Handy Clock is a powerful world clock and time management application. It can displays all world time without having any problem because everything has been set in the application.

With Handy Clock, you can view five world cities at once with World clock view. This feature is useful when you have relatives, colleagues or friends in different cities around the world. With Word clock view, you will know whether they are currently awake or already went to bed. Handy Clock also support Day-Night view map. So you will see more clearly which part of the world is at night and which part is sunny day.

Handy Clock supports alarms. This feature will not allow you to miss any important thing or fixed time. You can set up once, next 24 hours, daily, weekly and workdays alarms. If you need to do something within certain period of time you can set up timer. It is very useful during the test or for cooking.

As for conclusion, if you will travel to the oversea, probably you need this software installed in your Nseries phone. This software will surely helping you when you really need it.

Features:

• Configurable sound rules for contacts, groups, phone numbers and other situations;
• Easy to use and intuitive user interface;
• Possibility to add any sound in amr format to sound list;

How does it work:

Before you can use this application, you should setup the settings:

• Set the necessary options (Mode, Volume, Repeat playing);
• Configure sound rules;
• Activate Best CallCheater;

After CallCheater has been configured, a message will pop up on the screen:

• Sound name;
• [Joystick-Up] Cancel sound;
• [Joystick-Down] Select sound;

If you have chosen Mode manual, then in order to play a sound you should select it (Joystick-Down). If you have chosen Mode automatic, then a sound will be automatically played, and in order to cancel it press Joystick-Up. To quickly break a sound during a conversation press Joystick-Up.

Sounds’ rules:

There are two tabs in this dialog: Sounds and Sounds list.

On a tab Sounds list there is a list of sounds that can be selected for playing. You can do the following operations with this list:

• Play sound;
• Add sound;
• Delete sound, hot key (C);

On Sounds tab, rules for defining a sound during a phone call are configured. A rule has a condition – Enabled/Disabled and a sound, which is set for this rule.

• Default – works only if no other rule is applicable;
• Not in contacts – works when the caller’s number cannot be found in contacts database;
• Private No. – works when the caller’s number cannot be defined;
• Contact – a certain sound is set for all numbers of a specified contact;
• Group – a certain sound is set for all contacts in a specified group;
• Phone – a mask for numbers is set. The match pattern can contain the wildcard characters “*” and “?”, where “*” matches zero or more consecutive occurrences of any character and “?” matches a single occurrence of any character.

Example:

• ‘*77′ – all numbers ending with 77;
• ‘877*’ – all numbers beginning with 877;
• ‘12?34′ – all numbers like 12034, 12134 … 12934;

Settings:

• Autostart : On/Off;
• Mode:
• • Manual – sound is played when it is selected from a listbox,
  • Automatic – sound is automatically played when at least one rule suits;
• Repeat playing : On/Off;
• Handle : Only on phone app / Anywhere. If you choose “Only on phone app”, keys Down/Up will be handled only in the Phone application.

I have tested Best CallCheater and it is really amazing on how it can do. My girlfriend thought I was in the middle of traffic jam at midnight but actually I was in my room, chuckling.

If you don’t want the caller knows where you are or if you want to cover yourself, use Best CallCheater. Use the sounds to keep them believe you are actually at the building workplace.

But I have a suggestion, it is better if Best CallCheater allows us to use our own sounds so we can put background music while chatting with our lovely ones.

NiceAlarm – Main interface

NiceAlarm is the best alarm software so far. I am using it right now and don’t see any problem at the moment. This software has nice interface with its beautiful icon for each alarm you have set.

• Six alarm types
• Alarms filtering
• Vibration option
• Sound folders selection
• Standard/Stand-by alarms
• Alarm text messages support
• Extended customization options
• Alarm optional deactivation code support
• Minimal server part among similar applications
• Extended sound support (tone selection/random tone)

The options menu	Set the alarm
Main options menu	Extra options menu

Try it. The trial version is only for 7 days. If you think this software is useful, why not buy it with only $10.95USD.

N73 SMS Reader is a free software that will read and speech the message that arrive to your inbox. When new message is arrived, you will be given with 3 options, whether you want your phone read it for you, preview the message or just ignore the message.

Here are the features of this N73 SMS Reader

• Reads new text messages either at user request or immediately when they arrive
• Simple and Intuitive controls
• Message Preview Option for displaying the last received message without actually opening it
• Inbox Backup tool for exporting all messages to file
• Compatibility with ALL S60 3rd Edition Devices (N73, N80, N95 and more)

I have tried it on my N73ME. Yeah, it is true that this software can make your phone read your message but if the message is not written in English, you will hear wierd speech. It is really funny and you will not understand a thing from what it saying. Try it and let me know if this application is useful for you.

So I looked for a software that can autolock his phone but no need to enter password when to unlock it. Fortunately, I found the software and the best part is, it is freeware. Cool isn’t it?

