What do you think about automatically coping your pictures from your cell phone when you get home?
If you are using Kubuntu or any other linux with KDE as your UI you can do it very easilly.
I’m very happy with the integration I’m getting from my Kubuntu with my N80 …
And if you use any other linux flavor, you can configure it too …

Here is a step by step for you to get your pictures copied from your Symbian based device to your linux box, if your device is no a N80, you may have to change some little settings, but if it has bluetooth you can do it too …

All you need is the kdebluetooth package installed, and a bluetooth dongle on your linux box (or builtin support for BT).

1. First open “System Settings” from the K menu.
   
2. Click on the Bluetooth settings.
   
3. Then on Device Discovery, then on Add New Job.
4. Select Photo Copy
   
5. And type a name for it, I’ll use CopyPhotosN80.
6. The name can not have spaces on it.
   
7. Click OK
8. Then select the Job, and click the Configure Button
9. It will open the generated script with KEdit (so, if you do not have it installed, you will have to install it first)
10. You have to ajust the following settings on the opened script.
1. TARGETFOLDER - for me it is TARGETFOLDER=’/home/urubatan/Pictures’
2. SOURCEFOLDER - I have configured the default for my N80 to save the pictures in the miniSD card, so, for me the setting for this is: SOURCEFOLDER=’:11/E:/Images’
1. You can easily get this setting by browsing your device with Konkeror, and copying all the path after the device address.
3. TARGETFILEPREFIX - this is optional, but I have set it to: TARGETFILEPREFIX=’Image’
11. Save the script
12. Make sure the job you just created is checked.
13. Select it, and click Execute this job now. to test it.
14. Now you can select the Job, Select the option Listed Devices Only, and Add Device
15. Select your cell phone, just to make sure this will run only for your cell phone.
16. That is all …

Now, every day when you get home, all your pictures will get automatically copied to your home computer.
If you have read the other script names, you know that this KDE interface have a lot more options …
I’ll talk more about this later, but you already know that with the same script, you can copy any kind of files from your cell phone to your computer, and with a little more work, you can do the opposite too …

I hope this tip to be helpful for any one that takes the time to read this, if you have any doubt just ask …
And if you do not know how to do some thing with your cell phone and your linux box together, please let me know, I’ll try to solve the problem for you

PS.: if you comment more, I’ll post this tips more frequently …

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as I wrote in the last post, I have just hard reseted my N80, and there ware some missing applications here (there is one missing yet … )
I have installed some more apps here, and I think some of you might be interested in some good freeware apps for your Symbian S60 3rd edition

so, here is the list …

Log Export - A very cool application, that enables you to export your phone log, with all your call history, data transfers, …
Very usefull for me …
Nokia Mobile Search - Never loose a file on your phone again, this new version searches for files in your phone too, not only does web searches as the build-in version
Nokia Maps - this is the new name for the smart2go, very cool mapping application, and the best of it is that it have maps for Brazil too

Well, it is all freeware so, give it a try …

PS.: does any one know any call recorder for Symbian S60 3rd edition? I prefer freeware, but if it has a reasonable price, it is OK too …

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I just hard reseted my N80, I do not know if the “symbian people” use this words as I used in my “PDA times”, but this means “reset the phone to the factory settings”, before you ask how to do it, it is just write the code that you can find here.
But the reason of this post is to tell you, what softwares did I reinstalled after this Hard Reset.
Why?
well, because, these are the ones that I really use!
and it may be used as a tip for yu, if you are looking for smart phone software for your Symbian
so, lets go to the list …

• Handy Expense - A great piece of software that helps me take control over my money (yes, I need help on that)
• Handy Alarm - a tool that makes the “alarm clock” of my symbian obsolete, with this one I can schedule multiple alarms, three of them for the time I wake up for work every week day (yes, three because I have problems to wake up every day), and some other ons when I need
• Quick Office 4 Premium Update - an update for the Quick Office suite that enables me to edit the files.
• Y-Browser - a better file manager for S60

and that is all, these are all the software that survived my Hard reset, I know that I`m missing some thing, but I`m sure I`ll remember when I need it
The two Handy … you can find here.
And if you want the Y-Browser, you can take a look at this post.

