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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I just found this great piece of software called TotalRecall ™, that records all calls in or out from my N80.
Ok, and why this title for this post?
Well, because I always forget the name of the attendant I was talking when I call any 0800*** number …
I forget the time of the meeting I have just scheduled by phone.

and things like that.
So this software is really helping me out.
(OK, I think that this capability should be built-in the phone, I do not know who was the “great” engineer that created a phone sound recorder that cannot record a phone call, does it sound as stupid for you as it sounds to me?)

A little review of the software …
Features

What could be better?
I have only two suggestions for them (in priority order):

1. enable the recording in MP3 instead of AMR
2. put the date and time of the call in the name of the sound file, besides the contact name.

The second thing I liked most was the price, it is just U$10 (at the time I’m writing this post).
So, take a look at their online store …

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I’m a music addict,

My
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is always full of music, and syncing it to my computer is a must have
option …

With windows I used PC Suite for it, but now with linux I had to look
for an option …

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I have found is Amarok, the default player for KDE …

It plays almost all known music formats, have a good “intelligent play
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, and the best of it, it can sync to devices …

here is a step by step to configure Amarok to sync my N80, it will work
with any S60 or symbian device I think …

First of all, connect your phone using the “data transfer” option with
the USB cable (it will be much faster than using BlueTooth …

Then open Amarok

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Click in configuration, then Configure Amarok

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Go to the mobile devices tab.

Select your device, and configure it as generic audio player

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Click on the blue settings button, and in the openned window, configure
the “mount command” and umount command.

Select your preferred music formats for the device, and the conversion
format for music in other formats.

click Ok

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now, you can go back to de devices tab and navigate in your phone, or
just go to the lists tab, right click any list, and select “Transfer to
device” or “Sync with device”

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The difference between transfer and sync is that transfer only copy the
music to your phone, and sync, removes music that is not on that list.

I’m very happy with this solution

Amarok is a great music player, and now I can sync my cell phone with my
kubuntu laptop

Any one is using a different solution?

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The N80ie owners does not understand this, but all the VOIP services until now works only in the N80ie phones, I could not find one that works in the plain N80 phones …
But now it is solved, you can install TiVi in your N80 and start talking for free (at least with other TiVi users). Or you can buy some credits to call landlines too.

The service seems to be great, the only problem is that the prices list is very confuse.
And the second problem is that the client is memory heavy, I had to uninstall almost all the services (even the Alarm Manager) in my N80 to run it without the Out of memory message.

Take a try .

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Do you know you can access your S60 phone using a web browser?
Yes, it is true …
This is possible using a modified version of the Apache Web Server …
The port was created by the Nokia team, and you can get it in the Nokia Open Source portal
And there is a free service too, that you can use to enable the access to your phone from anywhere in the Internet, to enable it you just need to ask for a password by e-mail …
After you have your Racoon running (this is the name of the apache for S60), you can install Python for S60 and use mod_python to create dynamic content and make your phone content available to all internet users …
Think about a blog in your cell phone, with all your latest photos available …
or your contacts and schedule available to you from any web browser directly from your phone …
This means no more need for synchronization for your desktop apps, you can edit it using your browser …

Ok, I know that it is too geeky and that data plans are too expensive for this kind of thing …
but you can enable it only when you have an Wi-Fi connection available too …
Or use only your local Wi-Fi network for it if you do not want it available to all the world …

Think about the possibilities

I have already asked my user and password, and have already tried it in my local Wi-Fi

There are no contacts or schedule “gateways” written yet, but I loved the idea
for now I still using Mobical for it, and the SyncML from my phone since I do not have an Outlook license … (I Sync my contacts from Thunderbird to Mobical too )

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In the nokia Open Source portal, there is a port of the Python scripting language for S60 devices (this means that you can run it on your N80 too )
you can get it here: http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/Python_for_S60
but the best thing, is that you do not need to know how to program in python to use it, there are lots of freeware applications already written for you enjoy …
the full list is here: http://wiki.opensource.nokia.com/projects/PyS60_applications
Here is a small list:

