Archive for the ‘Symbian’ Category:
Mobile Office: Read OpenOffice files in Nokia Symbian S60
Maybe some of you haven't heard of Mobile Office, an Office Suite for mobile phones that lets you read OpenDocument files in your mobile phone. Mobile Office supports reading from OpenDocument text(.odt), spreadsheet(.ods) and presentation(.odp).
OpenDocument is an Open Standard office format which can be created office suite like OpenOffice, AbiWord, KOffice and StarOffice. Unlike Microsoft Office files, OpenDocument guarantees that your files won't be locked in by a single vendor and/or office suite.
Features that supported by Mobile Office are :
- view thumbnail image
- get information about subject, title, keywords and other meta information
- get statistics about paragraph count, words and pages
- zoom and fullscreen
- search
- all text and highlighting colors
- bold and italic
- underline as well as crossing lines
- bullets and numbering
- embedded images
- paragraph bordering
- full support for footnotes
Download Mobile Office for Symbian Series 60 2nd Edition from Symbian Freeware now.
[tags]openoffice,opendocument,symbian, nokia, odt, office, mobile office[/tags]
Python for S60 (pys60) has a new Wiki webpage !
Python for S60 (pys60) wiki has a new home! It has moved from its original page started by Matt Croydon to an official wiki sponsored by Nokia themselves.
The wiki contains a lot information about Python for S60 implementation including tutorial resourses, application example, some cool tips and trics, pys60 libraries and extensions and news updates regarding pys60 development.
Speaking of development, Python for Series 60 project has released PyS60 for S60 3rd Edition device (for 3250, N80, N71, N75, N95, etc). So grab it if you're interested to run python program for your phone!
[tags]python, s60, series60, python, pys60, nokia, symbian,mobile,programming[/tags]
Google Talk Mobile Phone Client – MGTalk 0.2.2
MGtalk is for those who want to stay online with their friend that uses Google Talk network. The client itself require phone that supports Java (tm) application with MIDP 2.0 capabilities, and it is relatively small in size (53KB).
I've compiled MGtalk specially for my readers that include minor modifications from the standard MGtalk. The minor modifications are :
- Removed various System.out (used for debugging ?)
- Add application icon
- Obfuscate jar file to reduce size
- Use alternative authentication server by default
- Recompress the jar file to save space
Download MGTalk :
- MGTalk.jar [53KB]
- MGTalk.jad
- MGTalk-mod.zip (source code)
You can visit http://mgtalk.sourceforge.net for the original MGTalk client, written by vorobev
[tags]nokia,mobile,google talk,mgtalk,jabber, j2me, midp, javame, google talk client,gtalk,jabber client,mobile messenger,messenger[/tags]
Easy way to format your Series 60 (S60) Phone
If for some reason you need to format your series 60 phone, then you might find this guide useful to you :
- Turn off your phone
- Hold down the Green/Call, * button, and '3' button
- While holding these buttons, press the power button and switch on the phone
- Release all button when you see the message "Formatting" on the screen
Note : Please make sure that you phone has enough battery to perform this operation, any interruption may render unpredictable results. Good Luck
How to create a standalone PyS60 application (SIS package)
w00t!, Mobilelenin.com has been updated with information on how to create a stand-alone pys60 sis package. The tutorial also covers the technique to convert normal bitmap image to mbm format to use as the application icon.
I think this is a must for serious Python for Series 60 developers, so lets hurry up to read "How to make a standalone application (using py2sis)"