New Share Online. No love for FP1.

14 11 2008

BetaLabs has dropped a new Share Online Beta 4.0 – the catch? No love for ANY FP1 devices. Claims to only be functional on FP2 devices. FriendView also gets an update thanks to the built-in checking abilities. It will automatically ask you to install 83.3 however there are no noticeable changes that I can see. I wish the off-screen arrows would be a bit easier to reach.

Still waiting for DHL to drop by with my N82. I’ll have some pictures of it when I get it – even though it’s been handled by pretty much everybody, I haven’t really used it.

Until then!





Reviews and Junk

8 11 2008

I got a couple cases for the E71 recently, so I’ll post up a few shots and thoughts about them sometime this week. I have a Krussell zippered case which I cut up, a white silicone and a black hard soft touch case. I don’t use any of them. I like the feel of the E71 with the invisibleSHIELD.

Here’s a link to read my report on the S60 blog site. Dubbed the best report. Ever. Yeee.

S60 Living

I also plan to change the template for the site so there will some downtime in the next coming days/weeks/months/whatever while it’s designed.





S60 Report of the Week

7 11 2008

I won S60 Report of the Week. Quite a surprise to me. I knew I was doing good with my reports but not this good! Main reason I started up this blog was to report of S60 and Nokia doings. On one of my recent S60 Ambassador reports I got some feedback directly from the S60 team that warmed my heart…or it might have been the hot chocolate and Bailey’s I was drinking. Either way, it went a little something like this;

“Hahaha great report once again – true comedian. I hope you write your own blog or something, the writing style is excellent.”

And here I am with my own blog of some sorts. So, I’m completely stoked to try out the old-but-new-to-me N82. It was a choice between an E71 or N82. I certainly would have liked one of their new flagship devices (N96 or N85 anybody?) but this is still beyond neat.

I will post when my loaner arrives and we’ll see what happens next. I’m on the rise. For the time being, if there are any readers (if I indeed have readers) that would like anything, a software review or the likes – drop me a line; simon@series60.ca and you can be hooked up. I am also giving out free series60.ca email addresses. Check if you qualify!

Out.





Randomize Your Ringtones

6 11 2008

A request on HoFo for an application to play random ringtones from a selected library was posted. I busted out some google-fu and turned on FreeTones which is a freeware application that does just that. I wasn’t able to find the developers homepage so I have attached it here. I ran through a quick once over of the application and it works perfectly. Once started up, you are greeted with the Settings menu;

You will first need to enable it and if you so choose, enable auto-boot so it starts up when your device starts up.

You then move onto the Call Settings where you can set the application to play randomly. FreeTones can also play random tones for an incoming SMS. I didn’t bother with this part as I like to keep a short discreet tone.

Tones are easily added by selecting them and pushing “Add” to the library, so you can select from a set of specific tones to play. Upon the first call, you regular ringtone will be used – after that Freetones will kick it and play a random tone as it is supposed to do. It takes up very little memory, so no worries about slowing down your device running this.

Again, since I was unable to find the homepage I have uploaded the newest version to Mosh.





Scheduled Sync to Ovi / SyncML

6 11 2008

If you’ve ever used an SyncML service such as Mobical or the recently opened Sync on Ovi service,  you’ll know that it’s a manual task to sync as there is no way to set a time or schedule for it to be completed. Thanks to the fine folks running behind the Bergamot Project (http://code.google.com/p/bergamot/) it is now possible.

Recently added is an application called Swim as allows you to set a timer for syncing to the servers stored in the Sync settings. This is a nice addition and hopefully it works as advertised. There seems to always be something left out by Nokia – but thanks to the great S60 platform it can be rectified by the community.





First Review

6 11 2008

First review for me is a weather app called Foreca Weather. Not new or newly released but one of the first applications that I load onto my S60v3 devices.

After opening ForecaWeather it will fetch a newly updated forecast;

The only way to stop it from automatically updating is by hitting Cancel or if it is within the un-expired time to refresh from Settings. Once it has the updated information you are presented with a screen showing you the current conditions;

By moving left or right on the d-pad you can move to a Short Forecast;

and a Long Forecast with less detailed information;

The main feature that I use ForecaWeather for is the ability to insert a memo into the calender that will show up on the Active Standby screen!

It also has the ability to display animated weather radar, cloud movement, heat spots and other fun to watch pictures however they will increase the amount of information downloaded each time.. With just weather for a single location, the amount of data transferred is claimed to be 1kb as seen in the first picture. This is very conservative for those not on an unlimited data plan and it also stores a full 2 week forecast.

The newest release is GPS aware and will download forecasts based on your location. ForecaWeather costs a one time $19.95 fee for a single license. No monthly charges whatsoever.





Series 60 Canada

6 11 2008

This is the temporary page for my blog. Mostly Nokia and S60 stuff. I’ll setup a server somewhere my basement to run it later on.