Filed under: Utilities, Browsers, Mobile
BareSite tries to improve the mobile browsing experience
I recently wrote about Intersquash, a service that generates code to optimize your site for iPhone browsing. BareSite is the flipside of that: it allows mobile browsers to access a "bare" mobile version of any site, based on the RSS feed. The results aren't as pretty as what you'd see from a natively mobile site, but sometimes you don't have that choice. On the other hand, a decent mobile browser and RSS reader can achieve the same results.So, does BareSite work? I actually had some trouble with it. It seems to be confused by RSS feeds without a pubDate element -- like, currently, Download Squad's. This definitely detracts from the BareSite's usefulness, especially considering that decent RSS readers already exist on several mobile platforms. The Google search function on BareSite is also useful, but kind of unnecessary, as Google has mobile versions of its sites, and some mobile browsers build a Google search function in already.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
