#mobile (304 links)
- Adactio: Journal—One web adactio.com
This is why I’m saying that most of the time, creating a separate mobile website is simply a cop-out. It’s a tacit acknowledgement that the regular “desktop” site is beyond help. The cop-out is creating an optimised experience for one subset of users while abandoning others to their bloated fate.
- Desert discs: how mobile phones are at the root of Saharan music | Music | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
However eclectic your music collection, it would still need to go some way to match the sheer range of tracks shared by villagers swapping songs via Bluetooth and Sim card in the Sahara. Bollywood classics, Algerian Rai, Kuduro, French ballads – this is just a sample grab of the kind of sounds doing the rounds there, many of which can be found on Music from Saharan Cellphones, a mixtape put together by Portland-based blogger Christopher Kirkley.
- Bugaboo App bugabooapp.com
An App for debugging web apps on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices.
- Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries | For A Beautiful Web forabeautifulweb.com
These hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries are empty placeholders for targeting the devices and attributes I’m interesting in making responsive designs for right now.
- Combining meta viewport and media queries - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
"If you want to make your websites ready for mobile, it’s best to combine <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> with width media queries. That will give your site the optimal width (as determined by the device vendor, who really ought to know), and your site will look the better for it."
- The slow death of Dopplr | Technology | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Boo. True. Sad. Can't blame people for selling, mind.
- Adactio: Journal—A responsive mind adactio.com
The choice is not between using media queries and creating a dedicated mobile site; the choice is between using media queries and doing nothing at all.
- Mobile Graded Browser Support | jQuery Mobile jquerymobile.com
Riffing on the excellent Yahoo GBS.
- Combining media queries and JavaScript - QuirksBlog quirksmode.org
A riposte from PPK. Sounds like it's feasible but bloody hard work.
- Nick Lansley's Technology for Tesco.com Blog: Who are Ribot, and why did we make them our mobile partner? techfortesco.blogspot.com
Well done, Ribot.
A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it.
- Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad developer.apple.com
Platform-specific considerations for web content in Safari on iPhone OS devices, with specific information for iPad.
- KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole krazydad.com
Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project.
- QuirksBlog: The iPhone obsession quirksmode.org
"The iPhone has become an obsession. If we don’t pay attention, we’ll have a mobile web that only works on the iPhone. And then we’ll have the real mobile web that wasn’t made by us and doesn’t give a shit about web standards and best practices." Overstating things somewhat but still a useful reminder.
- Fixing 3 Mobile Broadband E168G on Snow Leopard » James Whittaker jameswhittaker.com
- Test Mobile Applications on Real Devices - Perfecto Mobile perfectomobile.com
- QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. quirksmode.org
"Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. Their problems with the App Store approval process are entirely their own fault and they deserve no commiseration." Rather extreme viewpoint from PPK (with some merit, though).
- Correct way to handle mobile browsers | Surfing in Kansas ericholscher.com
This has lead to a problem that a lot of internet sites face, and I haven't found a good solution to the problem: how do I redirect users to a mobile site?
- QuirksBlog: There is no WebKit on Mobile quirksmode.org
"All 10 mobile WebKits I’ve identified so far are subtly or wildly different." Bugger.
- Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com
- Google and Best Buy Partner on Mobile Applications readwriteweb.com
- High Performance Web Sites :: Mobile Gmail and async script loading stevesouders.com
With mobile on my mind, I was blown away by the awesome performance tips in this blog post: Gmail for Mobile HTML5 Series: Reducing Startup Latency. This post hits on the main point of my recent book - the impact of loading JavaScript. This is the #1 performance issue for today’s web apps.
"How about you make something that would take away that hassle, but still let us send postcards to the people we love - printed objects that would arrive through the letterbox and make those people smile? Hmm?" Please do this, Royal Mail. Or someone else?
- PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework phonegap.com
An open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.
- The Typography Manual - For the iPhone and iPod Touch typographyapp.com
The Typography Manual has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60 page book. It has all the essentials of a desk reference in a regularly updated pocket resource.
- jQTouch jqtouch.com
A jQuery plugin with native animations, auto list navigation, and default application styles for Mobile WebKit browsers like iPhone, G1, and Pre.
- Enable tethering on iPhone 3.0 - Too easy... (WORLDWIDE carriers) | richardlai's Xanga Site - Weblog richardlai.xanga.com
A walkthrough of how I enabled tethering on my iPhone 3G on O2 UK. It was a lot easier than I thought - no jailbreaking needed, and all you need really is a MobileConfig file, which is essentially what O2 wants to charge you for £15 min per month
- Parallel Kingdom - GPS MMORPG for your cell phone parallelkingdom.com
An online role playing game that places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, chat and interact with your friends and anyone else around you.
- RoamBi - Your Data, iPhone-Style roambi.com
Dynamic visualizations for the iPhone.
The MiFi is an ingenious little device that combines a 3G data modem with a wireless router – essentially bridging the gap between your numerous Wi-Fi enabled devices and cellular broadband.
"A mobile phone app that gives you coupons and deals for businesses around your geographic location." Currently only works in Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
If all you're looking for is information access and traditional web type interactions with your users, then your investments will likely be better spent on a slick mobile site that differentiates for high, medium and low end devices. Your in-house web development folks ought to be able to crank something suitable out for you. If you want deeper interaction with the user or device, then you're going to start looking native. Development costs will be higher, timelines will be longer and life cycle management of your application is going to be much more involved, but you will get keystroke level interaction with the user and complete integration with the underlying OS. Widgets (and their engines) fall out somewhere in the middle.
- Enjoymentland » Locavore enjoymentland.com
"Knowing what’s available in your area at a given time of year is often difficult to determine, so we’ve taken on the task of collecting data from a variety of sources and presenting it all in the most understandable of ways. The Locavore iPhone app will come in handy next time you’re at the market and want to know what’s actually being grown near you, and what is most likely to taste the best right now." US-only, mind.
- NOKIA Point & Find pointandfind.nokia.com
Point your phone at real-world objects and find relevant information and services.
- Fire Eagle Guest Pass slideshare.net
Presentation on ace Fire Eagle hack.
- The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack | mobiForge mobiforge.com
The dotMobi WordPress Mobile Pack is a complete toolkit from dotMobi to help mobilize your WordPress site and blog.