Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

The Google Reader team has updated the mobile interface of the news aggregator to a new version, directed specifically towards "the iPhone and other mobile phones with advanced browsers":

Nokia Beta Labs has made available a Mac version of their Internet Tablet Video Converter. As the name suggests, the application is clearly oriented towards Internet Tablets with 400x240 as the target resolution:

A new version of Nokia Multimedia Transfer is available:

The new release boasts the following improvements:

• Bookmark sync for selected products (see FAQ)
• Support for selected S40 devices (see compatible devices)
• Other improvements and bug fixes

Check the Nokia web pages for more information on NMT.

If you find the limit of 500 characters per TODO description too limited, you can follow this hint at MacOSXHints to increase the length of the description to a more tolerant number.

Note that you may want to back up the Nokia-N95.phoneplugin file before going on a hacking spree to ensure that you have a functional version to fall back on.

I haven't tested this hint myself, as my TODO description fields are rarely more verbose than 3 words. Maximum.

If you belong to the relative minority of RSS junkies that sometimes have to leave the house, for fun or profit, you may have found your habit seriously distracted by the fact that although you may have your feeds all sorted out in the RSS reader of your choice, things get messier when you have to access your RSS lifeline either on the go or on another machine, say, at work.

Darla Mack, also known as the Mobile Diva, has moved from the Dark Side to join us Mac & S60 users here on the greener side of the fence.

As Darla is one of the most prominent mobile bloggers, we can really only expect more and more visibility to Macs & mobiles, which is good news.

The S60 community has been going all berzerk over JoikuSpot over the last few days, and for a good reason. This free third-party application (in beta) turns your S60 handset to a wifi access point, sharing your cellular net connection (HDSPA, 3G, GPRS, EDGE etc.) with other devices over WLAN.

Remember when I reported that iTuneMyWalkman would not work on Leopard? Well – a couple of things have happened ever since, both of them good: I've become so accustomed to Nokia Multimedia Transfer that I have recovered from my initial iTMW shell shock, and more recently, Ilari has fixed iTMW. The new version 0.942 is slated to fix the Preferences problem with Leopard.

Season's greetings from the dark depths of Finland to all Mac.sis readers! As we're winding down 2007 and bracing ourselves for 2008 I thought that a little bit of a retrospective would be in order, so here are a few thoughts on the past year and expectations for the next.

Thanks to Eric for pointing this out – the mobile syncing hotness Nokia Multimedia Transfer has been updated to version 1.2.1. The upgrade can be carried out conveniently through the Check for updates now option in the NMT (have to love the acronym).

Alas! The NMT web page says nada about the contents of the upgrade, so I suppose time will tell. Any clever observations on new or improved functionality are greatly appreciated.