Hot: Perusing my feeds I saw a link to an article that Opera does in fact pass the Acid 3 test. I was pretty stoked to hear that, since I was pretty sure when I ran my copy of 9.26 and 9.5 through the test, neither one passed or even approached passing. (9.5 was closer [...]
Hot: Traipsing about my collection of RSS links, as I am oft wont to do, I discovered one labeled Blackr. Despite the obvious Web 2.0 name, it struck me as curious and I proceeded. Blackr is described as a way to view Flickr content without all the noise of navigation, comments, and various whatnots. There [...]
Hot: Only the del.icio.us RSS feed can produce such gems as: http://ascii.techhappens.com/ – An ASCII art generator. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/10/10-surefire-ways-to-kill-your-crabby.html – Seen near a lifehack. http://www.myscienceproject.org/j-shot-3.html – Located in the vicinity of jello shot instructions. http://link.ezer.com/tools/google_serps_rank_checker.asp – Nearby a SERP rank checker. It’s such an endless treasure trove of stuff. I would recommend subscribing, and not necessarily [...]
Hot: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070905-first-look-opera-9-5-alpha.html Some interesting tidbits from the article: Opera claims that the latest version is faster than ever before, and our experience bears this out. When running various JavaScript speed tests, Opera 9.5 scored slightly higher (281ms) than the previous released version, 9.23 (546ms). And Opera 9.x, let it be known, smacks silly the likes [...]
Hot: Holy pre-release, Batman! I happened to be going to look for a new WikiSearch panel, and what before my wandering eyes did appear but the announcement on the front of My Opera stating that the Alpha release of Opera 9.5, AKA Kestrel, is available! I’m totally getting it. You should too! My favorite browser [...]
Hot: In a 4 page article on The Register’s buzzard-bedecked website, writer Andrew Orlowski sits down and drills Opera’s CEO and founder Jon von Tetzchner. They discuss the issues of compatability and the speed at which web technology grows and where Opera rates with all of it. (See the HowToCreate.co.uk Browser Speed Comparison if you’re [...]
Hot: http://www.shelfari.com/giania I was tipped off by someone on my LJ friends list yesterday that there was indeed a social site based around books! Thank goodness. I’d been saying for ages I wish I had some place to collect a list of everything I’d read. At one point I tried to keep a .txt file [...]
Hot: Do you long for the days of ‘zines? Running off to follow loud bands who were either extremely concerned or extremely unconcerned with the way of the world? Dressing however you felt like, and sometimes with the express goal of freaking out the normals? Well I more-or-less don’t because I missed the whole thing. [...]
Hot: Just in case you weren’t aware, Opera-tan spells it out for you. What can I say? Lady though she may be, she doesn’t fucking play around, you know what I mean?
Hot: Recently I have been playing around with Twitter. I signed up months and months ago as part of some contest and only recently started using it to assist a friend in figuring out what the big deal was. (Besides, it’s always nice to get your initial awkward moves in a new social tool accomplished [...]
