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Accessing Numlock on the Motorola Q Smartphone For Use on Mobile Websites

So yes, it is probably in the manual, but I read through and still missed this tip.
A lot of mobile sites like those provided by Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter, and Remember The Milk construct their mobile sites such that older phones without directional pads can use numbers for navigation.
The Motorola Q has a directional pad [...]

How To Make A UI For The iPhone That Does Not Scale, Even When The Phone Is Rotated

The iPhone is great at presenting large pages with its built in pinch and zoom capabilities. It does this by using a viewport instead of a window and by scaling content as it deems appropriate.
I presented a demo for my site Chunk Love at iPhoneDevCamp that showed how to disable scaling and which allows [...]

How not to take screenshots on your Smartphone

I use the program Smart SS (OTA Link) to take screenshots on my phone.  You’ve seen a couple here already.  Unfortunately, the key used to take screenshots is the same key the phone uses for a very important system operation:

I REALLY need to remember to kill the program before I lock my phone next time… [...]

Review of SBSH Facade - THE WM Home Screen Plugin

Following up on the heels of my quick post about SBSH’s Papyrus program comes a review of their Facade Home Screen Plugin.  It is made for Smartphones and is also completely compatible with lanscape/widescreen phones like the Motorola Q.
It allows a home screen view into your calendar and tasks data with a tabbed model.  You [...]

Don’t Buy Pocket Informant from WebIS - buy SBSH’s Papyrus Instead.

I was listening to episode 3 of the Windows Mobile Podcast a while back after I got my new Motorola Q phone.  They had a review of an application called Pocket Informant sold by WebIS that sounded really great.  It’s a pretty incredible skinned UI that sits on top of the task and calendar database [...]

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