Category Archives: Software

Sorry, your HTTP headers are incomplete

Posted on 2009/04/20 by Andrea

You might know by now that over the years I have developed a little fetish for HTTP request headers of mobile devices. At dotMobi this is a common reason to make fun of me, they let me discuss them for … Continue reading →

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New Gmail mobile built on HTML5

Posted on 2009/04/10 by Andrea

I was very pleased to read an article from Alex@Google that describes how they have decided to develop the new gmail mobile web interface. There are at least two reasons why I liked this article, one is that, as Alex … Continue reading →

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Google crawls and converts WML pages

Posted on 2009/04/10 by Andrea

I knew the Googlebot Mobile visited and stored results for XHTML-MP and WML pages and I assumed they would be used as results to mobile users. It looks like not only mobile users get “desktop” results, but also the other … Continue reading →

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Safari 4 like Chrome lets you kill unresponsive windows?

Posted on 2009/04/02 by Andrea

The other day I had some background process taking up a lot of CPU while synchronising some data. I knew it would be slow and so I decide to read some news on the web. One of the pages I … Continue reading →

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Hosted apps available on SourceForge

Posted on 2009/01/31 by Andrea

I have started using SourceForge many years ago when we decided to host WURFL there. At that time, the choice was easy, SourceForge was synonym of open-source and everyone who wanted to host his project would go there. Over the … Continue reading →

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