If you’re going to have a small Toyota meet, you might as well do it in the middle of a hurricane. The weather was intense, huge winds and damn cold but with Paul down from Calgary, we had to roll out.

Warren was out in his 86, White, stripped and now rolling on some new 14 x 7 diamonds. Jeff was doing his best impression of a hovercraft, floating just barely off the pavement.

His cressy is soon to be rocking a 5-spd, watch out for him on the track.

Chris looked daper in his Tercel…ahem…Starlet, considering the ridiculous care and attention to detail that went into his Rolla build, I expect big things from this car. Lastly, Brett showed up in an e70 that makes mine look like a Veyron pulled from the bottom of a marsh. Well, more so than usual.

Paul was playing practicality with the pickup truck he drove from Alberta, not exciting at all with the exception of a)Paul was in it b) Free clutch is free. Thanks Paul.

We finally ran for shelter in the nearest beer house, then the second nearest, then we made new plans and tried to head on our way. Of course no old school Toyota meet would be complete without car troubles.

Finally we all settled in to a nice warm beer? Enjoyed a nice cold restaurant? There was beer and food.

Jeff and Warren aren’t pictured since they were closest to me and I’m a lazy photgrapher.

Chris is intrigued by Paul’s theories and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.

Warren lays down a profound truth and Paul’s face promptly melts.

Jeff loves drift saloons, Chris is amused.

It was a great, lazy, cold night and a good time was had by most. Well, by me anyway. Now, just because people love huge wordy posts that don’t really say anything. Let’s continue.

I’m just kidding. Here’s a gratuitous shot of my car, the little bit of JDMness is to hide the lack of progress. “Now when people look they’ll say “that guy must be legit. I’m working on it, I swear.

Not my words (I wish) but the words of the Chief of the HSE Prof. Brendan Drumm. On an article by Ailish O’ Regan on the Irish Independent, Regan reveals to us that Mr. Drumm has refused to comment on his bonus of €70,000.

Currently Mr. Drumm is earning a salary of over €400,000. So while our health care system is falling to that of a standard of a third world country (and yes it is my friends and don’t tell me other wise) we have the Chief Director earning €400,000 plus. There are questions that do need to be asked. Nurses are being let go from work due to cut backs. Newly qualified nurses and health care professionals have been forced to pack their bags and move to the UK, Middle East, US and Australia against their own will. Some nurses I have spoken to have moved to countries like the UK and Australia and have left their husbands here in Ireland so “they can pay the bills”.

Services have been closed down also. It angered me to read in the Irish Times yesterday that the states main secure unit for highly disruptive children based in Ballydowd in West Dublin will be closed down. The 12 children will be sent to another unit based in the North of the City. After the release of a report from HIQA it was decided that this facility will no longer suit its purpose. This facility was built 9 years ago to the tune of €13million. It now has been deemed unsuitable and the children should be moved to a newer facility? This is bamboozling to the mind as one would think we could invest a few thousand euro and make the changes but no we will close the facility down and waste the money we invested.

That is just a little example of what is wrong I am only starting on this issue but if I was to take two examples as the two I have taken above and put them up on my blog every day for the next year we might have a little think about how effective the HSE is actually running and see if Mr. Drumm does deserve a total of €400,000.

As a saying goes “There are no problems- just solutions waiting to be found”

This application satisfies all your recording needs. It will let you record a voice memo or phone call WITHOUT THE BEEP anytime by simply pressing hotkeys of your own choices. Phone calls can also be recorded automatically based on your choices. You can browse, label, delete and transfer all the recorded memo and phone calls with ease. You can record arbitrarily long memo or conversations. The application will automatically stop recording once the storage space is low on your phone and never will fill up your phone. Hotkeys work anytime, always. The application is a Symbian Signed application backed by the industrial standard Quality Assurance testing procedure.

Major Features:
1) Customizable hotkeys to record, play, pause and stop
2) Or simply press abc/pen key three times to start/stop recording.
3) Or simply press PPT key three times to start/stop recording.
4) Or press Up Arrow key/record button three times rapidly to start/stop recording on Nokia E61 and the similar phones with full keyboard.
5) No beep recording of phone calls! You can choose to have the beep on or off. Demo version only allows 5 minutes of no-beep call recording. Please be aware that this feature may not work on all firmware versions of phones including Nokia E50 and 5500.
6) Support recording in both AMR and WAV formats
7) Support recording to phone memory or directly to memory card.
Optional automatic recording of phone calls
9) Adjustable maximum recording length. Demo version does not allow the change of recording length.
10) Password protected playback
11) Operate in background mode or/and user interactive mode
12) Configurable storage locations
13) Automatic startup upon phone power on. You can enable/disable this through the application settings. This feature is DISABLED by default!
14) Automatic restarting an interrupted recording, for example, by an incoming call.
15) Ask for your permission before saving a recorded clip if you like.
16) Always ready to accept hotkeys
17) Easy to manage/browse the details of all recorded clips such as caller id, duration, timestamp.
18) Automatic stop recording at low storage space
19) Send the recorded clips to other phones or PC via Bluetooth, Infrared, MMS or email (email service is required for this feature)
20) Support sending multiple clips together.
21) Support automatic deletion of the clips after they are sent.
22) Support a default email address to use for sending.
23) Easy to retrieve the recorded voice clips using

Download Link:

(mediafire link)

(box.net link)

today’s feature rich smartphones are fantastic but their battery performances can be somewhat limiting.
This is where Battery Extender can help by fine tuning the settings on your device.
As your battery drains, less critical power draining features can be disabled to extend the life.

