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How to Load Opera Mini on the Shadow

2007-12-05
hi I'm Mike Benton for all shadow comm and I'm pleased to bring to you how to install Opera Mini 4 on the t-mobile shadow so go ahead and go to internet explorer hit the menu button and go to the address bar we're going to type in WWE mini-com Opera Mini is an alternative browser which is really useful for using viewing large web pages now go ahead scroll all the way down to where it says try the new Opera Mini 4 select that so we're gonna install the newest version go ahead and download the high memory version now what's great about this is not every web page translates in Pocket Internet Explorer well so it's kind of hard to view a large web page go ahead and hit continue here but uh Opera Mini go ahead and hit yes actually makes that possible by doing server-side interpreting go ahead and hit OK here and it sends JPEGs and very little amounts of data go ahead and hit yes here so the rendering of a web page is actually faster for the full size I hit yes for this and okay for this the thing about Opera Mini is it's Java so on some phones it's actually a quick loading scheme but unfortunately it actually have to push a couple yeses and okay's to get this to load now here's some tips and tricks on how to use it a little bit better so take your time and read through that and then if you really feel like it you could read the end-users license agreement or you can press the left soft key to accept it so we're just going to read it real quick here okay hello speed-reading all right and we'll click okay here's our front page some quick links there we're gonna head and click here to edit on the address bar and we're gonna put in all shadow comm show you something all shadow comm is actually set to recognize pretty much every mobile device and so go ahead hit the right soft key from menu and then okay and then it'll load so Opera Mini well it's actually still gonna load it as the mobile version that you see in Internet Explorer however at the top you have the RSS feed which is cool because you could subscribe through opport mini to RSS feeds so let's go check out pocketnow.com a little typo there hold on PocketNow will render full screen size through Opera Mini hit menu and okay wait a second it will load it actually deals with flash pretty well interpreting it you can't really view flash but it'll take a picture of it and show that too now you notice there's a mouse on the screen that's actually controlled by the d-pad and it moves that little box around you put the box over whatever it is you want to look at and hit the center of your scroll wheel and it'll zoom that in you hit the back key and I'll script zoom out go over here and look at this so it pretty much looks like it would on the desktop you hit the back button twice and it'll go to the page before so that's a quick preview of what it looks like and how to actually install Opera Mini on the shadow and if you have any questions go ahead and post it in the comments and thanks for checking it out
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