Post Topic » Tag: Services - Recent Posts http://posttopic.com/tags/services Open For Discussion en-US Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:42:36 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2475 Chad Smith on "Detect Mobile Browser" http://posttopic.com/topic/detect-mobile-browser#post-209 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:44:31 +0000 Chad Smith 209@http://posttopic.com/ There is now a version of Detect Mobile Browser in JSP thanks to testing by Tobin Juday.

]]> Chad Smith on "Detect Mobile Browser" http://posttopic.com/topic/detect-mobile-browser#post-207 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:35:55 +0000 Chad Smith 207@http://posttopic.com/ As far as I know Atlas and HandsetDetection are both services for detecting mobile browsers (I have no idea if they charge for it). Mine are free scripts you can download and implement on your own.

]]> magicdesign on "Detect Mobile Browser" http://posttopic.com/topic/detect-mobile-browser#post-206 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:38:21 +0000 magicdesign 206@http://posttopic.com/ Hi,

I am new to this subject, but currently reviewing the best option for our site. Can i ask what the difference is between your service and the other services out there like atlas and handsetdetection.com?

]]> Chad Smith on "Alertable - Website monitoring via Twitter" http://posttopic.com/topic/alertable-website-monitoring-via-twitter#post-180 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:47:09 +0000 Chad Smith 180@http://posttopic.com/
The service is similar to other uptime monitoring services in the sense that it tells you when something bad happens, but is entirely different since it doesn't constantly poke and prod your server to see if it's still running.

Instead, Alertable is powered by your visitors. When someone visits your site it sends back a signal telling Alertable, "Hey, I'm still here!"

Alertable

Sign up using your twitter account and add the addresses of your sites. You are given a line of HTML to place on each of your pages so Alertable can go to work.

Set how often you expect each of your sites to be visited, and that's it. You will receive a direct message if that length of time passes and no one visits your site.]]> Chad Smith on "Free Cron Jobs" http://posttopic.com/topic/free-cron-jobs#post-179 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:24:25 +0000 Chad Smith 179@http://posttopic.com/

Cron Source


In the most basic sense, the service does nothing more than bring crowdsourcing to cron jobs.

The way it works is simple: if your host limits or does not provide access to cron (or if they do but you hate them), sign up and enter the URLs of your cron jobs. Then, add your Cron code (a JavaScript file) to the bottom of each of your sites.

Each time your cron code is loaded, your visitors will unknowingly run a cron job if one is waiting. If run time comes and no one is around, another site's visitors will run your cron job for you.

Cron jobs can be scheduled to run as often as every 5 minutes. Crowdsourcing comes in to play because the cron jobs are initiated by your visitors rather than a web server.

If you are interested in trying it, visit FreeCronJobs.com.

Cron Source]]> Chad Smith on "Detect Mobile Browser" http://posttopic.com/topic/detect-mobile-browser#post-169 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:29:07 +0000 Chad Smith 169@http://posttopic.com/ You can now detect mobile browsers using mod_rewrite too thanks to my craftiness.

]]> Chad Smith on "Detect Mobile Browser" http://posttopic.com/topic/detect-mobile-browser#post-162 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:26:39 +0000 Chad Smith 162@http://posttopic.com/ You can now detect mobile browsers in ColdFusion thanks to an anonymous person who let me use their server. Download it from Detect Mobile Browser.

]]> Chad Smith on "Search Friendly URLs" http://posttopic.com/topic/search-friendly-urls#post-149 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:57:19 +0000 Chad Smith 149@http://posttopic.com/ Search Friendly URLs is a free service I made to help website owners give their pages Search Friendly URLs.

Enter your domain name, the ugly URLs you want to make pretty, and hit submit to have it create SEO friendly rewrites for you.

The service will likely upset a lot of freelancers, because it is something good developers can do in minutes but charge outrageous rates for. Search Friendly URLs allows you to do it yourself.

The idea suddenly came to me the other night and took about an hour to code.

Search Friendly URLs]]> Chad Smith on "Detect Mobile Browser" http://posttopic.com/topic/detect-mobile-browser#post-133 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:21:14 +0000 Chad Smith 133@http://posttopic.com/ Detect Mobile Browser is a new open source script of mine that allows you to detect mobile visitors on your website and redirect them accordingly.

This is useful for people who have or would like to have a mobile version of their site, but do not know how to detect and/or redirect only the mobile users.

JavaScript, PHP, and ASP versions of the script can be downloaded from the site. The script can easily be ported, so I plan to make ColdFusion, JSP, and Rails versions too once I have access to supporting servers.

Also on Detect Mobile Browser is a unique redirection service (that can be shortened using your favorite URL shortening service) which directs regular visitors to one site and mobile visitors to another.

Example: http://detectmobilebrowser.com/facebook.com/chads,m.facebook.com/chads

Regular visitors would be redirected to facebook.com/chads and mobile visitors would go to m.facebook.com/chads.

Detect Mobile Browser]]>