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Read Doughboy With Your Mobile Phone!

WidSets puts the blog's RSS feed on a phone screen

A screenshot of a phone display in which WidSets shows, on a blue background, the title of Anna's post The Joys of Summer, the author's name and the post's photograph.
a post with its picture on the Nokia E61

WidSets is a simple service that brings to your mobile phone what you normally read on the Internet. Its mini-applications, called widgets, watch the RSS feeds of the websites you visit and alert you whenever one of them is updated, wherever you are.

That description is from WidSets' own web page, but for once I completely agree with the marketing hype. There are many RSS readers for mobile devices, but this neat little MIDP 2.0 application is super easy to use and also very good looking. It's definitely worth trying out if you have a modern mobile phone and need something to read, for example while commuting.

I took the screenshots with my Nokia E61, and the content is from this blog.

The WidSets main menu on the phone screen: an RSS widget, the WidSets logo and the Pillsbury Doughboy as the blog's icon.
the WidSets menu, with Doughboy as the icon
A screenshot of a phone display with a paragraph of the post on new potatoes and herring as white text on a blue background.
body text on the phone screen

If you like what you see, add Doughboy to your WidSets and give the service a chance to positively surprise you.

4 comments

  1. Alanna

    Okay so that's really cool and all and especially cool for a couple of Finns since the Nokia Influence apparently makes Finns esp Internet happy ... but wouldn't you actually have to update a little more often for it to be REALLY cool? Yes?! ; - ) (This is my way of saying, Hey! where are you guys?! You're missed!!)

  2. Antti

    Alanna: LOL 😀 😀 😀 Point taken 🙂 Will do my best to quickly post something less nerdy... Already have some nice food photos taken, just need the time to write the postings... My life has been way too hectic lately because of multiple projects I'm managing. I've also tried to dedicate some quality time for S.

  3. Pille

    I second Alanna here:) I'm sure a grown-up man like you can juggle S (first priority, obviously), a full-time job AND foodblogging simultaneously!? Just look at me! 🙂 (The current irregular blogging is caused by the fact that I've got no kitchen to cook in, but I'll be a good girl after I move back home and in with K. on October 15th)

  4. Eszter

    Here we are, equipped with wide band internet connection, a NOKIA mobile phone capable of taking photos and singing old Karelian melodies, a new oven and several other household gadgets but no posts to enjoy on our paraphernalia. No offence meant though, do we understand how hectic life can get...

The oven is already warm

bake another while you are at it

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