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Gmail touch application for s60 v5 in full screen mode

Albin Sebastian — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:16:03 +0000

Default gmail symbian application interface have a on-screen keyboard. It is about 50 % of the phone screen. It is possible to remove the on-screen buttons. there is no limitation because the Gmail application is fully touch compatible. Go through following steps to enable full screen mode

Go to menu
Settings
Application Mgr
Installed apps
Find Gmail
Click Options
Suite Settings
Change “On-Screen Keyboard” settings to “off”

Now your gmail application will start in full screen mode.

Create a Nokia mobile application for your Blog Feed

Albin Sebastian — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:20:12 +0000

Without any programming skill you can create a Mobile feed reader application for your blog. It will take just less than 5 minute to create the application. Application will serve the blog feeds along with a thumbnail of the image inside the post. See the Sample screen shots of Binbert Tech portal Mobile Application. You can integrate up to 4 RSS Feeds in this application. Almost all the Symbian phone models support the application

Step by step Procedure to create OVI application

Ovi App Wizard is the platform to build this application

Go to : http://www.ovi.com/appwizard

Give your RSS feed in this text box. And click Preview button

Now you can see the application preview in right hand side (Image not added here)

Once you give the Feed address it will ask for other feed. Give the details If you have more than one feed

Then click “Next Step”

Here you can Customize the appearance of the application.

First Name the application

Create and Upload an original image in PNG, JPG or GIF format for your application icon. It should be at least 80 x 80 pixels.

Give RSS feed titles

Create and Upload an original image in PNG, JPG or GIF format for your logo. It should be at least 360 x 60 pixels.

Change colours if it is needed.

Select application language and go to next step

Tick both checkbox and continue

Just Click “Next step” If you are not interested for Advertising

Fill all the details about your application and Press Finish

You should have a NOKIA publisher account . you can create an account in next steps if you don’t have

Once you complete your setup wizard You can see following page

Here you can edit application again or View in emulator. You can also test this application in your mobile before submitting to ovi.

Once you are satisfied with your application then click “Submit to OVI Store”

verification process will take 1-2 days.

Once the application is reviewed by Nokia. it will be available on OVI Store

See My application link : http://store.ovi.com/content/106408

It can be searched and downloaded through OVI Store application.

If you have any doubt feel free to Ask

Turn your smart phone into a wifi access point

Albin Sebastian — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:44:12 +0000

With the help of JOIKUSPOT application you can change your mobile in to a internet hotspot . If you have an internet connection via GPRS or 3G you can share the internet connection via wireless network (Wi-Fi). It is very easy to share your internet with multiple people. It will work like a normal HotSpot you can access this from any Wi-Fi enabled devices like Laptop, iPhone, other mobile phones. Using this application you can avoid the complicated setup of PC suite and manual dial up via USB cable or a Bluetooth. This is also a nice idea for 3G Wi-Fi hotspot.

Here I tested with a free version of JOIKUSPOT (Joikuspot light) , Full version support Data encryption, Access point name change, VPN access, Other internet protocols like POP SMTP. Full version can download from the developers website or OVI store

Download JOIKUSPOT Light from OVI store, and open like all other mobile apps. There are no complicated settings. Once you open the application you can see a Start button, the access point will ready when you start it. Application will show the users connected to the hotspot, the data usage, total data usage etc.

Download from OVI : JOIKUSPOT

Install Android 2.1 UI on Nokia S60v5 mobile

Albin Sebastian — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:52:53 +0000

I was searching for a solution to run android on my Nokia 5230. I found some YouTube videos with tag Android and Nokia. After a long search I found some solution to tweak the user interface of Nokia with an Android. Here are the steps to change Nokia UI to an Android UI on Symbian 60V5. Remember this will change only the User interface. You can always uninstall.

1. Download GDesk.rar from following link

http://www.ziddu.com/download/9183034/GDesk.rar.html

2. Extract and rename the folder as “+GDesk”

3. Copy “+GDesk” folder to your phone memory

4. Go to +GDesk\Gdesk v0.33g Install SIS And install all applications, files listed below

GDesk.0.33g.SIS
GDeskAgnViewS60.0.33g.sis
GDeskClockS60.0.33g.sis
GDeskInfoViewS60.0.33g.sis
GDeskNotepadS60.0.33g.sis
GDeskShortcutsS60.0.33g.sis
GDeskTaskManS60.0.33g.sis

Normally Phone will not allow you to install GDeskTaskManS60.0.33g.sis. It will give following error

Certificate is expired

You have to sign the application and install it
How can you sign an application? Generate a certificate using this site and sign it.
Or try a self signing application using application called FreeSigner

5. Now run GDesk from your installed applications.

6. Tap your screen, then click on Design >> Load Design
select Android 2.1.gdd from your phone

Location : Memory card\+GDesk\Android 2.1.gdd

7. Now go to options and tick following option for better result

Replace Main
Full Screen
Hide title caption
Disable menu tap

It is compactable with Nokia 5230, 5800, 5235 and 5233

Mobile number portability and you

Pramod Thomas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:04:55 +0000

Our life is changing drastically. Technology made our lives even easier that it earlier was. From trunk calls to mobile number portability, India has traveled a long way. With the introduction of low cost mobile hand sets the communication revolution in India took a big leap. During the beginning of 21^st century the major concept was “reducing the distance”. The very concept changed the whole thing. More and more telecom companies started operations in India. Spectrum auction became the main revenue generation exercise of the government. Then according to the instruction by TRAI one second billing concept introduced in India. Now the time has come for the much awaited mobile number portability.

