In firmware 3.0, the built-in email application on the Nokia E71 no longer allows manually entering the connection settings when creating an email account. It will stubbornly insist on fetching the connection information from its automatic server, which never works. Nokia’s intention is for everyone to migrate over to the online service at email.nokia.com which involves creating a consolidation account there, then using the new S60 email app to sync with this account instead. However, for those who prefer to connect to their own email servers, here is the way:

1. Open email application. It will ask to connect and download Nokia Email. Allow it.
2. Install Nokia Email. (You cannot proceed without installing it.)
3. Finish the installation and open the email app again.
4. It will now ask for your email address. Enter something completely gibberish, such as abc@def.ghi.
5. It will contact the server and will admit that it has no clue, and will now take you to a manual setting screen. However, the option for SSL does not show up here so if you use gmail you will still be unable to connect. Don’t bother to configure anything yet.
6. Just press “next” and proceed 3 times. Each time, it will try to find the server, fail, and return you to the setting screen.
7. On its third time failing, it will finally give up and allow you to add the account anyway.
8. Now you can go back out to Messaging -> Settings -> Email -> YourMailBoxName and freely configure everything here, including SSL. Replace the junk address with the correct address and configure the rest of the settings.

The Nokia N-Gage does not have built-in SyncML so it cannot sync with Nokia PC Suite without the original driver CD. If the CD has been lost, this is the only way you can get your 300+ contacts off your ancient N-Gage phone.

Requirements:

• Contacts Transfer by Juha Riihimäki
  
• Another modern S60 phone (that can sync with Nokia PC Suite)
  

Steps:

• Install Contacts Transfer on N-Gage.
• Export contacts data over bluetooth or MMC card (works either way). The file Contacts.data.z is in custom binary format so it’s not readable by any other application, but it exports everything including contact images.
• Install Contacts Transfer on that other S60 phone.
• Copy Contacts.data.z into the phone with one of the following methods:
  • If you exported the data into N-Gage’s MMC, insert the MMC into the new phone.
    
  • Copy Contacts.data.z into the new phone’s memory card using a PC if the phone no longer supports MMC (e.g. RS-MMC, SD, or MicroSD).
  • Copy Contacts.data.z into the phone’s internal memory using Nokia PC Suite’s phone browser.

  Note: Bluetooth file transfer doesn’t work here. You can use the phone browser over bluetooth, but not the OBEX directly.

• Open Contacts Transfer application and import the data.
• Sync the new phone to Nokia PC Suite. The contact information is then transferred to the PC.
• Use Nokia PC Suite to export the data into CSV, which can then be used in any application. (you need to highlight all the contacts first to before the Export command becomes available)

Good luck helping your friend migrate to the new world!

HOME is a 90-minute documentary about climate change by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The main message is that humanity has less than a decade to change our ways of living. Unlike Inconvenient Truth, it’s a bit light on data, focusing instead on gathering attention and emotional impact. Nevertheless, it’s a really great piece on where humanity is going. The documentary is free on youtube.

Even if you don’t really warm up to the idea of climate change, this film is loaded with magnificent landscapes from all over the world so it won’t be a waste of time even if you don’t believe in anything. Some of the scenes look so surreal that I can’t help but wonder if they’re CG, but they’re all real.

As for myself, I agree that our current ways are unsustainable, but giving up meat to eat grain or rolling back the economy to the stone age isn’t the answer. Not that the film explicitly suggests that and it’s also light in the suggestions department, but the overall tone seems to imply it. I think switching to non-fossil energy (such as nuclear or geothermal) and population control are the real ways for humanity to go forward. That, and we go to space as soon as possible.

By the way, if you fall asleep while watching this, don’t worry it’s normal. Just wake up and resume watching from where you left off. :-)

HOME-2009 website

HOME Youtube Channel

But I really wanted that manufacturer to show up.

So, I embarked on a night-long journey searching for codes that look relevant, and found one in /wp-admin/includes/image.php which is this bit from wp_read_image_metadata around line 277:

$exif = @exif_read_data( $file );
if (!empty($exif['FNumber']))
   $meta['aperture'] = round( wp_exif_frac2dec( $exif['FNumber'] ), 2 );
if (!empty($exif['Model']))
   $meta['camera'] = trim( $exif['Model'] );

As you can see, there is no camera maker. First of all I’d need to find out what it’s called internally. A little visit here shows that it’s called “Make”.

