Sunday, 6. September 2009, 15:43:10
User CSS, Subscriptions, User Style Sheets, News
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Latest news page used to show your blog posts and photos in green color and others in blue color but this was removed in carambola release. 
You can bring back colors by using user style sheet. 
Add the following code to user CSS file and reload news page to apply style sheet.
/* Subscriptions (Latest news) */
.newscontainer h2 { background:#2b7fb6; color:#fff; }
.newsowner h2 { background:#82a70b; }
News page before
News page after
Thursday, 3. September 2009, 12:18:12
Microsoft Office, Delete, Firefox, Dictionary
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Multiple words can be added/deleted in a single shot to/from Opera custom dictionary file.
To import words from other custom dictionaries
- Open profile\dictionaries\en.oow file if you use default dictionary, English (US) or your language dictionary file with extension oow in any good text editor like Notepad++.
If you can't find above file then add at least one custom word to the dictionary that wasn't initially included in the dictionary like username to create custom dictionary file.
Don't use Microsoft Notepad as it shows all words in a single line without any delimiting character.
Opera custom dictionary file
- Open other software custom dictionary file in text editor and copy the words.
| Software |
Custom dictionary file name |
Custom dictionary file path |
| Microsoft Office |
CUSTOM.DIC |
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Proof\CUSTOM.DIC |
| Firefox |
persdict.dat |
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\persdict.dat |
- Paste the copied words anywhere but before last line, NUL to Opera custom dictionary file and save.
- Restart Opera.
Sunday, 23. August 2009, 08:55:44
IRC, CSS, *.css, im.css
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Opera automatically highlights text when other people say your IRC username, to tell you to pay attention. But if you are away for a while you have to scroll up and check. You can use CSS to summarise how many times people have said your name so that you can quickly see if you missed something.
The following will display a counter at the top right corner of the chat window showing how many times people have said your username.
- Copy C:\Program Files\Opera\styles\im.css in Windows or /usr/share/opera/styles/im.css in Linux to profile\styles directory. This is to avoid overwriting during update and to make backup easy.
- Add the following CSS code to the bottom of copied file and save.
.highlight {
counter-increment: personals;
}
.highlight:after {
position: fixed;
top: 0px; right: 0px;
content: "Your name has been mentioned "counter(personals)" times";
border: 1px dotted #552;
padding: 1px;
background-color: #ffffe1;
width: 25em;
}
- Specify path to IM Style File and save.
- Restart Opera.
Opera IRC
[Using CSS to disable features of Opera IRC chat]
Monday, 3. August 2009, 10:32:34
8 Puzzle, Sliding Tile Puzzle, Opera, Speed Dial
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Sliding puzzle can be played with Opera Speed Dial by dragging a Speed Dial slot horizontally or vertically and dropping in nearby empty Speed Dial slot.
Scrambled tiles
Solved puzzle
You can download above Speed Dial background and tile images in a zipped file from here. See this to change Speed Dial thumbnail images.
You can also play by adding numbers 1-8 to your existing Speed Dial thumbnail images.
Additional info
The following changes should be made in skin.ini inside skin file.
Speed Dial border and Speed Dial button border can be removed by commenting those lines.
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin]
; Tile Center = backgrounds/speeddial.png
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Widget Skin.selected]
; Tile Center = backgrounds/speeddial-selected.png
[Speed Dial Button Skin]
; Tile Center = buttons/push_button_speeddial.png
Speed Dial title text color and Speed Dial button text color can be changed as shown below.
[Speed Dial Thumbnail Title Label Skin]
Text Color = #ffffff
[Speed Dial Button Skin]
Text Color = #ffffff
Speed Dial remove icon can be removed by commenting it.
[Boxes]
; Speeddial Close = pagebar_close_button/close.png
"Click to add a Web page" and "What is Speed Dial?" texts can be removed by specifying empty strings in en.lng file.
-1799226240=
528772207=
This Speed Dial was one of the selected hot picks in Speed Dial Hot Picks contest.
