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Tag: Mobile

  • Background image not appearing on mobile devices

    Spent some time trying to figure out why the background image on my site’s home page was not being displayed on mobile devices although it was appearing in a desktop browser. There are, of course, endless solutions that may or may not have worked for someone in the past. They suggested tweaking your CSS coding or adjusting the size of the image or some other voodoo. None of these worked for me.

    What worked for me was simply ensuring that the image’s colour profile was set to sRGB. Once that was changed everything worked as expected.

  • BBC reports: Desktop banking use falls, as users switch to apps

    Why is anyone surprised by this? If all the banking sites are as bad as the abysmal Co-op bank‘s recent improved online banking efforts.

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    Responsive design? Never heard of it. There is a Next button and a Help link in there somewhere. You will find them eventually. They ask you to change your password. Insisting it needs to be at least a certain length and contain certain characters. Yes there is an upper limit to how long it can be but they are not going to tell you what that is – you will figure it out eventually.

    Once you have entered your Username, Password and security code you are welcomed into their warm embrace….

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    …where you can play hunt the OK button. There is not much empty space available on this page so they had to hide the OK button. You will find it eventually.

    With the mobile app…. Enter 6 digits and tap Log in…

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    Simples!

  • Mobile blogging

    Because you can…. blog from your iPod 😉 A few minutes ago it would have been a blog from the bog but I could not remember my password.

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  • Mobile Spotify

    A demo of Spotify on an Android mobile phone.

    Perhaps once they finish that Spotify will start to iron out some of the glitches in their catalogue listings….

    Only one of these tracks is listed correctly. There are no prizes for spotting it or identifying all the tracks 😉 But…. [W:Ravens], [W:Crows]…. Near enough 🙁

    I would have reported the errors but Spotify have moved to a Get Satisfaction forum. Why would anyone think this was a good idea?

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