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Mobify.me: Create a Mobile Version of Your Website

Optimizing a website’s landing page for mobile viewing is not an easy task. That’s what Mobify.me is trying to solve. They aim to provide an easy way for developers to produce a mobile version of websites in just a few hours of work.

This will allow you to make a faster loading mobile version of your website. You can choose which elements you want to include and upload custom images optimized for mobile viewing. This means that you can lower the bandwidth cost of loading your site on a mobile device. Resizing images is one way of doing it.

You can also customize your links, pages and edit CSS. Mobify also supports DNS redirects. This means that your mobile site will not lose its URL structure when you use your mobile URL (e.g.: http://m.yoursite.com). Mobify.me users are also provided with a JavaScript snippet that detects mobile devices which will drive mobile users to your mobile URL.

Mobile site (if it exists at all) is separate in terms of content management flow and URL structure, creating SEO challenges. Unless a site has a dedicated tech team or is using a framework with decent mobile functionality (aside from WordPress, there isn’t many), this is difficult.

Developing a mobile presence is a lot of work. Device detection, image resizing, content syncing… Mobile used to be difficult. Mobifying a complete site takes from 5 minutes (a blog) to several hours (a complex portal like TechVibes).

Tags: Design, Mobify, mobile, mobile phone, website

Rocketron: Hear the News from your Phone

Rocketron (a service mark of Asyncast Corporation) is a startup focused on bringing the latest news to you anytime, anywhere. You can use any phone to listen to news that you personally choose. You can also leave comments about stories and listen to other people’s comments. To hear the news through Rocketron, all you need to do is dial 408-907-2323.

What makes Rocketron interesting is its voice command feature. You can skip a news that you don’t want to listen to by just saying the phrase “next article,” repeat an article by saying the word “repeat” and go straight to what you care about by speaking the category of the news you want to hear (e.g. : sports news). Rocketron eliminates repetitive stories and gathers over 40 thousand stories from popular news names like NY Times, Washington Post and a lot more.

Each time you skip an article you don’t want or switch to a different subject, Rocketron learns something new. Over time, Rocketron automatically gets better at picking articles that it knows you want to listen to, all without complex programming. This is a great feature in addition to eliminating repetitive stories which wastes time and money.

While web registration is not entirely necessary, you can still sign-up for an account in their web service where you can do further customization on the news you want to hear and set your account to receive SMS messages. You can place keywords for news articles you want to hear and eliminate.

Rocketron is a very interesting service and great for people who are always on the go. The news delivery is entirely free. However, it will cost you a phone call to Silicon Valley.

Tags: Asyncast, cell phone, mobile phone, News, rocketron

Archive your Text Messages Online Using TreasureMyText

Treasuremytext is a social networking service which focuses on sharing text messages among users. You can register for free and only will be charged if you forward a text message to Treasure My Text. The rate will depend on your country or mobile phone service provider. This site great for archiving certain text messages that are important or memorable to you if you choose to change your phone or for safekeeping your important messages in case you lose your phone.

The social feature of the site allows you to share your text messages among friends through “TextStream.” You can invite friends, family, co-workers and schoolmates to join Treasuremytext and you can follow each other’s text favorites. However, if you want to keep your saved messages private and only to yourself, you can disable the TextStream feature in your Treasuremytext account preferences or just add the “#” symbol at the beginning of your text message before forwarding it to Treasuremytext to keep that particular message from showing in your TextStream. The TextStream feature can be useful for sharing favorite text messages to friends and family who are on different locations. You can just forward the text message in your Treasuremytext account and into your TextStream without forwarding to each person you want to share to. This will save you some bucks in sending international text messages. Treasuremytext also lets you organize your saved text messages in folders for easy archiving.

An iPhone Treasuremytext application is also available for download. You will need a jailbroken iPhone in order to run the app and you can download it here. This will enable you to save text messages to your Treasuremytext account without forwarding the message through SMS. Just connect through wifi of EDGE and you can easily archive your text messages using the app.

Whatever your reason might be for saving or wanting to archive your text messages, Treasuremytext is a handy online tool to do that and it would be a good idea to keep a Treasuremytext number in your phonebook just in case.

Tags: iphone, mobile phone, short message service, treasuremytext