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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / March 2008Britannica offers online encyclopedia for iPhone
Britannica offers online encyclopedia for iPhone Britannica has launched its Britannica Mobile iPhone Edition online encyclopedia for the iPhone. The web application features "tens of thousands of articles" covering all subjects, accessible through an iPhone- and iPod touch-friendly interface. It also offers full-text searching, thousands of high-resolution thumbnails that expand to full- size images, and page layouts optimized for cell phone bandwidth. "People today want information wherever they go," said Dan Smith, senior vice president at Encyclopaedia Britannica. "They want to satisfy their curiosity the moment it's aroused, whether they're on a train, in a restaurant talking to friends, or watching a sunset on the beach. Now we can get answers to them in ways that weren't possible before." Britannica Mobile iPhone Edition can be accessed by visiting i.eb.com from an iPhone or iPod touch. That is HTTP://I.EB.COM/ for your live iPhone Encyclopedia I wonder how this page would react to someone accessing that url with an older technology cell phone? Anyone want to try and see if it would work as nice as the iPhone does? If you can't access the iPhone version of Britiannica because you are locked out then try the old non mobile edition of Britiannica at http://www.britannica.com. 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:f6dfe351-f439-422e-a8bc- 908358fc9307@28g2000hsw.googlegroups.com: > Britannica offers online encyclopedia for iPhone I've been watching these continuous streams of iPhone web apps like this coming online, identifying and responding to ONLY iPhones, which I find quite curious indeed, and find myself asking, "How much of this stuff ONLY for iPhone and iPod users is APPLE paying for and rolling into the high price of the iPhone/pods?" There are quite a few of them out there, now. Someone is paying them to put these exclusive webapps-for-iPhone widgets online.... Most curious. All part of the WebTV experience.... > 4phun <vic.hea...@gmail.com> wrote in news:f6dfe351-f439-422e-a8bc- > 908358fc9...@28g2000hsw.googlegroups.com: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > All part of the WebTV experience.... Yeah but at least it is a neat experience! I visited both sites and it is way cooler in the new iPhone only version which I can view since I have both the iPod Touch and a 16GB iPhone. Another neat featue of the new iPhone only web apps is that they can be saved as a local applications on the iPhone if coded correctly. They even come with a colorful new icon which idenitifies them on the home screen which can be nine pages long. I had the iPod touch five months before I realized this! Don't you just hate having a Nokia that can't do any of that stuff? Nobody cares out there on the world wide web to specifically make useful stuff for that old technology. You have to cram ordinary web pages in that little tablet which look like cow paddies compared to the iPhone's gorgious display which is highly readable. You can't even comfortably drop that old stuff into a shirt pocket like the Apple tech can. BTW I thought the Apple Speaker phone sucked until I realized people were hold ing it wrong. It is meant to be held edge on with the speaker facing towards your ear while the bottom mic faces your chin - duh. Completely different from how it is to be held for a private phone call. That way not can others hear what you hear but they can see a huge picture of who you are talking to. And people sure look good on this screen unless you have a lot of friends into Goth. I'll observe another moment of silence out of respect for your angst before LOL. Vic > I had the iPod touch five months before I realized this! Really effin "intuitive", eh, oxy-moron? In article <2fbb781f-4427-4dc7-85a1-a9dd0a6e6cb5@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, > Don't you just hate having a Nokia that can't do any of that stuff? You mean, a marketing staff is created and paid with the goal of making us want something we never knew we wanted and could easily live without--and you've bought into it hook, line, and sinker. Madison Avenue, baby. You've been sold. In article <2fbb781f-4427-4dc7-85a1-a9dd0a6e6cb5@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, > BTW I thought the Apple Speaker phone sucked until I realized people > were hold ing it wrong. It is meant to be held edge on with the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > see a huge picture of who you are talking to. And people sure look > good on this screen unless you have a lot of friends into Goth. dude, then what's the point of the speaker phone? Do you even know what a speaker phone is meant to do? It's not meant to be held up to your ear like the phone is for private calls. It's meant to be set somewhere to leave your hands free and/or to let others share