Jay Lagare

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Sunbathing In Clark (2010 Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival)

By on Saturday, February 13, 2010

Jeanne, Michelle, and I went to Clark for some sunbathing today. Okay, so we we’re not really there just for the sun. We went to the 2010 Clark Hot Air Balloon Festival. The balloons were scheduled to fly early so we left the house early since we wouldn’t want to miss the highlight of the show.

After two hours travel, got there just as the balloons were already taking off! The road was congested with cars heading to the show so we decided to hastily stop and park by a side service road. We watched and took pictures as the balloons flew up, farther and farther. We also soaked up the sun which was just coming up. Sunbathing in Clark!

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Times Two

By on Saturday, February 13, 2010

Michelle surprised me with a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum aka Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth graphic novel for my birthday. That was awesome because aside from being an avid Batman fan (e.g. see this and this), I was also planning to buy and play the PS3 game of the same title. So reading the graphic novel would be a good start. I was about to open and read it when she sprung her second birthday surprise, Batman: Arkham Asylum the PS3 game! What more can you ask for? Thanks, babe! You sure know how to choose a birthday gift. I love you!

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Nokia Messaging On The E51

By on Friday, February 12, 2010

One gripe I have with the Nokia E51’s built-in email client is that it doesn’t display HTML. Nor does the GMail mobile client. I’ve heard about the downloadable Nokia Messaging app which is already built-in to newer Nokia handsets but I’ve put off downloading it until now.

To get it, you’ll need to go to the Nokia Messaging website and create an account. You can use your GMail account to jump start account creation. Once you have an account, you provide your phone number, select your phone model, and a download link to the Nokia Messaging app for your phone is sent via SMS. Click the link, download, and install.

There are a few more things that you might have to configure:

  1. Go to Tools->Settings->General->E-mail key setting. Set E-mail key to Nokia Messaging email.
  2. Go toTools->Settings->General->Personalisation->Standby mode->Active standby plug-ins. Uncheck the Default e-mail notif. and Act. standby mailbox plug-ins.
  3. Set Tools->Settings->General->Personalisation->Standby mode->One-touch keys->Messaging key. Set both short press and Long press to “Default setting”

New email will now appear on the standby screen. A short press on the messaging key will get you to the Inbox and a long press take you to Compose screen. And you can view your email in HTML glory!

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Cloud Computing With The Nokia E51

By on Sunday, February 7, 2010

New hardware, especially new phones, may come and go but the cloud (they should just have called it the matrix) is definitely here to stay. The way to go then is having your data in the cloud. However, setting up and using my Nokia E51 to access the cloud wasn’t so straightforward, so I’m listing down some tips that might help.

Browser – the traditional way of accessing the Internet. The E51’s built-in browser is capable enough but if you want full access to Web 2.0, you’ll need Opera Mobile. Unfortunately, there’s no way to make it the default browser.

Mail – forget about the “e”, traditional mail is dead. I use GMail for my personal mail.You can use the E51’s built-in mail client which can be easily configured for GMail and is quite functional. But it’s sometimes it’s a bit kludgy so you might want to use the the GMail mobile client.

Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks – I try to use the Google address book as my definitive contact list and calendar. To sync the E51 with them, you need to install Nokia Mail for Exchange and set it up with Google Sync. No Tasks syncing unfortunately.

Instant Messaging – Fring allows you to connect to your contacts in Skype®, MSN Messenger®, Google Talk™, ICQ, Yahoo!™, AIM®, etc.

VOIP – Fring allows you to make SIP, Skype®, Google Talk™ calls or even its own fring VOIP service. Less charges by your telco service provider.

Social Networking – other than the browser, you can also directly access Facebook and Twitter via Fring.

Photos – todo

Music – todo

Videos – todo

Games – I have Assassin’s Creed on my E51! It’s just a 2D side-scroller though :P Looks like gaming still has some way to go before phones can go massively multiplayer online games. But you have quite a few choices of mini-games, including some online ones.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have problems and I’ll be glad to help.

 

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