Seminggu ini rasanya kangen berat dengan yayang tercinta. Yayangku ini selalu setia menemaniku setiap hari. Tidak pernah mengeluh, yang ada gue yang selalu ngomelin dia kalau dia mulai bernyanyi. Dipencet-pencet pun nggak marah. Makan pun cuma sekali tiap malem doang. Hiks… I miss you babe…

Siapa sih my babe gue… hihihi penasaran ya? Sonya… Kejadiaan Sabtu malam minggu juga nih, si Sonya tiba-tiba ajah ngambek. Gue pan Minggu tanggal 10 kemarin ke Jatim Park lagi tuh. Tapi yang kali ini bukan sebagai peserta, melainkan sebagai panitia. Biasanya sebelum melakukan perjalanan jauh getu gue selalu update lagu-lagu di Sonya gue. Nah loh… emang lo kata Sonya mp3 player ato iPod apa. Okeh okeh nama lengkap Sonya adalah Sonya Ericssonia. Hihihi yup hape gue Sony Ericsson w830i.  Setelah gue isiin beberapa lagu, gue nyalain dan mencoba playback beberapa lagu getu. Ok sip. Nah gue jalanin aplikasi Java Opera Mini. Tiba-tiba hang tak berkutik, gue cabut batre trus put it back on. Then what… gag bisa nyala lagi… anjrit. Kenapa dengan kamu Sonya… gue otak-atik, ambil memory card, cabut sim card. Semua dan segala cara dicoba untuk membangkitkan Sonya tapi nihil. Hiks Sonya telah meninggal dunia. Gue kalap dan kalut, mau buat pengumuman di masjid terdekat tapi langsung gue sadar kalo Sonya bukan manusia.

Mana besok ada acara penting lagi. Gue jadi panitia, dan untuk itu diperlukan koordinasi dengan panitia yang lain. Dan untuk kelancaran koordinasi tersebut diperlukan alat komunikasi. Dan satu-satunya alat komunikasi yang gue punya sekarat tak bernyawa. Nggak kurang akal, pagi buta sebelum berangkat gue sukses nyolong hape mami.

Si Sonya memang satu-satunya alat komunikasi yang gue punya. Yang jelas si Sonya bisa buat telpon-telponan selama pulsa ada, dan tentu saja bisa juga buat sms selama credit balance tidak kurang dari seratus perak. Dan si Sonya juga adalah senjata gue untuk terkoneksi dengan dunia maya alias internet. Sonya gue paksa kawin dengan komputer gue. Dengan kabel USB si Sonya berhasil menjadi modem GPRS gue. Sekarang tanpa Sonya hidup terasa hampa. Huhu lebay banget gue hehehe… Sonya membuat hidup gue selalu terkoneksi dengan dunia maya… dengan aplikasi Java Morange gue selalu bisa chatting dengan pren-pren gue. Dengan Opera Mini gue bisa selalu cek email, googling, blogging, and anything else. Asal dengan syarat penting yang tidak bisa diganggu gugat. PULSA ADA.

Gemana nggak… gue manusia modern yang membutuhkan listrik, telpon, tipi, komputer, internet, dan lain sebagainya yang berbau teknologi. Dan sebagai manusia yang hidup di jaman hi-tech seperti sekarang ini, gue nggak bisa dipaksa untuk back to nature atau bahasa Indonesianya kembali ke alam jaman dulu ato bahasa monyetnya kembali ke pohon. Gila ajah kalo hidup gue tanpa internet… gila ajah kalo gue hidup tanpa tipi [nggak bisa nonton sinetron Khanza dunk]… gila ajah kalo gue hidup tanpa telpon… dan yang lebih penting lagi gue nggak bisa menggunakan seluruhnya jika tanpa listrik.

Ketergantungan manusia modern akan internet tidak akan bisa disembuhkan begitu saja. Gue pernah bilang ke temen sesama blogger [orang Australia]. Hmm tarif internet di Indonesia masih terbilang mahal, jadi gue nggak bisa 24 jam di depan komputer. Eh dia bilang I think it’s very good, cause we need socialize with another peoples. Mean in physical contact, not with text on your screen. [artiin sendiri] Hahaha… bener juga ya.

