Category Archives: Technology

jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Web-based Apps vs. Apps Built on Web Standards «

jkOnTheRun » Blog Archive Web-based Apps vs. Apps Built on Web Standards «
Have a peek at the above video from iPhoneBuzz that shows an experimental version of Gmail on the iPhone and G1. The application is based on HTML5, a web standard, and works offline with a local database cache.
This is the future.

Google LatLong: 1000 is the new 10

Google LatLong: 1000 is the new 10
we’ve added a search layer for local search results that activates when there are more relevant results than we can show on one page. Instead of just plotting the first page of business results on our map, we plot more of them as small circles. You can click on […]

Gmail as default email client

Google Pack Comes with Shortcuts for Google Web Apps
If you click on the Gmail shortcut, you have to option to register Gmail as the default mail client.
One step even closer, at least on the Windows platform.

Alex Payne — The Problem With Email Clients

Alex Payne — The Problem With Email Clients
Going back to any other email client is agonizing and disorienting, like being knocked around and dumped out of the back of a pickup on the outskirts of a strange town.
I’ll let you guess which client. Great post from Alex Payne; highly, highly recommended.

Entering offline mode the smart way

I started this blog by venting about the mess that was Gmail on the original iPhone immediately post-launch. A year and a half later, this week’s introduction of offline mode through Google Gears removed the last obstacle preventing my move to webmail full time and leaving traditional email clients behind. 
And, just when I thought I’ve […]

WordPress and the one and only loop

Grrr. Looks like I’ve run into a serious limitation of WordPress, namely the lack of blog aggregation. It turns out you can only have one loop on any given page, therefore you cannot merge two (or more) blogs. Why would you want to do that? To have a sideblog or linkblog. Here’s a good explanation. […]

Welcome to Scrybe

Woot! Joined the Scrybe beta after receiving an email invite yesterday.

Bloglines Beta First Impressions

Bloglines just announced the launch of Bloglines v3 in a beta open to the public. The announcement reads:
Blogliners we’re proud to introduce a beta of our latest redesign of Bloglines. Our About Beta overview outlines the key features a personalizable home page, 3 reading-views and drag-and-drop foldering in an Ajax interface. […]

Quick Review: NewsGator Online and NewsGator Mobile for the iPhone

Inspired by the Brent Simmons interview, I installed the trial of NetNewsWire 3.0 and configured it to sync with NewsGator Online. I used NetNewsWire on the PowerBook, NewsGator Mobile on the iPhone and the NewsGator Beta Online Reader elsewhere.
In the browser
Marking articles as read
Mark Items Read on View - From my previous experience with NewsGator […]

Shawn Blanc » The Brent Simmons Interview

Great quote from the developer of the fantastic NetNewsWire.
A third thing is that, at heart, I’m an extreme minimalist. An anti-pack-rat. NetNewsWire has a bunch of features, yes, no doubt — but were I not compelled by my temperament to prune and cut and simplify obsessively, it would be, well, a very different app.
I was […]