Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

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:

Since the weather took a change towards the tolerable (by Finnish standards anyway), I took a stroll outside playing with the Nokia Research Center SportsTracker application. I performed a "Workout" (a walk around the house, really) with route tracking active, sent the recording to my MacBook in the Google Earth KML format and doubled-clicked it open. Lo and behold, Google Earth fired up and displayed my "Workout" overlaid on the Earth satellite imagery: