7 posts tagged “not only nokia”

Yesterday I started to use LastFM for the first time, before yesterday I didn't really see the use for this community, but now I'm more or less fired up! I have read a great deal about LastFM in the other Nokia Blog's and been thinking that I maybe should give it a try, and also the fact that it seems that a lot of my new friends use it.

How do you use it then, well first of all you need to to go to LastFM and create your own profile there. After that you download the LastFM software so you can start scrobbling. I use on my N95 Mobbler that does the trick for music you listen to on your device.
After you have all this installed it´s just to scrobble away. And you can get your recently listen music up as listings at the common community's like, Facebook, Myspace, Jaiku and others.

Lets scrobble and share what we're listening too!

I conducted a test of the Proporta Solar Charger during my “Micro vacation” On Gotland during this past weekend. This is my test protocol:

My journey starts on the morning of the Thursday 17^th, The Proporta is charged in a window for 2 days.

Arrives in Gotland at 14:30 at home at my friend’s place my daughter needs to charge her Nokia 6280 (it started beeping), so she charges it fully. And after her I charge my N95 (had only 2 bars) fully. No problems the Proporta stands the test.

I put the Proporta in an window and it stays there until next morning.

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Friday 18^th

Cloudy day but I hope the Proporta still can charge-

Working on my 3d report as an S60 ambassador, answers some mail and update my Swedish blog with some photos, calls some calls about 15 minutes.

Out on town, films an sekuens that goes to Flixwagon. Sends and receives about 8 sms

Back at another friends place I take a nap and when I wake up my N95 is down to one bar. Have to charge it with my batterycharger when the Proporta is in the other end of town.

Evening, back at my friends place (took some photos and looked at some flix at YouTube) I start charging with the Proporta but dies on me after about 15 minutes. Put my N95 on charging during night.

 
Saturday 19^th

Proporta in window and it’s a really sunny day so it will be perfect. I go for charging my N95 before I leave at 11.

The usual morningritual, sms, mail, checking blogs etc. my N95 down to 2 bars again. Charges with Proporta and it works fine.

Away all day, taking photos, short video and one to Flixwagon. Sms….well you know the drill!

Back home at 21:00 starting a new charge with my Proporta, but it turns down on me after about 10 minutes. My friend tells me one of his sons used it to charge his Nokia in the evening. So there’s the explanation.

Monday 20^th

Returning home to Stockholm

Conclusion:

To be sure your Proporta will be able to charge fully it needs at least a partly sunny day, but then it works like a charm. I will not say this a totally scientifically conducted test, but for me it was good to see that it’s possible to use the Proporta Solar charger as a compliment when your out camping, but you can’t rely only on it. You need to have other backup possibilities such as an emergency battery charger.

You can get your own Proporta Solar Charger at http://www.proporta.com

A good thing with your Nokki5 (and for that matter a lot of the smartphones out there) is that they can't get boring regarding how they look....on the screen that is! There's a massive amount of themes out there I sometimes find myself getting a bit lost by all the different, beautiful and sometimes a bit strange themes out there.

I have, as well as others, my favourite creators and I would like to share those with you. The first one I discovered was
Jaspp over at Symbian Blog! The blog is in Italian but it's possible to read his articles if you use the translation function up at right to translate the site into English or German. Back now to his Themes before I get lost in all the other good things to find over there. Every Sunday he posts some new themes so that's the day to go over if not right now. His postings are great and I always get there to find something new. Right now my favourite is "Everything Dark"

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Next place up was Mobile9, but this wasn't new to me as a used it before my N95 days. Over there you can find a massive amount of themes, applications, videos, backgrounds, screensavers. And if you sign up for it, you can get around the 15 downloads a day limit. Enough said about Mobile9 now.

Next up is Lillium also an Italian blog but this one is all about Symbian Themes and this themes they're real art I tell you. This guy know what he's doing and he has got my total admiration. I love them to bits really and his themes are the one I use most frequently.
The one I have been using most is PinkTribal seen here:

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And if you want to try you luck yourself you can get Carbide.ui S60 Theme Edition 3.X (you can download it from http://www.forum.nokia.com/ just search it in there, it’s free). And to make your own art I suggest using Paintshop pro or if you have Photoshop it's even better.

Today I want to tip you about a really good software for your N95 (Probably it works on all S60 phones), and that is
Nimbuzz. I have tried it out for about two weeks now and it works excellent on both my phone and also on my computer. The main thing a like about Nimbuzz is the fact that you can use it for: MSN, Yahoo, Googletalk, AIM, Hyvees and Jabber. I'm familiar with MSN, Yahoo, and Googletalk, Hyves and Jabber I haven't been using before but now I have an Hyves account at least but nobody to chat with there....yet....

Anyway back to my review of Nimbuzz now, I was disappointed when I had used MSN on my phone for 30 days and they told me I had to pay to use it for another 30 days. So I started to search for a replacement and first I strated to use Fring, but get fed up with that they didn't sort you contacts so after that I searched more and after a while I read about Nimbuzz in an discussion group (can't remember where, sorry guys!) and decided to give it a shot. And I was really delighted to find that Nimbuzz sorts your contacts AND doesn't import you other contacts to mess it up even more.
So what is my conclusion now then? Well, I use Nimbuzz and it has never failed me so I can only say one thing:

Get your copy now!

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Just a short tip about making your own barcodes that can be read by mobile phones. They can be useful at your blog, a t shirt or maybe on your businesscard!
Nokia has their Webb just that function, and the address is HERE!

Yesterday I attended Dustin Home electronics fair at Anexxet, The Globe area in Stockholm. They had an extensive display of all different electronics for the home. And obviously I was most interested in the mobile scene!
This time I mostly checked out Nokias competion to see what they have to offer and even if one can get impressed by for instance Samsungs latest developments and fro all means also LG mobile phones., I still come back to Nokia S60 series. I find Nokia S60 series to be so user friendly and have more stable impression. I tried out the N82 and made some hands on feels at N95 8GB which I haven't tried IRL.
The other things I looked at was Laptops, I'm starting to feel tired of being looked to one place at home with my staion PC. Since I got my N95 I've started to be more and more into the possibilities to be mobile with my everyday computing. And one thing is for sure, My N95 gives me a rather good mobility, but for some things it would be more easy to use and laptop. One Laptop I really like was an Lenovo one, it was compact, stylish and looked like the one I have been thinking about. Well, time has to show if and when I will get one.

I'm leaving you with some photos from the fair now.

All of you know that there is many online services to save photos and video's. Flickr, YouTube, Vox etc. is well know.
But Nokia has through TWANGO possibility to offer the most complete service that I have seen so far.
TWANGO is included in Nokia's OVI concept that is a portal towards Nokia's online services.
I can only establish following:

1. Twango steadies in principle all photo, video and sound formats. Furthermore, one can save documents in other formats there also. TWANGO  gives support to over 100 different file types.
   
2. You get unlimited space for your documents
3. Maximum file size is whopping 100 Mb
4. You can invitefriends to look at your files without the need to sign up.
5. You can on a simple way load up your pictures from your camera mobile but if you do not have such a mobile, you  can you also in a simple way publish your pictures or other files from any computer.
   

I use the service now to store all my digital files and at present it's more than 5 Gb and there wasn't any problems to upload them. An advice only, divide up your uploads in smaller rounds then it is easier that structure them.

Go to TWANGO you also and create yourself an account, one more excellent service you can't find!