Nokia Sports Tracker

Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on S60 smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary. To be able to use application for real, you need Nokia S60 3.0 phone with Bluetooth GPS device or Nokia S60 3.0 phone with integrated GPS.


The application is compatible with latest Nokia S60 3rd edition phones, such as N71, N73, N75, N76, N80, N81, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95, E50, E60, E61, E62, E65, E70, E90, 3250, 5500 Sport, 6290, 6110 Navigator.

You can integrate the data with Google Earth.

Flash Lite Contest

The Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group of Boston, Australia and Brazil launched a Flash Lite Contest 2006. The deadline for submitting applications is 11 PM EST on February 28th 2007.
All submitted content will have the chance to be evaluated for distribution through the Moket Content Network.

You also get rewarded with prizes:

• Best Overall Flash Lite content: A Nokia of your choice (up to 500 US$)
• Best iRiver Flash Lite content: Adobe software of your choice (up to 2000 US$)
• Best Application: iRiver
• Best Animation: Adobe software of your choice (up to 2000 US$)
• Best Flash Lite Site: Adobe software of your choice (up to 2000 US$)

Flash Lite categories:

Mobile phones:

• Applications
• Animations: Wallpaper, Screensaver
• Flash Lite 1.1 Web Sites

iRiver:

• Flash Lite content for iRiver (games and applications)

So get cracking.

How to Recover a password from a MMC card on your Mobile

1 Open any file manager softwares like Seleq, FExplorer.
DOWNLOAD SELEQ FROM THIS POST

2 (Search phone memory only)search for the file MMCSTORE in phonememory using seleq software’s inbuilt search or search manually in folders either C:/SYSTEM/DATA or C:/SYSTEM/
Search by giving the search item as mmcstore.* or mmcstore.dat (better manually locate)(Seleq represents phone memory as c drive and mmc as E drive)

3 when you find it, send it to your PC by using send option in seleq.

4 on PC, open the file with Notepad, or any word processor

5 There goes your password.Ignore spaces and any unidentificable unknown (non english) charecters.

You can only recover the password of the MMC card set on your phone. If the password for the card was set on another phone you would have to apply the above procedure on the phone which originally set the MMC password. That is to say you can't insert the MMC card into another phone and search the phonememory for the password there.

Freeware English Dictionary for S60 3rd Edition

Updated version of Dictionary now available for free and works on Symbian S60 (Series 60) 3rd edition.
Features and specifications:
Websters English Dictionary.
Built-in indexes find words in a fraction of a second.
Includes parts of speech (noun, verb etc).
Uses 6Mb disk space for the program and data.
Installs to main memory or memory card (Memory card recommended)

Note:
On E Series phones, if you get the message, "Invalid certificate, cannot install", change the setting in App. Manager from "signed only" to "all software"

Powerful Symbian SIS file Packer / Unpacker

YAMGui Plus Is a very usefull handy piece of software for all symbian power users, this great software allows you to make sis files, un make sis files, preview themes and much more. Currently YamGUI Plus does not support 3rd edition sis files, this might be implemented in the future releases of YAMGui.

Main features:

• Create SIS Files
• create sis files
• grab UID from .sis and .app
• grab app name and version info from .sis
• add popup from textfile or type new one
• set type of popup
• choose position of popup (begin/end)
• preview popup
• embed sis in sis
• set default directories to easy the browsing
• save as .pkg file to process later
• process .pkg file
• Unpack/Rebuild SIS rebuild sis files, good for themes when you get Series60SkinSupport error
  files are rebuilt with same name, UID and target platform Series 60 v0.9 (all)

SIS Info/Extract features:

• view all info from sis file
• view appname for all languages
• view all languages
• view behavior of sis files with If, Else and Options
• extract all files
• choice to extract all languages or only one
• save the listing in txt file

Preview theme:

• preview a theme is sis format
• ability to show icons
• ability to save preview images

New features:

