04 April 2009

Motion Controls Open Old
Arcade-Style Games To New Players

Most of the motion controlled games use the acceleration sensor just as an input method that replace the hardware keys and the only few games are completely designed and optimized to take the most from teh accelerometer games. One of those very few games is SlideEscape / SlidersEdge a game developed by the Mobile Computing students David Berger and Stefan Poremba from the Hagenberg University

SlidersEdge / SlidEscape is a classic 2D jump 'n' run sidescroller game in a style similar to the legendary SuperMario series of games but is different as it use the build in accelerometer sensor to control the game and to change the gravity of the game's virtual world.

The fact that the left/right-movement of the character can be controlled by tilting the phone and jumping by quickly pulling the phone towards you is nice, but not something ne... .. .

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.:[ Innovative Motion Controlled Game For S60 Devices - full story ]:.

30 March 2009

nAlertMe Gets Supports For Samsung Gsensor
New Sensor Framework, and Nokia 5th Edition

Can't tell you how happy I am that Samir is back, AikonLab is alaive, and that his highly anticipated nAlertMe application just gets major update and is ready for downloading and testing!

Beta 4 version of the nAlertMe application brings bunch of improvements, minor bug fixes and the most importantly significantly increased compatibility and security.

Application now supports new Nokia S60 sensor framework and should works just fine on all Nokia's S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 devices. UI is now more finger friendly and fully compatible with Nokia’s devices based on the 5th edition of the S60 platform such as Nokia 5800 and forthcoming Nokia N97. Furthermore, there is a version optimized for the Samsung’s Gsensor that should wo... .. .

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.:[ Protect Your Phone from Thieves! - full story ]:.

28 March 2009

'MooLan' For S60 3rd and 5th Ed
Classic Arcade Moon Landing Simulation

'MooLan' is a space shuttle pilot maneouvering game which utilizes handset accelerometer and proximity sensors as well as the camera.

The game concept is adapted from the classic 'Moon Lander' game but takes it in a new direction through the innovative use of platform functionalities.

Thanks to the sensor-based control it continues to be just as much fun now as it was when it was first played on those big old arcade video machines of the late 70s and early 80s. It is a phenomenal result of the idea to combine as many featu... .. .

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.:[ Control space shuttle by the proximity and camera sensor - full story ]:.

15 March 2009

Tea Vui Huang's Mocap Phone Assist
The Animator In Producing Realistic Animation

Mocap (or motion capture) refers to the recording of human/object movements for applications such as animation, movies and games. The recorded movement data is then used to animate human and object models in 3D animation.

Tea Vui Huang's Mocap Phone is an application that enables a suitable mobile phone to be a limited 2-axis/3-axis motion capture device.

New generation of mobile phones appearing in the shops are starting to feature motion sensors as standard features of the phone. These Wii-mote-like motion sensors are generally utilising a MEMS (Micro-electro mechanical systems) Accelero... .. .

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.:[ Produce realistic animations with your phone - full story ]:.

23 February 2009

Shuffle Ultimate Released
Shake Your Music With Python!

Lifenexus’s accelerometer powered controller gets the major update and the Ultimate suffix. Ultimate version of the Shuffle application brings support for more applications and now it is possible to take control over Video Centre, TTPod and Music player as well.

Shuffle is motion powered application that takes the control over the default music player and allows you to change tracks with a flick of the wrist. Application is developed in Python and provides the very basic functionality but at least it is very simply to use and it works like it's supposed to!

Shake control works by holding down the multimedia key which is used as the shake trigger and then by sha... .. .

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.:[ Shake Your Music With Python - full story ]:.

29 January 2009

Paparazzi For S60 3rd Ed
Accelerometer Based Open Source Game

Paparazzi is another freeware title from Jouni Miettunen, developer of the Jontris, popular freeware "Tetris" like game for 3rd Edition of S60 devices.

