Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

For those of you lucky to have got hold of the spanking new N8, Nokia has just released an iSync plugin for the S^3 wonder. Get it at http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/isync/compatibility-and-....

The Ovi Files service has gained Mac support for synchronising and sharing files between your Macs and your Nokia Phones. Read more about it in the Ovi Blog.

It's been a good great while since Mac.sis saw any updates, and now might be as good a time as any to refresh things a bit.

Nokia has just released Map Loader 1.0 for Mac. Previously, preloading your phone with map data for Maps required a PC with Windows; now this great money-saving (if you're paying by the bit) or time-saving (particularly on slow connections) feature is available also for Mac users.

Inspired by a beautiful autumn day last weekend, I took the entire family for a little walk in the nearby forest trails, with the intention of photographing autumn colors (and of course my pride and joy of a daughter) during the outing. I took my trusty old Canon EOS 400D with a 70-300mm Canon lense, and decided that it would be nice to geotag the photos I manage to take.

To my surprise, this worked beautifully, with the toolchain consisting solely of free utilities for S60 and my Mac. Here's what I did:

The Nokia Beta Labs blog contains an article on configuring the Nokia Chat connection for Adium running on a Mac. Just scroll downwards a bit to get to the Adium instruction. As the Nokia Chat protocol seems to follow the XMPP (Jabber) standard, achieving the same with other chat clients should be easy as well.

In the OS X 10.5.3 update dropped by Apple yesterday, the Address Book provides a capability to synchronise your local address book with Google contacts.

If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, that is.

The FoneLink application for cell phone management for Macs has been updated to version 2.0, and the friendly folks at nova media are offering 5 licenses for Mac.sis readers – the only requirement is that once you try the software out, please provide feedback / review as a reply to this article.

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: