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September 30, 2003

Opera and Adobe join forces

Wireless Developer Network reports that Opera Announces Strategic Licensing Agreement with Adobe.

Sounds very cool.

September 28, 2003

Week Two Begins

Week Two of 30 Days to becoming an Opera7 Lover begins today. This week we'll be discussing the various Panels (aka Sidebars) available with Opera. We'll start with the basics, Day 6: Bookmarks Panel

September 23, 2003

30 Days to becoming an Opera7 Lover

The long-awaited update to the hugely popular series has begun

30 Days to becoming an Opera7 Lover

Day 1 - Why Opera?

Day 2 - Configuration

Hate the ads in Opera?

Opera 7.2 for Windows released.

Just released. download Opera 7.2 for Windows. You know you want to.

There is also a Changelog for Opera 7.2 and a press release for Opera 7.2

September 07, 2003

Web Annoyance Chart

What are the most annoying things on the web? I’m not talking about spam or virii or Windows being unstable. I’m talking about things that websites do that are just really annoying. Here is my list:

  1. Animated GIFs
  2. Blinking text
  3. Flash
  4. Pop-up/Pop-under Windows
  5. really small text
  6. background sound

What are your least-favorite things? Vote below.

A note about Flash: 98.7% of all Flash I see is ads, or a site that has gone to 100% Flash and doesn’t seem to care that I am on a really slow connection. I realize that Flash itself can be useful, but in practice, it is far more often annoying than helpful.

Opera 7.2 Beta9 for Windows


Read the announcement of 7.2 beta9 for Windows.

Comments and overall feedback has been extremely positive thus far.

Opera 7.2 is really impressing me. It's looking like the best release of the best browser. Of course issues still remain, but still my clear #1 choice.

September 06, 2003

Microsoft wants the world to be fair

At least, they want the world to be fair to them.... on their terms.

It was almost laughable to read the Wired.com article on Microsoft's reaction to Asia going Linux and hear someone who actually works at Microsoft say that the market should decide who comes out on top.

This would be the same Microsoft which was found guilty of anti-trust practices that directly prevented the "free market" from deciding what Operating System and software is/was the best.

Just when I think they can't astound me any more, they do... and it's never a positive experience.

September 02, 2003

Opera 7.2 beta for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris


They all add support for bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Get yours today at http://www.opera.com/download.