Kirodict – a Compact, Lightweight JavaME mobile dictionary

Finally after spending a couple months working on this on and off personal project, I decided to release the final version of Kirodict – a lightweight mobile dictionary.

As it name implies, Kirodict was designed to be small in size while maintaining its functionality as a fully fledge dictionary for mobile and embedded device. Kirodict acts as a front-end to an RFC2229 (dict.org) compatible server which it obtain the word definition from.

Its small and compact size as well as its portability makes it an attractive application to be downloaded and installed on your mobile phone. Kirodict requires mobile phones with at least these feature :

• MIDP 2.0 /CLDC 1.0 compatible phones
• 128kB of free storage space
• Phone with network connection (3G, GPRS, Wifi, wimax)

With lower requirements, it can be installed on a lower end phone without much problem. Kirodict does not use additional storage space as it does not cache its results.

Kirodict can be downloaded from Kirodict Google Code project website and it is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0

I bought a new phone – Nokia E71

I know I’ve been slacking lately on my post.. but hey, I got myself a new phone – The Nokia E71!

Phones model and features are getting diverse now and I’ve noticed that its getting harder and harder to choose a phone that really suits my needs. For example, one feature found on Phone A isnt necessarily can be found on Phone B.

So it took me a while to replace my good old 6630 that has been stolen few months before. But hey, I’m back on my feet now.

Among the key feature that attract me to buy this phone are :

• Location API support (JSR-179) with built in GPS receiver
• QWERTY keyboard
• Ease of handling, my hands a bit slippy on its sister’s phone E66
• Battery last longer
• Hot swappable micro-sd card
• More than adequate internal memory

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• Supports WiFi

The only drawback that I could think of this phone is its camera that is not as good as the N95,N96 series phone. But I can still live with that since I rarely use the camera anyway.

Other additional feature
The phone comes with Advance Call Manager and Multi Scanner free of charge, making it easier to filter out unwanted call and to manage phone blacklist.

Multi Scanner allows you to take a photo of name card and automatically store important information (Name, Phone Number, Address, Company’s Name, Fax Number) right into the phone.

I hope I can be more productive at updating this blog and producing new mobile applications with this phone.

SymbianTutorial.org – Symbian application development basic

SymbianTutorial.org is a good website to learn about fundamental application development in Symbian (especially series60).

Though some information about the IDE is slightly outdated (as stated on the website), the tutorial website covers basic Symbian data type, class naming convention, exception handling, input/output, gui handling basics and how to create resource file for Symbian development platform.

The website itself is structred in a way to introduce reader to Symbian application development environment, which is the main platform used in Nokia and Sony-Ericsson smartphones.

Share files between mobile phone and Windows Workgroup with SymSMB 2.0

SymSMB is a cool Symbian S60 3rd edition application that allows you to access Microsoft Windows file-sharing network without any additional software or hardware on the computer. After installation, your phone will be able to communicate with Microsoft Windows computer that enables file-sharing and you can begin to exchange files almost immediately.

Advantages of SymSMB
Unlike Bluetooth, SymSMB allows you to transfer files to/from computer without additional software/hardware. All you need is a WiFi connection and you are able to connect to *ALL* computer that enables Windows file sharing.

Another advantage is, SymSMB is significantly faster than Bluetooth connection which often relies on bluetooth receiver/dongle and additional software on the host computer.

Supported by all Symbian S60 3rd edition phone, SymSMB is indeed a must have application for your mobile phone, best of all it is FREE.

Simplify your file sharing experience, download SymSMB 2.0 now.

Great Resource for Nokia E-series Owners

If you're one of Nokia E-series fan, you might want to subscribe to this blog : http://www.e-series.org/ a blog which dedicated to Nokia E-Series device (Nokia E50, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70 and E90). The website is regularly updated with the latest news about E-series device and the various application you can do with them.

What is Nokia E-Series
The Nokia E-Series is a range of Nokia product targeted for business-oriented consumer with emphasis on corporate e-mail. The device features larger screen and qwerty keypad. Newer phone in E-Series typically have Wifi 802.11 support and a built in SIP VoIP client.

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List of Adobe Flash Lite Compatible Mobile Phones and PDA

Flash Lite is the latest mobile phone application framework from Adobe. It enables you to develop portable mobile phone applications with flash lite technology easily.

Here's the list of Mobile Phones capable of running Flash Lite applications.

Here's the list of Flash-Lite Supported PDA .

For those who are interested in developing Adobe Flash Lite applications for Mobile devices, you can download Flash Lite Development Kit from Adobe Mobile Devices Development Center

Makes your Wordpress Pocket PC PDA-friendly

Good news to those who wants to make their Wordpress blog PDA friendly. Now you can do just that without relying on 3rd party services. All you need to do is download this remarkable plugin Wordpress PDA and activate it on your Wordpress installation.

Your blog will be PDA/smartphone friendly as it will display a appropriate page when a mobile device accesses it. The plugin is smart enough to autodetect popular PDA/handheld device in to determine which page it should serve the clients.

Among popular handheld devices supported by Wordpress PDA are :

• Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Symbian-OS phone
• Sony PSP, Palm, Handspring,Pocket PC
• ...and browsers containing WAP in their using agents

I've already installed Wordpress PDA for this blog, give it a try :)

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