Float-an App For Your Mobile floAt-for you to connect ur phone n pc

[cryptique91 0]

If you own a T610, K700, K750 or another Sony Ericsson and a computer, go out and buy yourself a bluetooth USB adapter (less than 40 US$), and go to the source forge website and download the latest version of FMA and its associated programme float's media control. It's available as free software.
This is what you can do with FMA:

1. Ordinary things like browse through the files in your cellphone, and transfer files to and from the cellphone (pictures, themes and midi files). Midi songs are small files. You can send a certain number of them to the phone, and use a hands free set to listen to music while on the move.

2. Write your SMS from the computer and send them. This is an advantage since it is easier to write from a computer keyboard. Also receive your SMS directly to your computer. Save your old SMS in the harddisk for later reference.
To send and receive SMS, you don't need to press any button on the cell phone. You just leave it in its corner, and you do everything with your computer.

3. Make and receive calls from your computer. You must of course have a headphone, and enable audio gateway on your bluetooth programme. If you have pictures of your friends, you can link them with their phone number, so that when they call you or when you call them, you see a small semi-transparent window pop up with their picture. I like this feature. You can record the conversation in your hard disk if you want. Again, no need to press anything on your phone. Just leave it alone.

4. Organise your phonebook in the computer (again, it is easier to do it on a computer keyboard), and synchronise with the phone. If you have your phonebook in Microsoft outlook, this is how you can import it to FMA: with the programme that came with your phone (XTND connect), you synchronise your cellphone with outlook, and then you synchronise your phone with FMA. You then edit the phonebook with FMA, add pictures and customised ring tones to your best friends numbers, and synchronise with your phone. This works very well, believe me. FMA writes a log that tells you which changes were made to the phonebooks in the cellphone and in FMA.

5. Write notes in the computer and save them in the phone: bank account number, passwords, car registration, etc...

6. Activate and edit a profile for your phone on the computer. You can also switch off the cellphone from the computer.

7. Phone keypad (under tools menu): you can take full control of the phone from the computer. For example the cellphone is in the sitting room, you are in the bed room with the computer (if your house is not too big), you can, from the computer, take a picture, and view it in the computer, so you can see on your computer what is going on in the sitting room. For example to see if a visitor is worth your attention.

Thats what they say on their homepage......
Read more on their site
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It's been a fortnight since I started using floAt and I must admit that while I still think that it's a spectacular piece of softwware, it's not without its troubles. It sometimes refuses to connect to my cellphone (Sony Ericsson T630) even when its right next to the Bluetooth dongle I'm using. And while the application never crashes on my PC, it does seem t simply stop functioning for short periods and disconect abruptly from the phone. A PC restart sets matters right but I can sense the wise men shaking their heads grimly and asking us to imagine something on those lines happening at a critical time--say, in the middle of a lecture or presentation. Nevertheless, the software is under development and there are new versions coming out regularly, each fixing bugs as well as adding new features. If you get really stuck, you can take your problems to http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
(floAt's friendly community forum ).

Overall, judging by what I have seen over the past fortnight, I reckon it's well worth a try.

cryptique91