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The new Internet Channel (IC) for Nintendo Wii

Wednesday, 10. October 2007, 12:31:14

Browser, new, internet channel, nintendo ...

Nintendo has just started distributing the much-anticipated new version of the IC for Nintendo Wii. It has lots of new features users have asked for, also its a free upgrade for those who already have older version, for those new users wishing to subscribe, the IC can be purchased from the Wii Shop Channel menu for 500 Wii points.

So, to name a few new and shiny features:

USB keyboard support - You just simply plug any standard USB keyboard into one of the two USB ports on your Nintendo Wii and you are ready to write email, compose blog posts, comment in forums and much more.
"Send to a Friend" - this enables you to send links to your favorite Web sites - or the one you are currently browsing - to your Wii friends whom you have added in your Wii. You can also add a message to send along with the link. When your Wii friend opens the message, they can immediately visit the page.
Copy & Paste text from websites
Widget support - Widgets available now include calendars, news readers, Internet radios and other fun applications. For more information on creating widgets, please visit widgets.opera.com with your Wii.
Numerous usability improvements - for making your browsing experience more pleasant

Also be sure to spread the word and digg it.

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Vote for my pic!

Thursday, 13. September 2007, 12:25:59

awesome, I rock, opera, nomination ...

Yay, I got nominated for "Most awesome picture in a photo album" award. Here's the picture that got me nominated.
Click on this banner to see other finalists and/or vote for me, thanks.

BTW: while you're at voting for me in "Most awesome picture in a photo album" go vote for coxy in "Best blog by a male" section. thanks

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“5 Things I’d Like To See In Opera” List

Friday, 20. July 2007, 18:07:51

tagging, opera, operawatch, wishlist ...

Daniel started it all with his “Blog tag: 5 things I’d like to see in Opera” post. He tagged Vygantas, and then Vygantas tagged me. So here I am, writing my list:

Something equivalent to Firebug.
Ability to use 3rd party RSS reader .
A way to replace Operas bookmarking system with some 3rd party system, like del.icio.us or such.
Inline spell checker
A bunch of old bugs fixed (hoping for that in Kestrel)

I also want a bunch of other things, but most of them should be in Kestrel already.
Also I'll be good and won't tag anybody. If you want to tell us about the features you want consider yourself tagged, and just do it.

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My day with Opera Mini 4!

Tuesday, 19. June 2007, 18:49:51

opera, mini, 4

So it all started early(for me

) in the morning, I got up, and first thing I did while still laying in me bed was checking if Opera Mini 4 was out already, too bad it wasn't

. It was released only like an hour after that, I guess I was one of the first people to download it

. Just a few minutes after downloading it and cheering

in the #operamini I started testing it.

My first visited site was my.opera.com, it looked pretty good, a bit different from Opera Mini 3, but still good nonetheless. Then I headed over BBC news to test the new "Overview mode". This is the actual screenshot of Opera Mini 4 with BBC news website open on my Nokia 6600. You can clearly see how good the site looks in overview mode, its just simple, intuitive and easy to use

Then I visited slashdot and digg, sites that I often read, you can see from the screenshots that they work just fine too. After that I cheered some more in #operamini(that's where all the cool people hang out

) Also I checked a bunch of local news sites, they all worked fine too

. It felt a bit strange, sitting in front of computer and using your phone to browse the web, I know it sounds stupid, but Opera Mini was just too exciting, we've(folks at irc) been waiting for it since the release of Opera Mini 3, when we were told that Opera Mini was being developed already. On the day of the release I browsed quite a lot, I used up over 3 megabytes of traffic, and with site compression Opera Mini does that's really quite a lot (3000kb / 30kb(average site) = ~100 sites). As some review sites mentioned, Opera Mini is a must have app for your phone. As a constant user of web on my mobile phone I'll definitely will be waiting for new beta of Opera Mini, with even more great features to make browsing even cheaper, faster, easier.
Now to sum it all up: "Its awesome!"

BTW: I was wearing my Opera Ninja t-shirt that day

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Opera Mini 4!

Monday, 18. June 2007, 21:48:05

web, mobile, opera, beta ...

Opera Mini 4 beta is out! Get it while its hot!

