The latest firmware for Nokia N95 is now available through nokia software updater. This version of firmware includes among other things demand paging, which means 30MB of free ram after booting! This feature is enough to not resist the update. It means no more irritating “out of memory error”.Few of the improvements with the new firmware is:

• Search 4.0 integration on standby screen. 
• Demand paging (for ROM applications) with 30 plus MB free RAM after booting.
• N-Gage game previews (FIFA, Asphalt) and portal/shortcut to upcoming N-Gage client, as in N81 and N95 8GB
• Nokia Music Store client, although the store server hasn’t been updated to handle the N95 yet - maybe this’ll happen later today
• New camera software and tweaks from the 8GB model - FAR faster shot to shot time, with ‘Processing image message’ during any delays 

Pizero has just released a new theme for Symbian S60 3rd edition phones. The theme is called Carbon and it is basically a black colored theme. The theme actually looks quite neat. You can download it from Pizero.

  

A quick look at how the theme looks like. 

 

 

 

 

There is an article about 10 things a freelancer web designer should say no to. Although I don’t agree with everything in the list, most of them do make sense.

Get a hold of the list at wakeuplater.com. 

You may be well familiar with big sites like Youtube, Digg, Wikipedia, and StumbleUpon. They are big, famous and 100% user-powered websites. However, what about the smaller ones, focused on a single aspect and still able to attract a huge user base. So here you go, six really cool and fast growing communy-powered websites that you should definitely see.

Have a look at the list below.

1. Instructables

2. Scribd

3. eHow / wikiHow

4. Sidereel

5. 43things

6. UrbanDictionary

More at Makesuse.com.

TUAW’s own Erica Sadun reports on the effort to get the audio-in working on iPod touch. Will we be able to create voice memo on iPod touch or make VOIP calls using the iPod touch?

For more information go to the original story at TUAW. 

 

Whether you are a professional or amateur web designer, or simply enjoy amazing web designs, these are great resources to browse and bookmark. This collection covers various design styles, guides and tools as well as free fonts, stock photographs and vector images. Organized by category, this is a must-bookmark collection. Enjoy!

Read more at Sawse.

Researchers at heise-security have found a flaw in the new Mac OS Leopard’s mail client. It has to do with the way apple mail handles image attachments.

Files on a Mac can contain additional information like what program should be used for opening a file. The OS store these in the file system in “resource fork”, which is linked to the file. This type of informatin is most cases limited to the local system but for emails the MIME format apple allows resource forks to be attached which are then automatically read by Apple Mail.

Attacker can easily create an attachment with .jpg extension with a JPEG icon. But when a user opens the picture, mail will automatically execute the command depending on the resource fork. This can harm the user’s computer without the user even being aware of it.For more info visit heise-security.  

Accelerinvaders is a Space Invaders Clone game for the N95 and other S60 phones with accelerometer. You can control the movement by tilting your phone and click on the center key on D-pad to shoot the invaders.You will need to install the accelerometer plugin first.  Download Accelerinvaders now. 

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There is a an overview about the new firmware for N95 at symbian-freak. The new firmware (v20) looks quite promising. Personally, for me N95’s biggest limitation is the amount of available ram. By including  Demand Paging with this firmware, nokia has been able to address the biggest complaint with N95. Demand paging will allow around 30MB of free RAM after booting, which I feel is around sufficient (although I will take 90MB of free ram as in the newer N95s).Summary of features are:

• Demand Paging - which may give us around 30MB of free RAM after booting.
• Active Screen has search App.
• UI got the new folders and new applications. 

What features do you want to see in the new firmware?

Firefox 3 Beta is now available for download. I downloaded the Mac OS X version for my macbook. It looks more closely integrated to the OS than previous version of Firefox.This has been one of the deviation from previous versions where they tried to keep same look and feel across different platforms.

Summary of features of Firefox 3 includes

• Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.
• Improved ease of use through: better password management, easier add-on installation, new download manager with resumable downloading, full page zoom, animated tab strip, and better integration with Windows Vista and Mac OS X.
• Richer personalization through: one-click bookmarking, smart search bookmark folders, direct typing in location bar searches your history and bookmarks for URLs and page titles, ability to register web applications as protocol handlers, and better customization of download actions for file types.
• Improved platform features such as: new graphics and font rendering architecture, major changes to the HTML rendering engine to provide better CSS, float-, and table layout support, native web page form controls, colour profile management, and offline application support.
• Performance improvements such as: better data reliability for user profiles, architectural improvements to speed up page rendering, over 300 memory leak fixes, and a new XPCOM cycle collector to reduce entire classes of leaks.

Note: This download is only recommended for testers and developers