Archive for the ‘Useful mobile websites’ Category
Heysan mobile chat interface for your phone
Heysan is a free chat client for MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and GTalk. It uses a web interface so you don’t have to download software on to your phone.
It works very well.
It also sends auto sends a message that you are using Heysan to anyone who IMs you and has advertising. It may or may not be a reasonable trade off depending on your needs. Also away messages are not supported at this time.
The mobile interface for the site can be found m.heysan.com.
It’s probably worth a bookmark and will do in a pinch, I’m not sure you want it for your main IM client.
Call your phone from the internet
Why would you want to call your phone from the internet?
1) You can’t find it and maybe if it is ringing it’ll be easier to find.
2) You are stuck in the never ending meeting and need a way to ditch
3) Your blind date leaves more than few things to be desired.
iTravel Highway guide
I sure wish I had this available when we drove from Boston to Houston. This site ( works on WM & iPhone probably most others as well ) has an easy to access from your phone list of highways. From the list you can find hotels, food, rest areas, traffic, major cities and more.
An excellent site to have bookmarked and handy in your phone.
HopStop subway and train directions around major US cities
HopStop.com/pda will let you get directions around major cities using public transportation. You can visit the site above and easily enter directions, or you can send an SMS to HSTOP ( 47867 ) or call 1-888-2-hopstop ( 1-888-2467-7867 ) { I didn’t try calling, I don’t know why there is an extra digit in the phone number? }
It was totally painless to use the pda website from the phone.
Right now HopStop covers NYC, Boston, Chicago, SanFrancisco, DC and other areas are being added in to their database.
Listen to news and rss feeds on your mobile device
Ok, it took me a while to get past the name, Pimp my news but the name grows on you.
Since I can’t store and read Pdfs on my iPhone for reading I’ve been trying to find ways to hack around that problem. One thing I’ve been doing is downloading Google Tech talks to listen to, this looks like another option.
You set up playlists either with topics or from the list of rss feeds they give you. Once you create your playlist you can access it from a feed or podcast depending on your preference. Your news is converted from text to vocal news and you can listen on the go.
As far as I can see you must select from their feed list and can’t add your own. Maybe that will change in time?
It is a great idea and they are off to a good start, it’s worth checking out.
What’s the internet connection speed on your cell phone?
Cnet has a speed test you can use from your phone’s browser to test your internet connection speed. On Sprint’s EVD0 in Houston I’m getting about 370 Kb/s give or take.
Convert your favorite online videos for viewing on your cellphone
Movavi Online is a free online service that lets you download videos from around the net, convert them and save them to your cellphone, music player or other gadgets.
It supports all the major commonly used video formats. Videos must be less than 10 minutes in length but otherwise use seems unrestricted.
Google Docs goes mobile
Google Docs is a sever based suite of office tools. There is a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tools and storage. You can create documents or upload existing documents. Documents can be shared or kept private and edited and accessed from anywhere.
The access from anywhere is the important part. Now there is a mobile interface to the Google Docs so you can read and edit your documents from your phone as well. Like all the Google services so far this one is free and easy to set up.
