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Theme Highlight – Fring Theme by Fring

Yash Maheshwari — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:32:20 +0000

This week’s theme highlight is a light & bright colored fun theme by the developers of Fring, a Multi-Service IM app. If you, like me, become bored of the dark & solid color themes you use most of the times, this theme will definitely lighten you up. A highly recommended theme, which looks great on Touch phones & well as the S60v3 Non-Touch phones. Weighing at just about a 100kb, the theme is even light on resources & uses the default icon set of your phone.

Screenshots -

Touchscreen Phones

Non Touch Screen (S60v3)

Download : Fring Theme

Thanks to @sheridan01 for the N97 screenshots.

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New arrivals at the Ovi Store – August 26th

Yash Maheshwari — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:35:55 +0000

A collection of few of the applications released at the Ovi Store in the past few days.

1. Midomi Music Search & ID

“Loving that song? Midomi is the fastest way to find and explore music. For a limited time, Midomi is offering a free trial. Just tap the orange button and sing, hum or hold your phone up to a speaker – and Midomi names the tune! Already know the title or band name? Just use Midomi ’s text search. Either way, Midomi’s music browser offers previews, youTube videos and more.”

2. Fring

“fring is a mobile internet community and communication service that allows friends to connect, share experiences and enhance their communities (Skype, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Facebook, Last fm & SIP) together.”

3. Live2Phone Mobile Surveillance

“Live2Phone is a video streaming application. It can be used for home and office surveillance, nanny cam, intrusion alarm, or just for fun. The innovative instant alert on motion detection makes it perfect for baby monitoring. It is less expensive and easy to use alternative to a classical surveillance system.”

4. nUnlock

“The coolest homescreen ever for you Nokia. See everything you need at first glance: easy-to-read time display, indicators of your phone status.Then, unlock your phone with one smooth slide.”

5. MeCanto

“Listen to your ENTIRE music collection on your phone and on the web. MeCanto lets you take your music collection with you, wherever you go, with virtually no storage limit. Setting up MeCanto is as simple as registering on the MeCanto website (http://www.mecanto.com) and installing the MeCanto client on the PC containing your music collection. Once the client is installed, your entire music collection can be accessed from the MeCanto website or your phone (through 3G/WiFi connectivity).”

6. Microsoft Tag Reader

“The Microsoft Tag mobile tagging system instantly connects you to more information and entertainment. A snap of the Microsoft Tag multicolored barcode from your smartphone ’s camera transports you to linked mobile content, videos, retailers, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, and more.”

Review:Multi-chat client from Palringo

Payam Dastmalchi — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:05:41 +0000

One of the mostly used web services on my PC is the multi chat service from Meebo. The service allows me to access multiple IM accounts from one centralized user interface. Now, you can basically do the same thing from your Nokia S60 device phones by using Palringo. All your chat buddies from multiple platforms, on one list is what Palringo does.

Palringo is a FREE Instant Messaging chat program featuring text, picture and voice. Combine all your buddies from MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, and more. It works on 500+ mobiles including iPhone, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and others plus PC & Mac!

The great thing about Palringo is that you can also access Facebook chat AND Apple’s iChat.

Installation:

Before using this app, you must register for an account at Palringo. Once you are registered and have installed the app, you can then navigate through the menu and add multiple chat services.

Features:

Palringo has a very attractive user interface and this makes it easy to chat and navigate through the menu. One of the features of this app is that you are able to send and receive pictures and voice messages. Palringo runs on a low data connection and you can chat between multiple contacts simultaneously. The IM’s also show up real-time and requires no manual refreshing. You can also search for groups and join chat rooms with people that have similar interests. In addition Palringo makes it easy to update your status across a number of services in one try and supports insertion of location into your status so all of your friends can know when your location changes. <- Very cool.

Conclusion: Score 7/10

There are certainly other apps (Nimbuzz, Fring, IM+Skype, etc) that allow for multiple chats but since I’ve installed Palringo last week, I’ve noticed that my IM usage on my phone has gone up and I am more frequently chatting on my phone. The app runs smoothly and I’ve had no battery problems with it.

My only concern with this app is that you need to give them your IM account passwords and your account info is stored on their servers. I know this is a sensitive subject for some people out there but to me being able to access all my chat platforms from one centralized UI, makes it all worth it.