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Fennec. Beta 2 for Maemo. Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile

Posted on 29 June 2009

If I was running the Fennec project, I’d be thinking carefully about accelerating development for more than just the Maemo platform too! Its not that Maemo is a dying OS (although at this point you could say that Maemo is…

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Thoughts on proxy browsers.

Posted on 31 March 2009

This post is based on some notes I made in 2008. Following the release of the Opera 10 ‘Turbo’ preview client and the announcement of Opera Mobile 9.7 with ‘Turbo’ (Proxy) option I thought it would make sense to publish the notes.

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Turbo-Enabled Opera 10 Preview Available

Posted on 27 March 2009

I love the community we have here.  Just 60 minutes after posting about Opera Mobile 9.7 and mentioning that it would be interesting to have a desktop version with Turbo, Hrundik drops a comment in to say “Opera Turbo preview for…

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Opera Mobile 9.7 with ‘Turbo’ option announced.

Posted on 26 March 2009

The Opera 9.6 SDK, released last year, included a little feature that a lot of people missed…

Also worth mentioning here is that Opera have announced the 9.6 SDK which supports some cool new stuff including the ability to use OpenGL accelerated…

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Opera. Turbo-Charged and LiMo luvin!

Posted on 16 February 2009

I just wanted to round-up a couple of Opera-related news items that have come through the wires over the last few days. The first is an announcement about a ‘Opera Turbo’ and the second is an announcement that Opera are…

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Remap Firefox’s Fullscreen Shortcut

Posted on 12 December 2008

Here’s a quick tip for those of you that, like me, use F11 a lot and get stuck when it’s not there (or under a FN-Key as it is on the Everun Note.) Remap it with a simple plugin! - Remap…

WM Smartphones get a Full Web Bashing.

Posted on 12 December 2008

Gizmodo have just completed a browsing speed and accuracy test with three high-end windows mobile devices using Pocket IE and Opera 9.5. The results should hardly be a surprise. There isn’t a single reasonable result among them!

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Save battery life, time, the world! Use a script blocker.

Posted on 02 December 2008

Admittedly, its not difficult to imagine a scenario where less CPU cycles result in less power drain and this method isn’t going to magically extend your battery life by much but its nice to see the theory tested to the…

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Pocket Internet Explorer 6. Another Browser with no Hardware!

Posted on 12 November 2008

Its nice to see that we might not have to wait too long for a better browser as part of Windows Mobile but is this going to be another case of ‘nice software, shame about the hardware?’ I say that because…

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Google Chrome Beta. Initial tests not good for UMPC users.

Posted on 02 September 2008

What’s the most important browser feature for UMPC and Tablet users? Touch screen scrolling. Grab and Drag is the name of the game and if I can’t have that feature on my browser, I’m losing a ton of capability.

That’s why I’m…

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New Web Browser. Chrome ‘Beta’ from Google. has Webkit and Mozilla roots. Google Window I suspect.

Posted on 02 September 2008

Breaking News (Meaning I don’t have much information at this stage!) Google have just posted confirmation that they will launch a new browser tomorrow (3rd Sept.)

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most…

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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta. good, but where’s the hardware? Review and Video.

Posted on 21 July 2008

[This is the second in a series of 3 articles. See previous article here.]

After more than 6 hours of learning, playing and testing on various devices, I’ve come to a decision about Opera 9.5. Beta. It’s technically a great browser…

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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta is live.

Posted on 17 July 2008

If you have a Windows Mobile device and have any interest in a better Internet browsing experience, you should check this out. If your device has flash lite support (v3 I think is needed here) then you shuld be able…

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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta Delayed 48hrs.

Posted on 14 July 2008

The software that could resurrect Windows Mobile devices as acceptable Internet browsing tools is delayed. Or at least the beta is delayed.

Apparently there’s a few bugs they want to iron out before they release the s/w so you won’t be…

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Firefox 3 download day World Record attempt.

Posted on 29 May 2008

Firefox is my recommendation for any device running a ‘low-end’ platform due to its speed and reduced memory footprint and I encourage everyone reading this website to make sure they test out the release candidate ASAP and download the final  version when…

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Speedtest. Firefox 3 Recommended for UMPCs and Netbooks

Posted on 22 May 2008

Most, if not all of you reading this will have heard of the Firefox browser and many of you will have tried Firefox 3.0 beta. I held back from using it for a long time because it was beta software…

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Opera Mobile 9.5 to Elevate Smartphones into MID territory?

Posted on 19 May 2008

I just blogged that 88% of my mobile device usage is with a browser. I dare say that if I had a device that was fast enough, had a good enough touchscreen and offered a real, http-based client browser then…

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