Theme Customiser is a great tool to customize your Nokia N900. It allow you to changing fonts, colors, icons, change application shortcut sizes, change backgrounds for applications and more. Theme Customizer is available in the Extras-Devel repository

Theme Customizer Features:

- change system font family
- change system font size
- change font colors
- save and load color presets
- change application shortcut sizes at homescreen
- show or hide the backgrounds for application shortcuts at homescreen
- change web bookmark sizes at homescreen
- adjust snap to grid value at homescreen
- change icon themes
- change backgrounds for applications
- change homescreen widget opacities
- change homescreen top menu opacity
- import .ttf and .otf fonts
- save and delete themes
- restore theme files from backup
- Note: backups of any files to be modified will be created automaticly
- Thanks to CepiPerez for custom hildon-home binary.

During install a backup of your hildon-home.launch -file is created and it’s restored when you uninstall the package. All other files that are modified by the customizer are also backed up for restoring. Backups are created under /opt/theme-customizer/backups/

Known issues:
- when user chooses NOT to reboot automaticly, sometimes hildon-home won’t start up or there’s a ~20 seconds delay before all shortcuts re-appears on desktop. This is not serious, reboot fixes it.

Folks at dailymobile.se has published some pictures showing size comparison between the Nokia E5 and Nokia E72. Click the images below to see it.

Opera today announced Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Symbian 60. Optimized for almost all Series 60 handsets, the Opera Mini 5.1 Beta support Series 60 v2.0 handsets and above. This beta currently only available in English but Opera has stated that multilingual support should be coming out pretty soon.

Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for S60 Features:

* Huge start up time improvements.
* Lightning fast page load times.
* Improved scrolling performance.
* Integration with your device’s native input.
* Option to choose default access point – no more annoying connection dialogs
* Now supporting more devices than ever.

To download the new Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Series 60 handsets you can visit http://m.opera.com/ on your mobile phone.

Nokia India via twitter said that the Nokia C7 has now available across all NPCs (Nokia Professional Centers) in India. There is no official word from Nokia but a mobile dealer from Mumbai called Mahesh Telecom stated that the phone is now available with a price tag of Rs 19,490 or around $440.

Swype for Symbian S60v5 just got new update yesterday, I recommend you to download this update (v.12936) from Nokia Beta Labs because it brings a number of performance improvements and also bug fixes.

Changelog in v.12936:

* Swype performance has been improved
* Word prediction performance has been improved
* Tapping performance has been improved
* Backspace, delete, and delete word back performance has been improved
* Edit layer formatting and functionality has been improved
* Issues with settings changes taking effect are resolved
* Haptic feedback behevior has been improved and audio feedback support has been removed
* Several UI changes including font sizes + word choice window
* Triple tap in the X6 ICF no longer crashes application
* Bringing up a diacritic menu and dragging to it no longer crashes application
* Rotating with the word choice window open no longer crashes application
* Crash on Page Up/Page Down/End/Home when there is no text in ICF is resolved
* Second word is no longer always capitalized
* Issues while receiving or on a call have been resolved
* Backspace now works in Qt/WRT applications
* All included languages are fuly functional (English, Spanish, FrenchCA, PortugueseBr)
* Keymapping has been finalized (Tab has been removed)
* Language dictionary support has been added
* Spanish dictionary issues have been resolved
* Conditional behavior for password fields has improved
* “Do not show this tip” functionality has been added to Tips
* Drawing artificats related to word choice window, secondary popups and rotation have been fixed