Our application JTwitter was recently reviewed by Killerstartups.com
This is what they say:
“Why it might be a killer
JTwitter makes it easy to view and update your Twitter from your mobile device. It’s convenient, since you get to specify when you want it to refresh, thereby saving you data charges.”
http://www.killerstartups.com/Mobile/jtwitter–Twitter-Updates-on-Your-Mobile/
Screenshot showing saved hourly images in the Archive
The latest version of EyeSpyFX Webcam is now available. Version 2.2 has a new ‘Archive’ feature that allows you to store images at regular intervals on the EyeSpyFX reflector server. For example you can store images every hour to build up a view of activity over 24 hours. The archive stores up to 100 images.
Stephen Fry (cumplusive individual, comedian and commentator) has written a blog entry about smart phones
Its worth a look
>http://www.stephenfry.com/blog/?p=3
Here are some quotes:
“I have never seen a SmartPhone I haven’t bought
(I’m not even going to mention outside these parentheses the LG Prada phone, that’s an iPhone beater in the same way Tim Henman is a Federer beater)
My disappointment in the P1i turned to anger ……… The miserable nonsense of the browser (a bad implementation of Opera) – I mean what on earth is the point of having menu shortcuts that involve using two fingers?
The E90 is thick-as-a-brick, expensive (ex-contract as an offline purchase it’s well over £600. Or maybe they just saw me coming) and yet … I LIKE IT!
God knows this is (E90) NO iPhone killer. But unlike the iPhone it does have something approaching a manageable filing system, Bluetooth that works, GPS, quick text entry via a keyboard (Steve Jobs here you are wrong, much as it grieves me to say it – more below), the ability to save and move around attachments, to download applications and to create documents.
On the I phone: Server side apps only. No, no, no, no, no. This is NOT good. It’s one thing to want to keep the proprietary system closed, but to present a device sealed in digital Araldite is a Bad Idea.
Text entry. I’m sorry Steve, but physical keyboards are okay. They’re fine.
Another triumph for Jonathan Ive and his design team, Apple have made a wholly desirable and beautiful object.”
The idea driving Mobile Content on the Apple I Phone is that the notion that the Mobile Internet is the same as the regular Web. Small screen size is circumnavigated by means of the clever Apple Pinch interface.
This idea will work, to a certain extent, if you are in a wi-fi zone and you can browse using big bandwidth – but when you step outside and try browsing on the 2.5G network regular web pages will appear very slow.
Is the Mobile Web is the same as the Web?
Web pages on the regular internet now feature – dynamic content, flash, security scripts, embedded movies, etc. To view them you need processor power, memory and bandwidth – all of which a phone will have less of than a PC. (In Apple terms: all of which an I Phone will have less of than a G5). In that context the idea that the mobile web is the same as the Web seems far fetched.
To build sophisticated applications on Phones there is a mechanism available: It is called Java. Apple however say that to build applications for the I Phone you simply build web apps and launch a page. This further strains the processor, memory and bandwidth issues already described.
Basic guidelines for the design of Mobile Content.
Personal, Simple, Minimal, Relevant.
Also see Blog post: Apple I Phone
You can now embed images from an EyeSpyFX Webcam in a blog or on a website.
1. Copy the embed code given on the camera page
2. Copy the code into your blog or web site
3. Now your blog will update this image automatically whenever someone looks at the cam. Here is one from our office window.
Can you use a phone as a webcam?
Yes. Phone CamFX is a Java webcam broadcast programme that runs on a mobile phone. It enables the user to broadcast live images, just like a webcam, using the camera on their phone. Up to two images per minute can be broadcast.The images can be viewed on the EyeSpyFX website or via mobile phone using Phone StreamFX. Users can embed the images on blogs using an embed code provided on the website. Phone CamFX is ideal for life blogging, sharing a special moment with a loved one, fun, spy and monitoring purposes.
Phone CamFX is compatible with high end Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones. Phone CamFX is world first product of its type.
Request a Beta release a Beta version of Phone CamFX by email to info at eyespyfx dot com. Read more about this product here
Example of embedded image uploaded using PhoneCamFX.
PhoneCamFX enable you to provide instant webcam updates to the web
Openmoko are a company who are developing a linux phone…which also seems to feature JavaFX. This marks the further re definition of phones by OS rather than Industrial Design.
So to me the OS race start line looks like this at the moment (no particular order):
Nokia OS 40 series
Nokia OS 60 series
Symbian phones
Mac OS on an IPhone
Sony Ericsson OS +variants
Motorola OS +variants
Windows Mobile
Linux (Openmoko)
and the all the others
OpenMoko reveal their philiosophy on their web page:
“Mobile phones, currently closed and self limited, will rival broadband computers. When based on Open standards, they will deliver ubiquitous computing and vanish.
Ubiquitous computing means more than computing wherever you wander: It means knowing the locale, weaving seamlessly into the local fabric, and vanishing.
Devices disappear when developers have unrestricted access to hardware.
Neo gives you this control for the first time.
We want your mind in OpenMoko. Let’s work together. You’ll have our full support. Now, Free Your Phone.”
Jtwiiter was recently reviewed by Sasha Fuentes of Xataka Móvil. Xataka Móvil is a weblog based in Spain following mobile telephony, terminal services and software for telephones.
“Conclusión
Aunque cada uno debería probar las tres opciones, la verdad es que yo me he quedado con jTwitter, por su simplicidad y rápido funcionamiento. Sin necesidad de configuraciones extrañas, este programa va al grano sin liarnos con múltiples opciones, tal como ha de hacer un programa destinado a usarse en el móvil.”
Read more here
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Google mobile is almost a portal site…but I thought google was the anti portal site.
Portal sites like O2 active, Orange world and Voda Live have been discredited, too clunky.
The mobile.google.com is different. It is much better in terms of layout and features. Nonetheless its clear that it is going in a certain direction and that direction is one where the users never leaves, Google controls everything, just like a the old portal idea, that bothers me.
There should be something about mobile content that makes it uniquely suited to being mobile. That is, content that is not just a mobile version of web content. I would like to see a mobile google that finds mobile content well. The light touch that made google so successful in the first place should be there on google mobile too. Really good mobile search is very very hard to do. Sticking in a whole load of features instead doesn’t solve the problem.
The web site Mashable ran a feature on the top 12 mobile applications for Twitter.com
We are pleased to see Jtwitter.com listed as number 2.
