Flip’s first iPhone app is now available in the iTunes application store. Simply search for “Mumbai” and then download the free Mumbaikar iPhone app.
The application compliments the mumbaikar.com website dedicated to everything Mumbai at your finger tips. A one-stop shop for anything and everything Mumbai, with interactive maps, localization, geo-tagged Mumbai business directories, event listings, blogs and breaking news on incidents in your neighbourhood.
A must to check out – and thanks to Imthi for making that happen!
Mumbaikar.com iPhone app
Martin Web Stuff
Although her birthday is just coming up, we wish you already a great day with your family!
Happy Birthday, Ash!
Martin Web Stuff
The Dubai Metro project has been talked up for some many reasons…. the first automated rail transport in the Middle East, the world’s longest and of course a memorable launch date….9/9/09! But surprisingly in Dubai, even just weeks before the launch, few people, actually knew much about the Metro. Flip Media decided to take action and do what we do best…. launch a dynamic interactive website.
Today they unveil mydubaimetro.com, a non-profit portal developed as a service to residents and visitors of Dubai. It’s packed with great features like detailed station information, connecting buses data, downloadable pocket maps, a detailed FAQ, and journey planner and fare calculator.
Flip’s design team created a really fresh look and feel with a vibrant palette and simple bold icons to help users find helpful information quickly. Keeping in mind the fact that it’s a community portal, they have devoted plenty of space to user generated content like blogs for people to share their views and experiences and media sections for metro photo sharing.
The site is scalable, so there will be plenty more features to come. In time, mydubaimetro.com will not only serve as a one stop shop for information, but also create long lasting connections.
My Dubai Metro
Martin Web Stuff
A 404 error page is shown by a web server when users enter a page on a domain that does not exist. It is good practice to customize this page template so that users get shown a properly written and styled web page, instead of the default server 404 page which otherwise only returns this technical nonsense:
Not Found
The requested URL /234234234 was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch13 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c Server
One of the best ‘not found’ pages I have seen can be found on the South African safari and travel portals www.go2africa.com which is really cute, screen shot below:
Cue 404 page
Well done!
Martin Web Stuff 404, Coding
Google Map and Earth has added terrain view and finally updated South Africa with a comprehensive road map which one was used to from Europe and the States.
Finally can plan my mountain bike routes using Google Map and Garmin 
Feel free to stop by Barbara Road #12, Camps Bay.
Google Map Terrain View
Martin Cape Town, Web Stuff Google
Beta obviously means beta – and even our beloved Apple company is not 100% perfect.
After installing the latest iPhone SDK 3.0 beta I go the following error:
<<DO NOT LOCALIZE>> Content Text <<DO NOT LOCALIZE>>
Install iPhone SDK 3.0 beta error
Either way, the new iPhone OS 3 is amazing with copy&paste, msg forwarding and mosts importantly the fully integrated spotlight search. A bit buggy when it comes to WiFi but definitely worth the upgrade. Make sure you are on a fully paid up developer license as you need to register your phone ID.
Martin Web Stuff Apple, iPhone
About six years ago Dinesh setup Flip Media through a local partnership in the UAE. That was about six years ago, and subsequently we registered the company as a free-zone business in Dubai Media City. The full story can be read here.Today Flip is the leading independent digital agency in the Middle East, and run by Yousef Tuqan, CEO.
Thanks to Flip TRV for the poster that they made on Flip’s sixth anniversary!
Flip Media 6th anniversary
Martin Web Stuff Flip Media
Thanks to Imthiaz Rafiq for his Wordpress plugin that transforms your blog into a properly readable site on iPhone or any PDA, now also this blog can be viewed very nicely on your mobile device.
Proper iPhone formatting works really nicely although I have some suggestions:
- Comments should be added as links underneath articles
- if no pages are there, take out the pages title (see screen shot below)
- image meta description could come below embedded images
- tags and author name below post
Either way, a great and valuable plug-in that is worth a donation, and amazing that it is already downloaded almost 30,000 times.
iPhone skin
Martin Web Stuff Blog, iPhone
Really amazing – I should have known that there is so much stuff out there. Used the Hostgator instruction on how to manually install Wordpress, created database, customized wp-config.php and off you go.
Really like the plug-ins available in Wordpress:
- Google sitemap.xml
- Google Analytics
- Twitter sidebar integration
- Contextual related posts – awesome!
- Calais Auto Archive tagger helps when you are too lazy to do it yourself
- Sociable is quiet cool to connect to social networking sites
- flickRss and TubePress are nice plugins to link to your pics and videos
Will play around a bit with some themes, although my aim is to not even write a single line of code here!
Martin Web Stuff CMS, Hosting, Wordpress
