Opera Mobile version 9.5 is noticeably faster thanks to a re-engineered Presto rendering engine and features a new browser interface and downloadable Opera Widgets.
This looks interesting and Internet Explorer is really slow in Windows Mobile it would seem.
[via Engadget]
All browsers render text a little different from each other.
(Internet Explorer 7, Safari 3 and Opera 9.5 attempts to render Chinese characters with various levels of success in readability.)
I compared Windows Internet Explorer 7, Apple Safari 3 and Opera 9.5.
In my opinion, Apple Safari renders best Chinese characters, followed by Windows Internet Explorer. Opera didn’t look good at all! It’s probably something to do with Microsoft’s ClearType behaving differently. I do most of my web browsing in Apple Safari these days. A pretty good browser but it’s got some memory leak problems and at times use up 1 GB of memory.
It seems that Apple Safari might have some problems with Google Reader. Leaving Google Reader for hours is impossible for me. Yeah, I do open other tabs but they’re just text most of the time.
ROME (AP) — Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C’s and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, died Thursday. He was 71.
Italian Tenor Pavarotti Is Dead
His manager, Terri Robson, told the AP in an e-mailed statement that Pavarotti died at his home in Modena, Italy, at 5 a.m. local time. Pavarotti had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and underwent further treatment in August.
“The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterised his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness,” the statement said.
Speaking from inside Pavarotti’s home, which was guarded by police, Pavarotti’s assistant Edwin Tinoco told Sky TG 24 television that Pavarotti’s final days had been calm and spent at home.
Well-loved by many, Pavarotti did his last public performance in February 2006 during the Winter Olympics opening.
Finally! 9.2 is launched today. 9.2 is not only an important update with bug fixes and the new Speed Dial functionality, it’s also a milestone in spreading Opera to new users around the world: Opera 9.2 for Windows ships with 31 languages.
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This is a pretty good prank actually. A bunch of guys just invaded a lecture hall and acts like it’s a musical scene. I wish it were to happen during my physic lessons. It would definately make lessons a lot more interesting. Sorry, I just don’t get physics.
*Musical Lecture Prank*
Hey, can anyone using Opera browser manage to view through the above embeded video player? Because I can’t seem to view it with Google Video’s player unless I go to the direct link. It works fine with Internet Explorer and Firefox. So far, I didn’t manage to view any of the embedded Google videos with Opera. Can’t seem to find the problem.
I’m quite disappointed today. My graphics card’s VGA feature didn’t seem to work anymore. Now while editing this blog post, everything looks so different for me.
At first I thought it’s my BenQ monitor that went wrong. I plugged the monitor into the lap top and everything looked fine. I am able to extend the laptop desktop to the monitor. So it means the culprit is probably my graphics card.
(My graphics card VGA feature works no more. Now I use DVI.)
I used to run my display setting at 1280 x 768. I am one of those few people who uses this screen resolution. Now I use DVI instead of VGA. And I can’t set to that resolution! Presumably, my graphics card probably doesn’t support that resolution for DVI. It’s a horror!
Now I run my screen resolution at 1440 x 900 which makes my text quite small. Most web pages don’t support resolutions like this. Even my blog is set to favor people using 800 x 600 and 1024 x 768.
So I zoom the text with Opera to 120%. It doesn’t look right. The borders are 2 pixels instead of 1 sometimes. There are problems with the kerning of the text too. I see several underlining faults. These minor errors degrades my internet browsing experience. Sighs…
Maybe I’ll try Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 next week or something.
Opera 9 is out! This release is not a radical change. A couple of updates here and there. I notice they tried to consolidate some of the features too. Nothing pops out when you click on the address bar now. It feels strange after the upgrade but it’s definately a good move.
*New in version 9 is:*
* Widgets. Opera Widgets are tiny applications such as calculators, clocks and weathers. Just press F6 in Windows to get the Widgets out!
* In built BitTorrent support.
* Slight interfaces modifications such as tab previews. You can now mouseover on the tabs to get a preview.
* Better content blocking if you use that. I personally don’t.
If you’re using Opera, do upgrade!