The new beta is really awesome, it has zoom feature!
When you load a page, Opera Mini will automatically suggest a place to begin reading. When it’s time to dive into the page, Mini zooms in and cleanly focuses on the content you want.
It also will dynamically change the size of text and images to make it convenient to read without having to do a lot of unnecessary scrolling.

Opera Mini 4 Beta also features scrolling using the keypad, this has been asked for in the forums many many times, and finally - its there. By simply hitting 2 you can go up, 4 to go left, 6 to go right and 8 to go down. Press 5 to zoom in and out.

Don't be afraid, good old SSR(Small Screen Rendering) is still there, so Opera mini is still the fastest browser for your phone, also it uses almost 2 times less traffic than other browsers.

Also the new beta 4 has been upgraded to the Kestrel, the same engine as in The Internet Channel for the Nintendo Wii, that means that more CSS3 Selectors are supported, this is really good news for web developers.

Point your phone to mini.opera.com/beta to get it!

P.S better codename would be "Über leakage"

P.P.S DIGG THIS: http://digg.com/software/Beta_of_Opera_Mini_4_Now_Available

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Firefox!

Sunday, 3. June 2007, 17:27:03

firefox, alastor, extensions, opera ...

As I read on http://avencius.nl/ Alastor (hey

) decided to give firefox a try, I thought why not do the same, and so I did, today whole day long I've been using firefox.

Its pretty great once you install all those extensions, though the process is kind of long and annoying, if you don't really know what extensions do you need, you download, install, restart the browser, don't like it, uninstall, restart again. Restarts after uninstalling themes and extensions are really annoying. You really need like a gazillion extensions, you even need one for simple features like "paste and go" button or ability to make status bar auto hide.

Though there's one thing I wasn't able to get, that is the ability to show URL of the link once you hover it in the tooltip just like in opera, only way to see the URL seems to be using status bar.

Ok, now to the good part:
Firefox seems to handle flash plugin way better than Opera, videos don't lag when switching tabs.
It has some nice skins, some of them look better than Opera's.

Also it has 2 really great extensions: FasterFox and AdBlock Plus
Google sites work with it without any warnings

Have you ever tried really using firefox? what do you think about it? Oh, and I'm still not sure about swiching to the darkside

Sorry if this post doesn't make too much sense, I'm just not too good at writing longer texts, I keep jumping from one thought to another.
P.S Remco and Alastor I'm still going to win those opera competitions, so you can't have my stuff

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Opera fans!

Monday, 30. April 2007, 19:51:09

take, fans, meet, opera ...

Opera fans, unite, join http://my.opera.com/opera-fans/blog/

That is a great new group to share, discuss, coordinate your ideas, spread the word, and just have fun

Choose Opera is the official place for Opera fans who want to do exciting, self-directed projects to spread the word about Opera.
Form teams or work individually; you can do virtually anything that brings the best browser to more and more people.

Throw in your ideas, discuss them with other members, and Opera will support you all the way!

So if you have an idea feel free to share it, and be sure, you'll get support from Opera and Opera fans all around the world, so go and take action now!

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Opera 9.20 is out!

Wednesday, 11. April 2007, 19:38:34

out, opera, 9.2

Opera 9.20 is out today!
It has a bunch of new features, the most important one is speed dial, so give it a try if you haven't done that already.
Also its a highly recommended security upgrade for UNIX users(according to csant)
Finally it works just fine with Flash 9 player on Linux! Also Opera 9.20 is out in 31 language.

Here's the changelog

So go get it while its fresh!

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New feature in Opera!

Wednesday, 28. February 2007, 19:48:09

opera, stuff

A new feature has been presented in the latest weekly build of Opera, its called "speed dial". You can see a small screenshot of it on the right.
Its basically a list of the sites with thumbnails you can click on and that will open you the site, oh and it also has a search field on the top.
So get it, and test it out!

You can get the weekly build here: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/785941
P.S make sure you read "Known issues" part before installing

For those of you who want to change the search engine in the field at the top of the speed dial: opera:config#UserPrefs|SpeedDialSearchType

Oh, and one more thing, tomorrow there's a chat with Jon von Tetzchner one of the Opera founders, so feel free to join in and ask him a couple of questions, more info on the chat can be found here: http://my.opera.com/WebApplications/blog/2007/02/23/web-developer-chat-jon-von-tetzchner

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