Jouni Miettunen, is programmer and Python enthusiast and he became a Forum Nokia Champion, mainly thanks to his active participation in Python for S60 community.

The Paparazzi game is an open source project developed in Python. Paparazzi is a experimentl accelerometer based game, where you are trying help the famous "Movie Star" to avoid annoying and ever-ready "paparazzis" as long as possible. Game uses Nokia N95’s accelerometer plug-in to control the ga... .. .

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.:[ Accelerometer Based Open Source Game - full story ]:.

25 December 2008

Unlock Your Musical Expression
And Creative Potential With ZooZBeat

Zooz Mobile, is a small group of graduates and faculty from the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology who decided to bring some pretty cool projects from their labs to the hands of everyone.

ZooZBeat is the first Zooz’s application ported to S60 devices that lets you make loops of music of varying complexity.

ZooZBeat is an accelerometer based mobile musical studio, simple enough for non-musicians to immediately become musically expressive but rich enough for experienced musicians to push the envelope of mobile music creation. Start playing with just a click or select among background beats in a variety of styles. Use sha... .. .

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.:[ Turns your phone into beat factory - full story ]:.

23 November 2008

HandToolz By Lifenexus
Motion Based Toolbox For Your Phone!

You may remember my article about the most perfect and most complete collection of interesting but yet more or less useless accelerometer based applications on the net!? Now how about merging all these funny applications and packing them into one single toolbox to avoid multiple installations and annoying procedure of closing one and run another application just to show off another tool!?

Isn’t it easier to just install and run one single application? Well, here comes the HandToolz, a Motion Based Toolbox for your mobile phone! Our Lifenexus has successfully managed to merge most of these cool applications and crank it up to an entirely new level! Various tools are added and will be added to simula... .. .

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.:[ Motion Based Toolbox For Your Phone - full story ]:.

05 January 2008

Light Sabre Gets An UPdate
Now Compatible With Samsung's INNOV8!!

Graham has just informed that new version his famous Light Sabre application is available and now supports Samsung S60 devices, INNOV8 (i8510) to be precise! This is really great news for all the Samsung fans and I just hope that other developers will follow Graham’s example, take advantage of recently released Samsung's S60 developer's portal and port their applications to Samsung devices.

Graham also working on optimizing the application code and including the new S60 Sensor Framework that was introduced in S60 5th Edition but is also backported to S60 3rd Edition, FP 2, as well as to some FP 1 device like the E66. This basically means that Nokia N96, Nokia N85 as well as Nokia E66 version of the application is on the way and that owners of the latest S60 phones will be finally available to test some cool accelerom... .. .

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.:[ The Coolest Weapon Ever Gets An Update - full story ]:.

07 November 2008

Huge collection of interesting but
more or less useless motion based software

Don't expect that you’ll find any great and powerful utilities here and if you are looking for the application that does one iota of useful or serious work better skip this article :]

All of the applications that you’ll find below were written with the intention of making a fun only sp please don't take them too seriously ;)

As I said few weeks ago, accelerometers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, motion technology is everywhere, mobile phones, computers even washing machines now contain accelerometers and motion based technology is truly everywhere.

It bringing a whole new set of possibilities and there are already a number of practical applications for accelerometer based phones and most of them are available at our download section but now we decide to extend this collection with few not that useful applications developed by Symbian Freak Forum Memb... .. .

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.:[ collection of simple accelerometer based applications - full story ]:.

02 Nowember 2008

Mazing Days
Accelerometer Based Labyrinth Game

Mazing Days is a game like many of us played and loved when we were kids, it was really challenging to find the right path from the starting point to the goal without getting stuck and now there is a chance to play it on a little bit different way! Mazing Days is a simple but yet challenging marble maze game for all ages and for all S60 3rd Edition devices.

Game is developed under Python and uses the build accelerometer to detect the phone movement and change direction of the ball along the thick path according to phone position and movement direction.

