Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

UC Browser Version 7 Beta 2 Is Much Improved – But Popular Sites Are Blocked By The “Great Firewall”

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There is a major new release of  the UCWEB browser in the works.  It’s Version 7.0 and is already in its second Beta.  The official Beta releases are Chinese only but several users have created English translations and posted them to the UCWEB User Forum. No one seems to have translated the Symbian S60 3rd edition variant of  7.0 Beta 2 yet, so I’m running a Java ME version on my N95, UC Browser 7 Beta 2 Java Script Improvement … Continue reading →

Live Journal’s Instant Mobile Blogs

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LiveJournal is one of the oldest blogging platforms, launching in 1999 and remains one of the most popular today with over 23 million users. In addition to being a free platform for publishing a personal blog or journal, Live Journal has strong social networking features including group blogs (called communities), profiles and friends lists. Individual posts and entire blogs can be configured to be readable by friends only. Well known Live Journal blogs include the gossip site ONTD (mobile) and … Continue reading →

How To Use Taptu’s New Real-Time Search For iPhone/Android On Any Phone.

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My favorite mobile search engine, Taptu, added a new option today – “real-time” search. So what is real time search and how is it different from plain old search? Google is pretty quick at updating its index. I typically find that my own posts show up in Google within about an hour and searches for specific breaking national or international news stories return something relevant in Google as soon as the story hits major news sites. But that’s not real-time … Continue reading →

Free Real-Time Quotes and “Guru” Analysis from NASDAQ.com Mobile

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The mobile version of NASDAQ.com, launched today, offers real-time and after-hours stock quotes, news, charts, commentary and “Guru Analysis”, which rates stocks based on the formulas touted by eight different investment analysts. The mobile site which was created by mDog.com, is attractive and easy to navigate and should work well with most mobile browsers, although the site’s 42 KB page size may be too large for some feature phone browsers. NASDAQ, the second largest U.S. stock exchange, was the world’s … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web – 188

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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 2007 mobile sites. Sports FUEL TV m.fueltv.com Fuel is an extreme sports channel from the Fox television network in the US. Fuel’s mobile site has skateboarding, snowboarding, motocross, surfing, BMX and FMX. news and photos. Source Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: News Current … Continue reading →

The Place for N97 Fanatics

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The N97 is Nokia’s flagship model, at least until the N900 comes out. It didn’t get very good reviews initially but with last week’s release of new v 2.0 firmware I’m seeing a lot of positive reports about the handset. The N97 seems to be selling like hotcakes too, moving two million units in the first three months to become Nokia’s best selling Symbian device. Some of those two million have likely been to N97 Fanatics to read the best … Continue reading →

New Release of Mobile Design Tool, Mobify

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Yesterday, Mobify released Version 2 of their cloud based visual tool for creating mobile views of existing Web sites. Mobify is aimed squarely at Web designers. Using it, a designer “Mobifies” an existing desktop site by selecting elements using a a browser based, visual interface. The selected dynamic elements are then laid out on a mobile canvas where headers, footers and static HTML blocks can be added and the  CSS styling  can be tweaked. Finished “Mobile Views”, as Mobify calls … Continue reading →

Why No “How Stuff Works” Articles On howstuffworks.com?

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HowStuffWorks.com is a great site featuring thousands of articles that uses  non-technical language, charts, diagrams and videos how all sorts of complex products, technologies and processes work. Typical articles have titles like “How X works” where “X” can be anything from “OLEDs” to “identity theft“. I recently discovered that How Stuff Works has a mobile site and immediately headed there to check it out. I have to say I was a little disappointed. There’s nothing wrong with the site’s design,it’s … Continue reading →