Gadgetopia

If you missed out on Opera's tenth anniversary giveaway last month, don't sweat it. Opera has now been made permanently free for download. I was curious how they plan to make money from this. There's a 'Why Free?' link on the home page, which tells you this: Opera has removed ...

If you don't read the New York Times, you may not know that Firefox has a two-page ad in today's edition promoting itself. This got me thinking: with all the momentum behind Firefox, what is to become of Opera? If I was working for Opera, how would I feel about ...

Opera Web browser ups security: This is from a CNN article about the latest release of Opera. Opera says it has 10 million users of its previous browsers, but only 100,000 have paid 34 euros ($44.08) for a version excluding advertisements. Most others use a free version. One hundred thousand ...

Opera Web to support file-transfer software: The next version of Opera will apparently include a BitTorrent client. The upcoming Opera 8.0.2, now available in a test version, will try to make BitTorrent downloads seamless, just like any other download using HTTP or FTP for transfers. The exception is the appearance ...

Opera, the Forgotten Browser: About a month ago, we asked "What will be come of Opera?" now that Firefox has such momentum. Here's a Wired article about the future of Opera that points to mobile and handheld devices as the platform it's staking out. Things seem good at the company: ...

Opera tries to force IE into W3C compliance with EU complaint; Firefox s success may work against it: Opera has filed a complaint with the EU trying to get a ruling that forces IE into W3C compliance. Opera wants the EC to hold Microsoft s feet to the fire when it comes ...

The Opera Web Browser, poster child for the niche market, turns 10 this month. Judging by our server logs, 2.8% of you are stoked. If you're at all interested in the browser, though, don't miss this party favor: Party favors: Get a free Opera registration code[...] We're giving away registration ...

Opera Attack on Cryptome Was Opera Rogue Bot: Cryptome got DOS attacked by Opera (the browser company). Interesting answer to why it happened in an email from Opera to the Cyrptome guy. For some reason they left the machine with the bot active (probably a mistake), and it it was ...

Is Opera in Microsoft's future?: Dvorak says Microsoft should dump IE altogether and buy Opera lock, stock, and barrel. This week Microsoft announced that it wouldn't upgrade the Internet Explorer for the Macintosh, leaving that market segment to apparently languish and gravitate towards the Safari browser and Firefox. Microsoft does ...

Eric Meyer, in addition to working the turntables and personally speeding up the entire Internet (at least if you get your news from Apple), has come up with a really slick set of CSS rules and Javascript that can take a garden-variety web page and turn it into a dead ...

Most developers would say that content binding is the domain of XSL. However, I've found there is a CSS property for binding arbitrary content to an element, and it's been around since 1998. Sadly, IE has no support for it, Netscape / Mozilla just partial, and apparently Opera is the ...

Rumor: Google to buy Opera, according to Yahoo Europe president: Um, whoa, assuming it's true. Pierre Chappaz, the former president of Yahoo Europe, claims to have a source, whom he says is generally very well informed, who told him that Google is planning on buying the Opera web browser. Via ...

GROKLAW: A blog devoted solely to the SCO / IBM / Linux soap opera.

Internet Explorer rivals celebrate gains: That's a 1% decline in market share in one month. Security flaws in Microsoft's (MSFT) ubiquitous Web browser are breathing life into Internet Explorer's rivals. Since early June, Explorer's share of the market has dropped from 95.48% to 94.42%, according to San Diego Web analytics ...

Michelin tells teams not to race U.S. Grand Prix: Michelin, who supplied tires for 14 Forumla One teams in this weekend's U.S. Grand Prix, announced after qualifying that their tires were not safe on the final turn at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Problem: In Formula One, you're not allowed to change ...

Link Markers: CSS Generated Content: A good example of something you can do using Mozilla and Opera, but not IE. Makes me want to use XML/XSL instead of HTML.

the sydney opera house virtual tour: Without question, the most incredible use of Flash I have ever seen. And it's used for something you couldn't do otherwise it actually brings value, which is something Flash is rarely accused of. Via MetaFilter.

Oracle says it won't raise bid: More twists and turns than a soap opera. "An Oracle executive said Wednesday that it's unlikely the company would raise its $7.25 billion unsolicited bid for rival PeopleSoft before regulators weigh in on the deal, if ever."