Nasib si Sonya sekarang dalam tahap rehabilitasi. Karena masih garansi gue bawa ajah Sonya ke Sony Ericsson Center. Gratis… kan masih garansi. Menurut koko yang di Roxy Mas [nama toko hape yang terbesar di Jombang], hapenya bisa kelar dan sehat dengan rehabilitasi selama 2 bulan. What… lama amat bu… bisa gila gue. Kata si koko lagi, itu memang sudah prosedur standart, apalagi kalau mati total gini. Hiks terpaksa…

Untuk sementara gue beli hape butut buat sekedar telpon n sms doang. Samsung SGH-B110. nggak ada yang istimewa dengan hape ini. Ntar kalo si Sonya sudah sehat lagi, dengan tega si Samsung bakalan gue jual lagi. Gue nggak butuh…  [pepatah: abis manis sepah dibuang]

Postingan kali ini gue ikutkan dalam lomba ngeluh ngegombal di sini. Moga menang…

Hape saya sebetulnya hanya disertai web browser xhtmal alias wap. Dengan browser itu saya hanya bisa mengakses halaman web wap saja, padahal tidak semua website punya versi wap. Namun saya kemudian menginstal sebuah aplikasi Java yang bernama Opera Mini. Ini adalah sebuah web browser yang bisa membaca html. Jadinya, sayapun bisa browsing internet pake hape dengan leluasa sebagaimana browsing pake laptop atau PC. Hebat kan? Bisa browsing kapan dan dimana saja! Ketika sedang menunggu seorang teman, atau menunggu dalam sebuah layanan atau antrian, kita bisa memanfaatkan waktu dengan browsing internet. Luar biasa...

Saya juga telah menambahkan pada hape saya aplikasi eBuddy. Dengan aplikasi ini, kita bisa melakukan instant messaging yang meliputi Yahoo Messenger (YM), GTalk, MSN dan AIM. Hebatnya, semuanya hanya dilakukan dengan satu login saja. Jadi, dengan hanya sekali login, kita sudah bisa berkomunikasi dengan buddy alias kontak yang kita punya, baik pengguna YM, Gtalk, MSN, maupun AIM. Walhasil, dengan adanya aplikasi ini kita bisa melakukan chatting alias ngobrol dan berdiskusi kapan dan dimana saja. Fantastis kan?

Berbagai macam aplikasi Java yang lain juga masih banyak. Anda tinggal mencarinya di internet, lalu Anda unduh untuk kemudian Anda instal pada hape yang Anda punya. File penginstal aplikasi Java terdiri dari dua macam: jar dan jad. Kadang Anda bisa mendapati kedua-duanya telah siap, sehingga Anda tinggal menginstalnya begitu saja. Namun kadang-kadang juga hanya tersedia file jar-nya saja. Jika demikian, Anda memerlukan aplikasi jad maker, yang akan meng-create file jad untuk file jar yang Anda punya. Mudah kan? Oh ya, kalau mengunduh file penginstal aplikasi Java, pastikan Anda memilih file yang cocok dengan merek dan tipe hape Anda.

Sebetulnya dukungan Java pada hape tidak hanya bisa dimanfaatkan untuk menginstal aplikasi. Kita juga bisa menginstal game-game yang kita suka. Hanya saja saya berpesan, kalaupun Anda menginstal game pada hape Anda, pastikan game itu adalah game yang bermanfaat.

Selamat ber-Java ria. Semoga hape Anda makin bermanfaat...

posted via opera mini 4.1 on my SE Z610i

I survived the iPhone hype with my Crackberry intact-I'm still not sold on the iPhone, which seems to have little to add to my life feature-wise that my crackberry has not already given to me, all without the pain of having to use AT&T for the phone service--heck, VZW FINALLY got their "VCast" coverage to reach out into these parts after years of selling it to the local yocals--I wonder how long it will be before AT&T gets 3G out here... My Crackberry has decent Edge coverage here, so all could be worse (I travel to areas at times where Edge still has yet to arrive-the Crackberry shows GSM --in caps-- when there).

