Tried to use my new Nokia E61i for surfing the Internet with my laptop (Windows XP), but this just wouldn't work. Errors were plenty, but no bit made it to the Internet for some reason. Strange, because my older 6230 (or whatever model it was) worked perfectly.
After cursing a couple of times, I needed to make sure that this wasn't a defect in the phone, so I tried it with my Mac Book Pro (which is for sale by the way ;-) ). Obviously, this worked straight away. Just used the same settings / profile from my older phone....
Windows never keeps to amaze me (in a negative way that is).
Apple started shipping
new Mac Book Pro's. These new little gems are based on the new Intel Santa Rosa chipset. This means, more power, and less power consumption. They also refitted the laptops with LED backlit screens to reduce power consumption.
Other features include;
- 2GB RAM (4GB max instead of 3GB)
- 802.11n WiFi
- Larger and faster hard disks (>120GB)
Boy, this makes me wanna upgrade.. Anyone fancy a first generation Mac Book Pro for a couple of bucks?
Oke, the first annoyance about the Nokia E61 is a fact. Well, actually it's about the Nokia PC Suite with which you can connect the phone to your (Windows) PC.
Somehow my Nokia E61i wouldn't connect using bluetooth with the Nokia Software. It could connect to the PC itself, but the Nokia software didn't want to 'see' the phone.
So I tried to remove the pairing between de two devices (which seemed to work). After that I tried to pair the two devices again... That's were the trouble started.
The software did see the phone via bluetooth, but it gave an error when I wanted to connect. The error said 'Cannot Authorize Phone'. Connecting via the USB cable worked fine.
I tried rebooting the PC and the phone several times, but the error persisted. Finally I removed the software from the PC and reinstalled it. Same error occured :mad: .
This was the point when I seriously thought about going back to a Windows Mobile device. There was one more thing I might try, and that was going through the registry of the PC and remove EVERY reference to Nokia. I first uninstalled the software and afterwards I removed everything Nokia-related in the registry.
After a reboot I reinstalled the Nokia PC Suite software, and everything worked fine.
This proves that Nokia software is as buggy as Microsoft software.
How hard is it for a piece of software/developer to remove all references to the software when you remove it? (rhetorical question)
From this day on, you can install certificates from non-trusted CA's on your Symbian-based phone (like the Nokia E61) using this page euh.. this page.
UPDATE: it seems that most other phone brands and types work as well (the S40 based devices are left out... sorry).
All you need to do is make sure that the certificate is in the DER format. The webpage doesn't verify if the certificate is in the correct format. This is up to the uploader.
I created this page, because I work a lot with digital certificates, so I don't want to be bothered with the workaround described in the earlier post. The current version is quick-and-dirty (no error messages). I'll try to make it more user friendly in the next couple of days (like having the option of sending the URL to an e-mail address). Just make sure that you obey the guidelines shown on the page, and all should go well.
Feel free to add a comment on how to improve this.
Last week, I recieved my new Nokia E61i. As soon as I tried to connect to my own IMAP server (over SSL/TLS) is started nagging about the (selfsigned) SSL certificate.
The E61 has a certificate store, so I should be able to add other Root CA's to this store, but this is where the trouble began.
The manual has a chapter on certificates, but it lacks a working explanation on "how to import third party root CA's". On my old iPaq, it was simply upload a DER encoded certificate, click on it, and it would install. Well this doesn't work on the E61 (and many other Symbian-based) phones. Just 'google', and you'll find lot's of people with similar problems...
The working solution I found uses a website from which you download the certificate with the phone, but there is a catch; you need to add a MIME-type to the website containing the certificate (hence the admin rights).
A couple of weeks ago, a non-commercial TV station
BNN announced that they would air a live kidney donor show. The idea was that a terminal ill patient got to decide which kidney patient could get her kidney. Lot's, and lot's of people (from all over the world) thought that this was an outrage.
Yesterday the show aired (even though lot's of government officials were against it). At the end of the show, it seemed that it was just a
hoax. The terminally ill patient was an actrice, but the needy kidney patients were real.
Reason for airing this show was to make people see that organ donation is needed (a lot). It seems that Holland has to lowest rate of organ donors in Europe.
Well, they surely succeeded in raising attention to the subject. The news travelled all over the world.
Personally, I've been a registered donor since 1998. They may harvest my body, when I'm dead of course, for the good of mankind. After which they may burn what's left behind.
My opinion on organ donation is that someone who is a donor should have a much higher priority for receiving a donor organ. Live isn't just about taking/consuming. It's also about giving.
If you're not registered as a donor...
click here, and make sure you become one as soon as possible.
You're in luck, if you have a XS4ALL Internet account. Normally, you have an hour a week free Hotspot access, and this summer you are even more lucky. XS4ALL provides over 900
free Hotspots throughout the land this summer (June, Juli, and August).
For the last two years I've been using a HP iPaq HX2790 for my agenda, and contacts. At the time I was quite pleased, until I started
adding functionality to the device. So the time was right to start looking for something else.
Something else meant a device without any Windows Mobile Crap. Furthermore, it should combine a phone and an organizer, AND a small QWERTY keyboard. These criteria didn't leave that many options, so I went for the
Nokia E61i. A nice all-in-one device with;
- Wireless (802.11b/g)
- Bluetooth
- InfraRed
- Multiple e-mail accounts via POP3 / IMAP (as well over SSL/TLS)
- Nokia PC-Soute for Synching the device with Outlook etc.
- And lot's more
So I'll be trying to figure this thing out the next couple of weeks. I just hope that this device is a little more user friendly than the Windows Mobile devices.
A new version of iTunes has been made available (7.2) to the public. The new iTunes support the new iTunes Music Store with DRM free music files.
Some sites found out that the DRM-free music does contain your iTunes account info (username and full name). Probably to make sure that you won't share you purchased music on P2P networks...
More good news from Apple is the upcoming update on the Apple TV. The Apple TV will be made available with a bigger hard drive (160GB instead of 40GB). And a upcoming software updates allows the user to watch YouTube videos om the Apple TV.
Now we only need native DivX/XviD support on the Apple TV.....
I've been using iTunes for a couple of years now. It took getting used to in the beginning. Recently, iTunes offers the ability to get the album art from the iTunes music store (you do need an account there).
In the old days, I got the covers from Amazon.com, but hey, when it's automated, who am I to complain.... till now
The downloaded ablum art from the iTunes store doesn't show up on the iPod... Why? Now I still have to get the album covers from Amazon (or another source), if I want the pictures to show up on my iPod.
The probabe cause might be that the album art I manual download and attach to songs is actually added to the mp3, while the iTunes automated-album-art-getter is only a reference to a image on the hard drive.
Well, at least I've got something to do tomorrow when it's raining.
