JoikuSpot Light is a very cool applications for Nokia phones with 3G and WiFi. It creates an instant WiFi hotspot letting you share your 3G connections with any WiFi enabled device.

JoikuSpot Light Edition is FREE and SECURE Mobile HotSpot solution that turns Nokia phones to a WLAN HotSpot.

JoikuSpot
software is installed directly to the phone. When switched on, laptops
and iPods can establish instant, secure and fast WLAN connection via
smartphone’s JoikuSpot HotSpot using phone’s own 3G internet
connection.

Multiple devices can connect to JoikuSpot in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection.

Check it out here.

A few weeks back, when I got my E71, I was searching for some cool tools for the phone. I tried searching on Google’s Blog Search. I mostly found reviews of the phone, a few blog posts about popular applications that I already knew of. Not what I was looking for.

In my Windows Mobile days I used to be a regular reader of the forum MoDaCo. There was a lot of information there with a huge group of passionate Windows Mobile users. So I figured there has to be a similar forum for Nokia phones. Google came up with a bunch of forums. I kind of liked Howard Forums. But there were a lot of other too.

I was about to post about the lack of a good search engine for such forums. The built in search kind of always sucks and searches only that forum. But I got lazy and never posted about it. Suddenly last month I saw results like the above in Google. Google probably always indexed forums but now it had more meta data about the search result. 15 posts – Last post: Aug 11. That’s neat. In some results it shows the number of authors posting. Nice to know if some one answered a question…

But this is still in Google’s main search results. I was thinking Google should add a Google Forum Search. Well Google did not do that but they integrated it with their Google Groups Search. This searches online forums along with Usenet and Google Groups. Way to go Google. Keep innovating.

Amaze GPS is an amazing free GPS software for the E71. It has a huge list of features:

• Supports both external Bluetooth GPS or internal GPS.
• Wide coverage of detailed maps in Europe, North America, Australia, parts of Africa and Asia.
• High resolution satellite images with street map superimposed.
• Weather information.
• Voice assisted navigation.
• Textual and visual routing instructions.
• Detailed local search directories.

All this for free. Well is does use the data plan for getting the maps. This works great in mobile phones with GPS builtin like the E71. Have fun.

Till now I have been using Fring for Instant Messaging from my phones. It is nice in the fact that it supports all popular IM protocols. But I am not a big fan of its GUI. I was looking for something new. Slick seemed to get a lot of mentioned. I checked it out. The GUI is slick! It supports GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AIM and Jabber. No Skype or Twitter like Fring but good enough. I will be using this for sometime.

But just one problem. I do not chat a lot…