On the iPad and iPhone, using CSS transformations in Mobile Safari often results in elements with ugly jagged or stair stepped edges.

In most cases it’s easy to get nice anti-aliased edges by wrapping whatever you want to transform in an additional element that adds a few pixels padding:

Big touchscreens demand big gestures. The iPad in particular begs for swipes and multitouch combos that let you slap at the whole screen to control apps instead of tapping delicately at tiny buttons.

iPad apps like Facebook and Twitter, for example, demonstrate that it's much easier to move through your history by nudging the canvas back and forth than it is to hit Safari's tiny Back button. Small touchscreen buttons require extra thought and motor control—brain and strain—compared to coarse gestures that let you fling screens aside.

With iOS 5, the iPad finally gets exactly those kinds of coarse gestures to move between apps. Yay, right? Swipe left or right with four or five fingers to switch among recent apps, or pinch with four or five fingers to close an app and zip out to the home screen. No need to find the iPad's elusive Home button; you can just paw at the whole screen to navigate apps.

I'm a huge fan of the spirit of these gestures, but I'm not crazy about the excution. I wish Apple had followed the interaction already adopted by other platforms, including BlackBerry Playbook, Nokia N9, and the next version of Microsoft Windows. All of these platforms use edge gestures, a technique that is at once more internally consistent and more deferential to individual apps.

Nokia Maps lijkt in grote lijnen erg op Google Maps: je kunt zoeken naar locaties, jezelf met GPS terugvinden en een route tussen twee plekken plannen met de auto of te voet. Het moet ook mogelijk zijn om een reis met het openbaar vervoer uit te stippelen, maar bij gebruik meldt Nokia Maps dat de functie niet beschikbaar is.

Maar Nokia Maps heeft ook een aantal dingen van zichzelf. Zo is er een favorietenlijst waar je locaties in kunt zetten, zodat je ze makkelijk terugvindt. Interessanter is de lokale opslagfunctie: ga je naar een plek met een slechte dataverbinding, dan kun je vooraf via Wi-Fi de kaart opslaan op je iPhone. Helemaal zonder limieten is deze functie alleen niet: je kunt hooguit een aantal MB aan kaartinformatie opslaan, genoeg om bijvoorbeeld de binnenstad van Leiden mee in kaart te brengen.

Om Nokia Maps te gebruiken ga je naar m.maps.nokia.com in je mobiele browser.

PhotoSwipe is a FREE HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices.

Easily create mobile web app mocks you can share,
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Over het privacybeleid moet nog wel nagedacht worden, maar onderzoekers van het Japanse KDDI zijn alvast trots op hun ontdekking: het team ontwikkelde software voor de gsm die werkgevers in staat stelt personeelsleden op ieder moment te monitoren.

Heb je een iPhone met abbo bij T-mobile? Sms dan snel 'ID Uit' naar 1310.

DSLR Camera Remote is the next-generation cable release for your Canon EOS DSLR or Nikon DSLR camera. Just connect your camera to a WiFi enabled computer and the DSLR Camera Remote software enables you to use your Apple iPhone or iPod touch to wirelessly adjust cameras settings, fire the shutter, review images, even get a live viewfinder preview. DSLR Camera Remote is a must-have for remote shooting applications like high or low angles, self portraits and children.

reMail downloads all your email to your iPhone and lets you search full-text at light speed

At the end of July I declared my intention to quit the iPhone and AT&T, port my mobile phone number to Google Voice and use any mobile device that I pleased (or lots of them at once) in the future. Like others, I will no longer blindly follow all things Apple. Today I’m pleased to report a status update on those efforts: complete. I am no longer a member of the Cult of iPhone.

Threat Level had no idea the iPhone was so dangerous. We’re gratified that Apple locked down this potential weapon of mass disruption before hackers could unleash cybarmageddon. This also explains why Apple rejected the official Google Voice App for the iPhone this week. We thought it was because Google Voice posed a threat to AT&T’s exclusivity deal with Apple. Now we know it threatened national security.

Due to hefty 3G roaming rates, Apple’s Maps app just won’t cut it when you’re out of the country. The oMap app lets you download maps for offline viewing — dodging a shocking bill post-vacation.

