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Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Drew l — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:32:13 -0000

I'm on my iPod you would think this site would be"ipod-ized". But it ain't

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Viral Marketing Widget — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:15:59 -0000

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...

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Colin Johnson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:37:54 -0000

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/webapp...

It is much better than Intersquash in my opinion which crashed constantly for me, and it supports Atom and RSS feeds.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

MITS Engineering college — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:55:29 -0000

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Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Guest — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:03:19 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Dianiella Newmark — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:28:59 -0000

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:

http://m.venuem.net/mashable

VenueM supports flickr integration and even advertising is in the beta stage.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

mythili — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:07:11 -0000

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

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

mythili — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:06:21 -0000

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.

BTW - i just converted your blog into a Koollage Pod in 2 secs. Check it out at http://www.koollage.com/pod... Design Blog

check it out on the iphone as well. Great experience. Would love your feedback

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Jeremy — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:16:12 -0000

Defeats the purpose of having an iphone.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Jonathan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:50:05 -0000

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?

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Vatroslav Mihalj — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:23:14 -0000

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. Å¾
Opera Software pioneered this approach with several years ago, using their proxy to downscale graphics and optimize sites for Opera Mini...

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Pang Wang Yang (Jerry's gone b — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:35:04 -0000

"Animals in clothes" the best? Not if you rate Jessica Simpson as an animal :)

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Mark — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:54:50 -0000

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....

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:25:14 -0000

all nice and good but its just a RSS feed reader, not website converter..
big difference..

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Pete — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:23:21 -0000

So, in conclusion, we all really like this tool.

Right? Right? ;)

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

David Berube — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:05:35 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Tom — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:03:45 -0000

Pointless

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

teddy hedenquist — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:34:14 -0000

agreed

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Matt — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:08:55 -0000

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)

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Ma — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:03:34 -0000

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...

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Arneby — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:56:30 -0000

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.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

~C4Chaos — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:10:33 -0000

i gave it a try. but i don't see links to the original post. http://intersquash.com/feed...
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.... works like a charm.

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Marco — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:27:43 -0000

Mine doesn't work either. Tried it out just for good measure. It did, but now it is broken.
http://intersquash.com/feed...

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Neyma — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:25:24 -0000

Did you use it to make an iPhone version of Mashable?

Re: HOW TO: Instantly iPhone-ize Your Website

Rubin Sfadj — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:20:10 -0000

It didn't work on my Blogger blog. Even the 57x57 jpg I uploaded isn't used on my home screen. Meh.