I've wanted to do this for a long time... to list my favorite software, the stuff I use most often on my Nokia 6600. So here it is.
» Papyrus
A calendar program that adds substantial functionality on top of the basic calendar included with the phone. Most notably, addiitonal views and the ability to edit the notes section of the calendar. Combined with sVCal, this alows me to import .vcs iCal files and actually see (or change) the notes section of the entry.
Developent on this product had been going along nicely earlier this year, but then the developer left. After many months they finally hired another developer. But the new guy doesn't have any experience programming on Symbian 60, so don't expect more new features any time soon. However, the current version (1.0.09) works very well.
» SplashID
An excellent program by SplashData that allows you to manage all of your secret informaiton, such as logins and passwords, URLs, PINs, credit card info, calling card info, etc. encrypted on the phone. It also has a desktop utility that syncs with the phone.
However, beware that v3.12 is the last version that supports syncing. Since then they've removed the ability to sync with the phone. This is really daft in my oppinion, and there's really no reason to use the newer versions, they really don't add anything useful.
» AgileMessenger
This is the best unified IM client I've seen for a mobile device. AgileMessenger supports Yahoo!, AIM, MSN, ICQ, and the newer versions support Jabber, which also means support for Gmail IM. Really cool additional features are that you can take pictures or record voice (via a PTT-like feature) and AgileMessenger will upload it to Agile's web server and send the recippient a URL where they can view the picture (or hear the file). If they're on another mobile device using Agile Messenger, this is transparent and they just get the content.
However, this summer Agile decided to start charging a monthly fee for their service. This is also really daft in my oppinion. So I just keep using the old version and ignore the "New version is available" notification every time I launch it. It works just fine.
» WirelessIRC
This is an IRC client. Works well for the most part, although I do experience occasional application crashes with it, but not enough to be a pain. I licensed v1.82 in June of 2005 and it hasn't changed, even though their web site keeps talking about an upgrade any time now.
» ProfiMail
This is by far the best mail client I've seen for a mobile device. It supports IMAP, POP3, and of course SMTP. I about 5 accounts configured it in, ranging from plain POP3, POP3 with SSL, plain IMAP and IMAP with SSL. It can display in-line HTML, and JPEG images. It also has a built-in file explorer called ProfiExplorer (which is free) and is the best file explorer I've seen. Excellent program, I highly recommend it. I'm currently on v2.32.
» Opera
An excellent web browser. You can view just about any web page with it. It does support JavaScript, but not Java, Flash or Shockwave. The latest version, v8.5 adds a password manager (I wish this where synchronized with SplashID!) and has several other improvements. Very useful.
» PuTTY
A Symbian 60 port of the popular PuTTY program, which is an SSH client. It supports public keys, but not port forwarding or file transfer. Quite useful though.
» Oxygen Phone Manager
The Symbian 60 platform really lacks the kind of synchronization capability that I had with PalmOS. Nokia PC Suite tries to fill in part of that gap, but it's broken and won't sync. And when it does, it wants Outlook (ugh). SyncML could fill more of the gap, but it doesn't work properly on the Nokia 6600 either. So Oxygen is the best thing I've seen to manage your phone from your PC. It supports contacts, calendar, tasks, images, and SMS. My 6600 wouldn't nearly as useful as it is without it.
» TaskSpy
This program allows you to see what programs and threads are running on your phone, monitor CPU and memory utilization, and among other things, restart the device, which is what I use it for most!
» CellTrack
A useful program for monitoring the network and finding out what cell you're in. Psiloc have a more sophisticated cell monitoring program that allows you to perform asks upon entering or leaving a cell, but the cumbersome common licensing software they install on your phone sucks, and so as much as I l ike Psiloc's software, I refuse to install it on my phone. So I use this one instead. Oh, and it's free. :)
» sVcard and sVcal
These are used to import and export vCard and iCal format contact and calendar entires. I find them quite useful for that, though I can't believe that Nokia left out such a basic feature from phone's core functionality! Among many uses, you can export your contacts and calendar in a format to put on your iPod so you can view the data there.
» QuickOffice
Allows you to view Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word formatted files on your phone.
The company's web site would like to charge you somewhere around $50 for the full suite. However, you can download the view-only software for free from Nokia's web site for the 6630 . When installing the software on your 6600 you will be informed that the software is incompatible. However, I ignored this warning and it seems to work just fine on my 6600, albeit slowly.
» XpenseTrack
I really miss not having PocketQuicken. There's nothing for the Symbian 60 platform that will sync with Quicken. However, XpenseTrack does let you enter all of your enxpenses in a fairly rational way and will export them to an Excel spreadsheet for you. It also handles multiple currencies, which was a requirement for me.
» SolvoEd
Excellent dictionary software. I use it for Spanish, English, Dutch, French and German. You install the base software and then add dictionaries. Extreemly handy when traveling.
So there's the basic rundown of my main tool suite. There are many others that I either use occasionally, or have tried in the past. As well as games. I will leave all of that for another blog entry.
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