It is a game in labyrinth game in which you must navigate the little ball by going from the top-left corner of the maze to the bottom-right through the complex system of paths. I know it sounds easy but it is not, there are some a really com... .. .

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.:[ Accelerometer Based Labyrinth Game - full story ]:.

19 October 2008

Just For Fun
Kill 'Em All With Your Phone

Accelerometers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, motion technology is everywhere, mobile phones, computers even washing machines now contain accelerometers and motion based technology is truly everywhere.

Accelerometer technology bringing a whole new set of possibilities and there are already a number of practical applications for accelerometer based phones and most of them are available at our download section.

The nGun is the latest application for accelerometer equipped phones and it definitely isn't the most useful one, it is not even aimed to be! This one is just for one, a little application that uses motion technology on a bit different way, another cool thing to show off and to impress your friends and colleagues with your m... .. .

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.:[ Kill 'em all and let God sort them out - full story ]:.

01 October 2008

You can't wait for the Samir's nAlertMe!?
Get the Python based AlertMe Than!

I have already informed you about the brand new Samir's site and the cool nAlertMe application that is supposed to be already available but unfortunately it is not.

nAlertMe is anti-theft application for your that uses internal motion sensor to detect sudden movement and then trigger the very loud audible alarm.

Anyway, one of our fellow forum members (YILDIRIM also known as Mclightning) got bored of annoying waiting for the nAlertMe and decided to create the application with basically the same functionality. Maybe it looks like a stolen idea but we could also take it as an alternative to Samir software that is not available y... .. .

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.:[ Protect Your Phone from Thieves - full story ]:.

31 August 2008

Gravitation v1.0
Accelerometer Based HourGlass Clock Simulator

Gravitation is actually hourglass clock simulator that uses the built-in accelerometer to detect the phone movement and simulate the sand moving through the bulbs according to phone position and moving direction.

So every time you change device's position, an observer updates the acceleration values in each axis, it's range is from -360 to 360.

Just like the real hourglass, it consists of two glass bulbs placed one above the other which are connected by a narrow tube. One of the bulbs is filled with fine sand which flows through the nar... .. .

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.:[ Accelerometer based hourglass clock simulator - full story ]:.

08 August 2008

Light Sabre v1.62
The Coolest Weapon Ever Gets An Update

Light Sabre is applications without real purpose but it's still cool as it allows you to use your Nokia N95 as a Light Sabre with a pretty impressive sound effects.

Application actually uses the Nokia N95 Accelerometer Plug-in package to hook into the accelerometer and transfer the movement into cool sound effects.

Although application itself is pretty well known to be stable and bug free (as far as I know) and generally works very well, Graham continues to release updates that offer enhancements and bug fixes to further improve the overall user experience and ma... .. .

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.:[ The Coolest Weapon Ever Gets An Update - full story ]:.

30 July 2008

Nice Shaker for 3rd Edition
Make Your Own Personalized Virtual Snowglobe!

Ahh, summer days, it’s too hot outside to breathe, you’re sitting at home and dreaming about snow that softly falling down? Well dream no more.

My friend Damian is definitely one of the most creative and productive Python developer nowadays and he just released another funny accelerometer based application.

Nice Shaker is the virtual snowglobe that allows you put a virtual snowglobe on your and use it as a nice decoration for your phone, as another accelerometer based tool to impress your frien... .. .

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.:[ Put a virtual snowglobe on your phone - full story ]:.

10 July 2008

WaterBox Out Of Beta!
Realistic Accelerometer Based Liquid Simulator

I just got informed that Teemu has pushed the release timetable a bit and got 1.00 out a lot sooner than expected.

WaterBox is actually a fluid simulator that uses the built-in accelerometer to detect the phone movement and simulate the fluid moving across the screen according to phone position and moving direction.

All graphics are done with OpenGL ES although it probbably isn't the best possible choice for 2D graphic but since Teemu is already familiar with codding in OpenGL he decided to use OpenGL engine for this cool application. This particular example uses 75 parti... .. .

