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Google Docs viewer mobile – Is it available for Symbian?
Jun 29th
Last week Google Docs got support for .doc and .docx attachments. Today mobile version of Google Docs was released for Android, iPhone and iPad only. You can now view PDFs, .ppt, .doc and .docx files you’ve uploaded to your documents list, without needing to download the file.
The feature is pretty cool and useful and it is available only on iPhone, Android and iPad. This and others features released by Google lately is available only for Google’s own Android operating system and iOS – Symbian users are left out of many of these features which makes Symbian platform unappealing. And N8 is the last Symbian N Series Smartphone. N series is the Flagship Smartphone segment of Nokia and it won’t be shipping with Symbian anymore. Symbian will be used by mid tier and low end Smartphones… that would make Symbian more unattractive in the eyes of premium customers and developers. So what about Symbian 4 – we have no idea about that.
All in all the deal doesn’t seem to be sweet or even worthy and it’s no wonder Nokia hardcore fans are moving to Android and iPhone. My friend Micky Aldridge has made the decision to switch to iPhone… read his announcement and reasons for switching here, and his views on the upcoming Nokia devices is also a great read.
So tell me guys, do you still have faith in Nokia/Symbian or are you switching to other platforms?
Alarm clock from the future
Jun 14th
I had trouble on what name I should I give to this blog post, finally I went with alarm clock from the future, I know it is a silly name but the thing I’m showing is anything but silly.
The name of the application is Sleep Blaster, and it has features that seem from the future. Features something that you always dreamed about… well this alarm is going to wake you from that dream.
Some awesome features that sleep blaster has – You just have to yell at it to stop the alarm, you can keep your favorite iTunes playlist as the alarm tone. But if you’re one of those people who need an explosion to wake you up Sleep Blaster has a Dynamite Mode, and you’ll be blasted awake by the sound of an explosion.
Sleep Blaster can put you to sleep too. Not only does it have an iTunes sleep timer, but it can also generate the sound of ocean waves to put you to sleep.
There is also an iPhone app – It uses the GPS of your iPhone and rings the alarm when you reach the particular destination you have marked. Sleep Blaster also lets you draw a line on the map, instead of just a single point so it’ll be more precise. But this might now work at places with low GPS reception… like in a subway.
you can check out Sleep Blaster here.
Quick Office Connect Mobile Suit
Feb 25th
This is one of the best way to have all your documents synced and available everywhere. Quickoffice Connect is integrated with multiple cloud services like the popular Dropbox, box.net, Google docs and mobile me.
So you can quickly edit your file in your iPod and upload it to Dropbox or Google Docs so you can further edit it on you computer and upload it back to Dropbox or Google Docs and it will be available in your iPhone or iPod. This new service also makes it easier to share your documents with anyone.
And it is available for just $9.99 for a short period of time, so grab it quickly or else you’ll have to pay $19.99 after the offer ends.
Will this app ever be available for Symbian or will I have to buy an iPod???
Download it here or directly from the iTunes store.
