You might have seen in Mark’s recent post an call in to turn a Symbian Foundation site beta tester user. Don’t be concerned about blank the deadline and no, we do not have to turn a Twitter user only to get an invitation, the invitations have been here, a single summary divided for you.

So, have been we a program developer extraordinary about the latest Symbian Foundation web site? Want to be the initial a single posting a technical subject on which forum? Want to be the initial a single who answers one? Want to see open sourced code? Let’s do it then, let’s get we in!

Who can get an invitation?
Any Symbian C++ developer active in the Forum Nokia developer community.

How many invitations have been available?
There have been sufficient for everyone. However, the placement routine is primer and time immoderate so the many active contributors on the Forum Nokia Discussions Board & Wiki will have priority.

How can I apply?
To get the username and cue which will give we entrance to the web site all we have to do is send me a in isolation message by the Forum Nokia Discussions Board. Easy!

Do we feel lucky? Lucky sufficient to ask Google to take we to the most appropriate poke outcome for CCoeControl?

These days it does not work anymore but this has zero to do with your luck. The aged online chronicle of the SDL have been no longer accessible on the SDN servers so we should cruise updating your bookmarks and web site links to indicate to SDL 9.4, the only chronicle still available.

Change does come at a cost, unfortunately, and a little Symbian.com resources you currently find usefull might be already on the "endangered species" list. Want to save it? Add a criticism here to let your voice be listened …

N.B. The aged versions of the SDL have been still accessible for download from the FTP server. 

Last month, the Forum Nokia Wiki organized a Edit and Win Wiki Contest.

As the name suggests, the competetion had a budding concentration on modifying articles and we did get a really good reply from the contributors, all over the world. All articles edited during the time duration of the competetion were subjectively judged
on how good they have been edited, what one more calm is supposing and the
number of Edits during the duration of competetion.

It is good wish to make known the 4 winners of the Edit and Win Wiki Contest.
The initial altogether leader is Savaj with his most utilitarian and judicious edits on the Wiki. First runner-up altogether was Mind freak
who seemed to have outlayed all his giveaway time polishing up articles. Since
we felt it was not satisfactory to have Forum Nokia champions competing against
the ubiquitous contributor, Kamaljaiswal, was comparison as a leader between Forum Nokia champions. Dougcn edited most articles this month by translations and he was the fourth leader of the modifying contest.

Forum Nokia Wiki Administration interjection all those who participated in the competetion.

Apart from the contest, Marcelobarrosalmeida ‎ who has contributed multiform intensely utilitarian Python articles was comparison as the Contributor of the Month for Mar 2009.

I goal we all stick on me in congratulating these winners.

