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You have just watch an interesting video in YouTube or other sites and want to save it. There are many website and software which able to 're-download' the flash video from that website. But...

Do you ever notice that when you have finished watching the video, you can replay the video quickly without any delay to buffer the video, you can also jump to another part of the video quickly. Why? Because the video has been downloaded/cached, but it is hidden somewhere.

How do I get that video?
In windows, the video usually stored in the temporary folder. The filename is flaXX.tmp, where XX is number. Yes that is it. It's easy to find it. But it is not easy to save it. The file cannot be copied, moved, opened, and renamed. The file will be deleted if you close the tab which contains the video, or close the browser, or even if you kill the browser process. There is nothing you can do with that file.

But there is another way.
Here we go:
1. Go to Menu -> Help -> About Opera.
2. In paths section, look at Opera's cache directory.
3. Play any video and make sure it has been buffered completely.
4. Make sure the tab which contain the video is not closed.
5. Open File Explorer/Windows Explorer/Dolphin/Nautilus/Finder.
5. Go to Opera's cache directory in step 2.
6. Make sure you see many oprXXXXX files. Then sort by size.
7. Run media player like VLC, SMPlayer, Media Player Classic, or MPlayer.
8. Started from the largest file, drag the files to the media player.
9. If the player returns error, try another file.
10. If the player plays the video you don't want, try another file.
11. If the player plays the desired video, copy the file to anywhere you like.
12. Rename the file and give it extension like flv or mp4.



This instruction also can be done in many other web browsers as long as you know where it saves the cache. But as far as I know, you can't do this with Safari.

Enjoy

If you like to use animated smileys for your post in My Opera, there is a nice article here.
There is a guide to enable formatting bar with animated smileys in quick reply and post comment box.

Applause

Thanks to :
Tamil for the great article and the smileys,
AyushJ for the formatting bar User JS,
And also the smileys's authors/creators.

There is also the gallery here.
It can be used in most forums on the internet, including but not limited to My Opera.

And if you love large smileys, these sites are awesome :
http://www.33smiley.com/
http://www.addemoticons.com/
Applause

Here is the collection of emoticon in My Opera

This guide will tell you how to run Opera Mini using Microemulator. If you like another method, click here.
This guide is applied to Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and any other operating system as long as it support running Java Runtime Environment.
This guide also wiil tell how to make Opera Mini run in big screen or high resolution.
To avoid problem, I suggest you to do all steps in this guide completely.

Before you start
1. Make sure to install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) if you don't have it yet.
2. Download and Extract Microemulator 2.0.2 or newer to any folder.
3. Download JAD and JAR file of Opera Mini and put it in any folder.

Run Opera Mini
1. If you use Windows, simply open "microemulator.jar" in microemulator's directory you choose earlier. If you use Linux, open terminal, navigate to microemulator directory and type "java -jar microemulator.jar".
2. Enable network access by clicking "Options -> MIDlet Network access". Make sure it checked.
3. Open Opera Mini file by "File -> Open JAD File..." and locate your Opera Mini JAD file.
4. Click Start and Opera Mini will be launched. You can use your mouse to navigate.

Run It in Big Screen
1. Click "Options -> Select device..." in Microemulator before run Opera Mini.
2. Click "Resizeable device". Then click "Set as default" if you want to always use it every time. Click "OK".
4. Click "Resize" in bottom right corner of Microemulator and enter the resolution you like. Click "OK".

Enable Save Page and Find Text
Click here.

This is my first post to Opera Community Blog. I'm glad to join you all, the opera's fans.
I'm sorry about my (probably) very wrong grammar.

Well, let me tell my story about my experience with Opera Browser so far.
I'm an Opera desktop user since August 2005. Before that time, I didn't know what is Opera browser at all. It was also my first time using Firefox and Linux. I was still an desktop internet novice that time - although I was an active mobile internet user since 2003. What I only know was IE.

I got Opera desktop version 8.01 at that momment. I still remmember, Opera was still a shareware. I almost forget about the price. If we didn't pay for it, we got an ad banner on the main bar or something from google (also forget what was it). Opera seemed very great at the momment. Opera was (and is and I hope will be) the safest browser. Opera had (and has) the most features. Firefox was still nothing, it had very little amount of extension that time. It looks like that was Opera's golden year. Opera has became the main browser since than.