Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:05:15 AM
It's time to announce the winners of our X-Widgets Challenge. After 3 fantastic weekly prize winners, we have now been able to choose the top-3. Judging on various criteria, the jury spent a good amount of time testing the Widgets, making sure they were cross-platform compatible. 
Anyway, we are proud to present the winners of our X-Widgets challenge. Thank you so much for your contributions. Spend your prize wisely.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 10:48:00 AM
Day 1: We kicked off with an easy question. We wanted to know the height of Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. Correct answer is 195 cm and our first lucky winner was Kuja IX. Congratulations to him.
Day 2: It was time for a question about CSS. What stylesheet on opera.com is called if visitors (have to) use IE6? The stylesheet is called "ie.css" and serious was seriously spot on. Good stuff.
Day 3: We wanted to see who knew a bit about Opera's "Open the Web" project and its partners in crime. Which city in England does Opera's Chief Web Opener hail from? PientaL knew that David is from Newcastle. David Storey is an active blogger, both in his private blog and the ODIN team blog.
Day 4: We wanted you to choose question of the day for December 5. In light of the release of Opera 10 alpha Nerak wanted to know what development build of Opera's layout engine, Presto, scores what on the Acid3 standards compliance test. Thanks to Karen we could now continue the epic contest.
Day 5: This question was brought to you by Karen and Ryan knew that this build scored 100/100 on the Acid3 test.
Day 6: When we launched Opera 9 back in 06 we had a kick-off party in the US. We wanted to know in which city. Correct answer is Seattle (btw, check out cool photos from the event by best damn tech show and DotEd). Zarshir remembered the name and was winner of the day. Hooray!
Day 7: Speed dial is a popular feature of the Opera browser, and we wanted to know how you could add a total of 28 speed dials instead of the default 9 in Opera. David Terei knew that you had to open speeddial.ini, add/change (if already existing) the following lines: Rows=4 Columns=7.
Day 8: Yesterday we wanted to know how to add custom Web searches in Opera (and later change its keyword). Michael knew how to do this, among many others: Go to the site you want to create a search for, right click on the search box and choose "Create search". To later change the keyword head to "Tools" -> "Preferences" -> "Search". Select the custom Web search you want to edit and give it a new keyword. Easy.
Day 9: Today we want to know the Norwegian name for this traditional dish of dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiled to give it a gelatinous consistency?
If you think you know the answer, head over to the prizes blog for more daily questions and a chance to win!
Friday, July 25, 2008 1:02:35 PM
This relatively new My Opera member has already made a permanent mark in the community. She takes full advantage of the photo album service and includes a photo with each poem. A favorite one is:
Her posts allow everyone to get a glimpse into her daily life and appreciate the beauty around us in nature. For her passion in spreading good poetry to the Opera community, Cynthia23 deservingly is this week's spotlighted blogger.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 3:10:32 PM
Our "User JavaScript contest!" contest ended on 15th July and there were two big winners! There were a number of strong contestants with awesome contributions, however, after going through all the submissions, hallvors has declared zomg and d4n3 the worthy winners of the competition! Both will receive a sweet HTC Touch Diamond™ with Opera Mobile 9.5 pre-installed!
Take a look at what the zomg and d4n3 submitted:
Site Enhancement Section Winner:
This sitefix makes sure Google Spreadsheet works as intended with Opera! Also, zomg almost won the Tool section of the competition with his directory-listings.js and bookmarking.js submission.
Tool Section Winner:
History+ is awesome! d4n3 really went all out when he created a script that allows users to visualise your travel through the world wide internet. History+ features a local HTTP server thats right on the edge on what you can do with a user JavaScript.
Thanks again to everyone who participated! For honorable mentions and the full post by hallvors, go and check out the competition forum post.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 3:04:37 PM
Our "Tell a Friend" contest ended on Monday at 12:00 CST. There were a number of great entries, but ultimately three contestants were slightly more persuasive in convincing their friends to check out Opera 9.5.
Thanks again to everyone who participated! Your continued effort to tell your family and friends is highly appreciated! Thanks for the support.
Monday, May 5, 2008 12:21:23 PM
The "winner" of our contest is igorditerni's impersonation of the infamous smiley.
He has clearly worked a lot on this submission, which can be seen in a forum post. He even made a new version of the original smiley, but replacing himself with the smiley instead.
We all know agony's a drunk, and now we finally got proof!
Your contribution to this contest was a really good one! Please promise one thing — never take off that hat. It suits you perfectly.
From Mizz Martinez we didn't receive only one submission, but 30!
From the huge photo album it wasn't easy to pick one which justified the hard word she had done for this contest, but we really fell for her impersonation of the smiley. Good work!
However, there were many others who also did a fantastic job impersonating smileys. Thanks to everyone who made this contest a success. We hope you will enjoy this sweet list we've compiled for you:
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FierceDeity | eztigma |
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yelesh | |
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Herrscher | Hellas |
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eztigma | |
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Riku90 | djosh_losh | naoo |
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andresruiz | |
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djosh_losh |
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djosh_losh | Olgita | |
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djosh_losh |
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soumitram4u | Olgita | Garion | |
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hreyes |
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robin_schalkhaar | |
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Olgita |
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Olgita | Furie | |
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Olgita | kennethkiffer |
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Olgita | |
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Olgita |
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parolin | |
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dragon_harrower |
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yelesh | |
| Multiple smileys: | Spaggyj | Furie | robin_schalkhaar | |||
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