the call. What are you, a moron? Oh, excuse me. You are. So Oxford, how's it going? If I came up to you and told you that it's the latest thing to drop your drawers and take a sh.t in the middle of the street during rush hour, there's no doubt you'd do it--because you LOVE being told what to do. It's SO MUCH EASIER than the alternative, isn't it. 4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:2fbb781f-4427-4dc7-85a1- a9dd0a6e6cb5@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com: > Don't you just hate having a Nokia that can't do any of that stuff? > Nobody cares out there on the world wide web to specifically make [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > highly readable. You can't even comfortably drop that old stuff into a > shirt pocket like the Apple tech can. Not at all. I don't pay per month to use my software like WebTV subscribers do. My old nasty RESIDENT software works fine, even if there is no net to connect it to, such as the GPS navigation software. All its data and software is resident on the nasty old removable 8GB SDHC cards so, instead of going dead when there's no ATT in the mountains, it continues to lead the way just like those nasty GPS navigators. Nobody cares? You need to tour maemo.org and meet the worldwide community of genius Linux coders working on hundreds of projects for the tablets. iPhone's display? Every Iphone owner I show the tablet to is astonished how an 800 pixel wide display can display the REAL webpage, not some cluged up clone of it on the limited number of websites it supports. iPhone can't support most websites because the capacitive finger pads are WAY too big and cover several clickable points on the webpages at once. You get lucky if you can click the right one. On a REAL touchscreen, with much better resolution, the stylus can select the correct point, precisely...without having to zoom in and out to make it have enough definition to click the right point. Too bad that thing doesn't support FLASH, too. I wonder why?? Drop in a shirt pocket....huh? Both of them are too big to drop in a shirt pocket, otherwise neither of us could see the pictures. My Z6m is in my shirt pocket, however. I'm not forced to hold this huge tablet up to my ear to use the phone. My phone is a phone...unless, of course, I'm using Skype you'll never see. Well, I'm off to lunch. Today's in-flight N800 movie is "Lions for Lambs" from alt.binaries.movies.divx. I don't need to convert it to watch it with mplayer on the N800 in high definition.....800 pixels wide, remember? by the way, did you try the movie converter from Maemo to see if the MP4s it creates will run on the iPhone? I was hoping it would save you from having to buy software from the newsgroup spammers. Did it work?? > Another neat featue of the new iPhone only web apps is that they can > be saved as a local applications on the iPhone if coded correctly. Now you're calling "favorites" a new technology? > Don't you just hate having a Nokia that can't do any of that stuff? > Nobody cares out there on the world wide web to specifically make > useful stuff for that old technology. It's a mobile-formatted web page, for crissakes! They've been around since WAP was developed! > BTW I thought the Apple Speaker phone sucked until I realized people > were hold ing it wrong. It is meant to be held edge on with the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > see a huge picture of who you are talking to. And people sure look > good on this screen unless you have a lot of friends into Goth. Now that IS a new Apple technology- a speakerphone designed to be held up to your ear! > I'll observe another moment of silence out of respect for your angst > before LOL. That wasn't silence- it was your speakerphone. Todd Favorites on an iPhone can include all the executable code from a web site on a page. Therefore it can it is like when you point to a program in windows using the start menu and a program in windows begins. No connection to the internet is necessary for this to work. WinMo phones do not support this nor does windows IE on the desktop. These are essentially little applets you can download and use for free simply by book marking them or saving the link to the 'HOME' screen. Now you can download an use executable code for a winmo phone as I just saw a breaking bit of news about another windows trojan that hijacks these devices. McAfee has warned that they've discovered a new Windows Mobile trojan. This time, the trojan, InfoJack Trojan, is actually in the wild and capable of infecting unprotected Windows Mobile smartphones. The InfoJack Trojan infects your Windows Mobile device when an unsuspecting user downloads and installs an infected application, or uses an infected memory card. The trojan disables Windows Mobile's installation security by allowing unsigned applications to be installed. This leaves the smartphone vulnerable to future infections. Further, the trojan sends sensitive information back to the