Big excitement here at fring - we’ve just released fring’s latest version 3.36, with some v cool new upgrades (available for all Symbian 9 devices)
Having upgraded the GUI (the way it looks to you and me) fring is now better looking (as if that were possible) and more user friendly with an upgraded menu structure, and all of your favorite online communities and cool new fring Add-ons available in one easy place, making it simpler than ever to find what you need.
And the new version now supports FAXL 3 Add-on development language 1st (if you’re a developer you’ll be excited – if not this will sound like a foreign lingo!) so that any Add-ons developed can now go live.
We’ve also fixed a few bugs you’ve reported to us, to make fringing even more fun!
Get it now here, or from your phone (close your current version of fring, point your phone browser to www.fring.com and click Download to be taken through the simple process)
Let us know what you think and have a great day!
fring team
Update: There seems to be a few bugs in the latest Ver 3.36.15 and our technicians are working around the clock to find them and squish them. Please report any bugs you may find in the forum so we can find them quickly
Today while surfing the net I came across an amazing eco charger, designed for the iPhone. The design is very simple but it has the word ‘revolutionary’ written all over it. These days thanks to the power of the internet we often come across product designs that can drastically revolutionize the mobile industry. Sadly though most of the great designs never see the light of day.
The iYo YoYo, designed by Peter Thuvander is just such a revolutionary design, it shows huge potential not only for iPhone users but for any mobile device users. The iYo YoYo most certainly has ‘the power’ to become an international craze and we really hope it will see the light of day soon, so that fringsters around the world can be charging in style
“Nathan Barry thought outside the box (or inside) on this one, and it’s truly brilliant! He took the plastic packaging that the iPhone 3G came in and with a sharp knife, he grooved a slot, which can house the iPhone sideways.”
According to Nathan the only problem was that if you leave the clock on all night “it drains the battery”, his solution? ‘Airplane Mode’ This setting “turns off all the radios - wi-fi, 3G, GPS etc. You can’t receive calls or texts, but who wants to during the night anyway?”
“As you can see from the above image,” NAthans modification is a “simple groove, which shouldn’t take more than a few minutes and this is what the end result is..”
“Ingenious!”
Yes it sure looks like an ingenious idea to me, fringsters why not give this a try or even better yet, why not come up with your own eco friendly recycling design and put your iPhone box to good use. If you come up with a design that you feel is totally amazing and you wanna share it with the rest of us, just send us the link to your image and and we will show it to the world
iPhone fringsters wanting to boost their fring talk time by up to 7hours a day, listen up.
Mophie.com is now offering via pre-order a new “juice pack” that easily plugs onto your iPhone 3G. “The Juice Pack is a rechargeable lithium polymer battery in the form of a non-slip, soft grip case” and the manufacturer says the juice packs will extend talk time on your iPhone by about 6-7hours a day.
Extend the time that you can use your iPhone 3G in these ways (additional hours):
Standby Time – Up to 350 hours
Talk Time – Up to 6 hours on 3G | Up to 12 hours on 2G
Internet Use – Up to 6 hours on 3G | Up to 7 hours on Wi-Fi (fring uses WiFi)
Audio Playback – Up to 28 hours
Video Playback – Up to 8 hours
Something tells me these juice packs are going to sell really fast so to avoid the que pre-order yours today.
Joost the streaming internet TV service brought to you by the makers of Skype, recently took their service to a whole new level with the launch of Joost “flash”. The new service allows Joosters to watch TV via their computers without the user having to download the Joost software.
The service is now more like Youtube or Zoopy when it comes to ease of use. The good thing is that even though Joost is now easier to use the great Joost quality you have come to know will stays the same.
I took the new Joost service for a spin this morning and can say it’s much easier to use.
“In addition to switching to Flash, Joost on Tuesday also unveiled a number of new tools in a bid to build a social network around the website.” Mybroadband.co.za
If you haven’t already taken Joost for a spin, why not give it a try today.
Hi to all you new iPhone fringsters out there (all half a million of you!)
As promised last week, we have just released a new version (1.0.1.5) that addresses the annoying “dot in the Email” bug.
To download the fixed version, simply go to the App store just as before and download fring as normal.
We would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you for all your feedback and comments. The fring family is growing and it’s great to see all of your responses. So thank you!
A video I recently watched on Zoopy.com drove home the important point that South Africa is a land of opportunity. If the opportunity is there thieves will cash in. When traveling to South Africa, keep your valuables close at all times or be prepared to “loose” them
The moral of the story, when in South Africa, don’t leave valuable things unattended for even a few seconds.
The world’s highest resolution commercial satellite, the GeoEye-1 recently went live and the image above is the first image snapped shortly after opening it’s Eye in space.
The project which is partly sponsored by Google, will not only provide images to Google it will also provide images to the “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a U.S. government agency that analyzes imagery in support of national security.”
Now before we rush off and call this a “US spy satellite” according to the vice president of communications and marketing at GeoEye Mark Brender, “This is the opposite of a spy satellite, Spies don’t put info on the internet and sell imagery. We’re an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and monitor things on the ground.” This basically means they can sell images to anyone who can afford the rates.
Sadly though as usual there is always a catch and this time the catch is that “While the GeoEye-1 will provide imagery to the NGA at the maximum resolution of 43 centimeters, Google” and anyone else for that matter who can afford images “will only receive images at a 50-centimeter resolution because of a government restriction.”
The only good news is that luckily the NGA is not the only agency on earth who can afford the images and I can’t wait to see images in higher resolution on Google Earth
It’s been a busy weekend at the fring HQ. We would like to thank you all for your inputs, feedbacks, kind words and bug reports, Keep them coming.
After reading hundreds of mails, here’s a few things I thought we should point out:
1. The annoying “dot in the Email” bug -
So this is now a known bug that prevented some users from registering. We are working on it and will issue a solution ASAP.
In the meantime you have a few options:
- If you’re using gmail you can drop the dot and register as abcd@gmail.com instead of ab.cd@gmail.com - gmail supports this kind of modification to the user name.
- If you’re not using gmail you can leave this field empty and register with no Email address. Please write down your user ID and password since you won’t have an option to retrieve your password at a later stage.
We are already working on a fix to this bug - it should be available on the App Store in the next few days.
2. “Call terminated” on Skype and SIP In most cases you’ll get this error when trying to make a call to a not recognized number. In order to make a successful call you should enter the number in its international format, for example:
For the US dial +1XXXXXXXX or 001XXXXXXXX
For the UK dial +44XXXXXX or 0044XXXXXXXX
But the best way to make an ‘Out’ call is by choosing a contact from the address book (Apple inc. in this example) –> Choose the type of call (SIP or Skype Out) –> Here you’ll have a chance to edit the number so it will fit the international format –> Click ‘OK’ and you’re done.
Please make sure you’re fully loggen in to Skype when trying to make the call, during the peek time this might take 2-3 min.
I’ll get back to my Emails now, we’ll be back here with more tips and tricks. Keep the feedback coming and thanks for your support.
fring today made headlines worldwide after launching the official version of fring for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the app store.
It has now been only a few hours and the downloads are already booming. fring is currently in one of the top spots at the app store and it doesn’t look as if it will slow anytime soon. If you haven’t already got your free copy of fring, quickly jump in the Que over at the app store and get it while it’s hot.
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