Offline capabilities for mobile web apps. For the last six months we have been working on a mobile betting application for our long standing client ABETA International.
The general principle of the app is to allow users to browse betting opportunities and place bets. The project itself had an interesting premise which would see us delivering an application to ABETA which they could white-label for resale, either as a mobile web app or packaged as a native application. Subsequently, we made an early design decision to maximise the native experience for all users, regardless of eventual deployment decisions. To achieve this we designed for the mobile web app first, ensuring any features that were considered “core” were achievable on the web app. Mobile Crash Reporting Solution Crashlytics Acquires FireTower.app To Expand Into Mobile Web. Crashlytics, a Cambridge-based startup that helps developers understand why their mobile apps are crashing, has just beat out an unnamed competitor to acquire the bootstrapped startup called FireTower.app.
The FireTower solution was focused not on mobile apps, but on web applications, allowing developers to find javascript errors in their websites. Now, Crashlytics will be repurposing that technology for use by mobile web developers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Crashlytics co-founder Wayne Chang says the other side is “very happy.” The deal was not for the Boston-based FireTower.app team, a small group led by Aaron White, now the co-founder of VC-backed educational-focused startup, Boundless - it was for just the technology itself.
White will be helping Crashlytics during the transition period, however. The FireTower.app solution will serve as the base for Crashlytics new mobile web-focused feature set. Mobile Web Training in Spanish - W3C Blog. Specific Considerations for Mobile Design. 40 Popular Mobile Website Templates. The trend is clear.
Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap (May 2012) Latest version This version Previous version Web technologies have become powerful enough that they are used to build full-featured applications; this has been true for many years in the desktop and laptop computer realm, but is increasingly so on mobile devices as well.
This document summarizes the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context. Surgery, not gaming, could be Kinect's calling. Microsoft’s Kinect motion and voice-based controller accessory was launched with gaming in mind, but researchers have taken the technology in a number of different directions.
German researchers transformed the Kinect into an interactive augmented reality X-ray machine, and Microsoft Research is now in the process of trialing the use of its Kinect sensor as a surgical assistant. On May 8th, a surgeon at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ hospital in London used a custom Kinect installation to browse through medical images and real-time X-rays while repairing an aneurism in a patient’s aorta, NewScientist reports. The system created by Microsoft Research allows surgeons to call up images or perform a number of other tasks without assistance and without having to touch anything, thus avoiding any potential contamination.
Carrell is eager to continue trials with the system. 18 (More) Services to Convert Websites For Mobile Devices. Do you have a mobile friendly version of your website or blog?
With mobile devices now driving nearly 7 percent of Web traffic (according to CNET), it’s now more important than ever before to make sure you have a mobile optimized version of your blog for those devices. People who use their mobile phones, smartphones, and tablets to access the Web are usually in a hurry and don’t have time to wait. If they have to wait for the desktop version of your site to load and attempt to render properly, they’ll more than likely grow impatient and end up leaving your altogether site before it even loads.
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"mobile health"........ what is it exactly? And how does it give patients access to better care? I like Dr. 18 (More) Services to Convert Websites For Mobile Devices. Massive Milestones in Mobile - Will These Numbers Change Your Mobile Strategy? In less than 12 months from now, the world will have more mobile subscriptions in use, than humans alive.
That is an unprecedented milestone for any technology but it is also widely expected and is not news to the readers of this blog. (The world had 7 Billion people and 5.9 Billion mobile phone subscriptions in use by the end of 2011, today we are past 6.2 Billion mobile subscriptions already). Harness the Power of SharePoint Search on the Go! - Anand Raja's blog. As SharePoint continues to be one of Microsoft’s fastest growing platforms, it’s quickly becoming the de facto choice for document management across the enterprise.
