This is my cat trollet and she's truly mastering the art of indulging
Just one me those shoots that I like to take, following the seasons changing.
Such beauty
I'm spending a couple of day back at my old place where I lived 7 years ago. Gotland is an island in the Baltic sea that is a part of Sweden, has about 60000 people living there and it's a very popular place for tourism. The extraordinary thing with Gotland is not only the nature and the special light, it's also the Medieval Wall (part of the World heritage) and the almost 100 Medieval churches spread all over the island. The first week in August they have a Medieval Festival were loads of people go to enjoy "The dark ages!"
I lived for 16,5 years on Gotland, and I always long back here. One day I hope to move back here but right now it's not doable.
Now I will share some photos from this visit, enjoy!
So this weekend I decided to go visit with my friends in Norrköping once again, I have to say that this city really grows on my every time I go there. The fun thing as that I can even see myself living in this city, so why not learn more about it? The city is one of our oldest Industrial cities and the will be seen on my photos here too. I have to compare it with Tampere as I spent couple of days there last summer (there are some blogposts about it here at this blog if you're interested!) And its also one fact to know that Norrköping is a friendcity with Tampere. (Also with Odense denmark and Trondheim Norway btw)
Anyway I arrived in the afternoon and was greeted by my friend Anders (sliceonline on Twitter)
Then we went home to his place where his Karin also met up. Then after an stop at a cafe (where i had an really delicious salad) wen all went to the park for the openair pompom09 in the park event! (It's an BBQ/Electronica music event)
It was also a celebration of Anders birthday so after the party in the park, we all went somewhere outside the city and had an small afterparty.
Then Sunday after sleeping in, having coffee to kickstart us we went an a sightseeing tour on foot around the city. For me this one of the best things with coming to a new city, to get to know it's soul and heart. And I took a lot of photos walking arund there so now I will share it with you!
Thanks Karin and Anders for an excellent stay!
Its been a long time now since I blogged here at Vox, and it's been a reason for that. I will clarify a little now why and a little about the changes done here.
As this started out as a blog about Nokia N95, and that's still my phone btw (can't afford to get a new one now...) has my interest in another area grown and taken over. Being unemployed makes you also change the way you look at yourself, but for me the process has mostly been about finding a new path in life. So here I am, improved, sligtly poorer but so much happier about life and everything new I met on daily basis.
So my interest and also my career is now Socialmedia and that's what I'm all about now. This blog I will use to post random postings about my life as a digital nomad and give out tips about how to survive in the urban jungle.
So my hope is that you readers stick with me and mayb I will attract some new readers in the process too!
Never thought I would see a snowman this early, but I did.
It has now been one full year since I got my N95 and this makes it a perfect time to look back on whats been happening, what I have used it for and what softwares that's been on the top of my list.
First of all, it has been a crazy year with both good things and bad things happening, but when I look back I will only see the good things. And peeking it all was my little backpacking trip to Finland. Which I blogged here on Vox about.
When I got my N95 home I was basically in heaven, this phone had everything I could ask from it to have. And if one added some extra software it would be even better for sure. And since my digital camera broke one week prior my purchase of the N95 it could defiantly serve as my digital camera too.
I have always loved when you get a thing that has multifunctionality as the Swiss army knife (never without it!) or a leatherman (perfect for hiking or other outdoor adventures) and now the Nokia N95.
When I look back at this year I can see certain trends in how I use the device (besides making calls and texting or MMS), and that is:
- Photo - Oh yes, loads of them, guessing about +1800 photos or more
- Music - Use it to listen on music while commuting and sharing what I listen to via Lastfm
- GPS - Needed as I got lost really easy! (Strangely enough not i London btw!)
- Microblogging - Jaikuing and other blogs
- Blogging - While on traveling foot I have blogged a lot from the device.
- Keeping track on weather
So what software is my favorites then?
Maps and placement software:
Google Maps (for the ease of usage!)
Sportstracker (This software has improved my life!)
Location Tagger and ZoneTag Prototype (Getagging of photos, love it really!)
Documents:
Quickofiice (Sometimes its needed to edit and make new documents when you're out n' about)
Photos:
Share Online
Movies:
Divxplayer (Plays divx files on your device)
EmTube (an easy way to watch YouTube flicks on your device)
Handy Tools:
I use some software form Handy Tools and these are:
Taskman (Couldnt live without it!)
Weather (I love it and its good if one travels to get weatherforecasts)
Calendar (It's a more professional Calendar I think.)
Profiles (Love the possibility to set rules for profiles)
Other Software:
Mobbler (Use it to share what I listen on at LastFm)
WorldMate (Weather, currency. I use this as my alarmclock, wakes me up with a weather forecast!)
MobiGenie (Answeringmachine on your phone, simply a brilliant software)
Bambuser (Geotagged live video from you phone!)
