Busted Halo Mobile!

Now it's easy to check the latest on bustedhalo.com from your mobile device

The mobile version of bustedhalo.com has arrived! Get a quick overview of our most recent content — the last few posts; the latest columns, blog posts and comments; what’s new in Googling God; and today’s Daily Jolt. Now, when you go to bustedhalo.com it should automatically detect whether you’re on a regular computer or a mobile device, and send you to the right version. Below are instructions to bookmark the site — and if you are on an iPhone you can create an app-(button)-for-that which looks like any other app button and takes you straight to Busted Halo.

Looking at Busted Halo articles on a phone always kinda worked. The big change is our home page. The regular Busted Halo home page is so rich with multimedia content that it doesn’t really work on mobile devices. Now, you’ll be taken to our lightweight mobile home page. Most video and audio clips will work (though their behavior will vary depending on the device). Articles and posts on a mobile device are cleaner and easier to read, and you can see and add comments.

(If, for some reason, you want to look at the regular version on your mobile device, you can scroll to the bottom of any mobile screen and click on the link to take you to the desktop version. And if you want the mobile version and it doesn’t come up, you can click the link at the bottom of any desktop page for that.)

Creating a link or button

You don’t have to do anything special to use our mobile version. Just do to the site from a mobile device. But if you want to make it easier, You can follow the specific instructions below to create a direct link to bustedhalo.com. If you use an iPhone, these instructions will tell you how to create an button that looks just like any other app button to take you directly to the site. Since there is a wide variety of devices and operating system versions, these instructions might not match your device exactly.

On an iPhone:

  1. Launch Safari and go to bustedhalo.com.
  2. If the mobile site does not come up automatically, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the text link “Switch to our mobile site.”
  3. Click the “+” sign.
  4. Select “Add to Home Screen”.
  5. Edit the icon’s label if you want. (“Busted Halo” fits nicely.)
  6. Click the “add” button in the upper right corner.
  7. The app icon appears on the iPhone’s desktop.
  8. (Move the icon to whichever screen or folder you want by pressing and holding the icon until they all start to jiggle, then dragging it and dropping it on its destination, then pressing the home button.)

On an Android-based device:

  1. Go to bustedhalo.com in the browser.
  2. If the mobile site does not come up automatically, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the text link “Switch to our mobile site.”
  3. Click the menu button and select “Add bookmark”.
  4. Go to the home screen, or another screen if you want the link there.
  5. Press and hold the screen and when the pop-up menu appears, select “Shortcuts”.
  6. From the list of options, select “Bookmark”.
  7. Choose the Busted Halo link from the list of bookmarks.
  8. The shortcut will be saved as “BustedHalo.com mobile”.

On a Blackberry:

  1. Go to bustedhalo.com in the browser.
  2. If the mobile site does not come up automatically, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the text link “Switch to our mobile site.”
  3. Click the “menu” button.
  4. Scroll down and select “Add bookmark”.
  5. Choose a folder for the bookmark and leave all other options checked as “auto”.
  6. Click “Add”.
  7. The bookmark will be saved as “BustedHalo.com mobile” in your browser in the folder you selected.