Schmap website offers a very useful and free service, providing digital travel guides for 200 destinations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to Pc and mobile users

The innovative technology behind Schmap Guides lets end users publish schmaps (to share trip itineraries, local reviews and more), and powers a popular range of Schmap Widgets, syndicating more than 6 million maps a month – together with content and event schedules for travel, sports and concert tours – to a fast-growing network of websites and blogs.

Schmap is also optimized for S60 devices: accessing their website from you Nokia Phones makes you available a wide range of maps and services. Just enter your destination, and will have a list of all the services available in the city.

Schmap Staff is looking for Beta testers of their services.

To use the Schmap guides on your Nokia phones, just visit http://www.schmap.com for your phone browser.

The questions, regarding the beta testing of the services, are:

- Did you encounter any bugs?
- Was there anything that confused you?
- Do you have any ideas for improving Schmap for Nokia?
- Please note the name/model of the Nokia phone used to view the guides.

You can express your thoughts here by leaving a comment, you you can send your feedback directly to Schmap’s staff, sending an email to donald.mcmillan@schmap.com  including your bug reports.

 Visit Schmap Website here

Downloading and installing Symbian Themes is very simple. Yo just need the following:

•  A compression Utility to unzip the themes

• A compatible mobile phone (of course!)

• The Nokia Pc Suite software, or equivalent software from other manufacturer

• A Usb cable or Bluetooth adapter

1) The first step is to download a theme. At the end of every post there is a link to download the theme.

2) When the download is completed, you have to extract the theme files. To do so, you should use a compression utility  to open .ZIP files. Most users already have a software like this on their computers. If you do’t have it,  I suggest to download 7-Zip, a freeware utility. You can also use the most known WinZip, or any other compatible software.

3) Once you have extracted the SIS files, you will find in your package more than one theme:

• Theme Title – This theme installs with PiZero Custom icons.

• Theme Title (default icons) – This theme installs without icons. You will use Nokia standard icons

•  Eventually, you will find "Theme Title – Flahorn Icons" - This theme istalls with "Flahorn’s Prototype Icons"

4) Now, make sure you have installed the Nokia PC Suite software that comes with your Nokia Phone, or equivalent software from your phone manufacturer. If you do not have Nokia Pc Suite installed, you can download here for free.

5) Then, connect your phone to the PC using the USB cable or bluetooth adapter, and select “Pc Suite” mode. The Phone should be now connected to the pc (an upper screen icon on the phone will that you that).

6) Double-click on the *.sis file that you downloaded, it will say “install application on phone?” Click Yes.

7) The installation now continues on the mobile phone.

Accept all the terms and  read carefully the advices. Then , the phone will ask you if you want to install the theme on the phone memory or on memory card. Choose one, according on  your desire and free space available. I however recommend to install themes on phone memory, but only if you have enough free space.

The installlation is now finished, and you are ready to use your new theme! You will find it in your Themes folder, that may vary depending from you phone model.

  Nokia Eseries Users, Please read this!

 When Installing a theme, you get an “Invalid certificate error”? Here’s how to resolve the problem:

Invalid certificate error is  a very common problem of the E-Series by Nokia.

To fix it, take your phone, go to Menu – Tools – App. Manager – Options – Settings, and check that “Software installation” is set to Complete, and “Online certificate verify” is disabled.

Then, all the themes will install flawlessly.