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A friend alerted us to a great article, titled simply: “It’s Possible To Design Gorgeous Applications For Symbian“.

In the article, Symbian-Guru.com’s Rita El Khoury rounds up the top seven best-looking, best-designed apps for Symbian/S60. Needless to say, we’re honored that she features Kinoma Play!

There’s a lot to love about Kinoma, from the features it offers, to the outstanding responsiveness, fast and smooth transitions, transparency effects, different skin availability, and tons of multimedia options. It’s a relief to finally have a multimedia suite like this for Symbian…

Kinoma Play is the culmination of years of thinking about the best way to find, play and share media, so it makes our hearts sing when Kinoma Play is recognized for advancing the state-of-the-art.

(Got a Symbian/S60 device? Don’t own Kinoma Play yet? What are you waiting for? We’re so sure you’ll love it that we offer a risk-free, 30-day money back guarantee.)

• It’s Possible To Design Gorgeous Applications For Symbian [Symbian-Guru.com]

If you’re one of the many fans of Kinoma Play’s Twitter app, you know that you can publicly reply and retweet (“forward” a tweet to the people following you) tweets with a touch — easy!

In addition to public replies, you can send followers private tweets called “direct messages“. Since our support team gets the occasional question about how to do this, I’m going to show you two ways to do it.

The “normal” way

Normally, you send direct messages via a Twitter user’s profile, which you can jump to instantly from any of their tweets.

If they’re a follower you’ll see a Send Direct Message command, which you just touch to enter and send your message.

The shortcut

Alternatively, you can easily change a reply into a direct message. Touch Reply from a tweet, then replace the “@” with a “d” followed by a space, as shows here:

Remember, you can only send direct messages to a Twitter users who follow you. We recommend the first method, since it automagically checks the Twitter user to make sure they’re a follower before displaying the Send Direct Message command.

“It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights / It’s time to meet The Muppets on Kinoma Play today!”

Hey! The Muppets now have their very own channel on Kinoma Play.

Enjoy new Muppet classic short videos, including…

• The Queen classic Bohemian Rhapsody as you’ve never seen or heard it before
• The Blue Danube Waltz, as conducted by The Great Gonzo and featuring the lovely Camilla (the chicken, of course)
• A bunch of Beakers meep meep meep-ing Ode To Joy
• The Swedish Chef ver stürdøøn måk ün fer der jåk-ø-löötürn

Enjoy!

You can find The Muppets in Kinoma Guide > Kids & Family. Just look for Kermit’s face!

If you have favorite podcasts, radio stations, video streams or other media, send a URL and short description to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to discover and enjoy.

The game may be over – congrats, Saints! – but today you can re-watch, share and enjoy the great* commercials of Super Bowl XLIV on your phone with Kinoma Play. (*Okay, some are greater than others.)

Go to Kinoma Guide > Featured > Super Bowl Commercials 2010 to enjoy these:

• The Snickers ad with Betty White and the surprise “he’s still alive?” cameo
• Dorito’s viewer-made ads, including the funny “shock collar” ad that won $600,000
• The romantic all-text Google ad
• VW’s “punch dub” ad
• The Audi “green police” ad
• The Bud Light “house of cans” ad

…and lots more! Be sure to click “More” to see all of them, or just start the first and let ‘em roll.

If you hang around technical people, you’ve probably seen those computer books with the funny-looking animals on front.

They’re from O’Reilly Media, best known for great books on everything from super-technical topics like programming, to their “Missing Manual” series for the rest of us.

What you might not know is that O’Reilly creates lots of really interesting video content as well. Today, you can watch hundreds of O’Reilly videos on your phone with Kinoma Play!

Here are the new categories now available in Kinoma Guide > Providers > O’Reilly TV:

• Gov 2.0 Summit 2009 and Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase 2009 — Want to see what happens when you bring together government and technology thought leaders to reshape government for the better? Here are 84 videos from O’Reilly’s 2009 Gov 2.0 conference.
• O’Reilly Conferences — 200 “best of” videos from various O’Reilly conferences and events, including ETech, OSCON, RailsConf, Foo Camp, Sci Foo, Ignite, Web 2.0 Expo, Web 2.0 Summit, MySQL Conference & Expo and Expo Where 2.0.
• O’Reilly Interviews — 50+ interviews with notable authors, editors, and innovators, including Tim O’Reilly, Sarah Millstein, Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Larry Wall, Pia Waugh, Nat Torkington, and more.
• O’Reilly Webcasts — 140+ webcasts that put you in touch with experts from every area of technology: programmers, web designers, digital photographers, social media gurus, iPhone hackers, open source mavensand more. Each webcast is a recording of a live, online event including Q&As from the audience.
• Tim O’Reilly — 34 talks and interviews with the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, who “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain.
• Web 2.0 Summit 2009 — 40+ videos featuring the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry, gathered together in one place at one time. Watch incisive plenary sessions, frank onstage conversations, rapid-fire “high order bits”, and Launch Pad, where visionaries and executives from Internet businesses present their unique perspective on the Web’s future-in-flux.
• All O’Reilly TV Videos — Browse through all O’Reilly Media videos, including those that don’t fall into one of the above categories.

Enjoy!

As usual this new Kinoma Guide content is free for all Kinoma Play customers. It’s available right now at Kinoma Guide > Providers > O’Reilly TV.

If you have favorite podcasts, radio stations, video streams or other media, send a URL and short description to content@kinoma.com and we’ll add them to Kinoma Guide for everyone to discover and enjoy.