Do you browse the mobile web while riding on public transit? I do most of my mobile web browsing and also catch up with email during my hour long daily commute on the BART train. I see a lot of other people doing the same thing on my train. And that’s in spite of the fact that about half of that time the train is in tunnels where there is no cellular reception. I used to wish I could download … Continue reading
The official Opera Mini Blog has an item by Lunkwill, one of the Opera Mini developers, announcing that the latest version of the awesome Java ME based web browser is officially supported on recent iDEN (Nextel, Telus Mike, etc.) phones. The article includes complete instructions on the, as Lunkwill puts it, “hacky” process of installing Java apps on these phones. You have to use a free Motorola developer tool and a data cable as well as renaming the install files … Continue reading
There’s a new version of Opera Mini out. The new release fixes quite a few bugs and adds support for the T-Mobile Dash and most of the Motorola iDEN handsets used on the Nextel network here in the US, Telus in Canada and a dozen or so small carriers around the world. Details on the Opera Mini Blog. For most Opera Mini users this is a minor release, but not for me. My main phone is a Motorola i855 on … Continue reading
Update: Bookmarklets are working again! I don’t know what happened yesterday but I’m glad it was temporary, I’ve been bookmarking all day with no problems. Incidentally, I’ve added a couple more bookmarklets to o.yeswap.com Google Translate Translate the current page to English from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish. Wayback Machine View old versions of the current page at archive.org. Ignore the rest of this post, it’s outdated and no longer true. —– It looks … Continue reading
I’ve discovered something very useful which I think will help mobile social tagging to really take off – Opera Mini Bookmarklets. I’m addicted to bookmarklets, which I use all the time in my web browser. If you haven’t tried them yet, give bookmarklets a whirl. They give you browser toolbar buttons that do all sorts of neat things with the web page you are currently viewing. Like searching Technorati, Bloglines or Google Blogsearch for blog items that refer to the … Continue reading
Motorola has been embracing Open Source lately, releasing their Java ME 3.0 implementation under the Apache license. Moto is also the leading producer of Linux OS phones although none are available in the US. While it’s not Open Source, Motorola has also released iDenJAL. For the 24 million users on iDEN networks this means that loading Java games and applications just got a whole lot easier. This new tool allows anyone to transfer Java ME programs from their Windows 2000 … Continue reading
Just a quick post to help spread the word that Opera released a new Mini Beta today. I just downloaded it and it seems to load pages even faster than beta 1 which in turn was way faster then the released 2.4059 version. There’s an long list of bug fixes and enhancements in this thread on the Opera Mini Forum. One that particularly caught my eye was, “Experimental rtsp-support added”. RTSP is “real time streaming protocol”. I’m hoping this means … Continue reading
Update; The latest release of Opera Mini is version 3.1, read about it here. There is a new beta of the next release of Opera Mini available for download. I’m sure you’ve heard of Opera Mini, but in case you haven’t, it’s a free Java ME browser that is faster, more capable and has a more efficient UI than almost any of the browsers that come pre-installed on phones. There’s a page of information about the new release and download … Continue reading