My Opera Speed Dial

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:43:54 PM

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Recently I entered the Speed Dial Contest with my current speed dial, as I had no time on my hands. Now that the competition is over, I decided to polish it up a bit p This is how it looks at the moment wink

Update: 07/05/2010, as of today, snapshot builds of 10.54 have been tweaked, and rendering of thumbnails has previously been much improved. Unfortunately you may have to redo your thumbnails, making sure they are 256×192 (to stop them being stretched). Incidentally, this is how my speed dial currently looks.

The thumbnails I used can be downloaded here (.zip) Updated for 10.54, and the background image can be found here. I'm happy enough with how it's looking smile

If you want to do this yourself, you'll need Opera 10. To have a transparent thumbnail background you will need a skin with one (for example Speed Dial - Clear which I'm using). Then follow Tamil's tutorial on how to change speed dial thumbnails. The Opera Image Dial Generator is a great tool to generate your own thumbnails.


Thanks MyOpera for a great contest! up Looking forward to the next one as always!

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Comments

Hélder Matosyamato74 Sunday, August 23, 2009 10:36:35 PM

Great speeddial. Mine is not that great but following the Tami'ls tutorial I came upon a little problem. How do I remove the white square when the dial is selected? (see pic below) It's something on the skin but I can't figure out. I want to emulate the same effect of the Opera Turbo 10 speed dial on others skins.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2136/dials.jpg -

WOFall Monday, August 24, 2009 12:51:15 PM

Originally posted by yamato74:

How do I remove the white square when the dial is selected?


In skin.ini, this info is held in 
[Thumbnail Image Skin.hover]
Color= #ffffff
You can either change the hex code, or delete the entire 'color= #ffffff' line to eliminate this hover effect.

We should probably be changing [Speed Dial Thumbnail Image Skin] instead, but this is easier, and I haven't noticed any side effects wink

Hélder Matosyamato74 Monday, August 24, 2009 3:27:49 PM

Thanks. I've copied the lines from the Opera Turbo 10 skin to the default skin. That's how it looks now:

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6141/desktopera.jpg -

WOFall Monday, August 24, 2009 8:48:17 PM

It looks good wink

Originally posted by yamato74:

I've copied the lines from the Opera Turbo 10 skin to the default skin.


You shouldn't really do this... Only include changes, and then put the changed zip file in the folder 
%AppData%\Opera\Opera Beta\skin
For example, see the skin I use (I don't know how I messed up the tab bar thumbnails :| )

This way the skin inherits the style of the default skin, and won't be overwritten on updates wink

Hélder Matosyamato74 Monday, August 24, 2009 9:22:02 PM

Yep, I just copied some lines from the other skin (with the files required) and renamed it.

YongShunyongshun Saturday, August 29, 2009 4:50:32 AM

yamato! you mind releaseing your skin? p

WOFall Sunday, August 30, 2009 8:38:23 PM

I've now uploaded the skin I use. It gets rid of the numbering, and sets a transparent thumbnail background, and it also has a hover effect smile

http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=8902

Unregistered user Monday, August 31, 2009 7:20:58 PM

Lexi writes: Hello, I am on fios cable, and I'm trying to do pet runs in Tagged. However, I have tried moziila, google chrome and safari4. My upload speed is good & my d/l speed is higher than what it should be. I just d/l opera, but not the opera10. I am constantly getting refresh page when I'm in Tagged. Hope this works for me, as I enjoy the pet runs, but can never get in them, as I seem to be lagging somehow. Any suggestions would be appreciated~

Duane Jenningszynal Tuesday, September 1, 2009 2:15:40 AM

Thanks, I like being able to customize the speed dial thumbnails.

WOFall Tuesday, September 1, 2009 9:18:40 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

Lexi writes:
I am on fios cable, and I'm trying to do pet runs in Tagged.


What is Tagged?

Jorge Juniorspojr Tuesday, September 1, 2009 8:30:02 PM

Hi, my skin:
Thanks!!

WOFall Wednesday, September 2, 2009 4:48:40 PM

Nice up

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:14:01 PM

Anonymous writes: >spojr: gr8 :) btw ... how you get rid of numbering ?

