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Downcast is an excellent podcast app for iPhones, much better than the Apple Podcast app. Read more for a quick summary of my favorite features, and my #1 suggestion: emailing show notes after listening to each podcast episode. (Read More)

With the US Elections coming in a couple weeks, I've started to take a closer look at mobile options for learning about the candidates and issues, and for watching the results. First up, the League of Women Voters site: Smart Voter (m.smartvoter.org) with the tagline: Unbiased Election Information. This site looks very complete, including lots of pre-election information. Not sure about election results though. (Read More)

With the 2012 Summer Olympics about to get underway, I wanted to get ready with the best mobile websites to follow along with all the action. So far these are the best I've found, brought to you by the BBC, ESPN, the official London 2012 site, and NBC. The content is just starting to roll in, so we'll soon see which of these have the best coverage. Click through for screenshots... (Read More)

In addition to Android Screencast (which I just demonstrated with my broken HTC Evo), I've had good success with another Java desktop application called Android Screenshot and Screen Capture. Both products are very similar, and have similar issues such as the slow refresh rate. But, Android Screenshot and Screen Capture has a higher resolution, and looks much better when the desktop window is expanded - like you might do in an online meeting. (Read More)

I've been using Android Screencast software as a solution for sharing my phone's screen in online meetings. The refresh rate is a bit slow, but the quality is decent and it works well on both PCs and Macs. Today I found another good use: getting some data off my Evo phone even though most of the screen isn't working... (Read More)

Recently I started volunteering as webmaster for the Stanford girls water polo club upgrading WordPress, improving the design templates, and adding more features to make the site more useful to both parents and players. Looking at the past 2 months' of Google Analytics data, I found that about 90% of mobile visitors were from iPhone, iPad and iPod... (Read More)

If you want to keep up with the 2012 Masters golf tournament from your mobile phone, look no further than http://masters.com. They've done a nice job of mobile detection, giving a focused view of the leaderboard and other key content... (Read More)

Continuing my work with mobile website testing, here are the steps to create a local Wi-Fi network from a Mac laptop. This allows mobile phones and tablets to connect through the laptop for either a proxy configuration (like Charles), or passive monitoring (like tcpdump or Wireshark). Read on to learn how to set this up quickly... (Read More)

In some recent mobile website testing (e.g., using Fiddler to capture Android web traffic), I've found it helpful to create a local Wi-Fi network on my Windows 7 laptop. This allows connecting mobile phones and tablets and ensuring the network traffic flows through the laptop, allowing a proxy configuration (like Fiddler), or passive monitoring (like tcpdump or Wireshark). Read on to learn how to create this local Wi-Fi test setup. (Read More)

In a previous note about monitoring HTTP traffic from Android tablets, I recommended using a 3rd-party app to change the settings. Now the latest software update for my Galaxy Tab 10.1 allows this directly, so these are some updated instructions and screenshots. (Read More)