Darla Mack posted today about a great little mobile Flash application: Yoga for beginners. What's great about the fact that S60 models are starting to come with an integrated Flash player is that it basically means you can play so-called "casual" Flash games, and developers who make Flash applications for Web can also make them for mobile. I really like the feel of Flash online: it just feels light and quick to use, so I'm looking forward to trying it out on mobile as well. While some models come with Flash Lite already installed, if you don't have it, you can try downloading it for free from Adobe.

But speaking of yoga, there's a kind of nice S60 feature that's come up since podcasting really hit its stride: listening to podcasts on your phone. I found a nice bunch of yoga podcasts (easy to find with iTunes) and I thought hey, let's try out a new 60-minute class just to add another teacher's voice to my practice (okay, my nowadays reallyoccasional practice). Normally, I put podcasts on my mp3 player. So I put them on my trusty little machine and... now what? Do yoga with headphones on? I tried it once and got my downward-facing dog tangled up in wires. Plus having something on your ears isn't that nice when doing yoga. You could, of course, burn podcasts to CD or use separate speakers if you have them (I don't) or do yoga in the same room as your computer (very soulful indeed). But suddenly—wuppah! I can just play them on my phone's loudspeaker!

Now, there's already a Nokia Podcasting application (check out the blog!), where you can download podcasts right to your phone! That is absolutely boss—if you have a flat-rate 3G connection or WiFi, but if not, you can also easily download podcasts to your computer and then transfer to your mobile. Listening to music with the phone's speakers is still on the tinny side of enjoyment, but for spoken word, I think the sound quality's fine. So now I've got my hands free... free to grasp my ankle and try to get it around my ear. And that's freedom, I'm sure.

Download Yoga for beginners for N73 (apparently also works with the N95; you could try it on other phones that support Flash Lite but no guarantees from me!)