Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

MakeUseOf.com Made Mobile Friendly with Mobify

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MakeUseOf - Mobile View

MakUseOf is a popular tech blog that reviews desktop and mobile software, websites and webapps and offers tips and downloads to help make your computer and smartphone use more productive. The emphasis is on great but little known Websites, free apps  and tips for Linux, Mac, iPhone and Windows users. In addition to the main blog, MakeUseOf also hosts the Directory, an extensive catalog with capsule reviews of the editor’s favorite mobile and web apps.  MakeUseOf Answers is a user … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #242

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Sephora

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 2354 mobile sites. Shopping/Stores Sephora m.sephora.com Sephora’s mobile optimized site accepts gift cards and uses billing and shipping information from user profiles to simplify shopping for beauty, skin care, makeup, hair and fragrance products from your phone. Via: New York Times Content: Usability: Shopping … Continue reading →

Instabam – Your World Through The Eyes of Others

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Instabam

A new location aware mobile web app that displays photos taken near your current location. The photos come from the popular iPhone photo taking and photo sharing app Instagram using the later’s public API. Most are altered using Instagram’s arty (some say cheesy) filters. Pictures are displayed as a grid of thumbnails. Taping a picture shows it full-screen along with when and where it was shot and the photographer’s name and avatar. A slider lets you alter the range that … Continue reading →

Untappd’s Mobile Web App – Checking In With A Beer

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Untappd - The Pub

Called “A Foursquare for Beer Lovers” by Mashable, Untappd is a location aware mobile web app where you check-in with a beer. You can get badges for when and where you check-in and for each different beer you check-in with. Users can add new beers including homebrews and keep a beer wishlist of brews they want to try. Untappd uses the Foursquare API for location support and works anywhere in the world where there’s beer. Other users can see your check-ins … Continue reading →

Go2’s “What to do” – Local Search and Events

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Go2 What To Do

Go2.com is one of the mobile web’s oldest destinations. The URL has hosted a mobile site since 1999.  The original Go2 was a WML based  local search site that was remarkably powerful for its time. Go2 pioneered features like mobile driving directions and the “what’s nearby” search.  In 2002, Go2 and AT&T collaborated to launch one of the world’s first location based mobile web services.  It used cell tower triangulation to find a user’s location and show nearby restaurants and stores. … Continue reading →

Google News Now Optimized For Opera Mini

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Google News for Opera Mini

Click images to view full size. Yesterday Google announced that they are now serving Opera Mini visitors to news.google.com a version of the site that’s optimized for their browsers. Up to now Opera Mini users had been seeing the bare bones legacy mobile version of News. The legacy view is optimized for embedded feature phone WAP browsers and only displays five headlines from a single section per page with no images. Google News for Opera Mini is very similar to … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #241

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Web, Mobile Development

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 2343 mobile sites. MobileTech Web, Mobile Development www.blog.highub.com Shi Chuan is a mobile web developer and contributor to the HTML5 Boilerplate and Smartphone front-end Matrices projects. His blog covers mobile and web design and development topics and includes lots of tips and tutorials. … Continue reading →

Free Passes For Qualcomm’s Uplinq

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Qualcomm has given me ten free passes valued at $375 for Uplinq, their annual conference for mobile developers, publishers, device manufacturers and operators. I’m giving the passes away to WapReview readers on a first come, first served basis.  Read on to find out how to get yours. Uplinq sessions focus on Brew MP and Android app development and on ways device manufacturers, operators and system integrators can enhance their offerings using Qualcomm’s products, tools and services.  There will also be … Continue reading →