FYI: My BlackBerry’s Web browser identifies itself (i.e., “User Agent”) as: BlackBerry8700/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 So in PHP, an inexpensive check would be something like: if ( 0 === stripos($useragent, ‘blackberry’) ) { echo “True”; }
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UPDATE: Washington Post Fixes Website for Mobile Users
After about two weeks of unresponsiveness, I finally found yet another way to contact the Washington Post to complain about their broken website (see my previous post for more info). This time, they promptly responded to my complaint, and within three or four days, the website was fixed. My contact person, Sarah Lumbard, was courteous… Continue reading UPDATE: Washington Post Fixes Website for Mobile Users
Shame on you, Washington Post
At some point today, the Washington Post broke its website for Blackberry users (and perhaps other mobile device users). Now, any time I try to access an article by clicking on a link in my RSS aggregator on my Blackberry, I get redirected to some lame “mobile site,” and I can’t see the story I’m… Continue reading Shame on you, Washington Post
A River for NewsGator
Truly re-inspired by Dave’s injection of interest into mobile news reading, I’ve been tinkering with my own custom solution. Since I subscribe to NewsGator, I’m using the NewsGator API for some backend, but I’ve done quite a bit of plumbing myself. The most important things I wanted to be able to do were (1) to… Continue reading A River for NewsGator
Yomoblog is the first killer web app for mobile devices
I’m testing Dave Winer’s new web application: Yomoblog. It is a dead simple tool for creating, editing and categorizing blog posts from your web-enabled PDA.