http://www.fwrnando.com/blog I need to post more Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:30:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's post is a quick little tip, just to break the silence. There's times you know there is an wifi access point nearby, and you have the password or whatever you need to get to the internet, but your phone is not detecting it, even when nearby laptops are getting it. ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/disable-wlan-energy-saving-and-extend-the-range/ The Revenge of Shinobi on Picodrive S60 from Fernando Santos on Vimeo. I had recorded a video to illustrate this post, but had forgotten to post it. Err... Here it is then. =P http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/the-revenge-of-shinobi-on-picodrive-s60/ The internets are buzzing with themes that use this new pack of icons made by Flahorn, ICEman made one, p@sco made one, Flahert himself made one, but they all require a certain appshelldata.xml (the file that saves your menu order) and menu.mif (the file with the icon graphics). I uploaded ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/more-menu-icons-h4xing/ At my favorite forum ever, Mobile-Review, user Tissot posted a link with pictures of 3 leaked models, following the link and ending at this flickr, I found out there were LOADS of unrealeased models pics there. 2680 3610 Fold 5800 XpressMedia (the tube!) 6260 7210 Supernova 7510 Supernova E66 N85 (marked as N00) and N79 9 leaked models! And just in ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/zomg-huge-proto-leak/ Finally, with the use of hacking though, I have my (almost) perfect set-up for playing Mega Drive on my N95, landscape mode and using the media keys as gaming buttons. First, with the recently outed MagicKey (from the most excellent opda.com.cn forum) you can remap certain phone keys to other funcions. ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/use-media-keys-for-picodrive/ This saturday, my modem decided to die, just after business hours too, so I'd have to wait until monday to order a new one. So it was up to my phone to keep me connected meanwhile. And, surprisingly for anyone who tryed to tether an older phone (memories of my ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/when-the-internet-is-down-n95-saves-the-day/ ..or finally a reason to hack the permissions on my N95! After all that trouble in making past posts about ordering your folders in place, and why wouldn't S60 allow you to create folders with icons, bugb at OPDA.net.cn finally make an app to do it. Even if it needs a ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/opdas-menueditor/ A week from last friday, our favorite emulator developer AnotherGuest released a new version of Picodrive S60, based on Notaz's GP2x source code, and it's totally awesome. Here's a video I made of it in action, how the sound syncs perfectly now: Highlights: Perfect sound! (see the last version for comparison, awful ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/new-picodrive-s60-version/ The english version of M-r review is out, go read it! http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-s60-fp2-full-en.shtml http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/s60-3rd-edition-feature-pack-2-review/ Recently I found out about this Landscape Pro V2 that allows you to rotate your s60's screen both ways, and I wondered how did the app handle it? Manual turning or did S60 had a secret inverse landscape mode? Turns out that it is the former, and now I'm trying to ... http://www.fwrnando.com/blog/2008/s60-inverse-landscape/