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.:[ WaterBox v1.0 ready for download - full story ]:.

17 June 2007

Magic Level for 3rd ed
New accelerometer based level tool!

Magic Level is the accelerometer based application for S60 devices that provides similar functionality as the Damian's pyPoziomica and also requires Python for S60 for proper work.

It is not a serious replacement for the professional level tool but considering that it is even capable to show the right angle and has three different modes it can be really helpful in some specific situations.

Applications features three different tool or modes actually and it is also possible to hold the current value by pressing the center on d-pad. Horizontal Level is the standard level orientation and you can use this by putting the phone on the side. Two Axi... .. .

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.:[ New accelerometer based level tool - full story ]:.

16 June 2008

pyWuzzler for S60
Fun motion controlled table soccer game!

Of all the un-important things in the World, Football is probably the most important.

Austria maybe isn't a football nation but is currently one of the host countries of the Euro 2008, the UEFA European Football Championship. Naturally, soccer is one of the biggest topics in Austria nowadays, even though their chances of winning the tournament are, well, not so high.

Germany are heavy favorites to beat Austria in Vienna tonight but from other hand Austria know they have nothing to lose and therefore everything is possible tonight! A precious point against Poland gives them the chance to eliminate Germ... .. .

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.:[ Addicting accelerometer Based table soccer game - full story ]:.

16 May 2008

Marble Madness for S60 3rd Ed devices
offers a new way to play classic marble games

Marble Madness is definitely not just another oldie Atari’s Marble Game clone.

This game is closer to the game that many of us have played when we were little children where tiny ball have to make its way around the obstacles, through the wooden maze, without losing it down a hole.

The point of the game is to navigate your ball through various obstacles and reaching the goal. What separates this game from similar puzzle/maze games is that instead of controlling the marble by the keys you have to tilt your phone to mo... .. .

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.:[ Accelerometer Based Marble Madness Game - full story ]:.

13 May 2008

NiiMe Drums Project available for download
Discover the inner artist in yourself!

NiiMe Drums is the latest addition in the Asier Arranz's innovative set of NiiMe fusion applications that is now available for the public download after the shorter period of the closed beta testing.

NiiMe Drums is the very first motion based music composers for the Accelerometer enabled Symbian S60 phones like Nokia N95.

It is music-production solution that allows you to spontaneously compose the music tracks just with shaking your phone and instantly playing on your PC after composing. It is like virtual recording studio and creative sound creation tool for your phon... .. .

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.:[ Discover the inner artist in yourself - full story ]:.

12 May 2008

Pocket Toshi exclusively available for SF members!
Get it and encourage the artist in yourself!

Pocket Toshi is a prototype of a music application for the Accelerometer enabled Symbian S60 phones like Nokia N95 developed by Teemu Korpilahti and Jenna Sutela and thanks to the authors I am allowed to exclusively offer it through the Symbian Freak.

Pocket Toshi offers a creative means for using an everyday object. It turns the mobile phone into an instrument for easy music making in an instant and creates a new emotional dimension to the use of mobile technology.

Taking after the classic mobile ping pong as well as experimental music interfaces (like Toshio Iwai’s Tenori-on) Pocket Toshi sets new creative challenges for compo.. .. .

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.:[ Encourage the artist in yourself - full story ]:.

02 May 2008

Phone Fight
Hack and slash-em-up with your katana phone!

This is definitely not the best fighting game that I have ever tried and it is nothing compared to sword fights on the Nintendo Wii but it is still somehow special because it offers a freedom of swinging the sword around freely and allows you to hack and slash your friends with your katana phone.

Phone Fight is a prototype multiplayer sword-fighting game that is probably inspired by the cute light shaper application, where the fighting is controlled by an intuitive motion based control system that gives you unlimited control over the every swing and of course every swing has the cool and pretty realistic sound effects. It makes use of the accelerometer within the phones to detect simulated sword slashes and blocks, and Bluetoi.. .. .

