Wednesday, August 11, 2010

User Agent Switcher config file

Chris Pederick's User Agent Switcher is an essential Firefox add-on for anybody in the business of creating mobile web sites.  This little add-on lets your Firebox (or Flock / Mozilla / Seamonkey) emulate a mobile device in its requests by sending a configurable User-Agent string. I've attached a config file to this post that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself. You can import this file by going to Tools | User Agent Switcher | Options | Options | User Agents | Import...

To make this add-on really useful I highly recommend putting it in the Firefox toolbar. When you do this you get a little globe button that lets you very quickly flip between different user agents (as you can see above). The globe is grey when you are using the default UA string and changes to blue/green if you have a custom UA string set. To add the button to your browser, right click the browser toolbar, click Customize... and then drag the button called User Agent to some position in the toolbar.

Link To Download : User agent Switcher xml

Link: Chris Pederick's User Agent Switcher

Saturday, July 17, 2010

10 Most Expectant Functions of Android OS 2.2

         The long-awaited Android Mobile OS v.2.2 (AKA “FroYo”) has officially rolled out. Here is the 10 main Fctions of Android OS 2.2

1. The new increased application options "whole upgrade" or "automatic upgrade"


10 Most Expectant Functions of Android OS 2.2

New increased application options are increased in Android 2.2

Taking privacy into account, Google asks users to conduct settings when installing or updating applications. So, according to Android platform users, this new function is fully practical. One of the great features of Android is wide supporting kinds of applications. Android 2.2 applications do a great favor for users to reduce manual operation especially the users installed many applications.

2. Android online application market keeps pace with the PC-side
At present, users still are disable to browser Android application market directly while the cost for network flow is so astonishing. So, many users is deterred which caused the obstacle for Android application's popularity and download.

3. Update system version freely

From FroYo age, if Google should allow users to download AndroidOS from online application market or support site, that will undoubtedly brings about great convenience for users.

4. Power management function

The largest problem Android phone users complaining about is its battery life. No wonder, jumbo size HD touch-control screen, high-end processor, multitasking, data synchronism, each of them has a great power consumption. But there is no much battery energy needed when users checking Twitter update or downloading, so, Android 2.2 is expected to offer high/normal/low variety of energy consumption mode to lengthen the time of battery endurance.

5. More pay modes


10 Most Expectant Functions of Android OS 2.2

Android 2.2 adds a variety of pay modes

Now most users buy application with credit card, while some with PayPal. But as a whole, purchase smooth need further simplification such as adding new ebanking or directly putting the cost into network payment to closing the book at the end of each month.

6. New music player

Android default music player is in regulation while much more mediocre in Android 2.2 with special meaning. Music player mode need a better file organization system to meet the demand browsing in different way.

7. SD-Based install mode of expansion storage card

Android platform users may put more concerns on this function, after all, according to the former version of Android, if users want to process and application install to a SD card, it has to take a long time to achieve. If this rumour becomes true, users benefit greatly from it.

8. Advanced notice options


When discovering update or receiving e-mail, OS will give out the notice information. The passed Android version has a clumsy notice options setting, they will offer dependent and efficient management alternative to users.

9. Sustaining USB/Bluetooth keyboard

USB keyboard needs the support of power which is hard to deal with; while Bluetooth HID man-machine interface device has become the important interaction incarnation of modern smartphone. In addition, although the fight between Flash and HTML5 is not clear, authority indicated that the next generation of AndroidOS is still supporting Flash.

10. The storage for off-line maps

Map searching, which is in common use, creates the side effect great bill volume in the end of a month. If Android could save the maps data when network access (such as WiFi), then next time only less flow would be able to complete searching.