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 ...

mattnyc99 writes "There was plenty of chatter last week about an MIT announcement that researcher Angela Belcher had developed a way to create virus-based nanoscale batteries to power mini gadgets of the future. In a fascinating followup at Popular Mechanics, Belcher now says that her unpublished wo ...

kgagne writes "While solid state disk drives can vastly improve random read performance and are perfectly suited to most mobile devices, many operations are sequential in laptops and desktops and involve writes where SSDs most often lose to magnetic hard disk drives in performance. While introducing ...

JagsLive writes with this story from PC Magazine: "Comcast has confirmed that all residential customers will be subject to a 250 gigabyte per month data limit starting October 1. 'This is the same system we have in place today,' Comcast wrote in an amendment to its acceptable use policy. 'The only d ...

cce writes "The MicroID standard, despite getting thrashed soundly by Ben Laurie two years ago, has since been recommended by the DataPortability Project and published on the user profiles of millions of users at Digg and Last.fm. MicroID is basically a hash calculated using a user's profile page UR ...

arcticstoat writes "In a bid to deter people from using pirate versions of Windows XP, Microsoft is now updating its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool to introduce a few uncomfortable niggles for users of pirated versions of Windows. These include replacing the desktop wallpaper with a black scre ...

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 ...