The guys at Furtiv have done it again. This time they are working on a plugin to use Dropbox with Symbian S60 devices. Uploading pictures and files to your Dropbox account and having it in sync with your desktops, laptops, and netbook should as easy as counting to 123. So far I’ve tried it with my Nokia E71 and Nokia N95 8GB and its working like a charm, great job guys

So give it a try and let us know what you think, this should be way cool. Point your mobile browser to http://furtiv.mobi from your compatible Nokia Symbian phone to get this beta plug-in.

via Furtiv Blog

Traveling around the world or maybe you like different restaurants well this app is for you, I was just in Philadelphia and went to various Indian and Greek restaurants and guess what was my secret weapon, Abbyy FotoTranslate, guys the app worked a like a charm on my Nokia XM 5530, I really did feel like 007.

ABBYY FotoTranslate is new application combines ABBYY’s award-winning optical character recognition (OCR) technology for converting images of words into text and mobile dictionary software. As a result, FotoTranslate delivers swift and accurate translation of words without the need for manual input of text, Internet connection, cellular signal, or access to any external language resources.

It will make people feel more in control of various communication situations especially when traveling abroad: to translate a dish name in a restaurant menu, unknown words in a local newspaper, business card, on a building or guide sign.

Key Features:

• Easy information input
• No Internet or mobile network connection is required
• Quick and accurate word translation
• Up-to-date high-quality dictionaries
• Up to 8 languages for recognition and 30 directions for translation
• Audio pronunciations by professional speakers of translated keywords
• Auto and manual corrections
• User-friendly, intuitive interface

007 after having used ABBYY FotoTranslate

So give it a try and see if it works for you as well as it worked for me, LINK

Share in the comments how you would use this application in your travels or day to day mobile life and I’ll choose at random 3 stories and give you a FREE license to this great application. Cheers everyone and thanks for reading

Just a few days ago Opera Mobile 10 Beta 3 was released for Symbian, bringing OM Mobile one step closer to a final release. Check out the change log and download now straight from your mobile browser at: m.opera.com

Wow its lightning fast now, I read on their site pages load 50% faster than Beta 2, holy molly, wow, I just tried it on various Nokia devices and boy what a treat.

Congrats Opera on a great release.

S60:
- Complete bookmark sync in Opera Link
- Support for non-latin characters in the UI also when phone is set to latin locale (requires international build)
- A lot of input and keyboard related fixes
- Fixed text selection
- Visual indication of input mode also for non-latin input modes
- General bug fixing (stability, UI)

The popular VOIP client Skype is now confirming that its ready for prime time. It now shows official support for the touch OS version s60v5. So make sure you head over to www.skype.com to download the app asap to start enjoying this jewel. Doesn’t the Mini look nice on this official screenshot. From your s60 mobile go to http://www.skype.com/m to download to your device.

Gravity, everyone favorite Twitter client just got an important update just a few minutes ago. It now supports Four Square integration, the build is numbered alpha 6323 and it only supports s60v5 so let’s hope s60v3 comes soon as well for all those Eseries users out there.

Have you ever been in this situation, you’re in a quiet area jamming on your Nokia smartphone and then suddenly you move and the headset wire gets stuck and its pulled out by mistake and now everyone is listening to your Rolling Stones tune(my favorite band) and they look at you like you’re crazy.

Well then, if you can relate then “For Your Ear Only” will definitely rescue you from a potentially embarrassing and harassing situation. Our friend Norman from Symbian World just recently highlighted the application there. So jump to this page to download this great utility. Its a must have for any serious s60 music listener.

via Symbian World including pics

As of recently I’ve been riding the wave of mobile qr readers for Nokia, I’ve known about them for years now but recently with the my purchase of the N86 its been a God given gift but also don’t discard E series devices either, these little apps are very handy indeed. Just check out the image above that’s our very own NMT’s site.

