As E51 uses Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS and all phones that uses this OS does not have the sms counter. So I figure out that someone out there must must be frustrated by this and had written a application to solve this.
It turns out finding a message/sms counter for E51 is more work than expected. After several false start, I found one that works,
FreiMinMon : a application with German UI. (Translated Page here)
And to make FreiMinMon runs, Python must to be installed. The Python link in the FreiMinMon pages does not work. Luckily, a quick google search leads to Nokia implementation of Python, Py60. The necessary S60 Python files can be downloaded here.
Follow through with FreMinMon installation and ta da, you have a free message counter for E51
Other application I tried is SMS Counter but it fails to load on my E51. Maybe it will work for other Symbian S60 OS, do let me know as it have English UI.
Also, tried PBC SMS Counter from Nokia MOSH website (for Nokia "vetted" third part software). However, it requires payment to use and it is really silly that the downloaded trail version is expired.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
E51 minus
E51 have several minus which personally I feel if corrected, will make it a even better phone. The first is lack of sms counter, there no ways to track the amount of sms sent.
What is available in a count of both send and received sms which does not tell you much how much you have send or received. It seem it a fault at the Symbian OS level which the phone based on.
Luckily there available free application that provide the missing function.
The other is its handfree function, you have to wait for the call to be connected before the handfree function can be activated. That mean you have dail the number you wanted and press a 2nd time to activate the handfree function. You have to look at the phone to activate it. That a chore when I am driving. In my previous 6320i, I can activate the handfree function once I start dailing.
With these in mind, my next phone must have not these minus. Little things like this are what make the overall experiences better, in this case poorer.
What is available in a count of both send and received sms which does not tell you much how much you have send or received. It seem it a fault at the Symbian OS level which the phone based on.
Luckily there available free application that provide the missing function.
The other is its handfree function, you have to wait for the call to be connected before the handfree function can be activated. That mean you have dail the number you wanted and press a 2nd time to activate the handfree function. You have to look at the phone to activate it. That a chore when I am driving. In my previous 6320i, I can activate the handfree function once I start dailing.
With these in mind, my next phone must have not these minus. Little things like this are what make the overall experiences better, in this case poorer.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
opportunity in recession
Given the current world wide economic crisis, the takeaway from it is there will be at least min 3 recession in ones lifetime. So with this knowledge, financial planning becomes more of knowing of creating plans for the different phase in a economic cycle.
Whether to save and then invest during a recession is maybe a too extreme plan, thou it have a simple and elegant logic to it.
The current crisis wipe out more than 20% in a person investment, considering if a financial plan have a target rate of 10%. This different is very painful to bear to that person. So the question is than readjust for target rate, given this occurrence.
There a lesson to learn here.
Whether to save and then invest during a recession is maybe a too extreme plan, thou it have a simple and elegant logic to it.
The current crisis wipe out more than 20% in a person investment, considering if a financial plan have a target rate of 10%. This different is very painful to bear to that person. So the question is than readjust for target rate, given this occurrence.
There a lesson to learn here.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
English to Chinese Google Style
Come across this neat tool that tanslate English to Chinese and vice versa. It is a partnership between Google and a famous E-C Chinese dictionary in China.
http://g.iciba.com/
Using a mouse over, its provides the chinese version of a english or vice versa. It translates whole paragraphs too and have a voice pronunciation feature too.
Simply loving it.
http://g.iciba.com/
Using a mouse over, its provides the chinese version of a english or vice versa. It translates whole paragraphs too and have a voice pronunciation feature too.
Simply loving it.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Stuff from Past
Clearing the old cupboard, throwing away memories, keeping those with sentimental value is a mental exercise of deciding what to keep and what to let go.
Items from false friendships are the easiest to be swollen by the dust bin. You wonder why you keep them so long, maybe cos you never have a need to house clean until now.
Greeting cards, photos and letters from time of a younger you surprise you by how kind, sweet, and intense is the memory from a time when life is less hectic and a very blur you are.
The sweetest are a bunch of letters from a friend about her suffering in the last days of her study. Reading them bring a smile to your face and how you could had done more to help her. She is happier now, flying between HK and SG, following her hubby. Quietly, you filed them away, locking away a evidence of past memories for future enjoyment and potential smile.
Next, photos from a birthday outing with a crush bring a smile to your face . You wonder if you should keep them, for the married her look the same as before in that photo and you silly entertained the thought of asking her if she wants them. Laughing quietly, you tenderly close the small album and move it to the same pile of stuff to flow into the dust bin.
The most difficult are those that evoke a double feelings of happiness past and deep pain now. Keeping means assigning to them and remembering those special happy moments in the past and yet feeling the deep pains that they bring now. You can decides that you can either drop them away into a deep storage, to be discovered and to be decide again in the future or simply discard them now.
You never realise how sentimental you are until you see the amount of memories and stuff you have around once they are unpacked. You smiled as you realised that you are not alone as most human are sentimental to certain degree.
Some stuff to be kept and some stuff to be clear so that the new ones can came in.
Items from false friendships are the easiest to be swollen by the dust bin. You wonder why you keep them so long, maybe cos you never have a need to house clean until now.
Greeting cards, photos and letters from time of a younger you surprise you by how kind, sweet, and intense is the memory from a time when life is less hectic and a very blur you are.
The sweetest are a bunch of letters from a friend about her suffering in the last days of her study. Reading them bring a smile to your face and how you could had done more to help her. She is happier now, flying between HK and SG, following her hubby. Quietly, you filed them away, locking away a evidence of past memories for future enjoyment and potential smile.
Next, photos from a birthday outing with a crush bring a smile to your face . You wonder if you should keep them, for the married her look the same as before in that photo and you silly entertained the thought of asking her if she wants them. Laughing quietly, you tenderly close the small album and move it to the same pile of stuff to flow into the dust bin.
The most difficult are those that evoke a double feelings of happiness past and deep pain now. Keeping means assigning to them and remembering those special happy moments in the past and yet feeling the deep pains that they bring now. You can decides that you can either drop them away into a deep storage, to be discovered and to be decide again in the future or simply discard them now.
You never realise how sentimental you are until you see the amount of memories and stuff you have around once they are unpacked. You smiled as you realised that you are not alone as most human are sentimental to certain degree.
Some stuff to be kept and some stuff to be clear so that the new ones can came in.
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