Digital Biographer™

Does your web site work well on portable devices? Or does it work at all? Mobile search (and specifically mobile search for local content) is growing rapidly, so your visibility and LEGIBILITY will be more and more important.

The iPhone currently the subject of much frenzy and queueing as the 3G Version goes on sale today, has an advantage over most mobile browsers with its high resolution screen at 160 pixels to the inch, as opposed to a more common 96 dpi for an LCD computer monitor, and has an easy to manage zoom facility, so one can view any website fairly well - but do you know what your site actually looks like when it’s viewed?

iPhonemy.com is an elegant, simple site that allows you to answer this question - you can download free software (for Mac users) or have a screen shot of your site viewed on this software sent to you. For WordPress users, there is also a link to a plugin that automatically senses when an iPhone or mobile phone is viewing your site, and displays your site with a specific mobile-friendly theme.

It’s worth remembering that a mobile phone is also a wallet - and it’s always there, and almost always switched on… Informa Telecoms & Media predicts spending on mobile advertising as a whole to reach £5.6 billion by 2011.

What does your site look like on an iPhone? Find out at iPhonemy.com Web Site
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Web Browser Firefox 3 is out today, but it’s been the victim of its own success, as the main web servers that should allow you to download this browser have been overloaded. The plan was to have a record-breaking number of downloads of the web browser today, but it seems that everyone’s trying to grab it all at the same time, as it was not ‘rolled out’ as midnight hit around the world, but went live, everywhere, at the same time. or rather, failed to go live. Oops.

A number of mirror sites allow one to use FTP transfer to download Firefox, but for the less technical (and for those worried that their download won’t count in the record-breaking attempt) this is not what they want. Help is at hand, as, the European site is definitely live and kicking, so you can grab the Firefox Browser there now. I’ve been using the browser for just over an hour, and find it quick, compatible with my key add-ins, and stable. And it’a also a 100% organic browser!

Dowload Firefox 3 from http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

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