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Old news already but I'd like to remind everybody to check the new Opera 9.50. I like it (of course I do) because it's much faster than any Mac version before. I also rely on Opera Link. Oh and to me even the new Mac skin is a big improvement on Mac OS X 10.5 compared to Opera 9.2x. I agree that the new icon set could use some more colors but at least the new look shows that macification work is going on.

This is my current skin that tweaks the Mac Native a bit to have an iTunes'ish sidebar (panel background color) and less paddings on Tabs:

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And don't miss this interesting read about Kestrel (aka Opera 9.5) by khadgar.

The latest snapshot release of Opera 9.50 for Mac has new tabs in the default Mac Native skin and I'm happy and overwhelmed -- as you can tell from this post -- because Opera included tabs that I made.

What I did was to take the original tabs of Opera, rotate the gradient and adjust it so that it runs smoothly into the toolbar background color used e.g. in the address bar. Then I added a border to the selected tab and the bottom of the Page Bar and adjusted the selected tab so that it "breaks" the bottom border of the Page Bar -- thus it visually connects the selected tab to the UI of the current page. So as you can tell I did not invent something radically new nor did I go far away from the Mac Native tabs that Opera used before and that I liked, I rather adjusted them.

Short before the release Opera contacted me and said they were considering to include the tabs but they needed versions for bottom and left/right placement of the Page Bar. So I made rotated versions of the tabs for bottom and totally new versions for the left/right placement. Now I hope you Mac fellows out there like the tabs so that Opera will not throw them out again too soon. Below you can see a preview of how they look like -- top / bottom / side.

Finally a new Beta and yes, Sir, it's the best Opera ever -- on Mac, everywhere. Find out what's new here: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/ Most important fix for me compared to most of the Weeklies is that I can finally print Mails again. Second best thing is how fast the new Beta starts, Opera has never been that fast on Mac! Now I can really recommend the switch to Opera 9.50.

Don't forget to subscribe to the Mac Team Blog to get the latest news on MacOpera development: http://my.opera.com/macteam/blog/

Guess what these two photos mean:





Right, we'll have another baby -- don't hold your breath, though, it's just the 5th week. Sofie and Alessa are really excited and can't wait to see their brother/sister

First of all Happy Easter to everyone.

We relaxed throughout the holidays. On Sunday our relatives visited us and we had a nice day together with too much food and too much beer. My father-in-law decided it's never a bad idea to take a nap after the feast.



In the meantime my brother-in-law showed us his Capoeira skills. Impressive.



On Monday the winter returned.



Yesterday we took the kids out for a trip to a Butterfly Park near Hamburg. Olga and I had been there several years ago, now we thought the kids should see it, too. It's so nice to watch the butterflies floating around. The exhausting part of this park is however that the air has to be so hot and wet which was especially noticeable as it meant such a big contrast to the weather outside. So afterwards we went for a walk through the city of Soltau and the kids received some ice cream.







Some more pictures in this gallery.