Speaking of Crackberry, the Opera browser about which I previously wrote sucks; in particular, the UI is awkward for me still. I will play with it a bit more before I decide to get rid of it or not, but it is presently not looking too good for keeping it installed. I'll keep you posted if this changes.

Also on crack, a decent app for rss is called Viigo-I make decent use of this almost daily to catch up on headlines, etc. And for those of you (like me) who enjoy Twitter, Twitterberry is a neat application. I wish that it kept up more with live links to my Twitter account so that Tweets appear automagically though (maybe for the next revision??? Please?).

And for those of you who like to know where police are taking radar, I recommend Trapster. It is a mash-up of Google Maps and a database of user-reported police radar locations. This is a neato idea, esp. for those who are into knowing this sort of information.

Kudos to AT&T, though, for their great coverage of the Lollapaloozer fest (I'm not a Perry Farrel, er douchebag, fan-sorry, but admittedly Janes Addiction was good at one time), which allowed me to "be there" while sitting on my couch in air conditioning while working on a few projects last weekend. Big letdown for me was Love & Rockets, who seemed at times to have not picked-up their instruments since recording the songs they performed. Big cheer for me was Jamie Lidell-damn cool!!! I could have watched this entertainer play for another hour easily. Another big cheer for Flogging Molly-impressive! I missed Gogol Bordello on the coverage, though (bummer), as I'd like to see them play a whole show sometime (I've only seen them play on Letterman).

I also just received a free training session from AppDev. It was the most difficult thing for me to install, which was finally (and frustratingly) found to be due to some weird conflict in Windows Media Player's DRM settings. It was a bummer to have to go through all of the trouble to make it work, but the App Dev tech Zachary walked through a number of things to get this working. I'll let you know soon what I think of the training DVD, as soon as I have time to go through it. Here's a hint to anyone who is making one of these types of products--DRM is awful, and did not allow this licensed user access to the product for at least two days while troubleshooting why: if you've already verified a user's credentials/license, please do not also make the content also go through a DRM-credentials-needing step.

Let me know what YOU think of these, and also what YOU think is neato...

yaa sprti kita tahu ! sudah jadi kebanggaan tersendiri jika comment kita banyak ya ! maau tidak mau kita harus segera membalasnya !

jangan comment diri sendiri la kalo bisa . what a shame ! :D

dan seperti kita tahu sekarang ! friendster mobile sudah diluncurkan ! tentu saja biaya lebih muraah ! karena tidak adanya fitur layout dan fitur fitur lain disini ! it's a great !

yeaah . karena kita tidak 24 jam ol di komputer . naah, kan biayanya mahal tuh !

jadi apa salahnya kalo kita kompres lagi tuh biayanya !

caranya gampang, kalo anda memakai opera menu . just click menu > settings > view images > no !

naah ! anda bisa membuka tiap halaman hanya dimakan 1KB ! dan jika memakai im3 ! ooomaaiGOD !

hanya 1KB/Halaman ! dan bisa menghemat pulsa sekali ! tapi memang iya , anda tidak bisa melihat foto dari orang yang anda comment atau liat profilnya .. tapii .. seperti yang saya bilang diatas laa ! haha :D :D

Peningkatan kemampuan dan kwalitasnya semakin menunjukan kemampuan dan kematangan sebuah mobile web browser yang paling banyak di download saat ini.

Kemampuan terbaru mobile web browser ini diantaranya adalah sanggup men-download bermacam macam format file. Hal ini di karenakan opera tidak menggunakan browser bawaan handphone untuk fasilitas download. Padahal sebelumnya, format file yang bisa di download hanya yang sesuai dengan macam macam format file yang kompatibel dengan kemampuan mengenali file oleh handphone itu sendiri, misalnya JPEG,GIF,3GP/MP4,JAR,MP3 dan beberapa file sesuai platform handphone-nya.

Tapi kini karena opera mini langsung mendownload dari sistemnya sendiri, maka kemampuan mendownloadnya semakin bertambah. Opera juga melengkapi aplikasi java ini dengan kemampuan mem-browse partisi handphone itu sendiri seperti sebuah aplikasi file explorer, yang digunakan untuk menempatkan file yang akan di download ke dalam folder yang ditentukan oleh user.

