Converting video to play on the iPod Touch and N95 8GB

From time to time I watch videos on my iPod Touch and N95-8GB, the trouble has been that videos created for the iPod either won’t play on the N95 or they don’t play well. Yesterday I spent the afternoon downloading and testing various video encoders to try and find one that created a file that [...]

Major problems after jailbreaking iPod Touch 1.1.4

At close to midnight yesterday I noticed that there was now a new way to jailbreak version 1.1.4 of the iPhone and iPod Touch. My iPod Touch was still on version 1.1.1, I’ve put off upgrading it until now because it worked fine and I didn’t want to lose the MobileScrobbler application for listening to [...]

Stream live video from an s60 phone with Qik

Qik is a service that works with s60 handsets and gives them the ability to stream live video from the handset to the Qik website where it can be viewed by anyone in real-time, well there is a slight delay but it’s as close to real-time as we can get with a modern mobile phone. [...]

Mobile blogging comparison using an Asus EeePC, Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and a Nokia N95 8GB

Today I’m going into town to see which of these devices is best for mobile blogging. I’ll write a blog entry in three different locations and upload it to wordpress as a draft. Ill then copy that draft into here exactly as it was, any mistakes, formatting problems or layout errors will remain intact. Each [...]

Posting to WordPress using Scribe on the N95 8GB

I’ve just installed Scribe on my phone and testing it out with this post. Scribe is an s60 application that lets you manage your wordpress blog. As well as posting new entries you can edit ones that have already been published, save as a draft copy and also change the status of entries between published [...]

Nokia SU-1B Digital Pen (part 2)

Now that I’ve had my SU-1B for a few days I thought I’d do another write up about it. I’ve only been able to Bluetooth pair it with my phone as of today. Unlike most Bluetooth devices that use a default code of 0000 or 1111, the SU-1B used a different code for each pen. [...]

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. Hope you’ve all got a few extra days off work to sit back, relax, and over indulge in chocolate.

Nokia SU-1B Digital Pen

Today I arrived home to Find a parcel had been delivered. It was a Nokia SU-1B
digital pen that I won in an auction on ebay last week. I’d been looking at the newer version, the SU-27W For a while but couldn’t justify spending £120 on something that
might turn out to be a novelty Item. I [...]

Sing a song and let Midomi tell you what it is

Today I installed an application on my phone that I had read about on allaboutsymbian last week, its called midomi. Have you ever got a song or tune stuck in your head but you cant remember what its called or who its by? this is where Midomi comes to the rescue. Open the application and [...]

Shozu Vs Nokia’s Share Online

I’ve been using Shozu to upload photos from my phone to Flickr for a few years, but recently I’ve also been trying out Nokia’s Share Online. Neither of them is perfect but for my personal usage I’m being drawn more towards Share Online. They can both upload Photo’s and Video’s to a number of sites [...]