Just thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this weekend.
It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone. Later Locker lets you email a link to the webpage to an email address and have it automatically appear on your computer. Sites like the http://nytimes.com or http://newegg.com are kind of annoying to view in your mobile browser. So, you send a link to the webpage from your phone and automatically appears on your desktop!
Still really rough, but would love any feedback/suggestions you guys have!
I built something similar a while back (http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ if you're curious), for iOS I found that the easiest way to set up bookmarklets is to add them on the desktop (Safari or IE) and then sync to the phone. At the time bookmarklets didn't work on Android so we ended up making a native app (I think you have to register for the "share text" intent, it's been a while).
I'm a bit confused. By "magically appears on my computer", do you mean "open email and click link to open webpage in browser"? Or does it actually just open right away, somehow?
If you keep the webpage open (extension to come), it'll open the link that you sent to the service. It'll be there waiting for you when you get back to your computer
This is awesome! A simple idea, wonderfully executed.
Couple of features I'd like to see:
* An RSS/Atom/whatever feed of the articles, so they show up in my feed reader/Calibre
* The exact same thing in reverse; Often, I'd just like to boil the text off a web page and read it on my phone on the morning/evening train commute. This possibly changes the scope of your weekend hack to something a lot more complex..
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 47.3 ms ] threadJust thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this weekend.
It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone. Later Locker lets you email a link to the webpage to an email address and have it automatically appear on your computer. Sites like the http://nytimes.com or http://newegg.com are kind of annoying to view in your mobile browser. So, you send a link to the webpage from your phone and automatically appears on your desktop!
Still really rough, but would love any feedback/suggestions you guys have!
Using mailgun for parsing!
- Benny
It's hacky, but if you keep the webpage open, any links you send from your mobile will "push" (technically, it pulls) to your browser!
The experience is really nice because it uses the native Android 'share link' dialogue.
See my reply to derek
Indeed, an RSS feed would be cool. In the queue ;)
The reverse is solved by Instapaper or ReadItLater. This is the reverse of those apps :)