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Friday, January 29, 2010 9:36:42 AM

Due to lack of time, I am not planning on continuing posting in this blog.

Please head over to personal blog, which does have occasional technical posts, usually tagged in one of the categories gadgets, Internet, software or spam.

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10.5 Christmas (pre-)alpha

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:55:09 AM

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Huib today writes “As a Christmas present, we’re happy to share all the goodies of Opera 10.5 with Presto 2.5 with you in an early pre-alpha release” in the desktop team’s blog. The build is available in Windows and Mac OS flavours from labs.opera.com. Unfortunately no Linux or Unix version this time.

The new JavaScript engine is blazingly fast. I normally don’t surf very JavaScript-heavy pages, but even on “normal” pages, the increase in speed is noticable.

The screenshot on the right shows it running under Wine, under real Windows it runs without even a title bar. I do not particularly care for the “minimalistic” user interface, but removing everything seems to be the current hype, and we just have to live with until sanity again prevails.

Fortunately, re-enabling the menu bar is simple (click the red “O” button and select “Show Menu Bar”), although doing that did crash the build while running under Wine.

As usual with (pre-)alpha releases, be aware of bugs and have backups handy.

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Opera Unite out now

Monday, November 23, 2009 7:36:57 AM

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Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite is out now. Read more about it in the press release.

It has been a long wait since Opera Unite was announced in June. Unfortunately, Unite was not quite ready for release in the Opera 10.00 release a few months ago, but had to be delayed to 10.10 today.

The new version has some additional fixes and tweaks over 10.01, read more about it in the change logs (that was for Windows, they are also available for Mac and Unix/Linux).

If you have a good idea for a Unite application, have a look at the Opera Unite Challenge.

Enjoy!

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Opera Software lands Oslo Innovation Award

Friday, October 16, 2009 6:31:25 AM

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Opera Software has been awarded the Oslo Innovation Award for 2009 (Norwegian only, try Google Translate). Among the reasons why is that Opera Software has worked on making Oslo an attractive place to work and live in.

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How YR.no make the best weather site in Norway

Monday, October 12, 2009 8:40:03 AM

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Swedish Techworld magazine is running an in-depth article on how the Norwegian weather site YR.no works (Swedish only, unfortunately, but you could try Google Translate).

There are a couple of interesting facts presented that at least I did not know of before, like how meteorological data is available for free for anyone who wants it, and in a standardized format, circulated by the UN's WMO (World Meteorological Organization).

But even with all these data and models, the prognosis for yesterday claimed there would be no rain here in Oslo, while it in reality came pouring down. Better luck next time, I guess.

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