on{X} – Automate your life

on{X} lets you control and extend the capabilities of your Android phone using a JavaScript API to remotely program it. Kinda like ifttt but then based on actions that happen on your mobile: an SMS being received, a location being entered/left, a change in mode of transport (from car to walking), etc. A recipe like …

Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart

Looking for the right mobile framework? Compare all major mobile frameworks and choose the one that fits best. Very complete chart listing target platforms, target apps (native/hybrid/web), languages it can be developed in, hardware support, etc. Also: Who was I to think that there were only a few players (PhoneGap, Appcelerator Titanium, jQuery Mobile, Sencha …

Adobe Shadow

Adobe® Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices. Pair your devices via the browser plugin and see all devices change sites whenever you change it on your …

PixelPhones

Whilst strolling around on Seb Lee-Delisle‘s GitHub account, I noticed he pushed PixelPhones to it 5 days ago. (Photo source: flickr/johansterenberg) Seb’s PixelPhones project is one of the most amazing things I’ve seen at Fronteers’11 ever: use your mobile device to visit a webpage where a connection is opened to the PixelPhones server (via a …

The Vibration API

Part of Mozilla’s WebAPI, to controlling vibration of (handheld) devices: The idea with the Vibration API is to be able to give the user a notification, in a game or other use case, by telling the device to vibrate. It accesses the native vibrator and tells it how long it should vibrate. First was called …