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Widgets: One more step to simplicity...
There's no doubt that widgets still remain in the spotlight. It was not so long ago when Nokia WRT plug-ins for Adobe Dreamweaver , Microsoft Visual Studio and Aptana Studio were released (IMHO, these represent about 80%-90% of the web development environments, so it...
jack44, 29 June 2009 |
Type less in your mobile! Try the new Mobile Tiny URL...
Hi! A long time not posting. I was working ;-) Here is the first project I want to share with you. It's still in beta testing, and I'm opening to suggestions, critics, bugs, and other comments. You can try it free at www.mobiletinyurl.com Mobile Tiny URL...
Use WRT plug-in to build widget for global distribution...
You may be aware of the announcement that Nokia made this Monday, 16 February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona about the new publishing to Ovi solution at http://publish.ovi.com , and the forthcoming Ovi Store for mobile applications and content. The...
Increase in the trend of web browsing on mobile ...
I have been doing desktop research for the past week on web browsing on mobile. Come across this recent report about China's mobile web user rise by 113% in 2008. 39.5% of Chinese Internet users or More than 117 millions chinese users have gone online from their...
Access FN feeds and Ovi site via iGoogle full canvas
iGoogle recently has launched a feature to allow gadgets to show in canvas view. I have tried a few canvas view enable gadgets and really like them. Then I remember a while back, using the sample Feeds/Tabs sample, I have modified it to read rss feeds from Forum Nokia and...
Table sorting with JavaScript
It has been again a few months since my last post. A few months? Really??? (Time flies, I have to agree...) Anyhow, it has been even longer, way longer, since I did anything on the Web development side. My old pet project (national team statistics for Ultimate...
Are mobile browsers ready for full web?
Looking from developer's perspective, developing for mobiles is not always that easy. If you're mobile web developer, you always have to test your work on many mobile browsers. The Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group has released a set of tests that assess the...
Browser as an application platform
I've read the following analysis from ARCchart with great interest. I'm already familiar with the idea of writing applications for mobile browsers and that it can be considered as a real alternative for mobile software development. WidSets and Widgets are all...
Navigation and browsing, the problem with screen real estate
A big issue for mobile devices is always the screen real estate and especially with the web. A solution is to hide all the user controls in menus or layers but that makes it difficult for the user to navigate and see the current options. Even though it is just a...
Set a world record, with FireFox 3
Wanna make a Guinness World Record? OK, I have two recommendations. First, balance thirty spoons on your face and second, download FireFox 3 on the day it get released . A more open web world with more players will benefit everyone, now let's wait and see what will happen...
Creating Mobile Videos Article
Just published at Forum Nokia an interesting article: Creating Mobile Videos . This article provides an introduction to the video capabilities of Nokia mobile devices and guidelines for creating and publishing mobile videos. It offers hands-on recommendations...
Porting Mozilla onto Symbian OS
Greetings Everybody! I have been a Forum Nokia Champion for over 1.5 years. Currently my major technology profession is developing native Symbian OS C++ applications mainly on S60, also I know some Python(PyS60), J2ME and Windows Mobile. Since last month I started...
Where do you get terminal capability information?
As mobile networks, terminals and browsers improve, creating browser based solutions becomes more interesting. When you start developing services for mobile browsers it won't take long before you need detailed information about the terminal's capabilities to create the most...
Live Streaming Video from Your Mobile Phone
There is a recent trend towards live streaming video from mobile devices on the internet. Qik and Flixwagon are 2 of the companies that are providing S60 applications and storage on their website. With either of them you can start recording video with your Nokia S60 device...
Firefox Extension for 3D UI Photo Browsing
This week I came across I really cool Firefox plugin that allows you to view photos from a webpage in a sleak 3D style UI. The plugin/extension is named PicLens . It is not only available for Firefox, but also for IE and Safari as well! Simply install the plugin then...
Video highlights on Lobby
It has been a while (loosely speaking, strictly speaking better term is number of months) since I last wrote anything here. Of course you have been able to find my witty (again, loosely speaking...) comments on FN discussion boards , but those are all only answers to...
New CEO of Mozilla Corporation John Lilly on The GigaOm Show
The New CEO of Mozilla Corporation, John Lilly , appeared on The GigaOm Show for a short Q&A about what his new role means to Firefox users, the future of Mozilla Corporation , and the future of the Thunderbird E-mail client . John took over as CEO at the request of...
Post Secret Video and Website
Post Secret is a wonderful Project created by Frank Warren a couple of years ago. Frank started the project by posting this message " You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, experience, unseen kindness,...
Nokia N82 will change the Future of News Coverage
Jeff Jarvis , a graduate school professor in NYC, was given a Nokia N82 while working with Reuters. He used it extensively while covering the World Economic Forum. Beet.tv Interviewed Jeff to find out what he thinks is so empowering about using a Multimedia...
S60 Widget workshop videos
The following presentations were taped at the Widget Developer Event in Helsinki in October 2007: Finn Nielsen, Browser Program Manager at Forum Nokia, gives an overview of Web Runtime technology on Nokia devices. This is the first...
S60 browser goes iPhone
Sometimes I envy iPhone owners. It doesn't help that my phone - unlike iPhone - has an open platform, tons of 3rd party applications, embedded GPS, good camera, 3,5G connections etc. What my phone doesn't have is the marketing buzz that pushes major web sites to...
What's the Buzz about maemo?
There is a lot of talk about the Nokia Internet Tablet N810 and how it uses maemo (yes no uppercase letter here) which marketing calls a computer architecture platform and you and I would clumsily call the operating system’s SDK. So what is so cool about this new...
S60 3rd Ed. FP 2 , SDK Beta Includes Web Runtime Engine
Today the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 for C++ SDK Beta went live on Forum Nokia and with that a WRT testing environment. Note, this is a beta version, but the included WRT engine is close to final and developers are encouraged to use it. See the Tools and SDK’s:...
Flash Lite 3 How To
Flash Lite 3 availability was announced at the Adobe MAX 2007 developer conference in Chicago this week. The major capability of the new player is the ability to playback Flash Video as local file, progressive downloads and streaming via RTMP protocol. The Flash Video...
S60 Podcast - intro to Widsets
Found some extra time to listen to one of Phil's S60 podcasts ( Podcast #28 ). The most recent one is an interview of Tommi Sihvola, one of the inventors of Widsets . (Quick summary: Widsets are mobile widgets that enable anyone to create, publish and share internet content...