Working with veteran cameras is a all opposite incident to operative with the NSeries devices. I have to say, with good lighting I most cite operative with the mobile phone. With the embeded video editor, I can get interpretation up on the 360Fashion platform most faster than the pro cameras. The routine is so most longer with the pro cameras…importing, editing, exporting. In the final 7 years of mobile stating I have grown a graphic 360Fashion character of sharpened with mobile devices, methodology, and techniques in sequence to revise on the fly and post the interpretation up to the web in a fast glow way. This gives a live knowledge to the web viewers and allows for a edited "streamed" experience. Editing in the phone is good given after an event, on the approach home by metro we can operate up your time to emanate latest clips. I’m unhappy which Nokia private the MUVEE movie editor, it was a good approach to emanate "preview" clips given the MUVEE phone editor auto-edited the clips in multiform opposite algorythms. I called the modifying and thereafter re-editing and even 4x modifying MUVEE shave after shave "spontaneos cumbustion", and outcome which overloads the phone complement and creates mobile art by the relapse of the mobile media. This extemporaneous explosion of the digital interpretation combined appreciative settlement tone effects, bizarre morphed rythms, and a graphic inventive character combined by the phone itself which a single could never come up with in the mechanism regulating final cut pro or aftereffects. One cannot devise for it, a single can only name the most appreciative result. The phone, gernerated the art itself. Unfortunately all the exam which I have made, discordant to what Nokia contend about the Nseries being promote quality, I have never been successful in removing a satellight promote hire to air the footage I have created. Most of we know which I have been mobile stating given 2002, when I had to moment the phone open to get the videos out given there were no tools. Luckily with the latest open mentality, the day and age has developed to emanate a streamlined mobile calm origination apparatus which right away joined with the OVI height could give me eventually the height to emanate my Anina Dress Up mobile radio show. Until then, I’m stranded with the lightest palm hold pro camera to film for tv, however I find it clunky and formidable to get the same demeanour and character to my sharpened with my N95. Each apparatus has it’s own abilities. I similar to experimenting with them all, though after, I have everybody fire it all again fast with my mobile for 360FashionTV. Here I am precision my HD video camera male to fire with my mobile viewpoint angles and style. When Nokia launched LIFEBLOG interjection to Charlie in 2005 it was a series for me–finally I could get the interpretation up on the web with my mobile phone in a good user interface way. I tought 32 non-technical people to operate lifeblog with good wish and most technophobic people desired the LIFEBLOG focus which worked opposite all sixapart platforms. Now with the termination of LIFEBLOG, and the Nokia Share 3.0′s ostracism of 3rd celebration websites, I feel Nokia’s on all sides in mobile blogging has been exceedingly weakened. Of march the Nokia Share group discuss it me, "But we can blog to OVI". Not with the kind of interpretation I have to upload with hour prolonged interviews and video files which import good over 200mb with the OVI 100 mb limit. Also posting to Typepad and Movable sort is a unsatisfactory knowledge right away given of the termination of LIFEBLOG, as the sixapart symbian mobile focus for typepad is rudimentary, and notwithstanding my approach hit with the Mobile dialect at sixapart, I have been incompetent to even get the focus working. It refuses to see all my blog accounts given the final ascent of sixapart. Aslo I find that, similar to most American companies who cannot suppose which any a single would transport outward the USA, sixapart doesn’t name any more the jpg files which have been uploaded by email to their height in a approach which google can poke them (my easily named-thanks to Nokia phone-images called "china-fashion-week_2009.jpg" finish up being called "x2140u50975093585-958-95903753476-314pi". Tell me how google will join forces with which picture with china conform week?). The await contend "you can add alt files to assistance google". Yes, only from the web, not from the mobile focus (which doesnt work) or the email to blog. The LIFEBLOG focus was shining interface additionally compared to the Nokia Share content formed one, the timeline, the gps automobile entered report interjection to triangulation, the tags, and the small comments we could write subsequent to the print which would arrangement underneath the print subsequent to the large physique text, done for a good "editor" formatting knowledge thereafter on the blog. You have to work with what we have, and if MUVEE would sell their mobile video focus I’d compensate for it if it could hoop my 100mb video files. It would have to be built program for the phone as strong as the EDIT facilities inside the symbian system. Its a single reason I still adore the N93…great video quality, still had LIFEBLOG, and wifi. What a undiluted combination!

A rested web site welcomes us at http://www.symbiansigned.com, with the site taking advantage of Symbian Foundation‘s colors. The shift is skin low however so do not design any [major] changes in the informed processes.

What is important, nonetheless should not be a warn for any a single by now, is that the tenure of the site is right away at Symbian Foundation and that might have stroke your entrance to the site if we haven’t supposed the comment send to the latest authorised entity.

The site has a summary on the categorical page that explains how a single can redeem his aged account:

 If we longed for the possibility to agree for your comment to be eliminated we can follow these steps:

• Select the choice to endorse user comment interpretation to be eliminated
• Within twenty-four hours your comment will be propogated (propagated) with the aged user interpretation

It is not transparent to me what "option" should be comparison and an try to "transfer" a single such mislaid comment has unsuccessful We will have to wait for a bit some-more I theory for these things to be entirely clarified. Hopefully not most developers have been influenced by the tenure change, that was after all advertised for months

If we instruct to hit Symbian Signed per any associated issues the place of the await forum stays (for now) the same.

The Mar 31st deadline is only a couple of days away, and the Forum Nokia Wiki is putting out a FINAL call for entries to contributors worldwide to revise and contention superb articles for "Edit and Win" Wiki competition.

The manners of the competition have been simple; Edit by further of Material or editing inaccuracies or formatting to a some-more customary demeanour any Wiki article. All articles edited during the time duration will be subjectively judged on how good they have been edited, what if any a single some-more calm is and the series of Edits during the month. The tip contributors will win a latest Nokia device formed on accessibility the initial of April. Only Edits during the competition duration 00:01 GMT Mar 3, 2009 to 23:59 Mar 31, 2009 will be judged for this contest. Edits which have been deliberate whimsical by the judges will be penalized by not judging a single or some-more viable edits.

