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Featured Freeware – Google Search Application

Antony Pranata — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:02:47 +0000

Google Search Application is the third S60 application from Google. The previous two applications were Google Maps and GMail. What does Google Search App do? It adds a shortcut, i.e. Pencil key (a.k.a. Edit key) on your idle screen. When you press the shortcut, it launches a window where you can do search using Google.

Point your Web browser to http://mobile.google.com to download Google Search App

(or use Bar Code application and scan the code below)

The only problem with this application is that it supports Pencil key only as shortcut. Many S60 devices nowadays don’t have this key any more. I’ll discuss more on how to use Google Search without Pencil key in the next posting.

Bonus Links

Featured Freeware – Nokia PC Phone

Antony Pranata — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:53:04 +0000

Another cool free application from Nokia Beta Labs…. Didn’t I feature four applications from Nokia Beta Labs recently? Well, you should just subscribe to Nokia Beta Labs blog; so that I don’t need to feature applications from Nokia Beta Labs any more.

Anyway, the new application is called Nokia PC Phone. It allows you to use your PC (Web browser) to make a phone call, type text message and manage contacts. The current version supports Firefox 2.x. Support to other browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7, should come soon.

Personally, I like Messages feature a lot. It saves our time when typing text message. No need to struggle with T9 keypad.

I don’t really use the other two features, Calls and Contacts. I normally use Speed Dial application to make a phone call. For contacts, I normally edit my contact in Microsoft Outlook.

Featured Freeware – Nokia Internet Radio

Antony Pranata — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:35:07 +0000

One product that was released this week at Nokia World 2007 in Amsterdam is Nokia Internet Radio. As its name implies, Nokia Internet Radio allows you to stream Internet radio to your device.

Be aware that it uses data connection. If you don’t have WiFi connection or flat-rate data plan, do NOT use this application. You don’t want to receive $3K on your phone bill, do you?

Nokia Internet Radio is not the same as Internet Radio Client, an open source project released by Nokia quite some time ago. I guess Nokia Internet Radio is the next generation of Internet Radio Client that will be branded under Ovi.

Click here to download Nokia Internet Radio

Featured Freeware – Nokia Audio Books

Antony Pranata — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:45:48 +0000

Once again, Nokia Beta Labs released a nice application, Audio Books. This application allows us to play audio book stored in AMR-WB, which is codec optimized for speech.

Where can we get audio books?

Firstly, you can download some sample files from Nokia Beta Labs.
You can convert your current audio books (if you have ones) from CD or other digital formats, such MP3 and WAV. Nokia has released a tool to convert audio books, called Nokia Audiobook Manager. You can download it from the same link below.
There are many public domain audio books available at LibriVox.

Click here to download Nokia Audio Books

Bonus Links

The following links are about electronic books (not necessarily audio books).

Featured Freeware – Nokia Device Status

Antony Pranata — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:27:08 +0000

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

Featured Freeware – Conversation

Antony Pranata — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:26:23 +0000

Nokia Beta Labs has just released a new application, called Conversation. It is an application that allows us to follow conversations, organized by individual contacts. It is similar to the way we use IM (Instant Messaging) application. You can click a contact and see history of conversations that you had with that person.

Click here to download Conversation

There’s nothing much I can say about this application unless that it is cool. IMHO, it should have been part of S60 Messaging application from the beginning.

Featured Freeware – Palringo

Antony Pranata — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:37:52 +0000

There are some IM (Instant Messaging) applications for S60 already. There is EQO Mobile, a free VoIP application that supports IM. There are some commercial IM applications as well, such as Agile Messenger and IM+.

Palringo is a free IM application. It is available in several platforms, which includes S60 3rd Edition. Palringo supports all popular IM services, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and Jabber.

If you don’t want to spend money on your IM application, I highly recommend Palringo.

Click here to download Palringo

Featured Freeware – Truphone

Antony Pranata — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:48:42 +0000

A few months ago, I compared several VoIP applications. My favorite VoIP application is Truphone. Although some other applications, especially Gizmo, have shown some improvements, Truphone is still my favorite one. That’s why; I think it would be a good idea to mention Truphone in Featured Freeware section.

What is Truphone?

Truphone routes your mobile calls via the internet. That means free mobile calls to other Truphone users & very cheap calls to anyone else.

You can use it on Nokia Nseries and Eseries phone. Please check this page to find the list of all compatible devices. Unfortunately, you cannot use Truphone on your PC. Perhaps this is the only drawback that I don’t like about Truphone. Gizmo, for example, allows us to make a call from our phone as well as from our PC.

Click here to download Truphone

Featured Freeware – Mail for Exchange

Antony Pranata — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:45:11 +0000

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.)

Featured Freeware – Y-Tasks

Antony Pranata — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:03:45 +0000

Y-Tasks is collection of development helper tools. However, some advanced users may find it useful too. It consists of several plug-ins, i.e.:

Trace
Crash monitor
Applications and tasks
File types
Fonts
Memory status
Processes and threads

Each of the plug-in can be installed individually. So, you don?t need to install all of them if you don?t need any of the plug-ins. I guess you know already the usage of these plug-ins from their names. For example, Applications and tasks displays the list of application and tasks running on our phone. You can also display detail information about applications or tasks, such as the UID, capability, stack size, etc.

Y-Tasks is developed by Jukka Silvennoinen a.k.a. symbianyucca a.k.a. Dr. Jukka. He is the developer of Y-Browser, one of the popular file manager for S60 3rd Edition. If you are participating in Nokia discussion board, you may also have heard his nickname many times.

Click here to download Y-Tasks