malware's author - it jacks your info, hence the name. The InfoJack Trojan also copies itself back into memory and the memory card, so that even if the active trojan is deleted, there's a backup copy somewhere else. InfoJack Trojan has been circulated through Chinese downloads of Google Maps, applications for stock trading, and games. So someone so cheap they picked up a Tilt instead of an iPhone to save a few dollars may end up paying a lot more as the victim for having his winmo phone being hijacked by a virulent Trojan. Can you feel the pain of that unfortunate soul? BTW why are so many attacking the windows platform anyway? Or he can pay a lot more to buy the typical windows virus scanner software from Norton or MacAfee. Such is life in the windows world, even on their mobile phone platform! > Todd Favorites on an iPhone can include all the executable code from > a web site on a page. Therefore it can it is like when you point to a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > These are essentially little applets you can download and use for free > simply by book marking them or saving the link to the 'HOME' screen. Well, short of jailbreaking the phone, it's a start, I guess... > Now you can download an use executable code for a winmo phone as I > just saw a breaking bit of news about another windows trojan that > hijacks these devices. Yep. It's the second or third time in my seven years of usng WinMo that "the first malware attacking Windows Mobile devices" has appeared. Forgive me for not panicking just yet. > McAfee has warned that they've discovered a new Windows Mobile trojan. > This time, the trojan, InfoJack Trojan, is actually in the wild and > capable of infecting unprotected Windows Mobile smartphones. And, as always, the news comes from an AV software company... Arguably the "trojan" wasn't even a trojan, but a clever bit of spyware. It installed itself as part of a "Games Pack" from a Chinese website that installed a bunch of apps simultaneously, and reported some device specific info (ESN, device brand/model, mobile operator, etc.) back to the mothership. It apparently makes no attempt to spread itself (doesn't attach itself to e-mail or other files, etc. Just the user's storage card.) While I certainly wouldn't want it on my device, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it's existence. > So someone so cheap they picked up a Tilt instead of an iPhone to save > a few dollars may end up paying a lot more as the victim for having > his winmo phone being hijacked by a virulent Trojan. So you're saying being able to run executables on a device is a bad thing? I take it you're against the release of the iPhone SDK? > Can you feel the pain of that unfortunate soul? BTW why are so many > attacking the windows platform anyway? You tell me. WinCE has been around since 1997. A decade without any malware is a pretty good run for a Windows OS! > Or he can pay a lot more to buy the typical windows virus scanner > software from Norton or MacAfee. Such is life in the windows world, > even on their mobile phone platform! Or he can practice safe computing. It's not like mobile users share memory cards. As long as you download software from trusted sources there isn't a problem. But you certainly won't have to worry about that with your webapps and (if we ever see that SDK) safe, certified, software installed via iTunes. > But you certainly won't have to worry about that with your webapps and > (if we ever see that SDK) safe, certified, software installed via > iTunes. On his iPhone it's his OS company that's propagating trojans trying to turn his jailbroke iPhone into a USELESS BRICK......and doing it! God, it's gonna take another roll of toilet paper to clean this up...(c; > I've been watching these continuous streams of iPhone web apps like this > coming online, identifying and responding to ONLY iPhones, which I find > quite curious indeed, and find myself asking, "How much of this stuff ONLY > for iPhone and iPod users is APPLE paying for and rolling into the high > price of the iPhone/pods?" Zero, I suspect. I assume companies like Britannica are targeting the iPhone's desirable demographic to sell them other products. (IIRC, EB's regular site is subscription-only, for example.) > There are quite a few of them out there, now. Someone is paying them to > put these exclusive webapps-for-iPhone widgets online.... > > Most curious. > > All part of the WebTV experience.... Just marketing, I suspect. > Britannica offers online encyclopedia for iPhone Yet another "optimised" site for the phone with the "real internet" on it? > Britannica Mobile iPhone Edition can be accessed by visiting > i.eb.com from an iPhone or iPod touch. