Category: Bookmarks

Here you find a frequently updated collection of various web resources, built for folks who are building and designing and mobile applications and web sites.

Web services implementation of WUFRL database. Free.

Open Source WAP and SMS gateway

Free short code keywords

Neat calendar script for selecting date ranges

Cuzillion is a tool for quickly constructing web pages to see how components interact. Browsers have unexpected behavior in everyday situations (inline scripts block all rendering in the page and nothing can download in parallel with an external script).

Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data. WINDOWS ONLY

Has basecamp integration as well.

Research from Gartner

Plus good questions from Ajit about the research

“The new version of Safari included with iPhone OS 2.0 is up to 35 percent faster at executing JavaScript than previous editions of the iPhone OS.”

Such a striking photograph

“Google has pushed out a new release of its GData Objective-C Client Library that adds support for the Google Contacts Data API and YouTube API. What this means, in a nutshell, is that applications written in Objective-C (including those created for the i

Guy has set out to create energy from tornadoes. Wants to “stable tornadoes using the waste-heat from power plants.” Has gotten some funding and doesn’t seem entirely insane.

Web-based presentation software that Scoble has gushed about.

“Boarding pass is an image of an encrypted bar code displayed on the phone’s screen, which can be scanned by gate agents and security personnel.”

“84.8 percent of iPhone users report accessing news and information from the hand-held device. That compares to 13.1 percent of the overall mobile phone market and 58.2 percent of total smartphone owners.”

Funny comparisons between simplicity of Google and Apple products with “your company’s app”

“New data from M:Metrics for the month of January confirms that folks who own an iPhone tend to do more entertaining things on their devices — such as watch video and visit social networks — than those who own smartphones.”

“The mobile phone is too complex for users to feel comfortable using them to buy physical goods, however, consumers in the U.S. and the U.K., say they are likely to use the phone to check prices and the location of a store”

Details on how the iphone handles caching.

Is this why Apple doesn’t want flash on the iPhone?

Connection between environment and site speed

“What we saw today was the beginning of two-decades of mobile domination by Apple. What Microsoft and Windows was to the desktop, Apple and Touch will be to mobile.”

“the user-perceived latency on Google Code dropped quite a bit, anywhere between 30% and 70% depending on the page”