What does it mean

Mobile number portability is a system that allows the customers to change their service providers without changing the mobile number. It is a welcome move since it gives customers the freedom of choice. But there is another view also which says this move will affect the profitability of the telecom companies. When the competition among mobile companies increases naturally the end beneficiary will be the customer. It is easy to change to the system of number portability, just contact the service provider and that’s it.

Mobile company shares

Reliance, TATA, Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Aircel, MTN…the list is getting bigger day by day. Increased competition only means decrease in profit. In the short term mobile number portability will be a blow for the telecom company shares. But surely stability will happen in the telecom sector after the implementation of number portability. The latest news from telecom sector is that –the field is set, get ready to reach the skies.

Connectbot SSH client for android

Albin Sebastian — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:32:40 +0000

ConnectBot is an open sourse Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Using this SSH client you can manage your SSH enabled servers / devices. You can monitor utilization, restart services, analyze logs etc .It can also use as a secure file transfer application. ConnectBot is must tool for system administrators and webmasters who manage their own VPS. You can download ConnectBot from Android Market. Or you can download it from here . Source code is also available here http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/

Download using QR code

WordPress mobile application for Nokia symbian S60

Albin Sebastian — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:47:38 +0000

WordPress released a nice mobile application for managing wordpress blogs, WordPress for Nokia is an open source project under GPL license . The application support symbian platform. You can run this application in S60 and Maemo powered Nokia mobiles. If you are a developer you can contribute here

Application can use with wordpress blogs with version 2.7 or later . You can create edit posts / pages with this application. It will also list the comments both approved and waiting for the moderation. So that bloggers can take actions against latest comments. You can reply the comments immediately. Comments are listing with Gravatar icon and email / link of the person. You can configure multiple blog accounts here. WordPress for Nokia comes with statistical analysis inbuilt. It means you can see how your blog or site is performing – wherever you are

The application is connecting through XML-RPC, so make sure that it is enables in your blog. application size is about 13 MB so its recommended to download using a Wireless network or a 3G internet connection. Start blogging on move

Download links WordPress , OVI

GPRS Access point name of Indian mobile service providers

Albin Sebastian — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:42:22 +0000

Here is the list of Indian mobile service providers with access point name ( APN ) . APN name is the important potion of a GPRS setting in the phone. Normally you can download GPRS settings from service provide. But some handsets are not supported this formats in that case you have to manually configure GPRS settings in your phone. This is very much helpful for those who user “mobile partner” software for Huawei products.

Service provider	APN name
AirTel	airtelgprs.com
	airtelwap.com
	airtelmms.com
	airtelfun.com
Aircel	aircelgprs
	aircelwap
BSNL	bsnlnet
BSNL ( East )	www.e.pr
BSNL (West )	gprswest.cellone.in
BSNL ( North )	gprsnorth.cellone.in
TATA Docomo	tata.docomo.internet
Hutch	www
Hutch Gujarat	web
Idea Cellular	internet
	imis
	mmsc
MTNL Delhi	gprsmtnldel
	gprsppsdel
MTNL Mumbai	gprsmtnlmum
	gprsppsmum
Orange	portalnmms
Spice Telecom	simplyenjoy
Vodafone	www
	portalnmms
uninor	uninor
MTS	gprsinternet

Convert Divx videos for Nokia 5800 series mobiles

Albin Sebastian — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:55:31 +0000

I had wrote an article about how to play Divx videos on symbian phones. You can run Divx files without converting the files. But that are huge files, you can convert them to small files which fit to your mobile screen, for example Nokia 5800, 5230, 5233 models having display with screen size of 640×360 . Here I am using converting software called SUPER © which is provided by www.erightsoft.com as a freeware. You can download it from http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html#Dnload Current version ( SUPER©.v2010.build.38 ) . Install the application. Its not only converting form divx but its support following formats also

MPEG, MPG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, DCM, VDR, PVR, TS, M2T, MTS, MMV, REC, VID, AUD, AVR, TP, TP0, TRP, TOD, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, AIF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3; MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, and DIVX.

Drag and drop the file which you want to convert. And select following settings. Then you select “Encode ( Active files )” It will start converting. And it take some time to convert it. you can see the progress bar and output file size there. Here is the settings for the mobiles with screen size 640×360 with aspect ratio 16:9 . ( Nokia 5800, 5230 , 5233 ) You can change the settings according to your phone models.

Format
Output File: mp4
Output Video Codec: mpeg-4

Video
Video General Options: Both unchecked
Video Scale Size: 640×360
Video Aspect: 16:9
Video Frame/Sec: 25
Video Bitrate: 816

Audio
Audio General Options: Both unchecked
Audio Sampling Frequency: 44100
Audio Channels: 2
Audio Bitrate: 112

What is QR CODE ?

Arun Wilson — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:12:44 +0000

A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response”, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. A QR code can be a URL, simple text, SMS message, Phone Number or a Business card. Many companies in Japan are using QR codes in there advertisements so that the people can easily access further information via there mobiles devices. The use of the QR Code is free of any license. The QR Code is clearly defined and published as ISO standard. QR Code can handle alphanumeric character, symbol, binary, and other kinds of codes. QR Code can hold up to 7,089 characters in a single symbol.

You can also create (Encode) your Links / text to a QR code. Here you can find the list of Online QR code creators.

Hope you saw this QR codes in many places especially in mobile application download links. But do you know how to use this. You can read (Decode) the information from a QR code by the help of your mobile camera and a QR code reading software. Some mobile phones are coming with a barcode reader application. But Some phones are not coming with barcode readers. There are many third-party software’s available for downloads. You can find the list of QR code readers or mobile devices here.

Install the application and Try to read above QR code