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Map Loader 2….  boy those people at nokia beta labs have grabbed that beta labs concept by the horns haven’t they.  Now they have a new way of buy maps… wait for it… you can use your PC.    I was hoping this was going to be the route loader for OVI type thing (guess I will have to keep waiting)

few quick things - firstly you will need to uninstall your old maps loader (i couldn’t get it to work until I did) Secondly.. you no longer need to be in USB mode to transfer maps which is much easier. And it imported my current licences just fine as well.

The only issue I still have is that there is no version numbering on the Maps in the Map Loader.  So I have no idea if I need to download a new map or not!

but here is the blub and the links anyway

With Map Loader 2.0 you can buy navigation and city guides directly from your PC!

Map Loader 2.0 includes a web shop where you can purchase and download navigation, traffic information and city guide licenses directly to your device. There is no need for activation, just download and you are ready to explore your world.

The new “Services” tab will let you browse through Drive*, Drive&Walk*, Traffic* and City Guides before deciding what to buy. In addition, the clear and easy to understand graphical representation will show what region is covered by the license. You will see exactly what you buy before buying.

Selecting “Guides” will let you browse through City Guides and Multimedia Guides from all over the world. Selecting one will show you information on the contents and you can download them directly to your device. It has never been so easy to find the right guide for your destination!

New connection mode

Map Loader 2.0 now supports PC Suite connections. This means that you can connect several devices over USB or Bluetooth connection. Mass storage mode is also supported for older Nokia Maps versions and memory cards. In mass storage mode the new “Services” tab will not be available and Map Loader 2.0 will behave like Map Loader 1.x. On startup, a popup will show connected devices and will let you choose the drive/device to use. Make sure you have the latest PC Suite installed (http://www.nokia.com/pcsuite).

Shop

After selecting a navigation license or downloading a guide you will be transferred to the payment page. Enter you credit card data; confirm payment and the license will be downloaded to your device. Your credit card data is sent over a secure https connection. You will also receive an email receipt.

Purchased licenses

In the bottom of the “Services” screen, there is a list of your previously purchased licenses and their expiration date. This will help you to see when it is time to renew you licenses.

Feedback

Download Map Loader 2.0 and let us know what you think! Make sure to uninstall any older version of maploader before installing Map Loader 2.0. Note that this is still a beta, so there are some limitations:

• Not tested on S40, so please don’t use it
• In “Drive & Walk” the navigation region “Russia & Ukraine” is only navigable in Russia.
• Disconnecting and reconnecting a device while Map Loader 2.0 is running can sometimes lead to unexpected results.
• Make sure your phone time is correct before buying any licenses.

* shop content depending on Nokia Maps version

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Getting Australian Citizenship techish style…

Here is a combination of my Tweets from last night and the photos that I took as well. (in reverse order of tweets to do with citizenship).

1. http://tinyurl.com/5hzebb photos from last nights ceremony for australian citizenshipv 14 minutes ago from twhirl
2. G’day mate now i am getting pizza about 14 hours ago from txt
3. Ok supper is lame a few cakes and soft drinks no shrimps no beer no bbq about 15 hours ago from txt
   
4. Three songs to in until supper all the names have been read not and there are a few trees left over about 15 hours ago from txt
   
5. Some people have great cheer squads… howard jones just got his bit of paper but is was not the 1980’s howard jones about 15 hours ago from txt
   
6. Got a certificate, a tree, a flag, and yet another pen now listening to some poor person trying to pronunce all 134 names about 15 hours ago from txt
   
7. Ok finally i call australia home being sung must be getting close to ceremony proper will be dark for a short while about 16 hours ago from txt
8. Now the band are doing danny boy what happened to the angels am i ever going to see your face again for example now that is australian about 16 hours ago from txt
9. The band is wrong they are playing new york new york i thought this was australia about 16 hours ago from txt
10. There is an old english man next to me who is tapping along to the music about 16 hours ago from txt
    
11. And why is there no wifi at the town hall for gleneira council about 16 hours ago from txt
12. Ok the band is boring me can i change my mind now about 16 hours ago from txt
13. And the band starts most of them look like the saw federation about 16 hours ago from txt
14. Wow a free pen to fill out how voting enrollment forms about 16 hours ago from txt
15. Not sure if this is good or bad but i in in the front row for citizenship few hundred seats laid out no beer or thongs in right about 16 hours ago from txt
    
16. damn wife is wearing heals… she looks great, but towers over me once again… about 16 hours ago from twhirl
17. ok.. showered, dressed, time to go get a tree and start voting people of the island about 17 hours ago from twhirl
18. o.k.. going home, put on the finery and then out this evening to become and australian…. shall try and tweet the experience. about 19 hours ago from twhirl

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Now I have been on twitter for about a year now… and must say for that first year was not very active. But have in the last 2 months “re-found” it and have started to become active in the space. So thought it was time for a blog entry about it.

