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First Mobi Snake Guide to Snakes of South Africa

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

It is my great pleasure to introduce the Worlds first mobi guide to Snakes of South Africa.  This educational guide will soon be available freely on the Nokia Ovi store.  The guide has been tested and works on all Nokia Symbian S60 5th edition handsets .  (Including Nokia N97, N97 mini, 5800, 5530 and X6 handsets.)

Due to time limitations the app/Mbook only includes a handful of the many snakes found throughout South Africa.  I started with the most dangerous and common snakes and once I have more time and have sourced more development funding I will update the app to include all the snakes found in our country, I will also add support for more handsets and future plans include the addition of multi language support.

The guide has been entered into the Nokia Calling All Innovators Developer Challenge and I look forward to reading what everyone think of this unique South African App.

If like me you love playing with new things, drop me a line via Twitter or email ( homecrafters AT Gmail DOT com) and I will happily send you the app.

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What is Vufone? 2 premium accounts up for grabs

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

“vufone™ is a personal utility that gives its users the power to manage their mobile phone on the web. The vufone team believes that your mobile phone should be a natural part of your digital life - and that means that you own your mobile content regardless of the network you are using or the model of the phone you hold in your hands.

Being an integral part of your digital life also means that you should not be limited to mobile services that are offered by mobile operators or handset vendors. Whether you want to use Microsoft Outlook to manage your calendar, use Gmail as your source for phone contacts, Flickr as your photo repository, YouTube as your video community or Facebook as your social network - every internet service you use should be seamlessly and easily integrated to your mobile phone.”

The guys over at vufone also believe that “these services should be available to mass market phones - they therefore offer support for a wide range of mobile devices” including but not limited to Windows Mobile and Symbian smartphones. They have also added support for Java based mainstream phones live Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola, Samsung and LG.

Vufone lets you:

  • Backup

– Contacts, SMSs, MP3, Video, calendar, tasks, etc.
– Automatic, periodic & near real time
– Over the air

  • Sync

– Two way sync with MS Outlook meetings, tasks or Google Calendar & contacts to your phone
– Manage your phone contacts and calendar on the web

  • Share

– upload your pictures & videos and view them online
– Upload your mobile photos and videos to social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube…

If you havn’t yet taken vufone for a spin, why not give it a try today.

Note: I have 2 premium vufone accounts up for grabs for South African readers via this blog. If mobile freedom is your thing and if you want to get your hands on a premium account, head over to vufone.com register your free trial account and then, drop me a line in the comments below and I will email you further details.

Disclosure: I am under contract with vufone and I am currently beta testing vufone on my Nokia 5800.

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