Daily Archive for August 26th, 2008

Google Suggests: Now out of Beta

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kyleabaker
on August 26, 2008
in News and Web
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Google Suggests, which is an auto-complete feature for the popular Google search engine, has now graduated from Beat school and is now available directly on Google’s main page! The official announcement is in The Official Google Blog.

Previously the Suggests feature was only available by using a specific link to the beta version or by installing a 3rd party script or plug-in to alter Google’s main page.

If you used or tested Google Suggests while it was in the Beta stage (for around four years) then you probably realized that not much has change at all except possibly performance.

According to Katie Watson, a representative from Google’s Global Communications & Public Affairs, not everyone is able to directly use this feature just yet:

This feature is gradually rolling out over the course of this week. Some people might not be able to see it until as late as Friday, so it could take some time.

If you just can’t wait then you may have to use the old link instead until it becomes live and available to you.

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First Opera 9.60 Preview

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Kelson
on August 26, 2008
in Apple, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Opera, Ubuntu, Web Browsers and Windows
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Just days after the Opera 9.52 release, the Opera Desktop Team has posted the first preview of Opera 9.60. Highlights include:

Opera Link synchronizes more data, adding custom search engines and typed history (i.e. URLs that you type into the address bar).

Feed previews when you click on an RSS/Atom feed, so you can look at the content before subscribing.

Mail improvements including:

  • Low Bandwidth Mode. In this mode, IMAP will only synchronize new messages and only retrieve attachments when requested, and POP will only fetch the first 100 lines of each message until you request that it download the full message.
  • Follow/Ignore threads and contacts, making it easier to track discussions when you have a lot of messages.
  • Go To Thread, which filters the view to show only the current thread.

As usual, the preview is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Download the Opera 9.60 snapshot