Tips: Format any web page for viewing on mobile phone

There are a lot of websites which are not optimized for viewing them on mobile phones.

These web sites/pages can be reformatted for viewing them on your mobile phone.

Go to Google Mobile Search web page and click on settings. In the settings screen, choose the "Yes" for the option which says "Format web pages for your phone".

After having done this, in Google Mobile Search (http://mobile.google.com/search) give the URL(web address) as the search string.

If the URL (of the web page which you need to be reformatted) is valid (i.e. if the webpage exists) then it should appear as the first search result.

Now, opening the URL from the first search result will open up the reformatted web page. Great isn't it!!

The way it is done is that Google automatically reformats the web page for viewing on mobile phone. Thanks to Google!!

Mobile Phone optimized web pages

One of the biggest problems which a person faces while surfing the internet from their mobile phone is to find a web page that has been optimized for mobile phone screens. Having personally realized this pain, I've with a round up of web services which are optimized for use on Mobile Phones.

I know there are lot of other web sites which are optimized for mobile phones. So, I would be updating the below list periodically.

Also, please feel free to let me know if you've come across other websites which I am missing in the list below.

Web Mail:
Yahoo!
Mail - http://m.yahoo.com/mail
Gmail - http://mobile.google.com/gmail

General News:
Google News - http://mobile.google.com/m/news
The New York
Times - http://mobile.nytimes.com/
BusinessWeek - http://businessweek.mobi/index.jsp
Reuters News - http://mobile.reuters.com/mobile/m/Home

Technology News:
Mini-Techmeme - http://www.techmeme.com/mini
Technorati - http://m.technorati.com/
Zdnet
news - http://m.zdnet.com/

Social Networking & Blogging:
Facebook - http://m.facebook.com/home.php
WordPress.com
Blog - http://m.wordpress.com/
Twitter - http://m.twitter.com/home
Jaiku - http://m.jaiku.com/

Search & Other Indexing:
Google mobile search - http://mobile.google.com/search
Wapedia - Mobile
Encyclopedia - http://wapedia.mobi/en/
Technorati - http://m.technorati.com (Famous Blog Indexing service)

RSS Reader:
Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/
Newsgator - http://m.newsgator.com/


Chat Client:
Y! Messenger - http://mm.yahoo.com/?Referer=yahoo&card=d&Referer=internal

Photos & Videos:
Picasa Web - http://picasaweb.google.com/m?source=mobileproducts&pli=1
YouTube
Mobile - http://m.youtube.com/

Others:
Google Mobile services - http://mobile.google.com/
MSN Mobile - http://mobile.msn.com/device/en-us/default.aspx