by David Lee King on February 13, 2008
I’ve been looking into mobile podcasting tools, specifically services that allow you to post podcasts to a blog from your cell phone. Here’s a list of tools I’ve found that do this:
- Gcast – run by the people behind GarageBand (I actually have some scary bad songs somewhere on GarageBand)
- TalkShoe – seems to do this and a whole lot more
- Hipcast – upload files up to 250 MB in size
- Yodio – don’t know much about this service
- Gabcast – 200 MB per user for the free account, and 1 hour per recording
- Jott – Not sure if Jott does quite the same thing, but I’m including them anyway. Jott allows you to record a message to voicemail, then it can email it out to whoever (and most bloggers can set up an “email to post” email account, which would work)
Anyone use any of these tools? Is there another one I should add to the list? Thanks!
by David Lee King on February 20, 2006
I saw
this article a few days ago, and thought I’d share… Basically, the article discusses a Kansas City-area middle school that is experimenting with PDAs – as in, 600 PDAs (the school district spent about $180,000).
Their goal? To prepare their students for the 21st century! The article actually says this: “Many educators think that preparing students for the 21st century goes beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic – students must be technologically literate.”
How cool is that? A public school actually teaching kids skills that they’ll need TOMORROW – rather than skills they’d need today, or yesterday. I applaud them!
by David Lee King on January 31, 2006
Just testing out the Treo. Did you know you can actually reach blogger’s web-based admin area using the Treo Blazer web browser? Of course that also means that I’m hunched over and typing on a thumb keyboard… very slowly. But a successful test, nonetheless.
by David Lee King on January 30, 2006
I’m playing with my new Treo 650 – and discovered that it takes video. So of course, what do I do when I discover that? Immediately play with it… here’s the
result of my experiment.
Ok – very silly test video, I know. Nonetheless:
- I can capture video on the go
- It’s poor quality video, so probably not useful for “professional” consumption
- Great if I want to share an idea, capture a quick interview, or capture an event
- Hmm… show management a particularly successful library event?
Reading all these, I can see a way to sum it up – cheap video is capable of capturing the moment – it will capture the relevant info, so you can use it later as supplementary material (for whatever you’re doing).
Update: Gee, Dave… it helps to actually include the link to the video…
vlog, videoblog
by David Lee King on January 26, 2006
Update: In the comments area, Paul provides the actual URL – thanks, Paul! And Paul – for the . hit the 1 key.
Just poking around more on the Opera Mini site – and found an Opera Mini simulator! Pretty cool – I was able to test what Kansas City Public Library’s website looks like using the Opera Mini browser.
What did I discover? Our way cool horizontal menu bar? Doesn’t work. Normal links DO work, though. I was able to click through to an image and an article in one of our subject guides.
Thankfully, we’re working on a redesign – we’ll have to focus on STANDARDS… CSS, XHTML, etc. so the world can browse us. Even those using cell phones!
opera, opera mini
by David Lee King on January 25, 2006
Seen on Bill Drew’s blog – Opera just realeased their Opera Mini Browser that installs on most cell phones (Bill installed in on his Cingular phone)!
And like Bill says – this isn’t WAP – it’s real, live HTML (via some crazy magic java thing). From the Opera Mini site “Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. This makes Opera Mini™ perfect for phones with very low resources, or low bandwidth connections.”
OK – we all know that cool pricey smart phones like a Treos, PDA-enabled things, and Blackberrys get web. And some cell phones… but Opera? And not WAP? From this blog (the Toronto Palm OS Group) – “Opera Mini offers the same speed and usability as the renowned Opera mobile browser, and uses Opera’s Small Screen Rendering technology to provide access to the Web. It has all the features expected of a browser, and more, such as bookmarks, browsing history, and ability to split large pages into smaller sections for faster browsing. ”
If this works easily, and accesses the web quickly… we could be in for quite a ride in 2006.
by David Lee King on April 26, 2005
Go over to webis.net and take a peek at the website. Then look at this image of the website viewed with my iPaq. Nothing terribly noticeable
or cool, you say? Wrong!
The cool thing? The designer separated the style from the content using
CSS, and also has allowed my PDA to view the website in a friendly
format, also using CSS (from pocketpcthoughts.com).
Web designers take note – you no longer have to create a separate page
or version of your website only for mobile users sporting handhelds.
Now you can use “”CSS to format your content in such a way that any
computing device can consume the content.” How cool is that?
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