Thoughts from a Lab Rat

Sorry, I’ve kinda fell behind on the updates on this site lately. Been working on some other projects. Anyhoo, I will try to do my bi-annual update soon.

For those of you who use your cell phones to access the internet, you may know that many sites do not load properly on the smaller screens. I just discovered OperaMini which is available for many phones including Blackberries, Palms and smart phones. You can view a full list of supported devices at the bottom of this post as well as a link to the site.

What makes OperaMini different from built in browsers is that rather than accessing the site directly and then downloading the entire page and then formatting it to the device, OperaMini sends the page to one of its servers where it knows what phone you have and optimzes the page, then downloads a smaller version to your phone which is much faster and can load many more pages than standard browsers.

Using my Blackberry Tour (non-camera edition of course!), I am able to access PPD’s site which I previously was unable to. The current version 4 works great but the 5 beta has a few bugs in it but brings ‘tabbed’ browsing as well as a thumbnail start screen you can place you favorite sites.

It’s not a cure all, but it has definately opened up new avenues for my surfing.
If you haven’t tried it yet, give it a shot!

http://www.opera.com/mini/
Device list

There is a reporter doing a story about clinical research and he would like to interview someone from the New York City area who does studies for a living. If you are interested, give him an email at jfanelli@nypost.com

http://www.cri-research.net/particip/volunteer.html

Visit the link above for more information

Well, I still don’t know why it keeps crashing, but it’s up for now. I suspect that it’s because alot of spammers try to access the board. Well, it’s up for now.

I forgot how to fix it so I will not have a chance to work on it til the weekend. If anyone knows anything about the phpbb, please email me!
reply@jalr.org

Well, it looks like I was able to successfully restore the database. Horray!

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