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| July 22, 2009
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Nokia Trying Its Hands On Web-Based Mobile Collaboration

Nokia is working on a web-based mobile collaboration service called Nokia Easy Meet which lets you use your mobile device and/or PC to create, conduct, and participate in meetings with your business colleagues as well as your friends and family. The service which is in beta is aimed at sharing content synchronously and in real-time.

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Meeting with Family

While on vacation you see a perfect gift to your mom. You think its perfect but you won’t risk buying it before talking to your sisters about the gift. Well, what should you do? Snap a few photos of the gift with your mobile device and then you login to Nokia Easy Meet. Using Nokia Easy Meet, you could create a family meeting right from the store. This service sends out an email or SMS to the each participants. With just one click, each sisters can join the meeting via a PC or a mobile device and view the photo while talking together. Your sisters could use the chat features of Nokia Easy Meet or even download the photos.

With just few clicks you are able to collaborate with your sisters and share photos and converse in real-time.

Discussions with Business Colleagues

While you are traveling on a business trip, you would like to share the slides with your project team and discuss. Nokia Easy Meet allows you to create your own unique URL for regular collaboration. During the conference call, you can share PowerPoint slides and images while discussing the project via voice and chat. The services also captures the meeting minutes for future reference.

Sneak Peak at Nokia Easy Meet

  • A S60 widget can be installed on your mobile phone and customized with your user and password. Auto login can be enabled and the list of meetings are always accessible easily when you login.

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SignUp

  • Enter your user name and password to login screen

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  • If you are a participants and the conference URL is sent to you via email or SMS, then you don’t need to signup. You can just login using your email ID

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  • Once you login, the meeting list screen is presented. You can just click on the meeting to participate. You can edit or delete the meeting only if you have created it.

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  • Two different screen layouts – Wide Screen layout and Small Screen layout are supported

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  • Participants can view the list of file shared.

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  • Participants can download a copy of shared file or upload a new file for sharing

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  • You can either upload a file from your mobile phone or a remote file

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  • The host can then share the file by just few clicks

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  • The host can then start sharing the slides, select colors from the draw pallet and highlight the slide contents while presenting

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System Requirements

While the goal is to support all mobile devices with browser, extensive testing are done for E90, E66, E71i, N95, N800/810, GooglePhone, iPhone/iTouch. Browsers supported are S60, Opera, Firefox, IE7, Safari and IE6 is not supported.

While its a cool service that enables web-based mobile collaboration, the challenge is in making the service more efficient for mobile users.

Will Nokia overcome these challenges? Well, Nokia Easy Meet is a research prototype and hasn’t been integrated with Nokia Accounts yet. Will it get anywhere near to the WebEx on iPhone? Time will tell..

Is this a killer app for mobile?

Try it yourself at http://easymeet.nokia.com and let us know your comments/suggestions.

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| July 21, 2009
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iPhone’s “Priceless Picks”

When we read about this application what struck us first was the “Priceless” caption used in the master card advertisement. It’s a pretty old Ad but it still lingers in our mind. Expanding their “Priceless” campaign, Mastercard has released their new iPhone and iPod Touch application called the “Priceless Picks”.

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As the application market is gaining momentum, this new iPhone application is unique in its own way. It’s not just another mobile advertisement. Instead this is a social application that allows consumers to find their best deals at location of their choice.

Does it still sound useless!! It helps you share your favorite places and amazing deals with the world, and it can also show you all the great things around you that other people have tagged as priceless, on a highly interactive and customized map. The perfect bench to catch a sunset, the best pizza on earth, a secret spot to watch the world go by – Find all these priceless moments with the “Priceless Picks” application.

Priceless Picks pairs GPS and 3D maps to show you local deals, dining, and other points of interest in your immediate vicinity. Browse around the map in quasi-street view or bird’s-eye view, identifying locations as the color-coordinated bubble pops up. Red for dining, blue for shopping, orange for “Priceless” items, and so on.

