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Stop global warming – travel by train
An excellent collection of train travel related information on Seat61 web site (thanks to Nick Burch for the link). Virtually all countries and rail companies are described. Timetables, fares, best routes and a lot of travel tips are available. Just thinking about air travel, tightened security, requests to come to the airport at least 3…
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At last – Mozilla based browser for N800
Just a couple of days ago I was wondering when Nokia Internet Tablets will get an open source browser. So I was really happy to read today that a Mozilla based browser engine that shares the key components and extension interfaces with Firefox is available as a development version. UMPC has a brief review of…
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Safari, Safari and Opera on 3 mobile devices
Jonathan Green in his video post Browser Comparison: iPhone vs. Nokia N95 and N800 compared performance of Nokia S60 web browser, N800 Opera browser and iPhone Safari browser. Jonathan’s conclusion “my preference is for how Safari handles things over Opera” resonates with my own thoughts in “Opera Mobile vs. Nokia S60 browser – new browser…
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Feature upgrade release to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition
Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in, improvements in online use times and single memory card support up to 8 GB. Read more on Maemo pages. via…
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N800 – Often misunderstood Nokia Internet Tablet
A pot of honey… I should admit that I didn’t believe in the internet tablet concept in the beginning. I simply couldn’t imagine why would I need a device like that if I already have a laptop to use when I’m at home/in the office and a multimedia computer when I’m on the move. That…
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Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”
Today, after a long court battle, breaking CSS protection in DVDs is finally made legal in Finland. Leading Finnish technology law firm “Turre Legal” was representing Mikko Rauhala, who intentionally set up website to discuss the technology of circumventing CSS protection, thus breaking new Finnish copyright law. More on this subject in Turre Legal’s blog.…
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Lifeblog 2.5 PC released
Lifeblog team has quietly released a new version of Lifeblog PC application – 2.5. Lifeblog 2.5 PC is compatible with all Nseries multimedia computers and is now a default download option on Nokia’s web site. I wish Lifeblog had a notification about new version in the application itself, like PC Suite has, so that those…
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Do we really have a mobile development platform?
Two major questions are: – is there a platform that is interesting enough for the developers to invest their time and learn how to develop for it, so that they can sell their skills and – is there a platform that is interesting enough for the companies to monetize on the software developed for this…
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Jaiku – your key to social networking
Recently Jaiku has released a mobile client for S60 3rd edition, and I finally was able to try it out. What is Jaiku? In short – it is a social networking service developed by a startup comany co-founded by Jyri Engeström. As Jaiku’s website states: "Jaiku’s main goal is to bring people closer together by…
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N95 – it’s what computers have become
Yes, I gave up my N93i to move on to the next model of Nseries multimedia computer – N95. Having played with it during the weekend I should say that this is one of the few gadgets in the past year that I literally could not put down for three days in a row. There…