#mobile (304 links)
- djangobile - Google Code code.google.com
Djangobile is a django extension for render web pages according to device capabilities. Therefore djangobile offers an implementation for W3C Working Draft IDEAL (Interface DEscription Authoring Language).
- How to: Fake the iPhone User Agent : Pain in the Tech paininthetech.com
- My thoughts on Consumer LBS - RussellBeattie.com russellbeattie.com
Disagree with most of this but an interesting perspective. "Most LBS applications are a black hole of wasted time, effort, money, and opportunity."
- Google Mobile Optimizer google.co.uk
- [DRAFT] Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities w3.org
People with disabilities (using desktop or laptop computers) and people without disabilities who are using mobile devices have similar interaction limitations and they experience similar barriers when interacting with Web sites. There is also significant overlap between the design solutions for both.
Screenshots from the Android SDK.
- Android Developers Blog: Announcing a beta release of the Android SDK android-developers.blogspot.com
The beta SDK that we're releasing today is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0. Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes.
- blackrimglasses - The Bottom 1.5%, up from 0% blackrimglasses.com
One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s.
- Blog on Fire » Blog Archive » Fire Eagle is open!! feblog.yahoo.net
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
- minidetector - Google Code code.google.com
"A simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a ".mobile" attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles."
- tilt view : find mobile websites or url tiltview.com
A config file that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself.
- 2D Sense 2dsense.com
QR and other 2D code recognition for iphone
Urban game based on cameraphones and the use QR-Codes.
- Nokia Sports Tracker Beta sportstracker.nokia.com
A GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored in your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes.
- 3dtracking free.3dtracking.net
Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route.
- Location Technologies Primer techcrunch.com
Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices
- adaptive path » blog » Rachel Hinman » Greedy Mobile Interfaces adaptivepath.com
The dominance of visually-driven interfaces become especially problematic in the mobile context. Design principles and conventions like WYSIWYG and GUI become brittle and broken on small devices.
- Walrss walrss.com
"Get a handy little iPhone or iPod Touch version of any website." Genius. Makes me wish I had an iPhone.
- Log time and expenses to Harvest with Twitter getharvest.com
By connecting your Twitter account to your Harvest account, you will be able to perform simple commands in Harvest by sending Twitter messages to Harvest.
- DeviceAtlas | DeviceAtlas deviceatlas.com
The world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information. Everything you ever wanted to know about every handset on the planet.
- Vitamin Features » Coding for the mobile web thinkvitamin.com
- advertising practitioner: phones, attention, rods of media power russelldavies.typepad.com
Advertising's finest moments always come in the compression of complex, confusing information into simple, stark, attention-grabbing images and ideas. That challenge is at it's greatest on the phone.
- AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant appleinsider.com
Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset -- a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.
Web sites can more efficiently meet both goals when developers understand the significant overlap between making a Web site accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities.
- adaptive path » Don’t design for “mobile” - design for mobility adaptivepath.com
"What I’ve seen in our work is that form factor, though important, is not crucial. In fact, it might be a misleading concern. The thing that’s interesting about designing for mobile isn’t the form of the device. It’s that the device comes with you
- AdMob + iPhone + LandRover = Good Results techcrunch.com
"The iPhone has become a more effective means of targeted mobile advertising campaigns than regular phones; the integration with Google Maps and the display of video provides a richer experience for both the viewer, and for the company seeking to expose t
- Google Mobile Maps PinPoints Your Location Without GPS techcrunch.com
"Today, [Google] updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers". Hurrah! Results suck for me, though.
- Calcium - Fast free calculator for S60 mtvoid.com
Getting tired of the S60 calculator? We were, so we made our own. Using some of the concepts that make ControlFreak so easy to use, we removed the need to select on-screen buttons and moved all the operations to the joystick.
Turn your camera phone into a scanner, copier, and fax. * Clean photos of documents, whiteboards and business cards. * Extract any text and contact information * Store, search and share online"
Displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.
- Nokia - Beta Labs nokia.com
- twibble - a location aware twitter client for smartphones :: DAS ZENTRALORGAN das-zentralorgan.de
A mobile twitter client application for the Nokia N95. In addition to some basic twitter functionality it can make use of the built-in GPS of the N95 to add your current position to a tweet.
- Slashdot | Vodafone Move Invites Web Development Chaos hardware.slashdot.org
Some pretty useful thoughts on mobile web in the comments.
- Lessons From Google Mobile - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Some good points about mobile development.
- Vitamin Features » Make your site mobile friendly thinkvitamin.com
How do your web pages fare in today’s mobile browsers?
- Microsoft shows its hand to stay in the mobile web war | The Register theregister.co.uk
Microsoft had its hand forced this week into unveiling just a little of its arsenal in the war to win the browser battle on the mobile phone.
- Tom Morris: Thursday, February 22, 2007 blogs.opml.org
You can then quite easily subscribe to individual Tube lines and get updates via whatever means you deem appropriate as you would as a Twitter user.
- The 55 Piece Mobile Search Tool Kit readwriteweb.com
55 piece tool kit for mobile search
- ready.mobi Report mr.dev.mobi
This report tests the mobile-readiness of your site using industry best practices & standards