I may not be a big fan of the iPhone, but like it or not, it’s built-in web browser interface is revolutionary. As soon as a few patents expire, we are going to start seeing the iPhone’s web interface in more and more places. In my latest Lorelle on WordPress guest post, I cover some of the basics on making sure that your site is easily usable and readable for iPhone users, along with a link to Apple’s more detailed documentation on how you can build full-fledged web applications for this iPhone.

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Tags: Apple, article, guest blogging, iPhone, Lorelle VanFossen, web browsing, web design, website

Have you ever wanted to be able to have one central place on the internet that would allow you to keep track of all of the comments and conversations that you have on blogs and Web 2.0 sites? If you’re saying that that idea has never even crossed your mind, then you’ve had the same first reaction that I had to the Web 2.0 site coComment. However, coComment is just that. This site seeks to be a place which can track and share conversations that you have on blogs, sites like Digg and Flickr, and even on sites with absolutely no type of comment form whatsoever. It’s a very intriguing idea, which I decided to check out.
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Tags: Blogging, comments, conversations, friends, review, services, tracking, Web 2.0, web browsing

A few months ago when I was stumbling around with what to use for my e-mail system, I stumbled across a website promoting an application called Mailplane. Mailplane is a dedicated Mac OS X application designed to provide a new way for you to connect to and interact with the web-based Gmail client and help it feel more integrated with your desktop. Being a Gmail user myself, although a Gmail user who currently relies on POP access to use it, I waited a few months to receive my beta invite and gave it a try.
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Tags: email, Gmail, invites, plug-in, review, Software, Web 2.0, web browsing

People who have been following me for awhile know that until recent months, I was notorious for always moving all over the place, particularly in the realm of chat clients and web browsers. I’ve already viewed the chat client that I’ve settled on, and for this review, I want to focus on my web browser selection.

Now, web browsers are no easy topic to talk about. Essentially, web browsers are like politics. Just like most everyone has their own political beliefs, most everyone has their own favorite web browser. And of course there’s the group that just doesn’t like any of the politics but still picks a side for the heck of it, just like there’s the group that just doesn’t like any of the web browser selections out there but still picks a side for the heck of it. Either way, it’s a debate that can pit even the closest of friends up against each other.

For the longest time, I’ve been one of the latter group: someone who had something to complain about for every web browser, which is why I kept changing browsers every few months. Now, my colleagues Robert and Larry on PreviewCast are die-hard Safari fans, which has prompted some of our infamous browser wars on the show, and which also prompted a web browser bet around the 2006 Tour de Peninsula ride that I managed to survive. I’ve tried all the web browsers, haven given a few months of my life each to Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb, and also a few minutes each to Flock and Opera, until settling a few months ago with Camino, which I am still using today.
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Tags: browsers, Gecko, open source, review, Software, web browsing, WebKit

SmileOnMyMac’s BrowseBack is an application based on an interesting idea, and one that initially appealed to me. In short, it’s a webpage archiver, that allows you to go back and see PDFs of webpages that you’ve viewed in the past, even when you’re offline.
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Tags: archives, Mac, PDF, review, Software, web browsing, web pages