A profile is a list of features you wish to change.
The application comes configured with some recommended profiles but you can customise them to your needs.

Going away for a long weekend?
Enable Battery Extender’s Max Battery profile. This turns on all the power saving features to their highest levelto give you the maximum battery performance.
Going walking/running and want to be geo tagging your photos or mapping your route?
Enable Battery Extender’s Outdoor sports profile. This will enable the maximum battery performance, saving energy on unneeded features, to stop the power hungry GPS receiver from completely draining your battery.
Want to be using Google Latitude but not at the expense of a flat battery?
Add Google Maps to the list of applications to close down when you battery level drops below 3 bars.
Just want your phone to last longer?
Use the Improved Battery profile to start only changing settings when the battery runs low
Features :
Backlight brightness
Backlight timeout
Screensaver timeout
GPS
Bluetooth
Autorotate
Applications

I added 5th edition (GreenSnapperMobileGUI_0×2001E906.exe) IN this Pack… and Ravensoft Company Cant provide this version as a Trail Version In their Official Site, I Download this File From Ovi Store.

Password : www.Mobfa.Org

Direct Link : Download

I’m going to keep posting the little bits of progress as they happen. Still on the hunt for a lot of parts.

I have a few holes to deal with tomorrow and I’m going to need a lot more primer.

This last bit is just for Quinn’s amusement…DON’T YOU FUCKING LOOK!

Keep the colour ideas coming folks!

Ponsel sekarang telah beralih fungsi.Yang dulunya hanya untuk kebutuhan SMS dan telepon,sekarang Internet Browsing telah menjadi Layanan pokok untuk ponsel.

Kebutuhan akan berselancar di dunia maya memang sudah tak terelakkan lagi.Hal ini pula yang membuat ponsel beralih fungsi.Awalnya Ponsel memakai jaringan Gprs meningkat ke Edge dan sekarang sudah 3G Dan 3,5G(HSDPA).Alhasil,Browsing pun semakin lancar dan cepat,tak kalah dengan PC.Apalagi di saat sekarang ini,bergabung dengan situs jejaring sosial semacam Facebook,myspace,twitter dan friendster membuat kebutuhan layanan koneksi internet semakin ramai saja.

Bagi Anda yang gemar dan hobi browsing,ada satu Aplikasi browser yang patut di coba yakni Skyfire v.0.9.
Skyfire sendiri mempunyai banyak kelebihan dibanding dengan aplikasi browser yang lainya.Salah satunya ialah Skyfire bisa dengan apik menampilkan video streaming dan flash format video.Opera 8.65 saja belum bisa dan masih terbatas.

Dengan dibekali kemampuan itu,Skyfire sangat menarik.Untuk sekedar nonton video youtube secara streaming tak jadi hambatan.Asalkan,koneksi jaringan internet Anda tak terputus.

Aplikasi ini kompatibel untuk semua ponsel S60v3.Di halaman utama sudah di sediakan menu untuk mengakses facebook,myspace,youtube etc.Tampilanya pun layaknya sebuah PC,ditampilkan secara full site.
Aplikasi yang cocok bagi Anda yang gemar berselancar di dunia maya via ponsel.

Skyfire tak meninggalkan cache,sehingga tak membuat kecepatan ponsel melamban.Tapi,untuk mengakses skyfire membutuh RAM yang cukup besar.Pada ponsel N73,Skyfire tak berfungsi jika ada Aplikasi lain yang terbuka.Karena N73 RAMnya terbilang kecil.
Apapun itu Skyfire tetaplah Aplikasi browser yang pantas diacungi jempol.

Selamat Mencoba!!!

I have quite a few parts to source and afford before Zombi will be road worthy but I thought I would get a start on things. When I got home from the Coast Drift event at Western Speedway (post to come) I decided to see how many disgusting fluids I could expose myself to inside the slag.

There’s nothing quite like cleaning up years of french fries, chips and pictures of kittens? Bathroom tiles? Wait, what?

I’m a little concerned about the secret rust I found but there are no holes all the way through, it’s just an ample surface coat. I moved to the west coast to get away from rust, the hell?

I posted pics of this monstrosity when I first picked her up. I prioritized and got a job and a place to live but now that I have those two things I can start on the car.

They're coming to get you Barbara!

The plan will probably be tranny, suspension, engine, rear end in almost that order as well as rust repair, sex appeal (can you do that to a Corolla?) rims etc. <-in no particular order.

The guy I got the car from also just gave me a “race seat”. I didn’t know what to expect when he offered and now I don’t know what to do with it.

