Hey everyone. Just letting you know I'll be partying it up in Las Vegas this weekend, and I'm taking my Nokia N82 along to capture all the moments. I've never been to Vegas and stayed more than 1 night - This weekend I'll be gone 3 nights, thanks to a great deal I got at the Hooters Hotel. I'm leaving tonight (Friday) and should be back Monday morning. Main reason we are going is because our favorite hockey team the LA Kings are playing a annual preseason game against the Colorado Avalanche at the MGM Grand called Frozen Fury. It should be a blast.
I'll be uploading photos and video to my Las Vegas Ovi Channel to share with friends and family here at home who couldn't make the trip. All of you are more than welcome to follow the channel. My tool of choice for photo sharing from my N82 is Shozu, mostly because it's so easy and runs great in the background.
The slideshow below will show all the pictures and video that I add to the channel over the weekend, so keep checking back if you wanna see some great moments... (May not be viewable in some RSS readers)
Friday, September 26, 2008
Going To Las Vegas This Weekend With Friends And My N82
Friday, August 29, 2008
View, Edit, Sync Your N82 Contacts & Calendar On The Web With The New Ovi Sync
I'm extremely excited to tell you guys that Nokia's Ovi service has finally been expanded beyond Share On Ovi (Photos). You can now sync your Nokia N82's Calendar entries and Contacts with Ovi Sync and view and modify your information from any computer with a internet connection.
Sync Your N82 Calendar
I'm really liking the look of the web-based calendar. Ovi has done a great job of making it useable and easy to manage. I can add or delete entries, modify meetings or tasks, and add details. It's going to be so much easier to work with a real online to-do list and make sure that it properly syncs with my N82. I really think it rivals Google Calendar's functionality especially since it's so easy to use. It's almost completely eliminated my need for Google Calendar. You really need to try it yourself to understand how good it works. Check out the screenshot below.
Sync Your N82 Contacts
Also new is the Ovi Contacts service. Here you can add, delete, modify all your N82's contacts as well as create groups and modify those. It's ten times easier to do this on a real computer instead of spending time inputting contact details from your phone. I don't have a screenshot to provide because I don't feel like blanking out all my contact details.
You can also show your Flickr friend's photo streams on your Ovi dashboard. This is great to keep track of your buddies or family who refuse to transfer from Flickr to Ovi.
The Bad?
The only downfall right now is you have to sync manually. It would be awesome if you can schedule a sync but I'm sure this functionality will be here in the near future. Other than that I haven't seen anything that I don't like so far.
More Screenshots
Rafe from All About Symbian has put up a more detailed review of the new Ovi service. Click here to check it out.
Try It Out
Go to www.ovi.com right now and sign up for an account. If you already have a Nokia Account you must use this one to login. If you've used Nokia Email beta or Files On Ovi then use that login. It's not the same as your Share On Ovi login, but they will be combining the two in the near future. Once your all signed up you will get a text message that will setup your N82 so that everything can sync.
Have any of you already tried this out? If not, let me know how you like it. Since I'm running on Linux Ubuntu instead of Windows (which I have to talk about again), this new Ovi service has really made life much easier without PC Suite. What are your thoughts?
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Symbian Life Blog Is Back With A New Site & Info About A New Ovi Facebook Plugin
One of my good buddies Ravindra (also a prominent commenter here) has just gave his wonderful site Symbian Life Blog a facelift and a new server so he can keep giving you up to date information about the ongoings of the Symbian world. Even better news is he will be keeping his popular "Nature Through The N95" series going, showing off all his explorations and findings when exploring nature with his Nokia N95 8gb. I know I know, "he should be using the N82 for pictures". The N95 takes just as good photos in sufficient lighting, however Ravindra may miss out on a few shots owls and bats that the N82 would have been perfect for. Either way it's a great series bringing you Butterflies, Plants, Fish, & Squirrels.
If your already a subscriber to Symbian Life Blog you need to get the new RSS feed. If you weren't a subscriber now is a good time as I'm sure there will be many good articles soon to come.
The New Facebook Ovi Application Plugin
One of the first posts Rav writes on his newly upgraded blog is news about a new Facebook application that allows you to embed your Share On Ovi channels into your Facebook page. 
