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Monday, 28. April 2008, 23:15:56

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[edit 2008-06-15]Updates updated: made the setups offered here compatible with 9.5 Final. Same URLs, a few new versions.

I'm going from light blogging to no blogging apparently... a bad trend. I'm a little bit active on Twitter now, but not in a way that compares to my past blogging here. When 9.5 Final and Firefox 3 get released, I'll probably make an update for the Top 150 Extensions list.

But my customized setups can already use some updates, the 9.2 versions will have some broken functionality when used with Kestrel builds. So here are provisional 9.5-compatible setups, suitable for Kestrel Beta 2. Copying some description text from a blog post in April 2007 BTW :smile:

Below you can find the auto-install links, with links to old blog posts for some background info. Remember: use Ctrl+F12 > Advanced > Toolbars to get back to your previous menus, shortcuts and toolbars.

Twelve
Ribbon-inspired radical setup. Use the menu and toolbar together. Hide the main menu with Alt+F11 after tweaking the shortcuts.


Hugin
Mail-only setup. Use at least the menu and toolbar together.


More Mail
Sort of a Hugin-lite that adds more mail-specific menus, shortcuts and buttons, but doesn't remove the browsing functionality. Use at least the menu and toolbar together.


Bigger Menus
Just what it says.


Classic Clutter
Return to the toolbar-bonanza of Opera 7.23. With an additional Startbar even...


My Personal Setup
Use at least the menu and toolbar together.

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Say everything

Saturday, 10. March 2007, 00:58:33

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Nice article in New York magazine: Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The New Generation Gap (via Schneier). Ultra short synopsis of what changes differentiate this generation :

  1. They think of themselves as having an audience
  2. They have archived their adolescence
  3. Their skin is thicker than yours
Suprisingly, I wasn't surprised. Or shocked or worried. But I'll admit this put-everything-online lifestyle is not for me, I can't be bothered. I don't connect much with people from the described generation anymore since I quit being a Boy Scouts leader, so I can't tell if it is the same over here in The Netherlands. Probably it is, given the high penetration of high-bandwidth connections.

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Tagging

Wednesday, 17. May 2006, 22:55:29

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I just finished tagging all existing postings (114) for this blog. The previous 'journal' system didn't support tagging, so I had some backlog to go through. I tried not to overdo it, and to focus on repeatables. This means avoiding the tags looking like a duplicate of the post title. I did hope the tag cloud (shown on the main blog page) would show more diverse font sizes, but it didn't really work out that way :smile:

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Blogging...

Sunday, 23. April 2006, 21:01:31

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I really should blog at least once a month. So, here's a blog post...

Not much new to tell though. In private live, Jens is doing well. Smiling, laughing (quite like Sara Ellen), and still a lot of sleeping of course. Crying also, quite loud sometimes, if he thinks we need some encouragement in preparing his milk :smile:

Opera work is continuing as well of course. Testing Merlin builds, keeping track of user feedback, Dutch localization for some mobile Opera's... I also keep some of my custom setups updated, so they work with Opera 9 and no new features will be missing: Hugin, MoreMail, Twelve, Rijk's, OperaFox aka Munin, OperaExplorer, Seven-Five, Eight, BiggerMenu, Kiss.

I've tweaked the links in the blog sidebar a bit. It's a pity I can't reorder the sections, unfortunately.

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More Opera loving

Tuesday, 21. February 2006, 00:13:32

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I'm not going to quote every Opera Lover I find, but this one is nice because it indicates Opera is especially suited for those who spend a lot of time online:
right now, for the kind of wholesale surfing I do when perusing all those news sites, Opera is my champion.


Also found:
I have used the browser extensively in the last week and so has my wife. Both of us like it much better than either IC or Firefox. Easy of use and an ability to handle web site layouts that IE and Firefox mangle led us to the decision. We strongly suggest that you include it among your browsers. Maybe, like us, you will make it your principal browser.

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Old school blogging, aka How to get rid of obsessions

Tuesday, 7. February 2006, 12:57:49

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Russell (well known blogger about mobile tech) sees only one way to stop compulsively checking comments on his blog: disable comments completely. That seems a bit drastic, but I think I understand the problem. Luckily, I don't get that many comments here...

