Tag Archives: mobile site review

SF Chronicle Launches Mobile Site

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Here in San Francisco, the local daily paper is the San Francisco Chronicle.  While it’s not a journalistic giant like The New York Times or Washington Post, it’s still a  pretty good read, with some of my favorite political columnists (Willie Brown, Matier and Ross) and the best local news, sports and business coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area. One thing about the Chronicle though is that it’s never been very easy to get it on a mobile device.  … Continue reading →

Nciku – Mobile English/Chinese Dictionary

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Nciku Mobile (m.nciku.com) is an English/Chinese, Chinese/English online mobile dictionary. It’s a simple but effective tool  providing translations of English words into Chinese and vice/versa.  Nciku supports entry and display of simplified Chinese characters and Pinyin, the familiar representation ( Beijing and Ni hao, for example) of Chinese in the Roman alphabet. In addition to literal translations to and from Pinyin and Chinese characters, Nciku provides phonetic pronunciation of English words and  examples using the translated words in sentences.  Nciku … Continue reading →

Just Go – Custom Mobile Travel Guides

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Just Go Guides, a new service from Portugal’s ApiApi, Lda offers a couple of mobile based alternatives to traditional paper or electronic travel guidebooks. One, JustGoGuides.mobi, is traditional mobile web based travel guide. The other is more innovative, an on-demand mobile travel guidebook publishing service. Just Go, which covers Mexican and Central and South American destinations, lets you create free custom travel guides for just the specific countries, cities and dates of your trip. The downloadable guides are offered as … Continue reading →

AutoTrader Mobile

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Looking to buy or sell a used car or motorcycle? If you are in the UK, AutoTrader looks like it would be helpful. It started as one of those free shopper magazines that you find on racks at the supermarket but has expanded to include a website and now a mobile site at autotrader.mobi. The mobile version lets you search a database of over 400,000 vehicles for sale by make, model and postcode. The site is free to use for … Continue reading →

Marriott Mobile Recommends Opera Mini

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In the past, I’ve been pretty critical of mobile web hotel booking sites. Horrible usability, errors caused by invalid markup or excessively large pages and the inability to easily complete a booking have pretty much stymied every attempt I’ve made to book a room using the mobile web. Finding and booking a room for the night using your phone should be a no brainer. Actually it’s pretty easy if you just call the 800 number of one of the big … Continue reading →

Linux Journal’s Big Mobile Site

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Since 1994, print magazine Linux Journal has been covering the open source OS from all angles with news, editorials, reviews, and how to articles on using the Linux and developing software for it.  The articles cover a wide range of skills levels from beginner to guru kernel hacker.  The quality of writing is very high for a tech magazine, hardly surprising as well known blogger and co-author  of the Cluetrain Manifesto, Doc Searls is senior editor and writes many of … Continue reading →

Google Gears Opens Up Mobile LBS

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As promised in May at Google I/O, Google has added a geolocation API to Gears. It supports IE, Firefox and Mobile Internet Explorer. When the latest Gears is installed on a compatible phone, the API provides JavaScript methods to retrieve the device’s current location using Cell IDs and/or GPS. Gears provides a standards compliant way to share your location with mobile websites, opening up all sorts of possibilities for location based mobile web services. The announcement is on the official … Continue reading →

NYC’s Mobile Train Schedule

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Mobile Train Schedule (mobiletrainschedule.com) is an interactive schedule for New York City’s three major commuter rail lines; The Long Island Railroad, New Jersey Transit and Metro-North.  This isn’t an official site, it seems to be an ad supported service from Actuan Mobile. The main feature is “Point to Point Train Times“, a simple schedule lookup (top image), where you pick the start and end stations from dropdowns, choose the time of departure and day of the week and get a … Continue reading →