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My Opera Speed Dial

Tuesday, 11. August 2009, 19:43:54

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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:



The thumbnails I used can be downloaded here (.zip), 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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Hélder Matos Nogueira 23. August 2009, 22:36

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.

WOFall 24. August 2009, 12:51

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 Matos Nogueira 24. August 2009, 15:27

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

WOFall 24. August 2009, 20:48

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 Matos Nogueira 24. August 2009, 21:22

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

YongShun 29. August 2009, 04:50

yamato! you mind releaseing your skin? p:

WOFall 30. August 2009, 20:38

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

Anonymous 31. August 2009, 19:20

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 Jennings 1. September 2009, 02:15

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

WOFall 1. September 2009, 09:18

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 Junior 1. September 2009, 20:30

Hi, my skin:
Thanks!!

WOFall 2. September 2009, 16:48

Nice :up:

Anonymous 2. September 2009, 19:14

Anonymous writes:

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

WOFall 2. September 2009, 21:26

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 love 4. September 2009, 16:32

:up:

Just Gia 5. September 2009, 19:09

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

i dont use speed dial much though P:

Daneru Yuu Jin 7. September 2009, 00:44

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

(hi bunso... :D)

SummerAngel 7. September 2009, 02:13

Cool Speed Dial. Congrats on being MOTW WOFall

Jorge Junior 7. September 2009, 18:27

Originally posted by WOFall:

Nice :up:


Thank you!!

Anonymous 9. September 2009, 04:21

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) 9. September 2009, 17:54

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 10. September 2009, 01:12

useful post!

WOFall 11. September 2009, 15:53

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.

Jasmine Huong 13. September 2009, 10:22

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

Владимир (Vladimir) 14. September 2009, 21:10

Thanks a lot!

Anonymous 29. September 2009, 09:10

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!

Anonymous 3. October 2009, 14:30

Anonymous writes:

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

WOFall 6. October 2009, 22:20

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.

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