Category Archives: Entertainment

101cookbooks

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The iPhone has spawned a bunch of new mobile web sites launching as “iPhone Applications”. You can find a big listing of these at iPhoneApplicationList.com. Many need the advanced JavaScript capabilities and 480px wide screen of the iPhone but some like 101cookbooks will work on almost any phone. 101cookbooks is the site of San Francisco photographer, cookbook author and collector of cookbooks, Heidi Swanson. Heidi has a lot more than 101 cookbooks and every few days she publishes a recipe … Continue reading →

Find Song Lyrics with Your Phone

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Song Lyrics (lyrics.twilightwap.com) is neat little mobile web application that lets you look up the lyrics to popular songs. It’s hosted on Twilightwap.com, a mobile portal that claims to be the world’s largest with 7 million daily pageviews! The Song Lyrics site has lyrics for 320,000 songs. When I first heard about this I thought that the way a lyrics search site should work is that you enter a snippet of lyrics and the site does a full-text search to … Continue reading →

MSNBC’s Hidden Mobile Gems

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MSNBC, the cable TV news channel operated by Microsoft and NBC has a rather good mobile web site. There is no dedicated URL for the mobile site as far as I know, but if you go to MSNBC.com with almost any mobile browser, the site’s browser detection kicks in to serve mobile pages. It’s a typical multi section news portal much in the style of CNN’s and the BBC’s mobile sites. Unlike those two which use in house reporters extensively, … Continue reading →

ThrillNetwork.com

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ThrillNetwork.com is a roller coaster and amusement park fan site. The mobile edition of ThrillNetwork (mobile.thrillnetwork.com) is aimed at PDAs and Smartphones and works best on devices with screens at least 220px wide and able to handle pages up to 100 KB in size including images. The site also works very in Opera Mini. If you want to visit ThrillNetwork with a typical phone’s built in browser you should probably use a transcoder like Skweezer or Google‘s. ThrillNetwork Mobile features … Continue reading →

New Flickr Mobile

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Flickr recently rolled out an updated version of their mobile site at m.flickr.com. When I first reviewed Flickr Mobile I found it limited but useful. This update removes most of the limitations I mentioned. Photos are now searchable by tag or description and new links give you more options for viewing your contact’s photos. One of the best features of Flickr Mobile, the ability to upload photos directly from your browser, has been retained. Browser uploading only works from certain … Continue reading →

A Fashion Rag on Your Phone

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The Daily Front Row (dfr.mlogic3g.com) is a print fashion magazine published in conjunction with and distributed at major fashion shows. I couldn’t find an online edition other than the mobile one. This is the first time that I’ve seen a print publisher go straight to the mobile web. I’d read more into this but for the fact that the Daily Front Row mobile site is apparently a Cingular promotion targeting attendees at last week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Los Angeles. … Continue reading →

Fandango Mobile

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Fandango (mobile.fandango.com) has launched a mobile web site. As every moviegoer in the US knows, Fandango is a web business selling movie tickets. They are best known for the goofy ads featuring a frumpy couple played by hand puppets made from paper bags that participating theatres show before every movie. To use the web version of Fandango, you pay by credit card and print out your ticket. The site also lets you search for movie theatre show times, read reviews … Continue reading →

Name That Tune!

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I stumbled onto a mobile site that will tell you what song is currently playing on almost any US radio station. The site is mobile.yes.com and it’s actually not new having been around for over three years. It works pretty well after you get past the initial hurtle of finding your station – which is a bit tedious on the phone. You first pick your city and then the station. Yes has thankfully broken the city list up by first … Continue reading →