So.. Sekarang kalau cuman pingin mendownload file, tidak usah jauh jauh ke PC mu apalagi  ke warnet... cukup pakai opera mini dari handphone mu...

Thanx Opera, and keep OutSource and Free....

More recently I've been using the Java based Opera Mini.  It uses dedicated proxy servers to compress images and so on, and initially delivers a zoomed out overview of a page, which I can then zoom in on specific areas as required.

Opera Mobile 9.5 has been in the works for some time now, and the first public Beta was released around the 17th July.  I downloaded and installed it, but haven't used it all that much, because for me at the moment, Opera Mini gives me the best experience on  'normal' websites.

In the meantime, I had some funnies going on with my Touch over the last couple of weeks, with some of the sounds it makes being slightly different - higher in pitch, for example - nothing serious, but just strange.  The problem went away with a soft reset, but would randomly come back.

The announcement on Tuesday of an update to the Beta, in order to fix a bug relating to notification sounds / settings on Windows Mobile, provides an explanation. I shall be updating my installed version, and we shall see how it goes.

No início do ano anunciaram a versão beta para Windows Mobile e agora estão lançando um beta para Symbian S60.

O ruim é que o beta é fechado, e é necessário inscrever-se a partir de sua página, e ao que parece dão preferência aos usuários dos Estados Unidos, apesar de não perdermos nada tentando nos inscrever e ver se conseguimos testa-lo em breve.

Via Xataka

it's a new world it's a new start
it's alive with the beating of young hearts
it's a new day it's a new plan
i've been waiting for you here i am...

jika ingat pertama kali ngeblog *sok-sok tempoe doeloe* tidak mungkin rasanya ada blog ini. melihat pertumbuhannya yang diluar perkiraan saya dan mengubah cara pandang saya *thanks for all my friends*

awalnya beban di kepala ini sudah menumpuk dan saya ingin menuangkannya lewat tulisan. Saya ingin memulai yang baru dalam hidup. saya yakin saya pasti mampu dan kuat. "ayo kamu bisa!"

Dengan kemampuan menulis seadanya saya memberanikan diri untuk membuat blog namun saya sendiri ga tahu apa sih blog? gimana buatnya? cara nulis? gimana membuat banner dan avatar? gimana masukkin gambar dalam postingan? *buta gelap tentang perblog-kan*

Dalam keadaan bingung tiada tara *halah hiperbola abis* Sampai akhirnya terlintas sebuah nama *cuma kebetulan aja kok. bener* untuk dijadikan tempat bertanya kepada ahlinya..yang ini ahlinya. Dengan memberanikan diri untuk bertanya bagaimana cara membuat blog karena di kepala saya dulu membuat blog itu maha susah hanya orang IT yang bisa *pengakuan jujur bin polos*.

singkat cerita akhirnya dibuatlah sebuah blog farmasi dengan judul "tukang obat bersahaja" dengan menggunakan wordpress sebagai medianya *makasih om wordpress*. Rasanya seneng banget *guling-guling tujuh hari kaya anak kecil dapet maenan baru hehehe*.

sungguh saya malu mengakuinya dengan modal sok kenal sok dekat memberanikan diri bertanya padahal saya sendiri belum pernah bertemu seumur hidup, wajahnya seperti apa, tinggal dimana, sepertinya sudah bapak-bapak dan punya anak yang lucu *jitak-jitak 100 kali ama sang ahli*, satu-satunya yang saya tahu nanya nama lengkapnya. titik.

Saya pernah berjanji kalo nanti saya bakalan nulis sebuah postingan buat dia sebagai ucapan terimakasih *spesial pake telor ayam kate*. sekarang sudah lunas hehehehe. btw, makasih udah ngajarin saya berani *bener-bener makasih*, milihin wordpress sebagai tempat berlabuh, ngajarin saya ketagihan pake opera mini.

mungkin postingan ini tidak akan pernah dibaca oleh sang ahli *sok sedih bombai* but once again, thank you for your little help to introduce me the new exciting world and be my first comment.

Di menu awal Opera Mini 4 Beta tersedia wikipedia, google search engine yang memudahkan pengguna untuk mencari data dan informasi. Serta disediakan fasilitan bookmarks, sehingga kita dapat menyimpan alamat web favorit kita.