One way to do this would be to make wordpress import camera maker into the database by adding another variable to the array (line 241) like this:

$meta = array(
 'aperture' => 0,
 'credit' => '',
 'camera' => '',
 'maker' => '',
 'caption' => '',
 'created_timestamp' => 0,
 'copyright' => '',
 'focal_length' => 0,
 'iso' => 0,
 'shutter_speed' => 0,
 'title' => '',
 );

and then add two lines after wordpress imports Model:

if (!empty($exif['Model']))
   $meta['camera'] = trim( $exif['Model'] );
if (!empty($exif['Make']))
   $meta['maker'] = trim( $exif['Make'] );

Then you can access the camera maker by something like:

$imgmeta = wp_get_attachment_metadata($attachment_id);
$imgmeta['image_meta']['maker']

There are two problems with this. First of all, you need to reimport all your existing photos otherwise the database won’t be updated. And second, more importantly, it’s a generally bad idea to modify wordpress core files, and they’re wiped out when you upgrade. I don’t want to have to do this every time I upgrade too, so I thought of another way.

The Other Way …

The solution to the first problem is to simply go read EXIF data from the image file, so you don’t need it from the database. This will work on your existing images in existing posts. And the solution to the second problem is to place codes in theme files (probably functions.php).

However, since what you need to modify is dependent on what’s in your themes, I can only show an example. In my case, I was working with AutoFocus theme by Allan Cole. So I searched in the theme’s functions.php for the code that shows EXIF data, which is grab_exif_data() (line 604).

I added this to the beginning of the function to read EXIF data directly from the image:

global $post;
$exif = @exif_read_data( get_attached_file($post->ID) );

And then added trim( $exif['Make'] ) in front of the camera model to show the manufacturer:

echo "<li<span class=\"exif-title\">Camera:</span> " . trim( $exif['Make'] ) . " " . $imgmeta['image_meta']['camera']."</li>";

The result is something like this:

Camera: NIKON E5200

Hopefully you can adapt that into your theme. You can check out the finished product on my photoblog.

1. Copy the Windows XP drivers for your netbook’s WiFi into your netbook. Extract the folder containing the .inf file (along with other files in that folder). If these files are inside .cab you’ll need to extract it first.

2. Install ndiswrapper-gtk. Don’t add the drivers yet.

3. Add these lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (you can add it anywhere, but you can put it right after bcm43xx for readability)

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist ssb

This disables the built-in wifi drivers in Ubuntu.

4. Disconnect from network (including LAN) and restart your netbook. Check that your WLAN is now disabled.

5. Now add the XP wifi drivers to ndiswrapper. It might complain that it can’t determine if your hardware is present, but it will (probably) be fine.

6. Close everything and reboot. Your wifi should work fine now.

If it didn’t work … you might try other variants of your windows wifi drivers (or variants of your netbook models), or just start over a second time and it might mysteriously work. That worked for me.

Preparing Your Photos

The key here is to make sure that there is no application in your workflow that destroys EXIF data. First of all, if you sent photos to your PC by emailing, the GPS information is probably lost. You must import them with a card reader or a USB cable.

For mass resizers, FastStone Photo Resizer is my pick. Fast, easy, configurable, and copies all EXIF and GPS data over to the new images created after resizing. Mac users can just use iPhoto. As far as free image editing programs go, Paint.NET has my vote. It preserves EXIF data well when editing. However, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements for certain advanced functions.

XML Google Maps

First, download and install this excellent plugin called XML Google Maps. It has a lot of features but the one we’ll be using is integration with NextGen Gallery. Showing geotagged photos is almost completely automated with this combination.

Next you will need a Google Maps API Key. You only need to enter your domain name and the key is instantly generated. Much easier than you’d think.

Once you got the key, enter it here:

NextGen Gallery

NextGen Gallery plugin makes your life much easier when you deal with large amounts of photos. Even if you’re a photoblogger who posts one image at a time, at some point you might want to make a compilation gallery and this plugin will automate your tasks. Combined with XML Google Maps, showing the location of the photos will be just as easy.

After installation, create a gallery then add images to your gallery. Take note of your gallery ID.

Posting

When posting, use the xmlgm shortcode to show the map and the nggallery shortcode to show the gallery. For example:

This will create a post that looks like this:

Easy, right? That’s all you need to get started with showing off your geotagged photos to the world, on your own hosting!