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I’ve been using Ubuntu 8.10 for a while now, since the first alphas were released, and I’ve been watching the artwork for Intrepid Ibex develop.
Now I think I’ve decided which theme I will be using in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and that is the Dust theme. You can get an idea of what it would look like on the Dust page, but I have mixed the dust theme with one of the proposed wallpapers for Intrepid Ibex that seems to mix well.
After mixing those, I realized that I couldn’t find a good skin for Opera to match the rest of the desktop so I set out to make my own.
I’m really not a big fan of the current default Opera skin, so I set out to find a skin that I felt was universally considered intuitive and easy to follow. That theme to me was the Google Chrome theme.
I had checked weeks ago on Opera Skins and found that no one had made a Google Chrome theme yet. Fortunately, this time I found one and it was done pretty well.
I grabbed the skin Chrome 1.92 and extracted the contents. Then the fun part began. All I had to do was replace a couple of images to make the header tie into the Dust theme title bar and desaturate the rest (or a great deal of them).
After that, zipped it up and tested it out. Here is what I got:
Opera is on the left, compared to Firefox on the right with a theme that was developed by someone else to match the Dust theme.
I will most likely make a Dust skin from the default Opera skin as well, but for now I’m enjoying the Google Chrome-Dust theme. 
I’ll upload it to the rest of my Opera skins soon. I just need to polish up a few graphics and implement the Dust scroll bar (as seen in Firefox) for consistency.
UPDATE (2008-10-08 @ 6:06 PM):
The “Opera Google Chrome Dust” or “Dusty Chrome,” which ever you prefer, is now available in it’s initial release:
http://kyleabaker.com/goodies/opera/skins/opera-google-chrome-dust/
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Opera today released a new version of its desktop browser, Opera 9.60.
Highlights include:
- Feed preview
- Speed enhancement
- Opera Link synchronizes more data (Custom search engines and typed history)
- Mail improvements (Low bandwidth mode, Follow/Ignore threads & contacts and Go to Thread)
This release is a recommended security and stability upgrade.
Opera 9.60 Changelog
Download Opera 9.60
Digg!
This tip will help you to resume a download (especially large size) in the following cases.
- Accidentally removed transfer from the transfers tab.
- Closed Opera with an intention to resume download next day but transfer is missing when Opera is started.
- Resuming download with an another high speed mirror.
The following will work when server allows resuming of broken downloads.
- Start download again and save with another name.
- Stop transfer after few seconds.
- Delete new download file.
- Rename old download file with new name.
- Resume transfer.
[gun via Opera Desktop Team blog]
Today I came across an interesting web site with the goal of keeping people notified when their web browsers are out dated. It’s called Pushup.
It’s a simple project and it’s something that you install on your website so you yourself can make a difference online.
In short, Pushup is a simple javascript file (images and css included) that detects the browser bring used when you visit a web site using it. After detecting the browser and browser version it does one of two things:
- If the browser is outdated: It will display a simple and elegant message notifying the user that there is an update available to the browser they are using and even include a link to the download page.
- If the browser is not outdated: It will stop the script and the visitor will see nothing.
You can download a compressed file containing the javascript, images and css from the Pushup homepage. After that it’s as easy as adding these lines to the header of your web site:
<link rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’ href=’css/pushup.css’ />
<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’js/pushup.js’></script>
Depending on your directory names you may need to slightly adjust those paths. Other than that it works immediately (clear your header cache if you’re serving cached files if you want to see it immediately).
I saw this funny comparison of typical browser users on Choose Opera.
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