You have noticed some slight changes made over the last few days. Some downtime, removal of the skins section and all the skins, and maybe a few other minor changes. It's all been in preporation for the launch of a new site; TheSkinDrop.com.

While checking my feeds yesterday morning I was pleasantly gifted with the news of a new Nokia N95 firmware release. After a quick glance at the story I did what any other proud N95 owner would do, drop everything to retrieve my Nokia USB charger and data cables and promptly upgrade my phone.

Well it was inevitable, I finally got some time to create my own Drupal Theme for the site, upgrade my Drupal installation and initiate some new site features.

The major addition at this stage is the 'Skins' section of the site, over time it will become a large collection of all Skins I deem worthy of my various devices, including Nintendo DS skins, PlayStation Portable Skins, Nokia N95 skins and many more.

Ever since I got my Nokia N95 I was on the lookout for a great theme for a great phone; While there are heaps of themes available at many sites the majority of theme are just plain awful. Call me crazy but I want a theme that looks nice and clean and I want it to show that the creator had some pride in their work, changing the wallpaper to a scantily clad female just doesn't won't cut it.

So I eventually stumbled across two such themes; Saku by Ivanov and Spirit by Ivanov.

Over the last few weeks I have been working with Marcel Nouwens', the developer of the WHS uTorrent Add-In, to update my guide to installing uTorrent as a service on WHS. The updated guide incorporates the use of a a nice little tool created by Marcel called AnyServiceInstaller, that simplifies the creation of the Windows Service, and a simple guide to installing the uTorrent Add-In as an extra option for controlling uTorrent.

I just came across this wonderful nugget of information on Mess.be, it appears there is a  Windows Live package available for Symbian S60 v3 phones, which of course includes the Nokia N95 itself.

As I've been waiting for this exact product I promptly downloaded, installed and had a quick play with this application and my first impression is 'Wow'.

Here are the some of the features as listed on Mess.be:

Top 10 Search Keywords

1. 15.36% - m3 simply skins
2. 4.33% - m3 ds simply skins
3. 3.95% - m3 simply skin 
4. 2.05% - m3 skins 
5. 1.22% - utorrent service 
6. 1.14% - m3 ds skins 
7. 1.14% - windows home server utorrent 
8. 1.06% - m3 simply ds skins
9. 0.91% - windows home server release candidate 
10. 0.84% - m3 ds skin 

I wasn't certain if it was worthwhile posting this as it is posted on nearly every Nokia N95 related blog, but I guess that is the way of the blogosphere.

According to the Symbian-Guru blog it looks as if we should expect a new N95 Firmware in the near future. Apparently the only known change is the addition of the A-GPS standard which increases the speed of the GPS lock-on and apparently allows you to get a lock-on while inside a building.

One of the features of Windows Home Server (WHS) that was introduced in the Consumer Technology Preview (CTP) is Add-Ins, WHS specific applications that run via the WHS Console. Unfortunately due to the many issues with the CTP build that I experienced I didn't really get a chance to look into the Add-Ins, but now that the Release Candidate (RC) is out I've made sure to have a play.

So far I have had a quick look at two of the Add-Ins, the two that I could see myself using; Whiist and an unofficial uTorrent Add-In.