Looking for a little something for the weekend? Then this Collection of 100 Short Stories for your eBook reader could be an idea. The full list is in the link, but there's classics from Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and others.
CommonNotes have released mNotes, a solution for UIQ users who want access to their Lotus Notes, either from an individual machine or on an Enterprise server. A 30 day trial is available before you need to purchase the full version.
"I'm not reviewing this game till I finish it," said Chris when X-Men arrived at the All About offices. Of course X-Men is absolutely huge, so we've been leaving him alone in the corner as he plays at being Wolverine, Cyclops and the rest of Xavier's hereos. And finally, here's his review of X-Men Legends for the N-Gage.
News just in from Symbian, confirming our 'leak' from a week or so ago: "Symbian are pleased to present the 2005 Smartphone Show taking place on 11 & 12 October 2005, Excel, London. In addition to Europe's largest dedicated smartphone exhibition and showfloor - that attracted over 2800 attendees in 2004 - the 2005 event will feature a senior-level strategic conference, showfloor seminars and developer training sessions." More to the point, we'll have our ever-popular AAS pub meet on the Monday night and will be at the Expo in force to meet you. Just put it all in your diary for now!
Over at GearLive they're discussing the add on peripherals that Nokia announced at E3 - while we've not seen review units of these (and it appears GearLive is going on what they saw at E3) they're not convinced that the peripheral's have quite hit the mark.
Missing the days when you could create a simple blank database to store whatever information you like in it? Steve is, so he's been reviewing YData for the Nokia Communicators. He ended up impressed.
Ewan reviews one of the first samples of licensed music/video from newcomers ROK. Is this the way to get Symbian-based video into the mainstream? Read his review of ROK Player.
Apologies for linking through to my 3-Lib site again(!), but any UK users interested in stuff like Roman, Pictish, Iron Age or Prehistoric sites might like to note that I've just added these to my Mapper/GB project.
Xanadu Next, an N-Gage-exclusive 3D third person RPG from legendary Japanese developers Falcom, has now started shipping according to Nokia. It should start appearing in shops worldwide over the next couple of weeks.
Firestorm is here - a graphcally supmtious up the screen scrolling arcade shooter for Series 60. There's a B-Movie plot, a number of big power ups, multiple aircraft to play with... Asion Sky have a winner here!
Asri, AAS's friend in the Far East, has done a write-up of his Symbian-related observations at this year's Expo. Don't worry, by the way, about the spurious HTML here and there, it's something to do with him designing his pages for Firefox! Here's his report.
These seem to be popular - probably because every developer decides he needs his own certain view on the filing system. Symbian Commander from Unteh takes the starting point of the classic Norton Commander / XTree Gold split screen view and turns out a suprisingly nice looking manager.
Smart vCard from Symbianware provides an industry standard way of getting information into and out of your address book using the vCard standard. Definitly recommended.