Untuk Opera Mini ini dapat anda peroleh di http://www.operamini.com/

A empresa de Software Opera anunciou o lançamento da primeira versão pública do seu navegador de internet móvel, o Opera Mobile 9.5 beta. O Opera mudou a interface do seu navegador móvel nesta versão beta, tal como aconteceu com a última versão do Opera Mini. O Opera Mobile 9.5 beta agora tem como configuração padrão o modo panorama de visualização de página, que permite ao usuário visualizar toda a página reconhecendo instantaneamente o site a ser aberto, com opções de zoom específico sobre o conteúdo da página.

O novo navegador aberto Opera inclui várias funcionalidades e ferramentas para facilitar a vida dos desenvolvedores de aplicativos sobre a nova plataforma. O novo conjunto de ferramentas visa tornar o desenvolvimento mais fácil e comum entre a comunidade desenvolvedora. "Os nossos fãs estavam ansiosos pela liberação do Opera Mobile 9.5, desde que apareceu pela primeira vez no Mobile World Congress este ano" relatou um executivo.

Baca Selengkapnya

Juniper Research is predicting that the amount of Mobile Internet users will grow from the current 577 million to 1,7 billion by 2013.  The growth will be stimulated by the proliferation of web 2.0 applications, such as social networking, user-generated content, location based services and instant messaging.  The Far East & China will represent the largest market for mobile web use, while South America has the greatest potential for mobile web adoption.  A number of mobile Web 2.0 applications will use flat-data or even free pricing, meaning industry players must seek new revenue streams.

A Dutch research by OMI² says the slow 'early-adopters phase' is now over and that Mobile Internet use is now growing rapidly.  They estimate that The Netherlands counts about 1,6 million active users (= surfing at least once a month). As a cause for the rise, OMI² points at the availability of better and faster mobile devices, more flat-free mobile subscriptions, and the upcoming of mobile search engines.  As for the offer in Mobile Internet sites, they see that websites in the categories news (60% has a mobile site), portals (50%) and audiovisual (35%) are well represented.  On the other hand, entertainment, non-profit and governmental are remarkably absent from the mobile platform.  

Lastly, there's a study by Opera Software, pointing out that the Mobile Internet is dominated by men: nearly 9 out of 10 users are male.   A majority of Opera Mini users are between 18 and 27 years old. 

Today's spotlight is on the applications that you MUST have on your Cellphone.

Here are some symbian applications that will make your life easy.

You Should have a GPRS/EDGE/3G connection on your mobile...

Compatible devices: S60 3rd Edition, Nokia N-Series, Nokia E-Series. (as per my current knowledge)

Opera Mini

It is a great software that is one of the most used and downloaded mobile apps. Opera mini is simply a phone internet browser, which is multipurpose; it is a feed reader, a browser through which you can see the webpages in their original size, because it has a zoom utility that lets you zoom you web pages, You can browse all it'sfeatures at it's official site

Mig33

Company claims that "With mig33, you can chat and send instant messages and emails, make inexpensive international phone calls, share photos, connect with old friends and even meet new ones. Think of it as an addition to your phone's existing service."
Which I also agree!!, it's a great tool; the thing in it which i like is that it supports MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ , AOL, Google Talk, SMS, to name a few.

Google Maps For Mobile

Download Google Maps for mobile to get maps, directions, and business listings, right on your mobile device. Google Maps on your phone makes it easy to:

• Determine your current location with or without GPS
• Get driving and transit directions
• Get phone numbers and addresses for local businesses

Yahoo go !

Yahoo! Go is today’s essential solution for anyone with a mobile phone. It’s an all-in-one offering that lets you enjoy the best of the Internet on your phone—for free. Send an email, upload photos, download a map, search for answers, check stock quotes, or get breaking news—all that and much more is available through Yahoo! Go.

Opera Mini 4.1

Opera Mini 4.1 is the best mobile web browser that I've ever used.  This browser runs on Java environment  which requires Java Virtual Machine (JVM) installed on your mobile device, which may already be installed on your phone or PDA.  This browser is so much faster than the Internet Explorer that ships with Windows Mobile 6.  It also initially loads the entire page and you can navigate to a section of the page and zoom it to regular size.

