Once in the same way most people probably were, wondering: “Why are they talking about Opera 10 already, didn’t 9 just come out?”

Secondly, I was amazed because CNet actually managed to put together an article (341 words) without mentioning Firefox.

Surely someone will be getting sacked later.

I’ve been an Opera Lover on Windows (1) for many years, and MacOpera for over 2 years, but it’s nice to know that it’s getting some Linux Love too….

Footnotes:

1. Clearly I’m talking about loving Opera on Windows, not loving Windows itself, which I leave to Ballmer, since I’ve never met anyone else who claims to love Windows. They tolerate it. ↩

You can Check your Flash installation here.

For the record, I still find most of the Flash I see online as useless and annoying, but some stuff is good. YouTube can easily kill an afternoon, although I still think it as more proof that if you give a million monkeys the Internet, you won’t get Shakespeare (or, in YouTube’s case… Spielberg… you might get closer to Sandler…)

The Opera web browser has come a very long way over the years. Not only do they render webpages faster than Firefox and Internet Explorer, it seems that they are choosing to stick to the Web Standards world and take the same approach to webpages as Firefox.

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…[For] those of us who use PCs everyday and have been doing so for many years, Opera does present some very unique options. And with that comes the real question: Will I consider dropping Firefox for Opera? In a short answer, perhaps. It is something that I am willing to explore.

(You can Read the full review at OSWeekly)

While some (myself included) would point out that Firefox is actually taking the same approach to webpages as Opera has (for years before Firefox was even a glint in the pocket of those who are making big bucks off of it), the review touches on some good elements. It is fairly light reading (and spread out over 4 pages instead of what could be 1 not-too-long page) but anytime someone recognizes that Opera is not just another browser, it’s worth pointing out.

All The Lovely Browsers! (Published May 30th, 2006)

• 2006-04-24: How my Treo 650 spent its vacation (hint: it didn’t get a vacation, I did!)
• 2006-04-29: Associate Writer: TjL
• 2006-04-29: BackupBuddy.Net in public beta
• 2006-04-29: How I Save Money (and new mobile-friendly Amazon.com!)
• 2006-04-29: Treo 700a followup
• 2006-04-30: Re: Memory Cards Could Pose Threat to Apple iPod
• 2006-04-30: The Convenience of Convergence
• 2006-05-01: How I Use My Palm to Avoid Wasted Time
• 2006-05-02: How I Use My Palm to Enjoy a Beautiful Day
• 2006-05-03: How I use my Palm accessories
• 2006-05-04: HIUMP: Favorite Mobile Sites
• 2006-05-04: How I use my Palm in the movie line
• 2006-05-04: Review: Mobile TS (RDC for Palm)
• 2006-05-06: Opera Mini on Palm (and your desktop)
• 2006-05-09: Avoid a soft reboot when switching batteries
• 2006-05-09: Error when installing ACT Link for Palm
• 2006-05-09: Mac Users: Sync to Windows in Virtual PC using Bluetooth
• 2006-05-10: Mobile RSS that syncs with your Desktop/Laptop
• 2006-05-12: A Dirty Job: A Novel (a|e)book
• 2006-05-12: What games are on your Palm?
• 2006-05-15: 700p = note the fine print and read between the lines
• 2006-05-16: 700p Marketing Speak has been bugging me all day
• 2006-05-16: BackupBuddy Net Coupon Code

• 2006-04-24: How my Treo 650 spent its vacation (hint: it didn’t get a vacation, I did!)
• 2006-04-29: Associate Writer: TjL
• 2006-04-29: BackupBuddy.Net in public beta
• 2006-04-29: How I Save Money (and new mobile-friendly Amazon.com!)
• 2006-04-29: Treo 700a followup
• 2006-04-30: Re: Memory Cards Could Pose Threat to Apple iPod
• 2006-04-30: The Convenience of Convergence
• 2006-05-01: How I Use My Palm to Avoid Wasted Time
• 2006-05-02: How I Use My Palm to Enjoy a Beautiful Day
• 2006-05-03: How I use my Palm accessories
• 2006-05-04: HIUMP: Favorite Mobile Sites
• 2006-05-04: How I use my Palm in the movie line
• 2006-05-04: Review: Mobile TS (RDC for Palm)
• 2006-05-06: Opera Mini on Palm (and your desktop)
• 2006-05-09: Avoid a soft reboot when switching batteries
• 2006-05-09: Error when installing ACT Link for Palm
• 2006-05-09: Mac Users: Sync to Windows in Virtual PC using Bluetooth
• 2006-05-10: Mobile RSS that syncs with your Desktop/Laptop
• 2006-05-12: A Dirty Job: A Novel (a|e)book
• 2006-05-12: What games are on your Palm?
• 2006-05-15: 700p = note the fine print and read between the lines
• 2006-05-16: 700p Marketing Speak has been bugging me all day
• 2006-05-16: BackupBuddy Net Coupon Code

I’ve said it time and time again, but now someone else has raised the question: How Much Is That Browser in the Windows OS?:

Just how many hours of productivity have been lost to making Web page code work inside of Internet Explorer? Personally, I know that I’ve spent the equivalent of hundreds of man hours coaxing standards-compliant code to render properly in the I.E. world view, and the companies I’ve worked for have probably logged tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of man hours doing the same. When you add up all the effort similarly expended by designers, studios and corporations of all kinds all over the world and over the past five or ten years, it’s got to be an enormously expensive number; if you were to assign hourly rates to all that time, it might total in the billions of dollars.

Safari may not be free (it only comes with the latest version of Mac OS X) but at least you don’t have to spend hours retrofitting your compliant site to work in Safari.

Lore offers some thoughts on possible additional boxed Star Wars DVD sets, including:

The Just-Better-Effects Edition
This edition redoes all the special effects — every single one throughout the entire series, using the best technology available, applied by the guys who did the Lord of the Rings movies. Nothing else is touched. No dialogue is changed, no scenes are added, no new characters are included. Can you imagine how much Star Wars fanatics will love this one? They’ll be standing in line outside every place in town that sells DVDs, dressed in Jedi robes and elaborate rancor costumes. What a bunch of hard-core geeks. I’d better preorder my copy now.

I’d order one, but online. It was bad enough that I had to stand in the ticket line with those people when the movies came out.

I still wouldn’t be surprised if George Lucas released an official DVD of The Phantom Edit as I suggested earlier.

Lore also hit the nail on the head with this comment:

The best part is that the original-release DVDs include the special-edition DVDs as well. So people who bought the special edition when they really wanted the original version will have to buy the special edition again, and people who didn’t buy the special edition because they only care about the original version will have to pay more to get the special edition anyway! Yes! Use your aggressive feelings! Let the hate flow through you!