My principal interest in mobile applications is to push the boundaries of innovation to create uniquely mobile experiences. I hope my blogs excite and challenge developers to think 'outside the box'.
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coultonp | 08 October, 2008 16:08
As I have been quiet for a while I thought I would present and interesting student project by Russ Gardener based on an idea I had a number of years ago which seemed ripe for resurrection. The concept is very simple in that it’s a mobile application which allows you to create a digital postcard of your own design (seen it before I hear you cry) the difference is that rather than send it electronically directly to the recipient it’s sent to a service which prints it out and posts it to the recipient as an ordinary postcard. This has a number of benefits; it saves the hassle of buying and sending postcards (and the usual result) of getting home before the postcard), it allows you to send cards to anybody not just the technically literate, it’s actually nice to have a physical object (to display in your home) which is probably electronic greetings haven’t really made an impact, if we place a printer service in lots of countries you could save on airmail by printing the card in the country to be delivered (I obviously held back on calling it green 
).
The application is written for WidSets which includes a nice back end and synchronisation facility for addresses and for me is a good example of ideas some colleagues are working on here at Lancaster which is Mundane Technologies in other words ones which become woven into the fabric of our lives and cease to be perceived as a technology.
The only thing missing from this project to go live to the world is a neat payment solution but otherwise it could go out now. This would be interesting not just commercially (although it would be nice if I actually made some money ) but also to see if it really did become mundane.
BTW I would just like to welcome my friend and colleague Will Bamford as a Forum Nokia Champion and as the Mobile Radicals have now produced four I’m thinking of changing our site to ‘Home of Champions’
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coultonp | 10/10/2008, 11:20
Hi I dont have any myself anymore but look for ones on xhtml they will do what your after
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somemap | 09/10/2008, 10:58
hi,..paul
i'm really new in mobile app. I'm sorry if my question doesn't matched with your articles. I would like to find tutorial how to make WAP application for the web. so my friends can access my web.
thanks for your kind attention