Sync In A Blink is a simple and easy to use application designed to synchronize your Google™ Gmail™ Contacts with the contacts on your Apple® iPhone™. All you need to get started is your Gmail account. No additional online services are required and none of your data is stored outside of your iPhone and Gmail account.

Brushes is a natural media painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.

Pocket Universe uses the position sensors and the compass to orient your phone to match the real sky. As you turn or tilt the phone, the sky map changes to give you a very accurate picture of where you are pointing, with lots of labels and links to more information. This is one of the first examples of an augmented reality app to hit the platform since the introduction of the 3GS.

One of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.

Read the latest news from your favorite sites and blogs on your iPhone or iPod Touch, even when you’re offline. Simply use your free Google Reader account to subscribe to websites you’d like to keep track of. Byline will automatically bring you new content, putting thousands of RSS and Atom feeds at your fingertips. Stay in sync When you read an item, it stays read. The same goes for the items you star: Byline will let Google Reader know the next time you have an internet connection.

Researchers are increasingly using cell phones to better understand users' behavior and social interactions. The data collected from a phone's GPS chip or accelerometer, for example, can reveal trends that are relevant to modeling the spread of disease, determining personal health-care needs, improving time management, and even updating social-networks. The approach, known as reality mining, has also been suggested as a way to improve targeted advertising or make cell phones smarter: a device that knows its owner is in a meeting could automatically switch its ringer off, for example.

PwdHashAndroid provides a simple to use UI for generating PwdHashes on the android plattform.

On the role of Android beyond mobile phones, and the way print should take advantages of e-readers, iphones, etc with so called 'appgazines'.

On Thursday at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Yahoo's Marc Davis spoke about the mobile internet and the future of the mobile industry. (..) Davis also introduced the concept of "W4" which is unique to the mobile. W4 means that on the mobile, you can combine the spatial, temporal, social, and topical experiences into one. Or, in more simple terms, a mobile experience includes the Who, What, When, and Where. A mobile phone knows the answers to these questions.

Wired wrote yesterday about a cell-phone modification that could bring on-the-spot disease detection and monitoring to even the most remote corners of the world. The phone has its lens removed and modified with an LED light source that reveals particular properties of the blood when lit. The camera sensor can then image the blood, creating a diagnostic lab all in a cell phone.

A few weeks ago we released a version of the Flickr site tailored specifically for the iPhone. Developing this site was very different from any other project I’ve worked on; there seems to be a new set of frontend rules for developing high-end mobile sites. A lot of the current best practices get thrown out the window in the quest for minimum page weight and fastest load times over slow celluar connections.

An intrepid user at the Ubuntu Forums has detailed the installation and setup of BlueProximity, a free Linux app that turns a Bluetooth phone into a proximity-based security device for your computer. Yes, that's exactly how it sounds: Your laptop locks itself down when you step a certain distance away, and opens again once you're in range.

A list of 8 upcoming Nokia innovations. -- Some of these are already being tested in large public projects, it seems. Others aren't really that innovative, at first sight. Two or three are interesting.

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

We-Travel is a personal initiative to develop a free navigation solution for Java enabled mobile phones.

De kantoorloze freelancer rukt op. Hij werkt in restaurants en grand cafés. Want wie heeft er nog een kantoor nodig als je altijd en overal kunt werken?

Uit een meta-analyse van een aantal onderzoeken naar de relatie tussen het langdurige gebruik van mobiele telefoons en het optreden van kanker, concluderen twee Zweedse professoren dat wie een mobiele telefoon meer dan tien jaar gebruikt een groter risico

We zijn van 27 juli t/m 11 augustus op vakantie geweest en in de factuur van afgelopen maand is het extra dataverbruik t/m 31 juli berekend. De totale kosten voor mijn mobiele abonnement waren voor de afgelopen maand maar liefst 905,14 euro.

Tips, tricks, hacks, and news about Nokia Internet Tablets and related technology.

Reflashing and Setting Up My Nokia N800

a product/business idea by Philip Greenspun in September 2005

Repositories for N800

Here are 10 reasons why I’d like to buy a Nokia N800 instead of an Apple iPhone. I realize that there are areas where the iPhone will be better than the N800, I just don’t think it’s worth the extra cost and lack of freedom that comes along with hav

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