The MOST TRIUMPHANT Vox

I could never get Sports Tracker working right on my N95.  I'd always run out of ram.  Since I'm trialling the black N82, with its 90mb of free ram, I can finally let loose with multitasking.

Yesterday I went on a walk to Radio Shack to buy an adapter.  I was able to have the music player running in the background while I turned on the Sports Tracker.  Taking pictures wasn't a problem.  Each picture I took came out great and neither the music player or Sports Tracker application crashed.  There was one problem though.  I forgot to charge up the N82 so I ran out of juice halfway on my walk.

When I came home, I plugged the N82 back in and uploaded my workout.  I had to search around a bit to figure out how to add pictures to the workout.  I found the instructions at Black Phoebe

My workout/photowalk can be found here

What I'd really like to see is a way to have an embeddable widget I could place here instead of just a link.  There are widgets for facebook and blogger and some other sites, but they show only your last workout.  I want to be able to share a specific workout.

I tried to upload the the kml file to google maps, but it wouldn't take it.  I tried a bunch of methods, but I couldn't get it to work.

Ideally, Sports Tracker and Share on Ovi would be working together with Nokia Maps to get a great united solution.  But I think we are a few years away from that.

Also,

WOM World sent me a black N82 to play with. This thing is awesome. I'm in love! I can't wait until Amazon.com has it in stock

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I never got tickets to the big show, but I'm watching at home you should too.  check out www.pangeaday.org

For weeks, I've been anticipating Pangea Day.  The website said there would be an event in Los Angeles.  I visited the website weeks ago.  I clicked attend an event on the right side of the front page.  I clicked the yellow event marker, which indicated a broadcast event. 

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There's very little information there.  If you click the Watch graffic on the right side of the home page, you can then  find a link to live events.  So I made my way to the Los Angeles event site.  Last time I checked, there was no L.A. venue yet.  I checked this morning and not only is there a venue, its already sold out. 

This really sucks.  I really wanted to attend this. 

What's kind of strange is that the L.A. event is being held at the Sony Pictures Studio in Culver City instead of the Nokia Theater in downtown L.A.

Recently, filmmaker Spike Lee announced a partnership with Nokia to make www.nokiaproductions.com.
The site wants users to upload mobile created films and Mr Lee will pick the best ones to assemble a larger film.  This reminded me of a project from 2 years ago.

I'm a big nine inch nails fan.  I have pretty much every release in CD format.

nine inch nails front man Trent Reznor has opened me up to a lot of new music.  A few months back, he posted this silly video with a really great song.

Backstage in Sydney

I've had my Nokia N800 for a few months now.  I've gotten into a routine in my use for it.

My main use for it is the Video Center.  I get my daily shows like Rocketboom, MoBuzz, Tekzilla and GeekbriefTV and weekly shows like Cranky Geeks.  Shows from Revision 3 coded with Quicktime Small play back in full widescreen on the N800.  Geekbrief TV has the best quality video of any show I've seen available without need for conversion. Mobuzz works great with its PSP feed and is a very close second in quality.

My second use is for Jaiku.  Using an app called Mauku, I can keep track of my contacts all day long with a great finger friendly interface.

My third use is for internet browsing.  The N800 is really great at handling message boards.  Unfortunately, the N800 is not robust enough for Google Reader.  Using the mobile version works very well, but doesn't have the ease of use of the full version.

Fourth is IM.  It takes a little bit of hacking with Red Pill mode to get the IM client to support multiple protocols, but having AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GoogleTalk and more all in one app is great.

The fifth most common use is weather. This is something my N800 does better than my N95.  With OmWeather, I have a 7 day forecast with current weather conditions.  I really wish someone would make a good weather app for S60 that could have an Active Standby plug in.

Occasionally, I'll use Canola to listen to music, but I usually use my N95 for that.  I don't plan on using the N800 as a music device until A2DP is fully implemented.

Last week, I vox'd about video ringtones for S60 Feature Pack 1

Recently this site was featured on techmeme.

It adds a simple right-click-save-as link on youtube videos.
Hook up your phone with the USB cable or bluetooth and you can save directly to your phone.

Remember to save the files with the .mp4 file extension
Sometimes the videos you save don't work.  If the video doesn't playback, it will need to be converted.  Its a good idea to down convert the file to .3gp using the Nokia Video Manager for PC or Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac.

Tip: Cartoon intros make for great ringtones

Most S60 FP1 phones support native video ringtones.  Lately, I've been downloading mp4 videos from youtube and using them as video ringtones.  Typical file sizes range from 5mb to 20mb.  This isn't too bad, considering how huge memory cards have become.

I recently found this great website: http://vixy.net/rawvideo/
What it does is take the url of a youtube video and finds the .mp4 version and makes it a downloadable file.  Then I transfer the file from my computer to my N95.   I occasionally run into some videos that dont play and require conversion.

It is possible to do this from the S60 Web Browser, but even with a bluetooth keyboard, its quite a pain to do.

What I'd love to see in the future is for an application like emtube or mobitubia to use .mp4 files instead of .flv files.  Or maybe for the OS to support .flv video files as video ringtones.