Having recently upgraded my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to the latest Android “Honeycomb” 3.1 release, I wanted to take a closer look at watching the HTTP web traffic from and to the device. Using the Fiddler web debugging tool on Windows, I was able to set this up rather quickly with these steps…
For a side project I’m working on, I want to support several different “read it later” type applications. Looking for apps that have both mobile support and APIs, it looks like the most popular options are Instapaper, Read It Later, and Readability. All of these accomplish a similar task: bookmark a web page for later reading, and formatting it for easier reading. Mobile support is usually included, either for reading articles bookmarked earlier, or marking new ones to read on a desktop at a later time. Here’s a quick summary of each service: Instapaper Free service with an optional subscription…
Taking a closer look at some traffic numbers today for this site, I noticed a revealing pattern for one of my popular posts regarding BlackBerry simulators: the traffic on Saturdays and Sundays is quite low. Does that mean it’s mostly enterprise or commercial software developers working on BlackBerry? No hackers working on the weekend?
The changing landscape in mobile device and browser market share has been a hot topic in the news lately. Looking at recent visitor stats for Cantoni.mobi (my mobile website links collection), I noticed some interesting trends in mobile browser share.
The Sprint website has been offline (i.e., unusable) for over 48 hours now as Sprint is launching a new software release. Can’t we do better than that these days?