DO WANT:
T50
4ag (Silver, black, blue, red…whatever I can find)
86 disc to disc rear end
Quad headlight and grill setup
Star Sharks
Riverside Riveredge
Cowbell
More cowbell

If you’ll excuse me, I have to go buy a JDM to get this project started right.

Pentax Optio e70

Értékelés

A végszó annyi, hogy a Pentax Optio E70 igencsak lassúcska. A képminőség megfelelő egy kezdő számára, de a fotózással komolyabb kapcsolatot ápoló felhasználók nem lesznek elragadtatva tőle, mert igen lassan készíti el a képeket egymás után.

A lassúság mellett az Optio E70 nem is kínál túl sok mindent, de az árához képest kb ez várható. A Pentax versenytársai mégis több lehetőséget kínálnak ilyen kategóriában némileg olcsóbban/drágábban is, például nagyobb zoomot, jobb képminőséget esetleg manuális vezérlést.

Az Optio E70 egy egyszerű, automata digitális fényképezőgép. Az előbbiekben említett “cukiság faktor” lehet még egy kis előny, de teljességgel figyelmen kívül is hagyható. Jó viszonyok között tényleg lehet jó képeket készíteni vele, de számunkra nem teljesített annyira jól a készülék, hogy feltétel nélkül ajánljuk mindenkinek.

Game legendaris kembali di s60v3 Smartphone dengan definisi tinggi dan grafik yang lebih halus dan memukau.

Prince of persia HD sekarang berlaku untuk Nokia Series60 dan Ngage 2.0 platform.Neraka diatas kita dan Anda adalah satu-satunya ksatria yang tersisa untuk menyelamatkan umat manusia.
Anda akan menyelamatkan dunia dari segala ancaman dan kegelapan dengan dibantu Elika.

Game 2D yang Alamiah walaupun rasa-rasanya sebagai Loncatan 3D Arena.
Prince of Persia adalah adalah salah satu game populer di Nokia seri N.Gage,dimana kebanyakan siapapun akan menyukai bermain sekedar mengisi waktu luang.
Prince Of Persia HD membawa kesenangan tersendiri untuk permainan ponsel.Dengan membiarkan Anda meluncur di sepanjang balok-balok,bergelantung diatas tembok-tembok dan berayun disudut terakhir wilayah tersebut,atau membunuh musuh dengan pedang.

Game Features:

Cerita Game ini mendapat tanggapan positive dan kenyataanya siapapun menyukainya.
Di world of magic Anda akan menyelesaikan episode demi episode dan Checkpoint sebelum membunuh boss besar.Jadi,Anda bisa berlanjut ke Stage berikutnya.

1.Dengan detail grafik diatas rata-rata,game ini terbilang hebat.
Gameplay yang menawan dan penyesuaian game ini sangat mudah.Anda akan menyukai gerakan-gerakan di udara dengan sudut 360 derajat,Ketika Anda bertarung dengan naga atau bergelantung di tembok-tembok.Game ini di design dengan standart keypad di series 60 (2,4,6,8) (untuk ke atas,kiri,kanan,bawah) 5 untuk action,0 untuk menangkis .
Anda akan dibawa ke lekukan-lekukan setelah 3 atau 4 sesi dan ini yang membuat game menjadi lebih menyenangkan.

2.Campuran antara genre action dan Advanture membuat game ini menjadi favorit untuk siapapun.Dengan melihat basic game yang mudah Anda tak perlu berlatih lagi.Game dengan aksi yang cukup menantang.Di setiap episodenya Anda akan bertemu jalan yang berbeda dan musuh yang bebeda.Dari menunggangi naga dan bertarung,bertemu satu lawan satu dengan monster jelek dan menghindari dari penglihatan musuh membuat game ini sebagai sumber permainan bagi para Symbian gamer.

3.Variasi yang sempurna gerakan action dan Combo,akan membuat Anda terkesan.Disini banyak kreasi gerakan-gerakan dimana Anda bisa lebih mudah mengontrolnya disaat melawan musuh.Anda membutuhkan poin-poin untuk membuka special move.Ini terjadi ketika Anda mengumpulkan harta karun atau magicball sepanjang perjalanan Anda.Boss utama tentunya sudah menunggu di setiap levelnya.
Efek lighting dan Sound terbilang hebat untuk game mobile.Ini akan menjadi game yang mengesankan di Ponsel Nokia Anda.Menurut pendapat saya point game ini berkisar 8,5-10.
Kabar baiknya,Game ini kompatibel dengan semua Nokia N series dan E series 60 phones yang support S60v3,S60v5,dan Ngage 2.0 platform.

Tunggu apalagi download aja gamenya.Jangan lupa kasih Coment ya?!

Got a few recent images of this car etc

NASU TOWN

Video / slideshow of this years Tuning Powers, mind the music!

motorfix.jp

motorfix.jp/car/corolla/corolla_03

^Images of that car, Kei’s famous

youtube.com/user/28865737ADEK

^Their YouTube

youtube.com/profile?user=rafapolk

^If you can find the time this dude has a heap a videos from this month’s Rd.5 MSC at YZ

youtube.com/profile?user=pink313131

^And a few here

And of course the official MSC photos

motorsportscom.info/drift/2009/round-05/photo

1981 Toyota Corolla (E70) Coupe

The Corolla E70 was the fourth generation of cars sold by Toyota under the Corolla nameplate.

