The FM transmitter makes it possible to stream music wirelessly from your N78 to your home or car radio in a few simple steps. Here's how it works, including a trick that lets you stream Nokia Internet Radio.

The N78 includes an integrated FM transmitter, eliminating the need for an external FM transmitter, external wires or special connections to hear digital music on any nearby FM radio. You can play music stored on the device or even stream Nokia Internet Radio.

The FM Transmitter can be easily accessed from the music player's "Now playing" screen by pressing Options > FM transmitter.

The FM transmitter screen displays the status of the FM transmitter (Off/On) as well as the radio frequency on which the signal will be transmitted.

Press the center of the navi wheel to turn the FM transmitter on. The application will prompt the user to confirm activation of the FM transmitter.

Press the left selection key to activate the FM transmitter. The application will confirm your selection, specifying that the FM transmission is active and indicating the frequency of the broadcast.

For best performance, choose a frequency that is not used by any radio station in your area. You'll get the best quality music playback on a frequency that would otherwise be full of static, since it is not competing with a radio signal from your local FM stations. Since 107.5 is a frequency used by a major radio station in my area, I changed the frequency to 92.90, which is not currently used in my area.

Once the FM transmitter is activated and you exit the FM transmitter screen by pressing Exit (right selection key), you will return to the "Now playing" screen, which will display the frequency of the active FM transmitter (in this case, 92.9 MHz).

To disable the FM transmitter, access the FM transmitter screen and press the center of the navi wheel to toggle the setting to Off. A prompt will pop up to confirm the change.

The FM transmitter is not an available option within the "Options" menu in Nokia Internet Radio. However, the good news is that there is a workaround. The FM transmitter can be turned on manually before entering Nokia Internet Radio. To turn on the FM transmitter manually, press the Menu button > Music > FM transmit, and then change the FM transmitter setting to On.

Once the FM transmitter is turned on, exit the FM transmitter screen, which will take you back to the Music menu. Select Radio > Internet Radio to turn on Nokia Internet Radio and begin listening to an Internet Radio station through the FM transmitter.

There is no indicator on the Internet Radio "Now playing" screen to indicate the FM transmitter is active, however this does work successfully.

Have you found any additional uses for the FM transmitter on your N78? Share them in the comments.

Watch video on your N800 or N810 with the newly updated Video Converter, now available for both Windows and Mac.

The Internet Tablet Video Converter from Nokia Beta Labs does exactly what its name suggests - converts videos into a highly optimized format that can be viewed on your tablet. To convert a video, simply drag and drop it into Video Converter, which automatically converts it to the optimal size and resolution.

This version includes a public API for third-party developers interested in creating modifications or improvements to the application.

Go to Nokia Beta Labs to download either the Windows or Mac OS X version. Once you give it a try, feedback is greatly appreciated.

Check out the latest version of PyS60, including what's changed since 1.4.2 and where you can download to start programming.

The 1.4.3 upgrade, recommended for all Python users, is officially Nokia signed. You can read about the changes at Forum Nokia or download PyS60 directly from SoundForge.

If you've already started using it, you can share bugs, patches and feature requests with the community.

If you're new to mobile programming and just getting started with Python for S60, you can learn about its origins at Nokia Research Center.

Developer Mike Bukhin talks about the thinking behind his work, which includes WayMarkr, CrowdScapes and his latest project, What's Your 20.

Mike is a computer scientist exploring how new technological tools can facilitate personal narratives, connections and discoveries. In the last few years, he's found himself drawn to mobile programming because it allows users to get away from the screen and bring technology out into the world.

Mike is the co-developer of WayMarkr, which you can read about in Jose's "How to glog and more with Waymarkr" article. He also developed CrowdScapes, a wap application that shows localized photographs based on a participant's most used tags. His latest project, What's Your 20, leverages Fire Eagle, Twitter and your mobile device to help you keep track of your location.

Mike and I met up recently to discuss his work.

Your projects have a common theme in that they seem aimed at finding importance in ordinary moments. Why are you drawn to this type of work?