Connecticut joins Oracle fracas: It's like a soap opera. Connecticut's attorney general announced Wednesday that he plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Oracle, seeking to defeat the company's proposed buyout of rival PeopleSoft. We count four lawsuits now: Oracle v. PeopleSoft, PeopleSoft v. Oracle, J.D. Edwards v. Oracle, and ...

PCWorld.com - Best of 2004: Some eye-openers here: Opera as Best Browser? Outlook as Best Email Client? Groove as Best Collaboration Tool? Panther as Best OS seems legit. I like the Dell Dimension 4600 as Best General Purpose PC because I just bought one. Microsoft Money unseating Quicken as Best ...

Schneier on Security: Internet Explorer Sucks: Security God Bruce Schneier tells it like it is. MSIE was 98% unsafe. There were only 7 days in 2004 without an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. Firefox was 15% unsafe. There were 56 days with an unpatched publicly disclosed security hole. 30 of ...

User Agent Switcher Extension: I don't know how, why, or when I would ever use this, but it's a great example of the velocity of the development over at Mozilla. They have an extension for about anything these days. The User Agent Switcher extension for Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla adds ...

What's New in Mozilla 1.8 Alpha1: The level of browser innovation going on over at Mozilla is just fantastic. 1.8 is on the horizon and includes these two choice bits: Find in This Page now also searches inside textarea and text input boxes. Finally. I've been waiting for this for ...

SCO Mobilizes for IBM Unix Battle: Between this and the Oracle/PeopleSoft imbroglio, enterprise IT has become a soap opera lately: SCO will seek to stop IBM from selling its version of Unix, AIX, which has been shipping since 1990 and accounted for 15 percent of all Unix server operating system ...

OpenGroupware.org Complements OpenOffice: A group of open-source folks are looking to torpedo Exchange: "'Just to be perfectly clear, this is an MS Exchange take-out,' said Gary Frederick, leader of the OpenOffice.org Groupware Project, in a statement. 'OGo is important because it's the missing link in the open source software stack. ...

The Eolas Patent: Don't Be a Victim: A well-written article on what the Eolas patent dispute means to you as a Web developer. "The ruling is likely to affect you either as a Web developer, or as a Web consumer. First, despite the fact that Eolas' lawsuit targeted only ...

About Conditional Comments: A handy but pretty obscure feature of Internet Explorer. A special comment format lets only IE see certain HTML / CSS code. So make that Web page look good in Mozilla and Opera, then hide the code necessary for IE in these comments. Conditional comments have certain ...

Being the Averagest: Here's another installment in my extended "we all need to practice more" rant. I have trouble thinking of any modestly difficult profession in which continuous study and practice aren't the norm. Fighter pilots train in simulators before getting into the latest jet. Actors and politicians practice their ...

ScrapBook: This is a great little Firefox extension that lets you save Web pages locally with a right-click. That's handy all by itself, but it also has a browser sidebar that lets you manage and organize everything you've saved. ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web ...

Developers gripe about IE standards inaction: Now that Microsoft has abandoned Internet Explorer, it looks like that browser's bugs are here to stay. "Web developers want to light a fire under Microsoft to get better standards support in the company's Internet Explorer browser, but they can't seem to spark a ...

Teen sued by Apple gains legal help: This is good news, because I think everyone deserves good representation and I love a legal soap opera. A lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said Wednesday he will defend free of charge a 19-year-old publisher of a Web site ...

Here's something handy that my buddy Rob mentioned to me months ago, but that I just got around to trying: I added a new stylesheet LINK tag to the index pages, but with the "media='print'" argument. Thus, this stylesheet will be used only when the browser is rendering the page ...

What science fiction technology -- if it suddenly became a reality -- do you think would change the world most fundamentally? My pick: teleportation. Specifically, telelportation that was afforable for everyone and could not be blocked on a large-scale (you couldn't block 'porting into a country, but you could into ...

THE.SCENE: I'm rapidly becoming addicted to "The Scene," a soap opera about the exploits of Brian Sandro, a member of a DVD-pirating group. There have been 14 episodes so far, and I've watched three of them. Each is about 20 minutes long, and consists of a screencast of Brian's desktop, ...

Shelfari: Invitations and updates: From the official Shelfari blog, posted yesterday. We ve seen the recent emergence of complaints about Shelfari s invitations feature, and it s quite distressing. [ ] It s been about five months since we last touched our invitation design. In June we looked at a number of different designs with ...