We are looking at Opera Widgets in the third part of our Discovering Opera series. You can read about Opera Turbo and Opera Unite in the two previous parts of the series. Most users know widgets probably from their operating system. In Windows they are called gadgets. They are small applications that serve many different [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Unite Overview, Discovering Opera Part 2
We are taking a closer look at Opera Unite in our second part of the Discovering Opera series. Opera Unite – just like Opera Turbo – was introduced introduced in 2009 by Opera Software. It can be best described as a server or direct sharing module in the web browser. You cannot share anything with [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Turbo Overview, Discovering Opera Part 1
The developers of the Opera web browser have been inventive in past years, and it is a confirmation of their hard work that many of the features that they have introduced in Opera are now part of nearly every other Internet browser as well. Not all features on the other hand have been “borrowed” by [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 11.10 Download Available, Grab Your Copy Now
Opera Software is usually pretty quick in releasing the final version of the Opera web browser once they have reached the release candidate stage. This time it took four release candidates before they shipped Opera 11.10 final. Downloads are already available on the main Opera homepage, and Opera 11 stable users should see update notifications [...]
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Opera Tab Vault, Temporary Tabs Storage
How do you handle new interesting websites if you do not have time to use or access them right away? Some users like to keep the sites open until they do, even if that means that the website will be open in a tab for a day or two. Others use bookmarks to save the [...]
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Opera Exclusive: Twitter Search And Notifier
Twitter: Love it, hate it. Even the biggest Twitter critics have to agree that the social messaging service must be doing something right. Yes, there is lots of automatic messaging going on and spam, lots of spam. But underneath that pile of junk, you find valuable information. New product and software releases for instance, or [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera 11.10 Beta, New Speed Dial, Better Web Standards Support
Opera Software has just released the first beta version of Opera 11.10 Barracuda. Users who have followed the development on the Opera Desktop team blog know that Barracuda introduces several new features. The feature that has been talked about the most is the new and improved Speed Dial display on new tab pages. Opera has [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Hardware Acceleration Demo Is Blazingly Fast
Two of the top five web browsers on today’s Internet do not support hardware acceleration in their latest public releases. We are obviously talking about the Opera browser and Safari. Opera however has tweaked their implementation of hardware acceleration in the browser since 2008, when the company released a first working demo. Three years later, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Opera Speed Dial Improvements
The latest Opera 11.10 alpha snapshot which got released yesterday contains changes to Opera’s speed dial feature, among other improvements. Speed Dial was first introduced in 2007 by Opera and has since found its way into other web browsers either as a built-in feature or extensions as well. Speed Dial basically displays a thumbnail list [...]