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > an older technology cell phone? Anyone want to try and see if it would > work as nice as the iPhone does? Ok, I tried it from my WinMo phone and got a page telling me I needed an iPhone or iPod Touch. Of course you don't REALLY need one, you just need a browser that TELLS the website you have an iPhone, so I just changed the User Agent of my WinMo phone to match the iPhone's UA and tried it. I accessed the site without a problem- it looked like most iPhone optimized pages I've ever looked- giant text so you don't mush the wrong link with your fingers, which kind of defeats the purpose of the iPhone's beautiful high-res display. Weird quirk- although IE Mobile supports a limited amount of Java script, searches didn't parse properly. The search URL just displayed in the browsr window and I had to copy and paste it (#7 of the 100 t ings... oh, never mind!) into the address bar to actually navigate to the page. I tried the i.eb.com URL in Netfront (an alternative WinMo browser) after changing it's UA and the site mobile EB worked flawlessly, if unexcitingly. Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote in news:fqfv1i$b8g$1 @aioe.org: > giant text so you don't mush the wrong link with > your fingers, which kind of defeats the purpose of the iPhone's beautiful > high-res display. The "hi res" display on the iPhone ISN'T matched with a high resolution TOUCHSCREEN, so this stands logical. They have to put the clickers far enough apart so the iPhone doesn't click two at a time with its capacitive finger interface, the real reason it doesn't have a high-resolution stylus like a proper PDA or the Nokia tablets. The spread-finger-bois don't talk about why you have to zoom in so much on a normal webpage before you can get the right clicker to click. > The "hi res" display on the iPhone ISN'T matched with a high resolution > TOUCHSCREEN, so this stands logical. They have to put the clickers far > enough apart so the iPhone doesn't click two at a time with its capacitive > finger interface, the real reason it doesn't have a high-resolution stylus > like a proper PDA or the Nokia tablets. I'm not as cynical about it as you are. The screen's touchpanel seems hi- res enough- the problem is user related. Unless we, as a species, develop skinnier fingers, the big links are necessary for the limitations of our fat fingers- not for any deficiency in the display, as far as I can see. > The spread-finger-bois don't talk about why you have to zoom in so much > on a normal webpage before you can get the right clicker to click. I'm a bit envious though- I've often complained over the years that WinMo needed a "fat finger-entry" mode in the OS. Many WinMo GPS apps, for example, use oversized icons knowing that users will be fat-fingering the screen rather than stylus tapping when driving. I often use my phone without the stylus when quickly checking for e-mail. A big fat-finger keyboard would be nice for quick (short) text entries, like an URL, as well. > I'm a bit envious though- I've often complained over the years that > WinMo needed a "fat finger-entry" mode in the OS. Many WinMo GPS [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > e-mail. A big fat-finger keyboard would be nice for quick (short) text > entries, like an URL, as well. Nokia was listening. We have both. As a matter of fact the commercial Navicore/Wayfinder GPS Nav program for the N800/810 tablets forces the tablet into fat finger mode, by default, bypassing the tablet's own selection criteria of figuring out whether you pointed to a data entry line with your finger or the stylus. The finger keyboard on the N800 has LARGER fat finger pads than the Iphone and more shift keys so you can enter many more symbols in the various shift modes, all with one finger in mind. If you touch the box, or wipe-to-mark what's in it with the stylus, the small stylus screen comes up, with a full 10-key number pad, for more precise stylus entry. For the trendy, my N800 also supports just writing with the stylus in script on the screen and, once trained for your handwriting in a simple training session from the control panel, the stylus handwriting-to-text algorithms convert your stylus penning into text when it detects it. Unlike the PDA, however, you just write on the line as if you had a pen in your hand, not one letter at a time in a box printing. It's cute and does work quite well, but my handwriting is atrocious and I'm a fast, accurate typist so I'd rather use the external BT Nokia keyboard I'm using to type this message through remote desktop from the tablet to the WinXP box's Xnews app. Find an N800 and try the finger keyboard.... > Unlike the PDA, however, you just write on the line as if you had a pen in > your hand, not one letter at a time in a box printing. You've stuck with your old Palm too long. Most PDAs have a cursive writing recognition system, with the older "box" system still there for those who want/like it. > Find an N800 and try the finger keyboard.... Sorry, I'm a "convergence" guy. Until Nok builds an N8xx with a cellular radio, I'm not interested. I quit the separate PDA/phone game long ago and haven't looked back. |
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