Symbian in Motion

Quick Clicks #2

Ray of the cleverly named Yet Another Symbian Blog posted about a very cool looking app called 8motions. 8Motions is an app that integrates GPS mapping, tracking, geo-tagging, Flickr and buddy monitoring. That’s quite a reach for a freeware app! The bad news is that it’s a java app but I’ll definitely be checking it out in spite of that…

More important that the app itself, check out that sweet theme on all of Ray’s screenshots! ;)
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Can I tell you how much I’m loving GrandCentral? I first learned about it a while back on The PhoneBoy Blog and I haven’t looked back. I just wish they’d work out extensions and auto-scheduling so that I could add my work number.

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Have you guys seen screenshots from the latest version of Smart2go? I posted one in this thread on HoFo that Kevlarman and Phoenix SZ seemed to like. ;)

I bring this up really just to say to all you game developers out there that I would pay a million dollars (no, not really) to have the original Oregon Trail on my mobile…

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Several bloggers have been posting about the deal between Kodak and Motorola. Did I miss something? This deal was announced well over a year ago! Why all the sudden buzz?

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You should all check out the sweet little utility by SymbianGeek called SwissKnife9. The unsigned version is available on the SymbianGeek blog. SwissKnife9 is a simple but great little task/system information manager that let’s you kill tasks/processes and view a variety of information about them such as permitted capabilities and memory info. I hope the icon is fixed soon!

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The E-Series blog has a great weekly feature called “Friday Themes”. I’ve been meaning to do something similar from time to time for quite a while now but I just haven’t gotten around to it - until now that is…

To start things off, I’ll just run down a few of my all-time favorites that you’ve surely seen on this blog before. These three themes really put my brilliant N80 display to good use:

BlackOSX by Elton

This is probably my favorite theme of all time for S60 3rd. The graphics, the detail, the colors… All amazing.

Pearl Black by Alexx

This is certainly one of the most popular S60 3rd themes, inspired by an advertisement for a branded N80 that was never released. Simple, sleek, and I love it.

Vista2 by Alfa

This is an early S60 3rd theme but it is and always will be one of my favorites. Great graphics and very good design.

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And lastly, for a delicious little bit of irony that you may have already seen, US state Senator Carole Migden was involved in a car accident last week in San Fransisco. Migden’s vehicle struck the back of a Honda sedan when she took her eyes off the road to reach for her ringing cell phone. The driver of the Honda was transported to the hospital with minor injuries.

Migden of course, voted in favor of a state bill that fines drivers for talking on their cellphones while driving. I’m glad that no one was seriously injured but mmmmmm - taste that irony… ;)

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UPDATE: I didn’t realize how many versions there were out there, but the BlackOSX theme I linked wasn’t the version I liked the best. I found it though and the link has been updated. :)

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