Here is the link to the demo on how it looks like on your phone.

Another thing I like about it is that it draws the text column width to fit your screen on zoom mode so that you don't have to keep scrolling horizontally making it much easier to read text specially on small screens.  Additionally, it comes with RSS reader great for subscribing to your favorite news feeds and blogs.

The only disadvantage that I found with it is that it lacks that ability to copy/paste text from within the browser.  But for the most part the browser is very fast and stable and can fully take advantage of your unlimited data plan.  I recommend this software for those that has similar mobile device.

After overhearing a number of people discussing smartphones and browsers over the past year or so (both online and off-line, and also due to the iPhone, whose "hype cycle" is about to go into overdrive due to the forthcoming device release, bragging about being able to "surf the web"), plus the recommendation of the geekier (in a "positive" way) sales rep at my phone provider's kiosk (not to also mention my OWN sometimes geeky leanings, of which I will not say whether these are positives or negatives at this time), I recently decided to load a different browser onto my trusty(?) dusty Crackberry.

Round 1-DING!
Just point your browser at the Opera website. AAAAAAAAH! Is there not a script (or something) here that allows a phone browser to degrade to a better experience? After finding the link for "Opera Mini" (eventually), I had to go through several menu options to figure _where_ to download, after which it looked like an easy enough task to perform; my, oh my, how mistaken I was. POW-I am down on the mat.

Round 2-DING!
"Send a link to your phone via SMS to download" sounds easy enough; I regularly have decent experiences doing this sort of activity on other telephones to get games, sounds, and other miscellaneous crap onto telephones that are not made to be user-friendly for this sort of activity. In other words, if you use Verizon Wireless or US Cellular for your mobile service in the US, and/or if you own a telephone that has no memory card or USB-ish type of synch cable, you can probably relate to this, regardless of phone provider. Selecting this SMS option, I selected my country (United States of America) and keyed in my telephone number without a "country code" (which is a "1" for those of you who never dial international calls via telephone systems); so far, so good. The SMS message arrived right away with a working link; I selected the link using the Crackberry's Trackball (which was a WONDERFUL addition, might I add, to this device, and helped to "seal the deal" for me to buy one of these) and clicked the link. Said link seemed to take me back to the SAME page I have recently visited, which again wanted me to select a phone model, a country, and to give my telephone number to receive a SMS message with a download link. JAB-I am again on the mat.

Round 3-DING!
"There HAS to be a better way to do this," I am thinking as I fumble through the plethora of links and crap to relocate the original link to download this browser via the Crackberry-included's software web browser. OOOOOOOOH! I can download directly to my phone!! ("Now _why_ didn't I just do this in the _first_ place, no?" I ask myself.) Seems easy enough. Click the link, download to the device. Or so I thought; the link is to a zipped archive, which my Crackberry cannot un-archive. THWACK-I'm on the mat yet again.

Rounds 4-15 (or maybe 21, or 33, or more: after several weeks and occasional attempts to do this as time permitted, I tried this again)-Repeated DINGS!

I repeated Rounds 1-3 just in case I had forgotten something/overlooked something over the next few weeks, as time permitted, resulting i my continual disappointment as I am again dropped to the mat by a somewhat formidable foe. UGH--am I this close to being knocked-out? Yet, I again stagger back to my feet for more pummeling.

Round "(((Some positive integer evenly dividable by 3) > 33 and not <33) +1)"-DING!

Oh wait-maybe my foe has a weakness I have yet to exploit. Hmmmmmmmmmm. A-HA! "Download to PC" BINGO! How stupid of me to not have tried this earlier after my repeated face-plants to the mat. Hop onto the somewhat trusty lappy, launch browser of choice (Mozilla Firefox v2.somethingoranother instead of the current v3.somethingoranother). Go to Opera.com, get assaulted by a splash screen for some version of Opera 9.somethingoranother that made me think "Windows 95" for some reason. Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. Stupid. (Had to say that again). Oh, whew-a "click to continue to website" button; must be my "left-hook?" Refreshing-an easy to navigate website (so far). Information is easy to find (so far) via headings with "disappearing" menus under them. Clicking on one of the menu headings (for download) takes me to a place to get their current PC browser-oops, when "hooking" the opponent slipped in a jab to my left. Clicking on "Download other versions" takes me to a page with links for Linux, MacOS, etc. and no link for mobile of mini; a second jab from the opponent and I again return to the mat for yet another taste (serves me right to think that someone might desire to get a different platform or browser than the "Big 3" by clicking "Download other versions"--go figure).

