It isn't all rosy when the average person picks up the traditional phone, or tries out a new internet VoIP service that was invented by technicians with foreheads the size of a small skyscraper. Telephony hell is all around.
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Premium rate nightmares

Perhaps you think you are dialling the US from your computer phone, but your call is diverted to Nigeria. You hang up because you dont understand a bloody word.

A month later you see the bill and realise that the premium rate charge continued for ages after you hung up. You try to complain, but you cannot get any sense out of the Nigerian exchange operator. After googling Telephony Hell, you find out that you cannnot turn the call off even by pulling the plug on your PC. Internet telephony is great, innit?

You have to get used to 30 digit pin numbers and calling cards for cheap calls.

How many times have you got through a series of numbers, just to screw up one digit, and you have to start again. Then you get through and it is busy!

In comparison to some, this Snapvine thing seems all too easy with its short number dialing sequence! Surprisingly, (or is it shock, horror?) it is easy and from personal experience, it is worth looking into this new simple online telephony idea!

Skype used to suck.

Yes, Skype does work now, and Skype is a complement to this Snapvine idea, by offering cheap calls to the US landline service. But, how many Skype zealots fail to mention the history!

In the early days the current VoIP god was all very sketchy. "OMG what have I signed up to?" was a phrase repeated in my headphones umpteen times before the connection crashed and burned. Anyone over 30 was too scared to use it.

As it happens, scaredy cat naysayers were wrong about Skype, and now many skeptics are glad their favourite Ed the Editor put them on to free internet phone calls. See, it worked out fine for consumers and we have no excuse for not calling home to momma from anywhere in the world, every Sunday morning.

And the guys behind Skype, the bad boys who were also behind kazaa, Zennstrom and Friis, even came good in the end when they got bought out by eBay! You can go online and join the auction for Skype and buy it now for $3bn!

Had any phone nightmares?

Once you start digging into new tech, it is surprising what you find, or get caught up in. Take Feedm8.

SMS yourself a Mobile Version of Ed's latest posts




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turn your blog mobile

Take a look at a Feedm8 mobile site at work.

See how Opera shrink your fave sites! Surf for free on their simulated phone browser.

Mobile is the future, and these guys have a whack of ideas to make it easy for you and technology-challenged people like me to become cell phone accessible.

After copying and pasting some slick Feedm8 code, and styling a form, I have made it possible for my fans on the move to SMS my mobile feed to their cell phone. And if you look close enough you will see that I am also a good community man (barf) and made info available so that bloggers can create a mobile RSS for their own blog.

And like all good experimenters with no idea about marketing, I left the snazzy blue box in the sidebar, put my feet up and waited for something to happen.

Mobile interest

Amazingly, I have had a few hundred interested clickers, some of whom I hope have at least used Feedm8 to get their own blog onto the mobile web. Good job.

SMS text alert

And most recently, I have gone Beta, dudes, with an SMS text alert dealio. In its purest form straight off the boat, it looks something like this.

Get Text Alerts


Powered by FeedM8

And if you want to make alerts more specific, by topic or keyword, you can.

And to think, a week ago, I had no idea about any of this, but now I know enough to be dangerous.

Check out my sidebar, sign up and become a mobile RSS blog feed expert in a couple of minutes flat. Over and out, and see you on your phone?

A few times over the past year I have delved into the next big thing - the mobile web - and again, I am banging on to web site owners about the need to think cell phones. There are a billion phones a year in circulation, which dwarfs the number of computers by quite a margin. And with data prices dropping all the time, cell phone surfing isn't going to remain the game of choice for the privileged few for too much longer. Don't hold back and miss out on traffic.

iPhone has revolutionised the mobile web, but...

iPhone has obviously taken the mobile web to the next level with a real browser onboard. What you see on your computer at home you get on the iPhone, and give or take a bit of finger scrolling, it is quite easy to navigate a proper web site. (Users with stubby spatulate fingers like mine may beg to differ.)

But, if you run a blog or full blown website, don't be suckered into thinking that Apple have cut out the need for you to consider re-designing or adapting your own theme for the web. Even Apple know they are a 1 or 2% minnow in a mega pond, so most phones that browse the internet will have the "normal" 2" screen. No one is going to enjoy the experience of surfing your 14" wide site with one of those.

