Gary Price has an excellent roundup of mobile search tools at Search Engine Watch.
“Google’s new local search for mobile devices is garnering a lot of press, but there are a lot of other alternatives that are worth a look…Here’s a roundup of other mobile local search tools for users in the U.S.”
In the same spirit as the iPalm ZLauncher theme and iSpin Skin I have uploaded an iPalm Facer Theme to PalmGear. Included in the set is the Facer Theme and the DIAs/VG available in the ZLauncher theme set.
Download Link at PalmGear: iPalm Facer Theme and DIA
Let me know what you think or how it can be improved.
A screen shot:
The Core Pocket Media Player for PalmOS being developed. Download from this page. The player is based on the engine of BetaPlayer for Pocket PC. Though it is only in alpha stage it is very stable on my T3.
Important Note: As the player is only in alpha stage is has a very primiative user interface. To play a movie, make sure that the file is in the root directory of your expansion card. Press the PLAY button to play the file or click on >> or << to cycle through the files.
The iPalm ZLauncher Theme has been updated to include a SkinTW! Zodiac DIA. Get it from PalmGear.
Flickr, the popular picture sharing site, now has a mobile version at http://www.flickr.com/mob/.
Recently, Google has began prefetching pages when searches are conducted using Mozilla browsers such as Firefox. Prefetching loads the top results of the search into the browser’s cache. The result being that if you click on that link the page will load quickly. The problem becomes that a page’s cookies and other junk gets downloaded to your hard drive even if you do not visit the page. Firefox users can prevent prefetching by following the steps below:
1. Open a blank tab and type “about:config†in the address bar.
2. A list will appear, double click on the line “network.prefetch-nextâ€.
3. The line’s value should change from “true†to “false†and you should notice the line is now highlighted.
4. Close the tab.
Simon Collison gives some tips on how to create a site that provides people browsing with handheld devices a better experience in 7 steps to better handheld browsing.
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