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5800 v40: Kudos to Nokia

We asked nicely, and today, V40 for the 5800 came out, with the new 5530 style homescreen and kinetic scrolling. Awesome? Also as you can see, the transparency for it doesn’t work if you’re using the default Sound waves theme, so I suggest using Stripes Blue from the 5530. Almost the same but better compatible [...]
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RE: 5800 homescreen shenanigans

A while ago I had posted about how the 5800 was the only S60v5 phone with a sucky homescreen, and that the newer XpressMusic ones had the best one. Well, turns out that since this November, you can add more homescreens thru h4x, with just c2z and files lifted from other phones. Pretty nifty. My [...]
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When will the recursion end?!

With a lot of thanks due to my fav internet e-homie, I just got a N800 for practically nothing! Now I can start exploring the magical & mysterious world of Maemo. (that and try webkit browsers to further expand my blog rendering recursion pic!) Awesomeness~ this might have been the most “dear diary” type post [...]
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Opera Mobile 10 Beta 1

After months of teasing, Opera finally released a beta of version 10 for Symbian, available here or at m.opera.com/next It’s all fine and dandy, it’s basically Opera Mini 5 beta, with Opera Turbo and all their fast magic, only faster because it’s a native app. I know some people that swear by Opera Mini, and [...]
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Maemo meetup, Chicago

I was there! Yesterday night, after some years meaning to go to the “Evening with S60″ events in Chicago, I finally was able to go to one. This post won’t have many pictures, mostly because I was more excited about playing with the N900s than about taking pictures. :P So, things I found noteworthy, in [...]
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Mobbler 0.07 (beta) finally scrobbles songs on S60v5!

Finally! Only took Nokia about an year to release the APIs needed by the Mobbler team to enable scrobbling on S60v5 amirite? 0.07 is still not out for the public, but I am participating in the beta test. Haven’t found any bugs yet, so it’ll probably be out soon! Update: Hey it’s out, go get [...]
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Guess who’s back? (or, landscape Maps & Furtiv)

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 [...]
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I lost my 5800

The title says it all. Lost it with my phone number this last monday. I’m currently using the N95 without a SIM card. No money or prospects of getting enough for a N900. Expect that to impact the posting frequency. :(
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Transparent icon shortcuts (or, let me see my wallpaper!)

Let me start with two facts: First, being able to do anything on S60v5 using only the touchscreen except entering the main menu is annoying. Second, finding a wallpaper that has the proper amount of er… top padding (245px!) so that important parts of it won’t get obscured by the shortcut bar is kinda hard! [...]
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Converter Touch (or, Offscreen rules)

I’ll be honest, I’m not a big fan of the Ovi Store. I was really hyped for it and it kinda let me down, from the server errors and links breaking constantly, to the lack of content that’s available elsewhere (Nokia support sites or even the old Download! app (Quickoffice, Adobe Reader and Zip Manager, [...]
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