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One week on, mid-August, and we've found plenty to keep you interested and challenged. Here's the AllAboutSymbian Week in Review, if you're in a hurry to catch up...

Review: Handy Weather
Steve is suitably impressed with Handy Weather, a tool that excels at one specific task...

Feature: S60 3rd Edition Essentials
Rafe and Steve pick the applications that you really need to install on your S60 3rd Edition smartphone.

Review: coBible NIV Version
Guest reviewer Richard takes a look at ArcoDesign Technologies coBible software. There's a lot of potential in this area, but coBible doesn't live up to to it.

Feature: How to: Rip your music CDs to your Eseries communicator
With the latest wave of S60 smartphones supporting playback of ultra-efficient AAC+ music files, Steve Litchfield explains how to get your music CDs into the right format for playback on your Eseries communicator.

Review: Opera Mini 2
Ewan tries out Opera's latest free mobile wonder...

Feature: Gotta have QWERTY?
Steve Litchfield continues his exploration of the world of text input and observes that the presence of a useable QWERTY keyboard can actually change how you use a smartphone.

Feature: How to: Work that RAM - trying to multitask properly on S60 3rd Edition
Recognising that we're stuck with a generation of S60 3rd Edition smartphones and communicators which are 'challenged' in terms of how much RAM is free for running its built-in applications, Steve Litchfield looks at exactly where the memory is going and offers some tips for improving performance.

Feature: A Flash Lite Primer for Symbian OS Users
Ewan introduces Flash Lite for the man in the street...

Support: 99% frozen
Q. Help, my PC Suite backup hangs on 99% and I have to reboot my PC!

Support: How can I speed-dial contacts?
Q. It's a real pain having to keep finding people in my Contacts just to call them. How can I speed-dial them?

Support: Viewing all my system files
Q. Can I view the contents of my S60 3rd Edition system folder? I like to fiddle...

Support: MIssing Calendar items
Q. Many of my upcoming appointments from the next few months don't seem to be synced properly with Outlook, mainly those from the medium future. Why is this?

Support: Missing to-do items
Q. Having synced my new S60 3rd Edition smartphone to my PC, I find that only half my Outlook Tasks make it across to my smartphone. What's going on?

News:
Generation S?
TypePad Blogging Goes Mobile
The Eseries 'Convince-o-matic'
Battle of the TyTNs
Making the Nokia N70
Tidying up your 3rd Edition phone's C disk....
Nokia acquire Loudeye for music service platform
What's In The Interface?
Making Sense of the Mobile Gaming Market?
S60 Comparison
How to speed dial Contacts
Free auto-locking for all S60 3rd Edition smartphones
PC Suite update time again