If you use the Internet from your phone but are unlucky enough to pay for your 3G usage you probably like the idea of using a wifi-enabled mobile like the Nokia N95. This works great, but it can be a hassle having to reconnect every time you want to go online in a different place and it is easy to forget and use your 3G instead. If you are in a foreign country this can be a VERY expensive mistake.
Psiloc Connect offers a simple solution with the kind of conection management that you would think your phone would do by default. Certainly, if I were a Nokia developer I would be kicking myself for not thinking of this first.
The app does all the hard work for you - just give it a list of wifi access points (or tell it to discover some) and it will try each in order of strength, only falling back on your 3G connection if the wifi fails. If you are really worried about your phone bill, it can be set to ignore the 3G option and just use wifi.
Psiloc Connect is available here for around 10 euros, with a free 10 day trial.
Ooh, this is a clever idea. If you use Google Mail you might be impressed by all that lovely storage space (6.5 GB at last count!) but somewhat stuck about what to use it all for.
Well, it’s not likely to make too big a dent, but if you own a S60 3rd Edition mobile and have £9.95 burning a hole in your paypal account you could always spend it on GSync - a new product from Psiloc that lets you archive you SMS and MMS messages to your Google Mail inbox.
The app could barely be simpler to use - it just sits in the background and sends SMS/MMS messages to Google Mail at a specified schedule. Messages appear as emails (obvious, really) and the system makes full use of Google Mail’s ability to group together messages by the same person.
The software can only sync up to 200 messages per day - this appears to be a limit set by Google rather than Psiloc - any extra message are simply queued until the following day, and then uploaded.
But seriously, who gets more than 200 texts a day?
A few weeks ago we took a look at a handy little Nokia Beta Labs product called Text Messenger which displays and manages SMS messages via a couple of Windows desktop widgets.
Useful as it is, Text Messenger only works with Windows Vista.
If you are one of the thousands of Microsoft users who haven’t ‘upgraded’ to their latest OS, we wouldn’t want you to miss out so here is a rather similar bit of software from Psiloc - BlueText.
You will need a PC running Windows XP (or Vista) and some manner of BlueTooth capability through a USB dongle, etc. Once installed, you simply pair the software with you phone and get cracking.
The interface is a bit basic, but clean, and new texts can be read and replied to with the minimum of fuss.
BlueText costs $15 and is available here. One caveat is that the current version only works with Microsoft and Widdcomm BlueTooth drivers.
Couch potatos of the world rejoice! Never again will you be forced to get up out of the comfortable, buttock-shaped depression in the sofa in order to retrieve the remote control from the mantelpiece.
irRemote S60 turns any Infra-Red equipped S60 phone into a programmable Universal Remote Control.
The app can download configurations from a database of common (and not so common) devices such as TVs, DVD players, air conditioning units and home cinema get ups, but should you come across an unsupported device, manufacturers Psiloc have an online wizard that helps you to roll your own configuration.
User-created configurations are stored on the Psiloc site, so there is a good chance that someone else will have done the donkey work for you.
Now all you need to do is find some kind of device that can let you operate your phone while it is sitting across the room connected to the charger and you are set.
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