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When you take pictures of copy image files to your S60 device, they will be appeared in the Gallery application. In some case, you don’t want to appear them. What should you do? The answer is set the file attribute to "hidden".

In order to do that, you need a file manager is capable of browsing to all folders. Unfortunately the default S60’s file manager won’t do the job. You need a more powerful one, for example Y-Browser.

After downloading and installing Y-Browser, run it, select your image and select Options | File | Attributes menu. Set "Hidden" field to "Yes".

Do you store personal information, such as passport number or bank accounts, on your S60 device? Personally, I do. Why? I found it is useful to have personal information always with me. For example, I went to Indonesian consulate this morning to extend my passport. They asked me to fill out a form. One of the questions was my spouse’s passport number.

The question is how can we store personal information on S60 device? Never use Notes application! If your device is stolen, you will be in trouble. Older S60 devices used to include Wallet application for this purpose. Unfortunately it is now removed. What is our solution now? There are some third party applications (unfortunately they are not free).

Handy Safe

Handy Safe is probably the most popular application to store confidential information on S60 device. It stores credit card details, user names, addresses, insurance policies and much more. There is also a PC application, called Handy Safe Desktop, which allows you to synchronize the information to the PC.

Click here to buy Handy Safe for S60 ($ 49.95)

Phone Wallet

Phone Wallet is much cheaper than Handy Safe. The features are quite similar to Handy Safe. What makes it different is no PC application. How about backup? No worry. Phone Wallet allows you to backup your personal information to a file, which can be transferred to a new phone.

Click here to buy Phone Wallet Series 60.3 v 1.0 ($ 11.99)

Update (22-June-2008): There is also a Java application to store personal information, called MobileKnox. The user interface is not as nice as the two above, but it supports many other devices.

As you may know from last posting, Google has just released Web Picasa Album optimized for S60. Recently, I created a S60 Widget for Picasa Web Album. What does this widget do? It basically adds a new icon on your main menu so that you can launch Picasa Web Album easier. As simple as that.

Click here to download S60 Widget for Picasa Web Album

You can only use it for devices that are compatible with S60 Widget, such as N78 and N95. See here for the list of supported devices.