Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

Read Web Development Articles on Your Phone

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This site, called “My How To Articles” describes itself simply as a database of how to articles. It must be a bit of a puzzle to first time visitors. The user interface consists of just a search box. No browsable categories, help, “About” or suggested searches.To find out what it’s about I had to enter queries for random subjects until I got some results My first guess was home improvement tips or MacGyverisms like how to fix a leaking car … Continue reading →

Scottrade Mobile – Quotes, Trading and More

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U.S. discount stock broker Scottrade has a new mobile site with a rich feature set. Public features, available without login, include market research and news (markets overview, statistics, news & commentary, analyst views and a brief market calendar), stock quotes and research (news & commentary, charts, options, fundamentals, insider transactions, earnings, financials and a stock screener), ETF quotes and research (news & commentary, charts, options, performance, portfolio, expenses, Lipper rankings and ETF screener). Scottrade customers can log in to make … Continue reading →

New Opera Mini Bookmarklets – Ping this! and Copy Page Text

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I’ve added several new bookmarklets to the Tools section of the Opera Mini Bookmarklets page at o.Yeswap.com.   If you aren’t familiar with bookmarklets they’re JavaScript snippets that live in a browser bookmark’s URL field. They are sort of a lightweight version of FireFox extensions.  Bookmarklets can do all sorts of clever things like changing the color of all the links on a page, displaying site cookies or HTTP headers, translating the page to a different language or posting a link … Continue reading →

How To Get The Official Wimbledon Site on Any Mobile

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The Championships at Wimbledon, the world’s premiere tennis event started yesterday and will continue through the next two weeks.  This year, the Wimbledon organizers, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, have commissioned IBM to create a mobile web site and iPhone and Android apps for the event. Sadly there’s a bit of fail with both the mobile site and the Android app.  Wimbledon.org claims that you can point your mobile browser at m.wimbledon.org for the mobile site. And … Continue reading →

How to Use the Bing API to Search the Mobile Web

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When Microsoft released the Bing API I speculated that it should be possible to use it to build a real Mobile Web search engine.  By “real” I mean one that would search exclusively for mobile optimized Websites.  I finally got around to trying it today, it was pretty easy, thanks to some some sample code I found on the Bing Developer Website, and it  works surprisingly well. I wrote my search engine in PHP5.  It uses Bing’s JSON API.  I … Continue reading →

Found On The Mobile Web #68

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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 1750 mobile sites. News Greenpeace greenpeaceuk.mobi A selection of the latest environmental news articles and videos from Greenpeace. Free enviromentally themed mobile wallpapers. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory Content: Usability: Travel-Transit/Transit NextBuses (U.K.) mytraveline.mobi Live bus times for public transit buses throughout the U.K.. … Continue reading →

Ovi Store’s Opera Mini is Different

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It’s great that Opera Mini is now in the Ovi Store. I’m a big fan of Mini and use it on all my phones. It’s so much better than Nokia’s WebKit, the BlackBerry Browser and even the Android Browser.  Why? For one it’s much, much faster even on 3G or WiFi.  Plus it has the fit-to-width “Mobile View” option which does away the number one annoyance of mobile browsing – horizontal scrolling. Best of all it supports bookmarklets which I … Continue reading →

s*com – U.K. Based Mobile Job Search

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s*com is a U.K. based recruitment agency specializing in aviation, defence, engineering, government, IT and telecoms jobs. Usability of s*com’s mobile Web site is somewhat hampered by the large banner images and several screens full of boilerplate text touting s*com’s benefits that job seekers have to scroll through to reach the search form. An advanced search form dispenses with the verbiage and allows results to be filtered by industry, permanent/contact and U.K./Rest of the World. Source: Mobility.mobi Filed in: Wap … Continue reading →