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Today, I read an announcement from Jukka Eklund, one of the S60 bloggers. The announcement is about Mobile Web Server. What is it all about? As its name implies, Mobile Web Server is a Web server running on our S60 device. Okay… what makes this Web server is so fantastic?

Imagine that you have a web server running on your device. Now, you open your Web browser on your PC and connect to the web browser. What can you do with that? Many things… the sky is the limit. Here are some examples what you can do using Mobile Web Server:

Taking picture from your camera

Retrieving contacts from your device’s phone book

Sending SMS from the Web

Accessing your Gallery on the device

There are some more features of Mobile Web Server. It’s better if you try it yourself. It’s really cool.

Please visit https://secure.mymobilesite.net/ to register and download Mobile Web Server

Nokia Device Status is a self-diagnosis tool that allows you to collect detailed system information of your S60 device. You can view the information from your PC as well as your S60 device. There is a standalone Windows-based application for the PC.

Here is the list of some information you retrieve from the application: device model, software version, IMEI number, total and free memory, installed applications, MCC (Mobile Country Code), MNC (Mobile Network code), ….

Nokia Device Status is currently released as a beta version on Nokia Beta Labs. Kudos to Tommi Vilkamo, who has just been appointed as Head of Nokia Beta Labs; but has brought a lot of “positive changes”.

Click here to download Nokia Device Status

What is panorama picture? According to Wikipedia:

Panoramic photography is a format of photography that aims to create images with exceptionally wide fields of view, but has also come to refer to any photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio.

Normally, professional photographers create a panorama picture using a special camera, called rotating panoramic camera. Nowadays, we are able to create software. It is also called photos stitching. The idea is to “stitch” or combine several pictures taken from a standard camera using a special interpolation algorithm.

The picture below shows an example of panorama picture. The pictures were taken from Nokia N95 and stitched using Canon Photo Stitch. It’s not perfect yet since I’m an expert yet.

What do you need to create panorama picture? The first thing is, of course, several sequencing pictures. After that, you need software to “stitch” your pictures. There are several available applications that will do the job, e.g.:

• ArcSoft Panorama Maker ($39.99). This software is very easy to use; unfortunately it doesn’t come for free. There is a 14-day trial version.
• hugin (open source). It is an open source project for panorama application. The hugin community has created nice tutorials as well.
• Canon Photo Stitch. This is the one that I used to create the picture above. Unfortunately, the software is only bundled with Canon digital camera.
• … many other applications.

Tip: For best result, a picture must have at least 25% overlap with its neighbors.