The other day this “duh” idea just popped into my head, so I thought I might draw it up and send it off to get some opinions and reviews.
Basically, I just realized that while adding a new entry to Speed Dial is relatively painless, it could be a whole lot more convinient and here’s how.
If for instance you find yourself checking a specific web site or web page frequently then you might be tempted to bookmark that page or save it to Speed Dial.
If you think about it, to bookmark a page you don’t even have to “leave” the page or switch to a different screen or window to do so.
You can go to the menu item “Bookmarks -> Bookmark Page” or you can just press Ctrl+D.
My idea makes adding or updating Speed Dials more intuitive in a way by adding a menu item to the right click menu of all pages.
I would add the entry “Add to Speed Dial”, which would then open a simple dialog prompting the user to select the Speed Dial entry that they would like to store the current page to.
This would be very handy in my opinion as not all users will realize that they don’t have to copy and paste the url if it is not already listed in their opened pages, frequently visited pages or an Opera page.
It’s also (in my opinion) visually reassuring of which page you are actually adding.
EDIT:
I posted an Opera forum topic about this as well and it has a poll so go vote!
After reading up on my daily dose of feeds at Google Reader I came across Hannah’s interesting/comical post dealing with velociraptors and survival.
Obviously that caught my eye so I had to try this myself. It’s just a fun little 10 question test.
I could survive for 1 minute, 19 seconds chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor
If that’s as long as I could survive, haha, well then why bother trying. I think my strategy would have been to run around under and through the bed to get the velociraptor tangled up so it couldn’t move…much like a dog, haha.
…closer to 9.60 - with a special attention to our Chinese mail users :)
WARNING: This is a development snapshot: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.Known Issue- Dragonfly is still a bit unstable…
Changelog- Several stability fixes
- Fixed copying of multiple entries from history manager
- Fixed DCC transfers in IRC
- Fixed quick find in feeds
- Added popular Chinese mail providers in mailproviders.xml
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Netflix has been nagging at me forever to watch Arrested Development, but I had never heard of it and so I kept putting it off.
Well, Ben happened to have the first and second seasons on DVD so I’ve been watching a show that is turning out to be great!
I can’t believe that it was cancelled after the third season, but then again the narration does get a bit old and the plots of each episode already seem to be growing shorter and shorter.
Nonetheless, I do like the theme of the show and will most likely finish the remainder of the sitcom with a bowl of popcorn at the wee hours of the morning. 
I can’t believe that I hadn’t already heard of this show or seen it aired at all. Did anyone watch it while it was being aired?
I came across a cool little color test yesterday thanks to downloadsquad.com and got around to taking the test today. My scores were a little surprising, but I’m not complaining.
I took the test once and apparently I have perfect color vision. Here are some screenshots:
You should try the test. It took me about 10-15 minutes to just go through them and order the samples. It starts to do a number on your eyes, but it’s interesting in the end.
I came across an interesting read today at Wired.com that was focused on Steve Jobs…just for the day.
Sept. 16, 1985: Jobs Quits Apple
Sept. 16, 1997: Jobs Rejoins Apple
Sept. 16: It’s an auspicious day in the history of Steve Jobs. It’s the day he quit Apple and the day he returned.
I wonder if we can expect Steve Jobs to leave the company again on Sept. 16, 2009 (a 12 year period equal to how long he quit the first time). Probably not. 
Anyways, this article has some other interesting facts about Steve Jobs and this particular topic.
I’m so excited that Gumby’s Pizza is going to be reopening so soon in Raleigh! If you’ve never had any pizza or pokey stix from Gumby’s then you have no idea what you’ve been missing!
Anyhoo, just really excited. I plan on being in line waiting for the opening day, haha. Maybe some pictures of the new place too!
Hello, my name is Øyvind and this is my first post here since I joined the Opera's Desktop Team less than two months ago. It has been a busy time for me, but at the same time, I think it was the perfect time for me to join. I have already witnessed the release of 9.52, and we are getting close to releasing 9.6.
Before I started, I was just a MyOpera member roaming the #weekly IRC channel. Fridays were always a highlight. That's when I got the answer to all my questions. Did someone fix my bugs? Were there any new features enabled? When is the next version due? Now when I am on the inside I get to know all this information every day I go to work. And the best of all, I can now fix bugs myself, as well as play and contribute new functionality for the next release. So now I get to have fun every day. What more can I ask for?
Today we have formally EV-enabled Verisign and Comodo in Opera v9.5 and later, which you can read more about in
Yngve's blog post. So go and try out our new snapshot, and have a lovely weekend.
- ØØ -
WARNING: This is a development snapshots: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.Known Issue- Dragonfly is a bit unstable
Changelog- Special characters are now displayed properly in the Address bar drop-down
- Sorting by progress in Transfers now works
- Cache files from feeds no longer show up in Transfers
- Speed Dial thumbnails no longer disappear when deleting private data
- Page encoding in site preferences can now be reset to automatic
- Dragonfly element highlighting no longer stays on the page after closing the developer tools window
- Browsing Intranet sites now works after changing proxies in a running session
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You can change default hotclick dictionary site & encyclopedia site with preferred site.
Hotclick menu
If you don’t know how to edit menu setup, see this.
To change dictionary site, under [Hotclick Popup Menu] replace
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Hotclick search, 50
with
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY = Go to page, "Search URL"
To change encyclopedia site, under [Hotclick Popup Menu] replace
Item, MI_IDM_SELENCYCLOPED = Hotclick search, 51
with
Item, MI_IDM_SELENCYCLOPED = Go to page, "Search URL"
Go to your preferred dictionary/encyclopedia site → Right click on search box → Create Search… → Details >> → Copy address → Cancel. Replace Search URL in above code with copied address and change %s to %t.
The Opera desktop team today released the first beta of the Opera 9.6 browser.
Major new features include a nicer preview of RSS feeds and a ‘Low bandwidth mode’ for the Opera Mail client. In addition, the typed url history can now also be synchronized between various Opera browsers using Opera Link.
The new RSS feed preview allows you to preview the feed before giving you the option to subscribe to it with Opera’s built-in feed reader. This is certainly an upgrade from the previously unstyled feeds, though I hope Opera will also include some links to subscribe using other feed readers, such as Google Reader and Bloglines (FeedBurner already does this).
Read the changelog
Download Opera 9.6 beta
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