Tag Archives: Opera Mini

Copy Webpage Text With Opera Mini, S60 and Blackberry

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The ability to copy text from a web page is one of the most requested features by users on the Opera Mini Forum. It’s such a basic and useful function that’s available in all desktop browsers, yet hardly any mobile browsers support it.  A clever coder who goes by the handle “Cousinisaac” has found a way make web text copying possible not only in Opera mini but with several other mobile browsers too. Cousinisaac created a simple web form at … Continue reading →

Official Release of UCWEB 6.3 For Java ME

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Thanks to tips from a couple of readers, I can report that the official English version of UCWEB 6.3 for Java ME phones is now available. You can read the release announcement on the UCWEB forum here. Download the new release from http://www.uc.cn/English/download.shtml (PC) or  http://wap.ucweb.com (mobile). New features in this release are listed as: Brand new UI Optimization of page layout Intelligent input of address Optimization of download management and flow. Number keys for main menu and context menu. … Continue reading →

MWC09: What is Opera Turbo?

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Yesterday Opera Software announced Opera Turbo which they describe as: “…a cross-platform solution, available for desktop computers, mobile phones, and other Internet-enabled devices. By compressing network traffic by up to 80%, Opera Turbo helps to enable the sustainability and scalability of networks in order to meet traffic demands and ensure a superior browsing experience.” The announcement is short on technical details but it is clear that Turbo is a proxy server that sits between the browser and web sites and … Continue reading →

Bolt Browser Review

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I’ve been playing with the Bolt browser for a couple of hours now and my impressions are generally pretty good.  Bolt is from Cambridge, Massachusetts based Bitstream, a company best known for it’s digital fonts and font rendering software. But Bitstream is not new to the browser field, they also produce the ThunderHawk browser for Windows Mobile and  Symbian. Bolt, like ThanderHawk (and Opera Mini, Skyfire, UCWEB and Teashark),  is a server based browser meaning that much of the page  … Continue reading →

Here and Now, Nokia’s New Mobile Portal

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Nokia launched a new mobile site yesterday called “Here and Now“. It’s a mobile portal emphasizing music news and movie reviews from Rolling Stone and also featuring news from Reuters,  gossip from US Weekly, game and  application downloads, videos and a small directory of 3rd party mobile websites.  Nokia claims Here and Now is targeted at 18 to 35 year olds.  That’s OK by me if it keeps the marketing pros at Nokia employed but I really don’t see how  … Continue reading →

Opera Mini Tip – Easy Bookmark Management

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This is the second in a continuing series of tips on getting the most out of Opera Mini, the great Java based mobile browser that brings full web browsing to almost any phone. Opera Mini supports bookmarks of course. It’s very easy to bookmark the current page using the menus or with the shortcut key combination of  the # key followed by the 7 key . Opera Mini also has a great feature called “Speed Dial” which lets you assign  … Continue reading →

Opera Mini Bookmarklets Update

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Bookmarklets are a great labor saver when browsing the web, both on a PC and with a mobile.  They are little snippets of JavaScript. With a bookmarklet stored in a browser toolbar button  or an Opera Mini Speed Dial, a single click can do all sorts of useful things like adding the current page’s feed to an RSS Reader, posting its URL to social bookmarking services or translating the page to a different language A while ago I wrote about … Continue reading →