This is Jeremy Turner, and I’ve been slacking off a bit on the blog posts the last two weeks. One of the reasons for this is that I am now an iPhone carrying member of the doucherati (I hoped that I had coined the term, but was slapped in the face with yet another domain that’s being squandered). After a month of paralyzing  pre-buyers remorse—Do I really need this? Will I use it? Is it worth the price? Will I be a total douche afterwards?—it’s taken less than a week for me not to be able to imagine my life without it. Pathetic, I know but that’s just how I roll. Besides, I’ve gone far too long without being able to tune out the world and play Tetris at a moments notice. It was the only thing my last PDA ended up being any good for.

Another thing I can’t imagine is viewing websites on the damn thing. I mean, it’s cool and all that you can see “real” websites on your “phone”, however all the zooming in, out, scroll left right, etc., makes me dizzy. I am an information junkie, and this is just too much work. That is why sites like The Google, Yellowbook.com, and others have either created iPhone optimized versions of their websites especially for the mobile version of Safari. And now I am happy to announce that I this functionality on my site as well.

The Wordpress plugin is called iWPhone and it’s a combination plugin and theme. Install the plugin and when users visit you from their super slick little pocket machine they get an optimized version of your content. Pretty neat if you ask me. And a whole lot easier than creating a whole new “mobile” version of your website. Check it out for yourself, if you are lucky enough to be near an iPhone. Just fire up Mobile Safari and type in jeremyturner.net. I know this isn’t going to help me out as far as my Google ranking, but I just think it’s neat and thought I would share.

EDIT: There’s another plugin called WPtouch that accomplishes pretty much the same thing, but seems to have more features, like the option to view the site normally if you choose. I will be playing with both of these for a while so I can’t say for sure which one you’ll be seeing.