Antony’s Mobile Blog

I have posted similar posting a couple of months ago, Save Our Planet. Since today (October 15), bloggers around the web unite to put a single important issues about environment, I’ll “re-post” the same message. The aim this “Blog Action Day” is to save our planet for a better future.

As mobile device users, what can we do to save our planet?

• Don?t leave chargers plugged in. After charging your device, remove it from the electric socket. Unfortunately there is no chargers for S60 devices that support automatic on/off switch (or is there one?)
• Recycle old devices. Some manufacturers have initiatives of taking back devices from their customers for recycling. See some links at the end of this blog.
• Let your PC gets some sleep. Turn your PC on only when you need it.

If you are interested to find out more information about energy saving actions, please download a free booklet from Greenpeace, How to Save the Climate.

Bonus Links

• Nokia Take-back and Recycling Program
• Samsung Take-back and Recycling Program
• Toshiba Trade-in and Recycling Program

(Picture is courtesy of stock.xchng and greenpeace).

I am currently doing major upgrade on AntonyPranata.com. You will find experience of my web site and blogs in the next couple of days. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Here is the summary of the upgrades that I am currently doing:

• Move my web hosting to a better company, which provides more space, more bandwidth and better spam filtering.
• Move all the static contents to CMS. I’ll be using Joomla as the engine.
• For the blog engine, I’ll still be using WordPress. However, I would need to change the theme because of the second change above.

(Picture is courtesy of CarbonNYC @ Flickr.)

I just heard that Nokia Beta Labs launched NSeries PC Suite 2.0 yesterday. I haven’t had a chance to install it because the size is huge (350 MB). Then I heard three mobile gurus saying negative about this product.

Firstly, Ricky Caden from Symbian Guru said:

The problem seems to be stability. Personally, I’ve never really had an issue with PC Suite. However, I’ve heard NUMEROUS people on forums and over IM say that they despise PC Suite, that it crashes on them constantly or they can’t get it to connect.

Then, Stefan Constantinescu from IntoMobile second his opinion:

Overall I’m disappointed. Ricky Cadden from Symbian-Guru said it best: “Nokia sucks at desktop apps.” He is right, they are absolutely horrid. It is remarkable how many Nokia employees who I will not mention by name say: “The PC suite is shit.” or “I hate the PC Suite.”

Finally, Steve Litchfield from AllAboutSymbian.com:

Whoever chose .NET to base the new PC Suite on should be taken out and chucked into the nearest lake. Not everyone has dual core multimedia monster desktops, guys.

If three mobile gurus had the same opinion; there must be something wrong with the new PC Suite. Not to mention Nokia Download! for PC that had suffer similar criticism from many reviewers.

What’s happening to Nokia? This is really a big problem. Shall we send email to Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo?

Update (16-Sep-2007): I just installed NSeries PC Suite 2.0 today. Unfortunately, I have to agree with them. I have captured a screenshot of my Task Manager. As you can see here, the user interface of NSeries PC Suite 2.0 requires about 64 MB of memory and utilizes 12% CPU of my computer. Finally, I decided to uninstall NSeries PC Suite 2.0. It is still unusable at this point.

Update (17-Sep-2007): After listening to many bloggers around the world, Nokia Beta Labs finally remove NSeries PC Suite 2.0 from the time being. Well done Tommi!!! Make the product works first and then launch it to the public.

(Picture is courtesy of morgueFile.)