iPhoneized

Here are the newsworthy links for November 18, 2009. If you would like to suggest a link, please contact me!

Quite often I come across some great blog posts, news releases and demos that I want to share, but don't necessarily warrant an entire blog post. So I am starting a new series of posts titled 'Newsworthy' where I'll share these stories and link to each one.

Jonathan Stark, a mobile and web application developer, has released his book titled 'Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript', online under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license.

There are over 30 million people browsing the web right now using an Apple device. So it's no surprise that many developers are porting the most popular CMS's, forums, blogging and e-commerce platforms over to be Mobile Safari friendly.

There's a great story over at Mobile Marketer today about Time, Inc.'s ambitious planned mobile rollout. Time sees the potential in mobile content, based on the 1 million monthly unique users to their iPhone-optimized sites already.

There are some exciting developments in the world of mobile browsing! First, Apple announced today that it has sold 17 million iPhones and 13 million iPod Touches. That's a total of 30 million people browsing the web using their Apple devices!

A new study released by Net Applications shows that Apple's iPhone now represents 66.61 percent of all mobile web traffic. That number is striking, since Apple only accounts for about 0.31% of the total mobile browser market.

Brave New Code has just released WPTouch Version 1.81. More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple's app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.

Shaun Sullivan at Blackbaud Labs has created an iPhone simulator for Windows. iBBDemo correctly renders Webkit targeted html, including the custom -webkit CSS extenstions, effectively giving us a compelling demo/test platform for iPhone Web content from the comfort of a Windows desktop. Best of all, he's providing it for FREE!