First of all, well done to the community for answering the call for Halloween speed dial backgrounds with such short notice! After only a few days, there more entrants than I expected, and the end decision was a hard one. There were some truly sinister takes on the theme, and some wonderful artwork, but Jon's favorite of all was Cole Henley's 'Phantom of the Opera II'.
Cole's great use of public domain artwork, colour and textures, along with the subtle use of the new Opera logo, made it a sure winner. Well done to Cole, and indeed to all the entrants. Please keep making those Speed Dial backgrounds and sharing them with the community!
Also kudos ki-to for making the great "IBIS Inspire" skin we based this custom Opera build on! Keep 'em coming!
Other cool Speed Dial entries:
How to install if you are already using Opera:
If you already have Opera, you need to backup 3 files and rename them in order to get the Halloween experience:
Open menu "Help" » "About Opera".
Find the path to the catalog with user data ("Path" » "Preferences") and copy the address
Close Opera
Open the catalog with user data found above (for Windows: "Start" » "Run" » paste the address you copied before)
Remove or rename the following files:
bookmarks.adr
speeddial.ini
operaprefs.ini
Install the customized version (without removing the previous one)
If you are not an Opera user, simply download and follow the instructions.
With the release of Opera 10 RC many of you were taken by surprise that Opera now has a new icon! We updated the favicon on My Opera and the banners and buttons section as well.
Good news, everyone! It's Friday (soon weekend, Woo Hoo!) and your favorite Web browser is today's featured article on Wikipedia! Hooray!
This would've not been possible without your help. Shout-out to everyone who support Opera and help keep this Web property fresh! We really, really appreciate it!
Here we see the Katakura High School Symphonic Band from Tokyo celebrating that Opera is today's featured article (no, wait... ignore that last bit). Anyway, the video is funky and so are you, so tune in and celebrate!
Opera is offering a fully paid, six-month internship including your travel to Oslo, Norway. Your role will be to write articles for our Web properties, to copy edit them, and to support our marketing activities and product launches.
Your field of studies is not important, but you must be able to demonstrate solid writing skills in English. You should have an exceptional understanding of technology, the ability to explain complex issues simply, and the lightness of touch to move easily between the humorous and the professional.
How to apply
Submit an article on our competition page. This process is open to everyone. This article will be based on a specific topic. We will ask our community to read the articles and choose the ones they like the best. Based on community popularity and our opinion we will pick a group of finalists to write a second article.
Read more about the internship and the competition:
Polish Web site gazeta.pl had a blast running a Speed Dial contest for their readers. When we saw all the awesome entries we thought it would be fun to see how creative you could be in personalizing your Speed Dial!
Instructions
Write a blog post or create a new photo album with your personalized Speed Dial. Make sure you upload both a screen shot how it should look like and the background image so we can try it out for ourself.
Opera user Rafael Oliveira decided to "hack" Opera and see if he could make Opera integrate better with Windows Vista/7 by making the tab bar glass-enabled. And to his big surprise it actually worked! According to himself it's not a perfect solution, but it does do the trick. Please note that this also removes the title bar.