A number of my projects iterate on the same theme, finding beauty in the everyday and giving new perspectives to the ordinary. I want my participants to reevaluate the exceptional moments in their lives - I want them to feel that their everyday life is in fact exceptional. And if they don't feel that their everyday is exceptional, I want to provide them with tools that will help them change. While we are caught up in the minutia of the everyday, we tend to lose perspective and close ourselves off to other possibilities. My work tries to remedy this condition.

I try to build tools and mobile experiences that are low overhead and low commitment. With the applications I build, you don't have to step out of your life to get an alternative perspective on your everyday. It is either presented to you automatically or is alongside you, available whenever you are interested in something new.

How does What's Your 20 capitalize on your goal to capture ordinary moments? How is it different from other locative apps?

What's Your 20 gave me an excuse to experiment with Yahoo's new Fire Eagle platform. It's also given me a reason to reference one of my favorite shows, The Wire. ("What's Your 20?" references the radio transmission code for "what's your location?" often used by police officers.)

My frustration with applications that publish an individual's location is that there is too much emphasis on out-of-the-ordinary trips such as vacations and business trips. They encourage a person to make note of, report on and publish their location when they think they are somewhere that deviates from their normal routine. WY20 points out that considered in a certain light, all of our travels, even the ones viewed as mundane, have some unusual aspect. WY20 is saying, "Hey, your current location is always important."

WY20 is a natural progression from all my other projects and is inline with my thinking around how technology can augment by existing alongside a user's experiences.

How does What's Your 20 work?

WY20 occasionally nudges a user, asking them once in a while to report on their location. There are a number of custom solutions for automatically updating one's location via a mobile device but WY20 uses self-reporting via text messaging so that everyone can participate. The location is sent in through a Twitter short code and then passed off to Fire Eagle. Fire Eagle can then disseminate the user's location information to any other applications that have been authenticated against Fire Eagle, such as a Facebook widget or a Dodgeball-like application.

Where do you want to take What's Your 20? What are you future plans for it?

As in most everything I do, I build first for myself and then see if anyone else is interested. Now that WY20 has users, I will most likely enhance it in line with user feedback. One of the enhancements I am most excited about is a gazetteer or geographical directory to the application. That way, instead of having to text your work address, you can just send the word "work" and WY20 will translate it for you. It'll be much easier to use WY20 if the text strings you are sending are shorter.

Also, Fire Eagle does not keep historical location information. As soon as a new location is sent, the old one is wiped out. WY20 keeps track of your historical location information, which I plan to display on maps, time-based visualizations and syndicated feeds. These interfaces will allow a user to reflect on their trails as well as encourage them to use WY20.

What have been the most interesting and unexpected things that you've encountered with your projects?

I would say how much the idea that technology should be used as means versus an end resonates with other people. What I'm doing isn't necessarily technologically innovative. Technology can be very intimidating when it is just for technology's sake, but people are much more likely to relate to it when it is encompassed in a narrative.

Find out how to get started and what you'll be able to do with Skype on your mobile.

We've seen a lot of Skype "compatible" clients for s60 devices, but I think you would agree that there's nothing like the real thing. While browsing Skype's site, I noticed the official beta for mobile devices, including the N95 and N80. Finally!

The client includes most of the things you would expect to find in the PC version of Skype - presence, talk and instant message. It even allows for group chats.

What's the catch? Well, at the moment, the client is still officially a beta, which mean that it may not work reliably 100 percent of the time, but it works. The other caveat is that calls to landline numbers, regular mobile numbers and Skype contacts are limited to people in Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden and the UK. Other countries will hopefully be added soon.

To get it, you basically have two options: install directly on your device or download the client to your computer, then sideload to your device via Bluetooth or USB.

To download directly to your device, type http://skype.com/m into the device browser. You'll be asked for your country of residence, your mobile number and your language. Once you click Next, you will get a link to initiate the download.

To download to your PC, follow the instructions on the Skype site.

Once it's on your device, start by going to the Skype (Beta) icon in your Applications folder. After you accept the terms of service and read a few warnings, you'll be asked for your username, password and login preference.

