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Fri, 26.12.08
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25% discount site-wide
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 It's Christmas time, time of gifts and joy. We've also prepared a Christmas gift for you! Now you can buy any Symbian OS software you want at the My-Symbian Software Shop with 25% discount! This means that you can save 25% off the price, and, if you buy 4 programs, then you'll actually save enough to get a 5th one for free! All you need to do is to enter SYMBIAN25 discount code on the shopping cart screen and 25% will instantly be deducted from the total price. This offer is limited to a certain number of orders, so don't wait or it may be too late! Start browsing our giant catalog of Symbian OS software now. Promotion details can be found here. |
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Tue, 18.11.08
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VMWare brings vitrualization to mobile phones
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| VMware MVP is a thin layer of software that is embedded on a mobile phone to decouple the applications and data from the underlying hardware. It is optimized to run efficiently on low power consuming and memory constrained mobile phones. The MVP currently supports a wide range of real-time and rich operating systems including Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0, Linux 2.6.x, Symbian 9.x, eCos, µITRON NORTi and µC/OS-II. VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform will help handset vendors reduce development time and get mobile phones to market faster. In addition, end users will benefit by being able to run multiple personalities — for example, one for personal use and one for work use on the same phone. Read more @ VMWare.com. |
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Sat, 18.10.08
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ARM Profiler for Symbian OS to be announced at the Smartphone Show
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At the Symbian Smartphone Show next week, ARM and Symbian will announce ARM Profiler support for mobile phone developers using Symbian OS, helping achieve optimum performance without compromising battery life. The ARM Profiler enables developers of mobile phone and mobile internet device (MID) applications running on Symbian OS to add enhanced features that can run at high speeds with reduced drain on batteries. New features for developers using the ARM Profiler include:
* Ability to profile applications running on Symbian OS
* Feedback on actual application performance
* Rapid identification of bottlenecks. |
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Fri, 19.09.08
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New Nokia Internet Tablets with HSDPA connectivity coming soon
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| Nokia has just revealed some details about their upcoming Internet Tablet models based on the Maemo (Linux) platform. The news is really exciting as the new models are going to include everything I've always dreamed about: HSDPA connectivity (which finally means access to the Internet everywhere), high-resolution camera and powerful OMAP3-based processor. My-Symbian's sister site devoted to Internet Tablets, My-Maemo.com, is still in the works, but the news is truly motivating so I'll be doing my best to assign more resources and efforts to prepare the site for its launch before or along with the introduction of the new models. Stay tuned! |
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Mon, 15.09.08
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Celebrate our 9th Anniversary with us and save 20%!
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 Did you know that My-Symbian.com is the oldest Symbian OS community website in the Internet? Yes, it's true! Launched in 1999, this site is now celebrating its 9th Anniversary! We're almost as old as Symbian itself! Billions of page impressions, terabytes of traffic served, over 50 million downloaded files, more than 120 thousand registered forum users, some of them since the very beginning... and a huge part of my personal life.
Why not share this great moment with you? Celebrate it with us! Starting from today, during a limited period of time, you can buy any software you want at the My-Symbian Software Store with unconditional 20% discount. So don't overpay elsewhere, just save 20% and enjoy your new Symbian OS software!
To get the discount, simply add any programs you want to your shopping cart at the My-Symbian Software Store and enter the MYSYMBIANJUL discount code to instantly get 20% off the total price. Read more... |
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Wed, 20.08.08
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NS Basic now available for UIQ3 and S60 3rd Edition
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NS Basic Corporation today announced the immediate availability of version 1.0 of NS Basic for Symbian OS, a new development tool for creating S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3.x applications. Version 1.0 is a complete standalone development solution, featuring:
* Easy to use, standard and structured BASIC
* Over a dozen built in screen objects
* Buttons, fields, popups and more
* TCP/IP communications
* Math and trigonometric functions
* Produces stand alone, signed installers
* Royalty free distribution of applications you create
* Runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista
* Lots of sample code, tutorials and tech notes
* IDE in English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese
* 150 page hard copy Handbook
Visit NS Basic home page to learn more. |
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Tue, 15.07.08
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New promotion at the My-Symbian Software shop: SAVE $5
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Starting from today, during a limited period of time, you can save $5 on your software purchase at the My-Symbian Software Store.
