Useful Freewares for Symbian S60

Enjoying the weekend, here's a short list of useful freeware for S60. If you have a Nokia mobile phone, or one of the models from Samsung and LG with the S60, this is a class that is worth having installed. The good news is that all applications are free:

Nokia Podcasting: This is an application developed internally by Nokia, which turns out to be quite useful. It allows you to listen and subscribe to podcasts, which feeds can be located through a central directory (which includes a significant volume of entries, but of course not nearly include all the major feed available), or registered manually via the link from the RSS .

Two good examples are to get The Word Nerds (http://thewordnerds.org/) and England as a Second Language (http://www.eslpod.com/), which are focused on the study of English. There is also the option to add folders, which caters to those who prefer to download the files using the PC and transfer them to a folder on your memory card.

Downloads can be done either manually (where you simply mark the episodes you want to download) and automatically, set hours, just set the options via the "Options> Settings" on the home screen. You can configure it to download using only a Wi-Fi (thus avoiding the use of the data plan) or restrict traffic to a quota set.

It comes pre-installed on some units of the N series and E, but can be used in most devices with the S60 3ed. You can download it at: http://www.nokia.com/podcasting

Qik: The Qik application is a videocast that lets you make live recordings, making videos when they are captured. He is a killer of batteries, since it uses the camera, data transmission and processing at the same time, but, in contrast, is very practical to use. He is a free application (maintained through ads), available at http://qik.com/.

Mobipocket Reader: One of the many reasons to remain attached to the devices with Palm OS is access to e-books in. PRC, which are especially popular in the medical field. If this is your case, the solution is Mobipocket, which has versions for Symbian, Windows Mobile and even Blackberry. He is a free application that can be downloaded directly on your smartphone viahttp://m.mobipocket.com or via the PC,http://mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/application.asp.

The site is actually an online store, with a large collection of books (some free), hence the idea of providing the reader for free.

Light Control: A feature of the S60 that bothers those who usually use the smartphone to watch videos is that the keyboard lights are permanently on, with the screen when the device is used in environments without light. To make matters worse, most models in the light of the LEDs that illuminate the keyboard leaks at the base of the screen, making the matter even more unpleasant.

The Light Control is a freeware that lets you control the lights of the screen and keyboard independently, allowing you to turn off the keyboard illumination. It also offers a range of other options, how to use the LED flash as a flashlight, and is available at:http://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-light-control.html

You can use it to create a setting where the screen is solid, with a luminosity higher than you normally use and the keyboard light off. From there, simply activate the Light Control when you want to watch videos, allowing the profile set into action.

It is also useful in situations where, for one reason or another, you want the backlight stays on continuously, bipassando timeout system (which is only 60 or 90 seconds). The main observation is that, once activated the Light Control, the changes are still active even when you close the program using the red button. To restore the original behavior, you must close it using the "Options> Exit."

S60SpotOn: This is another software to use the smartphone as a flashlight, simpler than the Light Control and is therefore more appropriate if you want to map one of the shortcut keys for easy access (mimicking the function of flashlight found in some models of low cost, as the E63).

The function of the LED flashlight using the camera does not work on all models (in some, like the 6120c, the LED can be used only for quick shots, not as continuous light), but there is also the option to use the brightness of the screen . It is available for download athttp://www.outbank.de/en/download/s60spoton.html

LightNotepad: Although Notes is practical to make short notes, it is definitely not suitable for writing with more than a few lines. The font size is not configurable, there is the option to choose the encoding and even export your notes as text files.

If you are one of frustrated users, who can do all using your smartphone with the S60, at least create a simple text file plan, LightNotepad is the solution to their problems. He is an editor without frills, which is limited to do well what is proposed, a freeware that can be downloadedhttp://www.petnetti.net/lightnotepad/indexE.shtml.

Use a plain text editor may seem a setback, but it is actually the most practical way to take notes and write text snippets while in transit. Instead of trying to use an office suite on your smartphone and deal with the hassle of getting transferring large files, converting them from one format to another, you can simply write the changes to a text file and make modifications to the original document when in front of the PC.

Resco Photo Viewer: The Nokia N-series includes a picture viewer quite competent, but the same does not apply to equipment in the E series (besides the Classic series models such as the 6120c), still using Gallery, a viewer much simpler. For them, a good option is the Resco Photo Viewer ($ 14.95), which offers many more features, including even support geotagging:http://www.resco.net/products/

Screenshot: This is a simple freeware to take screenshots of the screen, useful when writing tutorials or articles about the system, available in http://www.antonypranata.com/screenshot.By default the screenshots are taken with the camera button, but you can set a different shortcut for use in devices where it is not available.

