Category Archives: ThisIsMobility

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Some Slight Madgat Updates

I put up the 0.4 version of Madgat this evening. There are some small fixes for relative URL handling. GET argument rewrite URLs (ones that start with a question mark) weren’t being handled correctly, now they are. That one seems … Continue reading

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Device Adaptation Makes Sites Less Transparent

I’ve been waiting for a while to see the FIFA stuff, which was rumoured to be very mobile-friendly. So when Christian posted about the FIFA site being up I headed over there and poked around for a while. Great site! … Continue reading

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Mobile Monday in India

A couple of folks in India (Rajan and Rajiv) have started talking about setting up a Mobile Monday chapter in India. If you’re over in that area send them a message if you’re interested. Or if you know others in … Continue reading

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Wifi Devices and Mobility

I’m in the middle of a trip to the east coast of the US. Normally I bring my phone and my laptop with me, and because I’m normally just wandering around visiting family I’m never too far from my laptop. … Continue reading

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Madgat: session handling, cookies, “don’t strip” setting

Few updates to Madgat this afternoon: session handling – now returns a cookie and uses the session behind that to save state/settings cookies – uses the curl built in cookie handling to manage cookies manipulated by the target site option … Continue reading

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FlashLite Bundling

When we had the Mobile Monday session on FlashLite and SVG one of the questions I had for folks was bundling. If I have users who want to use my app, but don’t currently have FlashLite support on their handset, … Continue reading

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Posting Video Directly from a Nokia 6680

I saw Charlie’s post pointing to an article at Avec Mobile about uploading video from a camera phone to YouTube. I remembered that while playing around with Opera Mobile I was able to upload photos directly from the phone using … Continue reading

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SMS.ac – Come On! Just Die Already

Just following through on what I started this morning and linking to Russ with SMS.ac prominently in the text. I also put it up in my del.icio.us links. Join in, spread the word, post a link or two or three. … Continue reading

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Video and Audio from Mobile Monday

Shannon Perkins has started posting the video and audio from the March Mobile Monday. Thanks Shannon! Video of Minimo – Audio of Minimo Video of Nokia Open Source Series 60 – Audio of Nokia Open Source Series 60

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Web Components For Mobile Applications

I should probably start with some kind of disclaimer that I am a Ning employee. However, this stuff that I’m about to talk about is work I’m doing in my free time. It does not represent the position of Ning … Continue reading

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