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Guarana UI: a jQuery-Based UI Library for Nokia WRT available

A Nokia WRT UI framework has been posted in Forum Nokia Wiki page. This will accelerate current WRT widget developers to create innovative applications. Up until now a version of WRTKit UI framework has been shipped with our WRT Plug-in tools for Aptana, Dreamweaver, and MS Visual Studio....

Flash Lite Packager has been off-lined

Just read Akessandro's post of Flash Lite... The Forum Nokia online Flash Lite Packager has been off-lined due to technical difficulty. There will be a version of the online packager coming online soon. The outage of the packager does not reflect any change to our current...

Web Runtime APIBridge

From Nokia has now release an APIBridge component for WRT developers. This component was once internal and only available to our selected partners (e.g. facebook, netflix, project). FN has now approval from internal teams to release to general developers.You can find the download here:...

Me @ Adobe MAX 09

Few of us will be going to Adobe MAX 09. There will be developer sessions also Check out the Forum Nokia Learning & Events for Mobile Developer page for details http://www.forum.nokia.com/Learning_and_Events/ You can also look at Forum Nokia Twitter account for latest news ...

Nokia Mobile Web Templates Updated

Not sure if anyone has posted or noticed this already! There are sets of templates available in FN to help creating mobile web sites for Nokia devices. http://www.forum.nokia.com/Technolog...Web_Templates/ And we will have a Wiki challenge coming up in Oct ...

Tech Buzz Homescreen Widget

Grand Prize winner in the Internet Innovation category of the 2009 Forum Nokia Calling All Innovators contest: the Tech Buzz Homescreen Widget Link to Ovi store entry I have it running on my N97. The developer has spent a log of time to make this widget...

Video talk: Best Kept Secret - On The Mobile Web

I have come across this video on youtube. It is quite good timing because I have just recently switch to a job that is related to mobile web, Web Run-time, Flash, and etc. I will be talking about them more in this blog, and I really hope you will join in the discussions. This particular video is...

Are you using my (un-official) Forum Nokia Facebook app?

Last year I experimented how to write Facebook apps, I created two. One of them was created to show Forum Nokia news/feeds. How many of you know about it? If you are interested, you can add it into your Facebook profile. The home page of this app has a link to the source code. You are welcome...

Turn my S60 WRT widget into an iPhone app

It's possible... Not perfect yet. Couple months back, I experimented S60 WTR (Web-Runtime) widget with Google Translate API . It was a fun excise. One of the key reasons to write WRT widgets instead of native programming languages (C/C++) is because JavaScript, CSS, HTML are...

Presentation Files from Web2.0 Expo SF

In case you couldn't make it... http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/proceedings - Wai Seto

Symbian Freak got the stroy, but I have the picture

HEROES creator to launch new project through Nokia's Ovi Store (Link to Symbian Freak Article) Mr. Tim Kring and Dr. Tero Ojanpera

OLPC -> Netbook

There is an recent article in WIRED Maagazine on how OLPC sparks the whole Netbook trend, and how technologies start to flow from bottom up (vs. Top down). It turns out most of the Netbooks are bought by middle income people, rather lower income people. (honestly, I want one too, just to watch...

Google Translator Widget for S60 WRT

First happy (lunar) new year! Story: This morning I wanted to send some Chinese SMS msgs from my phone, because today was the Lunar New Year. However, I couldn't find a way to give me easy translated strings... I searched a bit on the Internet; there were some S60 WRTs already, but none seemed...

Access FN feeds and Ovi site via iGoogle full canvas

iGoogle recently has launched a feature to allow gadgets to show in canvas view. I have tried a few canvas view enable gadgets and really like them. Then I remember a while back, using the sample Feeds/Tabs sample, I have modified it to read rss feeds from Forum Nokia and made a iGoogle...

Using the Internet my mobile way

Like many tech people, I carry multiple devices with me... I have my Nokia 95, Nokia N810 and iPhone in my bag most of the time. I too want one "swiss amy" phone, but it is never going to happen and each does something better in its own way. Anyway, this post if not to compare...