So what do you do?

Redesign for a fully mobile site

For a mini version of a full site you could rejig your theme for a handheld view. Bonsai Studios did a great job shrinking the pisstakers theme so that it looks splendido on Opera mini. That option cost some money though, and requires a bit of thought - you have to forgo a lot of the glamor of your snazzy theme and really strip it down to the bare essentials, especially with navigation. This expensive and time-consuming option is classier than a text only feed, but the investment may not suit everyone!

Go the RSS feed route and try out FeedM8!

There really is nothing to worry about financially or creatively if you adopt the service from the FeedM8 guys. Not only will they turn your site's RSS feed into a thing of beauty on a tiny cell phone screen, they even set up a few simple ads that could earn you a bit - or a lot - of income when users click on them. What's not to like?

How do users get the Pisstakers, or any other site, on their cell phone?

No wizardry required - it is easy.

1 - SMS the mobile feed details to your phone direct from the sidebar form on The Pisstakers site; or

2 - Load the Pisstakers mobile feed URL straight into your phone's browser. Not too hard. And it really works.

Feedm8 affiliate dealio

Whatever you do, don't bury your head in the sand and think mobile doesn't apply to you. The cell phone browser heads are coming, and coming fast. And with browsers comes Google and all the wannabe advertisers too.

The Pisstakers are set up with Feedm8 and we are hoping to benefit from the power of their affiliate mobile web network. Why don't you take your blog mobile, and earn more? You have nothing to lose and everything to gain, especially traffic.

After turning down an offer for a new iPhone, and discovering how to connect my laptop to the internet from almost anywhere, I am in the mood for a dip into the world of mobile tech.

Do you need an iPhone?

Mrs Ed, bless her, said I could have an iPhone, if I wanted. She got a big hug, and is still $399 in pocket. I don't need one.

My current phone looks like it came out of a Christmas cracker, and it is still way too feature-laden for me. And apart from depending on it for ringing my wife, I use it for almost nothing. OK, once I used it as an alarm clock and woke up 12 hours late. I am not even into IM, mainly because I punctuate and correctly spell everything. By the time I finish compiling a message, I am home and can relay the info in person.

They say the iPhone has a million other useful features, but to be honest, I have a laptop 10x better than any phone, so I will pass, thanks.

Your phone number doubles as your email address

Money Making Mike alerted me to this great idea for people like me who have trouble remembering their friends' names, let alone their friends' email addresses.

In an ideal world, everyone should register with Redinbox and append their phone number with @redinbox.com.

Ding ding, you have a simple email address to hand out, and if we were all on board, we would never have trouble remembering the email address of anyone in our phone contact list - their phone number IS their email address.

The service redirects the redinbox email addy to your normal email inbox, and it is spam free. What more do you want, apart from a scannable video chip implanted in your head that beams phone numbers and other easily forgotten data straight onto your retina when you think of a person.

PC internet card

Have you seen that dorky Brit in the Verizon ads who wades through ponds trying to escape the internet? It is quite funny, but after talking to a few "normal" non-techy friends, it seems like the message - connect your laptop to the internet via a mobile modem - is falling on deaf ears.

Hell, I am just as guilty of not getting it. I am into that sort of geeky mobile thing, (I shrivel up and die if I can't get online when we are away from home), but it didn't sink in, til recently, just how easy and affordable it is to surf from anywhere these days.

The TV ad can't take the credit for my epiphany, though. It took some well-traveled exec to show me their USB internet connect card dangling out the back of their laptop. The guy on TV has a similarly functioning card that slips into your PMCIA slot. (I think that is the techno term for the slot in the side of a laptop?)

Basically the gadget to get you online wherever there is cell phone coverage, is a mobile DSL modem supplied by the phone companies. It isn't cable but I am told it is not particularly slow or painful to use.

As far as cost is concerned, you get billed monthly - and separately from your normal cell phone. Looking into it, AT&T charge about $60 a month for unlimited access, which is a lot cheaper than daily trips to cyber cafes. Even the international dealio from Cingular is worth a look. Just saying! Mobile is the way ahead, so might as well get into it now.

