Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

Reading the N95 Blog, I noticed that there is an interesting application available for using a camera phone as a webcam with a Mac:

http://n95blog.com/isight-replaced-by-nokia-n95-movino/

The solution is called Movino, and best of all, it is open source.

After being on the road for a good 10 days, I finally managed to take PutPinfInItsPlace to a test. This free application takes an iTunes Plus song and shifts a few bits to make the song playable at least on the N95.

I would still prefer a real solution from either company, but for the time being, PPIIP is really helpful.

NOTE: I am not a lawyer and cannot tell whether using this type of utility violates some part of the iTunes EULA, so usual warnings may apply.

I will be taking the last day of my winter vacation tomorrow Friday and enjoying a long weekend before heading off to the XP 2007 conference in Como, Italy on Sunday for entire next week.

If there's anyone in the Mac.sis readership heading to the same conference and you spot a short haired individual with geeky automatically shading sunglasses sporting either a white Macbook or a black Thinkpad, come and say hello.

Any tips for sights or good spots to eat in and around Como are also welcome!

I am at the moment depending on a slow cellular link and cannot try it out myself, but you may be interested in the fact that Nokia has released Nokia Media Transfer for Mac as an open beta version.

Download the app, take it for a spin and let me know how things go. Gotta find me a wifi AP quickly!

Due to perceived preoccupation with more important things, I have not had time to keep most of my winter vacation yet. Now, a welcome breather has arrived, and as of tomorrow, I will be officially off the grid with intermittent cellular access only until next monday.

OK, I took FoneLink for a spin, and unfortunately, the early results do not seem very encouraging. The application needs to mature a little bit until I am willing to shell out any cash for it.

The first annoyance is that the tryout version is nagware. This is not your average demo which politely reminds you every now and then to register. No, this software is Marge Simpson on steroids and then some, every few clicks:

A recent tip at MacOSXHints indicates that there is a workaround for getting iTunes Plus songs to play on the Nokia N95. The process involves using the "Convert to AAC" functionality in iTunes, essentially creating a standard AAC version of the song.

The featured application SyncTunes has been updated to version 2.0 (thanks to Dirk for the heads up). The new version advertises the following new features (directly from the SyncTunes website):