Between Brackets

On October 26th the Brussels chapter of Mobile Monday organizes an event again and this time the subject is Mobile apps. Check out the program here and make sure you register for this event.

Please make back-ups. As “the cloud” contains more and more of our data, the responsibility of back-up and recovery seem foggy as the everything-crashed-and-we-don’t-have-back-ups of the T-Mobile Side Kick disaster uncovered.

Yes the companies behind this (T-Moble and a Microsoft subsidiary Danger) are supposed to be covering these kind of disasters, but make sure you back-up the data you want to keep anyway.

Laptops get stolen, mobile phones drop to the floor (or worse in the tub or toilet). Increasingly, these devices contain some of our valued data, so back-up as much as you can.

Synch your devices with the cloud as well as with each other, for instance

• sync your Nokia phone to your laptop using Nokia pc suite and sync it to ovi.com as well
• back-up your mac to a Time Capsule as well as to a service such as Carbonite.
• …

Not only is it worth it when you loose or break your gadgets, it easier to buy new gadgets as well. When I get myself a new phone I just sync it with my laptop and voilà ready to go in 5 minutes

I’ve often used Shazam (the phone app to identify music) on my Android phone. But on my primary phone the Nokia N85 (a phone they made back in the days the animals still spoke) the service was not available.

Browsing the Ovi market last week I saw that shazam was now also available for Symbian. I immediately downloaded it and tested it.

It’s a great service. It doesn’t recognize some of the local music, letting you know this in a fun way:

Nothing found (don't hum! )

But other than that the mainstream music is no problem to the service:

Yes, recognized!

You can now find a location on your desktop Google Maps and send the information as a link to your mobile phone, mocoNews reports. You can see the Send option when you click a marker on the map.

Unfortunately only if you’re on a US carrier (bring this to Belgium/Europe please!).

Question that crossed my mind is why they did not add a ’send to Twitter’ option in this Twittter era.