WOFall Wednesday, September 2, 2009 9:26:10 PM

The skin I linked to should remove the numbering as well as giving transparent thumbnail backgrounds, I just never updated the screenshot...
http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/info/?id=8902

endless lovepersianweblog Friday, September 4, 2009 4:32:24 PM

up

Gia Nguyen AdamantSeed Saturday, September 5, 2009 7:09:11 PM

wow that s really beautiful skin ! all of them is transparent

i dont use speed dial much though p

Daneru Yuu Jinkuazay Monday, September 7, 2009 12:44:51 AM

cool!!! nice background... congrats MOTW!!!

(hi bunso... bigsmile)

SummerAngel Monday, September 7, 2009 2:13:18 AM

Cool Speed Dial. Congrats on being MOTW WOFall

Jorge Juniorspojr Monday, September 7, 2009 6:27:27 PM

Originally posted by WOFall:

Nice :up:


Thank you!!

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 9, 2009 4:21:03 AM

TheDrifter writes: was wondering how you did away with the search bar at the top on the speed dial page? Congrats on member of the month as well!

Владимир (Vladimir)vovazl Wednesday, September 9, 2009 5:54:17 PM

Hello, WOFall!
Thanks a lot for these really cool thumbnails or yours! =)

However, I have a question about this "Opera Image Dial Generator". Okay, I have chosen a picture, customized the width and background, now I press the button "Generate"... and get some strange numbers and symbols called "result URI." I know I am a total newbie in this stuff, so would you mind explaining me what to do with this URI, where to copy-paste it and so on?

Many thanks in advance,
vovazl

randomstranger Thursday, September 10, 2009 1:12:13 AM

useful post!

WOFall Friday, September 11, 2009 3:53:46 PM

Thanks guys smile

Originally posted by anonymous:

was wondering how you did away with the search bar at the top on the speed dial page?


Speed Dial Search Type = 0

The long way is to right click the search field, 'Manage Search Engines...', and edit Ask so that it's not the default for Speed Dial search.

Originally posted by vovazl:

what to do with this URI, where to copy-paste it and so on?


Right click on a speed dial thumbnail, 'edit', and paste the 'result uri' into the space for the address at the bottom.

mAIhUONGPirate2703 Sunday, September 13, 2009 10:22:05 AM

Wow@ that's so cool!!! I admire the creativity of the youth!!!

Владимир (Vladimir)vovazl Monday, September 14, 2009 9:10:49 PM

Thanks a lot!

Unregistered user Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:10:11 AM

rosanne writes: thanks! :D This is my speed dial! http://rsnn.hyves.nl/album/24795993/Vrienden/8B3NOUq9/fotos/745242382/0/k6eL/ I made the logo's a bit smaller, because that's more beautifull! =D. You guys won't reconize all the logo's I think, most of them are logo's from dutch webpages! Greets to all of you! And thanks WOFall!

Unregistered user Saturday, October 3, 2009 2:30:09 PM

Anonymous writes: how did you manage to get all the logos so transparent. by the way it looks really swish

WOFall Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:20:04 PM

Originally posted by anonymous:

This is my speed dial! [...]

It looks good cool

Originally posted by anonymous:

how did you manage to get all the logos so transparent.


I (badly... p ) hand edited some of them.

Céline Grostoulouse-1 Sunday, March 28, 2010 7:55:09 PM

Speed dial is amazing cool

Blaz(ž) Pristavitalianjob44 Monday, April 26, 2010 7:07:04 PM

Yes that we need more speed dial boxes, smaller and with logo only then i can abandon Personal bar and i like to have this as default options. Maxthon will be using this http://files.myopera.com/italianjob44/blog/maxthon-asdf.jpg

BjoernDBjörni Monday, May 10, 2010 10:33:42 AM

The new Opera 10.54 Build 3386...
has my Speeddials make bigger and now I must all 34 Thumbnails new to order...
doh
Have you an Idea?

cgman Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:21:05 PM

nice, congratulations, where i can download it?

Johnjonnyspace Thursday, May 27, 2010 4:22:25 AM

This looks FUN!

hundredorzero Sunday, July 4, 2010 9:10:47 AM

i need this wallpaper.

hundredorzero Sunday, July 4, 2010 9:11:54 AM

WOFall you should have shared final images ready to be used as speed dials. but you shared raw images.

WOFall Saturday, July 10, 2010 2:06:16 AM

Originally posted by hundredorzero:

WOFall you should have shared final images ready to be used as speed dials. but you shared raw images.