The fourth-generation model released in 1979 in Japan, was boxy and was the last generation to have the entire lineup in rear-wheel-drive. Although most of the fourth generation was replaced by 1984, the station wagon and van versions were offered into 1987. In 1980 Corolla daily production reached an all-time high, averaging 2,346 units.

This generation (apart from the wagon) got a new rear coil spring five-link rear end with a panhard rod, and the wheelbase was longer at 94.5 in (2400 mm). A new underwhelming 1.8 L (1770 cc/108 in³) 3T engine was optional to some markets, while parts of the world retained the old 4K. The most notable engine advancement came in 1983, however, as Toyota began offering the 1.6 L (1587 cc/96 in³) 4A-C. The aluminum head, SOHC engine, although bulkier in size and weight than the K and T engines it was offered alongside, was a grand step up in performance. This would be the last generation of Corollas to use any pushrod or iron cylinder head engines, as Toyota made the decision to focus exclusively on aluminium head, OHC engine design from this point forward. This was the first generation to have power steering. In the USDM market, this was introduced in the 1982 model year.

Various facelifts were made during production. In 1979-80, a 4-round headlamp setup was used in most markets. A restyle for 1981 involved two rectangular headlamps. A more extensive facelift was given for 1982, involving wraparound headlights, remodeled taillights and new bumpers, which on some models were rubber moulded.

Design work was started in 1974 by Fumio Agetsuma. The goals he told his team were :

• Quiet cars will have a definite edge. Conservation of both resources and fuel will be very important. Economy and value will also carry considerable weight.
• Our new Corolla must be as aerodynamically perfect as the parameters allow. It must be comfortable, with enough interior room to move about in. It will need all the modern features that future customers will want as well.
• Corolla must change. But we should never destroy the popular base upon which Corolla sales are built. Our new car must reflect the wishes of the consumer, the ordinary people who drive Corollas.
• There should be no generation gap with Corolla. It should appeal to young and old alike. Corolla must also transcend national boundaries. It must perform as well in sub-zero temperatures as it does in the tropics or in the heat of the deserts of the world. Above all, Corolla must be a car that pleases.
• Corolla has an illustrious tradition. Now, let us build our new Corolla on that tradition, the kind of new Corolla we know the drivers of the world will expect.

Japan

Japanese market engines:

• 4K-U — 1.3 L (1290 cc) I4, 8-valve Pushrod, carb, 74 hp (55 kW)
• 5K-C — 1.5 L (1495 cc) I4, 8-valve Pushrod, carb
• 3A-U — 1.5 L (1490 cc) I4, 8-valve SOHC, carb, 80 hp (60 kW)
• 2T-G — 1.6 L (1587 cc) I4, 8-valve DOHC, carb, 115 hp (86 kW)

North America

North American market engines:

• 3T-C — 1.8 L (1770 cc) I4, 8-valve Pushrod, carb, 75 hp (56 kW)
• 4A-C — 1.6 L (1587 cc) I4, 8-valve SOHC, carb, 90 hp (67 kW)

North American market chassis:

• E-71 — Sedan, 2-door/4-door (Std, DX)
• E-71 — Wagon, 5-door (Std, DX)
• E-71 — Hardtop, 2-door (SR5)
• E-71 — Sports Coupe, 2-door (SR5)
• E-71 — Liftback, 3-door (Std, SR5)
• E-72 — Sedan, 5-door (Std, DX)
• E-72 — Wagon (Std, DX)
• E-72 — Sports coupé 2-door (Std, SR5)
• E-72 — Liftback, 3-door (Std, SR5)
• E-72 – Hardtop, 2-door (Std, SR5)
• E-75 – Hardtop, 2-door (SR5)
• E-75 — Sports Coupe, 2-door (SR5)
• E-75 — Liftback, 3-door (Std, SR5)

Australia

Australian market engines:

• 4K-C — 1.3 L (1290 cc) I4, 8-valve Pushrod, carb, 65 hp (48 kW)
• 4A-C — 1.6 L (1587 cc) I4, 8-valve SOHC, carb, 90 hp (67 kW)

Toyota Corolla KE70 Wagon

Toyota Corolla E70 4 Door Sedan

نرم افزار اسلامی برای گوشی های سری 60 ویرایش سوم

Nokia E70 review: Folding typewriter

Weighing a light-ish 127g and finished in a similar silver plastic to the E61 (another in Nokia’s Enterprise range of S60 3rd Edition smartphones), the E70 certainly looks the part, in terms of functionality taking precedence over form. Having said that, it’s smooth-sided and not that unattractive, with the worst offender being the ‘ears’ on each side of the screen.