I won’t dwell into the plethora of options as its not the focus of this post but I’ll just highlight my favorite which is Upcode. Upcode is extremely reliable and capable of reading 2D and 1D bar codes which are everywhere folks. Here is a little something from their site which explains it thoroughly in a brief statement. I’ve also loaded my E71 with Upcode and its so so helpful, so I encourage you all to the same you’ll love it. Cheers

UpCode™ is a highly developed mobile access & interaction MAI™ technology that turns mobile phones into intelligent optical readers (or ‘scanners’) able to read codes on any object or surface – simply by ‘pointing’ at them with a mobile. In everyday life 2d QR DM and 1d barcodes are on practically every object or can be sent to mobile phones – UpCode™ can make them come to life.

UpCode™ is considered as the world’s no. 1 solution provider for evaluation and subsequent integration of new mobile optical reading solutions into cross-media or business applications. These new mobile technologies provide improved efficiencies for business, commerce and industry by reducing cost and improving profits, time management, control systems and data analytics. Ensuring measurable results.

I also enabled a few sidebar qr codes for your convenience like NMT RSS and Mippin Mobile site.

The giant messaging company Nimbuzz just recently announced their new product launch called NimbuzzOut which allows you to make VOIP calls at a cheap rate. Here’s the press released that I received via email earlier today. This is certainly great news and only shows how Nimbuzz continues to evolve in an ever changing mobile world. Check out the cool screenshot of how it looks on the your Symbian Smartphone.

Nimbuzz, the new-generation mobile VoIP operator, has today announced the launch of NimbuzzOut, offering great value international calls at the lowest possible rates, to complement its multi award-winning mobile application offering free VoIP calls, SIP calls and social IM aggregation.

From today, NimbuzzOut Credits will be available for purchase at www.nimbuzzout.com, enabling users to save up to 95% on the cost of a traditional international mobile call.

Nimbuzz’ free to download, free to use mobile IM and VoIP application, launched in May 2008, already enables millions of users worldwide to enjoy free calls and instant messaging with friends across both its own network, and users’ favorite online social communities (Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk (Orkut), AIM, Facebook, MySpace and many more)

The launch of NimbuzzOut, starting with Symbian, iPhone and iPod Touch handsets and rolling out to others later this year, adds great value and great quality calling from mobiles on 3G or Wi-Fi to any other mobile or landline worldwide.

Nimbuzz technology has pioneered next-generation mobile calling, with over 3million Nimbuzz calls made every single week!  NimbuzzOut represents the company’s first revenue-generating feature, launched in direct response to user requests of whom 69% recently surveyed* said they expect to use mobile VoIP more than ever in the coming 12 months.

NimbuzzOut comes at a time of phenomenal growth for Nimbuzz, with more than 10million registrations of the application since launch, a current growth rate of more than a million new registrations each month (that’s a new Nimbuzz user every 3 seconds!), a daily active user base of over 30% and an international user footprint covering every corner of the globe.

Nimbuzz founder & CEO, Evert-Jaap Lugt said of the NimbuzzOut launch: “High value, high quality voice calling is positioned at the heart of our value proposition, making NimbuzzOut the most natural commercial extension of our product.  This offers fantastic value to our users, especially those who wish to communicate regularly with friends and family abroad at the lowest possible prices.  This is all part of our strategy to give Nimbuzz users control of their mobile lives and the freedom they want and deserve.”

Adopting a standard pay-as-you-go model, NimbuzzOut credits will be sold in bundles of 10, 20 and 40 Dollars or Euro’s.  Users can learn more and check call savings per country via the rate calculator on the Nimbuzz web and wap sites.

My favorite social media aggregation tool, Pixelpipe, just had a huge monster update last night and things just keep getting better and better for the San Francisco startup that now can probably be called the king of social media. Great job guys but I must say I’m really curious about you’re tweet from last week hinting at a possible native s60 Pixelpipe application due to the limitations of Share Online.  Anyway, check out the services below and see if you fancy any of them. I already setup Google OCR and have been getting good results after my initial test.

From your S60 device just refresh the services once you’ve setup the additional pipes online.

New Pipes:

- Google Docs: Upload documents directly to your Google Docs account

- Google OCR: Upload a photo of a document, Google will convert the photo to text and place the document in your Google Docs account. Neat!

- docstoc: Online document storage & sharing

- CNN iReport: Upload photos, video and audio files directly to your iReport account for citizen journalist on the go.

- ScreenTweet: Send photos to Twitter

- Sendspace: Online file storage and sharing

- Skyrock: Popular Social Network out of France, supports photos, blogging and status updates

- Twicli: Media sharing for Twitter, supports photo, video & audio files

- TwitLens: Send photos to Twitter

-Twitsnaps: Send photos to Twitter

- Yahoo Status: Update your status across Yahoo networks with micro-blog style updates

- Yahoo Meme: Yahoo’s up and coming competitor to Twitter, supports inline photos and status/micro-blog posts

- Yammer: A private/group version of Twiiter, supports micro-blog posts, be careful with this one since your entire company might be reading your posts!

Removed Pipes:

- SMS services: We were having issues with reliable delivery of the messages so removed the SMS services for evaluation.

- Seesmic: The video services weren’t reliable enough

- Squarespace: Not enough users

- Qipit: They’re discontinuing their consumer offering

- Brightkite: Our API integration was broken in their last service update. We’re trying to get the issue resolved now and will get them back into the list of available services ASAP!

Here we are welcoming a new Java Twitter client, its called J1CK.Tweet developed by a small group of developers from the Basque region of Spain. J1CK.Tweet is quite a little app which is bound to surprise many of you out there. Among some the immediate things I noticed its how incredibly fast it is, I was pretty impressed with its UI and how simple its overall functions are easily and intuitively displayed.

J1CK.Tweet comes in at a price of $0.00 dollars, yes its free and will compete with other free Twitter clients like Twibble and Twim and quite a few others but those two immediately jumped out as obvious comparisons. You may remember sometime ago I published 15 Twitter clients for your Nokia smartphone and in my mind J1CK.Tweet certainly needs to be added to that list. So check out the download link at the bottom of the post and give it a try I think you’ll be happily surprised.

Summary of j1ck.tweet features

• All standard functionality: timeline, @mentions, DMs, favorites, following/followers, follow/unfollow, profiles… and of course tweeting!
• Simple, no-nonsense interface. Up/Down/Click and using a menu is all you need to know.
• Quick Reply / Retweet / Favorite in each tweet
• Trending Topics / Saved searches support
• Multiple-account support.
• Twitpic support: you’ll see the picture without having to navigate over there
• Camera support! Take a snapshot from the tweeting form itself and have it automatically uploaded to Twitpic. Great to share where you are in a moment.
• Pretty good support for touch-screen phones (we’re testing mainly on Nokia 5800 and Samsung F480)
• Support for QWERTY keyboard phones (Nokia E71 is currently our main testing device for this)

On the Nokia E71 which by the way is very easy to use, very impressed, for a Java app, its a lot fun to use.

The simplest way to install is to open your Java-enabled phone’s web (or WAP) browser and type the following URL to Download:

tw.j1ck.com

Here is an (incomplete) list of phones where we’ve tested this to work fine:

Nokia N70, Nokia N73, Nokia N80, Nokia N81, Nokia N95, Nokia E50, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6288, Nokia 6500, Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, Nokia 5220 XpressMusic, Nokia 2630, Nokia 3109c, Nokia 3120 Classic, Nokia 5800, Sony-Ericssson W880i, Sony-Ericssson K610i, Sony-Ericssson Z610i, Sony-Ericssson K800i, Samsung SGH-U700, Samsung SGH-J800, Samsung SGH-i560, Samsung SGH-L760, Samsung SGH-F480 (touch-screen), LG KU-380, LG KU-800, Motorola RAZR V3, Motorola VE 538