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So we got our days mixed up yesterday in the post about sending an anonymous text message, so since today is actually Friday, we’ll keep it on the light side.
Anyone that has been to fark.com knows they have off the wall user-submitted headlines from around the world. Now you can read those same headlines from your mobile phone on the Fark mobile website.
As an example of the type of stories that Fark covers, the first story for today is about a rather unattractive litter of tigers born in Mexico. Another is about a 4 year old girl dialing 911 three hundred times in an effort to find a McDonald’s. You get the idea. You cannot experience Fark without the user-submitted comments, which are also made available from the mobile version.
A little web design firm in Albany, NY put out a simple, yet useful app that lets you use your mobile phone to find movie showtimes in your area.
We tested it out in the Washington, DC area, with good results. The user simply enters their zip code, and the site returns a listing of upcoming movies for that day, starting with the next showtime.
goMovies pulls their listings from Fandango, the movie showtimes site. That may explain why we consistently had a Smithsonian IMAX theater as the fist result in every test we did.
Regardless, goMovies can be a useful little site to bookmark on your mobile phone, particularly when you find yourself on the wrong end of a sold out show.
HandyFact provides quick, easy to access blips of information for people on the go. As it’s name implies, it includes links to a number of different tools and information resources that can indeed be very handy while traveling.
At the time of this article, HandyFact offered 17 different categories of information, including area codes, entertainment, measurement conversion, and even a tipping guide. One of my favorite tips was filed under the “Proper Etiquette” category:
Should I pickup a dropped fork? HandyFact Answer: Let the waitperson pick it up. You or someone else may accidentally use it if you put it on your table.
So much for the 5-second rule.
Based on the URL, HandyFact seems to be an offshoot of another mobile site called SqueezeNet. Perhaps we can dive into that site in a future article.
Note to readers: As we begin providing these daily highlights of mobile websites, we want to hear from you. What do you like about this format? What would you change? What would make you come back to this site, or bookmark it?
Apparently someone has already discovered several interesting uses for the new Apple iPhone. This iPhone video first aired on Conan O’Brien. If you have not seen it yet, you need to check it out.
Charles Knight over at ReadWriteWeb augmented his list of mobile search-related sites. The original list posted in January had 55 mobile-search sites, and now an additional 30 have been added.
The list includes the standard mobile search sites from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, and then gets interesting, with everything from the Century21 Mobile site for searching nearby homes, to Sitofun, which lets you receive calls from your website to your cell phone.
While the list certainly goes beyond mobile-search sites, what I like about it is that Charles organized it very well for us. Not only does the list include the Snap pop-up image of the site as you mouse-over the link, but he also provided an Excel version of the list for download. Thanks Charles!
Looking for a new mobile site? Take a look at the new Spin Palace mobile casino site, and
download their new gaming apps. There is a huge collection of various different
games including Tomb Raider, Video Poker, Royal Derby virtual horse racing, Major
Millions, Dragons Fortune and Bingo Bonanza, as well as your favourite casino games:
Roulette, Blackjack and Jacks or Better. Receive a lucrative Welcome Bonus worth up
to £1,000 when you register a real money account.
We tested it out in the Washington, DC area, with good results. The user simply enters their zip code, and the site returns a listing of upcoming movies for that day, starting with the next showtime.
