Written by Eeva, Nokia Wellness Diary team
For many of us this is the busiest time of the year. The to-do lists seem to be getting longer the closer we get to the turn of the year and that brings stress along. Earlier, we covered the basic anatomy of stress: the fight-or-flight –mode and recovery from stress. So what can you do to avoid end of the year stress?
The first thing is to get out and move. Exercise, no matter how little, just get up and do it. Exercise helps you stretch out your muscles, brings fresh oxygen to your muscles and your stressed-out brain and most importantly, releases the feel-good hormones that help you combat stress. As a bonus, you get to add your exercise to Wellness Diary, and you’ll be that much closer to your target.
The second thing is sleeping better. Sleep is very underestimated – it helps us recover from daily stress; emotional, physical or psychological. Sleep helps your learning and coping processes. Too little sleep can make you hungrier, which can lead to increase in weight, and if you’re anything like me, that can become yet another stressor in itself. Combining exercise and sufficient sleep is a good way to tackle stress.
Lastly, remember to take care of yourself. Reward your hard work with fresh and tasty fruit and vegetables instead of industrially manufactured sweets. Veggies will boost your immune system, help your digestion and give you the energy that’s needed to cope. And remember, the holidays are almost here.
What are your biggest end-of-the-year stressors? How do you cope?
- Eeva
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Today we have a new beta version of the Store QML client available with loads of goodies. Version 3.20.044 includes:
- Support for Arabic, Hebrew and Kazakh languages
- Support for VGA resolution for devices such as Nokia E6
- Improved Virtual Keyboard for Text Entry, allows users to enter text directly in the entry form entry fields “utilizing a split-screen view”
- Improved Search Experience: Spelling correction and Alternative results
- Improved reliability for operator billing while connecting via WLAN. Note that this only applies to WAP-Direct billing methods
Also, an additional feature will be activated on/after December 16.
- Registration Lite: Allows new consumers to download up to 10 free apps without the need to create a Nokia account
As always, please download the update, try it out, and let us know of any new issues or feedback.
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The year 2011 has come and gone, but we’d still like to pay tribute to to a contributor who’s been active over the past months in many of our beta trials and especially so in December: mikko.tenhunen. We appreciate the answers and guidance Mikko provides to other community members as well as the thought-provoking questions and suggestions directed towards product teams.
Congratulations on being selected as the contributor of the month for December 2011! In honor of this we’d like to send you a few things (fleece and touchscreen gloves) as a token of appreciation (check your email).
- John, Community Facilitator @ Nokia Beta Labs
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We are happy to share release 2.1 of Soundtracker Radio for Series 40 devices. Soundtracker 2.1 for Series 40 brings a number of fixes to issues signaled to us but the Nokia Beta Labs community and new features. Specifically:
- Added Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
- Added Trendy Station
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
- UI fixes to player and other views
We recommend to remove any previous builds of Soundtracker on your device and install this new build.
Daniele Calabrese
founder and ceo @soundtracker.fm
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The latest release of Nokia Nearby, the hyper-local search app, is now available in Nokia Store with some additional features compared to its earlier release.
- New feature – “View on map” for points of interest
- New feature – “Feedback’ from within the app
- UI enhancements for better usability for both, S40 and Symbian versions
As always, one you download it, please let the team know what you think of it.
And although the app is primarily meant for phones that don’t support Maps or don’t have GPS, it works on most S60 and Symbian phones as well.
Once more, here’s the introductory video from the original release:
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Just a quick no
te that we’ve brought the Windows Phone version of Soundtracker into the mix at Nokia Beta Labs. As before, the app can be installed via the Windows Phone Marketplace, but feedback is welcome on the Beta Labs forum where the team is already active for the Symbian/S60 and Series 40 versions.
We’ve created forum categories for each of the versions available for Nokia phones to keep things tidy. The team at Soundtracker will do their best to stay on top of your feedback and take it into accont when developing new versions.
Enjoy!
- John, community manager
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Today’s update of the Store QML client for Symbian (version 3.20.049) has fixes to reduce the risk of experiencing a black screen on installation, as seen on some devices.
Please download the updated Store client and report any new issues or suggestions on the feedback forum.
Thanks!
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The contributor of the month “crown” returns this month again to one of our long-time contributors, navio1973, who continues to provide useful feedback to product teams and support others in the community with advice and answers. For your meaningful contribution and helpful attitude we say congratulations and thank you again.
In honor of being selected as the contributor of the month for November 2011, we’d like to send you a few seasonal treats from Finland as a token of appreciation (check your email).
- John, Community Facilitator @ Nokia Beta Labs
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Following on the success of the Live View app for Symbian, we have developed another Qt version specifically for the Nokia N9.
If you have a Nokia N9, we hope you will download this version and provide us with your feedback.
- The Nokia Live View team
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A new version of Nokia Maps Suite is available with the following changes.
Pulse v0.91.21
- Login – fewer Nokia Account login prompts
- Notifications – more reliable push notifications
- Keyboard – various bug fixes including stuck CAP lock, frozen cursor, delete key stops functioning, and we also added split-screen feature
- Interoperability – compatible with latest versions of various Qt components, especially important because the latest Store client available this week uses a new version of a dependency that is not compatible with the previous Pulse v0.91(6)
Live View
- No longer included in Map Suite
- Still available as standalone app
Public Transport
- No changes
Places
- No changes
Please download the latest version of Nokia Maps Suite and try it out.
Thank you for your feedback thus far, and please keep it coming.
Best Regards,
Nokia Maps Suite Team
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