So quick rewrap for those of you who don’t know what it is. Put simply it is a 140 Character limited Blog Post that everyone can read. You can write, read, private message people via your phone(sms), your computer or basically any IP device that you want. I have heard it described as a world wide cocktail party where you listen to bits of the conversation halfway through out of context. And yet at the same time if you listen carefully to the noise you can hear a number of distinct voices, threads, and opinions coming through.

A quick Google for Twitter and the recent Chinese earthquake can show you the power that this (and similar) social media tools can have. In fact with a couple of key people/news sources that I follow I get most of the big important news faster than any wire service (I have access through work to most of them) and certainly faster than any media organisation in the world. Blogging tools and the WWW have up until this point required access to the web to share and disseminate information, yet now anyone with a mobile phone who can send a text can share information with a huge global community instantaneously.

However, it is not without it problems. For the last week it has been stable, but it certainly is suffering from sever growing pains and can still at times be frustrating in its outages. But then it reminds me of when I was running my BBS. Waiting 12 hours for the next fido-mail package seemed at eternity. Now if Twitter is down for an hour or less people around the world start freaking out. (Me included). Yet and despite all of its problems it seems to be growing.

Is it more than just a series of random conversations for me? YES. Already I have found out from the people that I follow and engage with information that I would have not found out in any other means. In some respects Twitter at the moment is the smoker’s corner. All the smokers are going out for a quick twit, sharing info and then back to their desks for real work. Those in the smokers group are sharing knowledge outside the normal business and social framework. Much as the smokers of old would.

You will notice that my twitter feed is on the side of the blog on every page. I decided to make my timeline public and the rewards are immense. Yes it will take a while to work out who to follow, who not to and even what tools to use (such is it flexibility). But once you engage and you do need too engage, Twitter can be as far removed from the passive mediums such as newspaper and television as you can get with out a brain chip.  If you want it to be.  And you will want it to, then and only then will you be able to see its potential and what you can offer the global conversation.

http://twitter.com/wolfcat

and here is the boss of twitter talking about it.

Jack Dorsey Presents Twitter from biz stone on Vimeo.

Tags: General, Media, Mobile, twitter by Me
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Well I spent all day yesterday out on another snow chase.

Firstly I approached the bank to get a load to pay for the fuel, lucky for me I wasn’t going alone and was taking a 4y/o with me as she had never been to the snow before having lived in Darwin for the last few years. (On an amusing side note, she has for reasons that escape both me and her father started to refer to me as Captain Wolf. I can live with that, I have been called worse!)

But to keep things on a technical nature so that I can justify putting details onto the blog I have a few new goodies… They are a KML of a Toboggan Run (which has the distance at 600metres and the max speed at 16kph!), the video of said run and a whole pile of new photos. The trip was the same route as a few weeks ago so the trip KML has changed really. Apart from the fact that I was stuck behind the same stupid slow guy for 50k’s who refused to go above 60 at ALL! (will put up video shortly!)

And on to the media….

The Toboggan Run (KML File on the KML Page here)

More Photos here.. http://flickr.com/photos/wolfcat_aus/

And the Drive home which is once again the webcam attached to the Asus R2H to recorded the whole trip. This time I have New Order’s The Beach as the soundtrack, simply because it is the same length as the video was meant to be (of course it is 20 second to short but what can you do).:-)

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The time has come for me to take a holy book to a location. Why, because I finally have a bit of paper that says you can bring your own holy book. The paper is the inviation to do my Australian Citizenship ceremony.

It says ” should you wish to make the pledge on a holy book of your choice, please bring that holy book to the ceremony”.

I am torn at this point however. I am an atheist through and through. But should I let an opportunity like this pass me by. So here are more choices so far.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. (great book written by a great atheist)
God Delusion, Richard Dawkins. (great book, plus has the added advantage of being a red rag to a bull).

or perhaps just take the Manual for my Nokia N95, I seem to spend a great deal of time worshipping the phone.

The other option of course is I could just make up a cover… say Atheisism for Beginners, or slightly more controversial “My Imaginary Friend is better than yours“.

You have 3 days to offer other suggestions.

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