As soon as Skype starts, you'll see the same contacts interface you see on your PC. Additionally, it has a few more tabs - Chats, Events and Call Phones, which includes your phonebook. The Contacts menu lets you change your status, add/remove and search contacts, and make changes to your profile and skypeout account.

Have you tried out Skype on your mobile? Share your experience in the comments.

"The Nokia N82 is a compact multimedia computer that integrates GPS, web, video and music functions around a 5 Megapixel camera with a high-speed, f2.8 autofocus lens," the TIPA jurors said. "This Carl Zeiss Tessar focuses from 10cm to infinity and produces sharp prints up to and beyond A4 size. Several scene modes are also available to optimize the Nokia N82 for great images, whether shooting portraits or night shots.". Other features highlighed by the jurors were the Xenon flash and 20X digital zoom.

Find out more about the N82 or explore the possibilities of Maps & Photography on Nseries devices.

Find out about the past, present and future of Mobile Processing from its founder, interaction designer and software engineer Francis Li.

Francis Li, the founder of the Mobile Processing project that I've been writing about quite a bit on Workshop, was kind enough to answer my questions via e-mail about the Mobile Processing project and mobile phone development in general.

So how did you discover Processing and how did you decide to start Mobile Processing? It's the first (as far as I know) of the now several subspecies and offshoots of Processing. How did the process of getting up and running - of getting the first version of Mobile Processing out the door - go?

I had the privilege to be a student at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea where Processing co-founder Casey Reas was a professor for two years. It was Casey's ambition to expand Processing to new platforms, and, knowing my interest in mobile design and development, he contacted me shortly after I graduated to work on building what became Mobile Processing.

The first step in proving out the concept was showing that programs written to the Processing API could even run on mobile phones. I started by porting the core Processing runtime, including its custom 2D and 3D renderer, from Java SE to Java ME. Once that was complete, simple sketches written for Processing could be compiled and run on mobile phones without modification. With that in place, it was easy to adapt the Processing IDE to provide one-button building and running of Java ME applications, known as Midlets, instead of Applets.

However, the performance of those early demonstrations was very poor, achieving only a few frames per second in its animation loop. The Processing renderer, designed for desktop computers, is computationally too expensive for the relatively limited hardware in mass market mobile phones. Still, encouraged by the results, I re-wrote the core runtime and renderer, removing the more expensive functionality, such as 3D drawing, and mapping as many of the Processing API functions directly to Java ME APIs as possible. It was with this new core runtime that Mobile Processing was finally released to the public.

Is Mobile Processing still just you, or is it an open project that anyone can contribute to?

It is an open project with its source code freely available, hosted at http://dev.processing.org with Processing. Many contributions from the community have been incorporated into the project. Recently, a number of sections within the Mobile Processing website have been turned into Wiki pages that anyone in the community can edit. I'd also like to credit Marlon J. Manrique for his extensive participation within the community through his many contributed libraries and evangelism of Mobile Processing in workshops and conferences.

You appear to monitor the message boards fairly closely - many of the questions and issues I see brought up are answered by you, which is very cool. But it's difficult to get a sense of the size and nature of the developer base. Do you cater mostly to students at this point, or do companies also use the app for real-world game design or application design? I see that you are (obviously, I guess) a mobile phone developer: Do you use Mobile Processing yourself on your professional applications?

I believe that students and hobbyists are currently the primary users of Mobile Processing, but the community is larger than what is apparent in the Discourse boards on the website. When I attend conferences and workshops, I am often surprised by the amount of awareness and recognition there is for the project. I'm not currently aware of any commercial developers using it as part of their development practice.

As a game developer, I used Mobile Processing to make rapid, early prototypes of game and user interface design concepts. The ability to see and interact with a prototype on an actual handset was a powerful way to communicate with producers and artists and refine the look and feel of designs early in the process, even before the actual engineering and implementation would be started on the final platform. In a few cases, I was able to copy code for key algorithms like collision detection and motion dynamics directly out of the Mobile Processing prototype and into the final game.