Just add programs for $35 or more to your shopping cart and enter the SAVEONSYMBIAN discount code to instantly get $5 off the total price. Read more... |
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Tue, 24.06.08
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Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP unite to create one open mobile software platform. Nokia to buy Symbian and establish Symbian Foundation
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Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone they plan to establish the Symbian Foundation to extend the appeal of this unified software platform. Membership of this non-profit Foundation will be open to all organizations. This initiative is supported by current shareholders and management of Symbian Limited, who have been actively involved in its development. Plans for the Foundation have already received wide support from other industry leaders.
To enable the Foundation, Nokia today announced plans to acquire the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own and then contribute the Symbian and S60 software to the Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola today announced their intention to contribute technology from UIQ and DOCOMO has also indicated its willingness to contribute its MOAP(S) assets. From these contributions, the Foundation will provide a unified platform with common UI framework. A full platform will be available for all Foundation members under a royalty-free license, from the Foundation's first day of operations.
Contributions from Foundation members through open collaboration will be integrated to further enhance the platform. The Foundation will make selected components available as open source at launch. It will then work to establish the most complete mobile software offering available in open source. This will be made available over the next two years and is intended to be released under Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0.
The Foundation's platform will build on the leading open mobile software platform, with more than 200 million phones, across 235 models, already shipped by multiple vendors and tens of thousands of third-party applications already available for Symbian OS-based devices.
Read more @ Symbian.com, SymbianFoundation.org, Nokia.com, SonyEricsson.com, Motorola.com. |
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Tue, 17.06.08
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Symbian celebrates its 10th anniversary
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It's hard to believe how time flies... Symbian OS is now 10 years old. To celebrate the 10th anniversary, Symbian has lauched special Symbian @ 10 website where you can learn about the past and presence of Symbian OS, sign the birthday card and share your story by signing the guestblog.
Oh, and while we're at how time flies... This website, My-Symbian.com, will celebrate its 9th anniversary in just three months. But don't worry, we're not going to retire yet, unless someone wants to offer a good lifelong pension :-) |
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Tue, 01.04.08
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Dolby Mobile for Symbian OS
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| Dolby Laboratories and Symbian Limited yesterday confirmed that Dolby Laboratories has joined the Symbian Platinum Partner Program, offering Dolby Mobile for Symbian OS. This new solution enables rich and vibrant surround sound from various types of mobile entertainment content, including music, movies, television, and games, to Symbian smartphone users around the world. Dolby Mobile offers Symbian licensees the ability to differentiate their multimedia-focused products even further by offering a more immersive audio experience on the go. The first mobile phones featuring Dolby Mobile technology are already available in Japan. Read full press release @ Symbian.com. |
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Symbian OS with SQL and LBS
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Symbian Limited yesterday announced Symbian SQL and an advanced Location Based Services (LBS) architecture – two new technologies that herald the next generation of mobile computing by offering dramatic enhancements in the vital areas of mass data handling and LBS. Mobile phones featuring Symbian's LBS offering were recently launched in Japan. In Europe, Symbian's LBS architecture will appear in mobile phones later this year. Symbian SQL will be featured in phones shipping in the second half of 2008 and be available to application developers via a download in Q2 2008.
SQLite, an established open source technology widely used in products such as Mozilla's Firefox, has been implemented by Symbian to create Symbian SQL, a robust and highly scalable database management system for Symbian OS. Symbian SQL makes retrieving and sorting terabytes of data and multimedia fast and efficient without compromising performance. Application developers can also take advantage of Symbian SQL by using a standard query language when working with databases on Symbian OS, helping to reduce maintenance costs and application footprints. To support the open source community, Symbian is contributing technology improvements back into the SQLite open source project and is a charter member of the SQLite Consortium launched in December 2007.
Symbian's LBS architecture offers the most extensive LBS-rich solution of any OS, supporting multiple positioning technologies including A-GPS, network-based and Wi-FI to provide fast and accurate location information. Handset manufacturers do not need to invest separately in developing location support, dramatically reducing the time it takes to create GPS-enabled devices. Developers can cost-effectively target their LBS applications across multiple Symbian OS platforms, including S60, UIQ and MOAP, due to the consistent set of APIs offered by Symbian's LBS architecture.
