Opera and Opera Mini are quickly becoming very popular Internet browsers as more and more users migrate away from the headache known as Internet Explorer. Opera Mini is a very simplistic version of the Opera Web browser, designed for mobile devices with the best elements of the slightly bulkier Opera browser and consolidated into a very simple, yet effective browser.
One feature that the Opera Mini developers did not overlook was the importance of bookmarking among their users. As the world familiarizes itself with the vast reaches of the Internet, more people are doing less browsing and more direct type-in traffic. Bookmarks make the process of visiting a familiar Web site much simpler for the user, eliminating the need to type in addresses over and over again. On top of that, having to do that with thumbs only? Arg! However, Opera Mini has made the entire bookmark management system quicker and easier, especially on mobile devices.
Normal bookmark management involves the creation of folders, and filing and organizing Web locations within your bookmark file. One challenge among many mobile browsers is the lack of efficiency in bookmark management. For example, can you imagine over 100 bookmarks in a long list, and on top of that, organizing them by moving them up or down one slot at a time? Yuck! More often than not, bookmarks become a long cluster of miscellaneous and just finding a bookmark could be more time consuming the typing the address out from scratch, even with thumbs only.
Opera Mini allows users to set 'bookmark speed dials' that allow the individual to associate different websites with a number on their phone. This feature works in the same way that speed dial works on most phones and mobile devices. This makes browsing particular Web sites quicker, especially those that you visit often. Now checking bank balances really takes just a click of a button, and furthermore, if you are charged by the minute for your Internet usage (isn't unlimited data usage standard yet?), this will help keep you from overusing your bandwidth allotment.
Using the 'view' menu option, you will be able to sort your bookmark speed dial Web sites easily. You can set your most visited and useful sites toward the top of your list, and the Opera Mini speed dial feature accepts up to nine different pre-set speed dial sites.
There are also features within the standard Opera browser that allow you to sync your mobile device and organize your bookmarks into actual folders. Yes, that is right. That list of 200 sites can be organized into real live folders. You will need the most recent version of Opera installed and of course you will need a USB cable to connect your phone, and the whole process is quite simple and it makes surfing on-the-go so much more pleasurable.
Too many people waste far too much time trying to navigate around terrible mobile browsers each and every day. Opera Mini has taken giant leaps in the right direction of simplifying the process and helping the user to navigate the web using their phone more efficiently. This is great for users who often have to login via the browser to check Facebook messages, twitter messages or even their email. Opera has done it again with a clean interface and functions that actually respond to our needs.
One feature that the Opera Mini developers did not overlook was the importance of bookmarking among their users. As the world familiarizes itself with the vast reaches of the Internet, more people are doing less browsing and more direct type-in traffic. Bookmarks make the process of visiting a familiar Web site much simpler for the user, eliminating the need to type in addresses over and over again. On top of that, having to do that with thumbs only? Arg! However, Opera Mini has made the entire bookmark management system quicker and easier, especially on mobile devices.
Normal bookmark management involves the creation of folders, and filing and organizing Web locations within your bookmark file. One challenge among many mobile browsers is the lack of efficiency in bookmark management. For example, can you imagine over 100 bookmarks in a long list, and on top of that, organizing them by moving them up or down one slot at a time? Yuck! More often than not, bookmarks become a long cluster of miscellaneous and just finding a bookmark could be more time consuming the typing the address out from scratch, even with thumbs only.
Opera Mini allows users to set 'bookmark speed dials' that allow the individual to associate different websites with a number on their phone. This feature works in the same way that speed dial works on most phones and mobile devices. This makes browsing particular Web sites quicker, especially those that you visit often. Now checking bank balances really takes just a click of a button, and furthermore, if you are charged by the minute for your Internet usage (isn't unlimited data usage standard yet?), this will help keep you from overusing your bandwidth allotment.
Using the 'view' menu option, you will be able to sort your bookmark speed dial Web sites easily. You can set your most visited and useful sites toward the top of your list, and the Opera Mini speed dial feature accepts up to nine different pre-set speed dial sites.
There are also features within the standard Opera browser that allow you to sync your mobile device and organize your bookmarks into actual folders. Yes, that is right. That list of 200 sites can be organized into real live folders. You will need the most recent version of Opera installed and of course you will need a USB cable to connect your phone, and the whole process is quite simple and it makes surfing on-the-go so much more pleasurable.
Too many people waste far too much time trying to navigate around terrible mobile browsers each and every day. Opera Mini has taken giant leaps in the right direction of simplifying the process and helping the user to navigate the web using their phone more efficiently. This is great for users who often have to login via the browser to check Facebook messages, twitter messages or even their email. Opera has done it again with a clean interface and functions that actually respond to our needs.
