Completely Worthless. The whole point of the iphone browser for me is the fact I can use the internet in the same way as I do on my PC. If a site forwarded me to this crap I would be pissed.
Paul
· 1 year ago
^ agreed
Mat Packer
· 1 year ago
I was like "oh that's kind of interesting"
and then I read the animals in human clothes sentence.. hahah
Too funny.
Daryl
· 1 year ago
I acknowledge that the "iPhone-ized" site would probably be faster... but I agree with the other commenters that the iPhone's proper browser is it's biggest selling point... A better suggestion is to optimize your actual website to not be so bloated in general; iPhone or not.
Gerald S.
· 1 year ago
I agree with Jeremy. I think technology is ahead of what users want on their iphone.
Jesse W.
· 1 year ago
I think they are trying to go too fast. Some website developers are just not keeping up with web 2.0 no less putting it onto the iphone.
If you truly want o make your blog or feed "mobile" so it can travel across website (embed), social networks AND the iphone, check out www.koollage.com.
check it out on the iphone as well. Great experience. Would love your feedback
th13rteen
· 1 year ago
I wouldn't wanna be forwarded to an "iPhonized" site. Its just blank and boring. All websites would look the same. Wouldn't you want to have the same browsing experience as you would on your computer?
Bad idea in my opinion. Don't "iPhonize" your site. Make your site's design fluid, so it works better with iPhones and iPod touches. Just think of some other way.
JT
· 1 year ago
Ridiculous guys, this doesn't deserve such misinformed reviews. It seems like a genuinely useful tool for a, simpler, browsing experience on the iphone. Yes, valid indeed that the iphone's browser is geared to view websites in their natural form, though not all sites bring the luxury of being comfortably usable on an iphone-size screen... and moreso instead of contracting an entirely new system to run an iphone-friendly version of your site, the quick substitute perhaps is this easy as hell little tool.
My 2c.
Ben
· 1 year ago
I think this service could be very useful if you just want to keep track of certain blog(s) and you want to access new posts very quickly, firing up the full webpage of the blog(s) might take a longer time to load, so you iPhoneize the blog(s) you want to keep track of and save them as a bookmark on your iPhone, or even save them as webclip for even faster access to your favourite blog(s).
I'm talking about your MOST favourite blogs by the way in this aspect, cos otherwise there are all those RSS reader apps available on iTunes.
Sherwin
· 1 year ago
Maybe iPhone-ize is giving the site a bit too much credit. Having tried it, it's more like collating your content for an iPhone. I'm sure there's an RSS reader somewhere that can do that for me already.
Rubin
· 1 year ago
It didn't work on my Blogger blog. Even the 57x57 jpg I uploaded isn't used on my home screen. Meh.
Neyma
· 1 year ago
Did you use it to make an iPhone version of Mashable?
iPhonized webpage or not. This one leads the visitor away from my site to Intersquash which then get my Google juice. In other words; useless for anyone who cares about their SEO stuff.
Ma
· 1 year ago
Oh my god the hyperbole here is gut wrenching....
The real credit here should be going to Joe Hewitt for his development of the IUI Library (the package that is doing all the "fancy" iPhone work here...) And I'm guessing this place also used something like SimplePie to parse the Feeds.... so really, this place has done very little and all of the "awesome" about this was done by OTHER PEOPLE... it's a shame that the article does not point all of this out... I am tempted to come out with a clone of this service in a matter of a day or two just to prove how cold this sauce really is...
Matt
· 1 year ago
WPTouch is so much better than this in many ways (not the least of which is the ability to switch back to the original website without always being redirected to the alternate version)... So anyone who is smart enough to be using Wordpress should consider using WPTouch (not to mention it does not steal your traffic like this stupid thing does)
teddy hedenquist
· 1 year ago
agreed
Tom
· 1 year ago
Pointless
David Berube
· 1 year ago
Just to chime in to the first few commentators who are saying that the full website is better than an iPhone website.
Well, maybe in this situation that might be the case. However, if you look at Bank of America, Digg or Facebook's iPhone website and compare them to the full website, the experience is much much better on the iPhone version.
I, for one, do not like looking at websites through a periscope of types (constant pinching and dragging). Besides, people use phone browsers differently than they use desktop browsers so your mobile site, in part, should reflect that.
So, the iPhone's browser is the best mobile browser out there, nobody will argue against that. Using an iPhone specific site is a much better experience (for the most part) than the periscope pinching. Try the Bank of America comparison and you'll see what I mean.
Pete
· 1 year ago
So, in conclusion, we all really like this tool.
Right? Right? ;)
JohnAtkinson
· 1 year ago
Why all the drama in the comments here? It's basically an RSS feed reader for Safari Mobile. It works reasonably well and it's free.
Thanks for telling us about it Pete ;)
Sahil
· 1 year ago
I would see the usefulness, but there's already an official RSS reader made by Apple (just go to an RSS feed on your iPhone or iPod Touch to see it).
m
· 1 year ago
all nice and good but its just a RSS feed reader, not website converter.. big difference..
Mark
· 1 year ago
Doesn't work for wikis in the couple of tries I did. The first - completely failed - the second - processed the rss feed, but then the interface freaked out. Cool idea....