At heart the E70 is a fairly standard S60 3rd Edition Eseries smartphone, with the full set of PIM and Enterprise-focussed applications, including the new S60 Office suite and licensed versions of Handy Expense, Zip Manager and WorldMate. See our E61 review for all the gory detail of the platform, hopefully most people reading this will know the drill by now – S60 3rd Edition is slicker and prettier, with better support for different screen sizes, but has a slightly more limited range of third party software available (though in practice this mainly means less games). The display’s impressively high resolution at 352 by 416 pixels and all S60 screen elements are nicely drawn and smoothly finished off.

The kicker comes when you open the device up. As you’ll have spotted from the pictures, the numeric keypad lifts up and over the screen in ‘gull-wing’ fashion, creating a two-part qwerty keyboard that’s surprisingly useful. The ‘flip’ hinge is very sturdy indeed and the keyboard locks nicely into the flat position, ready for holding in both hands and thumb typing. As soon as the keypad is lifted, the display starts to change, and after a couple of seconds delay the S60 interface appears again but this time in landscape mode, as appropriate for keyboard text entry.

The delay when switching only really occurs once, it’s less than a second thereafter [remember, this is the updated review now that v2.x firmware is freely available for the E70]. The reason for the slight delay the first time you do this is perhaps related to the way the interface flipping has been implemented on the E70. My guess is that a whole new instance of much of the interface is launched when switching to landscape mode, and this can take a couple of seconds the first time. It also takes a couple of seconds when opening the keyboard when the closed phone is in ‘locked’ mode, with the OS taking a while to ‘intelligently’ remove the key lock.

You’ll also be down by 4MB of RAM while in landscape mode, which is a bit of a shame, though not usually a major problem. If you’re planning on using Web a lot in landscape mode then you’ll start hitting RAM limits and other applications in the background might have to be closed by the OS, but otherwise most people should be OK, with only minor inconveniences. The now familiar next-gen Web browser from Nokia seems to be the biggest culprit in terms of RAM, by the way, and it’s a real shame Nokia didn’t more more memory in to allow for this – the E70 is a business device, after all, and its target user will want to do a fair amount of W-LAN web browsing on heavyweight sites.

Being able to work in either portrait or landscape has its own advantages, of course, with some applications (Documents, Web) working better in traditional desktop aspect ratio.

In candy bar mode…

And then with the keyboard opened out…

The keyboard itself is top notch, with nicely shaped keys, reasonable key travel and even a dedicated row of number keys at the top. Again we come back to form factor though, as the split nature of the keyboard does mean that you have to make some adjustments to your thumb typing style. Until you get really fast and memorise all the key locations, your eyes may start to get tired constantly moving backwards and forwards between the two halves of the keyboard. When in dim light, the entire keyboard lights up with a gorgeous white backlight, and there’s even a manual backlight key for situations where you need the backlight before the built-in sensor has kicked in.

After quite a bit of practise, I got up to 25 words per minute (see my input speed feature), with the main limitation being having to use my thumbs to type and being restricted with each to the letters on each side of the screen.

Away from the keyboard, the quality’s up to Nokia’s usual fairly high standard, although I didn’t like the slightly fiddly joystick and I also found the positioning of the main applications/menu button to be rather odd – being next to the bevel of the main body of the flip, it didn’t stand out enough and was hard to find and press with my thumb. There’s a good (though rather too easy to hit by accident) Voice Recorder button on the left of the E70, kicking you off immediately into a new recording, and a matching infrared port on the right. There’s the usual Pop Port on the bottom end, along with an original ‘large’ charging jack, bucking the recent trend for Nokia of using a slimmer charging pin.

The Pop port is used, as usual for S60 3rd Edition devices, for PC Suite, Data transfer (a.k.a. mass storage mode) or IP passthrough (connecting through a connected desktop’s broadband connection), but of course you can also use the E70 as a stereo music player. Like the E61, though, Nokia have been penny pinching again and only supply a mono headset – or maybe they assume executives never need to unwind? Still, it’s easy and cheap enough to get a stereo headset as an accessory. Music volume is quite quiet but it’s fairly straightforward to set up your own boosted EQ setting in Music player (or volume boost in OggPlay).

On the back of the E70 is the camera, this being one of the few Eseries devices with a camera. Not just any old camera though, this appears to have the same internal hardware as the well-thought-of N70, with super colour capture on (2 megapixel) still images and reasonable video capture at ‘near-VHS’ quality and 15 frames per second. Having such a high quality camera on a business device was a very welcome surprise. Shooting or filming is best done in portrait mode, for reasons of RAM efficiency and because the viewfinder works better in this orientation.

Since using the E70 I’ve had plenty of positive comments about the quality of its images, arguably better than those from the imaging-focussed N93 by virtue of better colour handling and lower image noise. Oddly, I had far less comments when I was using the N70, with essentially the same camera as the E70 – maybe my soujorn with the N90 (uninspiring colours) and then N93 (noisy, compression artefacts) have made my friends and colleagues appreciate the colours and smooth images from the older camera more…

Video playback is good, too, with RealPlayer working well to play back MPEG-4 and 3GP videos in full screen, especially clear on the very bright high-resolution display.

Beneath the camera is the battery compartment, with the E70 coming with the 1150mAh BL-6C battery, which should keep it going well enough. Interestingly, the plan view of this battery is the same as the more common 850mAh BL-5C so if all else fails when out and about, you could swap in one of these (nick it from your partner’s phone?) and carry on working. A nice touch.

