Posts in: Mobile
- Review: Nokia N800
- I received a Nokia N800 to test and review from the fine folks at WOM World, a Nokia-sponsored meta-blog. The basics The N800 runs a flavor of Linux known as OS 2008. Several software packages come loaded with the N800, including a full-featured web browser (with Flash!), e-mail client, media player, and instant messaging application. Perhaps [...] [2 Apr 2008]
- Today’s thought: On mobile and content
- Summaries and well-written headlines are already important when it comes to triggering user reactions or making content findable. But as U.S. web users adopt the mobile web, I think such headlines and summaries are critical. Waiting for content to download in order to determine its relevance is a pain in the a**. It’s a lesson we’ve [...] [28 Jan 2008]
- My essential mobile applications
- Most of these applications will work with any Java-capable smart phone. Platform-specific applications are noted. GCalSync Synchronize your mobile phone’s calendar with your Google calendar. Open source. Google Maps for Mobile It was already a cool application for GPS-less people. But Google’s new My Location feature is The Awesome. It uses cell tower triangulation to guess your location, reducing, [...] [30 Nov 2007]
- Recommended: “The Big Juicy Twitter Guide”
- If you’re a Twitter-phile like myself, you don’t need to be convinced of the service’s value. But just in case you need to convince someone else, Caroline Middlebrook’s series The Big Juicy Twitter Guide is an excellent resource. In it, Middlebrook covers everything you would need to know before getting started with Twitter: etiquette, branding, tools, [...] [6 Nov 2007]
- Mozilla is readying for the mobile web
- Sure the iPhone has its spiffy little web browser / SDK (Safari), but that mean bupkiss for the rest of us. What can we do? That’s where Mozilla comes in. Via Ajaxian: Mike Schroepfer’s post Mozilla and Mobile. According to Schroepfer: Mozilla will add mobile devices to the first class/tier-1 platform set for Mozilla2. This means we [...] [10 Oct 2007]
- Why I ditched Skype for Gizmo Project*
- UPDATE: Gizmo users may be interested in Zfone, an encryption plugin for VoIP calls developed by security expert Phil Zimmerman. I’ve been a Skype user for about a year now, in part to save money on my mobile phone bill. Rather than pay more money for a plan with more minutes, I turned to Skype [...] [7 Sep 2007]
- Link for 2007-04-28
- Nokia s60 Widgets support: Mobile Widgets and the fulfilment of the Mobile Ajax dream [28 Apr 2007]
- Links for 2006-04-06
- PHP to detect mobile phones [Via Wireless Duniya] WordPress Mobile Plugin comp.lang.javascript FAQ [6 Apr 2007]
