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Colin Dunstan · 04-17-2005, 09:50 AM

I found out about Loband.org first at Teleread, but it also appeared in an article at Slashdot, which is the reason why the site is currently inaccessible: "Aidworld, a Cambridge (UK) based organisation specialising in ICTs for the developing world have created a free internet service to speed up web browsing in low bandwidth environments: loband. Using server-side compression and by filtering images, scripts and plugins while retaining content and basic formatting, loband reduces bandwidth requirements by between 5 and 50 times."

Example: MobileRead Loband'ed.

The idea behind Loband.org isn't exactly new. Skweezer offers a similar proxy tool optimizing the formatting of Web sites for PDA users. If you are using your PDA to surf a lot, you might want to try one of these two tools.

04-17-2005, 09:50 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Loband.org - free proxy for mobile devices I found out about Loband.org first at Teleread, but it also appeared in an article at Slashdot, which is the reason why the site is currently inaccessible: "Aidworld, a Cambridge (UK) based organisation specialising in ICTs for the developing world have created a free internet service to speed up web browsing in low bandwidth environments: loband. Using server-side compression and by filtering images, scripts and plugins while retaining content and basic formatting, loband reduces bandwidth requirements by between 5 and 50 times." Example: MobileRead Loband'ed. The idea behind Loband.org isn't exactly new. Skweezer offers a similar proxy tool optimizing the formatting of Web sites for PDA users. If you are using your PDA to surf a lot, you might want to try one of these two tools.