Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve got to hand it to the kids at Opera who somehow manage to maintain relevance while battling Microsoft, Apple, Google and Mozilla for browser market-share. Opera 10 is now available for download featuring a redesigned UI, a resizable tab bar with Visual Tab thumbnail previews of each loaded page, and Opera Link synchronization for keeping bookmarks and more synchronized between all your Opera devices. It’s biggest feature, however, is Opera Turbo: a new compression technology that Ikea flat-packs web pages for fast transport over slow connections. See it demonstrated in the video after the break.

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Video: Opera 10 promises Turbo browsing using Scandinavian flat-packing knowhow originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on January 30, 2008 by CyberNet.

Web Browser Wednesday

Did you know that both Firefox and Opera come with shortcuts to make downloading files a quick and painless process? It’s true, but few people know about the shortcuts that can save oodles of time. Lets take a look at how we can trim some time off of downloading files in Firefox and Opera.

–Firefox–

In the Firefox Options there is a setting where you can designate a default location for files to be downloaded. Once enabled it will automatically download all of the files to this location without ever prompting you. Some people like this because it requires far less work since it bypasses all prompts, but you also don’t get to choose the designated name for the file from within Firefox.

It’s okay if you’re not one of those users who have it setup to automatically save files to one specific location, because we’ve got some tricks for you. Here are two ways that you can bypass being prompted for a location and file name on a per-download basis:

1. Drag and drop a download link onto the download icon in the toolbar. This icon is not visible by default, but can be added by right-clicking on the navigation bar and dragging the icon where you would like it.
   
2. When you come across a file that you want just Alt+Click on the link.

Personally I prefer the Alt+Click method of doing thing because it seems faster than dragging a link to the toolbar, but it’s all a personal preference.

–Opera–

Opera also has some great tricks up its sleeve for making downloading both files and images just a little bit easier. If you head on over to the Preferences -> Advanced -> Downloads you’ll be able to specify a default download folder. This is the location used when you try to do some of the things we’re about to show you.

So how can you avoid some of the hassles with downloads in Opera? Here’s what you want to know:

1. Right-click on any link and select the Save to Download Folder option to have the download start immediately without any prompts.
   
2. In the Transfers window (Ctrl+Alt+T) there is a box labeled Quick Download. Whatever address you paste into that box will be downloaded to your default location. You can also add this download box to any toolbar by right-clicking on a toolbar and selecting Customize. Then go to Buttons -> Panels, and drag the Quick Download box wherever you would like it.
   
3. If you Ctrl+Click on an image you will immediately be prompted with the Save As dialog where you can specify the file name of the image. This is an alternative method to right-clicking on an image and selecting the save option.

It’s pretty incredible how many time-saving techniques have been implanted into the browsers, but very few people know about them. If you know of other great ways for quick downloads in Firefox or Opera be sure to leave a comment below.

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Hot on the heels of Firefox 3, the Opera team announced today that they are preparing for the launch of Opera 9.5, and they are doing so by shooting out the first (and possibly last) Release Candidate to the public. This comes just about one week after they added a new default theme to the browser. The Mac version of the theme is depicted in the screenshot above, and the Windows version can be seen here.

Here’s what the Opera team had to say about the big news today:

You might have noticed we’ve focused on stabilizing the Opera 9.5 snapshots lately, waxing the new look and feel of Opera, improving performance, security and most of all fixing a lot of bugs. Almost two years after the release of Opera 9.0, Opera 9.5 is now (almost) ready to be released.

This will be a pretty big release for Opera since this is the first version of their desktop browser to include the new Opera Link technology. With it users can synchronize their bookmarks between both Opera 9.5 desktop and Opera Mini, which is a killer combo.

There’s no mention of a release date for Opera 9.5, but they make it sound like it’s coming very soon. Maybe we can expect to see it out in June?

P.S. If you decide to install the Release Candidate in Windows it’s important to know that it will overwrite your existing (stable) Opera installation.

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We haven’t heard much from the Kleer / DigiFi combo since they finally brought their first Opera wireless earbuds to the US at the beginning of the year, but they’re now back with not one but two new sets of ‘phones, including the follow-up Digital Opera S2 and the Made for iPod Digital Opera S5. As you might suspect, both models are mostly identical, and pack the same 32 foot range and ten hours of playtime as before, along with the usual promise of uncompressed, CD quality audio. The S5 model, however, adds an iPod-compatible transmitter and some control buttons right on the headphones themselves, while the S2 opts for a basic 3.5mm-based transmitter to accomodate your non-Apple gadgets. No word on pricing just yet, but both should be available on June 20th.

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This article was written on October 29, 2007 by CyberNet.

Have you ever been on a page with a ton of animated GIF’s, and all you’re trying to do is read the content? It can get quite distracting, but if you’re using Firefox or Internet Explorer just hit the ESC key. Doing so will immediately pause all of the animated GIF images on the page. Go ahead, try it with this image:

The only bad part about pausing the images using the ESC key is that there’s no way to have them resume without refreshing the page.

One thing that I’ve never understood about browsers is why they don’t have a play, pause, and restart options on the right-click menu for GIF animations. That would be a really nice feature to have, but Firefox and Opera users do have a few advanced settings for GIF animations:

–Firefox Users Only–

In Firefox you can also completely disable GIF animations, or only allow them to play through one time. Here’s what you have to do:

1. In the Location Bar type about:config and hit Enter
2. Type “animation” in the Filter field (to quickly find the needed preference)
3. Double-click the image.animation_mode line and edit it to one of the following:
• none — will prevent image animation
• once — will let the image animate once
• normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over

–Opera Users Only–

If you want to completely disable GIF animations in Opera here’s what you have to do:

1. In the Location Bar type opera:config#Multimedia|ShowAnimation and hit Enter
2. Uncheck the box next to Show Animation, and then save the settings

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