The names of the images are different for each person, as far as I can tell. I could give a set of uri links, but it wouldn't be ideal. Unfortunately it just takes some work to change the thumbnails.

hundredorzero Monday, July 19, 2010 12:50:42 AM

Originally posted by WOFall:

The names of the images are different for each person, as far as I can tell. I could give a set of uri links, but it wouldn't be ideal. Unfortunately it just takes some work to change the thumbnails.


i thinkg it's not impossible to post, ready to use, standard 256x192 pixels pics.

Unregistered user Friday, August 27, 2010 7:16:18 AM

Anonymous writes: I have a problem.. and I hope that you know the answer :). I have opera speeddial for a long time now. But when I cleaned my computer I lost al the logo's, so I began to 'rebuilt' my speed dial. The problem is that I used to make the logo's smaller, because that nicer. But when I tried to make these logo's smaller (just by chancing the size to 100x100 pixels) the logo's look vague (see logo number 10 in my speeddial!). I want to have the logo's the same as the t-mobile logo in my speeddial (sharp and clear). Al the logo's have a resolution above 400x400 and look very sharp if you open them in a pictureviewer (so that isn't the problem...) I think that opera automatically spreads the logo over the square, so that less pixels are spread over the square. I hope you know the answer! (Sorry for my bad english). My opera speeddial:

Unregistered user Friday, August 27, 2010 7:21:39 AM

Anonymous part 3 writes: http://94.100.118.84/1078600001-1078650000/1078638501-1078638600/1078638560_6_Svt9.jpeg

hundredorzero Friday, August 27, 2010 12:30:42 PM

here are mine
http://files.myopera.com/hundredorzero/files/myspeeddials.png -

WOFall Saturday, September 4, 2010 2:26:12 PM

Originally posted by hundredorzero:

i thinkg it's not impossible to post, ready to use, standard 256x192 pixels pics.

But the images in the *updated* zip are 256×192 wink

Originally posted by anonymous:

The problem is that I used to make the logo's smaller, because that nicer. But when I tried to make these logo's smaller (just by chancing the size to 100x100 pixels) the logo's look vague (see logo number 10 in my speeddial!).

I want to have the logo's the same as the t-mobile logo in my speeddial (sharp and clear). Al the logo's have a resolution above 400x400 and look very sharp if you open them in a pictureviewer (so that isn't the problem...)

I think that opera automatically spreads the logo over the square, so that less pixels are spread over the square.

Yes, that's exactly the problem. Opera now stretches the images instead of just centering them. From the post:

Originally posted by WOFall:

Update: 07/05/2010, as of today, snapshot builds of 10.54 have been tweaked, and rendering of thumbnails has previously been much improved. Unfortunately you may have to redo your thumbnails, making sure they are 256×192 (to stop them being stretched).

This makes things a little harder, but it should work just fine once you get it right wink

hundredorzero Saturday, September 4, 2010 5:18:04 PM

Originally posted by WOFall:

But the images in the *updated* zip are 256×192


Oh thanks i have downloaded updated zip file.
if you want to download speed-dial images designed by me.
you may download it from here http://files.myopera.com/hundredorzero/Smilies/Favorite/click_me.gif -

Sumitro Bhaumikthexavier666 Saturday, February 5, 2011 11:34:02 AM

hey wofall, from where did you download the icons?

BulbasaurJetPackBulbasaur Thursday, March 3, 2011 12:20:49 AM

This looks awfully fiddly for someone as computer inept as me.. Thats the Whats-his-face from the Final Fantasy game which never happened, right?

WOFall Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:45:49 PM

Originally posted by Bulbasaur:

This looks awfully fiddly for someone as computer inept as me..

And probably not worth the time either. Opera 11.10 changes how thumbnails are generated though, so there's hope for improvement. For instance, websites can specify a thumbnail to use.

Originally posted by Bulbasaur:

Thats the Whats-his-face from the Final Fantasy game which never happened, right?

That hasn't happened yet wink

Douglas Charles CunhaGenumano Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:06:31 AM

WOFall, this is my SpeedDial in Opera 11.10
http://www.brimg.info/uploads/3/3d24135c66.jpg

WOFall Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:01:28 PM

Originally posted by Genumano:

http://www.brimg.info/uploads/3/3d24135c66.jpg


Needs more dials.

Douglas Charles CunhaGenumano Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:43:54 PM

Agora totalmente reformulado. Sem sub-títulos nos Dials e superlimpo.

http://www.brimg.info/uploads/3/3c49f2c8ef.jpg -

aslanpayi Sunday, August 28, 2011 7:24:56 AM

My Speed Dial...

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/1213/sdaslan280820111.png -

Click!for original size...

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