Cui – On My Way

There’s one setting in Google Reader called ‘Reformat lined web pages for mobile browsers.‘ which is VERY useful for me. And here’s the reasons:

1.Take Google Reader as a Proxy

By checking this option, I can read news from websites which provide feeds and are blocked in China, like *.blogspot.com. I do read news from Google Official Blog, actually.

2.Save Money When Connecting Via EDGE/GPRS

It’s true. And it’s done by decreasing the amount of downloading files while reformatting the web pages. See the following two pictures, left is orginal and right is the reformatted one:

Yes, you can see the later layout is a mass. Actually that’s because the CSS file which controls how the webpage’s layout and display will be has not been downloaded to your mobile browser, say my iphone’s safari.

Furthermore, if there’s some flash ads in the original page, they won’t be downloaded, either.

In other words, the number of downloading bytes from the server to your browser is less than a normal page visit before reformatted. So, your monthly data usage is less and you cost less, too.

A greedy request here: Can Google Reader turn the reformatting option on when it detects the current net connection is via EDGE/GPRS while off via Wifi? You know, when cost is not a problem anymore, i’d love to see an CSS-based clean web page

Here’s the how the issue comes from.

I find two Not found URLs in Google’s
webmaster tools. And i wanna fix it.

But Google doesn’t tell me which page the error URLs are located in.

Fortunately this site is still young and there’s only 40 articles in it. After three searches in the source of the article pages, I found the error pages and then make them right. The whole process cost me about 5 minutes.

It’s not such a long time, but what if this happened in an aged site, like TechCrunch, which has hundreds of posts and pages? How and how much could the webmaster locate the error pages and fix the issue efficiently?

Well, it’s not a big deal, but we webmasters do benefit from its fix. And i’m sure it’s a win-win to google and website owners as well.

Not a high value, but much better than nil, anyway .

Yes, it’s 2.

Today is Oc.27, 2007. And I’m gonna see when it grows to 3 or 4

As said,

“Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats.”

I love two of its features most:
1. batch edit tag info
Just add the album songs into Mp3Tag then edit as whatever you want. very awesome.

2. get album art from online database like amazon.
since this feature highly depend on your orginal mp3′s orginal tag info which most likely are very few sometimes even wrong,  I for now still use google image search to get the picture for the album manually, then set it with the above feature.

Of course, Mp3Tag is free. I love freeware
And sure you can donate to them if you could.

Thanks God, We have internet !

For me, I use two work-arounds:

1. Google Alert.

Type ‘iphone’ into search term textbox and enter your email, you’re done. simple and easy.

The cons of alert is not so latest, compared with the following methods, if you’ve got enough time. Otherwise, Alert is your best bet.

2. Hackintosh’s iPhone forum.

I believe in the power of community

3. Google News Search and Blog Search for iphone.

Based on my experience, Blog Search can give you more recent news than News Search. I’m sure that’s because the latter represents a more formal and confirmed version of news.

Anyway, I use both.

Actually you does have a very convenient way to find those 3rd  iPhone  native applications on the web: Google code search with the keyword ‘iphone’.

Even though so far there’s only 43 results, several of them have been mentioned and blogged many times and does worth of your attention and time, like iPhone NES Emulator, mobileterminal , and the one i’m gonna try myself on the iPhone: mobilelauncher.

One of them should be  listed here: manzana – .NET API for interacting with the Apple iPhone, which provides the possibilities of more hackings on Windows platform. I do have an expectation on it.

P.S. Attach the google code search result here, for later check how fast and many the talented iphone developers make the applications in the world

Search ran At 14:46 Aug. 18,2007, beijing time.

Google’s Phone finally confirmed. Here’s the collected info about the gPhone.

• Timeline: Release within a year.
• Product: C++ core and optimized for Java.
• Price: No subscription fee. Ad placed instead.
• Functions: Google apps seamlessly boundled for sure.
• Storage: zero GB. Purely for internet.
• Keypad: QWERTY.
• Designed by : SamSung.
• ..

Possibly photoshoped picture from ZDNet.

One more from Engaget.

It’s too early to make the decision. But given the known infomation, for me, I still prefer iPhone.

Reason? Simple: iPhone’s unique user experience, like pintch and scroll. And i love it. So far I can t see any clues that Swith( name of Google Phone) could beyone that.

Your choice?

1. Google for iPhone

2. Google News for Safari