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Just a small update about the wonderful free Opera Mini™. The application is now out of the Beta stage and has been released as a final version. All the bugs which were found in the Beta version have been removed and the browser is working better and faster than ever!

You can download this fantastic browser from it’s Official Website
www.operamini.com

Nokia already has an excellent Built-In WLan Search Client which scans hotspots and shows on the Standby screen if it finds one, but sometimes it’s just not convenient to keep taking out the phone again & again to check it, infact I think it’s really annoying. Now here’s where the free HandyWi application comes in handy!

What differentiates HandyWi from Nokia’s Built-In Client is the way it alerts you with a Beep/ring whenever it finds a hotspot! Nokia’s Built-In Wlan Search Client does not have this Beep alert feature.

Screenshot of HandyWi connected to a Wifi Hotspot.

HandyWi allows you to connect easily to WLAN 802.11a/b/c/g hotspot including public WiFi networks FON (world largest WiFi network), BTOpenzone, The Cloud, Japan Telecom, KPN and many others.

HandyWi’s stands out specially when using Public WiFi Hotspots as with HandyWi you can bypass default router login page (large HTML) and get connected in a few seconds.

Screenshot of HandyWi Options

Even though I hardly use WiFi, I still have HandyWi in my Nokia E61i to use it when I feel there might be a Hotspot nearby, I enable it and let it do its work to alert me automatically with a beep. This little feature saves me the trouble of constantly looking at the screen to see if the phone has found any Wifi Hotspot or not. For me this single “Beep Alert” for WiFi makes HandyWi a wonderful application.

So if you are a reguler WiFi user, then be sure to try out HandyWi.

Download HandyWi from the Official HandyWi Website:
www.handywi.com

Nokia’s 3D Snakes is the same all-time favourite Snakes game available in Nokia phones, and it’s now in 3D! Yes, I know this is old news for people with N-Series phones, but for people like me who didn’t get 3D Snakes with our Nokia E61i this is great. Now we can also enjoy this fun game.

Here are some screenshots of 3D Snakes in my Nokia E61i.

Download Nokia 3D Snakes

• Note:
• Please make sure to Install the Snakes game in the Phone Memory. (Do NOT install in the memory card)

In my last post about Opera Mini™ (which you can read here) I raved about how good & fast the Opera Mini™browser was. And now it just got even better with it’s new 4.1 Beta release. As this is a Beta release, there might be a few bugs, but it’s so good that I’m now using it as my primary browser in my Nokia E61i.

Update May 2008: Version 4.1 is now out of Beta and a final version has been released!

Now Opera Mini™ opens up websites faster.

Opera upgraded their servers & Opera Mini now receives your requested web pages up to 50% faster. You can now access your favorite websites even faster, with Desktop-like speeds.

While typing URL’s of websites, Opera Mini™ Beta now suggests completions making writing addresses a breeze!

There are a lot of other new improvements too. Read the rest here

Download Opera Mini from it’s Website

Official Website http://www.operamini.com/

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Time and again, blogs and websites have written about this great piece of software, and rightly so, because this application deserves all the praise it can get. Out of all the free applications I have used in my Nokia E61i, one of the best and highly recommended free application is Opera Mini™.



It has completely changed my experience of browsing the internet & websites in my cellphone. A lot of people may say “but there already is a Built-in web browser in the Nokia E61i, so why not use that?” Well, the answer to that question is really simple, Nokia’s built-in browser is really good, and it also opens some Flash websites which Opera Mini™ doesn’t, but the downside of Nokia’s Built-in browser is that it gives “Memory Full” error when I try to open heavy websites.

Now, that’s where Opera Mini™ wins. You will never get a “Memory Full” error even when visiting the heaviest websites, and it’s super-fast browsing is an addiction.

Nokia’s Built-in browser opens websites as they are in reality. You can Zoom In or Zoom Out the web pages, but Nokia’s Built-In Browser will not resize the pages, so browsing is usually very slow and causes “Memory Full” problems. Whereas, Opera Mini’s mobile software uses a remote server to pre-process web pages before sending them to your phone. Web content is compressed to reduce the size of data transfers, enabling fast browsing experience at low costs even on simpler phones. The resizing makes browsing faster and this also saves your phone from facing memory problems.

I use both, Nokia’s Built-in Browser as well as Opera Mini™, depending on the kind of website I’m going to visit. But 90% of the time, I go for Opera Mini™.

Opera Mini will save History and it’s extremely easy to create Bookmarks as well.

So, if you still haven’t given Opera Mini™ a try, do it right now, it’s absolutely free and I strongly recommend it.

You can download Opera Mini™ from it’s Official Website:
http://www.operamini.com/

eBuddy is an excellent free mobile messenger which I use very often. It supports all Java-enabled phones of all companies like Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola etc.

eBuddy works with:
Windows Live Messenger,
AOL Instant Messenger,
Yahoo!™ Instant Messenger,
Google Talk™

Some screenshots of eBuddy Beta Mobile Messenger

To get eBuddy Beta Mobile Messenger, point your phone browser to http://get.ebuddy.com. You will be asked to download eBuddy, click on Download, select your phone and it will install automatially. That’s it!

For more information on eBuddy Beta Mobile Messenger visit http://www.ebuddy.com/mobilebeta/

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mIRGGI is a Free Mobile IRC or MIRC application for Symbian S60 3rd Edition phones. It takes some time to get used to it, but it works quite well. It’s almost like having a desktop IRC in the mobile. I like using it when I have some free time.

mIRGGI is a fantastic mobile application for those experienced IRC users who already know IRC commands. Most of the settings have to be done manually, so it will be difficult to understand for new IRC users.

In mIRGGI you can change colours of fonts, backgrounds, nicks, etc.

Here are some screenshots of mIRRGI

Open Settings

Settings for Server irc.dal.net 6667

Connecting IRC

There is a bug in mIRRGI which makes it shut down (only the first time!) if you click the JOIN CHANNEL in OPTIONS.

So, when using it the first time you have to manually write down the Join Channel command for example \join #Islamabad. After the first time, the channel will show up in the OPTIONS> JOIN CHANNEL> #Islamabad so you can easily use it, and the application will not shut down.

Download mIRGGI from the Official Website http://mirggi.net/
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