Round "(((Some positive integer evenly dividable by 3) > 33 and not <33) +2)"-DING!
Wait Wait Wait--there is a menu that appears when hovering over "Download" which allows me to select "Opera Mini" or "Opera Mobile" if I do not want plain-old Opera (I will take my Opera with subtitles, please, to enhance my presently-limited comprehension of the Italian language. Cue the laugh track. Now then, laugh with me; you _know_ that I _had_ to "go there" sometime in this review, right? Or better yet, cry, as many Operas seem to end sadly, this one included). After clicking the "Mini" link and downloading fairly painlessly to my desktop, unzipping the archive, and adding this application to my now-tethered Crackberry (which is an experience -- grrrrrrrrrrr, scowl, grimace, turn-red-with-anger, :-( , etc. -- I will critique at some later date, in the interest of brevity here). Time to Surf! Or not. Launching by selecting the big "O" (and not a reference to a famous TV performer, nor to an online store, nor to the other "big 'O'" to which women frequently refer) brings up a long list of Terms, Conditions, and miscellaneous crap to read before continuing; thankfully the programmers added a tutorial before the "load of crap and leagalese" on how to use the browser, yet they did NOT add a "click to continue" button, which I was seeking due to their instructions to "Read this page and select 'Continue' at the end of the license agreement" (or something to that effect). With a bit of frustration, and a "gee, I wonder what happens when I push _this_ button" curiosity, I clicked on the Crackberry's Menu button and was _then_ given the opportunity to "Accept" and/or "continue"; sigh. Done. Finally, but badly bruised, beaten, and lacking a desire to do this ever again. TKO by knockout goes to Opera. :-( This sucks.

Fight Recap

After many rounds (the number of which are mostly evenly divisible by the integer "3") of pummeling the opponent, the winner by TKO is Opera. The loser is the end user.

Color Commentary Conclusions/Observations

With this installation experience, I am _guessing_ that this browser must be the buggiest piece of software one can use. If I were Opera, I would not expect to get many users after this sort of experience; I would consider _my_ experience to be tolerant, and of significantly higher patience-level than that of a typical "end user." If this were 1988, I would expect this level of frustration in trying to get and install software, but seeing that this is 2008, this sort of experience is _inexcusable_ for an end user in this day and age except for "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay-pre-alpha development release" software, of which this supposedly is not. Shame on you, Opera.

(Before I decide to delete this "big 'O'" from my Crackberry, I will try to surf and use it for a while. Maybe. Check back and see.)

Edited on 11July2008 11:30 a.m. Chicago time to fix my equations-I forgot one open parenthesis in it.-jw

Beberapa temanku tanya tentang tampilan friendster di handphone yang sudah berubah menjadi tampilan wap. Artinya, tampilannya tidak sama lagi dengan tampilan friendster jika kita membukanya melalui PC Komputer.

Jika kita mengetik http://www.friendster.com di opera mini dalam handphone kita, secara otomatis kita akan dibawa pada alamat http://m.friendster.com

Fasilitas yang ditawarkan dari alamat http://m.friendster.com pun sangat terbatas.

Bagi Anda yang ingin tampilan friendster di handphone Anda berubah seperti yang dulu, silakan ikuti langkah-langkah berikut:

Seperti biasa Anda masuk ke opera mini melalui handphone Anda, lalu Anda ketik http://www.friendster.com. Nanti Anda akan dibawa ke alamat http://m.friendster.com secara otomatis. Anda cari menu "help", lalu pilihlah menu tersebut. Menu "Help" ada di bagian bawah. Setelah muncul halaman baru, Anda cari menu "Friendster Classic". Anda pilih menu tersebut. Setelah itu Anda bica ber-friendster ria melalui handphone seperti layaknya ber-friendster ria melalui PC Komputer.

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