Pang Wang Yang (Jerry's gone b
· 1 year ago
"Animals in clothes" the best? Not if you rate Jessica Simpson as an animal :)
Vatroslav Mihalj
· 1 year ago
When surfing over WiFi, such services are not very useful, because Wifi is usually not charged per MB. But, if surfing over mobile network data connection, where every MB is counted, and "unlimited plan" does not mean really unlimited (yes, there'sa a cap, ask your mobile opretor - or try to donalod several GBs)... This might be useful, to save on bandwidth. ž Opera Software pioneered this approach with several years ago, using their proxy to downscale graphics and optimize sites for Opera Mini...
Jonathan
· 1 year ago
Having to munge your site so as to make it "iphone friendly" clearly means you have not drunk Apple's Koolaid. Let us recite the mantra once again: surfing the web on your iphone IS THE SAME as surfing it on your 37" screen in your home. There is NO DIFFERENCE. There cannot be ANY DIFFERENCE.
Damn that Koolaid tastes good, dunnit?
Jeremy
· 1 year ago
Defeats the purpose of having an iphone.
mythili
· 1 year ago
If you truly want o make your blog or feed "mobile" so it can travel across website (embed), social networks AND the iphone, check out www.koollage.com.
check it out on the iphone as well. Great experience. Would love your feedback
Dianiella Newmark
· 1 year ago
VenueM offers instant iphone ready websites for bloggers and podcasters.
Here is a iphone version for the mashable website that we are all fans of:
VenueM supports flickr integration and even advertising is in the beta stage.
TobyM
· 1 year ago
www.apploop.com/ turns an RSS feed into a native iPhone app (disclaimer: never tried it, just read about it on TechCrunch).
That said, the auto-redirect to the iPhone version of a site is a great idea (Digg full on iPhone is brutal...everything's tiny and it crashes all the time, but the m.digg.com on iPhone is wonderful!). Of course, iPhone version of site is could be vastly different that a pretty RSS feed!
Last, it sounds like this thing doesn't give you the option to view the full site on iPhone if desired, which is terrible. WPTouch does this, so that wins hands down.
MITS Engineering college
· 1 year ago
MITS Engineering College,Best Institute in Orissa, India
Colin Johnson
· 11 months ago
I've been using a service to do this every since the iphone came out. It is called the iPhone RSS Builder and you can access it via the Apple Web Store - http://www.apple.com/webapps/utilities/rssbuild...
It is much better than Intersquash in my opinion which crashed constantly for me, and it supports Atom and RSS feeds.
Viral Marketing Widget
· 10 months ago
This is a cool idea but it is very buggy and not fully developed yet. I'm gonna hold out and wait for something better...
Drew l
· 10 months ago
I'm on my iPod you would think this site would be"ipod-ized". But it ain't
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and then I read the animals in human clothes sentence.. hahah
Too funny.
Jesse W.
http://www.subprimeblogger.com
BTW - i just converted your blog into a Koollage Pod in 2 secs. Check it out at http://www.koollage.com/pod/plog/Digital Design Blog
check it out on the iphone as well. Great experience. Would love your feedback
Bad idea in my opinion. Don't "iPhonize" your site. Make your site's design fluid, so it works better with iPhones and iPod touches. Just think of some other way.
My 2c.
I'm talking about your MOST favourite blogs by the way in this aspect, cos otherwise there are all those RSS reader apps available on iTunes.
http://intersquash.com/feed/b2399f68#___1__
and the options are limited at this time.
but since i use WordPress, the better solution is to install the WPTouch plugin http://www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch/. works like a charm.
~C
The real credit here should be going to Joe Hewitt for his development of the IUI Library (the package that is doing all the "fancy" iPhone work here...) And I'm guessing this place also used something like SimplePie to parse the Feeds.... so really, this place has done very little and all of the "awesome" about this was done by OTHER PEOPLE... it's a shame that the article does not point all of this out... I am tempted to come out with a clone of this service in a matter of a day or two just to prove how cold this sauce really is...
Well, maybe in this situation that might be the case. However, if you look at Bank of America, Digg or Facebook's iPhone website and compare them to the full website, the experience is much much better on the iPhone version.
I, for one, do not like looking at websites through a periscope of types (constant pinching and dragging). Besides, people use phone browsers differently than they use desktop browsers so your mobile site, in part, should reflect that.
So, the iPhone's browser is the best mobile browser out there, nobody will argue against that. Using an iPhone specific site is a much better experience (for the most part) than the periscope pinching. Try the Bank of America comparison and you'll see what I mean.
Right? Right? ;)
Thanks for telling us about it Pete ;)
big difference..
But, if surfing over mobile network data connection, where every MB is counted, and "unlimited plan" does not mean really unlimited (yes, there'sa a cap, ask your mobile opretor - or try to donalod several GBs)... This might be useful, to save on bandwidth. ž
Opera Software pioneered this approach with several years ago, using their proxy to downscale graphics and optimize sites for Opera Mini...
Damn that Koolaid tastes good, dunnit?
check it out on the iphone as well. Great experience. Would love your feedback
Here is a iphone version for the mashable website that we are all fans of:
http://m.venuem.net/mashable
VenueM supports flickr integration and even advertising is in the beta stage.
That said, the auto-redirect to the iPhone version of a site is a great idea (Digg full on iPhone is brutal...everything's tiny and it crashes all the time, but the m.digg.com on iPhone is wonderful!). Of course, iPhone version of site is could be vastly different that a pretty RSS feed!
Last, it sounds like this thing doesn't give you the option to view the full site on iPhone if desired, which is terrible. WPTouch does this, so that wins hands down.
It is much better than Intersquash in my opinion which crashed constantly for me, and it supports Atom and RSS feeds.