{"id":3153,"date":"2009-03-05T11:24:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2009-03-05T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:25:51","slug":"searchlets-for-ucweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/3153\/","title":{"rendered":"Automate Mobile Browsing With UCWEB Searchlets"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UCWEB<\/p>\n

One of the great things about the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers is their support for bookmarklets which JavaScript bookmarks that interact with the current page. Bookmarklets can send the page’s URL to a web service like Google Translate to retrieve a copy in your native language or post the URL to social bookmarking service such as Delicious.com.\u00a0 Bookmarklets can also modify the page to do things like change plain text URLs into clickable links.<\/p>\n

While bookmarklets are supported by all major desktop browsers, mobile browser support is not common. Besides the Opera browsers onlyPalm Blazer, the iPhone Safari and Mobile Internet Explorer offer bookmarlets.<\/p>\n

UCWEB guru JBpseudo<\/a> has found a way to add much of the power of bookmarlets to already full-featured\u00a0 UCWEB mobile browser using what he calls”Searchlets”.\u00a0\u00a0 To use Searchlets you need to install a patch which is currently available for the Symbian S60 V1, V2 and V3 releases of UCWEB 6.3.<\/p>\n

Get the patch from this post on the UCWEB forum<\/a>.\u00a0 There are two versions of the patch, one for S60V3 the other for V1 and V2.\u00a0 The patch is delivered in the form of a zip file containing a readme and a .sis or .sisx file, which is the patch itself.\u00a0 Extract the patch and install it using PC Suite or by sending it to the phone with Bluetooth, etc.<\/p>\n

Searchlets work by adding additional options (top image) to UCWEB’s search dialog, which normally only offers Google mobile search.\u00a0 The patch comes with 17 searchlets.\u00a0 Some just add additional search engines including Wikipedia, IMDb, MS Live and Yahoo.\u00a0 Others duplicate the functionality of some of the most popular bookmarklets.<\/p>\n

\"UCWB<\/p>\n

The additional search engines don’t require any special steps to use, just click on the search box on the UCWEB start page and type a query.\u00a0 You can also make use of UCWEB’s ability to copy text from the current page and paste it into the search box.<\/p>\n

Some of the searchlets require you to paste the current page’s URL into the search box.\u00a0 Here’s how:<\/p>\n

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  1. Copy the current page URL by pressing shortcut\u00a0 for add bookmark (default is # + 6).\u00a0 On the Add Bookmark screen scroll down to the address field and copy the URL into the S60 system copy buffer. How you do this varies depending on the phone model.\u00a0 On most phones, including the N95, you press the pencil key and choose copy.\u00a0 On QWERTY phones like the E71, just press Ctrl-C to copy. On phones without a pencil key, press * and choose copy.<\/li>\n
  2. Hit Cancel to exit the Add Bookmark screen.<\/li>\n
  3. Press 0 to go to the start page and click the search box. JBpseudo\u00a0 recommends assigning\u00a0 a shortcut key to the Search dialog for faster access. To modify the shortcuts go to Menu > Settings > General Settings > Shortcuts Tab > scroll down to “Search” and enter your desired shortcut key which can be 1-9 , * or # followed by 1-9 .\u00a0 JBpseudo recomends using 8.<\/li>\n
  4. Paste the URL into the searchbox using Ctrl-V on QWERTY phones or by pressing the pencil or * key and choosing paste other models. Select a searchlet\u00a0 from the list and hit “OK”.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The patch comes with the following Searchlets:<\/p>\n

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    1. Google: Full HTML version of Google Web search.<\/li>\n
    2. Yahoo:\u00a0 OneSearch mobile search.<\/li>\n
    3. MSN: Full web version of MS Live Search.<\/li>\n
    4. GTranslate: Translate the current page or the target of any URL to English from Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, etc..<\/li>\n
    5. Delicious: Add page or URL to Delicious.com using the standard Delicious add bookmark form.<\/li>\n
    6. Phone favs: Add\u00a0 URL to bookmarking site PhoneFavs.com<\/li>\n
    7. Google Info: Links to everything Google knows about a URL; description, incoming links, related pages, etc.<\/li>\n
    8. Google Cache: View Google’s cached version of a page.<\/li>\n
    9. Wikipedia: Search Wikipedia.<\/li>\n
    10. IMDB: View information about a movie at IMDb.com<\/li>\n
    11. Dictionary: Look up a word at dictionary.com<\/li>\n
    12. FLV\/MP4: Download videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, iFilm, etc\u00a0 in FLV or Mp4 format using keepvid.com.<\/li>\n
    13. Similicio.us: View similar web pages at similicio.us.<\/li>\n
    14. TinyURL: Generate a short URL\u00a0 at tinyurl.com.<\/li>\n
    15. GBookmarks: Add current page to Google Bookmarks.<\/li>\n
    16. Whois Lookup: Get complete info about a domain at Whois.com.<\/li>\n
    17. Wayback Machine: View old versions of the current page at archive.org.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Searchlets are a great addition to UCWEB.\u00a0 Thanks to JBpseudo for this great hack.\u00a0 He’s currently working on finding\u00a0 a way to automatically copy the current page URL into the search box to make the\u00a0 process even easier and quicker.<\/p>\n

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      \n      Official Release of UCWEB 6.3 For Java ME<\/a>
      \n      Bookmarklets for Opera Mini<\/a>
      \n      Updated Opera Mini Bookmarklets Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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