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When I began to use UIQ3 phone, I've tried many messenger apps that help me chat with my friends. Almost every application has its own strong/weak points but according to myself, I choose Slick - a Lonely Cat Games product.

Slick is a good messenger app for mobile devices. It's easy to use and supports many features, allows you to chat with your friends connected though various online messaging apps.

Recently, Lonely Cat Games has released the lastest version of this app, Slick 0.46 with improvements: Fixed ICQ/AIM bug sending empty messages to some IM clients, compatibility with S60 touch-screen phones (N5800) .

Main Features:

• Supported protocols: ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber
• Text messaging
• Emoticons
• Alerts - sound, backlight, vibration, notify window displaying the number of new messages
• Group and buddy management (add, delete, rename)
• Message history
• File transfer - send and receive files
• Sending / receiving offline messages
• Downloading files sent as links

Supported devices:

Sony Ericsson: P990, M600, W950, W960, P1, G700, G900

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Although Slick 0.46 is still in development but it make me feel satisfied. And you? Which messenger app you're using to chat on your phone? Feel free to share your ideas with everyone here.

If you own UIQ 3 smartphones (M600i, P1i, P990, W950i), you ought to check this excellent utility called Tweak Peaks from CellPhoneSoft (Producer of Swiss Manager). It get rid of the transition effect, making navigation and general usage faster.

Tweak Peaks is a system enhancer utility that accelerates the display of your phone. The provided performance improvement makes your phone working faster.

Tweak Peaks prevents transition effects and animations, so that menus open instantly, scrolling in lists becomes speedy, and the overall experience of using your phone improves. Finally you can have a truly fast UIQ3 phone.

I had tried this useful utility and I decided to use it for my P1i. And you? Why don't you try to install Tweak Peak to speed up your UIQ3 smartphone?

The Advanced Call Manager unique feature is the ultra-fast recognition of remote callers which allows personalized replies (SMS, mute, reject, accept, greet, divert) to be attributed within a part of a second leaving the caller unaware of your current availability. The application rich functionality makes it a very convenient tool for any manager as it saves time by taking over the management of your incoming calls when you are too busy to do it by yourself.

With Advanced Call Manager you can organize your phone book into custom lists like Black (people you don't like to disturb you), White list (important people who are "allowed" to call you) or any other custom lists (a very special custom group could be your family to which you can wish to send a personal SMS if somebody calls you during a meeting). The application enables you to set different actions for the groups you have defined - you can accept, reject, divert calls, send personalized SMS, play personalized greeting or mute the ringer.

This full version is provided by gabika318

BootMan is an autostart utility that provides quick access to those applications that you use most often. You can select any number of programs that you want to start automatically whenever you turn your phone on. BootMan saves time as you do not need to deal with those applications one by one. Using the simple and convenient interface you can configure your autostart list.

Major features:

• Automatically launch applications when the phone starts up.
• Saves time by bringing your phone quickly to the state you like.
• Unlimited number of applications can be included in the autostart list.
• Supports both immediate and startup-time execution.

This is a small utility for your UIQ3 smartphones (W950, M600, W960, P1i, P990, etc). You can reboot the phone or turn it off quickly by using this app. It is very useful for modders who need to access the power button usually.

I'm very glad to announce that the lastest version of CorePlayer - the best multimedia player for Symbian UIQ3 - has been released.

This new version comes with working streaming FLV from YouTube and a little different UI with new FLV-settings for better performance .

Change log:
Version 1.3.0 build 6213 (20081208):
- FIX: YouTube playback
- FIX: ISO8601 ‘zulu’ (Z) dates
- FIX: ogg Speex and Theora detection
- FIX: AVI parsing fixes
- FIX: Anamorphic aspect ratio in AVI
- FIX: Probe for UDP streams
- FIX: ID3v2.4 size parsing
- FIX: Aspect setting with prerotated portrait videos
- FIX: Misc. FLV issues
- FIX: PalmOS: Memory usage
- FIX: OS X: Keyboad shortcuts
- ADD: More YouTube stream options (from 50 kbps to 2 Mbps)
- ADD: Basic HTTP proxy support
- ADD: Basic HTTP authentication
- ADD: Improved file caching
- ADD: Support EntryRef in ASX playlists
- ADD: Low delay streaming option
- ADD: Better support for embedded cover art
- ADD: Merge the list of artist into album artists (on by default)
- ADD: Reload network files on startup option (off by default)
- ADD: Desktop: Always on top option
- CHG: CoreUI speed optimizations & fixes
- CHG: XML parsing speed
- CHG: Prefer UDP streaming for RTSP by default

You can purchase or download the update at Mobihand

This program was introduced in a previous post (you can read it here) now it has just been updated to version 0.94 beta with new changelog:

• Displaying allocation in the text
• Languages of the Preferences dialog: Polish, Finnish, Bulgarian
• Changed the formatting elements in the Preferences dialog
• Further improvement of stability

You can see more details here

CellPhoneSoft has just released an update to Process Explorer on Dec 1, 2008. The new version comes with various features include listing Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) that contain code shared between applications. It can also list all running applications, device drivers, server programs, ... With powerful cleanup ability, Process Explorer lets you control your phone memory easily!

NEW in version 1.50

• New view page listing DLLs (shared code libraries).
• DLLs loaded by processes are listed in the process components view.
• New Zoom command.
• Improved performance and reliability.
• Internal enhancements, optimizations, and bugfixes.

Compatible with G900, G700, P1, P990, W950, W960, M600, Z8, Z10

You can view more details here.

This program allows you to create diaries from your messages, it can also be used to view your messages in a simple and extremely fast way (in your phone). Your messages are displayed in a "chat-like" way and hence it is very easy to follow your message conversations with your friends. Messages that you have sent are displayed right-aligned and messages that you have received are displayed left-aligned.

And of course, one of the most important features of this program is that you can create a diary from your SMS & MMS messages by creating three web pages that consists of the following:

• one page with a table of contents and statistics on how many messages you have sent and received
• one page that lists all your messages sorted by date
• one page that lists all messages sorted by name. The web pages are saved on the memory card in your phone and after the diary has been created you can transfer the web-pages to your pc and store them for future use.

The SMS & MMS Diary program runs on all -new- Symbian phones (G900, G700, P1, W960, W950, P990, M600, M608c).

You can download the trial version or purchase a full version of this program here

For the first time ever, it is now possible to read your OpenDocument files from OpenOffice.org, KOffice, AbiWord and Lotus Symphony on your Symbian Smartphone using Open Source software

Many exciting features are available:

• open OpenDocument text(.odt), spreadsheet(.ods) and presentation(.odp)
• open OpenDocument files directly from email attachments, MMS, Bluetooth, filebrowser as well as webbrowser
• view thumbnail image
• get information about subject, title, keywords and other meta information
• get statistics about paragraph count, words and pages
• zoom and fullscreen
• search
• view of changes

Lots of formatting is also supported:

• all text and highlighting colors
• bold and italic
• underline as well as crossing lines
• upper and lower text
• left, right and center alignment
• left and right margins
• bullets and numbering
• embedded images
• paragraph bordering
• full support for footnotes (show them by pressing ok/enter button, if there are more then one, use the arrow keys to scroll)

Download here !