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.

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.

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":

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 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.

The Device Status application which was published some time ago by Nokia Beta Labs is now available as a standalone SIS package for those users unwilling to use Windows. Previously, the S60 application was bundled with the PC app, which obviously did not provide a whole lotta love to Mac users.

From the Beta Labs page:

I ran across this article in MacOSXHints and immediately realised that the basics described in the Finder Plugin article can be used to convert your BT mobile into a virtual printer. I tested the hint using my N95 as a test subject, and lo and behold, a Send PDF to N95 as JPEG item appeared in the OS X print dialog.

As noted by Darla Mack in Apple Dashboard Widgets Coming Soon To Nokia, the Forum Nokia developer site is offering instructions on how to port Mac Dashboard widgets to the upcoming Web Run-Time (WRT) platform in S60 3rd Edition FP2.

Being able to install new applications to your handset is one of the basic rights of a smartphone owner. In order to exercise that right, you need to perform the following simple steps: