The Unofficial N95 User’s Manual

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Archive for the 'Applications' Category

July 6, 2008

Profimail Is Broken: Time To Find A New Email App

Thinking of using Lonely Cat’s Profimail? Think again: their “product” is really a “service” that won’t work unless their servers do, which means you can only check your mail if they allow you to.

Look, I get it: any company that wants to stay in business has to deal with piracy. When the mobile app you [...]

May 15, 2008

Best RSS Reader For N95: Google’s iPhone Reader

http://www.google.com/reader/i

I’ll hand it to Apple, their iPhone has spurred a flurry of new development activity for mobile platforms. The web 2.0 aesthetic–simple, uncluttered interfaces, large button-like links, and streamlined services–works well with the iPhone’s touch-and-tap interface, and in many cases websites designed for the iPhone screen work well on other mobile screens as well.
That’s the [...]

October 20, 2007

Build Your Own Jack-O-Lantern

It’s almost Halloween, and that means it’s time to outfit your phone with some appropriately creepy/spooky stuff. I’ve created a Flash Lite application that lets you create your own jack-o’-lantern directly on your phone. You launch it via your Flash Lite player, then scroll through pumpkins, eyes, noses, mouths, and even backgrounds until you’re satisfied [...]

August 25, 2007

Use Morse Code to Send SMS

Back when I had a Nokia 6682, I had access to an awesome freeware app that let you use Morse code to tap out your text messages. It’s never been updated to S60 3rd so I decided to make my own using Flash Lite.
Now some caveats: I don’t usually make applications of any sort, which [...]

August 23, 2007

Decay Clock! Flash Screensaver

I wanted to test the Flash Lite environment on my N95, so I dug through my old Flash files from back when I was doing web development and found an animation that I was able to convert. I added a little clock functionality to it and packaged it as a Flash screensaver/application for the N95. [...]