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October 2

Flickr’s new iPhone web interface = AWESOME (with screenshots!) (Tiny Screenfuls (JoshB)) by Josh Bancroft

Saw word from John “Daring Fireball” Gruber tonight that Flickr finally launched an iPhone optimized web interface. Finally! :-)

Of course, I had to check it out right away, and I agree with John - it’s great. Possibly the best iPhone web interface I’ve seen. Really nice. There’s no way to upload photos from the site (though they do point out that you can upload via email, which I’ve been doing from the beginning from my iPhone, and it works really well). But that’s about the only thing I can see that’s missing.

Update - What Doesn’t Work: The things that work on the desktop but don’t work on the iPhone version are basically the parts of the site that use Flash - the Uploadr, the Organizr, the Map, and Video playback (you can still see video pages and their comments, you just can’t play the videos). Oh, and Slideshows. Everything else works. I see this as one big benefit of all the work Flickr did a long time ago to move as much of their interface as possible into Ajax and javascript, and away from Flash (which doesn’t work on the iPhone, and likely never will).

To check it out yourself, go to m.flickr.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch. I’m sure the other methods you can use to trick sites into thinking you’re using an iPhone will work, too. There’s even a nice iPhone Home Screen icon if you want to save a bookmark to it there, and launch it from the Home Screen.

I took a bunch of screenshots. Here they are, in no particular order:

Flickr iPhone Interface - HomeFlickr iPhone Interface - Activity
Flickr iPhone Interface - My PhotostreamFlickr iPhone Interface - Single Photo with Comments
Flickr iPhone Interface - Recent from ContactsFlickr iPhone Interface - My Favorites
Flickr iPhone Interface - Contact ListFlickr iPhone Interface - More
Flickr iPhone Interface - SearchFlickr iPhone Interface - Explore/Interesting
Flickr iPhone Interface - CollectionsFlickr iPhone Interface - Home Screen Icon

Posted in: apple , blog , flickr , interface , iphone , safari , web
June 11

Safari on Windows (The Mighty Squid's Ink) by Mighty_Squid

So Apple is entering the browser wars.

Public Beta of Safari 3 Download

Despite being a fan of Apple I have never really been a fan of Safari. It's small simple and fast but FireFox has all the awesome easy add ons.

However there is never such a thing as too many browser options. Safari will be number 5 on this box behind IE, FF, Opera and SeaMonkey. All have their own strengths and weaknesses. I can't really compare a beta to them so I will just give quick first impressions and some screenshots.

You can click on all screenshots for larger images.



I didn't know what Bonjour Service was but apparently it's a device/sharing protocol and it's ok not leave it unchecked.



And we're in!



The start page is pretty swanky. Smart putting a lot of iTunes information on there since PC users are already used to that Mac product.

It ported over my IE history as well as my bookmarks in FF and IE.



I have only checked out a few pages so far but everything seems to be working.

Time will tell if Safari gets massive market share like FF or just be a geek toy like Opera. However with Apple being the current juggernaut that it is then IE should be scared.

I'll post more as I check it out more. Posted in: apple , browser , firefox , kool aid , opera , safari , sea monkey , steve jobs , windows , wwdc keynote