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There are so many companies these days that provide automated systems to answer customer calls. They use it to direct the call to the “right” agent or to verify our identity. For example, you may be familiar with voice of a lady saying “Please press 1 for English”, “Please enter your PIN code”, “Please press 0 to speak with our customer representative”, etc.

We can automate our “answer” using dial sequences. Personally, I use this tip to enter my PIN code each time I dial my voice mail number. You can also use this tip for example to dial an extension number automatically.

The following pictures show examples of dial sequences. In this example, I dial number, +12345678, followed by “p” character, which means pause. After that, it enters my PIN number, 1234, followed by “#” sign. The “p character will pause the dial sequence for 1 second. If you find 1 second is not enough, you can enter more “p” characters (as shown in the right picture).

How to enter “p”? You can press * star three times.

The following picture shows how your screen looks like when your device is sending the dial sequences.

Compatible devices: S60 1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.

Most of you are familiar with YouTube from Google. It is probably the biggest online video sharing service. Have you heard about kyte.tv? It is basically also an online video sharing service. The famous podcaster and blogger, Robert Scoble, also has a channel on kyte.tv.

What makes kyt.tv different than YouTube? kyte.tv is more like a personal broadcasting platform that enables us to create our own TV channel. You can produce pictures, videos slide show or even live stream. Best of all, you can do it directly from your S60 phone and your PC. There is a Java application that allows you to create your TV channel. Please go to the address below on your S60 Web browser to download kyte.tv.

http://mobile.kyte.tv

What can you do with kyte.tv? You can watch channels and add them to your favourite list.

There is a cool feature, i.e. chat. You can chat on a specific channel to discuss about the channel or a particular show.

As I said above, you can create your own show and broadcast yourself. Surprisingly, it is very easy and fast to create and upload your show. The new show will be published immediately on kyte.tv so that all your friends can watch it right away.

Compatible devices: S60 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.

Nokia has just released the new version of Mail for Exchange (MfE), version 2.0. For those who don’t know MfE, it is a client application for Nokia Eseries and Nseries that allows you to synchronize your phone with Microsoft Exchange servers. You can synchronize emails, contacts, calendars and tasks. It supports Microsoft ActiveSync protocol that is available in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later.

You can download MfE from http://www.businesssoftware.nokia.com/mail_for_exchange_downloads.php.

Setting up MfE is pretty straightforward. You just download it configure your Exchange server address, user name and password. After that, you are ready to go. Please contact your administrator to find out your Exchange server address. You will find all your email in the Messaging application. There will be a folder called Mail for Exchange there.

There is one important note to remember, once you synchronize your contacts, calendars and tasks with Exchange server, do NOT synchronize them with PC Suite. Otherwise you’ll get problems.

Compatible devices: Nokia E50, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, N73, N76, N95.

(Via Ed from Eseries http://www.e-series.org/archives/404.)