iPhones and RSS

doYouFeed turns any RSS feed into one that's friendly for the iPhone.

It allows you to select a series of properties for the feed such as title, theme, update period, date format and then it generates a tinyURL for easy navigation to your new site. If you navigate to the URL using a regular machine then it kindly shows your site in a skinned preview similar to HawHaw.

Here's the feed for Its a load of WAP

IPhone Emulator

Whilst testing the Aficionado.mobi site against an Iphone, we realised that it was not properly detecting that the IPhone was a smaller mobile device and it was showing the full screen version as above. I digged out the logs and saw that it was reporting as:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/4A93 Safari/419.3

I looked at the HawHaw site and saw that there was a new version available that supported IPhone so I installed this on the site.

Also whilst looking at this I spotted that there's a couple of emulators for the Windows Mobile and Mac platforms.

• IPhone Emulator for Windows Mobile
• IPhone Emulator for Mac

Pipes on the go

Yahoo! Pipes is a technology for creating Mashups from RSS feeds and other sources mixing and filtering them to provide extra info, analysis or functionality. Now the clever bods at Yahoo have made it available for people on their iphones.

http://blog.pipes.yahoo.com/2007/10/23/iphonepipesyahoocom-access-your-mashup-while-mobile/