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Mobile Forensics

Die Firma cellebrite bietet mit dem UFED Physical Pro ein Gerät mit dem man von gängigen Mobiltelefonen Textnachrichten, GPS-Daten, Photos, Videos, und was sonst noch so zu holen ist, bequem herunterladen kann.

Utilizing UFED’s simple and field-proven user interface, a complete high-speed hex dump of the phone memory is delivered without the need of cumbersome PC drivers. Critical data such as user lock codes, and deleted information such as text messages, call history, pictures, and video are sorted and retrieved by Cellebrite’s Physical Pro engine.

Laut netzpolitik soll das Gerät bei der Michigan State Police bei normalen Verkehrsstreifen und -kontrollen zu Einsatz kommen.

Media Queries or Separate Mobile Web Sites

Jason Grigsby konstatiert: CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold und denkt die Entwicklung von seperaten Mobile Sites ist der “bessere” Weg.

I know separate mobile web sites are a pain to develop. We have a lot of infrastructure to build to make the mobile web go, and I’m going to be writing more about that soon. But there are good reasons why we need separate mobile web sites.

During Ethan’s interview on the Big Web Show, some time was spent discussing how sharing links from the New York Times doesn’t work the way you would hope. If you send a link from the mobile site and someone opens it on their desktop browser, it is still formatted for mobile.

The conclusion drawn from this during the podcast is that CSS media queries might be a better solution because there would only be one URL, and it would work for both desktop and mobile.

Here’s some hard numbers to consider from a YSlow examination of the New York Times desktop and mobile home pages: (…)

As you can see, the mobile web site has a fifth of the HTTP requests of the desktop version and is 583K smaller. That’s over 90% smaller and significantly faster on a mobile device.

HTML 5 Mobile Boilerplate

Nach dem HTML 5 Boilerplate gibt es nun auch eine Mobile Version:

Mobile Boilerplate is your trusted template made custom for creating rich and performant mobile web apps. You get cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile. Mobile Boilerplate is not a framework, but works well with projects like jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Phonegap and Appcelerator. You get an offline caching setup for free, fast button clicks, a media query polyfill, and many common mobile WebKit optimizations waiting for you. Use Mobile Boilerplate to start your mobile webapp quickly and immediately benefit from community best practices.

daily links

• HTML Mail | drupal.org
  HTML Mail empowers Drupal with the ability to send emails in HTML, providing formatting and semantic markup capabilities in e-mail that are not available with plain text.
• Jetpack
  Back in the day, there were great features available to WordPress.com users that were not available on self-hosted WordPress installs. Jetpack is a plugin that connects to WordPress.com and enables awesome features, powered by our cloud infrastructure.
• Easy Paginate - jQuery plugin for pagination | Css Globe
  This plugin allows you to browse easily through the list of items with pagination controls. It is very easy to implement and very lightweight so it might come in handy to use in your own projects. It’s main purpose is to view certain number of list items at once, but it can also be set up to view one item by one.
• jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style) ← Egor Khmelev
• jQuery Touchwipe (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Gesten Gestures Event Wischeffekt / Wipe Effect)
  Die 1 KB kleine Bibliothek ermöglicht das Abfangen des Wischevents auf einem iPhone, iPad oder iPod Touch um beispielsweise durch eine Bildergalerie zu scrollen (siehe Demo unten). Sollte auch mit Android Touchscreens funktionieren.

Developing Drupal Applications for Mobile

David Tiede gibt einige Hinweise wie man mit Drupal 7 eine Mobile-Version seiner Webseite realisieren kann.

Developing a mobile version (for example an iPad version) of your Drupal 7 website can be a fairly straight forward process. Without getting into performance and optimization, I’ll demonstrate how a simple custom module can provide you the flexibility to change the output for an iPad ready version of your site. Bear in mind there are a number of ways to do this, and the best solution for you will depend on your application or website and your end goal. For instance, you may want to load a completely different theme, or simply output alternative html and slightly modified node templates (for example). I’ll demonstrate how you can replace your theme’s html with HTML5 and using a modified node template. This should get you started if you’ve ever been wondering how to do this.