A Simple Way to Make the Internet Cell-Phone Friendly

As we've mentioned before, the internet often looks ugly when you're trying to view it through your (non-iPhone) mobile phone. But Digital Inspiration (via LifeHacker) has an awesome hack that will allow you to use your phone to read any site that has an rss feed.

Simply point your phone browser to Google Reader's mobile address, and then type in the rss feed like so:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/[feed_address]

For example, if Business Hacks didn't already have a great mobile layout, you could just type in:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://blogs.bnet.com/businesstips/wp-rss2.php

and be right there.

I'm already using it to read some of my favorite phone-unfriendly sites on the bus, like Deadspin.com.

(That one's at: http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://deadspin.com/atom.xml)

Just make sure to bookmark the sites, so you don't have to keep retyping them in.