Click&Flickr is a demonstrator application for the programming environment Mobile Processing. It is the result of a learning process which passed through different application versions and experienced remarkable improvements both in the graphical aspects and for what the usability and functionalities concern.

A deeper analysis upon the programming environment Mobile Processing showed a wider view of the aspects, advantages, disadvantages and bugs of the open project initiated by Francis Li.

Francis Li [http://www.francisli.com/] is an interaction designer and software engineer who developed this branch of the open source Processing project (which is instead originally designed for desktop and Internet applications by means of a set of libraries for Java programming).

Mobile Processing is an Open Source programming environment useful to design and prototype software for mobile phones. It shares the same goals achieved by Processing Project, but the target is represented by mobile devices, whose constraining features are a lower computational load and a narrowed battery duration.

Recently, VoIP telephone market and all the new services related to this technology went through a large and quick development, made possible by the growing diffusion of broadband Internet connections and by a big amount of customers who everyday perform and receive calls in the same manner they used to do with the plain old telephone service.

Nowadays a great number of solutions are offered to promote a more simple and prompt use of the telephony over the Internet. These products range from software applications like Skype (http://www.skype.com), to solutions aimed to use the VoIP technology decoupled from the PC, like VoIP-Bluetooth kits or VoIP phones. Moreover it is quite common to find VoIP client applications for mobile phones, that need a UMTS Internet connection to provide the VoIP service. However this kind of connections are typically expensive because of the fact that mobile network operators only offer charges plans based on consume and not on the payment of a fixed initial bill.

In this context it is necessary a further step towards the fully integration between VoIP technology and mobile telephony, so that it is possible to let the user enjoy voice services over the Internet with their own mobile phone, through a wireless connection like Bluetooth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth) rather than using mobile operator’s expensive connections.

The aim of this project is to verify the feasibility of a specific use of the mobile phone within a scenario in which it is the end-point of a VoIP call forwarded from a multimedia station (e.g. a PC) thanks to a Bluetooth connection. In this way we can exploit all the potentials and advantages offered from voice over IP services and, at the same time, use a well-known and common object like a mobile phone. Actually, in a rich and large background full of solutions, one of the main target of this application is “transparency”, that is provide, with very few differences, the same features offered by typical telephony to which users are accustomed.

Nowadays multimedia and mp3 players such as iPod have invaded a large part of the market. These systems promote a different model to access media: Podcasting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting).

In this model, contents are held on a server and are transferred towards the device through an explicit download or by means of a schedule defined by the user (push model).

One interesting application of podcasting is to provide users a remote recording service. Such a service will record digital content distributed via DVB based on the schedule provided by each user. Once the content is ready it is published using a podcast feed and user device will download the recording inside it's local storage.

Faucet PVR (http://www.vcast.it/faucetpvr/) is a web-based application that implements such kind of application. It allows a subscribed user to schedule the recording of one or more channels (even at the same time) and supports both Digital Terrestrial and Satellite channels. Recordings are stored in the server as long as the user downloads it using a podcatcher (for example iTunes).

The aim of this project is to provide an ubiquitous access to the service offered by Faucet by developing a mobile application that can be used to create and manage the recordings.

BlueTraffic is a system designed to help drivers by giving them useful information on the traffic situation. This system integrates information on the vehicle’s GPS location with traffic news transmitted via the RDS radio channel. This integration offers an up to date information service that is contextual to the vehicle’s position and direction.

BlueTraffic communicates relevant news to the user via an everyday cell phone configured with a vocal synthesis function that gives the system greater usability.