[Did You Know?] Photo application don't scan all folders after Anna Update !

With the previous Symbian^3 software versions the Photos application showed items from all folders, so you may not be able to view some of your items any more after updating to Symbian Anna if copied to other than the above folders.

In facts, the Photos application in Symbian Anna will only show the items located in the Images, Videos and DCIM folders (e.g. items captured by the user). If you have saved your pictures in a different folder, they won’t be visible after updating to Symbian Anna. If there are items that should be visible in the Photos application, move them to the Images or Videos folder on the mass memory or memory card.

Nokia Image Exchange for S60 updated with Activity Notifications

Written by Janne Kaasalainen, Nokia Image Exchange Team
A new version of Nokia Image Exchange for S60 is now available for download. In addition to multiple bug fixes and accelerometer support for 3.2 devices, we've added notifications to inform you about activities relating to your images and contacts.

Notifications inform about new images from your friends present in the People menu as well as comments to your images and images that you have commented. There are also a few new settings to control the notifications. If you want to give us suggestion about the defaults, please let us know.
The new version also includes changes to the way connections are made. The new version includes new load balancing architecture that should provide better responsiveness for more users. We would also appreciate any feedback about possible issues this may cause.

The Nokia Image Exchange team has been studying the possibilities of a touch UI version of the application. Unfortunately, the version released now doesn't yet support touch devices, but stay tuned.

By the way, we also updated the version of Nokia Image Exchange available in Ovi Store.  It is more stable than earlier (but doesn't have the features described above), and is downloadable there for supported phones.

On behalf of Nokia Image Exchange team,

Janne Kaasalainen

iPM (interactive Photo Manager)

Interactve Photo manager is for mobile phones which uses multi-touch alternative.



Requirements:

- s60 5th - ActionScript Media Management Service API used for getting PathAndFileName
- latest FL needed (version 3.1)
- latest firmware V21.0.025 / v30.0.011

some content error may occur - for avoiding any "content error" please run the nokia galery (which will make all the thumbs for your photos)

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key features:

-multi-touch alternative for single-touch mobile devices (zoom/rotate/pan controls)
-chaos order (thumbs allover the screen, like a pile of real photos thrown on a table)
-photo grouping (make groups, add/remove photos to groups)
-kinetic movements
-autoscroll when drag photos
-autosave custom arrangement (groups and photo arrangements)
-only photos loaded (from folder images/camera)

Use:

-drag photos, drag to margins of the screen to pan while dragging
-press the group button and then draw an area witch includes the photos you want to group; then name your group
-drag photos over a group to add them to a group
-enter a group by press&holding on a group icon (it will zoom in and eventualy enters the group)
-remove photos from group (press the ungroup button when in a group, and then pick photos, when finished press again the ungrup button to toggle of ungrouping)
-press delete button to delete photos (physicaly or logicaly)
-press&hold on a photo to zoomin and view; enters zoom/rotate/pan controls (the zoom/rotate/pan button activates automaticaly)
-when in zoom/rotate/pan mode, double tap to set an control point for zoom/rotate, then drag photo from another point to zoom/rotate; single tap the photo to go to pan mode

(recomanded to enter zoom/rotate controls with press/release/press/drag when double tap(press/release/press/release) is bugy and might not work afther first doube tap)

Drawbacks (not related with flashLite programming):

-the thumbs are not made from the aplications, have to run gallery to make the thumbs for us...
-not use of sensor data (as a document run it pops-up the confirming dialog, and is rather useless because of the rotate/zoom controls)
-no copy protection yet (will make one with activate online SN/IMEI encription)

According to author : it works on nokia 5800 with all updates (flash lite 3.1 and firmware v21.0.025) and doesn't work on N97

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