As I was uploading my previous post I noticed that my photos, taken with my Nokia N73, had a bit of a red mist on the right hand side. Could this just be a dirty lens or is this a problem with the phone/chip?
Showing posts with label N73. Show all posts
Showing posts with label N73. Show all posts
Friday, July 13, 2007
Red Mist
As I was uploading my previous post I noticed that my photos, taken with my Nokia N73, had a bit of a red mist on the right hand side. Could this just be a dirty lens or is this a problem with the phone/chip?
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Going Handsfree
As all you drivers should be aware, it is now illegal to even pick up a mobile phone while you are driving. You can pick up points and a fine if you caught. And what do points make? Anyone?
Anyway, I was thinking that I should find my Jabra Bluetooth headset and get it charged for use in the car. But I remembered how much I disliked the feel of it in my ear and how awkward it actually was to pick it up and put it in my ear before the caller hung up! So a rethink was required.
If you are a Nokia N73 user you will know that it, as so many modern phones, has a loudspeaker function. It works well but the problem is working out where to put the thing while talking. Leaving it on the seat next to me was no use as the speakers and mic were to far away resulting in a shouting match.
So all I needed was something to hold it, and this is what I got. It was only £5.95 in The Carphone Warehouse and I installed it on a vest right beside my steering wheel. The clip grips and easily holds my N73 which would be considered a reasonably heavy phone. Driving home today I conversed easily with my mother - who isn't renowned for her bat like hearing - so that proved to me it worked well.
Better still, you can buy the same clip in Tesco at the moment for less that £5. So if you have a decent loudspeaker system on your phone, this could be a cheap and effective way to go handsfree.
Anyway, I was thinking that I should find my Jabra Bluetooth headset and get it charged for use in the car. But I remembered how much I disliked the feel of it in my ear and how awkward it actually was to pick it up and put it in my ear before the caller hung up! So a rethink was required.
If you are a Nokia N73 user you will know that it, as so many modern phones, has a loudspeaker function. It works well but the problem is working out where to put the thing while talking. Leaving it on the seat next to me was no use as the speakers and mic were to far away resulting in a shouting match.
So all I needed was something to hold it, and this is what I got. It was only £5.95 in The Carphone Warehouse and I installed it on a vest right beside my steering wheel. The clip grips and easily holds my N73 which would be considered a reasonably heavy phone. Driving home today I conversed easily with my mother - who isn't renowned for her bat like hearing - so that proved to me it worked well.Better still, you can buy the same clip in Tesco at the moment for less that £5. So if you have a decent loudspeaker system on your phone, this could be a cheap and effective way to go handsfree.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
That Syncing Feeling
Ok, so I know what happened. I must say from the outset that it had nothing to to with my mac! It boiled down to how the two programs I used and my n73 handle shared calendars.
First I tried a program called Spanning Sync. This is a little application for the mac that sits in the system preferences and places its little icon in the menu bar up top. Once I entered my Google account details it was able to pull my calendar entries down and place them in iCal. Thus my iCal and Google Calendar were beautifully syncronised! It even allowed me to download details of a shared calendar - placing it in iCal in a different colour.
So at this point my mac and my google were getting along just great but my N73 was a bit left out. Using iSync I was able to update my phone with my iCal detail. This, as per usual, was such a simple process. It transferred details of all my calendars to my phone BUT - and this is where is started to go wrong - it didn't separate the calendars. So whether the calendar event was Dermo's or mine they sat on my phone just the same. I almost started picking praise songs for church on Sunday because my phone said that is what I should be doing tonight!
Dermo had recommended Goosync. This works differently to Spanning Sync as it does not involve my mac. It works by allowing my phone to sync with my Google calendar using my mobile web connection. The benefit of this is that I can update my Google Calendar on the go. This seemed like a cool thing to be able to do so once I was signed up etc I tried it. Big mistake. Bear in mind I had managed to merge two calendars into one on my phone. This meant that when my N73 set about updating Google it placed all my events and Dermo's events (it couldn't tell the difference) to my own Google Calendar giving me the irritating double entries!
The good news is that Goosync can only update a limited amount at a time so the damage shouldn't take too long to fix. My trouble now is figuring out which of these systems to use. Neither of them do exactly what I want which is one package that syncronises Google Calendar, iCal and my N73 in one go. There must be a way to do this through iSync? Similar to the way it would link up with .mac? I don't know enough about it but hopefully someone out there will.
For now I'm going to continue to play around with these two packages both of which are pretty good in their own way. My first step would be to limit my phone access to my calendar only as the issue started with the way it handled multiple calendars. I'll keep you all updated if I work out anything else.
First I tried a program called Spanning Sync. This is a little application for the mac that sits in the system preferences and places its little icon in the menu bar up top. Once I entered my Google account details it was able to pull my calendar entries down and place them in iCal. Thus my iCal and Google Calendar were beautifully syncronised! It even allowed me to download details of a shared calendar - placing it in iCal in a different colour. So at this point my mac and my google were getting along just great but my N73 was a bit left out. Using iSync I was able to update my phone with my iCal detail. This, as per usual, was such a simple process. It transferred details of all my calendars to my phone BUT - and this is where is started to go wrong - it didn't separate the calendars. So whether the calendar event was Dermo's or mine they sat on my phone just the same. I almost started picking praise songs for church on Sunday because my phone said that is what I should be doing tonight!
Dermo had recommended Goosync. This works differently to Spanning Sync as it does not involve my mac. It works by allowing my phone to sync with my Google calendar using my mobile web connection. The benefit of this is that I can update my Google Calendar on the go. This seemed like a cool thing to be able to do so once I was signed up etc I tried it. Big mistake. Bear in mind I had managed to merge two calendars into one on my phone. This meant that when my N73 set about updating Google it placed all my events and Dermo's events (it couldn't tell the difference) to my own Google Calendar giving me the irritating double entries!
The good news is that Goosync can only update a limited amount at a time so the damage shouldn't take too long to fix. My trouble now is figuring out which of these systems to use. Neither of them do exactly what I want which is one package that syncronises Google Calendar, iCal and my N73 in one go. There must be a way to do this through iSync? Similar to the way it would link up with .mac? I don't know enough about it but hopefully someone out there will.
For now I'm going to continue to play around with these two packages both of which are pretty good in their own way. My first step would be to limit my phone access to my calendar only as the issue started with the way it handled multiple calendars. I'll keep you all updated if I work out anything else.
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