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Geogad – Free Audio Travel Guides

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Geogad.com is a Siicon Valley start up whose product is mobile travel guides.  Each guide is  a walking tour about an hour in length presented using maps, images and audio.  There are currently 15 tours covering San Francisco, Vancouver BC, Savannah, GA and New Orleans.  Initially the tours were available in two formats, on the web at Geogad.com or as a zip file containing a one page PDF walking map and about 50 MP3 audio clips.  You load the MP3s … Continue reading →

ZeroRubbish Portal Lives Up to it’s Name

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ZeroRubbish (zerorubbish.com) is a comprehensive mobile portal which combines a mobile link directory, multi-search engine, chat rooms and forums with social networking features including profiles, guest book and shared personal link directories.  As the site’s name implies, submitted links pass through an approval process to eliminate adult and low quality content, non-mobile sites and other “rubbish”. No registration is needed to browse the directory, follow links and use the search engine. Registered users get access to chat and forums and … Continue reading →

Mjelly Adds Downloads and Mobile Sites

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Free ringtone site mjelly.com (mobile m.mjelly.com) has branched out.  In addition to its funky collection of sound effects,  old school phone ringers, cartoon and TV themes, rave and metal tones; the site now offers downloadable applications and games and a mobile site directory. The new content sections are pretty small so far.  Right now mjelly lists  21 app downloads and 54 mobile sites compared with 352 ringtones. But the apps and sites are all well known, high quality ones like … Continue reading →

Found on the Mobile Web 44

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Welcome to Found on the Mobile Web, a semi-regular feature at WapReview where we list, describe and link to sites recently added to the WapReview Mobile Directory and YesWap.mobi mobile portal.  With these latest additions the directory and portal now contain 1209 mobile sites. In Search/Directions wap.geocaching.com – Geo-caching is a sort of geek treasure hunt where players search for hidden caches using Geographic Positioning Systems (GPS).  The GPS coordinates of caches are published on the Internet.  Each cache is … Continue reading →

Priceline.mobi

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I like using Priceline.com for booking hotels.   It’s an “opaque” auction site where you bid for a room by minimum star rating, city and district.  You don’t find out the name of the hotel until you submit a wining bid. I’ve found some great deals over the years using Priceline, the LA Omni for $50/night and both the Hyatt Regency and Marriott Pinnacle in Vancouver, BC for $60/night.  Of course you don’t usually get such a good price, but … Continue reading →

Slandr – Best Mobile Twitter Client?

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With Twitter no longer sending SMS updates except in India, Canada and the US there has to be a lot of interest in other ways to get updates on a mobile phone.  As long as you have unlimited or cheap data you can easily follow your Twitter friends using the mobile web.  Twitter has a mobile web based client at  m.twitter.com.  It’s rather bare bones but Twitter has an API and third parties have used it to create rich mobile … Continue reading →