Prizes for the competetion embody Nokia S60 inclination such as the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic or alternative device of your preference (depending on the availability) along with the high regard of your peers.

Important links,

• Rules of Participation – here.
• More report on the competition here.
• Follow discussions regarding to the competition here.

If we haven’t participated – this is your chance, the not nonetheless late revise articles. And recollect – Quality counts first!

So what have been we watchful for? Don’t check – enter to win!

http://wiki.forum.nokia.com

Some of we might be informed with the Open Screen Project. It’s a common of record and calm companies, initated by Adobe, which aims to move unchanging user practice to mixed screens (web, desktop, mobile, set tip boxes, consumer electronics) by standards. There have been a little large names in the group, together with Intel, Cisco, MTV, Motorola, Universal, Nokia, Qualcomm, Palm, Toshiba and Sony Ericsson – only to name a few.

When we contend "a unchanging user knowledge opposite mixed screens", Flash is patently the apparatus which where starting to be operative with. It’s arguably the many grown up cross-platform runtime out there, and positively the a single which provides developers with the many unchanging authoring sourroundings and denunciation for addressing these mutliple screens. And in sequence to vitalise and rivet developers in this endeavour, Nokia and Adobe voiced at Mobile World Congress 2009 the origination of The Open Screen Project Fund. 

The Open Screen Project Fund is a $10 million marketplace growth fund
that will yield grants to developers in sequence to accelerate the
creation of apps, calm and services which precedence the Adobe Flash
Platform and run opposite mobile, desktop and consumer electronics
devices.

Developers around the universe have been invited to contention their ideas. Proposals will be reviewed by an Open Screen Project Fund steering
committee, who have been looking applications which work opposite devices, and
showcase the pass facilities of Flash Lite, Flash Player and AIR. While
the apps do not have to run opposite all 3 screens (desktop, mobile
and CE devices), at a smallest a mobile chronicle is required.

If we have a little ideas for applications which will emanate glorious multiple-screen experiences, afterwards this is a good event to entrance growth appropriation which can severely flog begin the development. For some-more report and to apply, revisit the Open Screen Project website.

There’s been a lot voiced in the past week about the Flash mobile
platform, and with Flash Player 10 and AIR being the subsequent big
advancement, I suspicion I’d write up a post on my Inside RIA blog to plead those announcements and what they mean if you’re operative with Flex or AIR at the moment.

Of march if you’re already building for mobile, the announcements fundamentally bring to boil down to these pass points:

• More inclination shipping with the same chronicle of Flash as the desktop enjoys
• Greater opportunities opposite screens with same/similar calm (mobile/web/desktop) grown in Flash
• Easier wrapping and Flash Lite player targeting by regulating the Distributable Player solution
• More opportunities to monetize calm

You can review the full RIA post here, that spells out the categorical announcements in some-more detail.

It’s unequivocally illusory to find people ardent about formulating aesthetically appreciative nonetheless organic mobile design; it’s even some-more smashing when a garland of them get together underneath a single roof tiles to speak about how to have things even better!

If you’re anywhere nearby London on the dusk of the 23rd of Feb and meddlesome in what others have been we do in regards to mobile design, afterwards check out the Mobile Design UK eventuality that’s function at the RSA. Don’t dont think about to pointer up initial – there’s only room for 50 people and it already seems to be removing filled up!

Also, if we listen to about any alternative things similar to this function in the world, I’d adore it if we could send me a note with the info – I’m actively on the surveillance for some-more events similar to these and I’m certain they’re out there somewhere watchful to be discovered.

Hi All,

It’s me, Sittiphol Phanvilai. Hope we all still recollect me.

Today I come to uncover we my 5th "Neu" plan series. Its name is NeuBoard Touch, an picture strategy engine for Series 60 5th edition. Let see it.

Now it’s still only engine and not full featured focus nonetheless as we can see in video. I’m meditative for a little latest cold applications which will operate this engine.

See we again so soon with 6th Neu project.

Best Regards,
Sittiphol Phanvilai