Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Try the New XTGem Mobile Site Builder v2 Beta

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XTGem Panel

Mobile site builder XTGem has been growing by leaps and bounds. According to CEO Povilas Musteikis, the free service now has nearly a million users. Of course not all are active but about 100,000 of XTGem’s user sites generate page views every day. Total page views are running about 300 million per month and traffic is growing by 20% per month. XTGem is built around an easy to use template driven site generator/editor. It’s quite powerful with features like the … Continue reading →

How To Create A WordPress Mobile Pack Custom Theme

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WPMP Base Theme

I consider WordPress Mobile Pack (WPMP) by James Pearce & friends to be the best plug-in for creating a mobile friendly version of your WordPress Blog. It detects mobile devices and serves them a compact, fast loading version of your blog. There’s a link to the full site on every page so mobile users aren’t locked into mobile formatted version. And unlike some other mobile plugins that only work with the iPhone and other high end devices, WPMP detects all … Continue reading →

Nokia Releases A Minor Update For the N8, C7 and C6-01

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Nokia pushed out a minor application update for Symbian^3 phones yesterday.  I’m not sure if it’s available globally yet or not. It showed up on my US market N8 this morning and users in the UK and India are reportedly seeing it as well. To see if it’s available, run the “Sw Update” app in the “Applications” folder of the N8 or the “Applications > Tools” folder on the C7 and C6-01. The 1.06 MB update downloads quickly over 3G … Continue reading →

UC Browser 7.5 for Java ME Goes Public

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UC Browser Free Copy 1

UC Browser 7.5 for Java ME has been released.  There are no obvious differences from the Beta I blogged about last month, although I imagine there are some behind the scenes bug fixes. Download UC 7.5 Java from ucweb.com or wap.uc.cn (mobile). If you get a non-English page, click the “English” link at the top of the page (bottom of the page on the mobile version) and  then click “Java“. Both signed and unsigned versions are available.  Use the signed … Continue reading →

2011 Predictions: What’s Ahead for the Mobile Web and SmartPhone Platforms

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Photo: waltercolor – cc some rights reserved 2011 should be another great year for mobile browsing and mobile web apps.  Here are my predictions of what the new year will bring for mobile web sites, web apps, browsers, and OS platforms. 1) Significant advances in browser technology.  There will be new browsers from  Nokia for both Symbian and MeeGo.  And Google, Opera, Mozilla, RIM and HP/Palm will continue make incremental improvements in their browsers’ JavaScript performance and HTML5 support. Mobile … Continue reading →

James Kendrick’s Mobile News Blog Now On ZDNet

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ZDNet Mobile News Blog

James Kendrick is one of my favorite mobile tech bloggers. He’s also one of the first. As his blog jkOnTheRun‘s tagline used to say, he’s been “using mobile devices since they weighed 30 pounds”. James covers just about every significant mobile gadget and software release with insightful reviews and analysis and wraps up the week’s top mobile news every Friday in a ‘Mobile Tech Manor’ post. jkOnTheRun became one of the GigaOm networks family of tech blogs in 2008 and … Continue reading →

Gtricks, “The Googleverse Blog” Now On Mobile

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Gtricks Mobile

Gtricks, “the Googleverse Blog” is a great site for anyone who uses Google webapps, and who doesn’t. It’s packed with hundreds of tips on how to maximize your productivity using Google search, Gmail, Blogger, Orkut, Buzz, Reader, News, Doc, iGoogle and all the other Google services. Content includes little known but efficient ways of using Google products, secrets for finding right content with Google search and quick and easy ways to become Google power user. The site is updated several … Continue reading →

Your Blogger Blog Is Now Mobile Friendly

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Blogger in Draft - Mobile Templates

Google’s Blogger is the largest blogging platform by far, hosting over 40 million individual blogs. While famous for the many spam blogs or “splogs” it hosts, the free service is also used by millions of legitimate bloggers including some well know ones like Google Operating System, PostSecret, the law blog Althouse and Michael Mace’s Mobile Opportunity.  It’s even used for some big corporate blogs like the official Twitter and Alexa blogs and all of Google own blogs such as the … Continue reading →