But he'll still check ego feeds at Technorati e.a., so he'll read this, wasting another 20 seconds. Looks like another obsession to kill to me :smile:

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Is it hard to love Opera?

Thursday, 2. February 2006, 10:03:45

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People switch browsers all the time, in all directions. But sometimes they find it hard to write enthousiastically about Opera, because the Firefox fanboys start harassing them:

Evidently the only good things that are allowed to be said have to be about Firefox, and nothing bad can be said about Firefox, since that's the browser they use and if you say anything negative about it and/or say something else is better or god forbid that you think it's the greatest in the world they take it personally.


BTW, I'm aware there are Opera fanboys as well. They mostly seem to harass Firefox fans in the my.opera forums though, not on blogs around the world (except Asa's).

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Opera Lovers

Friday, 13. January 2006, 10:04:29

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You can find nice comments from bloggers on Opera (and a lot of drivel) by subscribing to a 'opera browser' search on Feedster. Choice quotes today:

I have been using Opera much more regularly and soon discovered that it's not only at least as good as Firefox, but is simply better.
I must say it’s a huge improvement over IE and a lot better than Firefox.




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Technorati blogosphere graphs

Wednesday, 21. December 2005, 11:16:46

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"opera browser"
Posts that contain "opera browser" per day for the last 30 days.


"opera mini"
Posts that contain "opera mini" per day for the last 30 days.

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Orange icons

Monday, 19. December 2005, 10:23:51

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Tim Bray (of XML and Atom fame) writes about the new found love between MSIE and Firefox (they agree on using the Firefox invented icon for announcing the presence of a feed).

How ironic that Tim actually added this icon to his page now! Because my initial thought on the MS-FF agreement was "this doesn't help people much unless the symbol is universally adopted by page authors as well."

I couldn't agree more on the content of his posting: things need to be even simpler and more integrated. Two nagging details though...

  • I'm not sure how we can have a 'default feedreader' on Windows. The 'feed:' pseudo-protocol is a unpopular hack (though it actually works if an app registers this protocol for itself...) and the mime type 'application/rss+xml' doesn't work because it lacks the source URL. The latter problem can be solved in Opera if you care to configure the setting manually and check "Pass web address directly to application", but users of other browsers don't have that luxury. And Opera's really integrated RSS icon in the address field kicks in earlier, preventing you from sending the feed to a different default reader on your system.
  • Tim suggest the localizable text 'Subscribe' for the autodiscovered subscription address. This doesn't fit well with our tendency for clean UI...

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NederOpera

Friday, 9. September 2005, 14:16:17

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I've added a Dutch-language blog for Opera news. The blog will be named 'Haitink', honoring the famous Dutch Opera director.

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Tip: don't MMS ...

Wednesday, 7. September 2005, 00:30:53

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Of course, I wanted to try this MMS capability right away. So I tried to send a message to this blog, and I tried to send a pic to my Photo album.

Tip: don't do that, yet. The MMS produced by the combo of my SE P900 and Vodaphone contained lots of markup, and this Blog here didn't cope. In fact, it became inaccessible. One of the sysadmins had to delete the post before I could look at 'My page' again! :eyes:

Edit: MMS integration is working much better lately.

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Voice and Sounds enabled. And Nicklas.

Sunday, 9. January 2005, 17:32:20

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Some people expressed their surprise when they learned that Opera 8 beta needs to have 'Sounds in webpages' enabled for the new 'Voice' functionality to work. But they should realise that the Voice implementation in Opera is interactive. I've now added a Voice intro to my webpage to show that it can be annoying:
http://people.opera.com/rijk/opera/

Something else: one of my esteemed Swedish collegues, Nicklas Larsson, has started some serious blogging this year. Nine posts so far, one for each day!
http://my.opera.com/Kilsmo/journal

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First post

Monday, 15. December 2003, 20:46:38

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First post! :hat:

I'm not sure what I'll be posting in this journal, as the most interesting tweaking stuff is currently done in the internal builds...

Well, here is a link some tweakers might find useful, even if the info dates from Opera 6 and hasn't been updated since:

Files used by Opera http://www.opera.com/docs/operafiles/

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