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The business model

Local vendors will post constantly updating new deals in the few words contained within each bubble. Common people can also add posts about the public parks, scenic point etc. When the user taps the bubble you see options to e-mail the selection to a friend, flag as improper, or explore more details. The last instructs you to call the merchant to verify a deal or pinch and zoom to work out the vendor’s exact street location.

That’s another useful application from iPhone!!

Priceless app is really price less. Download it for free at the App Store.

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| July 21, 2009
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Five Apps To Turn iPhone into Your Personal Yoga Guru

Yoga is a series of traditional physical and mental disciplines that originated from India. Many people think that yoga is just stretching. But while stretching is certainly involved, yoga is really about creating balance in the body through developing both strength and flexibility. Yoga has both physical and mental benefits when practiced regularly.

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There are some cool applications that can turn your iPhone into a Yoga trainer and lets you learn and master Yoga at your own pace.

1. Yoga Trainer Pro

Yoga Trainer Pro is a guide with 70+ poses suited for all from beginner to advanced. It lets you to practice Yoga when you want, where you want and how you want. The 70+ poses with photos provides step by step instructions with voice alerts to introduce the pose. We really like the time feature that counts down how long you should hold the pose. It also adds a nice touch by having the name of each pose in Sanskrit.

Save of courses fees with Yoga trainer and try the Yoga Trainer Pro on your iPhone

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2. Yoga STRETCH

Yoga STRETCH consists of traditional yoga poses sequencing with a Vinyasa flow. Yoga STRETCH is designed to improve strength, balance, posture and flexibility. Yoga STRETCH is your own personal Yoga instructor walking you through a full Session including audio commentary, images and music. It lets you play Yoga session that is customizable from 1 to 60 minutes with over 60 Yoga moves. The audio instructor will tell you detailed information about your current pose, the required steps to put your body in correct positioning and maintain that pose. You have an option to choose between six meditative background songs to play during your Yoga session. You can view each with detailed text description along with the true name in Sanskrit, physical and mental benefits.

The images are so beautifully designed that are both mentally and spiritually uplifting. Check out your self at the App store.

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3. Yoga RELAX

Yoga RELAX consists of traditional yoga poses sequencing with Vinyasa flow, focused on mind and body workout. The features are similar to Yoga STRETCH and it lets you play Yoga session that is customizable from 1 to 36 minutes with over 35 Yoga moves. One can choose between 3 meditative background songs to be played during Yoga Sessions. Try out the apps at the App Store.

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4. Prêt-à-Yoga

Prêt-à-Yoga is a uniquely crafted yoga experience designed to enlighten you and guide you through the discipline of yoga. Your personal guru, Kathleen Kastner, a trained yoga instructor and exercise physiologist, guides you through each sequence, pose by pose, breath by breath, explaining how to practice the art of Yoga.

This wonderful application offers an unparalleled experience with sequences meticulously designed by Kathleen and beautiful music arranged by Cerebral Songs to enhance your practice.

Prêt-à-Yoga includes the following four stages:

The Prêt-à-Yoga is an investment in the quality of your life. So proceed now and try the app at the App Store.

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5. iPump Yoga

iPump Yoga is designed to help maintain your physical, psychological, and spiritual health. Exercise Physiologist and PumpOne co-founder, Declan Condron, teamed up with Yoga instructor Kristin McGee to create 3 progressive Hatha Yoga flows with 61 Yoga images, videos & audio coaching. It demonstrates a proper form that will have you on your way to increased awareness, stillness of mind, and a strong, agile body.

Each level contains basic flows like the Sun Salutation and Warrior Sequences along with some more advanced flows intertwined with a number of individual poses. These picture-perfect poses and flowing sequences of new and familiar postures will provide you with a whole new yoga experience whether you are new to Yoga or not. You can checkout the app at the App Store.

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Yoga is a science that has been practiced for thousands of years and its an investment in the quality of your life.

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| July 11, 2009
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Use iPhone as a Wireless Drive!

