2008-08-10 19:10:25 by Angel in HowTo (no comments) permalink
My name is Angel Castaneda, and I’m a geek.
[[cue: Hi Angel]]
Okay. Confession time: There have been many a time I have poked you via Facebook mobile while waiting for my elevator to take me from the 6th floor to the 3rd floor. I have also Wikipedia’d several ingredients when eating at a restaurant. After all, how else was I supposed to know what Ziti pasta is?
While we’re on topic, yes: I have set my Out of Office at work when I have three days off, and I still check my email three times a day.
But Angel, how do you do that? - you ask. Do you have a fancy unlimited-data plan Blackberry or iPhone with you 24/7?
Not really. I have my handy-dandy Sanyo Katana. Seriously. There’s nothing fancy about it (unless you consider looking like a Razor fancy, or the crappy address book a feature.) A car charger costs more than my phone.
I pay $5 a month to have unlimited web browsing, which is pretty slow. When you are on such device, every second counts. Which is why I would like to present Angel Castaneda’s mobile geekness site. Go on, try it from your phone: http://m.angelcastaneda.com/
Basically what I’ve done is group the websites I use the most into a 1KB site. It’s just links, I know, but when your phone doesn’t have such a thing as “favorites” (I mean, it’s only 2008. No one has heard of them anyways). Currently I had to google the name of a website, and then click on it’s link, to ensure it was formatted properly, so my phone could display it. Terrible, terrible system.
The link structure is very, very basic, as shown below. The only difference of this code from the one you typed on your first HTML class back in 1998 is the accesskey attribute. This saves you precious time by skipping the whole scrolling up and down with a tiny keypad.
<a href="http://www.google.com/m?source=mobileproducts" accesskey="1"> <img src = "google.jpg" border = "0">1. google </a>
The images are just the Favicon icons (16×16 pixels) with no border, to avoid crappiness. The accesskey attribute can be set anywhere from 1 to 9 - I still have to experiment using the # and * keys.
The links I added are Google, Google Mail, Calendar and Docs, Wesabe, Facebook, Fuelly, Twitter, and another one I called bookmarks. It’s pretty archaic, as it is an HTML file I need to maintain, but it will do for now.
Disclaimer: If you will be adding friends from the can, PLEASE make sure you wash your hands AND sanitize your phone on a daily basis.
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