Best Sites That Work On The 770

[=DC=]

Hey everyone, I realize there are now a good number of people that have the 770 in hand and are wanting to get the most use out of it. I have found a lot of sites that I use are functional on the Tablet and was wondering if anyone had any links to share that some may not have heard of or checked out yet. Thanks.

Here are my list of most used links while using the 770 (most used to least used):

http://www.google.com/ig/ - Personalized Google Page
https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ - HTML version of Gmail
http://www.internettablettalk.com/ - Internet Tablet Talk (of course)
http://www.bloglines.com/ - Bloglines (I've had a few issues with certain feed links crashing the browser)
http://www.maemo.org/ - Maemo site
http://www.rsscalendar.com/ - RSSCalendar
http://www.shoutcast.com/ - SHOUTcast

[Chainsaw76]

Don't forget google maps resized for the 770 fullscreen zoomed 150% - http://maps.i40.com/

[chrwei]

full featured gmail seems to work also

[=DC=]

@ Chainsaw76

Yeah, I have that one in my links as well. I just haven't used it as much as I first thought I would. Still, it's an great addition to the web applications the 770 can use.

@ chrwei

Yeah, but it is a little slower than in HTML view and uses up more memory, which causes it to be a little less stable and increase the risk of crashing the browser. I do wonder if the new chat feature will work when it's released though. Would be awesome if it does.

[jasonmantey]

I do NOT see the chat on my 770 (I did on my Slackware Desktop). I don't even have the option. On my desktop near the bottom I have the following 3 choices:

standard with chat
standard without chat
basic HTML

On my 770 I only see standard / Basic. Hope that helps. BTW, chat looks really nice inside the browser (PC).

[AllThumbs]

These sites are almost perfect on the 770 at 150% zoom:

Current news: http://planetdaily.org/
Best Gadgets: http://planetgadget.org/
Mac News: http://planetmac.org/

[=DC=]

Thanks AllThumbs. Those are great sites.

[Viking]

http://www.bloglines.com/ - Bloglines (I've had a few issues with certain feed links crashing the browser)


http://www.bloglines.com/mobile seems to crash less for me (this was mentioned in another thread here)

[=DC=]

Yeah, I know about the mobile version, but I kind of want to keep the layout similar to how I see it on my desktop computer. Besides, I only have one or two feeds (Engadget, Gizmodo) that crash on occasions where there are a lot of posts. I think it may be due to the many images in the feed, but I'm not sure.

[AllThumbs]

There's a Planet Asterisk (http://planetasterisk.org/) site with the Asterisk news of the week that's also great at 150% zoom. For a list of other great planet sites that all work perfectly on the 770 out of the box, go to the Mother Ship (http://planetplanet.org/).

[costoa]

BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm
LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/wireless/avantgo
The Times of London: http://avantgo.thetimes.co.uk/services/avantgo/0,,0,00.html
Weather: http://stuff.mit.edu/weather?BOS (The last three letters are for the airport code)
Google News (light): http://news.google.com/news?ned=tus
Project Gutenberg (>17k free ebooks): http://www.gutenberg.org

more to come ...

[=DC=]

(770)

Great!
Keep them coming.

[NokNok770]

I actually have a complaint about some item on this list...one of them is personalized google page. It's 3 column makes it almost impossible to be any useful. And ITT...it's hardly nokia 770 friendly...there's a 15%-20% white border around the forum posts...I think it fit real well without it...

You know what sites has good format...gizmodo.com, engadget.com, wired.com. Oh and bank of america website works real well also. I can do banking just fine on my 770.

[=DC=]

(770)

Ah, point well taken NokNok770. I guess it proves that the sites we become accustomed to become the ones we believe work best. No matter how we access them.

[Bill]

personal online bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/

the ability to tag individual bookmarks with keywords, makes navigating through hunderds of bookmarks really easy and fast.

[=DC=]

(770)

I agree Bil. I don't think I've been to del.icio.us on the 770 yet. I must see how well the Opera "monster" handles it.

In my quest to find my optimal routine while online with the 770, I have noticed that I check and respond to email (Gmail), update my calendar (RSSCalendar), and check what's in the news (Bloglines). Usually, I find myself branching off to other sites from Bloglines. I find this to be the most efficient way for me to get most things done on the device in reasonable bursts.

[AllThumbs]

You're welcome to use our NWS weather site as well. Just insert your airport code or the first three letters of major cities. If you get Atlanta and entered something else, your city isn't in the table. Works great on most cell phones with a browser, too... especially Treo 650.

http://pdaweather.org/?city=ATL

[spiderx]

dude, you know you can just select 'pda style' from the bottom of the page, and it makes it SUPER 770 friendly? How? See where it says -- Default Style? click on it and select 'pda style' and you're golden.

[=DC=]

(770)

Thanks spiderx for that tip. I thought I heard someone mention it somewhere else in the forums, but never got around to check it out.

Thanks AllThumbs, I've got to bookmark that one.

[fpp]

Well, the 'pda style" Reggie added (more or less at my request) is certainly easier to use on the 770, but it is in no way the best that can be done for mobile devices with vBulletin.

The layout on the 'view new posts' page (and others) is a mess, with thread titles wrapped and piled vertically atop one another on the left, and most of the space unused. Generally there is a lot of (textual) info lacking (such as post timestamps, last poster name etc.) Also no way to go directly to a thread's last or last unread post...

Other PDA-related sites have more functional mobile versions of the same vBulletin, so it's possible (but perhaps costly, as I think it is commercial software).

[orange-man]

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel http://www.jsonline.com/wireless/
Chicago Tribune: http://mobile.chicagotribune.com/
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/dt/pda-1.0/subst/aa/pda/home.html/103-2382352-0708638
Metacritic: http://wireless.metacritic.com/avantgo/

[NokNok770]

I just noticed something. When I have the browser up at full screen and 100% zoom, then switch to 80% zoom, the web page does not fill up the screen. It just have white space on the right side. It only fills up when I select optimized view. I was looking at google personalized page.

[=DC=]

Here are some more good sites to check out:
http://www.pluggit.org/
http://zombo.com/
http://www.web2ftp.com/

[AllThumbs]

Ironic: Virtually all of the Planet web sites (http://planetplanet.org/) look perfect on the 770 when zoomed to 150%. In fact, they look the way an eBook Reader should look. Well, almost all of the Planet sites look great ... except one: Planet Maemo (http://planet.maemo.org/). Wouldn't you think somebody mighta tried it??

[AllThumbs]

Atlanta Real-time Traffic Map (http://www.georgia-navigator.com/maps/atlanta)

[=DC=]

Audio Bible (flash) (http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/audio/) :)