INTERNATIONAL – Recently we’ve been a little obsessed with getting under the skin of Nokia Chat, the new beta app for instant messaging with GPS elements mixed in for good measure. On my mission to understand this sliver of software inside-out I spoke in depth to the man behind it, product manager Kristian Luoma. Well, now he’s popped up on the Beta Labs blog as a guest author to teach us how to configure Nokia Chat to your favourite IM client on PC.

Nokia Maps 2.0 tutorial with a Jurassic twist

INTERNATIONAL – Reading the manual is thankfully a dull habit we’re all happy to leave to the fate of extinction. Today’s hardware and software should unwittingly hand-hold us (without patronizing us) through the process of getting the most of our kit, but it goes without saying that there are limits to this, and to our patience for sitting through set-up wizards.