There are a few other platforms out there with the stated goal of making mobile application development a much smoother process. Mobile Processing, obviously. Nokia's MUPE. Where.com. Even just WAP and AJAXy web sites on the iPhone. Have you dabbled with any of these other platforms? Are they competitors to Mobile Processing or are they something else entirely?

In my current job at a mobile industry startup, keeping up with existing and emerging technologies is a key part of managing our design and development strategy. However, Mobile Processing is not designed or intended to "compete" with other mobile development platforms, particularly those intended specifically for commercial distribution of applications or services.

Rather, Mobile Processing is intended to be a platform for experimentation, and being based on the widely deployed and actively developed industry standard that is Java ME, it has the ability to keep up with many of the latest developments in mobile technology, particularly through external libraries such as those contributed by community members like Marlon.

Where is Mobile Processing heading? This might be a more general question, as well, since Mobile Processing seems to be able to access just about every feature currently available on the phone. GPS seems to be the most recent tool that's become common on mobile phones and it's causing all sorts of new ideas for mobile applications. What's coming next on these devices that excites you?

I'm happy to see that the mobile industry is making progress towards recognizing the need for open access to hardware, operating systems, and the wireless network. Although Mobile Processing can utilize and expose programming interfaces to almost every feature possible on a phone, they are generally inaccessible on actual phones due to privacy and security concerns. While it is certainly important to protect the very personal information stored on a phone and to prevent the abuse of a wireless network, it shouldn't come at the expense of placing a stranglehold on the ability of independent developers to experiment with new applications.

You design mobile games, right?

Actually, I no longer work in the mobile games industry. For the past two years, I've been working on a picture and video sharing and messaging service for mobile phones called Radar. Currently, I'm the VP of Product Design and Development for Radar and am overseeing its continued development across the mobile platforms as well as the desktop.

Thanks for this opportunity to "speak", Josh!

Thank you, Francis!

Find out more about this competition and how you could get your mobile game concept published and produced by Nokia.

Nokia is looking for the most groundbreaking concepts being pursued in the mobile gaming space by today's developers. The three most innovative game concepts will be offered Nokia Publishing pre-production contracts, targeting publication of their winning concept on the corresponding Nokia device platform. Prizes of 40,000 Euros, 20,000 Euros and 10,000 Euros will enable the top three participants to further develop their concepts.

The deadline for submissions is August 20, 2008. Do you have a game concept to submit? Get all the details about the Mobile Games Innovation Challenge.

The latest update for the N95-2 adds automatic screen rotation and more new features for global users.

The v20.0.016 firmware - reviewed and discussed at All About Symbian, Endgadget Mobile and Symbian Guru - doesn't just add the auto-rotating screen, shown in this video from The Nokia Blog. Expanded Bluetooth headset support, improved WLAN and USB connectivity, improved browser functionality and an array of bug fixes and optimizations are additional benefits of the new version.Wow

You can set screen rotation to Automatic (or turn it off) by going to Tools>Setting>General>Personalization>Display.

As always, Nokia Software Updater has the latest firmware update; connect to the updater to see if v20.0.016 is available in your region. And remember to back up the contents of your phone memory (contact, apps, etc.) before installing the new firmware, as updating will erase your phone memory.

What do you think of the new firmware? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Now that the new N-Gage application is available, the official N-Gage blog is a great source for tips, reviews and behind-the-scenes access.

This week, the N-Gage blog offers an opportunity to post questions for third-party developer Gameloft. You can post your questions about "individual Gameloft games, the company's future efforts on the N-Gage platform, or general questions about Gameloft and mobile gaming" to be submitted for an upcoming Gameloft event.

The blog highlights a new Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep review and links to reviews of Asphalt 3: Street Rules, Brain Challenge and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. It's also where we heard about Ewan Spence running Quake 2 shareware on his N95.

In addition to the blog, the N-Gage forums are a good place to find out what's new and coming soon.

Share your N-Gage reviews and resources in the comments.