{"id":6199,"date":"2007-12-26T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/mobile-menu-productivity.html"},"modified":"2007-12-26T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:23:08","slug":"mobile-menu-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/mobile-menu-productivity.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Menu Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"
It has been a fairly busy holiday season from a work perspective but over the holidays I found some hours to get some much needed work done. I have gotten on a productivity and efficiency kick that started with my change to the Google Reader<\/font><\/a>. The more I use this reader, the more I like it.<\/div>\n
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One reason I made this switch you may recall was because I want to take my RSS feeds on the go and the Google Reader works well with my phone.<\/div>\n
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But I now have another dilemma. I don’t always want to open my mobile browser to the Reader. I have a handful of links I like to use but I needed a new menu system that would allow me quickly access to the links I want.<\/div>\n
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I first tried customizing Google Mobile to do this but it wasn’t very flexible.<\/div>\n
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I then tried designing a mobile menu page using Google Pages<\/font><\/a> as it allows rapid page creation. What I found was that using pages created in this fashion interfered with various Google services. Whenever I clicked on a link on my phone from the service it would give me some mobile related error message and then give me a non-mobile formatted result. It even forced me have to enter in my password for Reader each time I clicked on the link from the Pages menu. It was if cookies weren’t being read.<\/div>\n
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Then I decided to just use Microsoft Word and create the menu and export the HTML file to a folder on my blog site. I now have a super-efficient menu allowing me access to just the content I want. Here is how the mobile menu<\/font><\/a> looks:<\/div>\n
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Maps<\/font><\/a><\/span><\/u><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nUnless otherwise specified the links are all Google links. In other words Maps is a link to Google Maps<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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Even though the file<\/font><\/a> is under 10k in size, I then decided to copy it to my phone to have even faster access to the menu. I now have a rapidly opening menu allowing me access to any link at lightening speed. <\/div>\n
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The way I did this was as follows… Copy the file called “mobile-home.html<\/font><\/a>” to your “My Documents” folder and on your Windows Mobile browser enter:<\/div>\n
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file:\/\/\\My%20Documents\\mobile-home.html<\/div>\n
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Now you have a lightening fast menu accessible from your mobile phone.<\/div>\n
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Please note I may update this menu as time goes on so you are welcome to save a copy of it if you find it perfect the way it is.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been a fairly busy holiday season from a work perspective but over the holidays I found some hours to get some much needed work done. I have gotten on a productivity and efficiency kick that started with my change to the Google Reader. The more I use this reader, the more I like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,199,189,118,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}