Back from the Dead

We have previously released experimental Labs builds containing File I/O , and 3D . For the first time we now have bundled them all into one build. On all of our desktop platforms. Head over to the Labs to read more about the newest singing, dancing labs build … and to download your build! ...

Today's post will be a bit unusual in the sense that it won't be about Opera itself, but rather about how Opera is brought to you. This post will attempt to explain to you how we get from a lump of source code that can be compiled in a lot of different ways with many different options to the Opera p ...

Hei We are still doing polishing on Kestrel and have some more crashfixes etc for you all to play with. Please look for regressions since 9.50 Changelog : Lots of stability fixes Fixed an issue with history navigation: an iframe with document.write is not added to history anymore Fixed an issue whe ...

We released 9.51 today, which addresses a few security and lots of stability issues. This release is a recommended upgrade for all those running the latest stable releases. Changelogs are available: Windows Mac Linux/UNIX Go download it!

And one more RC for the upcoming 9.51! Lots of nice fixes in this one - and we need your feedback, specially on: upgrading (we did some more tweaks to the installer) saving (of images, of web pages, of "stuff") Changelog: Fixed proper clearing of textarea when no-cache is set. Fixed a crash o ...

Ragnar Tornquist is respected as one of the best storytellers in today's game industry. He's done work on Anarchy: Online, Dreamfall, and upcoming MMO The Secret World. Rock, Paper, Shotgun has a lengthy three-part interview with Tornquist about how good stories are crafted, how they interact with o ...

least_weasel writes "An article on Ars Technica reveals Mozilla's intention to create and release a plugin for Internet Explorer that would allow the often-criticized IE to utilize some of the cooler rendering code developed for Firefox. The current WIP focuses on rendering using HTML5 standards, bu ...

DragonTHC writes "I'm thinking about hosting a lan party open to the public. I'm aiming for approximately 60 people to attend. I can handle all the logistics of operation. The only thing I can't wrap my head around is: how do I prevent theft at the lan party? Do I hire security guards? Do I need sec ...

jdb2 writes with the (honestly labeled) rumor from the Inquirer "that Nvidia is preparing to release an x86 microprocessor with its guns targeted directly at its two major rivals — Intel and AMD/ATI," and excerpts from the just-linked Inquirer article: "THE HOT RUMOR going around IDF ... [is] that ...

An anonymous reader writes "News from Free Tibet 2008 that internationally known artist, technologist and co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab, James Powderly, was detained in Beijing early on August 19th while preparing to debut a new work and technology of protest, the L.A.S.E.R. Stencil. Accor ...

Obviously, there hasn’t been an update here for quite some time. So I figure I’ll make things official - this blog is definitely on hiatus. I’ve been very busy lately, with a variety of personal things (moving cities, getting new jobs, etc) and an even bigger variety of creative endeavours (wr ...

So, while I haven’t been writing about them much, I’ve definitely still been reading webcomics. You see, after my month away from the internet, I came back, and had to read through a month’s worth of comics all at once. And it put me off them a bit. So I almost completely lost interest in webc ...

I’ve discovered one of the perils of writing a Webcomic Blog: You can’t read webcomics. You see, I have a huge, HUGE list of webcomics to read through some day. The trouble is, I’m afraid to read through them, because if I read through a webcomic, I feel obliged to blog about it. And I enjoy b ...

Lemon Demon (famous for such cartoons as “Potter Puppet Pals”, and music such as “The Ultimate Showdown”) recently pointed towards me towards this webcomic. He described it as “the most obnoxious webcomic in the world”, which was enough to start me reading. Unlike my other favourite “g ...

Okay, finally, I have read through the archives of all (but a few) of the comics which I missed during my month of “nonternet”. So, here’s a quick recap: I’m amazed at how very little actually happens in a month of Questionable Content. Ditto Sam and Fuzzy. Although perhaps the latter is be ...