Ravindra says,Wow,this is the coolest application I’ve ever come across on Facebook and it has a nice UI too.Now there is no worries on sharing your favourite media on Facebook and OVI slideshows work smoothly, broadening your sharing to the edge.With the new Facebook UI you can Either show the media on Wall tab next to your profile or in separate BOX where all the other apps are listed.Its easy and simple,so why not give a try and discover the new limits of Sharing with “Share on OVI“……
I have yet to test it out myself, as I don't even have a Facebook account. Maybe it is finally time to get one.
Click here to check out the new and improved Symbian Life Blog.
Click here to read about the official news about the new Share On Ovi Facebook Application.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Shozu: Upload Photos & Video To Picasa, Flickr, Youtube, Ovi, Photobucket, Twitter & Many More
I've been a huge fan of Shozu for awhile but have never got around to talking about it here. It's like the Share Online applications times ten. Shozu allows you to upload photos and videos to most popular social networking and media sharing websites. One click uploading and multiple destinations at once are supported with Shozu. You have the option to tie it in with your camera application, allowing it to ask if you want to upload after each photo is taken or automatically upload every photo. What really made me fall in love is they recently added Ovi (I don't use Flickr anymore) as a destination. Check out more destinations...
What destinations are supported?
Flickr, Facebook,Youtube, Twitter, Photobucket, Friendster, Blip.tv, Box, Buzznet, Cellfish, Kodak Easy Share Gallery, Picasa, Blogger, Live Journal, Vox, Wordpress, and more.
Basic Features
Tags, descriptions, titles, comments, feeds, geotagging, and friends photos are all supported by Shozu. You can also add email addresses as destinations for sending photos and videos. Like I said you can upload to multiple destinations at once.
Shozu takes photo sharing with my N82 to the next level. I use it in many different ways. If I am going to share live photos with you here I can set my phone to upload all pictures I take when the setting is on. All this is done in the background, I don't even notice. If I don't want them all to upload, I can tell Shozu you ask me after each picture. Or I can keep those settings off and just upload up to 10mb at once when I am ready to sort through my photos to see which I want to share. Multiple photos can be uploaded at once There are a ton of settings to go customize your experience. It's recommended that you have an unlimited data plan cuz as you can tell a lot of data will be transferred.
I've found that Shozu also handles uploading better than Share Online 3.0 does. If an upload gets interrupted by a call or text message, the upload continues once the connection is available again. Sometimes with Share I have broken downloads and the photos don't upload. Shozu has proved to be very reliable. Also it's great that you can setup all these different accounts from your computer on Shozu's website than have your phone's Shozu application automatically synced so your not sitting there punching in a whole bunch of usernames and passwords on your N82's keypad. It can be a killer.
Check out a video guide below someone made. It's showing Shozu on the Nokia N95. It works the same on the N82. Keep in mind that the version he's using is slightly old, Shozu has recently updated their applications.
Head over to shozu.com now and download this free application.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
St. Patrick's Day Photos @ The Bar Captured By The Nokia N82
I took my one quarter Irish girlfriend out for St. Patty's Day to celebrate with some drinks. We hit up a real cool bar by our house called Lofflers and it was a party. Green beer and $5 Irish car bombs all night. Here are a few photos from the great night we had. The N82 is the only cameraphone that will give pictures this clear in a bar or pub. The N95 I had for a little bit failed miserably because of the lack of Xenon flash. Also the camera software on the N82 is much faster. Photos are taken in a few seconds which is great especially for shots in the dark like these were. People at the bar were amazed that the camera I was using was indeed a phone.
Here is the slideshow of images...
The images are hosted at Ovi.com, Nokia's photo sharing website I talked about earlier this week. They make it extremely easy to make slideshows like this to share on your blog, website, myspace, etc. All the pictures were uploaded with one click after each shot was taken. You can even set up channels and embed the specific channel into your website. Then every photo you add to that channel from then on will be shown in your slideshow or gallery on your website. For example if you want a slideshow gallery on your Myspace you can make a channel called myspace photos. Using Ovi's tools embed the slideshow of that channel into your myspace. Whenever you take photos now that you want to share with your myspace friends, you can just upload the photo after you take it to that specific channel. The photos will automatically appear in real time on your myspace. Awesome.
Don't forget to head over to Ovi.com and get yourself an account. Make sure your upgraded to the latest Share Online 3.0 application on your n82 as well.
Stay tuned for the Wednesday Themes that I'll be adding later today.
