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Transparent icon shortcuts (or, let me see my wallpaper!)

By fernando | Published: September 25, 2009
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! First [...]
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August Updates

By fernando | Published: August 27, 2009
Splitting the updates I was adding in the ActiveFile post to a new one, just to be tidy. “Oh, by the way, my 5800’s earpiece finally gave up, am taking it to be replaced tomorrow. So back to the N95 for a while. Dunno if that’ll affect the frequency (LOL) of posts here, but just giving [...]
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GPS folder on the E75

By fernando | Published: April 6, 2009
From CJ’s E75 review, comes screenshots of the second S60 phone in the market with Ovi icons, and guess what? It does have a GPS folder that’s not an application and has the Maps app inside of it! It doesn’t have the Positioning Settings icon, however, but I’m sure doing an app that’s simply a shortcut [...]
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Random S60v5 nitpick #182 (yes, it involves folders)

By fernando | Published: February 4, 2009
So with a less than official v5 Sports Tracker out, I finally gave in and made a GPS folder. As we still don’t have a MenuEditor for V5, or a suitable .mif file with cool icons, it looks like the standard new folder icon. (example.) But I noticed that the “Location” application, simply links to other [...]
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S60’s browser build-in RSS reader

By fernando | Published: August 23, 2007
EDIT: Finally found where I had saved the screenshots, no more broken images :P Also I wrote this long ago, since then I gave up on the default rss reader and started using Google Reader. Let me start by saying this: The rss reader in the s60 browser isn’t useful, but it has potential.Now that I [...]
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