MrPingouin's Igloo

I was wandering on MyOpera when I found the Human Clock widget. It's based on the human clock website : it's a collection of pictures of showing what time it is, and sometimes in very weird ways ! (People, signs, numeral plates, walls, etc.).

And Pakin made an Opera Widget synchronizing with the website, so you still have an eye on what time it is but in a very pleasant way. This widget is one of the winners of the last Opera Widget Contest.

As I often miss the MyOpera news, I decided to spread the word about it on my own blog.

Just give it a try !

[1] The human clock widget
[2] Pakin's widget page
[3] Opera Widget Contest results

I don't have any laptop, but I do use Opera in multiple locations : at home, at school (offline but taking my notes with me !) and at my girlfriend's, I was looking for a way to always have my bookmarks/notes/offline-mails on me, and fortunately this way does exist : Opera Usb !

You put it on an usb-key (or whatever, sd-card, compact flash, but something writable). It creates on its first launch a profile file called "default.ophome" (after 3 weeks of use, mine is about 20 mo, I do have bookmarks, offline imap mail, notes and chat accounts).
A running "Portable opera" will use temporary files on the system hard disks, and once you've closed it, it removes all these temporary files, keeping your settings in default.ophome.

I think there are three recommandations for using Opera USB :

- The first one and the main one is : do not plug-out your usb-key before Opera USB is totally closed and your usb key is unmounted : It will broke your default.ophome file and you'll lose all your opera data.
- Perform backups if you use bookmarks/notes/offline-mail-using-POP3 a lot
- Choose "empty cache on exit" in the options, it will make the default.ophome file lighter, and so make opera-usb's load and exit faster

You can find it on http://opera-usb.com/operausben.htm

One year ago I re-discovered opera (the first time I used it was on a redhat linux a long time ago, when the ad-banner were still present)
Six monthes ago I re-discovered mail using opera M2
And now I discover OperaUSB

So, what's next ?

The Notes part of opera is very useful, people that doesn't use opera doesn't know it, but it doesn't matter, we do know it exists

But, as I use opera on different places (a mega-opera-thing with irc-#bitlbee and m2), I'd like to have my notes available.

So what you can do is the following :

- get an imap account if you don't have one
- when you want a note, send yourself an email with [NOTE] in the subject
- create a filter that shows mails whose subject contains [NOTE]

But, if you work on the computer that has sent a specific note, you'll have this note displayed twice (the received one and the sent one). So check the headers of your mails, and select one that isn't present in the local sent message (a logical example : the smtp stuff).

Finally, your filter will look like : show mails that contain [note] in the subject AND one of the header contains smtp.blah.net

And it should work.