Sticky post
Saturday, June 13, 2009 3:09:24 PM
review, 10, opera 10 beta, beta
...
Many people don't know that the Opera browser was the first browser to feature tabs, a feature which is hugely popular and has been shamelessly copied by all other browsers.
Opera has very recently released the latest iteration of its browser, the Opera 10 Beta. Opera had previously released a preview of Opera 10.
The interface has changed very little, just the colours have been changed. Also the interface has been a little refined e.g the + tab to open a new tab looks a little different than the Preview version and that on Opera 9. There is also a glossy look to the tabs.
The main change with the tabs is that now if the whole tab bar is dragged down, the preview of the pages which have been opened is shown permanently. The old Opera feature of showing the preview of the open page when the mouse is hovered on the respective tabs is also available.
Click image to view fullscreen
Also the Opera Speed Dial feature has been changed. Now the background of the Speed Dial page can be changed and set to any picture on your hard disk. Again the number of tabs shown on the Speed Dial page can be configured to suit you.
Click image to view fullscreen
The browser has become faster than Opera 9 but its speed may be comparable to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Since I don't have a Dial-Up connection, I cannot tell exactly which is faster. On broadband, every browser seems the render the page in the same time. That is every browser other than IE. Even IE8 is very slow.
And the 100 out of 100 score on Acid 3 test is a feather in this browsers cap(
IE8 scores
20,
Firefox v3.0.11 scores
72,
Chrome v2.0.172.31 scores
100 though it fails Linktest).
Click image to view fullscreen
This new version also has Turbo feature which is a srver side compression feature. If turned on, it compresses images to make the page load faster(This is just like Opera Mini).
Click image to view fullscreen
Overall Opera 10 is a complete browser which has refined its interface a bit and can display pages pretty fast. Also it looks good and many themes are available officially using which the interface can be changed and made to look better.
The Opera 10 Beta installer is just 6.57MB in size.
Download Opera 10 Beta
I have highlighted some other feature here:
Click image to view fullscreen
Monday, March 16, 2009 11:46:31 AM
hearing disability, joke, jokes
An old man decided his old wife was getting hard of hearing. So he called her doctor to make an appointment to have her hearing checked. The doctor said he could see her in two weeks, and meanwhile there's a simple, informal test the husband could do to give the doctor some idea of the dimensions of the problem. "Here's what you do. Start about 40 feet away from her, and speak in a normal onversational tone and see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and so on until you get a response."
So that evening she's in the kitchen cooking dinner, and he's in the living room, and he says to himself, "I'm about 40 feet away, let's see what happens."
"Honey, what's for supper?"
No response.
So he moves to the other end of the room, about 30 feet away. "Honey, what's for supper?"
No response.
So he moves into the dining room, about 20 feet away. "Honey, what's for supper?"
No response.
On to the kitchen door, only 10 feet away. "Honey, what's for supper?".
No response.
So he walks right up behind her. "Honey, what's for supper?"
"For the fifth time, CHICKEN!"
Monday, March 16, 2009 11:35:16 AM
retirement, recession.economy
Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown of
economy in Britain, a Company has decided to implement a scheme to
put workers of 40 years of age on early retirement.
This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).
Persons selected to be RAPEd can apply to management to be eligible
for the SHAFT scheme (Special Help After Forced Termination).
Persons who have been RAPEd and SHAFTed will be reviewed under the
SCREW scheme (Scheme Covering Retired Early Workers).
A person may be RAPEd once, SHAFTed twice and SCREWed as many times as
Management deems appropriate.
Persons who have been RAPEd can only get AIDS (Additional Income for
Dependants or Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel
Early Severance).
Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTed or
SCREWed any further by management.
Persons staying on will receive as much sh*t (Special High Intensity
Training) as possible.
Management has always prided itself on the amount of sh*t it gives
employees.
Should you feel that you do not receive enough sh*t, please bring this
anomaly to the attention of your Supervisor.
They have been trained to give you all the sh*t you can handle.
Monday, March 16, 2009 11:22:28 AM
joke, blonde, cheating, boyfriend
...
A blonde suspects her boyfriend of cheating on her, so she goes out and
buys a gun.
She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and when she opens the door she
finds him in the arms of a redhead. Well, the blonde is really angry.
She opens her purse to take out the gun and puts it to her head.
The boyfriend yells, "No, honey, don't do it!!!"
The blonde replies, "Shut up, you're next!"
Monday, March 16, 2009 11:13:54 AM
joke, chainsaw, handsaw, jokes
Old Jake had cut firewood by hand with a swede saw for a living going on 50 years. He averaged about four cords a day. His son was home from college and watching him work remarked, "You could probably cut 10 times as much if you bought yourself a chainsaw."
"Not interested in those new fangled things," Jake responded.
His son returned to college and Jake began to think that maybe the young guy was right; his old body seemed to ache more and more at the end of the day. So he went into town and bought a brand new top-of-the-line chainsaw.
The first couple days were not very productive--he only cut one cord each day. By the third day he had cut 3 cords but was dead tired. "This is not working," he thought to himself, "My son said I should be able to cut 10 cords a day. I'm taking this stupid thing back."
The next day he was in the hardware store complaining to the sales clerk about his lack of production. "Blade seems a little dull, but not that bad. Let's start it up," the clerk muttered as he pulled the starting cord.
"What the hell is that noise?" Jake hollered
My Opera
(0%)