• added option to Unpack/Rebuild SIS files this is a very usefull option for those amongst us that are experiencing problems when installing themes (series60skinsupport messages)
• currently it will only show the Idle screen background of some themes
• expanded the theme preview feature, it will now show Idle screen
• Calendar background
• Menu background
• Favorites background
• Menupopup
• added the ability to show Signal and Battery level
• added the ability to show Icons if any exists
• added the ability to save the preview images
• you will be asked for a save path, the names will be like they are show preceding by the theme name ex.: Hitman_Calendar.bmp
• fixed a bug that caused runtime error 53
• created a proper installer

How to Setup or Host a Web Server on your Nokia Mobile Phone

You can use the web server to retrieve content off the internet for use in your applications. If you are a developer and don't have a server this is a pretty handy solution for you.

• Install the Apache S60 web server and the Python S60 on your Nokia, both are available for Series 60 3rd and 2nd Edtion
• Use Python to create scripts that retreive the data from the internet and pass them to your application.
• Your application makes a call to the local Apache S60 web server running your scripts which retreive the data from the internet.
• You can get all these great technologies from the Nokia Research Center.

Via biskero.org

Mobile Phones used for Outdoor Games

Mobile games are the new way of getting people off the couch, out of the house and out for some fun these days. With technologies like bluetooth, GPS, GRPS, 3G, 4G, cameraphones, smartphones, Symbian, Flash Lite, etc., becoming the norm , game developers are coming up with great game ideas and implementing them.
With GPS and mobile phones paired together street games has become a reality. Check out "Come Out & Play Festival" which will take place in New York City from September 22nd to 24th for a list of mobile games that are available.
The details for the mobile games are Insider, snagu, Crossroads, Spy Text, Sleuth!, The Go Game, Conquer The Quarter, Manhattan Story Mashup.

Free SMS Accelerator Software for Nokia E61/E62 from Nokia

This application available for both the E61 and E62 accelerates the sending of SMS messaging and can be downloaded from the Nokia support pages for each handset. The E61 SMS Accelerator is here and the E62 SMS Accelerator is available for download here.

Pre-Release Version of Core Player Being Distributed

Core Code project has announced that they are inviting individuals to participate in a pre-release of the CorePlayer project.

It is a cross platform player which runs on CE, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Palm, Symbian, Windows, Vista, UMPC, OS X, and Linux.

Features Include:
- Advanced Skins
- Streaming (http/udp/mms/rtp/rtsp)
- Visualizations 2D and 3D
- Video: H.264, DivX, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, OGM, 3GP
- Audio: AAC, MP3, WMA, MID, AC-3, MKA, OGG, FLAC, AMR, WAV
- CorePlayer PMP Mobile
- 'Seek and Share' Social Network Sharing Technology
- CoreTunes Desktop Media Library
- CorePlayerX Web Browser Plug-in
- CoreSync Mobile, Server. Desktop Media Synchronization
- CoreTheque Media Library Database

Reflash your Nokia with Nokia Phone Software

Nokia has now released a PC version of the software upgrade for your phone. The supported handsets for this magical ability include the Nokia N70, N72, 6131, 6630, 6680, 6681 and 6682. The Nokia 6131 supports OTA (Over-The-Air) updates. The software ( Software Updater ) updates your phones software / OS (operating system) and checks for updates on the phone via a PC connection. It is reccomeded that you check for new updates on a monthly basis to keep your phone functioning with the latest and greatest. This will also be great for software developers, ie S60 application developers; they can ensure that their application will work on a specified target device provided they have the XX-YY-ZZZZ date software update.

New Nokia PC Suite. v6.81

Nokia has released a new version of their PC Suite. v6.81

* Several usability and stability fixes
* A fresh graphical layout for Nokia PC Suite applications
* Improved mobile music experience with Nokia Music Manager
* Released 03 August 2006

Just update your PC Suite application using the update software located below the maim window. If you don't have it installed you can download here.