After I purchased my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, I went on the hunt for some useful apps. I found a very good one for taking screenshots of your mobile phone. It is called ScreenSnap. The quality of the pictures are excellent, as you can see on my 5800 XpressMusic review post. Just open the app, hide it and press your camera button or use another hotkey that you assign. It is great to post on the web or email it out to other people if you need.

You can download ScreenSnap from Smart Phone Ware. The best part about it, It’s Free!

After my previous encounter with Nokia and how I said i will never by another Nokia phone ever again, I gave in to temptation and purchased a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. I have to say though, I absolutely love this phone.

The phone has everything you need in a phone. It's got WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS (now with free maps, and voice navigation), email, accelerometer, and the list goes on. In fact, I am writing this on the phones full size qwerty touch keyboard as we speak.

With a 3.2 megapixel camera, the quality of the pictures and video is great. I am also extremely happy with the navigation and GPS on the phone. Since a few weeks ago, Nokia announced free voice navigation on ten of its phones, the XpressMusic being one of them. So this phone is a huge money saver if you need a new phone and GPS unit for your car as well.

I have to say that the sound and picture quality of watching movies is excellent. The inbuilt loudspeaker is pretty good, not only for music, but for hands free as well. The microphone is really good as well. Talking with the phone about 1 meter away using the inbuilt voice recorder, you can still hear your voice crystal clear when you play it back.

For $600 on a 24 month contract with Virgin Mobile, I couldn't be any happy with this phone. It lives up to the name of Nokia’s iPhone version.

However, with any review, I do have to mention some downsides.

After I purchased this phone, my friend says to me on Facebook that he had this phone, and the slider key to unlock the phone malfunctioned. This meant only way to unlocked the phone was to take out the battery. But I have to agree with him, the only way to unlock the phone is to use the slider key that’s on the right hand side of the phone.

Another thing is that the phone did not come with any protective gear such as a screen projector, or pouch, so I had to purchase them for $25.00. With the pouch I purchased, it makes it incredibly awkward to unlock the phone for use.

One final thing, navigating through menu’s and screen can somewhat be annoying as sometimes you have to double-click to open something, while others are single click. It would be good if this phone just used one or the other, but not both.

For more detailed specification about the phone, check out the Nokia website. Overall, I am very happy with this phone, I just hope it doesn’t have the same issue with my Nokia E71.

Make sure you check out some of the phone’s screenshots after the break such as the keyboard, menu and messaging screens.

Daniusoft proudly gave me a free licence key for their Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate to have a look at. And I have to stay, it is called Ultimate for a reason.

Media Converter Ultimate is packed full of features. If you deal with a lot of media files, this is one piece of software you can’t live without.

For just under $60.00, Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate allows you to remove DRM copy projection, Rip video files to DVD, rip DVD disks to files, and convert your audio and video files to many different formats. You can convert your files to practically any format you want. iPhones, Nokia, Android, Flash, mp4, wmv, 3gp, avi and a whole stack more.

Although I am not the person who does a lot of audio and video ripping, I tried a few test files and I couldn't be happier with the results.

The software is very easy to use, just add your video files or folder, select your settings such as your output and hit the Start Button. It is as simple as that.

To find more about Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate, visit Daniusoft’s Product Page. The software currently sells for $59.95.

Other products I use that are similar to Media Converter Ultimate are DVD Coach Express, DVD Shrink and Nero.

I was approached by ColaSoft to try out their network analysis software, and I have to say that I am impressed.

They gave me an Evaluation Copy to try out their software which included:

• Capsa Network Analyzer
• Colasoft Mac Scanner
• Colasoft Packet Builder
• Colasoft Packet Player

I have been using Wireshark at my University, but I like Colasoft’s Network Analyzer much better. Why? Because it has more features, easier navigation and reports. The only downside to this compared to Wireshark, is that it is not free. Capsa Network Analyzer (Packet Sniffer) comes at a cost with a starting price of $549. But if your are a Network Analysis, you should definitely buy this software.

Capsa Network Analyser provides real-time packet capturing and 24/7 monitoring.

Here is a list of my thoughts about Colasoft’s network analysis software:

• Easy to use graphical user interface
• Detailed reports about the types of packets, errors, and different connections, such as HTTP, and Instant Messaging activities
• Network and packet diagnostics
• It is easy to view an analyse packet information, there source and destinations
• It contains logs from different requests
• Shows live graphs about packets being transmitted
• Has automated, and detailed reports
• I also liked the Mac Scanner and its capabilities.

Another good thing about Colasoft Capsa is that the support and live demo’s are very helpful, and if you are new to packet analysis, this software is very easy to learn on how to use.

Whenever you need to use a parked sniffer, or network analysis software, you should check out Colasoft and their great programs. If the price is too high for you, you can always go back to Wireshark which is free, but after using Capsa, Wireshark is pretty bad.

If you want more information about Colasoft Capsa, have a read of the datasheet, or you can download the 15 day free trial to see if for yourself.

If you have used this program before or have brought products of Colasoft before, please let us know what you think.