The ability to efficiently search for information has become essential as site and folder structures continually grow. Microsoft has responded to this need by providing a powerful SharePoint desktop search mechanism. Mobile usage of SharePoint is growing and the need for search is key in this context. Enterprise Search is a robust feature that was introduced in Share Plus Enterprise 3.0. This addition puts the power of SharePoint’s desktop search in your mobile device. The following is an example of how to use the Enterprise Search feature of SharePlus to search for a SharePoint document on an iPad. Prayaya lets you run a full Windows computer on your mobile phone or iPod Yiibu - Lovingly crafted mobile experiences. Padcaster Turns Your New iPad Into a Complete Video Production Rig. The Padcaster gives your iPad legs and a lens.
Photo: Courtesy The Verge The third-generation iPad has a great camera, but you’re not going to shoot high-quality video by holding the tablet in your hands, and awkwardly aiming it at content. No, you’re going to benefit from some mechanical assistance, and the Padcaster could be the solution. It’s a super sturdy, $200 iPad case that attaches to a tripod and a camera lens, promising a cost-effective method for tapping into the performance of Apple’s improved camera hardware.
In the image above, a Carl Zeiss lens was attached to the case using Padcaster’s $80 Lenscaster mount. For those questioning the iPad’s video chops, know this: The third-generation model can record 1080p video at up to 30 fps, which is actually on par (spec-wise, at least) with some DSLRs. The Padcaster debuted at the National Association of Broadcasters 2012 show in Las Vegas this week, and it’s on sale now. Via The Verge. Avatars - Create an Animated Talking Character for Your Website. iOS beta testing on the fly. Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop. UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter. Advertisement As I was waiting for a table at a local restaurant the other day, I flipped through a couple of the free classified papers. I was shocked to realize how dependent I’ve grown on three simple features that just aren’t available in the analog world: search, sort and filter. AutoDirect and some of the other freebies are organized by category (like trucks, vans, SUVs) but others, like Greensheet, just list page after page of items for sale.
I would actually have to read every single ad in the paper to find what I wanted. No thank you, I’ll use Craigslist on my phone instead. Mobile Patterns and Why Use Them in Design. Mobile Patterns or Mobile Templates are, as the name obviously states, templates to use for easing our work when designing a site for portable devices. As mobile web design means more and more nowadays, designers often have problems reaching deadlines because of a high workload. In web design we have grid systems we build on in order to help us maintain a clean visual pattern, but also to help us build a web page faster.
Many of us even buy WordPress themes and customize them to our use. And it is worth mentioning that 10 years ago HTML templates were widely used in the industry. The truth is that designers always looked to ease their work and move on to the next project, therefore mobile patterns are something the experts start to look into more and more. Usability of Mobile Websites and Apps: Research Report with Design Guidelines. This report is based on 8 series of usability studies with users in 4 countries (mostly the US, but also Australia, Hong Kong, and the UK), reporting how they actually used a broad variety of websites and apps on a range of mobile devices, including touch phones and smartphones from many vendors.
The report also presents the findings from two diary studies of users in 6 countries (Australia, The Netherlands, Romania, Singapore, UK, and US) that let us follow user behavior over a longer time period than is feasible in traditional user testing. The basic finding from this research is that mobile users face severe usability problems in attempting to get things done on today's websites, whether dedicated mobile sites or traditional desktop-optimized sites that are rendered through a mobile browser. This 293-page report presents 237 design guidelines based on our usability research. Discussions and 479 screenshot illustrations supplement our findings. Topics Benefits. 32 Examples of Usable Mobile Website Layouts. The mobile web is clearly changing the way we think about layout design.
Mobile Site vs. Full Site. BlueGranite Nitro for Mobile BI and Dashboards on Windows Phone 7, iPhone, and iPad. Responsive Web Design Templates and Frameworks. Eventually, we’ll all stop talking about responsive web design – not because it will go away, but because it will become what’s expected. Flashback ten years ago and we were all talking about CSS and tableless design, but today there’s no need to mention it. It’s simply the way modern websites are built, although sadly, I’m sure there’s a few out there still using tables. Nevertheless, the concept of responsive web design is still relatively new. The Smartphone Snapshot Showdown (Global Smartphone and Mobile Video Stats) Pricing - Scandit.