The biggest power drain on the E70, other than the bright screen, is almost certainly going to be its built-in Wi-Fi. This works just as well as on the E61 and enables reasonable web browsing on the smartphone. The smallish screen is the main limiting factor, despite the high pixel count – you can fit most of a page’s width on-screen but in order to read the text you then have to have the eyesight of a ten year old. Still Wi-Fi on a communicator is pretty much a must-have these days and the E70 will enable you to stay in touch with your email and with the world for ‘free’ as long as you’re within range of home/office/free networks. I have to say that I found Wi-Fi reception on the E70 (and E61) to be noticeably worse than on the larger 9500, maybe aerial size really does start to make a difference…

The now familiar new Nokia web browser, in page overview mode. Over Wi-Fi especially it works pretty well, but there’s only so much you can fit on a 2.1 inch screen! Here are some more screenshots:

A key selling point for business is the E70’s strong support for mobile email. It ships with an installer for Mail for Exchange, which syncs with Microsoft Exchange servers and includes support for push email. Once Mail for Exchange has been installed it is a simple matter to fill in the appropriate Exchange server settings, choose which items to sync (from Inbox, Contacts and Calendar) and set up a sync schedule. The sync schedule settings are particuarly welcome since they mean you can escape from the tyranny of push email at the weekend because they make it possible to only have email pushed to you between certain times and on certain days.

Once a new mailbox is set up, Mail for Exchange is created in the Messaging application. Changes made on the device, such as a new contact or the read/unread status of received email are automatically synced in the background to the Exchange server over the air via GPRS, 3G or WiFi. Similarly, changes on the server (such as arriving email, or a meeting entered in Outlook on your PC) are ‘pushed’ to the phone automatically. Email arrives on the phone around 15 seconds after it arrives at the Exchange server, depending on the speed of the connection and the size of the email.

Mail for Exchange is a memory resident program which means, once installed, it operates in the background and is automatically started when you switch on the phone. As such it is very much a configure and forget option. It’s not a perfect solution as it lacks support for syncing folders and doesn’t support meeting requests or global address lists. Sync and mobile email solutions from other vendors, including Blackberry, Visto and Seven are also supported and work in a similar way to Mail for Exchange.

The E70 comes with a 64MB miniSD card, which will be fine for many users, along with the 60-odd MB of the internal flash disk, though anyone intending to install a navigation product, listen to music or watch videos ‘out of hours’ will of course have to dip into their pocket for a much larger card (in addition to the stereo headset).

Working with the new S60 3rd Edition Office Suite, based on Symbian’s original Office software for Psion and Nokia Communicators…

From its specifications, the E70 should wipe the floor with almost any other smartphone or communicator. And it does, providing you make sure you get a unit with the new v2.x firmware (or update an older one using Nokia’s free service). There are slight niggles, such as the split keyboard strangeness, the flush Menu key, the protruding Voice Recorder button and (even with latest firmware) the relative lack of RAM in a ‘professional’ device. But I’m nit picking really, and most definitely coming at the E70 from a power user’s perspective.

The E70 is one of those devices that you really have to try for yourself, even if it’s only standing in a dealer’s shop playing with one for 5 minutes. Typing on the split keyboard is a bit of an acquired taste, though you’ll get used to it fairly quickly. The low RAM issue is the biggest downside of the E70, as with all of Nokia’s 3rd Edition smartphones so far (‘penny pinching’ gone mad, in my opinion), although the new v2.x firmware comes with several RAM optimisations and helps a lot.

The E70 is a fabulously specified device that delivers in almost every area it claims to. Is it a phone? Is it a communicator? Is it a camera or music/video player? Is it a laptop? It’s all of those and more and gets my whole hearted approval.

help save the earth with an app for your s60v3 phone, “what app is that?” it’s an app by the name of Green phone.

What does it do*

This innovative smart tool lets the user define the brightness level of the display of his device. Based on time rules and on the build-in lightsensor GreenPhone can increase the daily battery uptime tremendously.

Supported Devices*

Nokia 3250, 5320 XpressMusic, 5500, 5700, Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6210, 6220, 6290, 6650, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90, N71, N73, N76, N77, N78, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N95, N95 8GB and N96

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it’s not much but it’s better then doing nothing………

Astă-seară am aterizat cu maşina pe Lună. Şi am condus vreo 25 de kilometri pe Lună. Am reuşit să ajung acolo plecând pe drumul de la Giurgiu la Bucureşti, autostrada selenară  începând cu vreun kilometru înainte de intrarea în Adunaţii Copăceni şi terminându-se la intrarea pe Şoseaua Giurgiului din Bucureşti. Drumul este chiar mai prost decât Calea Bucureşti din Giurgiu.

Bineînţeles că la întoarcere am ieşit din Bucureşti prin Rahova, cartierul pe unde se conduce haotic şi am condus pe “şoseaua morţii” Bucureşti – Alexandria până la Ghimpaţi, după care am făcut stânga şi am ajuns la Giurgiu. Mergând pe o şosea de pe Pământ, nu pe o autostradă de pe Lună.

