Long before the Make My App competition Nokia launched for their Nokia N8, we’ve been giving Symbian developers ideas about applications and functionality that we want to have on our devices in our Developer Challenge series. Most of those ideas have been turned into reality (with or without our contribution) which is super exciting and [...]
A few days back, Vikas aka @tsuvik asked me on Twitter whether or not there was an application that records a video or flash file of Symbian devices’ screen internally. This question reminded me that I had been wanting an on-device Screencast application for an eternity. Right now, if you want to demonstrate an application [...]
I have recently moved from the archaic “Bookmark” or “Save web page” or “keep tab open” browsing system in my daily news consumption flow, to join the Read It Later cult. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then try to think of what you do when you run across an interesting website or [...]
Developer Challenge was a series that we started earlier this year to highlight a wishlist of applications that we would love to see on S60 devices. It was also meant to help us answer a question that we get by some developers who contact us saying “what would you like us to develop for S60?” [...]
I have been using Google Docs for a while now, not as my main document editing suite, but as a backup to some of the documents that I need to access in different places. Being that I’m in lab research, sometimes I prepare an experience protocol at home, then I access it when I get [...]
As one of the most connected persons in my physical entourage, there are 3 services I am always checking and that help me keep in touch: Gmail, Twitter (previously Jaiku) and Google Reader. Of course, I also use phone calls, SMS, IM, Facebook, Flickr… but those are either redundant with the first ones, either less [...]
You know what I hate the most about S60? That whenever I install a new application, it has to ask me if I want to connect to the internet and what access point to use; that JAVA applications, even after editing their preferences in the Application Manager, still want to ask me when they launch [...]
My relationship with Shozu is a complicated love and hate one. I despise every single bit of the configuration process, as Shozu stupidly doesn’t ask me about my access point when connecting for the first time, and thus makes me lose some 10 minutes trying to figure out the right way to stop the authentication [...]
For more than a few months, I’ve had this question doing the rounds in the back of my head, like a rat on a spinning wheel: why are there no Comic Book applications for S60? I’m not a huge Comics fan, but I do love Asterix & Obelix, and I was thinking about getting them [...]
