Phone
Top 10 iPhone 3G Applications
Aug 3rd
Update – After some years the list was kind of outdated, here are some additional applications that I have recently used the most:
- TweetDeck (will so be Tweetie instead)
- Air Mouse (wireless mouse pad app)
- EyeTV (TV app)
- DropBox (access files everywhere)
- Remote (iTunes Remote app)
- WordPress (access your wordpress site)
- Jamie Oliver (cooking app)
- My Football (Live soccer scores and tables)
- LiveScore (LIve soccer scores)
- Weather Pro (wheather app)
- DMI Byvejret (danish weather app)
- Google (GMail, Calendar web applications)
- SeneseEarn (Google Adsense app)
- AnalyticsApp (Google Analytics app)
- Opera Mini (alternative browser – good for heavy sites)
- TjekBenzin (danish gas price app)
This is yet another list of favorite iPhone 3G applications available from the Apple App Store. Actually, it is not ordered top 10 list, but just a list of the 10 applications that I found most useful. No games are included since games qualify for their own top 10 list. Listed is also mainly free applications since I have only bought a couple of applications at this time. The list will be updated as new and better applications arrive at App Store.
- Remote
With Remote, you can control the music on your computer or Apple TV from your iPod touch or iPhone. Play, pause, skip, shuffle. See your songs, playlists, and album art on your iPod touch or iPhone as if you were right in front of your computer. Remote is free and works with your Wi-Fi network, so you can control playback from anywhere in and around your home. - FileMagnet (NOT FREE 30DDK)
FileMagnet makes it easy to copy files from your Mac and view them on your iPhone and iPod touch. It supports all the common file types, including PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, images, movies, sounds and even folders. By running the FileMagnet Uploader on your Mac, you can wirelessly copy files over your wi-fi network. FileMagnet also lets you copy files from your phone to another mac – use your iPhone like a hard drive!
Constraints: It only works with Mac, one more thing that Windows users must miss. - Benzin Priser (A danish specific app)
The application uses the FDM Benzin Priser service to get the latest gas-prices for your current area (GPS Support), or the latest prices for your regular gas stations. Reporting prices from the application to help others get gas cheaper is easy.
Constraints: How usable this application is in your area rely on the frequency of gas prices reported. - Facebook
Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start conversations with Facebook Chat, check your friends’ latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile phothos to Facebook whole on the go. - Palringo Instant Messenger
Palringo works by integrating with several existing, popular messaging services including Apple’s own iChat for Mac OS X. The other seven are AOL’s AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber and Windows Live Messenger. - WordPress
Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. With support for both WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress (2.5.1 or higher), users of all experience levels can get going in seconds. - EverNote
Evernote for iPhone (and iPod Touch) lets you capture any moment or idea as it happens, wherever you may find yourself. And, thanks to Evernote’s amazing cloud-based sync, you can recall it all any time from your iPhone, Mac, PC, the Web, or other mobile device. - Shazam
When you hear a song and wonder what it is, Shazam is there with the answer. Hold your iPhone to the music and within seconds we’ll tell you the artist and track name. - Phanfare
The phanfare iPhone application turns your iPhone into a connected digital camera. Once installed, you take photos with the Phanfare application and they are uploaded directly into your Phanfare account over the cell network and wi-fi. - YouNote
YouNote is an application for iPhone that allows you to take quick notes on all sorts of information. This information is accessible and available at all times on your iPhone. Whatever format the note is in (Drawing, Audio, Text, Photo, etc.), it is possible to link different criteria (tags, a color, the geolocation, etc.) which simplifies the filing and finding of the notes.
Nokia 6300 Firmware Update
Oct 30th
This page is a discussion forum for new firmware updates for the Nokia 6300 from the version 5.00 and forth software releases. The version 5.00 firmware update introduced an issue, namely, that the feature of toggling the silent-profile by pressing and holding the #-key disappeared. Updating to the newer version 5.50 of the Nokia 6300 firmware, however, solved this problem together with the following software updates:
- The Call Log – the list of missed calls, received calls, and dialled numbers – have been updated with new icons that are easier to see and comprehend, and slightly more colorful.
- The option of enabling navigation key icons on the background showing which applications are available from the four direction in the navigation key (this might not be a new feature, however I have not seen it before I think)
- The bluetooth menu seems to be improved a bit.
Please follow the comments discussion to gain insights on the newest software releases for the Nokia 6300.
Just to remember, checking the current software version on the phone is done by entering the following code: *#0000#, and checking the newest available version of the Nokia phone software can be done at this Nokia site. Doing the last mentioned will also provide a link to the specific phone product software, else just download the Nokia Software Updater to update the phone.
Since I wrote this post newer versions of the Nokia 6300 firmware has been released, and different people have been very nice to follow up and describe the content of these updates in their comments. I, on the contrary, have moved on the real deal – the iPhone, and because I no longer own a Nokia 6300, I will no longer be able to bring updates on the Nokia 6300. However, I hope that you people will continue commenting on the future updates for the Nokia 6300.
Nokia 6300, iSync Plugin, and Contact Photos
Aug 20th
Here is some iSync plugins for the Nokia 6300; the first two works pretty stable, and the last has support of contact photos and birthdays, but is might cause some errors to the iSync synchronization process. All plugins should be compatible with Leopard.
Here is what to do:
- Download one of the following plugins:
- Nokia 6300 iSync plugin
- Nokia 6300 iSync plugin supports birthdays
(edited by Jeremy Robertson) - Nokia 6300 iSync plugin supports birthdays and contact photos
(edited by Rums)
(using the last mentioned read these notes)
- Extract the Nokia6300.phoneplugin.zip (your browser might do it for you).
- Quit iSync if its running
- Double click the Nokia 6300 Plugin
- Drag and drop the green folder on the blue one
- Start iSync, and the Nokia 6300 should be supported
Additional notes and issues:
- iSync only synchronizes the contacts you have on the phone and not on the SIM-card. View this comment.
- All-day events in iCal appears as events with start and end time at the same hour in the phones calendar 6300 when synchronized, e.g. 14:00-14:00 according to the time zone.
Notes and issues on synchronizing contact photos:
- If you add contact photos on the phone and then synchronizes, it should work fine.
- But if the photos are added in the Address Book on your mac, some issues are present. Although it works in Address Book adding photos to contacts, it does not always work according to the synchronization part. If a photo is added and you have used the embedded ‘image edit’ pop-up window, then when it comes to iSync your entire sync will fail. But adding photos is still possible, if you have a photo you like to add to a certain contact, just drag it to the information area of the contact, and if the image edit pop-up appears just press Cancel, and in most cases the photo is added anyways.
- If iSync fails because of the above, you are not told what failed, or why it failed.
Backup Mobile Phone Contacts and Calendar Events
Jul 16th
If you like to backup the contacts and calendar events from your mobile phone, ZYB provide a usable server synchronization tool. It also features to synchronize other calendars like Google Calendar or other calendars using the iCalendar standard.
iPhone Theme for Nokia Phones
Jul 12th
A new release of the Nokia iPhone theme is now available, and can be downloaded right here, in the new release contrast enhancements, improved icons, and wallpaper with support for displaying the date are added.
Previous article on the iPhone theme.
Browser for Mobile Phones
Jun 19th
The embedded phone browser in many phones are not very usefull. Opera Mini is a reasonable alternative, and recently Opera Software released a Opera Mini 4 Beta version with some new exciting features. However, it seem like they changed the default search engine from Google to Yahoo! for some incomprehensible reason.
