By Serola.
Wednesday, 11. November 2009, 19:11:05
general, opera community
Coup of Opera Mini fans was clearly not a success. People don't need another forum outside from
official Opera Mini forum. Moreover, I've been kindly requested to make it more clear this group is not affiliated in any way with Opera Software. Therefore I will take some actions to make the difference more explicit.
I will close the
Opera Mini fan forums gradually, because it really has been very very quite there. Then I'm going to change the layout so it would not look like official Opera Mini forum and
blog. This Opera Mini fans' group blog still remains, in case any of our group members would like to write something. However, I will also make this group more restricted. New members have to be accepted by moderators and posting articles on blog will be allowed only for group members. Commenting will still stay allowed for all MyOpera members.
By Serola.
Tuesday, 20. October 2009, 11:35:24
features, memory, flash
Year after year people keep asking Adobe Flash or Flash Lite supported on Opera Mini. And year after year others try to explain why Opera Mini is better of without Flash. Here's once again my modest attempt to explain things.
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By Serola.
Friday, 9. October 2009, 08:30:24
features, alternative browsers
Here's my modest attempt to review currently available J2ME browsers. This review is based on October 2009 situation, when BOLT has finally left the beta stage. I have selected three following J2ME browsers: BOLT 1.5, Opera Mini 4.2, and UCWEB 6.3. Definitely things will change when new versions are coming out, especially when Opera Mini 5 final is going to be released. Maybe I'm going to write new reviews also later on, now that I have formed some sort of standard for what and how to measure differences between J2ME browsers.
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By Serola.
Friday, 27. June 2008, 08:10:07
features, bookmarks
You may already know bookmarklets can be used on Opera Mini. At least I have tried to do my best to advertise WapReview article '
Bookmarklets for Opera Mini' by Dennis. Using bookmarklets is possible because Opera Mini support javascript very well. Therefore you can use javascript also in bookmarks like listed at
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By Serola.
Tuesday, 17. June 2008, 15:15:11
opera link, opera mini, opera community, opera
You may have noticed
Opera 9.5 Tell a Friend contest. So, I take this as a opportunity to:
1) Advertise
tell a friend contest (participate and win)
2) Shamelessly promote
Opera 9.5 to all who have PC/MAC and who for some strange reason still does not use Opera 9.5.
3) Brazenly tout
Opera Link, which really deserve more of your attention, if you want to expand your experience on all possibilities that Opera Link can offer when using Opera Mini 4 browsers.
4) Eagerly keep your attention focused on Opera Mini fan
blog and
forum, so they would not just fade away.
5) And more bold reasons probably coming here, so stay tuned
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By Serola.
Saturday, 14. June 2008, 18:19:24
bookmarks, opera
Now that
Opera 9.5 for desktop browsers is finally officially released it's also time to give a few advices before you rush using it together with
Opera Links and Opera Mini 4.
Once you have taken the new Opera browser in use, just select 'File > Synchronize Opera...' from menu bar. Then, when you open a new tab on Opera 9.5, you get the same speeddials as you have on your Opera Mini 4 browser's start page. Moreover, you get access to all your other Opera Mini bookmarks via Opera 9.5 bookmarks, and all your Opera 9.5 desktop bookmarks will be accessible via Opera Mini 4 browser's bookmarks page.
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By Serola.
Saturday, 17. May 2008, 20:51:24
features, memory, testing
One frequently repeated question at official
Opera Mini forum is the amount of memory needed by Opera Mini. Very understandably OM team does not reveal much details and phone manufacturers usually don't tell much either. Usually on manufacturers Web sites only the size of phone's flash memory is told, but the size of so called heap (RAM) memory is hardly ever mentioned. Moreover, it is very unclear how this heap memory is allocated to different phone tasks. In this article I try to explain a little how memory is used while running Java midlet's like Opera Mini.
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By Menneisyys.
Sunday, 11. May 2008, 15:33:03
opera mini, Symbian S60, BlackBerry, Symbian
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In my last (and, now, heavily outdated)
article on making Opera Mini 4 be invoked on by just clicking a URL, I’ve already elaborated on the advantages of doing this (and, actually, the advantages of Opera Mini 4 itself). Please do read it if you want to know why making use of direct invocation can be really advantageous.
Because there’s a lot of news worth reporting on (and I’ve been asked by
Serola to join the
Opera Mini Fan Blog as the first blogger, because of which I've decided to update this really important tutorial) and the original article didn’t elaborate on other mobile platforms like Symbian and BlackBerry, I’ve decided to devote an entirely new article to this question.
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By Menneisyys.
Friday, 9. May 2008, 14:50:18
Windows Mobile, Symbian, mini, BlackBerry
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Opera Mini users on Windows Mobile / Symbian / BlackBerry, attention: you will NOT need this all-in-one Bible in order to “just” make your Opera Mini work. Your best bet is following my Opera Mini 4.1 review HERE. However, if you want to learn all the secrets of running MIDlets on your handset (for example, to reassign buttons to make scrolling much-much easier) or you also plan to run other MIDlets and want to know everything about the compliance, speed etc. issues, this Bible may turn out to be REALLY useful. Also note that this Bible does NOT discuss Java applets or applications. For more info on running applets under Windows Mobile, see the
Web Browsing Bible; for application-related info, see my
generic Java articles.
You may have already heard at least of Java games (more precisely,
MIDlets) running on almost all current “dumb” phones. These games are all the rage today, especially with teenagers, which also means there are thousands of sometimes really high-quality games for ordinary phones, all written using the portable Java language, ready to be played on (almost) any kind of mobile phone. Just an example: in
THIS HowardForums thread, the topic starter post lists some (but not all!) games available for the Samsung QVGA 240x320 phones (d600, d900, e900 etc – not only Windows Mobile ones!). Quite an impressive list, isn’t it? And it’s just the tip of the iceberg – there are a lot more games, all waiting for you to purchase, download and run!
No, don’t think MIDlets are only for gamers and are absolutely useless otherwise. You can make a good use of them in the enterprise too. There are several solutions already for, for example, mobile payment, reservations etc. done using a MIDlet as opposed to the Web, which is, in a lot of cases, is much harder to access / operate on a small-screen device. Controlling for example your bank transfers via SMS can also be less intuitive and/or require a lot more work / data entry than using a GUI to do this. Other, known enterprise-related MIDlets are
Jupiter, which is basically a financial data streaming program (also see
THIS) and
Betfair (also see
THIS). Should you be interested in these “MIDlets in the Enterprise” questions, I really recommend
Michael Juntao Yuan’s excellent book “Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications” – I’ve learnt a LOT from it. Highly recommended!
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