Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

If you are interested in reading more along the lines of my brief write-up on the matter, The Nokia Blog talks more about using the N95 and iMovie together. Myself, I have not had the opportunity of trying out iLife '08 yet, as any spare change at the moment is being drained on putting the last finishing touches to our new house.

James Burland has started a new blog, which talks mostly about the creative aspects of smartphones (photos, video etc.)

I suspect the blog may have relevance to Mac users as well, considering that it is hosted at mac.com (which explains the slowness :). Enjoy!

I am a fiction junkie. There. I've said it. I am rather flexible in my literary taste, but for quick entertainment, I usually turn to either Terry Pratchett's Discworld books or Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. I buy them in paperback, either in the calm privacy of my own home from Amazon or in a rushed frenzy at an airport.

Rui Carmo of The Tao of Mac has made available an unofficial Multimedia Transfer plugin and an unofficial iSync plugin, as well as general observations on the device itself. For the plugins and Rui's observations on the device, head on over to Nokia 6120 Classic.

I just ran across an interesting pair of applications from Circle Six Design: MoodSwing and MoodBlast. The first one is a standalone menubar application while the latter is a QuickSilver script, both serving the same purpose: quickly updating your presence information in Adium, iChat, Skype, Twitter, Jaiku and FaceBook.

Since I have got my GTD solution pretty much running smoothly, I have become more and more dependent on keeping stuff synced between the Mac and the N95, and the cycle of starting iSync and then synchronising got a bit tedious. While there are solutions such as Salling Clicker that can automate the synchronisation, I found the battery consumption overhead due to non-stop BT connection slightly too heavy.

While not directly related to Macs, you may be interested in the new version of the Share Online client for the N-series handsets as described in S60 Multimedia Blog. Share Online 2.0 replaces the existing bridge between your S60 Gallery and different online services (Flickr, Vox or custom ones using the Atom Publishing Protocol).

OK, somehow the captcha failed with the discussion forum and a spammer flooded the forum with pr0n ads. I have now taken the discussion forum offline, and am currently thinking about how to proceed with it. It has not been very busy, with the main activity taking place in the article comments.

I would nevertheless want to offer a place for people to ask questions, so please bear with me while I think about how to achieve this.

As noted in AllAboutSymbian.com, the Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac (previously Nokia Media Transfer for Mac) has been updated to version 1.1 beta. Changes mentioned by Nokia include:

Day before yesterday, I returned from a two-week sailing trip that took us from the Turku archipelago to Hanko and then Tallinn, Estonia and back via Porkkala and other locations in the southern coast of Finland.

During the trip, I had a dedicated consumer-level DV video camera for shooting parts of the fun, but there were instances where the camera just was not handy, and I used the N95 video instead.