{"id":2428,"date":"2009-01-02T17:04:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2009-11-16T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T18:31:18","slug":"opera-mini-tip-easy-bookmark-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/2428\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera Mini Tip – Easy Bookmark Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second in a continuing series of tips<\/a> on getting the most out of Opera Mini<\/a>, the great Java based mobile browser that brings full web browsing to almost any phone.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 the # key followed by the 7 key . Opera Mini also has a great feature called “Speed Dial” which lets you assign\u00a0 numeric shortcuts to nine of your favorite bookmarks. To launch a Speed Dial bookmark you just press the\u00a0 *\u00a0 key followed by a number from one to nine.<\/p>\n

\"OperaIt’s easy to accumulate a lot of bookmarks in Opera Mini but hard organize them in a meaningful way. Opera Mini’s\u00a0 built in bookmark management capabilities are very rudimentary.<\/p>\n

You can save, edit and delete bookmarks, but it’s slow and cumbersome. There are no folders, just a single long list of bookmarks. The only way to rearrange bookmarks is move them up or down one position at a time. On many phones moving a single bookmark one position takes as long as 30 seconds. If you have many bookmarks, moving one from the bottom to the top of the list is impossibly time consuming. Opera Mini comes with a number of default bookmarks which many users will want to delete – and deleting\u00a0 is also slow on most phones.<\/p>\n

There is an easier way to quickly organize your Opera Mini bookmarks<\/strong>. It’s called “Opera Link<\/em>” and it’s built into Opera Mini.\u00a0 To use Opera Link you just need Opera Mini 4.0 or later and the Opera 9.5 or later desktop browser on your PC.<\/p>\n

If you don’t already have Opera on your PC, install it from opera.com\/browser<\/a>. As of this writing the latest release in 9.63.and it’s available for almost every operating system; Windows 98 or better, Mac OS X 10.3 or latter and just about any Linux distribution with X11 support. Opera is a great browser, more powerful in many ways than IE, Firefox or Safari, but you don’t have to switch browsers to use it to manage your Opera Mini bookmarks. Here’s how:\"Opera<\/p>\n