PS.: yes, I have payed for all the commercial softwares, I do not approve pirate software.
PS2.: the only problem I`m having with my phone now, is that I can not format my mini SD card, and every time I try it says that the card is in use, and every time I insert the card it tries to install some thing and fails …

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There is a great boundled application in the N80 phone, you can find it in the “My Own” folder.

it’s name is “Log”, there you can find all the numbers you called, all calls you received, all the Wi-Fi connections, all the GPRS connections, video calls, …

It is a really good application, but it has one huge problem, I could not find a way to export that log to any other formar.

It would be great to be able to export it and read it’s information in a desktop app (to sumarize and save the history of what you spent).

The other problem is that you can only store a month of log (this problem will be solved with the previous option available).

Any of you know if there is any way to save that log?

Thanks you very much

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Well, in this post
I’ll talk about some little apps (Some are built-in) that makes my N80 more useful for me, there are many others that I can talk about other day, but I think these are the ones I use most of the time …

When I got my N80 I was trying to read some of my e-books using its built-in word and pdf readers, but the fonts, and text distribution on the screen ware not very good, and ware
not helping me to read anything …

This week I just found this site with the great Mobi Reader for download …
There is a bundled desktop application that helps you to convert and synchronize all your e-books, and even has the option for you to buy new e-books …

The process is very simple, you download the application to your desktop, connects your device
(there are versions for other platforms too), selects what e-books you want in your device (you can convert word and PDF documents), and after you sync it you can see the bellow screens in your N80 …

The Mobi Reader list of e-books available.

After you select your e-book, you can see the text, navigate, select text, create bookmarks …

This is the second option, if you do not like the full screen view …

One of the greatest features for me, is that after you close the application, and reopen it, the e-book you ware reading is exactly in the same page, what makes it a lot easier to read

Other great app, but very simpler than the first, is the S60SpotOn, I found it just after my wife wondering why this great cell phone does not has the light option that her old 1100 had
…
This app just solved the problem …

You can start the app

And then use your flash light to make your way in the dark

The next app is one of the greatest I have found, but is just helps me to know what is running right now in my phone when I got that scary message telling me that I have no more
memory available …

This life saver app is Handy Taskman

The next one is just a cool app that every N80 owner gets with the phone, it`s name is Lifeblog
…

When I first opened it, I was thinking that I would be able to use it to write posts in one of my blogs (this one, this about java in Portuguese, or this about java in English), but you can not do that, because Lifeblog uses another strange proprietary protocol, but Flickr is always a lifesaver, they joined nokia and now you can post photos directly from your Lifeblog to your Flickr account …

The process is very simple, just log into your Flickr account, and access the address: http://www.flickr.com/tools/mobile click on the Lifeblog link and get your URL and password (that is different from your flickr default password) …

Open Lifeblog and select “publish to web”

Accept to create a new blog account when prompted, enter your username, password and the URL provided …

Select what access point you want to use, if it is a GPRS access point I suggest you to turn the
optimize images option on.

Select the blog account just created.

Write some title and description to your photo

And hit Options/publish

After that wait a little and your photos are already online …

Yes, I know, Shozu is a lot easier to use if you want your pictures on Flickr

After playing with it a little, I just found that I needed a easy way to control where my money go in the end of the month/year …

But I`m not exactly the “organized” kind of person, so I need an easy way to record what I spend and where I spend my money, and after I tested some apps for Symbian and Java ME, the only usable option I could find was Handy Expense

is has a good UI for entering expenses

Some report options

And some useful reports …

The only bad thing I found about this app, is the missing option to sync it with a desktop companion …

It has an option to export a report to an excel sheet, but you cannot import it in any desktop app
that I know, but I`m working in some excel macros to import it in my money control sheets

But it would be great if this app has some option to export the data in QIF or OFX formats …

And the last, but not least is the bundled music player, it is not a perfect multimedia application,
but I spend a lot of time listening to my MP3 collection while far from my computer, and my N80 is just perfect for it …

The only thing I miss in this app, is the ability to transfer some playlists from my PC to my N80
…

Well, this is my list of apps, that I use almost every day, now I leave some questions …

Is there any better multimedia app for N80 phones? I want one that I could synch with my PC,
transfer playlists, and if possible, use only one app to play music and video files
Second, is there any other financial APP for N80 that I can use and synch with a desktop app?
And last, but not least, can I use my N80 as a remote control for my TV, and Sound?

Thanks for every one that could read to here

And happy new year for you all …

PS.: I`ll never again use MS Word to write blog posts

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