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.:[ Train your skills and become famous knight - full story ]:.

27 April 2008

NokoShop Released to public!
The Joy of Motion Based Painting

In answer to your request and impressed with reaction after the yesterdays article, Luis Figueiredo has just released the very first public version of his innovative Motion Based Painting application over at our forum section.

First of all this is not final product and Nokoshop is not an official name, but everyone starting to know it by this name, so author will keep it for now. Just released version of the NokoShop is more like a demo application, a test for a bigger complex development of the completely new S60 photo editing painting concept.

As I said yesterday, current version features just a basic functionality and is more like a game for my 5 years old niece than the real and useful application but from other hand it definitely worth downloading and testing. Also it is important to say th... ..

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.:[ NokoShop Ready for downloading and testing - full story ]:.

02 April 2008

Sittiphol Phanvilai Launch His New
Website With The MosKtillTo Game Demo

My Friend Sittiphol has just launched his new website which hosts all of his projects he has developed so far. Sittiphol Phanvilai of Bangkok in Thailand, is most known for his amazing MobiTubia YouTube client and flv video player application, which won him first place in the Nokia Open C Challenge last year and also made him the nokia forum champion too.

He is also brain behind the two pretty simple but yet useful and well known applications called NeoReboot and Theme Launcher released few weeks ago. He now has developed an amazing game called MosKillTo, i have been lucky enough to have been se... ..

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.:[ Neuvex - Sittiphol projects - MosKillTo Game- full story ]:.

01 April 2008

MagicLock Demo Video
Just another shaker on the horizon!

Nothing especially, just to briefly inform you that there is another shaker on the horizon, Damian’s MagicLock, definitely the simplest shaker so far that provides just a one very basic feature, phone locking and that's pretty much all the app does, but it does it well.

Sure someone will say it is the rip-off as there already few shakers with same or similar functionality but for end users it is always good to have an option and few solutions to choose from.

MagicLock is indeed a little bit different as it is focused on locking only while ShakeLock and its successor ShakeMaster provides the lock and unlock functionality and if noth... ..

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.:[ Just another shaker on the horizon - full story ]:.

20 March 2008

Innovative Mirage Money game
ready for downloading and testing!!!

In answer to your request my fellow Symbian Freaks, Fadi Chehimi has just released the demo version of his innovative and exciting Mirage Money game over at forum section.

"You have asked for it...here you are. I have uploaded the demo of MirageMoney on MOSH so that anyone can download it and play with it.

Please note that this is just a demo for the time being and what i ask for in return is your feedback only. Please feel free to leave your comments and suggestions here, or at MOSH" said Fadi Chehimi over at forum section.

Mirage Money is a game based on the new S60 API developed by my PhD student Fadi Chehimi to provide 3-D motion control for navigating with 3-D virtual and augme... ..

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.:[ Mirage Money is ready for downloading and testing - full story ]:.

14 March 2008

CarMeter for S60 3rd Ed
Take complete control of your car with your Phone

CarMeter can measure your acceleration and displays the g-force in real time on your display! This is a fascinating new idea of how to use the acceleration sensor in a mobile phone makes driving your car even more fun!

In addition to entertainment, the application will also greatly increase your safety when driving a car.

If the forces in tight turns are getting dangerous, CarMeter will instantly display an audio-visual warning – reminding you that you should probably slow down a bit.The acceleration due to gravity at sea level is about 9.8 m/s2 – this equals 1 g. While this force is directed downwards, you can artificially gene... ..

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.:[ Take complete control of your car - full story ]:.

12 March 2008

pySnake - An Accelerometer Snake Game
(download and video)

Our resident symbian-freak developer has been busy again and brought us this very cool pySnake game which is controled by tilting the phone using the phones Accelerometer.

