The UIQ Evangelist

To all readers of UIQBlog.com

Some of you might be thinking where did I go? I have not written anything on this blog for a long time… There are a few things that I think I want to share with you guys…

1. The year 2008 is a tough year for me. I quit my job in a Production House and resigned all my duties as the Head of Mobile Telecommunications Department. And I had to return all stuff that belong to them, including the trusty Sony Ericsson P1i.

2. With no dayjob, I push my limits. I wrote in this blog, contributed articles to AAS and at the same time, I start my own company.

3. In August this year, my small start-up was entrusted with a project involving the mobile telecommunications industry in my country. From August untill today, I slept for only 3 hours daily, sometimes less, or no sleep at all.

4. My blood, sweat and tears all went to this project. This is make or break. If I dont deliver, I wont deliver anything… Myself and my business partner work hard on it. Only 2 of us doing everything. And if everything goes as planned, the project will be rolled on the first week of January 2009. But I prepare for the worst…

5. Now I have no steady income. With a wife (working), and 3 sons (6 years, 4 years & 3 months old), my monthly overhead is something I need to fork out by all means and so far, it is still manageable.

6. To survive, I sold my stuff… I sold my Apple iBook, I sold my old Nokias, I sold my SEIKO F1 (Limited Edition) Honda Racing Team wrist watch. I sold my DVD collection… all that are still valuable… Why?… to survive…

7. The fall of UIQ is another thing that hit me hard. There’s no point in arguing on whose faults it was. But as a fan/lover of UIQ, I was really dumbfounded. Back to my trusty old Psion Series 5mx…

8. The money that you guys donated is in my bank. I never use it. I only use a small amount of it to pay for this blog’s annual fee. I belief even if I buy a UIQ smartphone, I wont have time to write anything about it. I will keep the money to maintain this blog and if one day… some day… I have time, I will buy a UIQ smartphone to write about it and to bring all the nostalgic feelins about UIQ.

9. With my condition, it is impossible for me to update this blog anymore and sometimes, I felt I want to sell this blog…

10. Wish me all the best…

Asri al-Baker - December 29th 2008

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Actually this is not a new mod or the latest in the market by any means, but I felt compelled to write about it now when Mr. Ares has changed his mobile to an iPhone.

Now you can also mod your UIQ mobile to almost look like an IPhone and the cool album art features that Apple has on its iTunes and iPhones e.t.c.

This mod is intended for those of you who have the symbian PowerMP3 program installed and you just move the included “iPhone” folder to C:/Shared/PowerMP3/skins/

It is not as cool like on the iPhone, with scrolling albumart, but when you press on either left or right side of the albums the main CD cover art will change and it works well.

You can get it  here

Via: UIQ3

Categories: Mods, Tips
Tags: Add new tag, Mods

A mini selection of 5 new winter and New Year´s themes for your symbian mobile. Tested on P1i only.

The name of the author will be stated during installation of each theme.

Get it here

Via: SEP1 blog

Categories: UIQ, themes
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Skype added support for Sony Ericsson G700/900.

I tried the new Skype program for G700/900 today and it works on a P1i too, but there is no response by using touchscreen unfortunately, but only with the jog dial. The program is also dialing a number far from me here in Sweden, so I don´t see the point in using this Java program since calling with Skype is supposed to be free, but for those who would like to try, here it is.

Get it here

Categories: Apps, Freeware
Tags: java

Even tough only a Java program, but Moblica RSS Reader is my choice of RSS readers this Christmas.

It has ready-made feeds, but you can add from a wide selection of news, entertainment or technology feeds with the built in favorite selector or add your own feeds, eg. The UIQ Evangelist.

The good thing about this reader is that it shows images and has large part or the full article at hand.

Get it here

Via: Softpedia

Categories: Apps, Freeware
Tags: java

Developer: AcroDesign Technologies.

Authors description: Files and folders are a thing of the past … Welcome to Media Map, the smart way to access your media and documents.

Media Map presents a graphical view of your media and documents by author, age, type, album, or even your own custom tags. Simply select a term on the map and press the list button to view a list of all the matching media and documents.

Too many results, simply tap another term to narrow down your results even further. Once you’ve located what your looking for just select it to open it, or select the ”Play All” menu item to open all the result as a playlist in the media player.

Media Map Features

• Graphical view of media and documents
• Easily search by one or multiple terms
• Add your own search tags to any file
• Automatically create playlists from results
• Supports all screen sizes
• Supports memory cards

Media servers If you have a device with WIFI (e.g. P990, W960) and locally connected Windows Media Sharing computers, then you can browse and copy files on your media server. You cannot copy DRM protected files, however, as they will not play on your mobile device without proper licensing.

Via: All About Symbian

Categories: Apps
Tags: UIQ

Padissimo provides virtual D-pads on the screen and on the keyboard, to enhance navigation within any application.

Major features:
- Alternative navigation using virtual directional pads.
- Provides additional ways of moving around any application.
- Convenient use in lists, menus, and other scrollable displays.
- Includes a screen-pad and a separate key-pad.
- Independent activation of the two virtual pads by hot-keys.
- Gesture control for convenient scrolling in lists using finger.
- Extra functions, like simulate pressing the Back button.
- Fully customizable appearance, including transparency.
- Support for displaying animated GIF images as background.
- Can replace using the jog-dial.

With its versatile features Padissimo can add a lot to the usability of your smartphone.

Free trial is available here. Learn more about how to use it here. (tks René!)

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Tags: Apps

Just like the years before, Clickgamer made available their Christmas themed game for free (after registration. This time, its called “Snowed In 7 - White Christmas“.

Get the native UIQ3 version here.

Categories: Comments
Tags: Games