Tuesday, 4. August 2009, 15:24:40
Spellcheck, Menu
Be careful of what you wish for in the Opera Wish-list forum, because you might just get
exactly what you requested! Over the years, many Opera users lament over the dialog-base Spellchecker, & mesmerize by the Inline Spellchecker in Firefox 2. Thus, we requested a Fx2-Style-Inline-Spellchecker. Then in Opera 10, we finally got what we asked for... plus an
OVERSIZE SPELLCHECK MENU!!! I can't believe this, we have overlooked this tiny little undesirable side effect...
The good news is, we don't have to live with
IT. That's right, you can "hack" this
OVERSIZE SPELLCHECK MENU down to a more
reasonable size, & this is how I did it.
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Saturday, 28. February 2009, 10:44:49
Menu, image, full screen
I prefers to view pictures in Full Screen mode, especially oversize pictures. Thus, I always opened a lot of pictures in background, & go into Full Screen mode to view 'em all together... Then, I thought to myself: Why not view picture directly in Full Screen mode? Yes! Why not just combined
Open image with
Enter fullscreen commands into one command?! So, here is an old trick I use very often, but forgot to insert into My Opera Notebook... until now!
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Tuesday, 24. February 2009, 16:56:31
Menu, bookmarks, buttons
Have you ever try to open all bookmarks from a folder into another single window at once? That's right... YOU CAN'T!!! For some reason, Opera is missing a command for open all items from a folder into another single window. What a shame, such a great browser doesn't provide any command for such simple task... But despair not, for I have come up with a few tricks to allow you to do so!
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Wednesday, 18. February 2009, 12:49:47
Menu
Opera got a handy function called
Auto-complete Server Name, which will attempt server name completion by adding prefixes (such as
www) and suffixes (
com,
org,
net...etc.). However, it doesn't work as well as desired most of the time, because of it's clunky method of matching each combination of prefixes & suffixes in a hierarchy fashion... Why can't we choose from a list of prefixes & suffixes directly, instead of rely on this unpredictable trial & error process? Well, here is a trick that will allow you to do just that!
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Wednesday, 4. February 2009, 17:51:39
Menu, full screen
One mystery I can never figure out about Opera is why both Page bar & Window Cycle List (WCL) are enabled by default? What's the purpose of this setup? I only need the WCL during Full Screen mode (without Page bar), but I don't need it when the Page bar is present in the window mode! So, I came up with a few tricks to enable WCL during Full Screen mode, & disable it quickly during window mode.
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Tuesday, 3. February 2009, 09:22:27
Menu, copy to note, notes, copy
Previously, I provide a trick to allow
Copy to Note with 3.5 seconds to pick a folder. This time, I will show you another trick that allow you to do the same task, but without the time limit! It's really simple, IMHO it should be included in the default menu setup in the first place...
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Saturday, 24. January 2009, 09:56:45
link, Menu, url
This is probably not a very useful trick for most people, but you will find this trick very helpful if you uses Links panel very often. This trick inspired by
Highlight Bookmark function, it will help you to locate certain link from webpage inside Links panel quickly...
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Tuesday, 20. January 2009, 19:14:13
Menu, close, buttons, sessions
Some people group similar website together & save 'em as session, then they can revisit different group of websites separately without the need to keep a lot of inactive tabs opened all the time. However, there are no easy way to save/update specific session quickly with Opera... The only way is through the troublesome
Save This Session routine by overwrite each session in order to keep 'em up-to-date before close window (or session). Now, I'm going to show you how to save current window as session with prefix
NAME & close window at once, allow you to continue browsing the next window immediately...
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Thursday, 27. November 2008, 08:48:11
notes, copy, Menu, copy to note
Do you wish that you can pick a folder when creating a new note with
Copy to note command? Well, currently the
Copy to note function (Ctrl+Shift+C) is very limited, & not very intuitive either... So, I decided to improve it to allow folder selection before a note is created! Here is how to do it:
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