You will know the very talented Damien for some of his other python applications which include, Lottomat which is a cool python lottery number generator, he was also the brain behind the great apps like pyPiwo, pyRybka, pyMoneta, pyPoziomica and WakeUpMe (pyBudzik) all developed in Python and a few handy system utilities like pyEkran, and many others too.

He is also responsible for... ..

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.:[pySnake. Accelerometer Snake Game - full story ]:.

27 February 2008

Accelerometer Continues to Amaze
RockNScroll BETA 1 Video and Hands On!

Accelerometer technology offers simply endless possibilities and opportunities for developers and motion based applications continue to amaze me.

After a few hours of testing, I can say that the last such applications one of the best so far. As a matter of fact, I am so proud to inform you that the first public beta version of the great KEYnetik Rock'n'Scroll is on the way and will be available in two days and that it is definitely worth waiting for.

In case you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, KEYnetik, Inc. has released a video that shows an application that shares the same idea and brings functionality similar to the very well known NokMote applications by Sa... ..

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.:[ Rock 'n' Scroll BETA 1 Video and Hands On - full story ]:.

25 February 2008

ShakeSMS
Unsigned version is ready for public download!

This is fast, yesterday Tony has released the ShakeSMS from the closed group of donators and today it is available to anyone and I would like to thank you Tony sooooo much, really didn't expected that it will be available for public that fast ;)

Anyway, if you have been living in a cave for the last few weeks, ShakeSMS is another accelerometer powered application from the Mr Tong Ren, developer of the very well known and very popular FlipSilent application.

The main intention is to reduce the number of necessary steps that we are usually taking when we reading an incoming message. With ShakeSMS it is enough to sha... ..

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.:[ First Beta is Available for Public - full story ]:.

07 February 2008

ShakeLock Beta
The first public version is available for download!

I am honored to announce that ShakeLock is out of closed period of beta testing and officially available for free download and public testing.

For those who don’t know, ShakeLock is Python application that uses the Accelerometer Plug-in package to hook into the accelerometer and to detect movement and change the lock state according to movement direction.

As I have already said it is question if our lovely phones could survive so much shaking but accelerometer technology and motion based applications getting real hot in demand nowadays. ShakeLock is the very simple application with a ver... ..

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.:[ The first public version is available for download - full story ]:.

01 February 2008

NiiMe Wheel (ALPHA)
Available for Download and Testing!

Asier Arranz developer of the famous NiiMe soft has released another awesome application and again exclusively for Symbian Freaks over at forum section and also it has been sent to the collaborators as well.

NiiMe Wheel is currently in the early Alpha version of, and the full version is expected to be released on 9th February, once when he finish exams actually (good luck bro).

In this Alpha you can test the NiiMe Wheel with "live for Speed" but in the next it will works particularly with any game. Controlling a game is often a bigger challenge than the game itself, NiiMe Wheel enables you to play games on your com... .. .

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.:[ NiiMe Wheel available for download and testing - full story ]:.

21 January 2008

pyRybka for 3rd edition (video)
Transform Your Phone Into Interactive Aquarium!

My friend Damian is extremely productive lately, lot of the very cool accelerometer based applications. Applications like pyMoneta, pyPiwo, pyPoziomica, and it is really hard to say which one I like the most.

Incredible level of activity and effectiveness, and if he continues with releasing one application per week he will need a new keyboard soon for sure.

Anyway, pyRybka (I just like these cool Polish names) is the latest one and for those that aren't familiar with Poland language maybe is better to call it pyAquarium or pyFish to be precise. Same as all of Damian's other applications, pyRybka is developed in Python and require's the latest version for it to funct... .. .

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.:[ Virtual aquarium for your phone - full story ]:.

23 January 2008

NiiMe Mouse Available for Download and Testing!

The day before yesterday I wrote about upcoming NiiMe application but unfortunately PC client of the application was available for the donors only.

Now I am so happy and proud to say that I just got a tip from the author, actually he completely surprised me with a special package for Symbian Freaks which finally allows you try it out and to give your phone completely new functionality.

