Shaun Mccran

My digital playground

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2012

Vodafone Sure Signal review

A product I'd been vaguely aware of, but have since discovered a lot more about is the Vodafone Sure Signal box.

This little white box uses your home broadband to create a 3G bubble in your own home. It is basically a mini, private 3G mast.

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Book review: JQuery Mobile – a first look

I was recently sent a copy of JQuery Mobile by Packt publishing for review. I've dabbled in the JQuery Mobile development language a fair amount, so I was interested to see what this book could teach me that may be different from the information out there in the community.

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2011

A mobile integration case study: Onkyo remote for mobile platforms

I am a big fan of integration. I really like it when I can see that someone has thought long and hard about what would be useful to users and what platforms best fit that usefulness.

The electronics manufacturer Onkyo have produced a mobile application that allows you to control their devices from your chosen mobile platform.

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Why I've had a re-think about auto detecting mobile users

A while back now I wrote a short article on how to detect a mobile user by reading the user agent value from their browser (Link: http://www.mccran.co.uk/index.cfm/2010/6/4/Simple-Coldfusion-script-to-detect-if-a-user-is-on-a-Mobile-platform). I've since reversed my stand on doing this for a number of technical and User Experience based reasons.

This blog article is an exploration of those reasons.

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