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Friday, 30. January 2004, 19:02:33

The blog. Reborn.
I have changed the layout and removed some of the previous blog entries.
Hopefully this time around it will be somewhat more lively (yeah right).

I have also created a few albums, please take a look (and comment if you wish to do so...)!

A few words about me...
I have been an Opera user for the past ten years and I'm loving it. :smile:
Thank you Opera for this incredible browser that has changed my surfing habbits and positively made them more productive, efficient and fun!

I am also the maintainer of the Hebrew Group.
I am dedicated to advocate Opera in the Israeli market. To bring new users and help current and future ones. Join us. P:

I Hope you'll enjoy this space of mine and the various endeavors that will take place here.

Last Updated: April 5th, 2008

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Opera 9.5 Coming

Wednesday, 11. June 2008, 13:40:55

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After almost two years in development cycle it looks like Opera 9.5 is finally reaching its Final milestone. While I can't say I am totally pleased with its BiDi support, I do praise it for the giant leap forward in that support since the 9.2x days.

Opera Link, Speed Dial, more new features, new technologies, better support for existing ones, many many many fixed bugs, better stability, perfomance and speed, a new skin (which I have come to love, although it still has some minor issue), and more (I'm sure we'll get the complete list soon enough). All of these make Opera 9.5 IMO a very good release, amongs a stiff competition from Firefox 3 and Safari. Each with its own set of weaknesses and strong points.

That said, there are unfortunatly new regressions in 9.5 compared to 9.2x in respect to BiDi, but also luckly threre are less regressions than new bugs or fixed bugs. :smile: I am sure that 9.5x, 9.6(?) and 10.0 will have more fixed BiDi bugs and also hopefully new things in store for us.

Here is for Opera 9.5, the best Opera release yet (can't please them all, of course)...!

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Opera Mini - On Your Desktop

Saturday, 29. March 2008, 17:54:41

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You read it correctly.

Lars Kleinschmidt brought this cool idea to the attention of the My Opera community in his blog.
You can read about it here.

Credits for the original idea go to "Mr Nobody" from opera.perm.ru.

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My Opera Community Website Design and RTL languages

Thursday, 20. March 2008, 07:29:29

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How long will RTL users must suffer here?
The RTL community here (those who use Hebrew and Arabic and such) is not a small group of people. Opera has a huge market out there that is just being ignored.

Okay, so you don't want to take it upon yourself just yet to convert the various pages (personal, group) and add BiDi support. Fine.

BUT FOR THE LOVE OF WHATEVER, AT LEAST ADD RTL SUPPORT FOR THE GODAMN GROUP FORUMS.
It is crippled. It is F***ing annoying and it doesn't make any of us want to write here.

And to think it is merely just adding scriptingly one flippin tag to the mark-up... But as always, excuses previle.

Read more...

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TV Series You Ought to Watch

Saturday, 23. February 2008, 12:00:00

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Post bumped to the top!. Updated: July 21st.

Some order is needed...

I am watching A LOT of series and sometimes I lose track of which ones I've watched in the past.
I like to collect seemingly random and useless data, but I also want to share this particular one as I think it will benefit other TV buffs out there.

I also use pogsdesign's wonderful TV calender to keep track of air dates of the numerous series I currently follow. Really great.

So here is my [alphabetically ordered] list of series which I have followed during the years (and still follow). Highly recommended by me! :wink:

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Read more...

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Opera Mini Again

Thursday, 14. February 2008, 08:04:05

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I've been an OM user for quite a while, but only recently I have bothered myself with reading a bit about the shortcuts and modes that are provided.

This is really Good Stuff(tm)!
I'm totally loving the ease of switching between Desktop to Mobile view and back, it's really comfertable and makes the whole process of navigating via Mobile a real pleasure. Even the BiDi support works well. :D

Most excellent. :smile:

I do have a wishlist item, though...
I know that OM tries to detect phone numbers and make them 'dial-able', but that obviously doesn't always work and doesn't cover all formats and use-cases. So my wish is to add a key-combo that will transform the keypad to your regular dialing keys while still in OM view and allow you to dial the number while you are looking at it. Pressing the key-combo again will switch the keys back to OM-navigation keys and what not...

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This is Shit

Friday, 11. January 2008, 21:16:32

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For the past 82 days the university lecturers here in Israel have been on strike, basicly claiming the government owes them money (what else...) for the continuous decline in their salary in the past X years. This, of course, happens on the backs of the students who for the past two months+ studied only part of their courses and some no courses at all(!).

This upcoming sunday is actually the last day of the semester! But to make things worse, this upcoming sunday is also the last day of the lecturer's ultimatum; as they have threatened to CANCEL the semester if the government will not address their demands. What does this mean for the students, the courses that took place and the upcoming exams (and many more questions) - no one knows. Infact, no one has got any infromation what-so-ever.

This is shit.

This is actually the second time in a row there is a strike here. The first one took place on the second semester of the previous year (my freshman year), only that time it was the students union who striked against the high tuition tag for academic studies in public universities.

sigh.
This is not the academic life I imagined for myself. Complete uncertainty.


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Apparently I Am a...

Wednesday, 10. October 2007, 11:34:30

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Purist, Expert, Socialite, blogger... Hm.


Don't forget to post about the environment this October 15th!
Blog Action Day.

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ReTidy Page Cleaner

Thursday, 27. September 2007, 11:35:31

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Summary: Wow.

Let me tell you something, ROBOd's ReTidy creation is the Holy Grail of page cleaners.
This tool took my Excel file (converted to a "webpage" as MS shamefuly names it), a file that was riddled with MS CRAP CODE of an unbelieveable magnitude and cleaned it so good that I simply could not believe it. To put it bluntly: This is the shit!

9800 lines of CLEAN code, squicky clean.

You owe yourself a visit and read more about this tool and what it offers (and that's alot).
At the same time you should also send ROBOd a private message here at My Opera, or an email and demand a GUI! :smile:

This is the tool that millions of people on the web have searched for.

http://www.robodesign.ro/mihai/my-projects/retidy

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Interesting UserJS Scripts

Wednesday, 26. September 2007, 06:22:20

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These are some of the UserJS scripts I've been using/used, all of them have great functionality!

Googlepedia: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=141503
Grab and Scroll: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=186804 (the pan functioanlity exists in Opera 9.5 by now)
NoScript: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=205858
Snap Links: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=206662
Textarea Resizer: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=159469
Orangoo Spell Checkr: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=181406

More scripts can be found at either the UserJS forum or at UserJS.org.

Who says Opera isn't extendable...

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