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5 mobile start pages - Mobile Minute
A few years ago trying to browse the web on a PDA or mobile phone was an exercise in futility. Not only was rendering web pages too much work for slow mobile processors, but many mobile devices had anemic screen resolutions of 160 x 160 pixels. These days a mobile phone has far more processing power than my first computer, and many devices have QVGA or even VGA screens. But mobile browsing is still a very different experience from sitting at your computer and entering URLs with a keyboard and mouse. That's why mobile start pages can be so important.
Sure, you could enter URLs one character at a time, or bookmark every web site you might ever want to visit again. But you can also set as your homepage one site that has links to thousands of pages that are designed specifically for the small screen. This method also has the advantage of letting you access the same content no matter what device or web browser you're using. Here are a few of our favorite mobile start pages.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
