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!)

Here's one for the photo people. Panoman is a camera applicaiton for S60 phones that, using photo stitching technology, lets you take 360-degree photos with your phone. I took an example with my Nokia E50 (which has a passable 1.3-megapixel camera, but nothing like what most of the Nseries devices offer), and the day was overcast, and I'm a rotten photographer and all that yadda yadda, but it's still interesting. If you want to see some really nice shots taken with Panoman, look here.

One of the best things about Panoman is how easy it is to use. You fire it up, hit the "Trigger" command, and it starts shooting the image. Rotate the phone slowly in a circle and you can see the picture being stitched together on the screen. Currently, you can select between high and low-res images, depending on how much memory is in your phone. It also has a gallery browser embedded, and you can send images through the application as well.

I don't know if it's my E50's camera, or if it's the limitations of a phone's bit-crunching computer ability, but even the high-res images turn out rather small. Having said that, I can think of a lot of places where a phone app like this would come in handy, not the least of which is apartment hunting: I remember the last time I went looking for a flat, having my phone camera was essential, but I still had to take shots of each room from every corner in order to stitch together in my memory a decent idea of the place. Panoman would be a shoe-in for that job.

360-pics tend to work better when you have quite a bit of open space around you. Movement doesn't photograph so well (check out the half-disappeared car in the shot I took) but on the other hand it creates a rather interesting effect. It's been a long time since I was impressed so much by a mobile camera app. I really hope they keep working on this one.

Find Panoman from the official site or download it from S60.com.