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Explore yummy cache of Opera alternate download
So while millions (two) of people enjoyed final release of Opera yesterday, I spent evening in new round of getting hacked and bookmarking WordPress security plugins. Anyway Opera servers were taking serious beating and I got interested in @Opera twe...
Set up family computer for Internet
One of my brothers got his Windows eaten by viruses (again). I got it (computer) into roughly working shape for starters and convinced him (brother) that Internet connection is really good and useful thing to have. At least for antivirus updates, if ...
Tweak Opera for large amount of tabs
Opera had pioneered tabbed interface for browsing. However out of the box it provides tab experience that can be described as generic. For users that tend to open multitude of tabs Opera offers quite a few customization opportunities to make most of ...
Browser memory benchmark (plus lies and damn lies)
Recent browser memory usage benchmark from Dot Net Perls is generating buzz (as such things do). I tried to stay away (as I do) but Martin’s post on discrepancies in it from incorrect measuring of multithreaded Chrome mentioned Opera memory consump...
Opera Unite – are browsers out of feature ideas?
With their bold claim of reinventing the web Opera had unveiled Unite service. I am amazed how some made absolutely accurate prediction while I was looking in opposite direction of cloud stuff. By the way this marks browser innovation as dead. Let...
Disable Opera menu bar for extra screen space
I kept forgetting to disable Opera menu bar since meltdown-forced reinstall. So post about that, while trying very hard to keep my mind off Opera Software torturing teaser to announcement next week. Why bother Menu bars are very standard and all ove...
Edit Opera context menu for cool tricks with links
There are plenty of interesting services that take links as input and do useful things with them. Good example are services for improving readability of pages. Piping page through such service is rarely streamlined and requires copy/pasting link or u...
Fixing home page settings hijack in Opera
Opera is not widely targeted by malware and so I was extremely interested when encountered hijacked home page. User complained that he couldn’t change home page – it was always pointing to page using Google custom search engine via link that look...
Are you prepared for computer meltdown?
Yesterday world was after my PCs. It was going reasonably well when I picked up my first notebook (was always getting my computers in desktop flavor), checked it on spot, packed and headed home. Then it all went nuts. Photo by Focal Intent Tiny det...
Flashblock for Opera
Adobe Flash is powerful and widely (ab)used technology. Complete opt-out is easy by uninstalling or disabling browser plugin. However that cuts off plenty of useful together with unwanted. Flashblock for Opera is plugin-like tweak that replaces flash...
Twitter clients (and why they suck)
I got “A review of different Twitter clients” by Anonymous suggestion in my Skribit widget. I am going spin this a bit for two reasons: There are too many clients to produce quality review covering most of them. My feelings for current state of ...
No way out increases RSS productivity
When I switched from Opera M2 to Newsgator I had expected better performance on desktop and ease of use away from it. What I hadn’t expected is cutting amount of time to go through feeds by half. Content selection When I moved my feeds instead of ...
Web notetaking – research evolution or poor wiki spinoff?
Jose Ripiajo had made “Web notetaking. Google Notebook, NotePub or Luminotes, what is best?” suggestion in my sidebar Skribit widget. Which puzzled me a bit (I like being puzzled – keep those good suggestions coming!) because I never really und...
Speed dialing sites in Opera
Is he doing that on purpose? :) Martin of gHacks had posted today about Firefox plugin to load sites with hotkeys and complained that no web browser is offering such feature natively. “Opera could so this like forever” time! Speed dial Speed Dia...
Opera@CD – specialized portable distribution
I’ve covered in detail what makes software portable and from personal experience few titles qualify as true portable. Still there are some projects that take concept even further by making it run from read-only media (like CD/DVD discs). Opera@CD i...
