Archive for the ‘updates’ Category

Major Mobile Booklet Jar File Updates

By Victor Goh | Published: May 21st, 2009

Send Mobile Booklet content as a SMS

This latest mobile booklet update includes:

  • Send booklet content as a SMS/MMS
  • Auto-open to an article instead of showing the list of articles when the application starts.
  • Display content in Full screen mode
  • Font size selection for displaying content

If you have existing mobile booklets, these new features will only be available if you re-create your jar files. Update your existing mobile booklets by selecting your required features and recreate those jar files. Full screen mode and font size selection is enabled by default.

The auto-open feature works by opening an article based on the article’s position in your list of articles. For a mobile booklet with a list of seven articles, a booklet created with the ‘Display an article for each day of the week’ option, will display the 1st article on Sunday and so on until the 7th article is displayed on Saturday. When you select the ‘Display an article for each day of the month’ option, the mobile booklet will display the 1st article on the first day of the month and so on until the 30th or 31st article is displayed at the end of the month. If there are not enough articles for each day of the week or month, the list of articles will be displayed for selection. Hope this explanation is clear enough and didn’t confuse you further. :-)

The minimum mobile Java version required for mobile booklets is now MIDP 2.0 instead of MIDP 1.0. This is to support display in full screen mode and for sending SMS. Anyway, most phones released within the last 5 years (since 2004) would come with Java MIDP 2.0.

If you haven’t done so, you can sign up for an account to create mobile booklets for your mobile phone over at http://www.mobilebooklet.com/signup.

Send a Quote a Day via SMS

By Victor Goh | Published: May 15th, 2009

Quote of the Day

The Send SMS feature has been added to the Quote of the Day mobile booklet for May and June. Download the latest version and try it out on your phone.

The Send SMS functionality will soon be added to mobile booklets created at MobileBooklet.com. Full-screen content viewing and font-size selection will also be added soon.

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.

Another Mobile Booklet design makeover

By Victor Goh | Published: March 18th, 2009

 

Mobile Booklet website makeover

Mobile Booklet website makeover

Revamped the earlier design and cleaned up some Internet Explorer specific glitches. The booklet creation screens will be cleaned up next.

Mobile Booklet website makeover

By Victor Goh | Published: March 14th, 2009

Mobile Booklet website redesigned

MobileBooklet.com has been given a makeover. I’m not fully satisfied with it yet. There are still some minor Internet Explorer specific layout issues that needs fixing.