Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

FBReader Now Available For Symbian and Harmattan

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FBReader - Day View

My favorite eBook reader is now available for Symbian 5th Ed. and later and MeeGo/Harmattan.  It’s FBReader, which I started using around 2005 on a Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA.  FBReader is open source software that runs on just about every Linux based portable platform including Android and Maemo as well as on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows PCs. The Symbian and MeeGo/Harmattan versions are labeled as Betas with the disclaimer that aren’t production quality. A  production release for both … Continue reading →

New WordPress.com Smartphone Theme, “Minileven”

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NewsDre-Zimbabwe - Symbian Anna Browser

WordPress.com certainly “gets” mobile. Two years ago the freemium blogging service broke new ground by delivering mobile friendly versions of the 5 Million plus blogs it hosts to all mobile browsers. This month WordPress launched a major redesign for one of the two mobile themes it uses. WordPress had been using an older version of the WPTouch mobile theme for modern smartphones and a lightweight theme based on Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition plugin for feature phones and legacy smartphone … Continue reading →

Opera Mini and Mobile For Symbian Update Fixes Opera Link Freezing

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Opera Mobile 11.5 Update 1 - Intomobile

Opera Software has released important bug fix upgrades for the Symbian versions of both Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile11.5. The updates fixs a bug that caused both browsers to lock up if Opera Link bookmark synchronization was enabled. There are some other fixes including one where deleting pre-installed search engines did not “stick”. The change-log is below: Added predictive text input and language choice in search field Fixed issues with browser freezing Fixed issues with browser when Opera Link … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #248

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WP Central

Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly 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 2366 mobile sites. Tech/Mobile/OS – Brand Specific/Microsoft WP Central  m.wpcentral.com Formerly WMExperts, WP Central is a news blog covering Windows Phone. Hardware and software reviews, news and rumors. Part of the Mobile Nations network (Android Central, Crackberry, TiPb and PreCentral). Content  Usability Travel-Transit/Transit Metra Mobile metrarail.com/metra/wap/en/ Schedules, fare information, maps, nearest station … Continue reading →

No Barcode App? Try ZXing’s Online Decoder

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ZXing Online Decoder

ZXing Decoder Online is a web based bar code decoder from ZXing, an open source project that’s also created Android and mobile Java bar code reader apps and a bar code decoding library. The ZXing webapp lets you decode 1D and 2D bar codes found in images online or images uploaded from your device. It displays the contents of the bar code which could be text, a phone number, vCard or a URL. The decoder could be useful if your … Continue reading →

iVillage’s Full Featured New Mobile Site

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iVillage Mobile

NBC Universal’s iVillage is a popular and fast growing online news blog and community targeted at women. It features articles and user driven forum discussions on topics of particular interest to women including pregnancy and parenting, health, food, entertainment, home and garden and beauty and style. iVillage has just launched an ambitious new mobile site that includes the entire iVillage editorial and community content with complete with all images and videos. The Drupal based news sections are mobilized using Mobify’s visual design … Continue reading →

The Verge‘s Eye Pleasing Mobile Edition

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The Verge Mobile

Former Engadget editor in chief Joshua Topolsky’s new tech news site, The Verge, went live Nov 1st. I’m happy to report that it includes a nicely done mobile version. Based on Vox Media’s proprietary publishing platform, The Verge’s mobile edition has a clean, modern look that I find a lot more inviting than the overly busy desktop variant. There’s a mini-slideshow at the top of the homepage, which, thankfully, is not automated. Below it are thumb-nailed links to recent posts in chronological order followed by … Continue reading →

Google Wallet – Poised to Dominate Payments?

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Nexus S and Google Wallet - Image: Google

At last week’s Sprint Open Solutions Conference I got my first look at Google Wallet, the search and advertising company’s mobile payment system. Wallet is the first large scale mobile payment system released to the general public in the US. Here’s my take on how it works and what it means. The Samsung Nexus S 4G on the Sprint network is the first, and so far the only, phone that works with Google Wallet. It contains an NXP PN65 NFC … Continue reading →