

• Click on your N8′s homescreen continuously until you see the “Edit Homescreen” pop up;
• After this you have to press “+” in one of the slots and this way it may open the widget catalogue;
• You have now to add a widget with the name “Shortcuts”.

After this, you have to know how to add games app, browser, wathever you want on your mainscreen. Thus you have to follow this:

• Click on your N8′s homescreen continuously until you see the “Edit Homescreen” pop up;
• Click on the shortcut widget that you added;
• Select “Settings”;
• Select a shortcut that you want to change and choose “application” as your shortcut type.

Of course, instead of clicking on your Nokia N8 homescreen continuously to get the “Edit Homescreen” you can follow what’s below:

go to: Options > Edit home screen > Options again > Widget catalog

How to delete homescreen shortcuts?

after going to: Options > Edit home screen. Just tap the undesired shortcut once and you will see a “remove” message that appears. Click and then you remove that shortcut.

How to Rearrange Homescren shortcuts?

After going to: Options > Edit home screen. Now you just have to drag the shortcuts to the desired place and then drop.

Hope this helps making your life easier with the Nokia N8. Still having problems? Comment below or ask the people on the Nokia N8 Forum.

The top sixteenth being revealed this week, its time to end our journey with the last 4 applications of this week and year.

Converter touch is seventeenth on my list.

According to all the other off-screen technologies, this is short, sweet and to the point. It’s the all-purpose units converter hence the name, with a awesome large buttons for entering numbers. If you only look up units once a week, grab this, to make your life easier!

Eighteenth place is for Timer touch.

Simialr to Converter Touch, this application lets you count the lap time and of course, the amount of laps.

Nineteenth place is for the famous sports tracker.

After being closed on the 30th June,2010. Sports Tracker was transformed from a beta version to a more permanent version that allows me to see who is working out now and their info.

This GPS-logging utility is now back firmly in the hands of its masters and tied to a superb online portal for uploading your runs, walks and cycle rides. Buy a heart monitor and some of your online friends can encourage you when you slacking.

The last application game, meaning the twentieth application is Real Golf 2011 HD.

This is a HD 2011 game of Golf. The reason that the game came last is that it hasn’t been perfected and the graphics aren’t really HD. It’s also appearing licensed in SOME N8′s.

Thats the end of our journey, I shall post all of the links on the 10th of January 2011. Until then, Sayanora.

The top 12 have been revealed but the other 8 apps are still left. Who shall be the last 8? Who shall be the twentieth application meaning the worst? Lets find out.

Trill qualifies for thirteenth place.

It doesn’t have a popular name but this list isn’t about the names but rather the performance of them.

It’s a fully-functional Twitter client and a whole step further developing a more friendly applicaton than using the Twitter mobile web site each day or gravity. It isn’t in the same league as Gravity but yet again, this is free. It does have a few similarities to Gravity so it shouldn’t be a problem operating it. There’s sideways swiping to switch columns but the downside is that it may be a bit unresponsive and a generally attractive interface.

Fourteenth place is reserved for the one and only SWYPE!

Yes, it has broken a world record with the fastest typing against normal everyday typing! The reason why it cam fourteenth is because it still is new and hasn’t quite proven itself to be in the top 10 list.

Have a look at a video of Swype:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMoG4hgy3lA

Swype does replace the everyday N8 keyboard with a much fun and exercising application.

For fifteenth place, X-Plore!

Something that all hacks need but they also provide their own. Its easier if you use X-plore than your default File manager.

X-plore is still the current file manager of choice on Symbian and it shall remain until a competitor passes by. It has helped me with my personal N95 with a hack to bypass the certificate checks. Being shareware, it only has the 3-second nag screen and there’s no time limit to your trial, so it just squeezes in here.

Nokia Panorama qualifies for sixteenth place.

Sometimes I found that the photos I had to take, the location was too big, so when I met Nokia Panorama, it solved everything.

This wonderful application stitches  2 images taken, this hasn’t been built in to the 12MP N8 camera. Have a look at the picture.

The rest 4 shall be revealed in  exactly 2 hours time.

Yes, no contest, no nothing. You just have to subscribe our Nokia N8 newsletter and you will automatically receive the link to download the Cube Theme for Free, that is valued 3USD and it’s powered the cool folks from MMMOOO, to whom we thank a lot.

The process to get it is very simple:

1. Subscribe to the newsletter;
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3. You will receive a second e-mail with the magic link to download the Nokia N8 Cube theme for free;
4. Sign in to the MMMOOO website and download it for FREE. With no costs.

The installation process is very simple: Just download the .sis file to your PC and install it with the Nokia PC Suite or copy directly to your phone and install via the File Manager. Once the Nokia N8 theme is installed, the file is visible in Themes. Then go to Settings – Themes – Power saver – Animation. Sometimes, to make the settings active, you shall reboot the N8.

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You’ve heard it, estimates tell that Nokia Sold 4 million N8 devices. Do you remember when the Nokia N8 pre-orders started? Nokia announced that the Nokia N8 had received the highest amount of pre-orders in it’s history, but we had no idea of the numbers. Well, of course they would have more Nokia 3310 pre-orders if it was 8 years ago (lol) but despite knowing that online pre-ordering is a relatively new thing, it’s a really nice number comparing with sales from other devices competing with the Nokia N8.

The number “4 millionunits shipped” since October comes from Inderes Oy, a Finland-based research company, referring that the number of Nokia N8′s that have been sold is between 3.5 and 4 million units.

It’s a nice number, but iPhone 4 got 14 million orders in the third quarter of 2010 and probably it is less than the number of Samsung Galaxy S units sold this same quarter. Also, let me tell you that we have no clue of what will appear on Nokia after the Nokia N9…ok…will the Nokia N9 exist? But after that Nokia seems to have no plans and a new iphone will come, more Android phones. Will Nokia be able to face it’s competitors?