• nA Cell Tax Tracker This small application get your current cell phone costs from supported telecommunication providers over a short message. It allows you to analyse your costs and get statistics. Written in python for S60.
• PyS60Remote This set of programs enables you to use a Series 60 mobile phone to control your win32 PC. The two devices connect via Bluetooth. Mainly suitable as a wireless presenter or remote for your video player.
• EasyEdit 1.44 for 3rd Ed
• Fupper is a Flickr upload tool for PyS60. It also includes a full FlickrAPI implementation that is based on Beej’s Python FlickrAPI.
• OpenOffice (odt) reader .. a basic ODT reader using pyexpat port of pys60. Supports basic formating: bold, underline, etc. and text colors
• Tetris Lost code for Tetris has been reposted in the Forum at last
• EasyEdit : a full-featured, simple, intuitive text editor by chetbox.
• PyS60 Python editor 1.03 new editor for editing your scripts on your phone. application and source code v1.03
• pyED : Python Editor for Series 60 is an sourceforge project for creating an open source Python source code editor, written in Python by CyKe64, for Series 60. Once you have Python for Series 60 installed on your phone, pyed enables you to edit your scripts directly from your phone. Very cool!
• client ShoutCAST for pys60 Source code is under Creative commons licence. Now you can listen radio on internet (MP3) and also Real Audio if you have real audio playerHelix !
• RemoteCamera A script to take photos and FTP them to a server of your choice.

There are many more apps out there, and if you are a programmer like myself you can create your own apps …
So, enjoy the freewares, and write some more if you can

If you want to write some python apps for your phone, you can start with this books:

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If you are like myself, and carry your phone everywhere …
And you have a symbian phone, able to play music to you …
You can now use your phone to learn another language …

for this to work, you will need iTunes in your computer, and you will need to subscribe to some podcasts (unfortunately they are inside iTMS so you can not subscribe to them directly from your cell phone)

and after it, you will need to synchronize your Cell phone with your iTunes in your PC …

when All this is set-up, you just need to subscribe to some Podcasts …
Learn Arabic
Learn Chinese
Learn Chinese
Learn Chinese
Learn Chinese
English As a Second Language ESL
English For Business
Beginner French
Learn French
Learn French
Learn French
Learn French Verbs
Learn German I II III IV
Learn German Grammar
Learn German
Learn Greek
Learn Hindi
Learn Italian
Learn Italian
Learn Japanese With Video
Japanese for Beginners
Learn Japanese Symbols
Learn Korean
Learn Portuguese
Learn Brazillian Portuguese in Spanish
Learn Russian
Learn Russian For Businesses
Russian Literature
Learn Spanish
Learn Spanish
Learn Spanish

Ok, I agree with you, learning a language alone is not one of the easiests things in the world, but think about the Cool Factor of your Cell Phone teaching you another language, and for free

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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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Are you bored too with the Music Manager bundled with PC Suite?
I love to listen my MP3 while on the go, but it takes a lot of time to choose what music to take with you with that plain list with all your music …

So I started to look for a way to sync my Windows Media Player, with my already created play lists, and the first thing I noticed was the support for UPnP from my N80 and windows media player …
The problem was: I could not manage it to work, if any one of you can do it, please tell me how
Second, connect as “Media Player” using the USB Data Cable, but there is a problem with my windows or some thing like that, that makes it keep trying to install the driver over and over again …

One more option discarded …

But I did not give it up …

In the third try, I connected my N80 with the USB Data Cable and selected the “data transfer” option, and it appeared in the Windows Explorer as a Removable Drive, and lucky me, Windows Media Player can sync music with any removable drive you connect on your PC …
and you do not need any setup for that, just connect the N80 in the data transfer mode and start moving your music to your N80 …

Look at the screenshot from my N80 Synchronizing with my Windows Media Player …

The next step will be trying to Sync it with iTunes, that way I can carry my Podcasts with me too …

Talking about that, any one of you use any media player for Series 60 that has support for both audio and video, or at least has support for playlists?

Thanks for any tip on that …

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