There’s a new version of Opera Mini out. The new release fixes quite a few bugs and adds support for the T-Mobile Dash and most of the Motorola iDEN handsets used on the Nextel network here in the US, Telus in Canada and a dozen or so small carriers around the world. Details on the Opera Mini Blog. For most Opera Mini users this is a minor release, but not for me. My main phone is a Motorola i855 on … Continue reading
Update: The Tour of California mobile site that I rant about below no longer uses the annoying meta-refresh! Thank you, to whoever is responsible. There’s a bit of html, a meta tag which you can add to a web page to cause the page to reload after a specified number of seconds. It looks like <meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”60″> Which means that every 60 seconds the page will reload itself. It even works on many mobile web browsers. In general meta … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly Wap Review feature showcasing sites added to the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com mobile directory. Business/News Ad Week: (mobile.adweek.com) The weekly advertising trade magazine now has a mobile site. The ad industry news site is searchable. The search page is much too complicated for good mobile usability, however. FnWeb: (www.fnweb.com/pda) Financial news from Thailand. In addition to news articles, fnWeb lists stock market indexes from Asian and world markets, exchange rates and … Continue reading
I’m sick and tired of network operators and handset manufacturers blocking applications from access to certain phone features in the name of “security”. This may not be an issue for the majority of mobile users who never install programs on their phones. But for someone like me interested in pushing the limits of what can be done with these little computers the limitations are very frustrating. I install every native and Java application I find just to see what it … Continue reading
Found on the Mobile Web is a weekly Wap Review feature listing sites added to the yeswap.com mobile portal and WapReview.com directory in the past week. Business/News StreetIQ: (m.streetiq.com) The mobile site for investment news in podcast form. Links to 20 or so recent audio files on stocks and investing from around the world. Mail-Chat-Talk JaJah Mobile: (mobile.jajah.com) JaJah now has a mobile web version of their VOIP service. After registering at www.jajah.com, you can use JaJah to make cheap … Continue reading
Some rights reserved Russell Buckley’s hosting a special Carnival of the Mobilists at MobHappy to choose the Carnival’s Post of the Year. There are ten finalists and you, the reader, get to vote for the best post. The winner gets $1000 and the runner up $500. Click over to MobHappy, read all the great entries and don’t forget to vote here for the best. The password is mobilists. Don’t let the fact that I’m one of the finalists influence your … Continue reading
Social bookmarking using del.icio.us and similar sites is huge on the web and I think it’s about to really take off on the mobile web too. Surfing, bookmarking and sharing your bookmarks doesn’t require intensive keying, so it works as well on the mobile web as it does on the full web. I’d go so far as to say that social bookmarking has the potential to become as become as big as sharing ringtones and photos. A great way to … Continue reading
Update: Bookmarklets are working again! I don’t know what happened yesterday but I’m glad it was temporary, I’ve been bookmarking all day with no problems. Incidentally, I’ve added a couple more bookmarklets to o.yeswap.com Google Translate Translate the current page to English from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish. Wayback Machine View old versions of the current page at archive.org. Ignore the rest of this post, it’s outdated and no longer true. —– It looks … Continue reading