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The company states that in August, their mobile browser Opera Mini was used by approximately 17.3 million users, who viewed more than 4.1 billion pages - about 242 pages per user, per month.
- Seek Attention - jQuery plugin - by James Padolsey enhance.qd-creative.co.uk
Gracefully get's your users attention by fading out a definable area but leaving the target element (the element which is seeking attention) un-faded.
A collaborative tool that enables you to create online surveys with simplicity and elegance.
- Pinax pinaxproject.com
An open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
- Browser | Picsel Technologies picsel.com
Big in "Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs)", apparently.
- ACCESS - NetFront™ Browser v3.5 access-company.com
Big in "Far East and Asian markets (carrier and OEMs)", apparently.
- Bandcamp bandcamp.mu
Looks nice. "Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL."
- [en] .htaccess Editor htaccesseditor.com
Easily create .htaccess files online
- Magento - Home - Open Source eCommerce Evolved magentocommerce.com
- Karova Store karova.com
- SoundUnwound soundunwound.com
New music site from IMDb and Amazon; pulls data from Musicbrainz, Wikipedia and various other places.
- Vitamin Features » Accessibility In Suit And Tie thinkvitamin.com
This article is for the suits who care: if you can’t use cutting-edge tools, technologies or techniques, what can you do to ensure that you’re doing all you can for all of your users?
- Pixel Perfect pixelperfectplugin.com
A Firefox/Firebug extension that allows web developers and designers to easily overlay a web composition over top of the developed HTML. By toggling the composition on and off, the developer can visually see how many pixels they are off in development.
- Design for Emotion and Flow - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.
- Adactio: Articles—The System Of The World adactio.com
Brilliant. Wish I'd seen this.
- nodes.fm nodes.fm
A freshly launched elective payment music site. Artists upload their music and listeners electively pay the artist what they want to download their albums.
- Django cheat sheet (Mercurytide) mercurytide.co.uk
- Announcing dmigrations simonwillison.net
dmigrations is a Django migrations tool. It addresses a common problem in Django development: if you change a model after creating the database tables for it with syncdb, how do you reflect those changes in your database tables without blowing away your existing data and starting again from scratch?
- Big Cartel » Bringing the Art to the Cart bigcartel.com
Hosted shops. Look fairly nice.
- Sequel Pro – MySQL database management app for Mac OS X mjmedia.com.au
MySQL database management app for Mac OS X 10.5
- JeffCroft.com: Django for non-programmers jeffcroft.com
Handy intro.
- Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The easy way thomas.broxrost.com
This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,
This document gives general guidelines for web developers and content authors who are searching for directions to help create sites for the mobile web.
- Yospace SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition yospace.com
"Support for XHTML-MP, i-mode and 3G devices" but £299 plus VAT. Ouch.
- Ralph Lauren Mobile m.ralphlauren.com
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Dear Agencies, it’s time to join the start-up party uk.techcrunch.com
One of the biggest problems in the UK, and I would say Ireland as well, is that digital or ‘new media’ agencies only ever decide to incorporate new Web apps or social networks into their thinking when they bubble up from Silicon Valley or elsewhere. Few ever think to jump in and create a few apps themselves.
- W3C mobileOK Checker [BETA] validator.w3.org
Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.
- 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."
- [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.
Transcription of Dan Cederholm's talk at An Event Apart. Some good ideas in here.
- Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com
- 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.
- just paying the bills - a web studio justpayingthebills.com
An experimental web development and design studio.
- UserVoice » Customer Feedback 2.0 uservoice.com
Customer feedback app, as used on blip.fm.
- 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."
- Tech Patterns :: Firefox UserAgent Switcher list techpatterns.com
Less useful than the dev.mobi list.
- 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.