Land of the Freeware

Newsvine – Land of the Freeware: Making and receiving free phone calls via any computer or internet-enabled device with GrandCentral
Land of the Freeware: Making and receiving free phone calls via any computer or internet-enabled device with GrandCentral

Works like a charm. Installed the Nokia and Gizmo apps on my Nokia n95 and opened an account with Gizmo. Now I can initiate and receive calls via GrandCentral. It’s a beautiful thing. Calls sound better than they do via T-Mobil… :)

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Shake Your Phone

ShakeSMS – Shake Your Phone to Read SMS
With ShakeSMS:
just shake your phone, you can read the sms;
Lean Left — Leave (delete) SMS
Lean Right — Write (Reply SMS)
Lean Up — Up to the SMS Folder In
Lean Down — Done (Back to Previous Screen and Lock keypad)

(Via All About Symbian)

Phone gestures. Installed the above-linked app and like it. Instead of opening and unlocking the phone and selecting “show message” to read an SMS, I only have to shake the phone… nice. Another obvious good use of the accelerometer would be to shake the phone to silence the alarm or silence the ringer.