Update: Aug 12, 2009
Thursday, 23. July 2009, 17:48:33
Opera, Windows, Software, Hide
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I have added an option to hide title bar in Opera Launcher as several users want it [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
To hide/unhide title bar, use Titlebar button! or create new keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture in application section with the following action.
Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h"
! If your path to OperaLauncher.exe is different change it in toolbar configuration file after closing Opera.
If you minimize Opera and then switch to Opera, taskbar will hide.
Wednesday, 1. July 2009, 15:26:01
CSS, User Style Sheets, Friend Request, Hide
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A user style sheet is a text file with CSS declarations. It allows you to have control over the look and feel of website. It can be used to hide annoying things like ads, change fonts and colors, etc.
!important declaration should be added to a rule to take precedence over author style sheet.
User style sheets can be applied to all sites (restart required to apply style sheet) or per-site basis (reload required to apply style sheet).
Example 1: Hide friend request link in My Opera
My Opera friend request link in top bar
- Create a text file with the following and save preferably inside profile\styles directory with CSS file extension.
/* Friend request */
#friendrequest { display: none !important; }
CSS to hide friend request link and share this button
- Add path to CSS file in site preferences.
Path to CSS file in site preferences
- Reload page to apply style sheet.
My Opera friend request link hidden by CSS
Example 2: Hide sponsored links in Google
Useless Google sponsored links
Google sponsored links can't be blocked by content blocker but it can hidden by following CSS code.
/* Top sponsored links */
#tads { display: none !important; }
/* Side sponsored links */
#mbEnd { display: none !important; }
Wednesday, 24. June 2009, 11:11:31
Léazz, Thank You, Me, Drawstring Pouch
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Today, I received drawstring pouch with painting from 
Léazz for winning in guess the name of these plants... game.
Thank you Léazz for prize.
Drawstring pouch with painting
More pictures...
Sunday, 21. June 2009, 12:04:41
Unicode, India, Windows 2000, Character
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To view Indian language web pages and Opera menus properly, Unicode support has to be enabled in Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems.
In Windows XP,
Enable 'Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)' in Windows XP
In Windows 2000,
Restart the system for the new setting to take effect.
Windows installation CD may be required to install Unicode support files.
Incorrect display of Tamil Unicode characters
Tamil Unicode characters after enabling Unicode support
Tuesday, 2. June 2009, 09:00:26
bookmarks.adr, Description, Software, Opera
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Huge bookmarks file will affect the performance of Opera. Opera Bookmarks Description Remover was created using AutoHotkey to reduce bookmarks file size by removing descriptions.
Download (size < 210 KB), unzip and run OBDR.exe.
- Backup of original bookmarks file will be created inside bookmarks directory with bak extension.
- Silent mode will remove all bookmarks description without any prompt.
Opera Bookmarks Description Remover
Friday, 8. May 2009, 00:10:46
OperaWatch, Speed Dial, Session, Opera
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There are several ways to open multiple web pages in Opera.
- Bookmarking web pages to a folder, navigating to folder from bookmarks menu and clicking Open All Folder Items.
- Bookmarking web pages to a folder, giving nickname to folder and entering nickname in address field or setting nickname as home page in .
- Opening web pages, saving them as session and opening it .
The advantage of sessions over bookmarks is it can store several settings (zoom, fit to width, images, etc.) per tab.
Sessions can be opened quickly by assigning it to a Speed Dial slot.
- Open web pages.
- Save them as session .
- Assign it to a Speed Dial slot.
The path to session file should not contain space. If path has space use DOS name. To find DOS name of a directory/file, open Command Prompt, change path to parent directory of directory/file and type the following command.
dir /x
Command Prompt to find DOS name
| Directory name |
DOS name |
| Program Files |
PROGRA~1 |
| Documents and Settings |
DOCUME~1 |
| Application Data |
APPLIC~1 |
Speed Dial edit dialog with path to session file
Note the WIN extension at the end of the session name.
Speed Dial with session
Opera will show above thumbnail for session but you can replace it with any image.
[Eric J. Goers via forums]
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