The easiest way to watch youtube videos on the E61? TinyTube!
I honestly don’t know how TinyTube works — if it converts all of youTube’s voluminous videos or it makes available a limited number of YouTube vids; but however it does it, Tinytube allows E61 users to download youTube videos for playback in real player.
No need to wait for an updated Nokia Browser to play youTube files.
My personal favorite — Kiwi!
I’ve been completely getting into the whole podcasting “phenomenon” a few years too late. I’ve had my ipod nano for over a year now (and the iRiver ihp120 before that) and I never really got podcasting until now.
With the E61 I find it very convenient that I can just set it to update daily at 7 in the morning, and it connects automatically to the wi-fi access point at home and download any new podcasts. When I open my E61 podcasting app, it just sits there, waiting for me to plug it in to the car stereo and laugh with Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht on diggnation; or enjoying a recap analysis of the latest episode of Veronica Mars via the Neptune Pirate Radio, or learn something new with various photography or science related podcast.
I really find it enjoyable, simple and convenient, listening to podcasts to my E61, so much so that my 1 giger is filled up. I deleted all my music and videos and transferred those to my trusty ipod, and left the 1 gig exclusively for podcasts. And I’m now feeling the lack of space. I might be upgrading to a 2 gig mini-sd card in the near future.
I just notice something, first with Symtorrent, and now with Podcasting. With the wi-fi on and and the E61 downloading stuff, the battery is quickly drained. So I do the logical thing and keep the phone plugged in while downloading updates, but the back plate gets warm. And it gets warmed alot. I just want to know if this is normal. Any of you guys experience this? Normal charging doesn’t warm up the phone, but the wifi-download-charge combo seems to, and I just worry that it’s frying up my battery or worse.
Mark Tesch’s new E61 blog pointed me to Mobizines.
In a nutshell, Mobizines does to magazines what Widsets does to websites. Popular titles such as T3, GQ, Maxim, Planet F1, BBC News are collated and made available to mobile phone users.
Subscribing to Magazine titles is easy enough. Each title features 4 to 5 articles on average. What I really liked was that everytime I refreshed Mobizine, it informed me when it would be updated next. I haven’t been using this service for long, but I’ve been told that certain titles such as BBC is updated daily.
It’s now an official release.
I tried it last night, and it was quite easy to use. Search for anything and you’ll be presented by a number of related podcasts to choose from. Subscribing to any of these was a breeze, everything was structured in such a way that no one gets lost. S60 has some tips to those new in podcasting (like myself).
Sadly there are no podcasts for the E61. Umm . .. calling other E61 bloggers . . . anyone interested in making a podcast?
This is currently one of my favorite apps. It scans the area for wi-fi connections and easily loads the Web Browser when you select a particular access point.
From the Nokia Website . . .
Is there a WLAN network out there? The WLAN Wizard will tell you, store it and launch it for you! WLAN Wizard shows the available WLANs in the range of N80 Internet Edition directly on the idle screen and it is possible to start web browsing immediately. WLAN Wizard also automatically creates the needed WLAN settings making WLAN usage extremely easy.
Technically an application for the N80 but it still works with the E61. Tommi said that on the N80, WLan wizard minimizes to the standby screen, but regretably, on the E61, press and hold the menu button to see that the program is running in the background.
I’ve also read on a message board that there are some people who encountered problems when installed on E-Series devices. Personally, I haven’t encountered any.
After installing the sis file, it will show up in your Extras folder.
This nifty little app can be downloaded here. Best of all, it’s free!
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I’ve blogged on a couple of occasions about free options for mobile instant messaging. I use yahoo messenger exclusively and I’ve tried to access it using Mig33 and Agile Messenger. I personally prefer Agile Messenger, but it costs USD$30 annually to use. Mig33 and Morange is free, but both are Java based apps and take considerably longer to load. I’m happy that E61 users have options out there, power users will undoubtedly gravitate towards Agile Messenger, while casual IM’ers to the freewares.
I don’t use the E61 to access my ym that much so right now I feel there is no need for me to puchase Agile Messenger, I’m quite content with Mig33, but like they say, you get what you pay for.
After almost a month of no wireless internet at home, I got my DLink router back. It was purchased in Singapore by my sister before as a Christmas present so I had to bring it back there last month. I was surprised that they exchanged it, no questions asked. They said they had a Lifetime Exchange Warranty for their routers. Thank you D-Link! 
I realized that without internet access and stuff, the E61 is just an ordinary phone to me. The primary reason why I purchased it was because of the connectivity options available, specifically wireless internet. With my router out of commission for a whole month, I was left with pretty much nothing to blog about. Data plans for mobile phones is still pretty expensive in the Philippines with telcos charging by the kilobyte. Now I’m happy that even in my limited domicile, I’m hooked up.
Instango is a new java based app for instant messaging using the open source Jabber platform. It uses the different connectivity options of the E61 such as wireless lan, gprs or 3G. And the best thing? It’s optimized for the E61. This is good news for E61 users, lots more free options for IM chat is popping up, and Instango is probably one of the best out there — small footprint, reliable and speedy. I can’t wait to give this one a go when my wireless router is fixed by the end of the week.
Do almost everything with this nifty little java app. Morange does push email, push rss (their own concoction), PIM synchronization, remote desktop access. . . That’s a lot for a tiny 300kb app.
A free bittorrent client for S60v3 phones! Nice Now its time to look for E61 optimized videos, hehe
SymTorrent, get it here.
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