Time to go. It looks like I have a phone message, and I just need to get the manual to work out how to read it.

I just wanted to add to the gazillion words written about the latest greatest phone from Apple. The iPhone is spectacular.

First impressions of the iPhone

It is a lot bigger than I thought it would be, so the guy who demoed it in the advert must have been a giant. All that pinch and stretch finger stuff works, just like on the TV; the navigation is obvious; those iTunes album photos really do swivel as you turn the phone on its side - and we even found the volume button within 2 seconds of saying, "Not as intuitive as they say it is!"

Internet criticisms of the iPhone

Experts like to criticise the internet part, saying it should be G4 or whatever it is that takes surfing over the edge from normal slow US speeds to the real world speeds of everywhere else. All I can say is, that when you type in a URL, it seems a bit slow to kick in? but thereafter the pages load niftily and you can whizz around, zooming and scrolling much quicker than you ever could on a computer. The Pisstakers website looks pretty neat, of course! All being well, the person after us is enjoying the same Pisstakers experience too.

Keyboard criticisms of the iPhone

People say the virtual keyboard is a weak point, but the dainty-fingered Mrs Ed was quite impressed, especially as the letters were highlighted as she typed. She is no tech head or typing phenomenon, so it is fair to say that the keyboard is probably good enough for what most of us want to do on a phone. They say Apple will probably bring out a bluetooth keyboard. so maybe bloggers will be attracted to that extra speed. We shall see.

Is the iPhone worth it?

If they were giving one away free, of course I would take it, but I don't know that it is worth $600 to me. (I make 3 calls a week and have no friends or desire to listen to music.)

The price tag is sort of out there compared to most people's idea of what a phone should cost, but if you are in the market for an iPod AND a phone, then it probably is good value.

The rates for an AT&T contract are standard, so apart from the desire to talk way past your normal minutes and the additional cost of bucket loads of kbs surfing online, it should be just like owning any other phone - except you have fun and don't spend the first month working out how to email a photo.

PS

I feel a bit of a twat, especially after yesterday, espousing the virtues of moblogging. I forgot to take a picture of the iPhone in action! If anyone has the opportunity to take a shot of the Pisstakers site on the iPhone, I would really appreciate a copy! Meanwhile, I have to go now and make a call on my flip-up brick.

I did a post recently, explaining why we created a mobile theme for The Pisstakers blog, and why we made it work with the Opera mini browser.

Bottom line: now the iPhone is out, there will be ever more demand to access sites from your cell phoner. Until the iPhone takes off, standard cell phones without full-blown browsers onboard will continue to be the norm, so webmasters have to make the effort to get their site themes mobile-ready. Opera are readier than most with a working solution to get a website onto a small phone screen.

Below are a couple of pieces of info to give you a chance of accessing The Pisstakers from your crappy non-iPhone phone.

To link to The Pisstakers from a cell phone, go to wam.tw and input 1010 (1010 is a bookmark for the Pisstakers!)

Create similar bookmarks from your cell to all your fave sites too.

To create a bookmark from your mobile theme to the Pisstakers, input the following HTML into your theme code for a quick link to The Pisstakers.

