Guess who’s back? (or, landscape Maps & Furtiv)

Webcam pic woo

Who’d have thought? Whoever found my phone on the waiting area I had left it returned it! He/she found it, took it home, took a picture, made a couple calls before returning it to my college’s front desk/lost and found thing, lucky me!

So, to kick the blog posting back on a good note, here’s a couple neat things I found about yesterday and today.

• Disappointed Ovi Maps can’t go on landscape mode on the 5800, for whatever crazy ass “software differentiation” idea the folks at Nokia came up with? Simple, install Maps 3.1 beta then uninstall it, accelerator based screen rotation works now.
• Furtiv (AAS review) is a gateway between Share Online and Twitter/Facebook/Picasa/etc. What that means is that you can now upload a photo from the camera app directly to twitter in just a couple button presses. It’s really convenient! It’s basically PixelPipe done right.

Oh, also, Sky Force Reloaded was recently adapted for S60v5. I played the free demo available on the Ovi Store, and let me tell you something, their use of the touchscreen is the best control method I’ve seen in S60v5 games yet. Screw people trying to be trendy with accelerometer controls, this is how gaming on S60v5 should be.

Maybe I’ll record a video of myself playing the first level and post about it later. So yay, that’s it.

:)