Read full press release @ Symbian.com. |
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Sun, 02.03.08
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Exclusive promotion: 20% discount on all available software!
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 From a series of exclusive promotions at the My-Symbian Software Shop here comes another one: 20% DISCOUNT ON ALL SOFTWARE. Starting from March 1st, during a limited period of time, you can buy any titles (and any number of programs), for any Symbian OS-based phone model with 20% discount off their standard price. To obtain the discount, simply enter MYSYMBIAN20OFF promotion code in the shop's basket and 20% will instantly be deducted from all selected software titles.
This is a time-limited offer, so don't wait or it may be too late to take advantage of it! No other existing Symbian OS software shop offers such a high discount on all available software, so don't miss this great opportunity to buy your software much cheaper!
ENTER THE SOFTWARE STORE: SHOP IN EUROS | SHOP IN DOLLARS
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Wed, 06.02.08
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Opera Mobile 9.5 announced
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Opera Software announced the commercial release of Opera Mobile 9.5 — the latest version of its Web browser for smartphones. Participants at the Mobile World Congress 2008 will be the first to experience the improved functionality of Opera Mobile 9.5. Built on Opera's unique core architecture, the Opera Mobile 9.5 desktop-like browsing experience has been enhanced with innovations such as zooming and panning that make it easier to navigate, load pages quicker and get users closer to the Web content and entertainment they want. With Opera Mobile 9.5, users can experience the real Web and interact with content exactly as they do on their PC. The new version utilizes Opera's Presto rendering engine to achieve page load speeds comparable to a desktop experience. The Opera Presto engine was modified and improves browsing performance significantly by accelerating the handling of Web pages. It dramatically improves page responsiveness on pages with heavy use of languages such as JavaScript and Ajax, ensuring smooth, hassle-free browsing.
Opera Mobile 9.5 includes numerous features aimed at elevating the mobile browsing experience. Not only is the user interface (UI) intuitive enough to master in minutes, Opera Mobile 9.5 introduces several new innovations that elevate the Internet experience on a handheld device. Users can take advantage of the intuitive Opera Zoom to dive into the page and get closer to the content they want. In addition, productivity tools like the ability to save pages for offline browsing, Web address auto complete and password manager help busy users make the most of their time. Web 2.0-enabled, Widget-ready and Flash support turn Opera Mobile 9.5 into a fully loaded browser allowing users to access all their favorite Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and more. With Opera Mobile 9.5, OEMs and operators will have the capability to include Flash Lite 3, empowering their smartphone users with access to the full Web including the ability to watch videos on YouTube effortlessly. In addition, Opera Widgets, which are mini applications that allow content to be accessed easily from the device idle screen with just a few clicks, are included in the new edition — automatically engaging the user through ease of operation and meeting consumer demands for quick access to information.
The Opera Mobile 9.5 experience includes many of the innovations found in Opera's trend-setting desktop browser including:
* Intuitive user interface
* Tabbed browsing
* Improved text wrap
* Page overview, zooming and panning
* Landscape mode
* Save Web page for future offline access
* Call phone number from Web page
* Send link as SMS/MMS
* Send image as SMS/MMS
* Small Screen Rendering
* Password manager
* Web address input auto-completion
* History and bookmarks
* Copy text
* Opera Widgets.
Read full press release @ Opera.com. Video demonstration of the new browser is available here. |
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Mon, 24.12.07
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Merry Christmas!
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 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Let all your dreams come true. We wish you peace, happiness and all the best. And... happy holidays! |
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Fri, 14.12.07
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15% discount on ALL software!
