A Byte of Apple : New iPods, iTunes 10 and Apple TV announced and dissected!

Throwing open its typically-closed-doors to a live web audience, albeit only for those on the Mac OS or iOS platform, Apple unveiled a slew of new products and services to a capacity crowd at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. There were upgrades detailed for the iOS platform, including the iPad, a whole new line-up of iPods, a brand new arisen-from-the-ashes Apple TV and iTunes 10 going all social! In case you missed it, here’s all the news you can use, list style for easy consumption, including some nuggets that the casual observer may have missed in the din of last night’s news.

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How To: Get Dropbox On Nokia/Symbian, Natively

If you love having a cloud-ready storage solution accessible from any of your devices, be it multiple computers, mobile phones, iPod Touch… then you should have heard of Dropbox, one of the most famous services with a free 2GB account. Unfortunately, Dropbox works on almost every platform out there except Symbian. You could access it through the m.dropbox.com mobile site, but that’s just not the same. Well, just today, I came up with a solution to get it working on my Symbian/Nokia phones using the SugarSync Symbian app, another cloud-storage solution.

Note: this method isn’t perfect, it’s limited to S60 5th Edition currently, and it’s somewhat ugly. But it works. If you’re not really attached to Dropbox, I suggest you simply use SugarSync instead. It’s basically the same.

Step 1: Create a free SugarSync account

SugarSync offers a free 2GB storage solution, as well as paid 30GB and more storage options. If you’re good with 2GB, head over to this page and sign up for a new account and make sure you activate it.

Step 2: Download SugarSync on your computer

Whether you have a Mac or a PC, head over to the SugarSync Downloads page to download it on your computer. Then open the app, sign in and set up your computer.

Step 3: Integrate your Dropbox folder into SugarSync

There are two ways to integrate Dropbox into SugarSync. By now, I’m assuming you already have a Dropbox account and have it set up on your computer.

The first way is to go to Manage Sync Folders on SugarSync and add your current Dropbox folder to the sync’ed ones.

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Facebook Integration Shines On The Nokia C5

When the Nokia C5 was announced, one of the features it claimed to have was full integration between your Contacts and your Facebook friends, going as far as showing you the latest status updates from your friends when you browse through the contacts. This feature seemed to be forgotten as we moved on to more device announcements, especially the Nokia N8, but as the Nokia C5 was finally dropped off for us to review, the first thing we set out to discover is if this Facebook integration claim was right. Right it proved to be, and here is the detailed feature explanation.

How to activate the Facebook social phonebook features
After transferring your Contacts to the C5, you won’t notice any out of the ordinary option related to Facebook. You have to head into your Application folder and look for the Facebook application, open it, sign in and hit Settings. From there you get to pick if you want to activate the Social Phonebook option and how frequently it should look for new status updates from your friends.

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Trill Twitter Client for Symbian S60v3 Review

Trill twitter client is developed by Spice Labs. This is a new twitter client which is available for free in ovi store. The trill client is written in Symbian and aimed at non-touchscreen phones. Here is a short review of the app. Continue reading “Trill Twitter Client for Symbian S60v3 Review”

AppShopper Is Your Ideal App Store Friend

The Apple App Store has been growing to a point where you almost wonder if it’ll explode one day or if it can realistically get any larger. There are tons of cool new applications everyday, and many existing applications that drop prices every now and then. Getting up to date about those limited time offers can be very tedious if you’re interested in some apps or games but think they’re expensive now. Yes, there are actually tons of actual apps on the App Store that let you follow these offers, like BargainBin, PandoraBox, AppMiner, some of which let you create watchlists to monitor price changes. But let’s face it, do you remember to launch those apps everyday to check for changes, or do you find the badges notifications efficient? I didn’t, I wanted an email when one of my favorite apps drops its price, and I wanted a history of an app’s price to see if the developer tends to do frequent or infrequent offers on it so I can snatch it for a realistic price. That’s when I discovered AppShopper.

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Vonage Mobile for Facebook allows you to call your Facebook friends for free!

If you love saving money and your minutes, then here is an application for you. Vonage has launched an app for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Android OS which is known as Vonage Mobile for Facebook. The ap Continue reading “Vonage Mobile for Facebook allows you to call your Facebook friends for free!”

Convert your iPad WiFi into iPad 3G sans GPS

Did you regret on purchasing iPad WiFi and do you feel left out when you are not in WiFi hotspot. Ya, I too have the same feeling as I was one of the early adopter and at that time only iPad WiFi was available.Here I will be discussing about three different ways to convert your iPad WiFi into 3G enabled iPad. Continue reading “Convert your iPad WiFi into iPad 3G sans GPS”

Why i think Nokia should “archive” most Ovi Services

Okay, so here I’m back with a little rant which is long overdue in my opinion. I was an Ovi User since Day 1. My Ovi Share Album is still filled with a ton of pictures, that i dont even have on my hard disk. Whenever I was on the Road, i took the Pics, uploaded them, ready for my loved ones to have a look at. But, after a huge site upate, share on Ovi got messed up and since is barely usable. After some weeks of exactly nothing happening, i decided to go for a Flickr Pro Account. Why? Simple, better integration with other OSes, much more Options, and an active developer scene, that helps making the experience better with numerous helpers, like Picnik, a great online picture editing tool.

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Top 5 Twitter clients for Android

Twitter is one of the biggest and popular social networks in the world, and it’s a very good way of communicating with your friends. You can follow your favorite celebrity, favorite brand, or best friend on Twitter. Most of the time, users use Twitter via their mobile, and if you are using an Android phone, then you need a good Twitter client for your Android phone, and then please allow me to share some good apps with you. After the break, you will see some good Android apps for Twitter with all their information.

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Some of the best Android apps

Surfing internet is one of my favorite habit, and searching about something good is also. When I finally find something after searching a lot, and it’s very useful for everyone, then sharing it is my responsibility. Applications, without applications your mobile phone is empty, I am an Android user and I love downloading apps (who don’t love it?), I want all the best apps in my phone, so I can enjoy the experience all the time. Continue reading “Some of the best Android apps”

Graffiti for Android

If you are using an Android powered phone, and you hate typing words through on-screen keyboard because the words are very small and it’s hard to use, and you want to write alphabets in a handwriting style with your fingers like you are use to write on a book during old days in your book, then give a chance to a new Android app known as Graffiti. The app is very accurate, and you don’t need to enter the words again and again, because it pick up the words in very first time . The app includes the original Graffiti strokes, complete with the familiar two-part silkscreen, as well as the Graffiti Help reference screen. You can bring up the silkscreen for text input and use a finger or stylus to enter characters. You can download the app right now from Android market, or by scanning the barcode after the break.

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Opera Releases Opera Mobile 10.1 Beta For S60 Phones

Opera recently released the first beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian Series 60 phones. Opera Mobile 10.1 beta comes with some amazing features such as geolocation capabilities and accelerated speed.

Here is a good news for all the Nokia smartphone users. Opera recently released the first beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian Series 60 phones. Opera Mobile 10.1 beta comes with some amazing features such as geolocation capabilities and accelerated speed.

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Android Market now live in Korea

Today is a very big day for people who are enjoying their life with Android devices over in Republic of Korea, because the Android Market is now live in Korea, and now you have access to all Android apps in the market. Korean market is really huge, and it’s the home of the one of the well known mobile phones maker, Samsung. Samsung has sold more than 300,000 Samsung Galaxy S in Korea, and they also sold 1 million Samsung Wave all over the World. Continue reading “Android Market now live in Korea”