<p><anchor> <go href="http://wam.tw/addlink.jsp?lnum=1010" /> <img src="http://wam.tw/wam.wbmp" alt="wam" /> </anchor> </p></textarea></form><br /><br /><h2>Opera v Safari</h2><br />Opera offer the best solution for viewing a blog on a tiny screen, I think. Opera Mini is a hobbled version of a full browser, but does scale a page down brilliantly, so you can easily access all the relevant info within the confines of your screen. This mobile friendly browser is especially impressive when a site has a custom mobile style sheet - like The Pisstakers!. <br /><br />Opera is geared up to making the best of a bad job - who seriously wants to surf the internet on the average cell phone? Apple have taken a totally different approach and decided that a phone could be a great tool for surfing the internet, if it were designed right. Rather than reinvent the web with a need for special mobile browsers, Apple invented a phone format that can recognise and display full-on web pages in Safari - without making users go blind or crazy. <br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="safari-on-windows" src="page53_blog_entry290_2.jpg" width="375" height="77"/><br /><br />It sounds spectacular when you say you have the front page of the Times on your iPhone, but let's get real. It gets even more spectacular when you zoom in with a flick of the fingers and you can actually read the Times on your phone. <br /><br />(Detractors say you can only surf Safari on the iPhone if you have sufficient bandwidth to even download a page, and enough juice before your battery runs out. That is not really a fault of the iPhone, more a criticism of the infrastructure in the US.) <br /><br /><h2>In conconclusion</h2><br />I am sure Apple will continue to wipe the cell phone industry floor with ease of use, but for now, I think they have moved mobile website design backwards, or at least caused some confusion. <br /><br />Until the iPhone arrived, web site designers were beginning to try and scale down and modify sites specifically for use on a mobile phone screen. Now they may be wondering if it is worth it, as Apple are likely to induce changes in attitude towards browsing at all the big cell phone manufacturers. <br /><br />We shall see where it leads, but Apple will tease and taunt and lead the way for full browser-enabled phones, while Opera continue to dominate as the <em>mini browser kiddies</em> in a massive but ever shrinking genre of cell phone. <br /><br /><div class="blog-entry-comments"><a class="blog-comment-link" href="javascript:HaloScan('rw_unique_entry_id_290_page53');"><script type="text/javascript">postCount('rw_unique_entry_id_290_page53');</script></a><font color="white">.</font> <!-- AddThis Bookmark Button BEGIN --> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onclick="window.open('http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?wt=nw&pub=edtheeditor&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'addthis', 'scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,width=620,height=520,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,screenX=200,screenY=100,left=200,top=100'); return false;" title="Bookmark using any bookmark manager!" target="_blank"><img src="http://s9.addthis.com/button1-share.gif" width="100" height="14" border="0" alt="AddThis Social Bookmark Button" /></a> <font color="white">...</font> <a href="http://www.feedm8.com/web/send/637/thepisstakersmegafeed" target="fmpopup" onsubmit="window.open('http://www.feedm8.com/web/send/637/thepisstakersmegafeed', 'fmpopup', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true"><img src="http://www.feedm8.com/web/images/rssphone.gif" border="0"></a> <!-- AddThis Bookmark Button END --> <font color="white">.</font> <!-- AddThis Feed Button BEGIN --> <a href="http://www.addthis.com/feed.php?pub=edtheeditor&h1=http%3A%2F%2Fxfruits.com%2Fpisstaker%2F%3Fid%3D20270&t1=" title="Subscribe using any feed reader!"><img src="http://www.thepisstakers.com/imagez/rss-single-icon.jpg" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt="AddThis Feed Button" /></a> <!-- AddThis Feed Button END --><font color="white"> . </font> <a class="blog-trackback-link" href="javascript:HaloScanTB('rw_unique_entry_id_290=page53');"><script type="text/javascript">postCountTB('rw_unique_entry_id_290_page53'); </script></a></div></div></div><div id="unique-entry-id-283" class="blog-entry"><h1 class="blog-entry-title"><a href="Greasy-touch-screen-syndrome.html" class="blog-permalink">Greasy touch screen syndrome</a></h1><div class="blog-entry-date">05 Jul 07 </div><div class="blog-entry-body">Acccording to the experts in touch screen technology, tools like the iPhone and LG's equivalent are heralding the advent of a new wave in technology. All well and good to pinch and poke a screen to get to where you want to go in a complex menu system, but the side effect will be greasy dispays like never before seen - or more likely not seen before.<br /><br /><h2>Early adopting screen greasers</h2><br />Techies and high-flying execs don't have time to eat with knives and forks, so the early adopters get to demo their shiny new phones to friends with Starbucks muffin greasemarks center stage. Slightly embarrassed by the smears, users will offset the downside saying that there are so many more benefits - like suppleness exercises for necks and wrists as they try to find the best angle to reduce screen glare from grease.