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  • Win a license for Gravity Twitter Client at mynokiaworld.com

    Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 12:31 in Software, symbian

    Image by roland via Flickr Here’s a chance for you all to win a free license for Gravity, a native S60 Twitter client with a really slick interface. MyNokiaWorld is holding a contest to giveaway 4 licenses to Gravity. All you have to do is t...

  • A Benchmark of Opensource Search Engines

    Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 11:30 in Software, search, databases, tech stuff, benchmarks, lucene

    I’ve always wanted to know how the various opensource search engines performed when running head to head with each other. I’ve personally not had the time nor patience to setup such a benchmark. Luckily Vik Singh has done just that and bl...

  • GIMP “Save for Web” plugin for Ubuntu

    Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 07:38 in Software, Linux, ubuntu, plugins

    Here is a plugin for Gimp which gives you a “Save for Web” option in GIMP. This plugin gives you the option of preparing your images for the web by optimizing it, adding additional compression, stripping EXIF information from the images t...

  • Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 Phones

    Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 21:50 in Software, symbian, s60

    Google has brought out their Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 Phones. You can get the application by visiting m.google.com on your mobile browser. This application provides a shell for Google applications and services. When you start the app, you get ...

  • Google Page Speed

    Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 11:31 in Software, Firefox, web development, browser, addon

    Web developers have to check out Google’s new Firefox + Firebug addon called Page Speed. This addon inspects your webpage to see how you can optimize the load time. Yahoo’s YSlow was good, but Google takes it a few steps further to even i...

  • Tweets60 - Twitter client for S60 mobiles

    Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 09:00 in Software, symbian, s60, twitter

    If you’re looking for a free native Twitter client for your S60 device, you’ve got to check out Tweets60. It’s works on S60 3rd and 5th Edition phones. As with most Twitter clients you can view your Timeline, Replies, DMs and Favori...

  • PHP Quick Profiler - Profile your Code

    Posted on Tuesday May 12th, 2009 at 09:04 in Software, php, programming, scripts, tools, debugging

    Here’s a good looking and functional profiler you can plug into your projects. PQP (PHP Quick Profiler) allows you to profile your code and get information about how much time your script took to execute, the amount of memory used, the files wh...

  • Jbak TaskMan - Taskmanager for S60 Phones

    Posted on Thursday March 5th, 2009 at 00:44 in Software, symbian, utility, s60

    If you’re looking for an advanced task manager for your Symbian phone, you can check out this free and powerful utility called Jbak TaskMan. When you install this utility on your phone, it replaces the default Symbian Task-switcher with it̵...

  • Clean up unwanted files in Ubuntu - BleachBit

    Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 05:11 in Software, Linux, ubuntu

    Here’s a software you’d need to clear the unwanted files hiding around your Ubuntu Installation. BleachBit clears up files from your trash, tmp folders, application specific temporary files from Firefox, Java, Open Office  and more. ...

  • Blog from your Ubuntu Desktop

    Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 07:49 in Software, Linux, ubuntu

    There is a small utility in Ubuntu called Gnome Blog which allows you to blog directly from your desktop. If you are running firefox on Ubuntu, click on this link to install the package or enter the following command in your terminal sudo apt-get in...

  • Wordpress blogging on a S60 Phone

    Posted on Thursday December 11th, 2008 at 11:32 in Software, wordpress, symbian, s60

    I just came across this S60 freeware today which allows me to manage my wordpress blog on my E71. Wordmobi is a Python app which can be used to perform the following tasks on the blog: Create and publish new posts (with basic HTML formatting) Includ...

  • Auto Sync on your Mobile using Swim

    Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 10:39 in Software, symbian os, syncml

    One sorely missing functionality on S60 phones is the ability to automatically sync the phone with SyncML sources. I use GooSync to sync the E71’s calendar with Google Calendar and the phone data (address book, notes,… ) with Nokia’...

  • Roll out your own Social Network using Elgg

    Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 02:37 in Software, php, social network, open source

    If you’re thinking of rolling out a Social Network project, try Elgg. You can launch your own Social Network without writing a line of code. Elgg is a open source social network platform built on PHP. The best about Elgg is the ability to ext...