Low bandwidth? Try mobile version of popular websites on PC/laptop

There may be times when you have to make do with a low bandwidth internet connection. Don't despair for that may be a good time to discover how fast & clutter-free the mobile version of popular sites are on your PC/laptop.

Here is a list of such mobile sites:

Popular:

• YouTube
• Wikipedia
• Yahoo
• Slideshare
• Project Gutenberg

Social media:

• Twitter
• Facebook

Search Engines:

• Bing  (~4.3KB)
• WolframAlpha

E-Comm

• Amazon.com
• Amazon.in
• Flipkart.com

Banks

• Standard Chartered India
• State Bank of India
• ICICI
• HDFC

Utility:

• GMail (login page 1.3KB, Inbox 4.2KB)
• Google Reader  (~8.3KB)
• Google Mobilizer - converts websites to mobile-friendly format
• IRCTC (India)
• Burrp TV (India)- tv schedule

Newspapers/News:

• The New York Times
• Economic Times
• Times of India (city editions)
• The Hindu Business Line
• Business Standard
• The Hindu
• CNN IBN Live
• NDTV

Magazines:

• The Atlantic
• MIT Technology Review
• Outlook (India)

Others:

• ESPNcricinfo

Mobile-friendly URLs typically follow these patterns:
m.site.com
www.site.mobi
www.site.com/m
www.site.com/mobile

(work in progress..)

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- HOW TO extract subtitles from a YouTube video
- HOW TO access MSDN documentation offline/locally with Visual Studio
- Google Mobile-Friendly Test