<br /><br /><h2>Wave two screen glare</h2><br />As the devices become more popular, the prices will drop and addicts of lesser fast food outlets, like MacDonalds and Dennys will be able to leave their own high cholestrol mark everywhere they dial.<br /><br /><h2>iPhone accessories</h2><br />And when the touchscreen fad is in totally full swing, the accessories will flow thick and fast. <br /><br /><strong>The iPhone degreasing towel</strong> will be all the rage. 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And you don't need to work in the city to afford films - the two examples are $4.95 and $2.99 respectively.<br /><br /><h2>Top rate music videos</h2><br />If gore isn't your thing, and for many it isn't, how about some easy listening muzak videos? Top of the billing is My Virgin Widows, a Gothic Blue-Grass murder-ballad by the NYC band, Mors Syphilitica, just 99 cents. Having had your blood curdled by that one, you need a little soother of a tune. <br /><br />Further down the available <em>music vid for download</em> list, I couldn't agree more with Erica Diaz, singing a song about a young girl imagining a better world she wishes to live in. <br /><br /><h2>Conclusion about HungryFlix</h2><br />The website is clean and easy to navigate and there are good summaries and clear pricing and the prices seem right. 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This is crushing news to me, because the mighty Apple have had their fingers on a tiny corner of the Pisstakers credit card ever since the announcement of the wonder phone months ago. <br /><br />Fingers are getting itchy, but the most vexing aspect, however, is not the prospect of even more months without a cell phone, but Apple's about-turn so late in the game.<br /><br /><h2>Does a leopard ever change its spots?</h2><br />What has induced this dramatic change of attitude from Apple? Normally they don't give a toss about <a href="http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2005/10/17/212366/hp-recalls-faulty-laptop-battery-packs.htm" rel="self" title="faulty battery recall">dodgy batteries</a>. and just recall them when poo hits the fan.They even used <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeWq6rWzChw&eurl" rel="self" title="laptop on fire">batteries that would catch fire</a> if you run more than 2 applications at once. 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Roughly translated from drunken Castellano into perfect English by <a href="http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/16/google_phone_confirmed/" rel="self" title="google phone">The Register</a>, <blockquote><p>Google's phone is unlikely to generate the media hype induced by the iPhone - which outside the style-starved USA looks like a toy in search of a wealthy fool</p></blockquote> That is a bit harsh, both under-blowing and over-blowing the iPhone's capabilities and looks, and ignoring some iPhone killer features of great economic importance to Google phone allies. <br /><br />When demonstrating Google maps on the iPhone, Steve Jobs ordered 4000 lattes from Starbucks and then hung up. If Larry Page has his way, his keynote will upstage that stunt: he will order 4000 coffees on a Google phone, and get a cut of the order as kickback for using the search function. Neat<br /><br /><h2>Adios Google phone amigo</h2><br />If the Spanish guy who leaked this news has any sense, he will make sure his father's bar is indexed on Google maps. Life as a waiter is hard, and every bit of custom will help him make ends meet in his enforced early retirement.<br /><br />So what will this baby look like? 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</script></a></div></div></div><div id="unique-entry-id-144" class="blog-entry"><h1 class="blog-entry-title"><a href="Motorizr-Z8-phone-review.html" class="blog-permalink">Motorizr Z8 phone review</a></h1><div class="blog-entry-date">12 Feb 07 </div><div class="blog-entry-body"><a href="http://www.techboggle.com/MotoZ6a.jpg" rel="self" title="motorizr"><img class="imageStyle" alt="motorizr" src="page53_blog_entry144_summary_1.jpg" width="375" height="110"/></a><br /><br />According to our technical advisers over at <a href="http://www.techboggle.com" rel="self" title="techboggle">Techboggle</a>, Motorola is showing off a new phone named the "Motorizr Z8" . This latest model would appear to be continuing the trend for Moto names that are almost unpronounceable in Spanish. 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The NY Times reporter must be good because he was one of the few to have a personal demo of the iPhone and play with it - in the hallowed presence of Señor Steve Jobs. Building on his knowledge of 21st Century iPhone, he did a <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=155860524&s=143441" rel="self" title="david pogue podcast on internet telephone">podcast </a>on the pros and cons of internet phones. 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This blows away the notion that Brits are reserved and you cannot get them to talk. 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