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Two apps that I regularly use on my S60V3 N95 are:

Projekt by Kylom – a neat outliner and list making app, and;

Mobbler – a really simple looking but fantastic LastFM client (meaning I can WiFi play LastFM radio stations on my mobile around the house). LastFM really comes into its own for me, when it is on my mobile. Sure, for cost reasons I would not use it over my operator network, but if it could be priced right, it would be a killer service. To give this a chance of happening LastFM should really allow a user to decide the streaming quality they prefer (i.e. on mobile 64kbps would be fine).

Anyhow, I would really hope that one day we can get apps into Mixtikl that do these kind of things. But, we have to get Mixtikl out first, and there are a ton of things we would like to add down the road. Ultimately, it will all come down to what users want the most (and what we have the time and resources to build).

Do check out the apps above, they are cool!

Yes, our forum is now live again! We proffer sincere apologies for it being out for so long. The problem was in Yahoo Web Hosting’s court, but they have now thankfully fixed it. If you are interested to know more, then please see our blog posts below. We hope the outage did not cause you any problems, and we welcome you back.

OK, more promising news.

We have just heard from Yahoo support that they have investigated our problem at the engineering level, but that they need to continue to investigate the issue.

The good news is that they told us that fixing this is now an urgent priority for their engineering team, and have told us we can expect a resolution or update within 3 days.

We are not out of the woods with this yet… But appears now we at last have their attention, so we have our fingers crossed that they can resolve this soon and we wish them the best of luck in that. We will keep you posted on developments.

I don’t yet know how they are going to make us happy again once this is fixed (AND we simply cannot afford to have this kind of long drawn out saga happen again), but lets cross one bridge at a time.

In the interests of keeping our forum members updated, there is a small glimmer of hope.

We had a reply from Guy Yalif, who it turns out is no longer Head of Yahoo Web Hosting, but is now in Yahoo advertising. He said he understands our pain, and has forwarded our message to the head of the hosting support team, as well as the new Head of Yahoo Web Hosting. He also said he would follow up with both of them, which was kind of him.

We have subsequently had another mail from Yahoo support (1 week on from last one confirming there was a problem) saying “Please assured that our engineers are still investigating the problem you reported and trying their level best to resolve the issue as soon as possible.”

Sounds promising… But, what was not given, however, was an ETA as to when this would be fixed. At least they say they are till working on it, though. We will be pressing them for an ETA.

What we still don’t understand, however, is how a company as big, powerful and resourced as Yahoo!, can still be trying to fix something that went wrong 19 days ago. Whatever it was that happened has stopped not only our forum working, but (as we were lead to believe by Yahoo) other forums, too. It must be a pretty serious problem not to be sorted by now.

You might be interested to hear of an amusing mail we got from Yahoo last week, telling us our Webhosting fee was going up and “We’re committed to providing you with world-class service, and this increase will ensure we can continue to offer the features and quality you have come to expect from Yahoo!.” We are looking forward Yahoo meeting its stated committments.

We are looking forward to getting our forum back up and running for you! Apologies again from us.