Stopwatch: It is a small clock written in Java. He is a good option if you are missing a simple timer, with support count of laps, as found in devices with the S40:http://www.tevero.no/espace/stopwatch/

Device Status: More a freeware that lets you quickly information about the device, including the model, firmware version, memory information (total, occupied, etc.). And on the settings used: http://www.nokia. com/A4596393

SmartCam: This is another interesting application, which transforms the smartphone into a wireless webcam, accessed via Bluetooth. It is free and can be downloadedhttp://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-smartcam.html. The only problem is that the client for the PC is only available in Windows version.

HandyWi: If you do not have an unlimited data plan and depends on the Wi-Fi open on the way to navigate, the HandyWi can be an important ally. He continually seeks for available access points and tells you whenever any open access point (or a known network) is available with the option to connect automatically.

He also shows a list of all available access points in the area, with the signal level of each one, replacing the manager of Wi-Fi is available in S60 3ed. with some advantages. He is a freeware that can be downloaded at: http://www.handywi.com

SmartGET: Two limitations of the S60 browser is that it does not allow downloading files with extensions not recognized (ie, which are not related to any application installed on smartphone) and it always downloads files using the internal memory, and only then opening them using the appropriate application or give the option to save it.

The result is that even if you have a fast connection available and plenty of free space on your memory card, you receive a message "insufficient memory" when trying to download any file whose size is larger than the internal memory available. The SmartGET is a download manager quite competent, which can be used in these situations.

He does not have an official website, but you can find the latest version at thehttp://mosh.nokia.mobi/ and doing a search for "smartget. It is an application written in Python, so it is necessary that the interpreter is pre-installed.

To be able to copy the link of the file you want to download within the S60 browser, leave the cursor over the link and use the "Options> Tools> Send> Via text message." He will open a message window containing the link, you can select with the Shift key and directional copy using the "Options> Edit> Copy" and then paste in SmartGET to start the download. Before the first download, go to "Menu> Settings> Download" and select the access point that will be used. As in the case of SymTorrent, you can either use the Wi-Fi network as the data plan and the only limit on the size of the files is available space on the card.

Internet radio: This is a free application from Nokia, listening to online radio, complementing the built-in FM radio. It comes with a directory of stations pre-configured and you can add others manually. The great utility is that you can access radio stations from other countries, the opposite of FM, just listening to local radio. You can hear, for example, the BBC World Service, which is very good to train English.

Using the standard quality, the transmission requires 32 kbits of bandwidth, which allows it to be used even on devices with support for 3G. Of course, you should only use it if you have an unlimited data plan, otherwise the large volume of traffic will make you get a nasty surprise at the end of the month. It is available at: http://www.nokia.com/internetradio

Instfast: Even if you follow the advice to save copies of all applications in a folder on your memory card, you still have work to install them one by one to change equipment or do a hard reset. The Instfast solve the problem, allowing you to install all applications saved in the folder at once:
http://www.symbian-freeware.com/download-instfast-v0-01.html

S2PuTTY: having access to PCs on the local network via Wi-Fi connection to the web using the data plan, you can access any Linux machine remotely, using the Swiss army knife of system administrators: SSH. The S2PuTTY is an SSH client for S60 (available athttp://s2putty.sourceforge.net/), which works in both models with QWERTY keyboard as in simpler models with numeric keypad (though the use is far less convenient) . He is a priceless tool for administrators, since it allows to solve problems and install updates from anywhere.

CallFilter: Fortunately, telemarketing calls are not yet a major problem in the cell (perhaps because of tariffs), but there are other types of unwanted calls. The CallFilter is a freeware that lets you create rules to block calls coming from certain numbers (up to fall right in the chest, as if the device was turned off). It integrates with the contact list, which makes the process of locking and unlocking the numbers quite practical. You can download it at:http://www.anfymobile.com/callfilter/

Another option is the Advanced Call Manager commercial software ($ 25) that offers more options, including creating a white list of authorized numbers and reject calls from everyone else. It is available in http://www.webgate.bg/products/acm/.

Mosh Mosh is a sharing service run by Nokia, which allows you to store applications and other types of files and, if desired, also share them with the world. The site is well organized, with the shared files into categories, ranking the most popular downloads, comments and so on. As might be expected, the Mosh includes not only legitimate applications, but also to a lot of alternative applications, for which Nokia has done a blind eye (try doing a search for "Core Player" or "N-Gage," by example). The link is http://mosh.nokia.mobi/.