Key Lock Clock: more customisation options

Key Lock Clock by DrJukka displays a clock on your screen when you lock the keypad. This is especially useful on 60 3rd ed. Feature Pack 2 phones without a built-in "set clock as screensaver" option.

Key Lock Clock lets you choose your own clock font, and you can set the light timeout period.

And now you can also display the day and date, configure more light settings, and choose your own background color. Key Lock Clock can also use your theme background, which is an easy way of showing your theme on your phone even when it's asleep.

• Key Lock Clock

Jbak TaskMan: test version with fewer bugs

Jbak TaskMan shows hidden tasks, memory status, disk usage, and detailed task info. When the program is running, long-pressing the menu button launches Jbak TaskMan instead of Symbian's built-in task manager.

Since the last "complete" version, about a dozen test updates have been released. New features: a quickstart folder and a "kill all" function. And some more bugs were fixed in the latest release candidate. This test version is not available from the official Jbak TaskMan site, but Mobile Castle has a copy for you to try.

• Jbak TaskMan site (latest full version and some test versions)
• Jbak TaskMan v1.00 R13 (test version) at Mobile Castle

Chat, VoIP, and surf: updates for Palringo, fring, and UCWEB

fring

Multi-network instant messenger and VoIP client fring lets you chat and call on Skype and standard SIP VoIP, GoogleTalk, MSN (Windows Live), ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, Twitter, and social networking sites like Facebook and orkut. In addition, fring is a GMail notifier, last.fm radio player, Facebook tool, Twitter application, and it includes Wi-Fi hotspot finder WeFi.

Update: fring is no longer a multi-network messenger. They kicked 'em all out, fring now only works on it's own fring network. My advice: don't use fring.

The latest edition has less bugs, and should work on all Samsung phones that run Symbian. Of course it also runs on all Symbian S60 Nokias.

• fring


Palringo

Multiprotocol chat client Palringo connects to MSN (Windows Live), AOL (AIM), Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, Facebook Chat, and the niche networks QQ, Gadu-Gadu, and MobileMe (iChat). Palringo also runs a collection of chatrooms.

You can send voice messages, but Palringo doesn't do real VoIP calls like Nimbuzz, fring, and Talkonaut. Palringo doesn't connect to Skype, not even to Skype's instant messaging network.

Palringo's latest update lacks a changelog. It seems that all changes (bugfixes?) are under the hood.

• Palringo


UCWEB

New beta test versions of UCWEB 6.7 appear often, and they're usually translated from chinese (the original language of UCWEB) into english within a day or so.

The latest version is no exception. As usual, UCWEB offers tabbed browsing, and it reduces data traffic by routing it through its own proxy servers and compressing it.

Now you can also set your own proxy server.

The official non-beta version of UCWEB 6.3 is compatible with the patch by jbpseudo that removes the sponsored links from the start page, uses Google search without the limitations of the official program, and adds online synchronisation to the side panel. But if you don't use jbpseudo's patch, then take the new beta test version for a test drive.

• UCWEB 6.7 with custom proxy (beta test version) at Mobile Castle
• UCWEB 6.3 (latest non-beta version)

AUGUST 13, 2009 UPDATE: Want the Symbian version of UCWEB with a custom proxy? Check jbpseudo's thread on the Symbian Freak forum for details.

AUGUST 20, 2009 UPDATE: jbpseudo's patch is available for UCWEB 6.7 too.
direct download link

XSmart: filter your calls by blacklist and whitelist

XSmart rejects calls and messages that you don't want to receive. You can filter by blacklist and whitelist, or simply reject calls or messages or both from unknown numbers. The program comes from China, but there's an english version on Mobile Castle. Unfortunately the help file has not been translated.

When you uninstall XSmart, it leaves a folder called "XShine" with log files and settings behind in the built-in memory of your phone, even if you've installed the program on your memory card.

XSmart may be useful, but MCleaner does the same and more and is a lot easier to use.

• XSmart v1.33.2 english translation on Mobile Castle
• XSmart site (chinese)