Comments on: Hacking Google proxies on your BlackBerry http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/ This can all be made better. Ready? Begin. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:26:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Saeid http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-86096 Saeid Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:50:36 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-86096 I'm persian and in my country there is very strong filtering I’m persian and in my country there is very strong filtering

]]> By: Mike http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-31673 Mike Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:42:05 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-31673 wow thats pretty creative man. im kinda new at this computer programming thing and thanks for the insight. wow thats pretty creative man. im kinda new at this computer programming thing and thanks for the insight.

]]> By: Bad Behavior Misbehavin’? at FactoryCity http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-15036 Bad Behavior Misbehavin’? at FactoryCity Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:22:45 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-15036 [...] For one thing, forget about going directly to your WordPress blog from your Gmail account. Bad Behavior blocks the Google proxy. [...] [...] For one thing, forget about going directly to your WordPress blog from your Gmail account. Bad Behavior blocks the Google proxy. [...]

]]> By: medmusings http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14105 medmusings Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:18:50 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14105 <strong>links for 2006-08-03...</strong> National Night Out! party @ our house, 5 civic leaders (mayor, fire chief, policewoman, 2 firewomen), 10 families, SUCCESS! new neighborhood watch launched (tags: local volunteer disaster burglary police emergency Preparedness) Nathan’s Notebook » ... links for 2006-08-03…

National Night Out! party @ our house, 5 civic leaders (mayor, fire chief, policewoman, 2 firewomen), 10 families, SUCCESS! new neighborhood watch launched (tags: local volunteer disaster burglary police emergency Preparedness) Nathan’s Notebook » …

]]> By: Josh Bancroft http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14093 Josh Bancroft Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:01:51 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14093 You can also just go to http://www.google.com/gwt/n And enter the desired URL. Bonus feature: a checkbox for "No Images" to speed up loading even more. You can also just go to

http://www.google.com/gwt/n

And enter the desired URL. Bonus feature: a checkbox for “No Images” to speed up loading even more.

]]> By: Josh Bancroft http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14092 Josh Bancroft Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:00:30 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14092 Erica beat me to it, but the mobile version of Google's search page (and the mobile formatted Personalized page, etc.) will also refomat pages you visit via that search. It's a handy page to use as your homepage on a mobile device like a BlackBerry. To get straigh to the mobile page, rather than relying on Google to correctly sniff your useragent, just go to http://www.google.com/xhtml Added bonuses: Local searches for businesses and directions that include maps and "click to dial" phone numbers (very useful!) Mobile image search Searching only in "mobile optimized" pages, which are few and far between, and really suck, in general. Just use the normal search. Another really useful mobile device page: http://mobile.answers.com. A great mobile interface to dictionaries, Wikipedia, and tons of other sources. When I'm looking for fact-type information, this is where I start. Hope that helps! :-) Erica beat me to it, but the mobile version of Google’s search page (and the mobile formatted Personalized page, etc.) will also refomat pages you visit via that search. It’s a handy page to use as your homepage on a mobile device like a BlackBerry.

To get straigh to the mobile page, rather than relying on Google to correctly sniff your useragent, just go to http://www.google.com/xhtml

Added bonuses: Local searches for businesses and directions that include maps and “click to dial” phone numbers (very useful!)

Mobile image search

Searching only in “mobile optimized” pages, which are few and far between, and really suck, in general. Just use the normal search.

Another really useful mobile device page: http://mobile.answers.com. A great mobile interface to dictionaries, Wikipedia, and tons of other sources. When I’m looking for fact-type information, this is where I start.

Hope that helps! :-)

]]> By: Erica Douglass http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14090 Erica Douglass Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:49:06 +0000 http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/08/02/hacking-google-proxies-on-your-blackberry/#comment-14090 They do this for ANY URL you click on off google.com mobile search too. (You know, when you hit up google.com in a mobile browser and it sniffs your browser and shows you that lightweight Google page... type in a search term, click on any result, and it's run through that Google translator.) I absolutely HATE this behavior on Google web searches. The main reason is because their f*cking gateway crashes ALL THE TIME!! I constantly get 500 errors from it. If it actually worked all the time, I wouldn't mind it so much. The second reason is because there seems to be no way to actually turn this behavior OFF if you don't want Google "translating" all your URLs for you (particularly with some websites with two- or three-column layout, it really breaks the layout and makes the site unreadable.) I've complained to my Googler friends about this and they all replied "Don't mention it... it's controversial/touchy even within Google." So some holier-than-thou at Google has declared that all URLs searched off the mobile site must go through this translator, and there's no way to turn it off... why? Is this really in their users' best interest? I am currently using mobile Yahoo search instead. Try wap.oa.yahoo.com in your mobile browser -- they actually have a lot of good stuff there. Search.yahoo.com is also great. Google... bleh. They do this for ANY URL you click on off google.com mobile search too. (You know, when you hit up google.com in a mobile browser and it sniffs your browser and shows you that lightweight Google page… type in a search term, click on any result, and it’s run through that Google translator.)

I absolutely HATE this behavior on Google web searches. The main reason is because their f*cking gateway crashes ALL THE TIME!! I constantly get 500 errors from it. If it actually worked all the time, I wouldn’t mind it so much. The second reason is because there seems to be no way to actually turn this behavior OFF if you don’t want Google “translating” all your URLs for you (particularly with some websites with two- or three-column layout, it really breaks the layout and makes the site unreadable.) I’ve complained to my Googler friends about this and they all replied “Don’t mention it… it’s controversial/touchy even within Google.” So some holier-than-thou at Google has declared that all URLs searched off the mobile site must go through this translator, and there’s no way to turn it off… why? Is this really in their users’ best interest?

I am currently using mobile Yahoo search instead. Try wap.oa.yahoo.com in your mobile browser — they actually have a lot of good stuff there. Search.yahoo.com is also great. Google… bleh.

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