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Week of August 27th, tech news includes Paris Hilton and Youtube, Yahoo includes Flickr, another iPod killer, new Goowy features, Microsoft gets FaceBook advertising plus we're dry as a dead dingo's donger and a whole lot more..

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Best Damn Tech Show, Period. v 2.3 (6/25/06)

Weekly news roundup...more changes for Microsoft, MySpace issues, Opera 9 releases and we were there in Seattle to cover it, Apple Movies, Geek Eye, Schmidt Faces off with AOL and much more

Sometimes people forget that I'm a blogger (this is Drew speaking), since I do so much audio and video. I'm a blogger first and foremost, so it's great to be here in the Opera community and now perhaps I can get back to one of my real passions.

Having said that, we all know that Opera 9 kicks ass. If you don't know that, go download the freaking thing already and I challenge you to tell me otherwise (http://www.opera.com)

I'm going to do a series of posts on all of the features that Opera 9 has to offer. This post is going to be on the tabbed browsing features of Opera.

There's always a raging debate on who came up with tabbed browsing and who featured it first. I'll spare you the argument and debate, and tell you about who does Tabbed browsing best. Surprise Surprise, it's Opera.

Now any of you that don't currently used tabbed browsing, now is the time to check it out. Why have a zillion windows open on your computer when you can have ONE browser window open and just click around to a few different sites open at once? I know some people who swear they'll never use tabs, they're that old school. Forget that, tabs are where it's at. And Opera takes it one step further by giving you a quick snapshot of a page if you hover over a tab. Why is that helpful? Well if you have 10-15 tabs open you might forget what each page is. Have no fear, Opera Tab Hover is here. Total hotness.

Speed? Yeah we all know that Opera is So Fast..It Sings. Tabs are no exception. No waiting to load when you click on a tab, that sucker comes right up. Try that FF. We all know IE is now sporting tabs with IE 7, but I'm telling you that nobody does it like Opera.

Right click on a tab and get a whole bunch of options. Lock a tab, duplicate a tab, tile them differently. You name it. Oh yeah and dragging tabs around to order them differently? No problemo.

I freaking love tabbed browsing, it helps my workflow in the workplace, stuff for the show, anything really. It makes sense, and it's super helpful, especially when done right.

_Drew

Next feature - RSS!!!!!

Just got back into Philly. What a whirlwind few days. Got in Monday night, hung out with Ed and Jon, then the big event Tuesday, then hung out some more with Ed and Brian Johnson (Opera Community Manager), and then did the David Lawrence radio show (http://www.thedavidlawrenceshow.com) It was a great interview and David was as awesome as ever. I had an hour to talk about Opera browser, the event in Seattle, and why people should switch.

We tape the show tomorrow so there will be more about Seattle on this weeks show, and I'll also be blogging about some of the highlights. I still have more pictures to post (I took about 250 of them!)