AutoLock is the suitable software that my father needs. After I downloaded the software, I then installed it into my dad’s phone. Setup the configuration, and my dad’s N70 phone will automatically lock the keypad after 30 seconds idle. Then, when my dad wants to unlock it, he just unlock the keypad as usuall and no need to enter the password. Very time saving.

Image 1: AutoLock Interface	Image 2: AutoLock Settings

AutoLock supports all S60 versions. And I also has installed it into my N73ME. I set it to autolock the keypad after 1 minute because I always SMS with my girlfriend. So set it to 1 minute is the perfect time.

Download AutoLock v0.5 for S60 1st and 2nd edition

Download AutoLock v1.1 for S60 3rd edition

I actually use an application called Screenshot to take the screenshot for my N73ME. Screenshot is free. You can download it from here and install it like you install other software to your phone.

I wish I could publish the Screenshot interface and the settings here, but my friend had borrowed my Nokia cable. So I couldn’t transfer the screenshots taken to my PC.

Screenshot can save the images in JPEG, PNG, BMP or MBM format. I don’t have any idea what MBM really is. I am so lazy to find out. But the quality image taken using Screenshot is really good. Really sharp. You can see the quality of the images taken from my previous posts.

Screenshot allows you to save the images into memory card or phone memory. I choose memory card because I have a lot of empty space in it. About 1.4Gb free space available in my memory card.

All the images are stored in “Screenshots” folder. You can name the folder with another name in Screenshot options and you also can set the file name prefix. I use the default one which is “screentshot”.

To use Screenshot you must first activate it. It will run in background and when you want to take a screenshot, just press the Edit button and the OK button simultaneously. A notification message will appear and the image will be stored in the folder that you have set earlier in the Screenshot options.

To transfer the image files to PC, you can use Nokia cable, bluetooth or even via infrared. It is really easy and I really like this app.

Advanced Device Locks (ADL) is an application that can help you to protect certain applications that you want it to be private. This application will ask user to enter correct lock code before it can allow the user to use the protected application.

To use this application is easy. Open ADL and go to Options (Image 3). From there, you select Protect Applications and choose which applications that you want to protect. Once finished, press Done and ADL will ask for a lock code to accept the changes made.

The default lock code is 0000 but you can change it in ADL (refer to Image 2). After you entered the correct code, ADL will start protecting the applications. When the user want to open a protected application, ADL will ask for a lock code. It will only allow the user if the lock code is correct. If the lock is wrong, it will ask the user to enter the correct lock code again.

However, there is a flaw that I found in ADL. I protect my Gallery with ADL and I thought no one will able to open my photos. But there is a way if you really want to see what photos that I kept in the Gallery. You can do that from Themes.

While you are in Themes, choose Edit to edit the theme and in Wallpaper options, choose User Defined. Themes will open the Gallery and you will see the photos that are in it. But you can prevent this by locking Themes application. So no one can open Themes unless he or she enters the correct lock code.

As conclusion, ADL is really convenient and a must have application. If you want to secure and protect your application like messages, photo gallery and so on, you can choose ADL as your friend. Recommended!

So you travel a lot and want to have something as your guide? WorldMate is the best application for you.

WorldMate is a freeware application for your Nokia S60 which provides you with critical travel information. It will give you:

• whethercaster
• world clocks
• whether forecast
• currency converter and exchange rate service
• world day/night map
• comprehensive flight schedules
• real-time flight status
• satellite whether imagery

If you like to download directly to your phone, just enter http://mobile.mobimate.com/s60 in your mobile browser and follow the instruction given. But if you prefer to download to your computer and then move it to your phone, you do so by download WorldMate from here.

NokMote – You can select the menu by moving your device.

RotateMe – Don’t like portrait display, how about change it to landscape. Or vice-versa. Cool huh?

Light Saber – Most wanted for Star Wars fans. Get light saber sound for your Nokia N95?

Inclinometer – Put this on your car’s dashboard and ready for an off road experience.

Cool Accelerometer Applications for Nokia N95 [via the S60Tips.com]

OwnSkin is the best website which gives you all things that you need to create your theme. From the background image, clock, signal and battery bars, and to the icons. It is really a great website if you want to develop your own theme for the first time. It also gives you the options to choose the text colour, background colour and the transparency level. Just setup your theme, download it and install it to your phone. And you can share your theme with other members if you want though.

Click here if you want to learn step by step on how to create your Nseries theme using OwnSkin.

If you don’t like using online theme creator, you can use Zensis Theme DIY. But it only supports S60 version 3. This application allows you to create your theme directly from your Nseries phone. Just pick any photo, choose your favourite theme template and store up 12 personalized themes. It is really easy and fast. In short,

1. Select 1 or the 12 theme spaces to save your theme.
2. Select a theme template, which is different in text color, icon color etc.
3. Select a photo as the theme background.
4. Select Fade-out / Blur effect for menu background, so you can see menu texts more clearly.
5. Save and apply the theme!

But Zensis Theme DIY is not freeware. You have to pay if you want to use it. But it is worth if you see the features it gives.