Following up to Google Mobile Applications I thought I'd check out how Yahoo was doing in the mobile web department. I have to say Yahoo looks pretty decent and well thought out with their mobile portal.
The place to start exploring is the Yahoo! Mobile website. There are 2 main ways you can access Yahoo! Mobile from your phone.
- Yahoo! Mobile Web at http://m.yahoo.com/
- Yahoo! Go is a mobile application that runs in your phone that helps you browse Yahoo services more easily. To install Yahoo! Go go to http://m.yahoo.com/ and click the Y! Go link.
Yahoo! Mobile Web interface
Google Mobile is the place to watch for Google's web applications that are crossing over to the mobile world.
Recently Google Calendar was added to this Google Mobile suite of applications.
Here is a current list of mobile web applications by Google.
I found some more features down http://www.google.com/m. Lets hope someone standardizes these links. Right now they are all over the place. In case Google asks me heres my take for more sensible mobile urls.
http://m.google.com - Google Mobile Search
http://m.google.com/mail - Gmail
http://m.google.com/news - Google Mobile News
http://m.google.com/reader - Google Mobile Reader
http://m.google.com/ig - iGoogle
Maruti service center is where Marutis go to feel special, unlike on the road.
The word on the Internet is that Yahoo Photos is going down in favor of Flickr in the next few months.
I had a few old albums on Yahoo Photos. One album as old as 2001! The Yahoo Photos might be merged into Flickr at some point, but I'm not taking any chances.
I downloaded some photos I wanted to keep and imported them into F-Spot. Problem was they showed up on top as new photos from today, which is not what I want. When I copied them over the created date on the photos has changed to today's date.
Here is the bash command I used to send the photos back in time.
touch --date=2001-10-05 *
In the future when selecting a good web application try to choose one that has a good export mechanism so you can get out if the service starts to go down.
I got this Nokia N80 for work. The first thing I noticed is how long it took to start up. So I thought I'd time it and start a competition with other phones. I'm sure the phones with more advance features will go down and more simple phones will rise to the top. Then again who knows, lets see how it pans out. Game on!
Rules
- Timing starts from the time you press the on power button.
- Timing stops when the phone is fully loaded with wallpapers and everything.
- You don't have to wait for operator activation.
- Times for the same phone will be averaged.
So far my Motorola SLVR L7 is winning, submit your times in the comments and try to beat me. I'm so beat. Keep those times coming guys. I hope no one is cheating.
Best Startup Times (in seconds)
- Sony Ericsson K750i (14)
- Nokia 6610i (12)
- Nokia 6020/6233 (15)
- Nokia 6280 (19)
- Motorola SLVR L7 (20.607)
- Nokia 6230i (22)
- SonyEricsson P900 (23)
- Motorola v975 (24)
- Sony Ericsson Z1010 (27)
- SonyErricsson W550i (35)
- O2 Xda Atom (42)
- Nokia N80 (46.520)
Average Startup Times (in seconds)
- Nokia 6610i (12)
- Nokia 6020/6233 (15)
- Sony Ericsson K750i (17.5)
- Nokia 6280 (19)
- Motorola SLVR L7 (20.607)
- Nokia 6230i (22)
- SonyEricsson P900 (23)
- Motorola v975 (24)
- Sony Ericsson Z1010 (27)
- SonyErricsson W550i (35)
- O2 Xda Atom (42)
- Nokia N80 (46.520)
After a few days after loosing my skin I'm back with the usual design.
If you are using a variant of K2 you can use this plugin to disable the default widgets functionality.
I also pimped the flickr photo area with the 2 main flickr colors. I got inspired by Apramana's photo block and got some helpful hints from this post from Veerle.
The heat is creeping back up in Colombo after the rains. It would be nice to have an ice tea on a hot day like this. But wait, you can't.
We produce tea right? How come we don't have ice tea more freely available?
Cartons in a supermarket don't count, it should be as easy as getting a soda. Can-it or setup drink dispensers. We are good at packaging and marketing such things.
I finally got out of Colombo after a long time. In fact it was the first time I went beyond Beruwela after the Tsunami. Looks like Chathuranga had more fun than I driving all over the place.
The last crazy road trip I remember was Colombo --> Kandy --> Bandarawela --> Kandy --> Anuradhapura --> Kandy --> Colombo in about 4 days. That was in the late 90's and in the final leg I remember coming down with fever.
Driving would have been easier with an extra half a liter of engine capacity and automatic gears. Then again the Zen is a city car so I was not expecting much. The cruising speed on 4th was about 60 and 5th about 80kmph so there was no way of getting a speeding ticket. 
But thanks for everyone for signaling me there were cops in front anyway.
Amaya Reef Hotel was average. Not much to complain or praise about. Oh by the way the Hikkaduwa reef is gone. That was my initial blatant observation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it all looked pretty dead to me.
This is what happens when you want to be in the bleeding edge of technology. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.2. Then realized there was a problem with the K2 theme I was using. At this time only the default theme is compatible to WordPress 2.2.
So I'm back to the default theme. This will have to do for a few days until I can port my old look back. I thought of not using K2 as my base this time. K2 has a lot of features built in, which is great but I want to start from a minimum and build up this time.
Also no more silly-sudden-updates, promise.
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