Of course I use more but this is the softwares I use most frequently. Among them are Nimbuzz for chatting, Wavelog for Blogging to wordpress, N-gage for gaming ( I have to admit I'm not much a gamer), Calcium for calulating etc.
Accessories
There's a load of accessories out there, and the ones I use most frequently is:
Desktopstand (Proporta)
Proporta Chargers (The battery on N95 leaves loads more to ask for!)
I have two types, the Solar Charger (works great) and the ordinary one (You can charge your device up to four times with it!)
Solar Charger
USB Charger
Nokia DT22 Tripod (Great for me and my shaky hands!)
I use the fitting with another higher tripod also and a gorilla pod.
Nokia SU-8W BT Keyboard
Certainly improves your writing on your device. I used it frequently when I was on vacation.
So what would I buy the next time I buy a mobile phone?
Right now I haven't seen any good competitor to the N95 from my point of view, I love the E71 and if my N95 broke I might go ahead and get one of those. The N96 I could maybe considered if Nokia had put an xenon flash on it AND improved the battery! So right now I'm settled with my N95, but if someone gave me an N96, E71 or an N85 I wouldn't argue against it!
Finally:
As I already shared with you my experience with my mobile phone hasn't just been from the Mobile point of view, it has also lead me into the Social media world and given me both lot's of new friends all over the world and a much wider perspective both on life, friendship and how I look at myself. So for me my Nokia N95 has been a lifechanger on many levels.
“There’s a thing in my pocket…..”
Remember that sentence? Well that started off me wanting an N95. When I
first read about it, it was a real revelation and I realized this was
the phone to get.
So when I had decided to get one, but first I needed to get some more information
and started to search the net, hungry for more information. Found loads
of links and blogs, and started reading blogs about the N95. What did I
found? Well a lot of information, software, utilities, accessories and……
Almost everyone of them had a widget called “Jaiku” on them. What is
now this? So I looked into it, and realized this was something called
microblog. So I started to search for other microblogs as I couldn’t
get an account with Jaiku right away as it’s an invite only service.
Found twitter and got my first account there.
I have to be honest, in the beginning I didn’t know what to do with it,
but I could see that people was writing one-liners about what they were
doing so I started doing the same. Not much happened for a couple of
weeks, but suddenly someone starting to write comments about what I was
doing. I had my first follower! I was alive in the microblog, it was a
really nice feeling. A little later I had my invite to Jaiku, so I
setup my account and started to search for my favorite blogger there
and added myself as follower to them. At this time I had started my
first blog and was in process of starting another one, specializing in
Nokia and especially in the N95. And told people that I would never
start a blog, and I did only read some occasionally before all this
happened.
Starting off
Now I was ready to go! Well what I wanted out of all this has gradually
grown and evolved through time. and I have to tell you it’s been an
journey in witch I have grown as a person in so many ways, and I have
both gained confidence and self esteem!
When I started to get responses on my own one-liners it was both
exciting and an experience and I really wanted to learn more about
Social Media and web 2.0. So where to go next?
Well I had a Facebook account, not much there at this time mainly a few
relatives and two old schoolmates. So i started to look for other
services. And at this time I had also decided to be as public as one
can be online, and if you wonder I’m aware of the risks!
Got more and more connected and added more and more services to my
Social media life, my new online life. Gosh it was so exciting to find
out how much cool things one cold do. But for me the main objective has
always been to make new friends, not to connect to as many services as
possible!
And more
Finding new services to get connected on wasn’t so hard to find. I
could see that a lot of my new friends were on Lastfm, Facebook, and
other ones so I started to connect myself to them there too.
And with Sportstracker suddenly exercise started to be fun, never had
that experience in my life. So not only have my social life started to
grow, even my health is improving along the way.
Now, and where to next?
I have had three short seminars about Social media and how to use it in
everyday life, Two at my former workplace and one for a group of people
that approached me after one of my posts on my blog. And it has been
great fun to do that, seems that the interest are endless, and the need
for information about social media can’t be fulfilled fast enough.
For myself I’m still checking up new services and reading more about
social media, and getting involved in debates about the future for it.
A special thanks goes out for the bloggers that opened my eyes to this wonderful world.
They are:
Ricky Cadden Symbian-Guru, Rita El Khoury DotSix (Rita also writes for Symbian-Guru now!), Darla Mack Darlamack and Mark Guim The Nokiablog
I just needed a change....
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sevgilim said:
Can you make a phone call while using the GPS, or is the GPS dependent on your data connection (EDGE... read more
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Andy said:
Nifty little gadget , i like it .i too am an n95 fan , had mine for well over a... read more
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mcinbird_ru said:
O, well, thank`s for the article that you wrote your article! A lot of time I was trying to find... read more
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bobr512_41 said:
O, well, thank`s for the article that you wrote article. A lot of time I was trying to find some... read more
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Hi!No there's no conflict and I have never had any problems making phonecalls and using the GPS at the same... read more
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