#mobile (321 links)
- 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
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.
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.
Via dannero.
- 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.
- 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.
Via smitchio.
- QuirksBlog: Introduction to W3C Widgets quirksmode.org
Hadn't realised there was a W3C Widget Spec in the pipeline.
- Probability plc | m-gaming market brief probabilityplc.com
"Add the billion plus PC owners who, from time to time, leave their desks and you get a glimpse of the untapped reservoir of potential new gamblers which is the m-gambling marketplace." That sentence makes me feel a little ill.
- Rescue Team Management, Incident Logs, Analytics: Decisions For Heroes. decisionsforheroes.com
Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."
- WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone ↔ BraveNewCode Inc. bravenewcode.com
Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone application-like experience when viewed from an iPhone or iPod touch.
- MMF - Mobile Accessibility mobileaccessibility.info
The Global Accessibility Reporting Initiative (GARI) project was developed to provide a central information source to learn about accessibility in mobile devices.
- iui - Google Code code.google.com
User Interface (UI) Library for Safari development on iPhone
- building.jjh - The potential of location-aware music streaming building.jjholloway.com
The more I think about it, the more I want a portable Last.fm player. Not just a client app, but a proper dedicated piece of hardware, with big round love, ban and skip buttons.
Quick compendium of things to bear in mind when building iPhone sites.
- Blackbaud Labs - Labs Article labs.blackbaud.com
"One day it dawned on me that Webkit is VERY similar on Safari for Windows and the iPhone. Could I somehow embed just the rendering component into a native Windows application and give it enough polish to do a decent job of simulating the iPhone Web browsing experience?" It would appear that the answer is "yes".
Via paul.irish.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- Bulletproof Mobile Device Detection and Style Sheets without User Agent Detection or Server-Side Scripting - Bushido Designs Web Development Blog bushidodesigns.net
A List Apart published an article called “Return of the Mobile Style Sheet”. While the article provides some good information, it has several major flaws. After testing this method extensively, I decided to try and build a better mousetrap.
Via alastc.
- Bluetooth message saves scousers' livers • The Register theregister.co.uk
Unlike previous campaigns, which required those carousing to have Bluetooth devices enabled and receptive, the Liverpool campaign used adverts projected onto walls and buildings around the city centre to encourage drinkers to turn on their Bluetooth connectivity
- Report: Apple Dominates the Mobile Web - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
The latest data from AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, shows that Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share. This growth, interestingly enough, does not just come from the iPhone, but the iPod touch also saw a meteoric rise in usage during the last month.
- YouTube - Wikitude AR Travel Guide uk.youtube.com
Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.
- The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.
- Nokia - Nokia Map Loader for Mac nokia.com
"With Nokia MapLoader for Mac, you can sideload maps to your phone directly from your Mac. This way, you can save a lot on your data transfer costs – especially if you are planning a trip abroad." Wish you could sideload Google Maps for Mobile.
- Meet LiveGuy - Brought to you by Vodafone liveguy.vodafone.co.uk
Somebody's been reading Brighton Rock.
A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections.
Via infovore.
- django-bloom - Google Code code.google.com
Bloom is set of open source pluggable applications for rapidly developing mobile websites in Django.
- Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com forbes.com
"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."
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.
- 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.
"Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe." Smart.
Create a mobile code with a few simple clicks. Write a message, your phone number, or a link to a website and change it into a mobile code, which can be scanned using a camera phone.
This article will cover the W3C’s recommended option for supplying style to your mobile documents—CSS Mobile Profile 2.0. I will introduce what is available in the mobile profile and how it differs from CSS 2.1; then, I will discuss progressive enhancement and applying more advanced styles to more capable devices.
- Nokia To Debut Mobile Lifestreaming App - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
For users of Nokia phones, though, a new app will soon be revealed that does exactly what we always dreamed a mobile lifestreaming app should: geotag your media and upload it to the web.
- TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » MySpace looks to mobile to take the fight back to Facebook uk.techcrunch.com · Archived on
According to a recent Nielsen Mobile Advertising Report MySpace Mobile is the leading mobile social networking site in Europe, occupying first or second position in four of the five key markets measured. Visiting social networks on mobile phones is experiencing big growth in Europe.