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(re)Installing Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro: 1 hour 40 minutes.
Installing Windows 7 RC on the same Apple’s MacBook Pro: 20 minutes

Finally, a really great looking theme for the E71.

Download here .

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For the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to get to know a wonderful company and an amazing team, which I’m really excited to join. So, with a blink to my previous job (thanks Blink), I’m truly happy to write that today is my first official day as an Automattician!

I have no idea how this actually works, but it does: Xenocode Browser Sandbox allows you to easily run all browsers, side by side, on your desktop. No install.

What I find weird is that it keeps any add-ons or browser settings you have on your system (for example IE Developer Toolbar).

A few tools to add pictures to your contacts in Gmail and Outlook

• From Gravatar to Gmail: Arikfr’s Gravatars to Google Contacts Importer
• From Facebook to Gmail: GoogleFacebookSync
• From Facebook to Outlook: OutSync

I was looking for a way to create a JS array of IDs out of a jQuery selection. Google search wasn’t that heplful, so I turned to Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow is an amazing programming Q&A site. It’s unbelievable how significant it became in my process of learning jQuery.

At first, search didn’t find anything relevant, so I decided to ask a question. After typing my question title, SO went and searched for possibly relevant questions, and I found exactly what I was looking for.

Keeping track of all the apps I’ve got installed on my phone is not an easy task. Here’s a quick list of the most important ones:

• amAze GPS – Worldwide GPS Turn By Turn  navigation
• Emoze – Push mail for exchange (work email)
• Fring – IM and VOIP with skype/gtalk etc…
• Gmail – Useful when I need to make a search for an old email message.
• Mobbler – Couldn’t live without it. Scrobble and streams music to and from last.fm. Good review @ symbian-guru.
• Nokia Location Tagger – Tags the camera phone pictures with location data.
• Nokia Messaging – Push mail from my Gmail account.
• Nokia Sports Tracker – Great combination of mobile app and web service. Uses the GPS to track speed, distance and course while running/walking etc.
• Opera Mini – While the phone native web browser is quite good, Opera Mini is useful for a quick Wikipedia search from time to time
• Qik – A great video stream that’s really easy to install and run.
• Scanr – Business meetings often ends up with white board full of scribbling. Snap a pic, upload to scanr. Get a nice PDF in the mail. Easy as 1-2-3
• Skyfire – Another web browser, but the only that can display flash/silverlight/whatever on a mobile phone. Hopefully will get faster and more stable with future releases.
• Telmap Nav – Another TBT navigation app. I’m currently beta testing the new version. Really cool stuff.
• Twibble – Lightweight twitter client that plays nice with twitpic.
• WirelessIRC – Still testing it, but so far this app seams to be a prefect IRC client.
• Wordmobi – Awesome WordPress blog editor.

(That’s not all, but these are the ones I use most often.)

Finally, a free mobile app for WordPress that works on my E71. This post is written with Wordmobi a great and full featured WordPress client and editor.

It even snaps pics and includes them directly into your posts:

Wow.

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I’m excited. What will Nokia announce tomorrow in less than an hour? I’m not sure, but I’m guessing its gonna be big.

Update: Symbian-freak has some details – N97, full touchscreen, full qwerty keyboard, 5mp camera, 32gb of intrernal storage, hsdpa (3.5g) and so much more.

I’ve entered the announced size to sizeeasy, and the results are pretty promising: it looks just a tad bigger than the iPhone.

Last week I was at a great rock concert (Tal Fridman and the Krayot Band – Hebrew), and felt like sharing the experience with my friends and stream some video.

I recalled having seen Qik’s app on a friend’s iPhone, and hoped they might have a Symbian client as well. I launched qik.com on the mobile browser, and was up and running in less than 2 minutes.

Here’s what Qik’s doing, and you should be doing too for your mobile app:

1. Browser Recognition: I didn’t have to look for a mobile site, they just recognized it (probably using WURFL or a similar library)

2. Direct Download: the first link leads directly to the download page. Again, my device was recognized, and another click launched the download and installation.

3. Registration is super easy, even on the mobile phone. After install, you’re presented to the following registration screen:

Fill in the form, and you’re good to go. Simple, Fast, and Easy.