Monday, May 3, 2010

Hindu Panchang goes mobile

You are at temple and wanted to check Rahukalam? Today's nakshatra? and other information and no computer available? or access to panchangam or computers? If you are a priest and going to someone's house for puja and you want to check today's nakshatra and other information for your city? We have gotten many requests from people to provide mobile panchangam and we've heard you. Your worries end now. Your favourite mypanchang.com site has gone mobile now. All you need is javascript enabled browser on your mobile phone (Opera browser or IE on windows mobile, Iphone, etc...) with mobile internet connection. all you have to do is visit following site and it's very easy to remember:

http://m.mypanchang.com/

You'll be presented with a default panchang for Seattle, WA, USA but you can change your location by clicking the link on top of the screen http://m.mypanchang.com/mobilechangeloc.html). However, you'll need javascript enabled browser. For best viewing in the display settings of browser uncheck following, "Automatic full screen", Select Minmum font size to "normal". With this you can have mobile panchang free on your cell phone. We'll keep adding features to this mobile site. Currently you can view only today's panchangam, but we are working on providing full fledged panchangam on your mobile phone. all you need is javascript enabled browser. I've tested it on my windows mobile 6.5 phone. (HTC TILT with Opera & IE browser).

Please remember to give your feedback to us. we'll launch official site m.mypanchang.com on auspicious akshaya tritiya May 16th 2010.
Questions ? Read following.
  • Supported Mobile Phones: Any Phone that has internet capabilitiy with a browser that supports javascript, cookies. Currently we have tested it with windows mobile 6.0 and above with Opera Browser. We have some issues with IE on windows 6.0. Tested on Iphone, Symbian OS.
  • Supported Browsers: Opera on Windows mobile phone seems to be working well. Default browser on Iphone and Symbian OS works well. Waiting for Windows Mobile 7 Phones.
  • Setting Default Location: Sometimes you'll see your default location isn't setting. To overcome this you can set your location here and then bookmark the resulting page after clicking Save Default button. This will ensure you'll have your city displayed all the time. This is because your browser may not be supporting cookies.
  • Selecting another date: To view panchangam for another date click on the edit box before the "Select a Date" button and then after selecting a new date click on the Select a Date button. Until you press this button the panchang for requested date will not be displayed. When you click on the date edit box and don't see the control please enter the date there in YYYY-MM-DD format. Here try to make sure the year is 4 digits. the month is 2 digits. If January enter 01, for dates less than 10 start it with zero same goes with a month. For example: 2010-01-09.
  • Questions: Please send email to shastriji at mypanchang dot com.