The Wall Street Journal is a well known publication, one which is trying to find a way through the new age of content distribution. While the options for how to do that with Symbian are limited, it looks like they might just have found a way. The Wall Street Journal app brings both free and paid for content to your Symbian device. Read on to find out how well it works.
The Nokia N9's SwipeUI is probably the biggest user interface innovation in the mobile industry this year. The gesture driven system has had many a geek looking on with envy. So much so that it seems to have inspired DzSoft to create GoToMenu for touch enabled Symbian devices. Read on to find out how well this approach works when grafted on top of the older Symbian touch UI.
Home screens are all about customising the user interface of your phone. Shaping and honing it to be the best tool for you, and you alone. The more flexible the widget system, the better it can be tuned to how you think and work. In this respect, the favourite contacts widget in Symbian^3 is pretty limiting. Fortunately, a third party solution from the author of cuteBox has come to the rescue, with the One Contact widget. Read on to find out more.
Smartphone apps aren't just for grown-ups, as Genera Mobile have set out to prove. Their range of interactive books in the Ovi Store could be just what the younger generation need. So it's time to go all Jackanory here on AAS and look at one of their books... "I want to be a Pirate."
To Do applications have always been popular in portable computing - be it the PDA or the smartphone, keeping track of what needs doing is an admirable goal. In a way it upsets me that nobody has really been able to get a killer-app in this space. Yes, there are some efforts that get close, but one To-Do to To-Do them all? Not yet. And that includes Quick Milk.
Parental control software has been around for years on the desktop, it's even built into many OS these days. But what about the mobile? These days your kids spend more time on their phones than on a desktop OS. And, if you want to make sure your kids stay safe on their mobile, the new cross-platform Mobiflock system seems a very comprehensive way to go. What's involved and how well does it work? Read on for my walkthrough and review.
If you've ever looked skyward at night and wondered what each point of light was, you're in need of a guide. For Symbian users, that guide comes in the form of Astroller. This is an interactive sky map, controlled by touch or accelerometer plus compass. Allowing you to observe from any place on the globe, at any time, you can see how the cosmos was, and will be. Along with plenty of other tools, read on to find out who this astronomical app is best suited to.
Read It Later is a service which allows you to queue up interesting links to read later. To streamline loading times, Read It Later delivers your saved page in a text only form, for reading either on their website, or offline with a mobile application. Therein lays the rub for Symbian users, there has been no mobile application for Read It Later. This is where Talvinder Bansal (of SymFTP fame) comes to the rescue, with his SymPaper application, a Read It Later client written in Qt. Read on find out more.
With a large multi-touch-enabled touchscreen, there's absolutely no reason why your smartphone can't emulate a musical instrument, especially the grand-daddy of them all, the piano. iPhone owners have been playing such a virtual instrument for three years now, Android phone owners have been doing the same for two years, yet development of something similar for Symbian lags woefully. As I found out in preparing this review, of Grand Piano, freshly minted in Qt and in the Ovi Store as a commercial app.
When it comes to keeping a record of a document, tag, ticket or receipt on the Nokia N8, it's easy enough to snap a close-up photo, of course. And you can then zoom in later to read it as needed. But developers Norfello have come up with subtle twist - a utility that processes such photos, converts to PDF for long term storage and then, optionally, uploads the PDF to your Evernote account. In the absence of an official Evernote client, having a quick way to snap something in paper form and then have it available everywhere turns out to be rather useful.
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