The bleeding edge. If it bleeds it leads, so the media wonks say, and Flickering Torches is doing its part to live up to its crimson color scheme. As of today, Flickering Torches provides a custom version of the website to iPhone users, as well as many other common small screen devices, including PDAs and smartphones.
When iPhone or other mobile device users access http://www.flickeringtorches.com, they will be presented with a specially formatted version of the website that is custom made for the small screen form factor and includes the familiar interface options users have come to expect from mobile solutions.
Flickering Torches provides this functionality courtesy WPTouch. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch loads lightning fast and automatically transforms Flickering Torches into a web-application experience when viewed from all models of iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre, and BlackBerry Storm as well as other touch mobile devices. Loads times are decreased by an average of 72%!
WPTouch selects which version of Flickering Torches to display based on your device’s “user-agent”. The user-agent is a keyword like those on the list that tells Flickering Torches what kind of device you are using to view the website. For example, the Dell Axim x51v running Windows Mobile 5 and Internet Explorer Mobile 4.01 sends the user-agent “ppc”.
The device user-agents currently supported are: android, aspen, blackberry9500, blackberry9530, cupcake, dream, incognito, iphone, ipod, opera mini, ppc, webmate, and webos. If your device uses a different user-agent code, contact me and I’ll add it to the list. If you are using a PDA or smartphone and are seeing the desktop version of the website, check with your device’s user community and find the user-agent and then let me know.
A little blue birdie told us
Flickering Torches has joined the 140 character club. That’s right, you can follow this site on Twitter now. New functionality has been added to the website to automatically tweet links to new articles as they become available. I also added TweetMeme, for ReTweeting posts directly.
Additional functionality for our notification system users
In addition to mobile device compatibility for display of the website itself, Flickering Torches has also installed the Prowl API, giving you access to the notification features of Growl on your iPhone via Prowl while browsing the website.
Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X and is now available for Windows: it allows applications that support Growl, such as Prowl, to send you notifications.
Notifications are a way for your applications to provide you with new information, without you having to switch from the application you’re already in.
Growl handles the job of displaying these notifications, so that applications don’t have to all do it themselves. When you start up a Growl-enabled application, it will “just work.” Your apps can start displaying notifications right away.
Prowl is the Growl client for the iPhone OS. Notifications from your computer are sent to your iPhone or iPod touch using “push”, a built-in feature of your device. You can also forward notifications to email, Twitter, and social bookmarking sites.
Get your adds over here
Flickering Torches now offers the AddThis widget for reposting links to our articles on your favorite social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. AddThis includes destinations from all over the world, including Digg, Menéame, Hatena, and Nujij — and even utilities like Print, Translate, and PDF Online. Over 200 services are supported in over 50 languages.
Feedback requested
As the developer of this website, I’m always interested in finding new ways to extend its functionality. Am I missing a feature you think Flickering Torches should have? Tell me about it or leave a comment below. I’d also appreciate feedback on how the site formatting looks on your mobile device. Thanks! Hope you’re enjoying the website! I wouldn’t mind a comment about that either! 
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