If you look at the internet around you, everyhing is in motion, every second brings news and suprises.
Then you go for 2 weeks vacation without internet.
When you come back, it turns out that nothing really ever changes at all. :)
UPDATE!!! Sunset bar is still under reconstruction. New meeting place will be announced today. Stay tuned.
First OpenCoffee in Riga, will take place in Sunset Bar, at 18:00. This is open discussion about Web 2.0 issues, challenges and ideas. It is also a great opportunity to get acquainted with local Web 2.0 crowd. I unfortunately cannot participate this time, but hope to see it online, thanks to Dik who will translate tomorrow meeting using his Nokia N82 and Qik. Link to translation is here. Also embedded into this post below.
I was in exploration mode today, and went through several Nokia related blogs. I subscribed to
Symbian in Motion (Symbian in Motion)
There was a lot of useful posts over last half a year on all of this blogs, but the one that I wanted to share was on IntoMobile
While it begins with overview of Handy Task manager, it ends with an offer of several free licenses for creative commenters who would come up with the best suggestion for a usability improvement on the S60 phones. I do not know who won, since I fell under table screaming and laughing after reading this post by anonimous Andrew.
+1, Andrew. That's what I want as a function too.
The experience is tantalizing... Even though it is recommended to use it as screen-saver, a single geek can enjoy it with a cigar and whisky on a Friday night... Plus, you may click on any interesting picture and it will open the related blog. You may find some new interesting blogs this way. Enjoy.
To begin with, there are many good experiences, that I would not rate one above other
On Nokia 6120 smartphone
- Unlimited data plan. A musthave for all the goodies that follow below.
- Fring keeps me signed into skype, gtalk, msn and icq.
- Opera Mobile keeps me connected to my multiple gmail accounts, google reader mobile and internet bank
- Updating my life blog with pictures and video by simply sending email to my blogger account with a picture or video attached
- TomTom navigation for driving and hiking while abroad
- Throwing it to my kids for a quick cartoon session (I always keep couple of hours of cartoons re-encoded for QVGA). Playing it with the best player for Windows Mobile and Symbian, the CorePlayer.
On Raon Everun UMPC
- This is my mobile office that mirrors my data and programs from a desktop (well, everything except torrent library :). This means 100% compatibe browser and office applications. On the go. Weighing a massive 500g. 8-10 hour battery life.
- And yes, I keep there yet more cartoons for the kids.
On iPAQ hx4700
- TomTom navigation
- Skype over WiFi, now replaced by Fring over WiFi and Fring over 3g on my handset
- Gaming - Solitaire, Bejeweled2, Skyforce 1/2, K-Rally, etc.
- Cartoons as in all categories above, watching movies over WiFi from my home torrent storage
- It can do PIM and email, as well as open all office documents, but I do not use it anymore...
Strangely enough, all my plans previously outlined, have materialised.
The best thing is that this deal is available also to the prepaid card users. As far as I know, it is the only Ukrainian operator giving such good prices to prepaid customers. Others give good price only to subscribed customers.
Due to a misstep in my official career, I again have more time to do the blogging thing, while my new webshop is being created by programmers.
La Vita e Belle!
After setting up blog on PC, I just had to try it on my Mobile Device too.
I have iPaq hx4700 with VGA screen, WM5, and several web browsers - Internet Explorer Mobile, Opera 8.60, Picsel Browser (thanks VJ@xdadev) and nightly build of Minimo (1/1/2007).
PIE's rendering of the page is so ugly, that I gave up trying to blog through it immediately.
I did not manage to authorize into Blogger through Picsel. Some script problems I guess.
Minimo also failed at google account authorization stage. 
So, this post was created on Opera. Beautiful rendering. Only some formating buttons (Bold, Italics, etc.) are missing from the form, compared to the PC rendering.
So, if you want to use Blogger on mobile device, Opera is the only choice at this moment.
Ok, so it is a 1/1/2007 and I after playing with Blogger for about a day, I am ready to start blogging. Templates and colours chosen. Ballpen loaded. Let's roll.
So, actually I came to do this, just to see what it is all about. IDC or Gartner (do not remember) predicted that blogging will peak in 2007 and will start to diminish, as most users will try it and realize that they have nothing to say to others. Hmm. Nothing interesting to say to others. We'll see.
For one thing. I have and old friend, PDA usability guru who hooked me onto this crazy mini micro computers with miniscule buttons, touchscreens and lousy batteries couple of years ago. I need to teach him how to blog. I hope that my page will be provocative enough to lure him into responding by opening his own blog.
While at hypermarket "Spice" today, I have meet two strange students. They had a zombie like red eyes and kept laughing all the way, speaking some strange metaphors, that I could not relate to, despite understanding all the words separately. Each of them bought one pack (1L) of kefir. (Local sour youghurt, believed to be good at curing hangover syndrom). Not my idea of spending the whole next year.
I still haven't figured out how to upload my avatar to the blog layout, until then, I just attach it to this post.
My avatar :)
This is my first post on my personal blog. I still could not figure out how to add my profile picture. Hello is refusing to connect to my blogger account.
Happy 2007.
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