Moonfruit flash

Moonfruit seems to be a way to build websites entirely from Flash.

It’s a good thing Google now indexes Flash!

But how good is Google’s Flash indexer, really?

BBC Olympics mobile site

I thought I’d see if watching video on my mobile phone via the BBC Olympics mobile site worked. Predictably, it didn’t work at all.

I was using the following technology stack:

• HTC Touch Diamond
• Windows Mobile 6.1
• Opera Mini 9.5 (build 1184)
• Windows Media Player 10, Version 10.3 Build 19591

The error was:

Server or data time out; tap play to reconnect.

HTC Touch Diamond, personal review

I got a new mobile phone: the HTC Touch Diamond.

The good

• It comes in a nice black diamond shaped box. So shiny!
• The handset is very slim and light. Its case is great.
• The Teeter game using the accelerometer is so much fun!
• The camera images look really good, and it has auto-focus.
• Google maps with GPS… Wow! I could use up my 500Mb allowance in no time playing with this.
• Using Wifi & GPRS to browse websites is awesome, and it’s really easy to save pages for offline viewing.
• Hidden magnetic stylus that I didn’t even realise was there.
• It’s small and light enough

The bad

• The “TouchFLO 3D” menu is very slightly more jerky than I’d want it to be.
• The speakers are very tinny and too quiet, even on  loudest volume setting is pretty quiet.
• View emails and texts through the TouchFLO menu takes too many steps (there may be a shortcut I’m not aware of, but I have not been provided with a user manual, even after asking Orange for one).
• Shell32.exe crashed already. Within one day of using it! Didn’t actually have any bad effect though.
• HTCAlbum.exe also crashed. Again, no noticable effect.
• mbutton.exe crashed too. Okay that’s 3rd party, but it never, ever crashed on my SPV M3100.
• manila.exe crashed. [update: I complained to Orange about this and was told “Windows isn’t even stable on the desktop. We can’t investigate isolated crashes”.
• The on-screen keyboard irritatingly pops up and obscures forms and emails so you can’t read what you’re typing. The M3100 also had this problem, but then its on-screen keyboard was a lot smaller.
• I’m really feeling the lack of a hardware keyboard. It takes a lot more concentration to type.
• When on a phonecall, the screen switches itself off after 5 seconds of inactivity. I suppose this is a feature, but I wish I knew how to disable it.