My Favorite mobile IM

At the first time when I changed my phone cell to N73, I have tried to fine a better IM application. First of all, I use mig33 (http://www.mig33.com) . But after a week, I didn't convenient with that. So, I tried to use shMessenger (http://www.shmessenger.ro/lang_en/index.jsp). This is a good mobile IM application, but unfortunately that application only support Yahoo! IM. I want to use an application with multiple IM protocol. Then, I found fring (http://www.fring.com). With early fring, I can use GTalk protocol, SIP, Fring, ICQ, but there were no Y! IM. But with the newest fring version (3.30), this application make me happy because they already support Y! IM protocol. So.. fring is the best mobile IM application for me. Right now. :D

Today (the day after I wrote this article), my friend has told me about another better Mobile IM application, i.e. Nimbuzz. Nimbuzz is j2me based application that support multi IM protocol and facebook. I have installed too and want to try it, may be this application can change my favorite, i.e. fring. Let me see...

After almost 2 months, I have decided to use Nimbuzz as my mobile messenger applications. :D Sorry fring.

S60 3rd Free Apps (again)

For a couple days, I still try to find more free application for S60 3rd. For today, I have found another web site and applications :

• DivX Palyer. You can play movies on your mobile phone.
• W/igo. If you want to make your mobile phone (with camera) to become a web cam, you can try this application. Very nice.
  
• S60 Ruby. This is a Ruby interpreter that can be ran at Symbian S60 3rd. Although it doesn't have enough libraries, like PythonS60, but with this interpreter you can learn and create a small application with Ruby on your mobile phone. If you want to install it, you should create a signature for S60 Ruby application. Please refer to this information from mobile9 forum.
  
• Symbian-freeware. You can download many freeware applications from this good maintenance site.
  
• Series60v3.com. If you could not buy any commercial applications for your mobile phone, this site will help you :D.

Freeware Mobile Application for my n73 S60 3rd

I have upgraded my mobile phone to N73 with Symbian S60 3rd (V3.0704.1.0.1). I found many new experiences with this phone. I was not satisfied with default applications in that phone, specially for supporting IP based communication, so I tried to search some new freeware mobile applications for N73. I found some new freeware applications that already I used in my phone:

• Opera Mini. This is a great web browser from Opera which supports WAP 2.0.
  
• ScreenSnap60. If you want to capture your symbian s60 screen and save it in some picture formats, this is an application that will fulfill your needs.
  
• Python for S60. Python is a famous script language in many platforms, including on Symbian S60 3rd. There are many features that support your mobile application development, like SMS, GPRS, PIM, etc.
• fring. I was so exciting with this application. I can talk with my friend more cheaper than if you use legacy voice communication (I mean with GSM communication), because with Fring you will use GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA as an infrastructure for IP based communication. Moreover, you still can chat with your Google Account, MSN Account, Skype Account or SIP. If you want to use fring, you have to register first at fring.com.
  
• S60Bible. Thanks to Yohanes Nugroho to give us this great application, so I can read bible anytime and anywhere.
  
• Gmail for mobile. With this application, I can check, compose, reply, and manage my inbox at GMail everyday. Very usefull and simple application.
• Google Map. From your mobile phone, you can use opera mini to start downloading GMap for mobile. For my region, Yogyakarta, the map is not detail, but overall this application give me an abstraction about the location.
  
• Mobile GMaps, is like Google Map, but with this application you can request for mapping from Google Map, or Yahoo map, with or withour GPS.
  
• Playtxt. This is a J2ME application that you can use it for internet messaging with Y!, GTalk, MSN, Jabber, etc.
  
• Y-Browser. If you want to manage your detail file system in your Symbian, this application will help you. It's like a File Explorer in you Windows or Gnome/KDE.

If you have any other applications for S60, please share with us. Thanks.

Janjiku v 0.1

I have developed an example of MIDlet suite that used RMS to store some data in mobile phone. This application is a simple one. The purpose of this development is to give an example application to my students whose take a subject about Wireless Programming with MIDP. I use NetBeans 5.5 Mobility Pack to develop this application. With this IDE, we can develop a MIDlet very easy because there are MIDP Flow Designer which is with this Flow Designer you can design the interaction flow between your MIDP screen in your application.

I called this application as a Janjiku, and altough I did'nt use a software version control, i will give this application with 0.1 beta version :D. With this application, you can manage your appointment data. I have planning to develop this application in next version. Here are some TODO lists for my Janjiku :
* the application should be have alarm system based on the appointments
* you can save some pictures related to your appointments
* .....etc...etc...etc... :D

I have tested this application in my Nokia 6600. If you want, you can test this application on your mobile phone (supported MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.0) too, and please give me your comments. You can download this application from http://lecturer.ukdw.ac.id/budsus/janjiku.zip, or you can visit Janjiku at freshmeat.net page.

Yahoo! Go for Nokia 6600

Yesterday I have installed Yahoo! Go Mobile for Nokia 6600 successfully. Why I mentioned it successful? Because when I tried to install ygo.sis from http://download.go.yahoo.com/sm/ygo/symbian_s60/ygo.sis to my Nokia 6600 always failed. I don't know why. If you have same experience about this, please feel free your comments to this.

You can download this Y!Go for Nokia 6600 in this address: http://download.go.yahoo.com/sm/ygo/symbian_s60/ygo_apac_ns.sis (reported as broken link).

There are another links that you can try to download and install to your nokia S60 phone. Please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian.

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
Based on Yahoo! Help web site, they already inform us that Yahoo! Go v1.x service was down since August 20, 2007. The consequence with that is all of the Yahoo! Go v1.x application will go down too. Please refer to Yahoo! FAQ.