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 Our Holiday Promotion has started! From now on, you can buy ANY software (and any number of programs) available at the My-Symbian Software Shop 15% cheaper than anywhere else! Simply add all the programs you want to buy to your basket and then use the HOLIDAYS15 discount code at checkout to get an instant 15% discount off the total price. Hurry up, it's a time limited offer! |
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Tue, 20.11.07
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Nokia N800 Internet Tablet review
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 Not a Symbian OS device and not even a phone, but it's such a nice and useful piece of technology providing the best mobile web browsing I've ever experienced, that it's really worth introducing to Symbian OS phones' users and recommending as an accessory for owners of S60 and UIQ smartphones with small, low resolution screens. Read our Nokia N800 Internet Tablet review to find out what it is, how it works and how it can replace or enhance the functionality of your S60 or UIQ smartphone. |
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Fri, 19.10.07
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Palm OS apps soon on your UIQ 3 and S60 3rd Edition phone
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| StyleTap today announced StyleTap CrossPlatform for Symbian OS which will allow over 20,000 existing Palm OS applications to run on current and future Symbian OS smartphones. StyleTap CrossPlatform is compatible with most applications written for Palm OS devices, and will enable them to run on Symbian OS smartphones. StyleTap CrossPlatform has been demonstrated at the Symbian Smartphone Show in London. It is expected to start shipping in the first quarter of 2008. See full press release here. |
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Thu, 18.10.07
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The future of Symbian OS: ScreenPlay, FreeWay and Demand Paging
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Symbian Limited today announced new ground-breaking technologies to power future versions of the Symbian operating system. The newly announced technologies offer dramatic enhancements in the vital areas of graphics, connectivity and performance.
ScreenPlay is the new graphics architecture in Symbian OS. It gives users big screen effects in their pockets while ensuring long battery life. ScreenPlay is designed for mobile devices with user interfaces which integrate high definition video content, life-like games and animations. It significantly enhances content presentation in versatile, yet simple new ways - by using transparency and overlays, for example. ScreenPlay offers high performance in a scalable fashion - working purely in software on mid-range devices and taking advantage of hardware acceleration when present on high-end devices.
FreeWay is the new and unrivalled IP networking architecture in Symbian OS, providing broadband speeds in your pocket. On mobile broadband networks, FreeWay delivers the capability for super fast download speeds, high quality audio/video streaming and crystal-clear VoIP calls. FreeWay supplies high bandwidth that is suitable for Super3G/LTE, WiMax and beyond - ensuring performance high enough to allow users to download an MP3 file in seconds. FreeWay also guarantees users smooth switching between connection types and networks so that they can remain mobile at all times. A key feature of FreeWay is its compatibility with existing applications such as web browsers, allowing these to take advantage of the benefits of FreeWay without any additional development.
Demand Paging is an application of virtual memory seriously reducing physical memory (RAM) usage and making it possible to run large programs requiring more memory than available in the machine. It also dramatically speeds up phone boot up and application start times. This technology will be available in Symbian OS 9.3 and up. |
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Wed, 17.10.07
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Improved Symbian Signed Processes
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Based on developer feedback, the Symbian Signed process has been improved to make signing faster, easier and cheaper for developers driving growth in the number of Symbian applications. Developers are now more easily able to access device capabilities that were once restricted, enabling further innovation. Symbian announced a new set of test criteria and procedures for testing and signing applications:
* Open Signed – provides a signing process using Developer Certificates enabling an application to be installed on a limited number of devices controlled by declared IMEIs (unique phone identification numbers). Open Signed is designed to support the developer community, open source and educational communities. The maximum number of devices that each application can be installed on has now been increased tenfold, from 100 to 1000.
* Express Signed – an entirely new process to allow software developers with Publisher IDs to instantly sign all applications that do not require access to the more sensitive device functions, allowing faster time-to-market. Developers can now sign applications on Expressed Signed for as little as $20.
* Certified Signed – for those applications that require access to the sensitive device manufacturer capabilities and/or where independent testing is required.
Read full press release @ Symbian.com. |
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Thu, 04.10.07
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Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) - multicore CPUs coming to Symbian OS
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Symbian today announced Symbian OS support for the ARM Symmetric Multi-processor (SMP) architecture. SMP support in future versions of Symbian OS will use multiple CPU cores to provide "performance on demand" – battery life will be improved by accessing cores only when running demanding high-end multimedia applications and powering them down when they are not in use. The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor was announced earlier today at the ARM Developers' Conference. Symbian and ARM are working together closely on supporting Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processor-based CPUs in Symbian OS.
SMP CPUs consist of multiple cores which can be individually powered up and down by the operating system. This delivers high performance for high-end applications such as games, browser-based intelligent services, and media-rich applications such as video streaming or TV recording, while offering low power consumption when the device is idle or executing less performance-critical tasks. Symbian has already started to deliver SMP technologies to its customers and will roll out the above incremental developments in future versions of Symbian OS. Details of this will be announced in due course. The first Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based Symbian smartphones are expected in 2010.
