Arve Bersvendsen

Opera Mini mind tricks

I use Opera Mini absolutely everywhere: If I’m waiting for someone, if I’m at the bus, if I’m having a discussion (or rather, when I want to end a discussion), and I’ll give a few hints as to how I use it.

• I have set up a portal page with a few searches on mini.virtuelvis.com - and I might possibly be adding a micro-aggregator there to have the most important sites I use (The site might not have propagated to your DNS yet) — I use Google directly from the front page
• When I scroll, I use Joystick Left and Joystick Right to go Page Up and Page down — it’s much quicker than moving one line at a time.
• The * key toggles toolbar display on the hi-fi version between a regular view, reduced toolbars and full screen. I almost always use the reduced toolbar view, as it still gives me a page title and clock.
• The #, 3 shortcut is a killer shortcut when reading news sites, as it takes you to the start of the page content.
• #, 4 takes me to the start page.
• #, 9 to search Google.
• There are numerous other keyboard shortcuts — learn them, and use them.
• Depending on the phone I use Opera Min oni, I turn on “small fonts” to cram in more information. On some phones the writing becomes to small, and on some it works great.
• I only occasionaly turn on “High quality” for images, as the regular quality saves a lot of bandwith
• On my series 60 phone, I never quit Opera Mini, in order to have instant availability.

My list of killer web sites for Opera Mini are found in my personal portal.

Have fun