Archive for April, 2009

Publishing a Mobile Booklet as a Widsets Widget

By Victor Goh | Published: April 15th, 2009

Widsets? What’s that?

WidSets is a mobile runtime technology provided by Nokia. The technology is based on Java MIDP 2.0. Therefore this runtime can be run on any MIDP 2.0 mobile compliant device. From widsets.com, users can create their own widgets to access any RSS and Atom feeds on the Internet, or simply make their personalized selection based on the existing widgets in the Widget library. Users will then download a small MIDP 2.0 client onto their mobile device. The client application on the mobile device will synchronize with the portal and start downloading information. – taken from Nokia’s developer website.

I’ve been playing with Widsets technology for a couple of days and came up with a Mobile Booklet widget.

Mobile Booklet as a Widsets widget

Mobile Booklet as a Widsets widget

My gut feel is that Widsets is a dying technology even though Nokia is backing it.

So, the First Steps to Spiritual Growth mobile booklet may be the only mobile booklet released as a Widsets widget.

Quote of the Day Mobile Booklet

By Victor Goh | Published: April 6th, 2009

Quote of the Day

Read an interesting quote each day on your mobile phone. Get the Quote of the Day mobile booklet.

I’m working on adding a Send SMS and Send MMS function so that the quote of the day can be sent out as a text message. This exciting feature will be coming out later this month.