Saturday, May 03, 2008
For travelers : a way to cut off your cell phone fees when you are travelling
Hi averyone!
This post is overall for French people. I have an advise to them, when they are travelling. If your cell phone provider is Orange, you should subscribe to "internet max option", 9 euros a month. This option gives you access to all the internet all day long ;).
Then, you should subscribe on www.vyke.com to the vykeIP application. So, you can send SMS at 2cents ! When you are traveling, a data connexion fee is 9 cents. You add 2 cents for a SMS....and voilà ;) 0.11euros a SMS from a foreign country :D. I have tried with a WAP connexion in the configuration menu. Plus, with this data plan, you can send SMS from France too at 2 cents every one.
Now, you should subscribe to an eqo account on www.eqo.com .The latest Nokia version provide you a "traveler" option. This one let you spend money only on inbound calls. So, When you want to call someone, you :
1. start a data connexion : 0.09 euros fees
2. the eqo server is calling you : inbound fees 0.29euros a minute (for information, outbound calls from foreign European country to France are 0.59euros a minute)
3. the eqo calls fees : from your French cell phone to another cell phone (no eqo user) (the most expensive case) 0.18euros a minute.
So your call is around 0.47euros a minute + 0.09euros fees! And if you are calling to a foreign country, you have no roaming fees !!!!
Enjoy your holidays ;)
This post is overall for French people. I have an advise to them, when they are travelling. If your cell phone provider is Orange, you should subscribe to "internet max option", 9 euros a month. This option gives you access to all the internet all day long ;).
Then, you should subscribe on www.vyke.com to the vykeIP application. So, you can send SMS at 2cents ! When you are traveling, a data connexion fee is 9 cents. You add 2 cents for a SMS....and voilà ;) 0.11euros a SMS from a foreign country :D. I have tried with a WAP connexion in the configuration menu. Plus, with this data plan, you can send SMS from France too at 2 cents every one.
Now, you should subscribe to an eqo account on www.eqo.com .The latest Nokia version provide you a "traveler" option. This one let you spend money only on inbound calls. So, When you want to call someone, you :
1. start a data connexion : 0.09 euros fees
2. the eqo server is calling you : inbound fees 0.29euros a minute (for information, outbound calls from foreign European country to France are 0.59euros a minute)
3. the eqo calls fees : from your French cell phone to another cell phone (no eqo user) (the most expensive case) 0.18euros a minute.
So your call is around 0.47euros a minute + 0.09euros fees! And if you are calling to a foreign country, you have no roaming fees !!!!
Enjoy your holidays ;)
Friday, May 02, 2008
Paypal
Hi !
I am looking for inforamtion about paypal. I found 2 interesting websites :
1. http://richman.space-blogs.com/blog-note/42871/paypal.html (in French)
2. wikipedia as usual ;)
I learnt that Paypal in Europe is a Bank, instead of in the US, where it is a money transmitter.
I am looking for inforamtion about paypal. I found 2 interesting websites :
1. http://richman.space-blogs.com/blog-note/42871/paypal.html (in French)
2. wikipedia as usual ;)
I learnt that Paypal in Europe is a Bank, instead of in the US, where it is a money transmitter.
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Offline Browser for Palm : a way to read news every morning
Hi Everybody !
For two weeks, I haven't any free news paper, such as 20minutes.fr or economiematin.com, in my subway station. So, I looked for something to keep in touch with news every morning. And I found a new program for my Palm TX. It is Plucker : http://docs.plkr.org/index.php/Plucker_FAQ and http://www.plkr.org/.
This program is an offline browser. It works like avantgo (a popular palm program). The main issue is to find a way to build a plucker archive. Because plucker doesn't support multi frame website, I advise you to use mobile edition from main websites. For example, I was looking for news on the morning. So I am using two websites :
1. http://mobile.nytimes.com
2. http://m.lesechos.fr/ <== less than 1Mo archive with a 5 links deepth!
I tried to build a plucker archive from http://timesmobile.mobi/, but it seems impossible (with sunrise XP).
To find more inforamtions, you should read :
1. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6262
2. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5577
To conclude, thanks to Apple with its iPhone, I think that more and more mobile edition website will be out. And it is a "plus" for Palm user ;). So start using plucker :D
Have a nice day
For two weeks, I haven't any free news paper, such as 20minutes.fr or economiematin.com, in my subway station. So, I looked for something to keep in touch with news every morning. And I found a new program for my Palm TX. It is Plucker : http://docs.plkr.org/index.php/Plucker_FAQ and http://www.plkr.org/.
This program is an offline browser. It works like avantgo (a popular palm program). The main issue is to find a way to build a plucker archive. Because plucker doesn't support multi frame website, I advise you to use mobile edition from main websites. For example, I was looking for news on the morning. So I am using two websites :
1. http://mobile.nytimes.com
2. http://m.lesechos.fr/ <== less than 1Mo archive with a 5 links deepth!
I tried to build a plucker archive from http://timesmobile.mobi/, but it seems impossible (with sunrise XP).
To find more inforamtions, you should read :
1. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6262
2. http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5577
To conclude, thanks to Apple with its iPhone, I think that more and more mobile edition website will be out. And it is a "plus" for Palm user ;). So start using plucker :D
Have a nice day
