TECHMUNDO 2.0

Antony Pranata’s Screenshot is a godsend for bloggers. It’s one of those little programs for the Series 60 that reliably delivers on what it intends to do, which is to take a screen capture of what’s currently being displayed on your mobile phone. Screenshot virtually provides for every single image in this blog (except for the other photos which the Nikon D50 supplies).

After I got my firmware upgraded last friday, I immediately loaded Screenshot; and to my horror, it doesn’t work. I clicked and clicked and clicked, and nothing happend. Gah! My blog will be devoid of images!!! That was the thought that entered my mind.

A few days later, with more and more people having their firmwares updated, I got tons of different feedback — screenshot works, screenshot doesn’t work, screenshot works only if you lightly press the OK button, some people even said click the blue button + shift + ok. So I fiddled and played and tinkered with the E61 until I got it to work.

My proof? A screenshot with the firmware.

So how did I do it? Simple! Too simple that I felt insanely stupid to not have thought about it earlier.

• Load up Screenshot. Enter the options menu to configure your trigger key (either shift+ok, or shift+*; OK is click the joystick)

• What I did wrong before was leave it at that. You need to go back to the first screen before leaving screenshot. (The image below should be the image on your screen before you click the MENU key)

After that, just trigger away. My shortcut key of choice is Shift + OK, and it now works every single time. I don’t know if I was the only one who had problems, but at least now I got my most used program to work.

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I remember after I upgraded my E61’s firmware that alot of my programs were wiped out. Even if it was installed in the mini-sd card, a good chuck of the programs installed were erased.

I began exploring the folders in my mini-sd card and I found some wierd looking files in some folders with filenames such as ‘A15645423.sis‘ or ‘E2545612.sis‘ and I didn’t know what to do with them. I installed one of these gibberish looking files to my phone and it turned out to be some of the missing programs. I installed all the remaining files with weird looking filenames and I probably manage to reinstall half of the programs I initially had.

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A video review from Mobileburn for those who have yet to purchase the E61; or for the rest of us to reaffirm our long held belief that the E61 is the greatest phone out there.

Click here to go straight to youTube.

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Relive the moment you held your E61 for the very first time.

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Sanyci has a HUUUGE list of available freeware for the E61. Although the site is in Hungarian, it has enough pictures and links to easily understand the available software and what they’re all about.

Some interesting apps are the . . .

Solun Planetarium;

Satellite, a weather imaging program;

Bantumi GL, a collection of classic board games; and

Snakes, a 3-D render of Nokia’s classic game

Some well known freewares are also in the list — Bemused, the winamp/powerpoint bluetooth controller; Ebook apps QReader and MobiPocket Reader; Opera Mini for Web Browsing; an Ogg vorbis player for the S60; a stopwatch app; screen capture programs Screenshot and Screensnap; Xedious, an arcade game using a font with striking resemblance to the one used in the movie Xanadu; Internet Radio; Google Maps; alternative programs to File Manager SExplorer, Y-Browser and SysExplorer; AutoLock and mLock; Flashlite app SpotOn; Calcium, the much much better calculator for the E61 which has a new version recently available in their website; Widsets beta;Metro, the subway schedule database; Sudoku; QuickOffice; Still Image Editor; Nokia’s Life Blog, Mobile Search, Podcasting and ZipManager; WorldMate; Golf Pro, Adobe Reader; Nokia’s Blackberry Connect and Business Software; and Active Synch for Exchange.

Sanyci does a much better job at presenting all these programs with beautiful screenshots. And I’m always happy when I get things for free.

This article can be digg’ed (or dugg) here.

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One thing I like about the E61 is it can seem to replace every single handheld electronic item I have. My nano now permanently resides in my car plugged into the car stereo; I’ve barely played with my Nintendo DS in over a week; and I’m enjoying iPod Video Functionality on my phone.

One of the first things I wanted to do when I got the E61 was load it up with music and video files. Uploading music from itunes was simple, I just had to drag and drop files from itunes straight to my memory card. The videos were slightly tricky, because I didn’t own a single video in my hard drive that’s compatible with either the E-series Real Player or the iPod Video (simply because I didn’t own one).

I searched online for an easy, fool-proof, and more importantly, free media converter; and I found Super!

Super operates easily enough, just drag your video files to the program’s interface, click the option for iPod Video and in a matter of minutes, you have E-61 ready video files. Being a Firefly/Serenity junkie, I immediately converted Done The Impossible and I was happily glued to the screen of my phone for a good 80 minutes.

The Real Player can’t seem to recognize videos over 60 minutes long, so split up those full length movie files before convertion.

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You just can’t have enough themes, and after trying supposed S60 3rd Edition themes, I found out they they looked stretched on the screen. Here are some links for the themes that look right on the E61.  I personally use the Tree Theme from E-Series.

Themes from a German Site.

Themes from E-Series.

Here are some screenshots.

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I’m impatiently waiting for my Pivot silicone case to arrive from Hong Kong. I’ll take actual pics when it arrives. HKSpeedPost says that it left HK September 6.

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I’ve had my E61 for 5 days now and I am loving it. Here, though are just some things that I think will made the E61 much better . . . just my 2 cents

• An external access for the memory card.  I find uploading via bluetooth and synching via USB1.1 too slow, especially when I’m uploading videos or mp3s.  Right now I pop open the battery cover at least once a day to transfer files to the E61; and wouldn’t it have been much more convenient if the memory card was accessible without having to sliding open the battery cover?   Plus points for making the memory card hot swappable though.
• A headphone out jack!   To connect earphones, you need a cable to connect to the phone just to connect your earphones.   It just doesn’t make sense.
• The ability to have only unread messages show up in the standby screen.

Also, I’m on the lookout for some apps. Let me know if some of these functionalities are available in software currently available.

• A better audio player.   Something that’s similar to itunes, and something that can synch to itunes using a PC.   Album art would be nice, a better database of artists, album, genre, etc etc. If I find an audio app that I like, I think I’ll get a bigger capacity mini-sd and ditch my nano.
• An application that manages the Wi-fi connection.  It annoys me that every single wi-fi enabled program (web browser, widsets, agile messenger, etc.) will attempt to connect to a wlan connection even if I’m already connected. Wouldn’t it be nice to be online and have all your wlan apps working together?
• More E61 Games! I’m tired of playing block breaker and have it show up on just one third of my screen.

and the eradication of all blog spammers from the face of this world!

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