Symbian

Hey, I used up until last race the nice live-f1 application to see live timings in the linux terminal. But starting with the last race I couldn’t. But today I got great news. The official Formula 1 website just released a mobile version available at mobile.formula1.com and oh joy and happiness they also released...
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This is something useful: code to wake up a machine on lan using python. Since python is available on most devices now (symbian, maeom, windows, linux and so on) it’s pretty usefull. So, if you have machines that you want to be able to start this is the code to do it. I found...
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The current state of browsers available for the Symbian operating system are a proof that there isn’t such thing as a one size fits all. You have the default browser, opera mobile, opera mini, skyfire and some others. I have installed on my e71 nokia phone Opera Mobile 10 beta, Skyfire and of course...
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Before you ask, no, I didn’t gave up my trusted E71. But my wife’s had it with her old 7610 so we upgraded her phone. After some deliberation, and her not liking the design of the e55 and e52 she finally settled for a Nokia 5800. As you know that’s a 5th edition, touchscreen phone. I...
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Keep the backlight on when playing movies in Skyfire on your Symbian Phone I noticed something annoying when watching streaming video in Skyfire on my Nokia E71. The official Youtube app and the built in media player don’t experience this but Skyfire does: the backlight turns off (according to the settings) even if a...
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I gave up finding a nice theme for my E71 long ago. Even accepted the ugly icons. A few weeks ago I found a decent theme with ovi icons and got a bit happier. Today I had time to search a bit some more and I have some of the best Nokia E71 themes...
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Even though I like Gravity a lot, I chose a simpler FREEWARE symbian native application as a client for Twitter – Tweets60: It’s simple, fast, and has access point prioritization built in. It may not be as feature full as Gravity, but it’s free – so you can’t argue there. You can write your...
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Nokia started the Ovi online suite and I saw a bit of light. It works very well, you can send the configuration automatically to your phone and is all nicely integrated. I use Ovi to update my notes, calendar and contacts directly from a web browser. The only problem left was automatisation.
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More and more phones have, these days, a decent text entry method – be it T9, qwerty keyboard or touch screen. Especially if you own a qwerty phone you might be interested in a good, native text editor application. I searched, and DEdit came up. It has a ton of features, but more important...
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Remeber my article in which I was praising Smart Connect for filling the inexplicable gap in the access point configuration on newer E series nokia phones? Well I have a small update. It’s crap. From time to time my phone was unnable to connect to the internet, be it 3g or wi-fi untill I...
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