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! WA ...

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 ...

An anonymous reader writes "ABC is warning that dirty election tricks are about to start. In the past, they've ranged from late-night robo-calls to voter intimidation. ABC has a pretty good list of what to watch out for as told by Allen Raymond, a former Republican operative, who was reformed after ...

John Sokol writes "I just heard from a good friend and Linux kernel hacker in Brazil that they have just finished their municipal election with 128 million people using Linux to vote. They voted nationwide for something like 5,000 city mayors. Voting is mandatory in Brazil. The embedded computer the ...

Several readers noted the release of Mono 2.0, which is compatible with Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0. According to Miguel de Icaza, "...users can move over server applications built for .NET and client applications built with Windows Forms." InternetNews points out that only about half of the .NET ...

thesandbender writes "Ford is set to release a management system that will restrict certain aspects of a car's performance based on which key is in the ignition. The speed is limited to 80, you can't turn off traction control, and you can't turn the stereo up to eleven. It's targeted at parents of t ...

davidmwilliams writes "Microsoft followed their major annual Tech-Ed event in Australia with a week-long programming contest called 'DevSta,' to find 'star developers.' While the quantity and quality of submissions suggest a poor turnout, it certainly caught the attention of at least two hackers who ...

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 (writing ...

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 webcomics ...

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 bloggin ...

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 “good because it ...

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 because of ...