Ar mai fi o variantă Bucureşti-Mihăileşti, apoi stânga pe DJ până la Adunaţii Copăceni, dar tot trebuie să traversezi localitatea, adică vreo 3 kilometri de cratere.

Twittix für Nokia S60 3rd Edition

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Nach dem großartigen Auftritt von Gravity am Anfang der Woche, gibt es nun ein weiteres Tool, um komfortabel vom Handy aus zu twittern. Twittix 0.9 wurde veröffentlicht. Das Programm ist sehr schlank, sehr schnell und sehr gut. Man kann zwar nur einen Account festlegen, aber das dürfte die meisten nicht stören, dafür bringt es aber gegenüber Gravity zwei entscheidende Vorteile. Zum einen kostet die Vollversion gerade einmal die Hälfte, also 4,95 Euro, zum anderen kann man einen Internetzugangspunkt festlegen. Das ist dann sehr praktisch, wenn man das Programm nicht den ganzen Tag am laufen hat, sondern nur ab und zu aufmacht. Jedesmal einen zugangspunkt auszuwählen kann auf Dauer ganz schön auf die Nerven gehen.

Twittix hat folgende Optionen:

- Alle Twitter Funktionen: Tweet, Reply, Direct Message, ReTweet, Follow, Unfollow, Create
and Delete favorits
- Such Funktion und Auto Update
- Reiteransicht von Timeline, Replies, Messages, Favorites, Followers, Followings
- Betrachten der User Profile direkt aus tweets; Öffnen von URLs aus jedem Tweet
- Englische und Deutsche Version verfügbar

Natürlich kommt man nicht daran vorbei, Twittix mit Gravity zu vergleichen. Beide bieten einen sehr komfortablen Zugriff auf Twitter, auch die Funktionen machen keinen großen Unterschied. Es bleibt wohl jedem selbst überlassen, welches er nutzt. Der Preis von 4,95 Euro ist natürlich klasse und definitiv ein Grund, sich Twittix mal genauer anzuschauen.

Eine kostenlose 10-Tage Testversion bekommt Ihr hier

Twittix funktioniert auf folgenden Handys:

Nokia 3250, 5320 XpressMusic, 5500, 5700, Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6210, 6220, 6290, 6650, E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90, N71, N73, N76, N77, N78, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N95, N95 8GB and N96

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Create a profile and auto filter the messages

MumSMS+ is a smart powerful software which offers you an easy way to protect your private and confidential messages in your mobilephone. All your sensitive SMS/MMS including sent,received and draft messages can be hidden automatically by choosing a proper profile. All your hidden messages are kept in good order and can be read only with right password.

Functionality:

• A fire-new, powerful, secure and easy-to-use messages managing UI(user interface).
• Protect(Hide) the received messages(SMS/MMS) automatically if user defined.
• Protect(Hide) the sent messages(SMS/MMS) automatically if user defined.
• Protect(Hide) the messages(SMS/MMS) in the draft folder automatically if user defined.
• Supported Hide/Show message of any folder by handy choose in message manager.
• Unlimited amount of user-defined profiles which can be switched at will.
• Supported two type of profiles: black lists (hide all message on list) and white lists (hide all except what are on the list)
• Any telephone no./contact person/prefix of telephone no. are allowed being added in the list of profile.
• Supported user-defined screen saver of message manager.
• Supported user-defined unread notification of automatical protection.
• Supported scanning of any folders to hide/show/apply-profile by handy operation.
• All hidden messages can be read only after right password input.
• All hidden messages are pretected in good order.
• All messages could be synchronized with other devices/network in your usual way.

Supported Language :

• Arabic
• Croatian.
• Czech.
• Dutch
• English.
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek.
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Lithuanian.
• Norwegian
• Portuguese.
• Russian
• Serbian.
• Simplified Chinese.
• Slovak
• Swedish
• Traditional Chinese.
• Turkish

Note: MumSMS+ for S60 works on Nokia S60 based smartphones. The program was fully tested on the Nokia E61,E71,N95,5800 device. It should work on other S60 devices. please test the program on your mobile phone prior purchasing.

Note: MumSMS+ for S60 uses only following unrestricted and user-grantable capabilities: 1)ReadUserData 2)WriteUserData. The installation package had been self-signed before the delivering. And in most S60 devices, you need to change the default software installation setting to ‘All’ to allow installation of self-signed applications (Tools – App. Manager – Options – Settings).

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Well, maybe that’s a bit strong. Let me be a bit clearer. You shouldn’t buy it if you already own the Euro version and/or are waiting for the N97.

Nokia is having a one day sale for 10% off the preorder of the 5800XM NAM or the E63. You can also snag yourself an additional 5% off your entire order if you include an accessory with your order (though good luck sifting through the accessories that are actually in stock and available through their online site). As Boy Genius Reports, “throw in another handset or even an accessory such as a Bluetooth headset and you’re looking at $339.15 – not bad at all“, and I agree. I’m not upset at this deal at all. I’m upset at Nokia’s piss poor history of not being able to release US devices at the same time as the Euro counterparts and they’ve been banking on it every time. Read on to understand what I’m talking about.

