BS-Harou

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"Secret" mail options

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I don't know how many of you are actually using your e-mail on mail.opera.com. Because old GMail UI is ugly and the new UI is really laggy in Opera i decided to leave GMail and start using Opera e-mail instead smile There were some things (like filters) I missed in Opera email though. But!, today - thanks to Nimesh - I've finally solved this issue smile

The thing is that Opera is using big part of fastmail code, even parts that are not official implemented yet. These parts are not accessible from current Opera E-Mail UI, but there is a trick how to access them.

The first step is to log in on mail.opera.com.

Second step is the cool part. Put this URL:
https://mail.opera.com/mail/?MSignal=XX-
to you address bar and change the XX the to one of the following:
AA, BB, BG, BU, CA, CD, CF, CH, DL, DR, EG, FI, FL, FS, GC, LP, MC, MI, MS, NP, PE, PL, PM, PY, QU, RA, RS, SG, SU, TI, TV, UA, VD

Each of these signals show you different secret dialog. Some are more useful than others and some are not useful at all. There is a simple description of each signal:

The interesting (for me):
BU - "Bandwidth usage"
FI - "Define Rules" .. Filters <3
FS - *Files* .. You can upload some files to your account. The quota is 10MB. Uploading files is possible, but some other parts like public site to download them is not working.
NP - *Notes* .. very simple, it would be awesome if it was connected to Opera notes.
QU - "Quota usage"
RS - "Referral Status" .. I'm not sure if this is working, can you please click on this link?: http://www.myopera.com/?STKI=5864829

The rest:
AA - "Add to address book" .. Adds e-mail addresses from sent e-mails to your contacts. Opera E-Mail is doing it automatically so you don't have to care about this one.
BB - "Buy Email/File Storage Bandwidth" ... It is not possible to buy more E-Mail bandwidth .
BG - "Buy Gift Certificate" .. Not useful, you can't buy Gift certificates sad You have to find another gift for your parents for Christmas smile
CA - "Cancel account"
CD - "Custom DNS"
CF - "Edit Custom Fields" .. Something with fields for contacts
CH - "Add Funds" .. Again, it is not possible to use payment actions
DL - "Distribution Lists"
DR - "Domain Registrant Information"
EG - "Edit address groups"
FL - "Folders" .. Use Opera UI for editing folders instead
GC - "Retrieve Gift Certificate"
LP - "Lost Password" .. Haven't tried
MC - Probably the old fastmail send message window.
MI - "Migrate IMAP Mailbox"
MS - "Search Messages" .. Unfortunately, this is not working sad It would be very useful
PE - "Personalities" .. Use Opera UI instead
PL - Settings for Personalities .. Use Opera UI instead
PM - "Purge folder" .. You can use this to archive, purge and remove duplicate messages from your mailboxes.
PY - "Add Funds"
RA - "Add Account" .. Use Oper UI instead
SG - *Signtures* .. Use Opera UI instead
SU - "Support Form"
TI - "Create support ticket"
TV - "Ticket details"
UA - "Import/Export contacts" .. Use Opera UI instead
VD - "Virtual Domains" .. Not sure if or how does this work

Number of Forrst notifications in your speed dial

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This is support page for my new extension - Forrst Speed Dial Notifier

Addon is finally on addons.opera.com:
https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/forrst-speed-dial-notifier/

Your own speed dial icons!

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I have heart many people complaining about the fact that it is not possible to set our own speed dial icons and because it was already some time since I created and published an opera extension I decided to fix this problem.

The fix is called "Speed Thumbnails" and you can download it here:
http://files.myopera.com/BS-Harou/files/Speed%20Thumbnails.oex

The extension works very simply:
  • Click on the button on the page where you want to set the icon
  • Set the url (http:// or file://)
  • Press "OK"
  • Reload the page in speed dial
  • Enjoy your own icon smile


However there are some rules:
  • The image's mime type (extension) must be jpg, png or gif
  • The width of the image must be at least 256px
  • The height of the image must be at least 160px

If all of those rules are fulfilled and it is still not working, try to create new speed dial instead of editing of the old one.

Gradient transitions in Opera 11.10 (CSS only)

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CSS3 gradients behave very similar as background images. That means you can't use CSS3 Transitions directly to create some "gradient animation". However, you can use CSS3 gradients together with background-color property. This is very important because when you apply CSS3 Transition on background-color and make some part of gradient transparent (so the background color (and the change of bg color) is visible) you get the "gradient animation" smile

Here is an example:
http://files.myopera.com/BS-Harou/files/gradient%20transitions.html

Unfortunately, this technique is very limited. You can't change the rotation or position of the gradient. So if you need to create some more complex transition you have to use javascript.

Convert your videos to WebM

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If you don't want to download any program for video conversion to your computer like me, you might appreciate this site which let you convert your videos to WebM smile

http://video.online-convert.com/convert-to-webm

I haven't much tested it yet, but I've already converted one video and it's working!

Speed Dial improvements

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In latest snapshot of Opera (b2014) we can see that developers in Opera want to improve speed dial. Unfortunately, it seems that they started with improving something that everybody likes (ok, perhaps not everybody, but I think that most of us like more the old version of speed dial with fixed layout) and some things that should be improved are still same as before. I guess that the float layout of speed dial is not the only feature Opera developers are working on, so hopefully we might get some pretty cool new features to speed dial in near future.

Anyway, I was thinking about what things/features I would like to see being improved or added to speed dial. So here is my list:
  • Dynamic (current way)/static(customizable) titles
  • Folders (each folder should have customizable count of rows and columns)
  • Open sessions instead of just one site (Tamil figured out how to do this, but it would be nice, to just click on some button like "Choose session" and then from some list choose the session and click on "OK" smile
  • Any number of rows and columns (so we don't have to edit speed dial ini)
  • Possibility to choose a folder of images as background of speed dial. Images would be changing after X seconds or after Opera start up (there even might be some image transitions)
  • Reload icon after Opera start up
  • Double click on speed dial background opens home page


So these are my ideas. Which of them do you like/don't like and why? What other ideas do you have?

ClickableIcons - Extension for developers of extensions

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When you submit some extensions to addons.opera.com, you have their list in special section. The problem is that in this section it's not possible to click on the icon or extension's name to go on the extension's site. This extension fixes it smile

http://files.myopera.com/BS-Harou/files/ClickableIcons.oex

Easy User CSS extension

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Finally, I've created extension that I might be actually using!

The name is Easy User CSS and I think it tells a lot about it's functionality. Before this extension you had to create new file for every site where you wanted to have user css. Thanks to my extension you can just click on a button, write the css rules and press "save" - that's all! You can also use "Live preview" that shows the effect of styling immediately during writing the CSS rules.

You can also use this extension like a web developer to quickly see CSS changes.

So! Download it now and tell me how you like it!

https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/easy-user-css/

BTW I don't plan to create second Dragonfly so if you have any wishes then make them simple^^

Mini Google Maps extension

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I've just uploaded new version of Mini Google Maps extension to addons.labs.opera.com that should work in O11 final. If you will find any bug you can report it here in the comments.