The neat thing about modern mobile phones is that you can install additional applications on them. This article introduces three excellent mobile phone applications that have made my life a lot easier, and my cutting edge Nokia phone (currently E71) even better. In fact these have proven to be real life savers, are made by one of the most respected software companies and are offered for free. Check out Google’s GMail and Maps for mobile, and Opera Mini! I have tested these applications on several Nokia Symbian S60 mobile phones, but they are Java based applications and therefore support various other devices as well.

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VSO’s PhotoDVD is a nice way to create a dvd slideshows of your favorite photos. It’s easy to use, but it also has a lot of features to configure to satisfy the more advanced users. The features of PhotoDVD include DVD subtitles, background music, a great amount of different visual animation effects and much  more. PhotoDVD is one software that no digital photographer should live without.

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VSO PhotoDVD is one of the best DVD Slideshow software to create slideshows on DVD. Share your digital pictures on DVD with your friends and family with any home DVD player.

PhotoDVD animates your images to make a stunning DVD photo Slideshow. You can easily add music and comments to your pictures. The result is attractive and vibrant. The software is very easy to use and burns photos to DVD with any DVD writer. DVD format has a much better quality than a photo cd.

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Oh boy, this week the ‘quality’ of the biggest Linux distributions almost depressed me. Here are a couple fine examples of issues that one will never experience in the commercial software world. You see, after more than one and a half years of testing distributions, except for the times I was happily using PCLOS 2008, I wanted to try something in the long run. I got the idea that I should install a distro and usefor a longer period of time. My particular point of interest was how well do distributions backport the key applications to their aging releases. This story involves Ubuntu and openSUSE, but it actually starts with PCLinuxOS and a demonstration of what kind of problems may arise with distros that are a one man show.

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