Air Share is an award winning application to use your iPhone/iPod touch as a wireless disk on any computer whether its Mac or PC via WiFi. This will help you carry everything that is important on your iPhone/iPod storage and connect to any computer easily. Best of all, once the iPhone is mounted as a wireless drive, you can just drag and drop files seamlessly. Due to this seamless connectivity Air Share has been the Most useful App of 2008. Air Share even has a built in File Viewer that is really nice. Perfect for reading eBooks etc. Good for using iPhone as your backup drive!

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Features

  • Ease of use – Finder like file browser, syntax coloring for viewing source on iPhone if you are dropping files to iPhone from your PC.
  • Advanced Image Viewer
  • Advanced File Viewer supports almost all major file formats.
  • Works with Windows, Linux or Mac based computers.
  • Security – with password support.
  • Fast access and a lot more other features.
  • Works with new iPhone 3G S as well.

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| June 7, 2009
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Affordable home laser show and projectors

Well, If you are a chronic audiophile and especially you are the kind of a trance addict then you know the very important thing in a trance show is the laser light shows! The lovely green laser beams moving all over the place giving company to the dancing trance addicts! Actually these laser shows can be bought for as little as $100! Of course, if you need more features it would cost more (can go from 100$ to a couple of hundred) but definitely not out of reach.

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So, Are you looking for an affordable home laser projectors? There are plenty of options to liven up parties or an upcoming event? Do you own an entertainment venue and have plans to install a top-of-the-line DMX laser projector to dazzle your clientele? LaserSale – an online retail that specializes in the laser show products caught our eyes (Please note that we don’t get paid to mention them here!). There are quite a bit kinds of laser show projectors out there and some of them are here;

Ameba 3D Red Laser Show

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Compact & Affordable 3D Red Beam Laser Show Ideal for Special Effects Applications & Great Fun. Bright 4.9mW 650nm Laser Diode. Built in Micro Processor Generates 100 Geometric Patterns.

Ameba 3D Green Laser Show

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Compact & Affordable 3D Green Beam Laser Show Ideal for Special Effects Applications & Great Fun. Bright 4.9mW 532nm Laser Diode. Built in Micro Processor Generates 100 Geometric Patterns.

Photon DMX Cosmic Frenzy

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The Photon DMX Cosmic Frenzy Laser Show, can bring life and light to your next party with 45 amazing effects including; wave effects, cloud effects, full-tunnel effects, liquid sky effects, and many more professional effects.

ProLaserFX Showcube

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ProLaserFX Showcube is the smallest complete programmable laser graphics projection system on the planet. Quickly and easily create text messages, custom graphics or select from an assortment of over 80 preset graphics to create a custom animated laser light show. Create, record and save laser show scripts from your computer and replay sequences with text and graphics from the convenient portable keypad! The Showcube projects a super bright green laser light beam to draw complex patterns, text, and animations. The laser projector can also be commanded to hear music and automatically create synchronized laser light shows on walls, ceilings, banners, boards and projection screens. Built-in sound pickup Microphone can be used to control virtually every aspect of graphical output. Can be used to write messages in laser light, or used in a fogged room to display fantastic and exciting beam patterns including sound tunnels, liquid sky, dynamic beam effects and more. Operates as a stand alone device controlled by keypad, computer or optional DMX interface. Great for Clubs, Trade Shows, Presentations, Conventions, Galas, Special Events, Stage Bands, Theatre, Advertising, Store Displays, Holiday & Festival Displays Conventions, Seminars, and DJs.

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Photon DMX Multi-Color Club Laser

The Photon DMX Multi-Color Club Laser will mesmerize everybody with its multiple liquid sky effects in three different colors. With 8 individual launching ports and 8 high-tech rotating mirrors, this light show will give you non-stop action.

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The Photon DMX Multicolor Cosmic Frenzy is a compact laser projector that packs a big punch. This multicolor version (RYG) emits red, green, and yellow laser beams. It can bring life and light to your next party with 45 amazing effects including; wave effects, cloud effects, full-tunnel effects, liquid sky effects, and many more professional effects.

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