The key lesson learned is that when something is costly or difficult to develop for, developers will often wait until the "next version" which slows productivity on both sides.

Sometimes this is a good thing for the licensor, because they don't have as many licensees on old versions of platform, but it is a delicate balance.

holy sync batman, the version of Nokia Sync that comes with the 6680 actually works!

I've owned pretty much every generation of Nokia phone since they've been makin' 'em, and PC Sync has never once worked as advertised. It always seems to have some device driver trouble, or partially sync items, or bluescreen my computer, or something.

I tried using the 6630 version (which had troubles) with the 6680, and it had even more troubles, so i decided to actually install the version that came with the phone, and it worked.

AND, it synced via Bluetooth with no problems. Now I can actually have all my tasks and calendar and everything on my Nokia phone.

woo hoo!

I just noticed that looking at this blog - that is assuming you actually see the blog and not just the feed - that my Google AdSense ads now allow you, the reader, to change which ads you see.

That's pretty cool.

This must be more of that hip AJAX programming I've read about and has been buzzworded to death.

If you use firefox, and like to browse feeds, you should give blox0r a try, at least to see a cool use of technology.

It's amazing what can be done with just a browser these days.

Which web aggregator am I using these days?

Still Newsburst. I'd like to use Rojo, but it's still too slow. Bloglines? never anymore.

update: this is an XUL application

second, i have run into my fist problems using the Nokia 6680 mail client. it mostly has to do with how i use email.

see, i never delete email. i'm one of those people that has my different clients delete them from the server every X days, but i mostly keep copies on the client. and i don't like IMAP, so i use POP. IMAP is way to slow and chatty, especially for a mobile device.

as of right now i have about 400 messages on the server, and this seems to be giving nokia trouble on the client. i am now to the point where on every retrieval, it is telling me i am out of memory and need to free soem up. it doesn't specify whether this is RAM or ROM, so i really have no idea. i also can't find whether or not it is stoting my mail on the device or the memory card...

mostly because it's licensed by IMEI, and i don't want to plop down another $30 for Profimail, which is a fantastic app, and partly because i just what to see if our fine finnish friends at Nokia improved upon in this latest rev of the Series 60 , i am trying to get by using the on-board email application on the Nokia 6680.

so far, it seems to work pretty well, but i have had one lock up while downloading my message box for the very first time. otherwise, it hasn't been so bad. i like the integration with the phone's alerting system, and it can download on a schedule in the background.

the one thing it does that Profimail does not, is download partial messages. i like this option compared to soley headers or full messages.

i do miss the HTML rendering however. i'll see how long i can hold off.

This morning I got up (albeit early) excited to listen to the new Audioslave
and Alkaline Trio albums which were both released today, and found that neither of them were available on Yahoo! Music Unlimited. Super bummer.

Both are available on iTunes.

I've really been enjoying Y!mu and for the price, it's the best value in music - it's got me to think about "renting" music, which I never thought I would, and has generally been a good experience. I even broke down and started using y!messenger client proper after trying it.

Perhaps these are two albums (do kids who've never owned an album call them albums?) I'd rather own anyway.

I'll give them until 9am pacific.

sigh.

Another rev of Symbian Series 60, another home screen. I like what Nokia did here, but it's not unlike what Windows Mobile has had for like, the last two versions.

At any rate, the 6680 sure has a vibrant screen but otherwise doesn't feel that different than the 6630.

I'll report more in a few days...

if you are at Syndicate - feel free to seek me out by sending me email. should be a good conference. i am looking forward to it.

I've already been amazed at what Rick has brought to the team in the short time he has been with us - and I am sure that we'll be announcing some of the fruits of his labor in the very near future.

I'm sure it's in all the b-school rhetoric that when building a startup you have to "know what you don't know." Well, Rick knows a lot of things I don't know - so I look forward to learning from him.

•  Total Stats PRO - we've always provided the details on the number of subscribers you have to your feed and the popular feed readers used to read you content and will continue to do so for free - but if you publish any type of feed and want to know details on who has viewed the full-content items in the feed versus who has clicked thru on items, as well as much more, then you want to subscribe to our first premium service, Total Stats PRO. Matt McAlister has a great post on more of the details here.
• Yahoo! Media RSS Support - If you currently use the FeedBurner SmartCast service to easily publish your podcast from publishing tools such as MSN Spaces, TypePad, or Blogger, you can now optionally add markup to your podcast feed to support Yahoo! Media RSS. By doing this, directories, search engines, and aggregators that support Media RSS (for example, Yahoo!'s products) can better index your podcast and display results for users that want to consume your content, whether it be audio, video, or even just photos.

Keep watching Burning Questions for more features and products we will be releasing in the very near future.

What this says to me, and it's not out of line with what MSN says, is that MSN Spaces is much more worried about keeping up with features of the likes of AOL Journals, which offers some really cool features of notifiying you via AIM or AOL IM if someone comments on your posts, or one of your friends has added new posts, than they are worried about the likes of Six Apart or even Blogger for that matter.

hasta manana...

• it was able to open a PowerPoint document that was authored on a mac but when opened on the PC in MS PowerPoint gave me "QuickTime plugin required" for all the embedded graphics. OpenOffice had no problem opening the document
• Adobe Acrobat would only render an Excel file to PDF as a solid black square. Exporting the document to PDF from OpenOffice calc created a perfect PDF

how can this be? how can a stand-in perform better than the applications that define the file formats? I don't know but it does, and for all intents and purposes, it's free right now.

I also think the OpenOffice Word clone is much than MS Word at editing tables. If you have to edit a document that uses tables, you should definitely try it.