Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Found on the Mobile Web #50

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Found on the Mobile Web is an weekly Wap Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the  yeswap.com mobile portal and wapreview.com mobile site directory.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1351 mobile sites. Credit to  Oh! Mobile Directory for discovering the majority of these sites. Travel-Transit/Transit Vancouver TransLink m.translink.ca Schedules for bus, train and ferry service operated by Vancouver, BC’s TransLink public transit agency.  The site also features the agency’s blog.  An iPhone … Continue reading →

Skyfire 0.9 – WVGA Support, Twitter and Facebook Integration

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Skyfire released a new Beta of their free mobile browser for Windows Mobile and S60, Version 0.9. This is a big upgrade, the release notes are huge. Here are some of the highlights. Skyfire now supports almost all Windows Mobile screen resolutions; QVGA (320×240, 240×320), WQVGA (400×240), VGA (640×480), and WVGA (800×480).  On S60, support for the N80’s 352×416 resolution has been added.  No joy for E90 (800 x 352) users yet though. Twitter and Facebook integration: Your Twitter timeline … Continue reading →

Betavine.mobi – Where Are All the Apps?

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The huge international operator Vodafone supports and hosts a mobile developer community and forum on the web at betavine.net.  About a year ago Vodafone added game and application downloads to the site and re-launched Betavine as a community for both developers and users.  At the same time they created a mobile edition of the app portal at betavine.mobi Developers submit new mobile games and applications to Betavine which are then available for download on the web and at betavine.mobi.  Users … Continue reading →

Updated Opera Mini Bookmarklets Page

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The post I wrote two years ago about using bookmarklets in Opera Mini is one of the most popular and most linked to  pages on this site. And why not,  bookmarklets – which are snippets of JavaScript stored in a browser bookmark – are extremely useful and powerful.  They work wonders to make your mobile surfing faster and easier.  With two key presses you can subscribe to a feed in your favorite RSS reader, save a link to the current … Continue reading →

Microsoft Live Mesh for Mobile

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Microsoft will be announcing a free mobile synchronization service with the highly original name of “My Phone” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.  There’s a little more information about it at microsoft.com/windowsmobile/myphone/. My Phone will synchronize contacts, calendar appointments, photos, text messages and files with “the cloud” and will initially be available “by invitation only” for Windows Mobile 6 users. MS is a bit late getting on the mobile cloud synchronization bandwagon.  Apple’s $99/year MobileMe, which does … Continue reading →

Updated: UCWEB 6.3 Official Signed English Version Released for S60

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Updated 23-Nov-2009: with current download links. Regular Wap Review commenter and tipster, JBpseudo emailed me that UCWEB has released an official English version of the free UCWEB  6.3 full-web browser for S60 V3, V2 and V1 phones .  These are signed. sisx/.sis files and can be installed on unmodified, unhacked phones unlike the unofficial (and unsigned) English translation of 6.3 released a few months ago. The new release was  officially announced on the UCWEB forum today.  You can grab the files … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web 49

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Found on the Mobile Web is an occasional WAP Review feature listing newly added and updated sites on the YesWAP.com mobile portal and WapReview mobile site directory. With these latest additions the directory and portal now list 1340 mobile sites. Except as noted I “found” all of these sites on Naiyer Asif’s Oh! Mobile Directory one of the largest and cerainly the fastest growing mobile portal. Somehow Naiyer always seems to be the first to discover new mobile websites. Business/Banking and Payments/US National … Continue reading →

Wamaja – A New Mobile Social Network With Federated IM

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Wamaja (wamaja.mobi) is a new mobile-only social network with blogs, photo sharing, chat and integrated instant messaging .  Wamaja members can IM with each other and with users on Google Talk, Chikka, Gizmo Tiscali.it and Jabber. I found the inter-network IM worked well.  Using it is easy although initially unintuitive and not documented anywhere on the site.  What you do is add the party you want to IM with as a new friend using the format <user>@gmail.com.  They will get … Continue reading →