Opera Web2-Logos
Daniel Goldman asked How would an Opera “Web 2.0″ logo look like?. Accidentially I stumbled upon the Web2.0V2Logo Creatr two weeks ago and already did some experiments with it. I think it is really fun. Actually I was pretty impressed.
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Shoust’s new My Opera Explorer Widget is cool!
After lots of watch notifications for Shoust's Blog – Simon: I am watching you 😉 – which were empty nearly everytime I looked into them because Simon already deleted his test posts – now finally his My Opera Explorer – Widget is ready.
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Reading Web Pages with Opera in Offline mode
I'm just using Opera on my notebook on the train – offline. It is really nice to read my downloaded email and some webpages opened before. But not only while traveling, also when I am somewhere with a minute paid low bandwidth Internet connection it is really convenient and cost saving to be online very short and afterward have all the time to read and write. I have a button to switch between online and offline mode.
Sometime ago I read about someone who had about 100+ tabs open and refreshes all of them with CTRL+F5 (for Win and Unix, CTRL+SHIFT+F5 on Mac OR CRTL+ALT+F5 for all platforms) when he happens to come across a hotspot to view them later. Wow, I think never managed to get more than about 100 pages (not because of Opera but because I have a different approach for surfing with usually 10-20 tabs open in my two installed Operas).
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Opera 9.1 matches my Opera Roadmap Prediction
My inofficial roadmap prediction was easy for Opera9.1 and I'd say it was a pretty total match:
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Great discovery: New Opera feature to auto fill in personal information – look out for the yellow borders around forms
For a while I see the yellow borders with form fields in Opera, just like the yellow wand forms. And I had no idea what they are good for. After some research I found following hint on Opera's help pages:
If Opera recognizes a form field as one you have entered information for in the Wand preferences, you can also use the Wand to fill in the field. Click the Wand button or press Ctrl+Enter.
Just go to Tools-Preferences (or CTRL+12) -Wand and fill out the fields for personal information (First name, Last Name, Homepage, City etc). As soon as there are corresponding fields on a web-page they are highlighted with yellow borders (just like the wand login) and all of those fields are filled out at once just by a click on the Wand button or CTRL+Enter.
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Opera Roadmap Prediction
After I was quite successful with some short term predictions about some dates for Opera Desktop I now try some much harder forecasts and present a possible Opera Roadmap for the next year. This includes Version 9.1 up to 10 of Opera Desktop (code name Peregrine).
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Halloween Hunt price arrived
Opera Single Document Interface
I met a guy who likes Opera but would prefer to use windows instead of tabs. The more technical name for this is SDI (Single Document Interface) opposed to MDI (Multiple Document Interface) or TDI (Tabbed Document Interface, which is kind of a crippled MDI).
As Opera is astonishing customizable it is pretty easy to make Opera behave like a SDI application. But it requires to change several settings. During my research I couldn't find a somehow complete guide for this. So here is my comprehensive description to make Opera SDI-like.
Update: Shoust made a nice Custom Button that toggles between SDI and MDI, which very easily changes the settings for Open windows instead of tabs, tab bar and Middle click option (background window / background tab):
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