I have been trying Gnome Shell and have decided I like it.
I hope the traditional Gnome will be kept as an alternative for older machines though, as I have one older machine that does not seem to have the graphic capabilities to run Gnome Shell.
I have completely switched to GS for my office machine and [...]
Trying out Gnome Shell?
There are many places to go to get the instructions about downloading and installing, but how to get it to start automatically might be a puzzle to some. One reason for that is that there are some faulty instructions on the web. A good place for instructions on how to use Gnome [...]
Read full post...Is this what the wise men used as they travelled to Bethlehem? Was that the star?
Probably not!
The satnav function on Nokia phones is excellent now that it is a free download. It is a dream on the larger touchscreen on the N97 mini I have been trialling, but it is still great on the smaller [...]
We have snow again in York. I thought I had seen the last of that for this year. The tyres on my bikes are a bit too narrow and slippery for snow. But look at this! This would get me about.
It is a kit called the Ktrak that can be added to a normal bike. [...]
Read full post...I don’t do Facebook but I know many people can not bear to be away from their Facebook ‘friends’ for long. The Facebook application on the N97mini takes up up a big chunk of the home screen, so is this the answer?
Unlike the iPhone, these Nokias can run more than one app at the same [...]
Read full post...I still cannot get on with the keyboard (with the space bar in the wrong place). Due, probably, to years of using a compact keyboard of the sort on the Palm Treo, Nokia E71 and E72.
Apart from the keyboard though, the N97 is a good phone.
The operating system is Symbian and until recently I would [...]
Some phone applications are just toys, not so with the scanner app that comes pre-installed on the Nokia E72.
I am continuing my trial of the N97 Mini and was surprised to see this fantastic application missing. I would have thought it would have worked well with the quality camera of the N97
The scanner is an [...]
