Slick – Windows Live MSN Messenger For Nokia 5800 Symbian S60
While surfing the internet with my Nokia 5800, I felt something was missing from my internet experience, only then did I discovered the lack of MSN Live Messenger was the culpit. Unfortunately, there is no official release of MSN for Nokia and all Symbian S60 phone.
However, Slick Messenger (free) is a good alternative. Slick is a messenger application for mobile devices, it allows you to chat with your friends connected though various online messaging applications. It supports ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber protocol, and comes with offline messaging. Cool right?
Slick features:
- Supported protocols: ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber
- Emoticons
- Alerts – sound, backlight, vibration, notify window displaying the number of new messages
- Group and buddy management (add, delete, rename)
- File transfer – send and receive files
- Sending / receiving offline messages
Supported phones:
- Nokia S60 3rd and 5th : E50, E51, E52, E55, E60, E61, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E75, E90, N71, N72, N73, N75, N76, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N85, N86, N91, N92, N93, N95, N96, N97, 3250, 5320, 5500, 5530, 5630, 5700, 5730, 5800, 6110, 6120, 6124, 6210, 6220, 6290, 6650, 6710, 6720, 6730
- Nokia S60: 3230, 6260, 6290, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 7610, N70, N90
- Samsung: SGH i400, i450, i520, i550, i560, G810, L870, I7110, i8510, i8910
- LG: JoY, KT610
- Sony Ericsson: P990, M600, W950, W960, P1, G700, G900
- Motorola: Z8, Z10
- Panasonic: X700, X800
Open Source IP PBX And VoIP Software For Linux And Windows
The best open source pbx and voip software is none other than asterisk. If you haven’t heard of Asterisk, it is a telephony solutions offering a rich and flexible feature set. Asterisk offers both classical PBX functionality and advanced features, and interoperates with traditional standards-based telephony systems and Voice over IP systems.
- Call Conferencing
- Call Monitoring Record
- Automatic Call Distribution
- Advanced Voice Mail Text
All you’ll need is a computer powered by Linux and all the other operating system except for Windows, for Windows user, you have to se a specially customized version known as AsteriskWin32 – The Open Source PBX for Windows. Why use open source and its benefits:
- No software licensing fees
- Longer hardware lifecycles
- Optimised for lower specification hardware
- More reliable
- Faster applications
- Tighter security
The good thing about a computer based pbx system as oppose to a hardware based system is the flexibility, computer hardware are cheaper, easier to replace and upgrading (adding more features and expanding) means updating the software and not replacing it with a new hardware.
How To Set Up Asterisk + VoIP:
- Get a Linksys WRT54GL (Open Source Linux version).
- Install an OpenWRT software with webif2 interface.
- Install and configure Asterisk PBX – Visit Tutorial
- Connect PSTN phones using Linksys SPA2102
