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IMDb Widget By Moubail Released, Brings More Features

By Dotsisx on February 17, 2010

A few days ago, we brought you the exclusive preview of the unofficial IMDb client from Moubail, a Symbian^1 widget that allows you to search for actors, directors, movies, TV series, on the popular Internet Movie Database website. The widget wasn’t officially available for download yet, but has been made public by Moubail.

This IMDb client provides all the good features of the IMDB website, with ratings, plot description, genre, year of release, all actor roles for movies, as well as episode details for tv series, biographies for actors, and everything is interconnected letting you jump from movie to actor to tv series all while cach’ing the previous history. The released version also brings a new feature that wasn’t available in the preview version we tested earlier: Extended Searches. These let you launch a Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, Amazon or EBay search for the title or person you’re browsing, which is a super integration.

You can download the unofficial IMDb Widget from Moubail’s website, it’s free, but there’s a link to make a donation. I couldn’t help but contribute because Markus Meriluoto, the developer behind IMDb, is super talented, and I know how much trouble he had to go through to make this widget available, so a reward of a few bucks is highly appreciated and encouraged.

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Dotsisx, aka Rita El Khoury, joined Symbian-Guru.com in September of 2007, and has been writing awesome content ever since. Rita often explores the normal user aspect of Symbian-powered devices, and offers in-depth thoughts on various topics. You can follow Dotsisx on Twitter at @Khouryrt

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  • http://iUnlock.com/ Adam@iUnlock

    Overall this widget seems to work well on my i8910. I did encounter one rather odd bug at first though.

    After the program asked for permission to connect to the internet and I said yes, it kept trying to connect via “Linksys,” the only WiFi network I had saved at the time. The program skipped the step in which it would normally ask for a particular destination, and instead just decided to try the “Linksys” access point automatically. I could not choose another method of connecting. Strangely enough I have never encountered this problem in any other programs. Stranger still, I had an active 3G connection already, and I wasn't within range of any WiFi networks. Even after restarting the phone, problem persisted. Eventually I deleted “Linksys” from my “Internet” destination and IMDB allowed me to select a connection like it should have in the first place. I was able to recreate “Linksys” without the bug returning. Rita, you were a Beta tester for this widget, right? Did you encounter anything like this?

    I haven't seen any other problems with the IMDB Widget. It's a nice app, I just wish I didn't take so long for me to get it working at first. Oh and if anyone was wondering, I was not using a crazy cooked ROM at the time. I'm going with stock Samsung firmware this week :)

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com khouryrt

    Was Linksys set as your default accesspoint in the browser? Because as far as I understand, widgets use the settings from the web browser?

  • http://iUnlock.com/ Adam@iUnlock

    That was my first thought too, but nope. The “Opera download utility” access point was set ask when needed. Anyway the web browser can only be set to a destination, not a specific access point. So even if the S60 browser had been set to use the “Internet” destination, it wouldn't explain why the widget tried to use Linksys when I already had an active 3G connection for “Internet,” and I wasn't within range of any WiFi networks. I've given up on trying to explain the weird things my phone does. I just hope that since I've never seen this bug before it doesn't return.

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