Author Archives: Dennis Bournique

UC Browser 8.2 Java Update Adds Swipe Navigation and Fixes the bada URL Bug

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UC Mobile has released an update to the UC Browser 8.2 Beta for Java phones. The  only reported changes in this version are: A fix for the bug that prevented users from entering URLs on Samsung bada phones. On touch screen phones users can now swipe left and right to go backward and forward though session history. A fix for a bug on some phones where the soft keys didn’t work when copying text from a Web page (free copy). I tested … Continue reading →

How to Change the Android Browser’s User Agent

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Android Browser Hidden UAString Menu

I love using well-designed mobile webapps. But I hate it when a site blocks me from using its desktop version to do something the mobile one doesn’t support. Some browsers like Opera Mobile and the UC Browser let you change their User Agent header to impersonate a desktop browser and thus gain access to most blocked desktop sites. The Android browser lets you do this on a few devices and with some custom ROMs.  To see if yours does, press the … Continue reading →

New UC Browser 8.2 Java Beta Adds QWERTY Shortcuts, Restores Some Missing Features

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UC Browser 8.2 - Facebook Mobile with context menu share options

UC Mobile has released a new 8.2 Beta version of the UC Browser for Java ME. Here’s a list of what’s new in this version compared to the previous 8.0 Beta: Smoother. Although this version is 20 KB larger than the last version, it’s optimized to run more smoothly and use less memory. Share current page to Facebook  – Menu>Actions>Share>Facebook (image above, left) Find in page (Menu>Tools>Find in page)-  lets you can find words and phrases in the current page. The search … Continue reading →

March Madness 2012 on the Mobile Web

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ESPN Men's March Madness

March Madness has begun. In the US that means the three week long  NCAA College Basketball Championships, an elimination tournament to determine the top US men’s and women’s college basketball teams. It’s an exciting series leading up to the final “Sweet 16”, “Elite 8”,  “Final 4” rounds and the nation championship game. This year the men’s tournament began March 13th  and ends with the national championship on April 2nd. The women’s tourney runs from March 17th to April 1st. March Madness … Continue reading →

Mobile Bookmarklets Page Updated

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Mobile Bookmarkets Page at o.yeswap.com

I’ve done a long overdue cleanup of my Mobile Bookmarklets page at o.yeswap.com, which has over 40 mobile bookmarklets and instructions for using them. I retested all the bookmarklets and found six that weren’t working. I was able to fix all of them but two. I removed the non-working bookmarklets which were for services (Google Buzz and Mobleo.net) which no longer exist. Here are the updated bookmarklets. If you use any of these delete them from you bookmarks and reinstall from o.yeswap.com. Page Rank – Displays the … Continue reading →

Nokiapp Showdown #5 – browsers at Nokia Connects

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Opera Mini Next Speed Dial Page on Nokia N8

  Nokia Connects has published a comparison between two Symbian browsers; Opera Mini 6.5 and MiniBrowser Mobile 4.0 PLUS that Izzy from Nokia For Us and I collaborated on. The post includes videos of both browsers in action including a speed test comparing Opera Mini with the Nokia browser and an in-depth walk through of MiniBrowser Mobile 4.0 PLUS. Read the full post here: Nokia Connects: Nokiapp Showdown #5 – browsers

How to Use IPhone and Android Webapps in the Opera Mobile, N9, Windows Phone and Other Browsers

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There are a lot of wiz bang new webapps that use rich graphics, fancy JavaScript effects and HTML5 features like geo-location and local storage. But if you have a BlackBerry, Windows Phone, N900, N9, Symbian or WebOS phone or you’re using Opera Mobile or Firefox Mobile, you probably aren’t seeing them because they are only served to IOS and Android devices Opera Mobile and Firefox Mobile and the browsers on other smartphone platforms are often as poweful or more powerfull than iOS Safari or the … Continue reading →

Opera Mobile 12.0 Symbian Update One Fixes Bugs, Restores <video> Support.

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Opera Mobile 12 Update 1 (Symbian) - HTML5test.com

Opera Software today issued an update to Opera Mobile 12.0 for Symbian.  It fixes a number of bugs and restores HTML5 <video> and <audio> support.  Here’s the changelog. Fixes: Fixed crash when logging into Twitter Fixed bug with web forms auto-submission Fixed HTML5 audio/video tags support (now we score 319 + 9 bonus points on http://html5test.com) Improved performance of zooming animations and general responsiveness during page loading Fixed a number of startup/shutdown crashes Changes for font size in opera:config can now … Continue reading →