You can now control your Open Office 2.3 presentations using your bluetooth enabled mobile phone using a simple java midlet / J2ME software.

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If you’re someone who needs to regularly check for currency conversions, here’s a Java mobile application that will allow you to do currency conversion on your mobile phone. And it even has a currency conversion table update feature to allow you to get updated conversion rates.

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A while back I wrote about my wishlist for Yahoo Go! version 3. Looks like I won’t wait any longer, just in time for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Yahoo has made Go! 3.0 beta available for download. Yahoo Go! is also being opened up to mobile developers. I downloaded a copy to take it for a spin.

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Quick info guys: If you’re using the Java mobile version of Gmail on your mobile phone, Google has an update. I was using version 1.5.0.1132 before. Gmail version 1.5.0.1187 is now available. Couldn’t find any changelog yet. I’ve also installed it on my mobile phone but didn’t find any obvious differences.

GPS or Global Positioning System equipped mobile phones has been slowly coming up in the market. This will steadily increase over time and people will be able to use these in a lot of applications. For instance, if you find yourself in a city and want to find out where you can stay for the night. It would be a great convenience if you can look at a map on your mobile phone and search for a hotel near you. You would think that you need GPS for this, well that’s not entirely true.

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Opera, creator of the web browser of the same name, has just released Opera Mini version 4.0 mobile phone browser. Opera Mini 4 enables you to take your full Web experience and digital lifestyle with you — everywhere you go.

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A lot of you have probably used or tried Yahoo! Go 1.0 on their mobile phone. Version 1 of Yahoo’s mobile application isn’t Java but it was cool to use on my Nokia N80 mobile phone. A while back, I received an email from Yahoo saying they have to discontinue Yahoo Go v1 (I was actually using 1.5 on my cell phone) and that I should download Yahoo Go v2.0

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There was a time when I can spend some moments on the irc networks. I’ve made some friends back then. I have lost contact since and began to wonder what happened to them so I decided to do some googling and see if I can find a Java midlet that does irc.

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Google’s gmail app is a java midlet application you can install on your mobile phone to allow you to access your gmail account. The Gmail java application has just been upgraded to version 1.5.

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Nowadays, it’s pretty easy to get in touch with your friends and family. An Internet connection, a computer and your favorite instant messaging application should be all you need to keep in touch. But what if you’re out of the house or office. I found out that I can still be able to chat with them using my mobile phone using a Java mobile application like the one from gizmo5.

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