Read full press release @ Symbian.com and ARM.com. More details about the ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor can be found here. |
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Tue, 18.09.07
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Rest In Peace Bret.....
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 Bohdan Tyminski known as Bret was a moderator of the Polish part of My-Symbian discussion forums. He had been with us since the very beginning: since early Nokia 9000/9110 Communicator times, i.e. for more than 8 years. Bret suddenly disappeared from the forums after last Christmas. Two days ago we found his obituary in the Internet - he passed away on December 29th, 2006 at the age of 39... Bret was one of the most friendly, bright and disinterested persons I've ever met in the Internet. Despite being a handicaped and ill person (which I found out only recently as he never disclosed it), he had always been extremely helpful and kind for everyone. This website, especially the Polish part of it, owes him a lot and probably wouldn't exist if not the enormous effort he put into running it and helping our members. We will always remember Bohdan and thousands of his posts and articles will be here as long as this site is alive. Rest in peace, bret, you will always live in our memories. THANK YOU for everything. My-Symbian will never be the same again without you...
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Bohdan Tyminski znany jako bret byl moderatorem polskiej czesci serwisu i forum dyskusyjnego My-Symbian.com. Byl z nami od samego poczatku - od czasow Communicatorów 9000/9110, tj. od ponad 8 lat. Po ostatnich swietach Bozego Narodzenia Bohdan zniknal nagle z Internetu i urwal sie z nim kontakt. Wiedzielismy, ze w zeszlym roku byl kilkakrotnie powaznie chory i przebywal w szpitalu i zywilismy nadzieje, ze jest to tylko wynik choroby i ze predzej czy pozniej pojawi sie znowu. Niestety, kilka dni temu znalezlismy w Internecie jego nekrolog - Bohdan zmarl nagle 29 grudnia 2006 r. w wieku 39 lat... Bret byl jedna z najbardziej pogodnych, zyczliwych i przyjaznych osob spotkanych przeze mnie w Internecie. Jest to szczegolnie warte podkreslenia gdyz sam byl osoba chora i niepelnosprawna, o czym zreszta dowiedzialem sie dopiero ostatnio poniewaz nigdy tego nie wyjawil. Przez 8 lat istnienia tego serwisu Bohdan byl sila napedowa jego polskiej czesci (to dzieki niemu nadal istnieja polskie fora) a swoja wiedza, zyczliwoscia i checia pomocy obdarzyl tysiace jego uzytkownikow. Bret pozostanie na zawsze w naszej pamieci a tysiace jego postow i artykulow na naszych forach do konca istnienia tego serwisu pozostana swiadectwem ostatnich osmiu lat jego zycia, ktore w tak wielkim stopniu poswiecil Internetowi i pomocy innym. To straszne, ze tak DOBRZY ludzie odchodza tak nagle i tak mlodo. Zegnaj Bohdanie. DZIEKUJE Ci za wszystko. My-Symbian bez Ciebie juz nigdy nie bedzie taki sam...
Wszyscy, ktorzy pamietaja breta z naszego serwisu moga pozegnac sie z Nim i wyrazic kondolencje na naszym forum dyskusyjnym. |
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Fri, 31.08.07
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Opera Mini 4 beta 2 with landscape mode
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| Opera has released new version 4 beta 2 of the Opera Mini Java MIDP based browser for mobile devices. The new version adds landscape mode, encryption support, multisearch, content folding, small anti-aliased bitmap fonts and lots of improvements and enhancements (see full changelog here). Visit Opera Mini home page to download the new version. |
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Thu, 30.08.07
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CorePlayer Beta 1 available
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| CoreCodec has released the first public version of CorePlayer Mobile for Symbian OS. CorePlayer is an audio and video player supporting all the latest codecs, including CoreAVC / H.264, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1 Video, AAC, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WAVPack, and Midi Ringtone Audio. The current version is available for UIQ 2.x, UIQ 3.x, Series 60 2.x and S60 3rd Edition platforms. It is marked as "Beta 1" which is a little bit surprising as the program is commercial, quite expensive ($25) and doesn't even offer a trial/demo. More details @ http://www.coreplayer.com. |
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