In addition, the help section (flickr.com/help/photos) on the desktop site explains how you can upload your photos from your phone by simply sending an e-mail message. This section also explains how you can e-mail your photos to an outside blog. Also, a separate section tells you how you can stipulate the privacy setting when you upload via e-mail. See "How do I set privacy levels on my photos?"

AOL Mobile Search (wap.aol.com) is a relatively recent offering from AOL that has been optimized for Windows Mobile devices and Internet Explorer Mobile. This mobile site offers a Google search as well as links to resources such as AIM Mail, Moviefone, MapQuest, AOL CityGuide, and AOL News. A single search gives you results divided into categories such as Local, Finance, News, Images, and Web.Flickr's mobile site allows you to view and share photos from your mobile device.

AOL's Mobile Search site has been optimized for Internet Explorer Mobile.

As I'm writing this in late fall 2007, AOL has also announced a Windows Mobile application that will give access to their suite of online services. Called AOL MyMobile, it will let you personalize MyMobile and offer "easy-to-use carousel navigation." At this time you can click on the Get MyMobile link at the bottom of the page to be alerted when the application is available. In addition to these offerings, some enterprising fans of mobile devices have created offerings that let you access major sites via your device.

Del.icio.us (del.icio.us) is a popular "social bookmarks manager." Using "bookmarklets" you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them. Developer Dale Lane created a free plug-in (dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=175) for Windows Mobile devices so that you can access this via your device. (Note that it requires .Net CF 2.)

AskAWord.com lets you access Wikipedia and Wiktionary information.

Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) and Wiktionary (wiktionary.org) content can be accessed by a mobile user from AskAWord.com. You can use this mobile site to get dictionary definitions, spell check words, look up synonyms in a thesaurus, and read short encyclopedia articles. (Note, however, that most third-party Wikipedia implementations offer a version of the database that dates back to 2006.)

Other recent mobile resources

Viigo (viigo.com) is a free application that gives you convenient access to news, sports, entertainment, weather, markets, blogs, or any RSS feed that you want. It's another window into the world of RSS feeds, and handles them effectively. Viigo has a well organized channel library that lets you select from over 1,500 channels. It's very easy to select and add the channels that interest you.

Viigo has a well organzied channel library that lets you access news, sports, entertainment, weather, markets, and other info.

Navigation is efficient and simple. If you're accessing a news source, for example, Viigo gives you a handy list of the headlines. Selecting a headline brings up a capsule summary. You can then elect to view the whole article, which is nicely formatted for the small screen of your device.