Trick #4: Make Your Favorite Websites Mobile
I’m always online, but don’t always have the time to coax this underpowered phone and IE mobile browser to get my favorite sites and render them correctly. So I got a feed reader. My favorite at the moment is NewsGator. It has a good interface and allows me to do all of the feed configuration online as well as on the phone. It stores the feed content and allows me to read it even when I’m out of range of an Internet connection.
Trick #5: Do Some Podcatching
Podcasting isn’t just for the iPod. Thanks to the wonderful open source application Beyond Pod, you can subscribe to RSS feeds and download podcasts directly to your phone and listen to them there as well. It’s a wonderful little application. I’ve had very few problems with it that weren’t related to the phone inherent lack of memory or poorly created rss.xml files. (Note: You can read RSS feeds with Beyond Pod too, but you don’t get the option of online management)
Trick #6: Don’t Just Listen, Watch Too
If you want to see video on your phone, download the open source Core Pocket Media Player. The player works well and has a few plugins to help with some proprietary codecs. Development has apparently ended for the application and two other apps will eventually take it’s place–an existing commerical app called CorePlayer and an open source application called BetaPlayer, which we’re still waiting to hear about on BetaPlayer’s Web site.
0 Responses to “Teach Your Phone a Few New Tricks to Reduce Your iPhone Envy.”
Leave a Reply