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…
Reminiscing about the good old days at Yahoo, I’m enjoying watching again the “Hackumentary” movie that Ricky Montalvo made for the 2008 Open Hack day at Yahoo. Read on for links to all 4 videos.
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…
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.
DuckDuckGo is a search engine startup whose claim to fame is a strict privacy policy, focusing on delivering high quality results without tracking their users. Like most search engines, DuckDuckGo also has a search box capability that can be used for site-specific search. Read on to learn how to implement this with Movable Type.