Make Mobile Friendly Website

You website or blog design may be perfectly optimized for the desktop screen but there are lot of people out there who frequently check your website or blog for new content using their mobile phones. The mobile visitors are not interested in the side bars, navigation areas and other design elements - all they want to see is a simple listing of your website or blog posts in reverse chronological order.

If they like the post they can click the title and a mobile friendly version of that page should open on the screen of their cell phones. You may not be a geek or may have the time to create a mobile edition of your blog so here are simple ways to do it.

Your blog content won't just look extremely readable on a mobile phone screen, it will also load very fast.

1. Google Reader- the Ten Second Solution

Google Reader can generate an excellent mobile view of your RSS feed without effort. Just append your feed address to the following URL and your mobile blog is ready.

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/CLbhp

2. Create a free account at mofuse.com and they'll give a personal mobile website with a .mobli address-some like http://dtcrunch.mofuse.mobi/.

If you have self-hosted blog like on wordpress or blogger custom domain, you can easily setup the mobile edition of your site on a sub domain (e.g.m.dtcrunch.com)- it is hort and users can easily guess the URL since almost all popular sites now follow the m. convention.

WordPress users a lucky as there's a plugin that will automatically detect if the client is a mobile phone browser and it then renders a mobile friendly version of the website to the visitor.

Google Translate, Now With Voice Input

Google Chrome 11 added support for HTML speech input API. " With this API, developers can give web apps the ability to transcribe your voice to text. When a web page uses this feature, you simply click on an icon and then speak into your computer's microphone. The recorded audio is sent to speech servers for transcription, after which the text is typed out for you." Google Translate is the first Google service that uses this feature. If you use Google Chrome 11 Beta , Google Chrome 12 Dev / Canary or a recent Chromium build and visit Google Translate (Click Here) , you can click the voice input icon. Right now, this feature only works for English, so you need to select "English" from the list of input languages.

Google Calendar's Favicon Changes Every Day

When Google Calendar changed the Favicon , many people wondered why it only shows 31 . "Does it mean that starting today, every day will be the 31st ? Seriously, favicon should be changed everyday to match the date," suggested a Google Calendar user. Google listened to the feedback and the favicon will now change Every Day. "When you look at the Google Calendar icon at the top of your browser window, it will no longer always display 31 but will instead change to reflect the current day of the month. Today's date is now always a short glance away." Google Calendar is the first Google service that has a dynamic favicon, but you can change Gmail's favicon to show the number of unread messages . Click to Enable button.

Upload and View Videos in Google Docs

Google Docs , It is the popular cloud based Office Suit of Google . Google has been continuously adding new features for his users in Google Docs. Recently Google made Docs more advance by adding the uploading, storing and viewing video feature to Docs. Here is the way how you can upload and view video in Google Docs. Google provide 1GB space for upload a video with the maximum resolution of 1920x1080. It also supports multiple formats like WebM , MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files, AVI MPEGPS, WMV and FLV. To upload a video just click on upload button at the left top. To watch your Uploaded video simple click on the file from your document list.

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