The installation is now a little bit simplified but still a little bit complicated and requires lot of patient to get it to work but it worth trying, believe me. Sure if you got the any problem with the installation we are ready to assist you over at our forum section where is located a very active NiiMe relat... .. .

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.:[ NiiMe available for download and testing - full story ]:.

09 January 2008

pyPiwo for 3rd edition
Brew and drink beer on your Phone!
Cheers!

pyPiwo is another cool application from my friend Ariek, developer of the famous pyPoziomica application and the gorgeous pyMoneta Nokia N95 magic trick.

Same as all other application in his portfolio pyPiwo is developed in Python and require its latest version for proper work.

Applications also intensively use the level sensor so it will only work on models with build in accelerometer, Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB (tested) but is should works with Nokia N93i an... .. ..

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.:[ Convert your phone into instant beer machine - full story ]:.

31 December 2007

Nokia N95 Magic
Use N95 as a Money Machine?!!

pyMoneta is another application from the developer of the very popular pyPoziomica application that intensively uses accelerometer technology and allows to use your telephone as a level tool

pyMoneta is based on the same concept, combination of the Python and Accelerometer Toolkit and it looks even more impressive.

pyMoneta is the very simple application compatible with Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB (tested) but is should works with Nokia N93i and Nokia N82 as well that helps you to make a quite sim... .. .

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.:[ Use N95 as a Money Machine - full story ]:.

16 December 2007

RotateMe v2.0 is out of beta!
Final version is available for download!

I am so happy to announce that famous and long awaited auto rotation application for Nokia N95 is out of closed period of beta testing and officially available free download and public testing of the latest beta 5 version. Indeed, few days later than it was promised but it is finally here and free ;)

For those who don’t know, Rotate Me uses the Nokia N95 Accelerometer Plug-in package to hook into the accelerometer and to detect movement in the orientation of the phone and translates this input to controlling the UI orentation. Although application has been improved a lot through the closed beta testing period, and I can pers... .. .

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.:[ RotateMe v2.0 is out - full story ]:.

20 December 2007

pyPoziomica for 3rd ed
Use Your Phone As Level Too

Yesterday I wrote about Python based Ball Game that intensively uses accelerometer technology and today I have something even cooler, an application that is based on the same concept, combination of the Python and Accelerometer Toolkit.

pyPoziomica (What a cool name rolf) is a new application compatible with Nokia N95 and Nokia N95 8GB but is should works with Nokia N93i and Nokia N82 as well that allows to use your telephone as a level tool. Nothing especially to say about, its enough to put phone on some plain, flat surface and press OK to calibrate it and application is ready to u... .. .

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.:[ Use Your Phone As Level Too - full story ]:.

28 November 2007

ShakerRacer - Real RC car
controlled with the N95 acceleration sensor

I've just found something truly amazing over at out forum section; something that takes the acceleration sensor of a mobile phone to the next level and use it to control something more realistic and literally “bigger” than an application that is running on the phone itself.

Since the API to read the data of the acceleration sensor of the Nokia N95 has been released a short time ago, a lot of applications using it have been released. Some examples are the original moving ball-application from Nokia, the light sabre or Accelerinvaders. It’s finally possible to reach a bigger target audience than a few months ago wh... .. .

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.:[ ShakerRacer - The sci-fi thing - full story ]:.

20 November 2007

Accelerometer Invaders
Gaming with Nokia N95 using accelerometer!?

As you may have already know Nokia N95 features Accelerometer (also known as Level or Tilt Sensor). Mainly it is used by the camera in the phone to rotate pictures in the right position.

The good thing is that Nokia has released the necessary API and permission to use the accelerometer isn’t camera exclusive any more.

This Space Invaders game clone uses the N95 Accelerometer Plug-in package to hook into the accelerometer and to detect movement in the orientation of the phone and tra... .. .

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.:[ Accelerinvaders AKA Space Invaders v0.2 - full story ]:.