While not entirely conclusive, these are the handsets I remember having purchased (or had the opportunity to purchase) both the Euro and a subsequent NAM version that better supported US frequencies in some way.

E70

The first handset was the E70. Nokia released the Euro and Asian versions almost everywhere except the US in the middle of 2006, while the US was just seeing the Nokia flagship stores open. Several months later, Nokia released the E70-2, which was the same device in a black variant with GSM 850 instead of the Euro GSM 900 frequency. I don’t think Nokia intentionally turned a profit from releasing these devices separately, however, since the Euro and Asian versions were only available through online importers.

N95

The next was the N95, which is where they really started to collect. I received a phone call on April 4th, 2007 from the Nokia flagship store in Chicago alerting me that they had it available for $749.99 plus Chicago tax (10%, if not more, I don’t remember). The only way to obtain this device prior to the stores carrying it was to spend even more from an online importer. I ordered mine for a little over $820 and they overnighted it to me in Atlanta for free.

A little more than 6 months later, Nokia announces the N95-3, which not only supports US 3G for AT&T’s network, but also included a much needed larger battery and a significant increase in available RAM on the device to drastically improve its performance. Again, I put myself out another $630+ to order this version.  Nokia carried this version in their flagship stores alongside the Euro version until it eventually replaced it.

Simultaneously, Nokia released the N95 8gb (N95-2) for the European market that added a larger screen, 8gb’s of (slow) onboard memory, and the same battery/RAM upgrade as the N95-3. This phone was also made available at the Nokia flagship stores as well as several reputable online retailers that trade in the US for at least $700 if I remember correctly.

Following this update, Nokia released the N95 8gb NAM in January of 2008 for another $700+. So, if you follow the complete history of the N95 in all its iterations, anyone eager to take advantage of each upgrade as they were made available would have easily spent over $2500, if not more depending on when the devices were purchased. I myself went through the original, N95-3, and N95-4, spending a total of $2100 (though as always, I sold my previous device to purchase the next, suffering only the difference). Either way, that’s 3 handsets that Nokia tallied off as sales from my credit card when all of the countless complaints about the N80’s battery life and ALL of S60’s lack of available RAM at the time should have prompted them to release the N95-3 the first time around with those issues resolved.

E71

Next was the E71, though these releases were “better” than previous devices. I held out on buying the E71 when it was released due to a lack of interest and only decided it was worth purchasing when the NAM version was available a month later for a decent price. Again, anyone who had been waiting for this device since its announcement was probably prepared to spend the extra money for the Euro version as soon as it was available only to be slapped in the face the following month when the US version was released.

N78

The only exception to Nokia’s pattern seems to be the N78, which is the only device to date to have seen a simultaneous release in Europe and the US. A shame considering the issues people endured with the device as the first S60 handset running FP2.

5800 XpressMusic

And now they’re doing it again with the 5800XM. My girlfriend was kind enough to buy me the Euro version as an early Christmas present in the middle of November, spending more than she probably should have, with both of us being fully aware that a US 3G version was supposedly around the corner. The Nokia flagship stores even had a “pre-release” sale on the device, where they were not advertising it, but had the device available to sell should anyone be looking for it. While I appreciate the gesture of being able to experience the touch enabled version of S60 for the first time on a device that was not intended to be used with the native 3G, we shouldn’t have to beg like this. I can’t believe I have had to wait over three months for the NAM version to finally see the light of day, and this time I’m going to show my disappointment with my wallet.

N97

Not to mention Nokia’s about to do it again with the N97. The Euro variant of the N97 is expected to launch anywhere between now and the end of June (first half of ‘09) with the NAM version supposedly “within weeks” after. I have another post to write about what the N97 means to me, but it’s important enough that I’m not going to buy the Euro version just to have it sooner than I would the US version. Nokia waited too long to release the 5800XM and at this point, I would much rather tough out using the Euro 5800XM with EDGE speeds only for another couple months than spend another $350+ on what’s almost the same phone. After waiting more than a month for ANY device, another 3 weeks to a month and a half is well worth the wait to get the correct device for the correct region where it will be used most (even if the Euro N97 partially supports US 3G).

As Zack suggested in Ricky’s post “Why sell you one device when we can sell you two?” For anybody who still reads this, don’t waste your money on two devices. Nokia’s not going to stop doing this until we stop spending our money like this, and I certainly don’t have the income to afford this kind of mobile lifestyle during these harder economic times.

If you’ve never used the 5800XM before and also happen to have AT&T as your carrier, then I strongly urge you to pick one up if you have no intentions of spending a small fortune on the N97 in a few months. The device has been a wonderful experience thus far and only gets better as apps are developed and ported. Otherwise, have patience. In a few months, you’ll be happy you waited for the device you really wanted.

Once again, I apologize for going off on a rant. Off topic, I mentioned I have another post about what the N97 means to me, but that’s for a different day. It will help explain why I haven’t been posting as much and why I don’t see myself posting as much in the future either.