Unhandled Perception

Collection of some of the best technologies in the restaurant and food space. From Menu Specifications to Online Ordering to Online Reservations to Mobile Apps and everything in between.

Link: http://delicious.com/stacks/view/KtB04L

With the ever-increasing sales of smartphones and the burgeoning tablet market starting to skyrocket, coupled with far greater access to more robust mobile data networks, the internet is now being accessed by our users in a multitude of new ways.

The huge range of mobile devices used to browse the web now means you really have to consider making your site mobile-compatible.

Link: http://sixrevisions.com/…

Information on smartphones is stored in flash memory and some data can be stored on a memory card. For the memory card, simply remove it from the phone. However, to delete flash memory data…

A great topic that people tend to not think about.

Link: http://www.erbandevelopment.com/…

You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.

But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.

To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a developer. App Inventor requires NO programming knowledge. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.

Can’t wait to get my hands on this.

Link: http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Microsoft OneApp is a new software application that enables feature phones—commonly found in emerging markets—to access mobile apps like Facebook, Twitter, Windows Live Messenger, and other popular apps and games. Now, people around the world who own feature phones will be able to do more and enjoy a better mobile experience with their existing phones. Microsoft OneApp will be offered initially through partners in emerging markets worldwide.

The have an interactive demo that allows you to play, and see, OneApp in action.  Not sure if it was a SilverLight incompatibility or what but the interactive demo would not work for me.  Not too worried as I recently purchased an iPhone, which by the way is excellent.

Anyone with hands on experience with OneApp leave a comment.  Let me know what you think.

Link: http://www.microsoft.com/oneapp/

MobilePress is a free open source WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a mobile friendly blog when viewed on a cell phone. MobilePress is flexible in that it allows you to customize your mobile presence by creating your own themes, creating themes for specific mobile browsers (iPhone and generic devices) and also allowing you to decide when to display your mobile blog.

If you want to add your Google Analytics code into the themes just:

1. Open the themes folder under the MobilePress plugin
2. Locate the footer.php file (you’ll have to open both for the default and the iPhone version)
3. Copy and Paste your Google Analytics code just before the closing BODY tag
4. Save both footer files and you’re done.

Link: http://mobilepress.co.za/

Give it a try on your mobile device. iPhone users even get a special theme just for them. All you have to do is visit this URL and we will detect your mobile device. No special URL to remember.

Blog post will come in the future talking about the plugin used.

Did you know that Google provided a tool to test your website to see how it will view in a mobile browser? Probably not as most don’t.

Its not the best but will give you an idea of how a limited browsing device will show your website.

If you’re interested in testing in more modern mobile devices this is what I use:

iPhone:
Because I’m on Windows I use Safari for Windows and reduce the width of the browser down to around 320px (the lowest width it will go). Gives you a great idea of how it will look – probably 99% accurate.

Blackberry:
http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/resources/simulators.jsp

Link:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n

After years of watching its Windows Mobile operating system languish behind sexier products from archrivals Apple, Google, and Palm, Microsoft launched the Windows Phone 7 platform Monday morning. Why is it important? Does it live up to the rumors? And more to the point, what can you expect? Here are the top ten questions about the new Windows Phone 7 OS, and their answers.

Looks like a Zune to me.

Link:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2359365,00.asp

The eagle-eyed folks of learnbemobile have come across this stupendous leak of Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Mobile 7 OS. It would appear that some last minute alterations were taking place under the covers in Barcelona, though apparently no one bothered to check if there were cameras around before lifting said covers.

Link:
http://www.engadget.com/…

With Google Latitude, you can:

• See where your friends are and what they are up to
• Quickly contact them with SMS, IM, or a phone call
• Maintain complete control over your privacy

Link:
http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html