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hi This blog is mainly used to cover technology and other things like my personal life. If I make a typo or if you have something you want to say contact me here or leave a comment.bye

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Things to Check Out

In this post I will cover blog posts to check out, software I like, things I don't like, and things I want to see/things I am excited about.

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Fedora Wish - Browser Choice

Hi again, I just finished my feature request for Fedora Linux 13 which is (in brief) "give the user a choice of browsers".

For more information go here.

By the way, Fedora 12 was recently released. Grab it here.

Update: I have requested other features for Fedora. I am beginning to take part in the Fedora Community. I'll give 'em feedback. :wink:

Update: It cannot be implemented because I do not have a developer for it. The wiki said if I was not a developer I could still request it, I guess that I need a developer was not explained. I'll inform them on that. Afterward I will request a section for features that need a developer, I am very sure they'll go for that.

eXaCtLy!!!!!

In the Paint.NET forum rules thread rules numbers 4 and 5 are some of my peeves when people do it. Please people, type correctly!
http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3446

Originally posted by Rick:

Tiping lyk thz iz n0t kewl.


:lol:

Live Code

Hi, I have been creating mock-ups and suggesting things for Unite Application authors lately. A few months after Opera Unite was introduced I came up with an idea to use a service an app for hosting a an open source project. Here are the mock-ups...

(All images are bitmaps.)
Project Page
Editing the code
Control Center

The name I thought of for this is "Live Code". Allow me to further explain the editing part (other parts are self explanatory): people will edit the code and you will see the result in real time, you will see their edits as they are typing it. You will also see who is editing what thanks to the bubbles like what was shown in the picture.

Please, someone develop this application.

What do you think?

Update: This application is under development. Hopefully it will see daylight. (It will probably not be called Live Code.)

Google Wave

I finally got accepted for Google Wave. It greets me with a "Change your browser" page so I'll start up Ubuntu or Fedora because Firefox is not uninstalled from that yet. The page doesn't work best in Opera. I'll let you know my experiences with it by the end of the day.

Update: Google Wave may be fun for some but not for me, I need people to collaborate with. It cannot be anyone my age because most have IE (there parents won't let them install Opera). Oh well, it is a great technology but I cannot use it yet. http://i.imgur.com/zVn91.jpg

New MSN Homepage

For the past few days Microsoft has had a preview of it's new site at msn.com/preview.

From what I have read it was supposed to be released early 2010. It appears a few minutes ago (9:20 PM GMT time) it was released. I haven't even seen any news articles up yet. This includes a pretty and long awaited facelift. However, it still says preview next to the MSN logo so I am guessing it will say that for a few more days like Bing.com did for three days.

MSN.com now passes the W3C validation test. :cool:
No issues with browser compatibility either! Double :cool:

Update:It appears that I have the MSN page changed because I have visited the msn.com/preview so it tracked me so I could always see it rather than revisiting the same URL. The MSN homepage revamp is not yet official as I thought it was.

Things That Might Scare Users in Opera

Opera is most defiantly a more advanced browser. I feel you should only find that if you dig deep within the interface, not at the first start-up. In this post I'll share two things that may overwhelm new users. I may share more things later on in this blog but I'll cover only two today.

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Arm Broken

I broke my radius in my left arm on Thursday in Phy. Ed. This is the first time my arm had ever been broken.

Thursday was my first day in Phy. Ed. for the year, our class just switched from health class.1 :yes:
So we did our exercises then we prepared for Indian tag. (A game where you run from side to side in the gym and two people try and tag you as you try and get across.) I was chosen as one of the taggers in the middle. So the Gym teacher said, "Go!". Everyone ran across and I tagged one person. I turned around and saw some kids where walking to the other side and I think I either dived for one or lost my balance/traction and went in the air. :confused: Anyway, my left arm shot out to break my fall (which it did), I got back up and was in pain. I held my arm and walked towards the center to start the next round and tell people to cross over again. We (me and the other person (Logan Macanarny if you want to know)) were going to yell go then I walked over to the gym teacher and we went to the school nurse.

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I'm Member Of The Week!

I'm Member Of The Week! Thank you everyone for your support and kindness. This is awesome! :sing: :hat:

http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2009/10/30/member-of-the-week
:D

Opera Mini 5 Beta!

It turns out the "Next Generation in Mobile Browsing" is the long awaited Opera Mini 5. :hat:

This awesome release includes
  • Tabs
  • Speed Dial
  • Password Manager
  • Beautiful new skin

For more information watch this. :cool:

However, the Opera Link is missing. As an employee explains "We are polishing the implementation. The Opera Link will be in the final release."

Check it out for yourself!

Opera Mini 5 or 9.7 final?

Yesterday opera.com/next surfaced the Internet. What does it mean? Is it Opera Mini 5 Beta or Opera Mobile 9.7 Final?

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Another Microsoft Anti-Trust


Microsoft is making their successful Microsoft Office better by adding an online free version. Sadly this online version will only submit to majority of browsers. (According to Hitslink's inaccurate statistics) These browsers are IE, Firefox and Safari, this excludes Opera and Chrome.

A site that recently surfaced called MakeOfficeBetter is hosted by Microsoft employees that was designed to get users to submit ideas and support them. I submitted the idea of "Support for Opera and Chrome in Online Office." You can support this idea to stop another anti-trust here.

*I am not anti-Microsoft*

Unite Works Perfect

Opera Unite's Proxy was always down for about a month and many users complained about this issue because without the proxy working Unite will not even work.
(Opera Unite button looked like this with 503 :frown:)


The Opera Unite Team has been working on making the Proxy stable and their work paid off, it now works. Now, after weeks of "Opera Unite error 503: The Opera Unite proxy server is currently not reachable. The network may be down" you can use Opera Unite error free!
(Now the Opera Unite button looks like this :D)

5 Things I Would Like To See in Opera (Always Under Revision)

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hi This list is comprised of 5 feature, feature improvements or standard requests that I would like to see in Opera. I have more in mind but these are the features that I feel are needed more than others. (This list is not in any specific order)

Overview
1. Ogg Theora and Vorbis
2. Smarter Address Bar
3. Improved Clients
4. Improve the Opera Link
5. Private Mode (Phantom Mode)

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