A Blog With No Name

For a while now I have been testing the new Opera 10 (quite pleased with it by the way ). Somewhere along the way I have noticed that IMDb has changed the layout of the movies page a bit. It didn't look to bad, maybe it is better this way. But now running in Opera 9.62, I found that the old layout is back. Then I thought that maybe just some page have new layouts, or they are experimenting. So I opened the same page at the same time in Opera 10 and Opera 9.62, and behold they are different:


Normal layout in Opera 9

New layout in Opera 10 - less detail before the cast, the cast is also aligned left, not center.

I tried to check around but haven't found anything. I am logged in with both browsers, I have tried to search through preferences, but found nothing. Weird aye?

For a few years now I've been using the Opera M2 as the primary email client on my computer.
Recently I've been using multiple systems and a lot of mail on the go (computers at the faculty etc). Syncronizing Opera is very nice, so that you have all your bookmarks and everything, and feel "at home" most of the time. But it doesn't sync anything of the mail, so I tend to use Gmail when not at home and though it would be good to have all the email addresses there.

The logical way is to export everything from Opera, and import at Gmail.

Opera exports the contacts into an "adr" file, which is not bad for reading in a text editor, but can't really be imported into Gmail, since it want's a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file, which you can get out of your favorite spreadsheets application (Google Docs, Open Office, MS Office).
I though about writting a program myself, but then realized that somebody has probably done it already. And I was right.

There is an app at sourceforge called "Opera2GmailCSV". The latest version is from 2006, but it worked just fine.
There is also an online app http://www.hallvord.com/opera/adr2tab.htm that you upload your file too, and shows the result in a webpage, which you can then save. I haven't tested the files from here.

Anyway the importing worked just fine, and I experimented with multiple adding of the same entries, and it seems the Gmail either ignores identical data, or merges multiple addresses for the same names. Which should mean that I can still use M2 as the primary client, and in the future maybe reimport everything into Gmail with the existing data just ignored. Nice.

so the news is now out, the Dragonfly will be a complete web developer's tool. pretty cool. and a cool choice for a name.
and it will come (the alpha version) in 11 days...

I was using the opera dev tools that were already available, but they will use some additions definitely I had to use firebug a few times when needed more data on the pages...