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Searching Tips for Opera

Jul 21, 2008 Software Leave a comment

Searching in opera is easier and more customizable then ever. Without any add-ons you have 3 powerful ways to search. The first and most powerful search method is the address bar. By simply typing more than one word such as "Web Development" Opera will assume that you wanted to search for "Web Development" and go to your default search engine to display the results of this search. Yes Firefox fans this is where the idea for the new address bar searching came from for v3. However Opera's still has that ace up its sleeve. By typing a 'g' in front of the search you will search Google. So "g osGuide.net" will search Google for "osguide.net". I can't begin to tell you how useful this is. This would be pretty weak if you couldn't search other search engines as well, but of course you can, by default you can search:

• g - google
• y - yahoo
• a - ask
• z - amazon
• w - wikipedia
• e - ebay
• s - yahoo shopping
• b - bitTorrent
• h - browsing history

You can also add any other search engine you like. Just go to Tools > Preferences > Search and you can view all of these default search engines as well as add any you like or change the key used for these search engines. The second is the classic quick search bar which is located next to your address bar. This style of searching is similar to that of IE, FF, and Safari. It also basically works in the same fashion as the other browsers however it allows you to choose from the same 9 different search engines by default. The third search style is Opera's speed dial. A great search location because its on every new tab you open. By default it searches Ask.com, but it can easily be changed to any that you like. To do this Right click on the Search bar > Manage Search Engines > Click on the search engine > Details > check use as speed dial default and you can set it as your overall default search as well.

Personally with only the address bar I have all the searching power I could ever want. I can quickly search Google or turn around and quickly search Wikipedia without changing any settings.

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Wordpress 2.6

Jul 14, 2008 Wordpress Leave a comment

Another excellent upgrade from the guys over at Wordpress.org. They have included a couple small updates as well as some larger updates such as support for gears! I haven't gotten to try it yet but will be in the next day or two. I can only hope the speed difference is as good as it claims to be.

Here is a short video they released that talks about all the new features of Wordpress 2.6.
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SaveTheDevelopers.org

Jul 14, 2008 General Leave a comment

Recently I was introduced to the site SaveTheDevelopers.org. Their mission is simple "Save A Developer. Upgrade Your Browser." They want to speed up the transition from IE6 to a modern browser. What makes SaveTheDevelopers.org so much better than the rest is that it is much more professional looking than any other anti-IE6 "movement" site. Most anti-IE6 sites simply bash IE6 and never tell you why it really is better. They give off the saying that it is better because I said so, which what IE6 user is going to switch because of that? Seriously? Read More..

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The Best Free Media Player for Vista is…

Jun 27, 2008 Software 2 Comments

This time around the Best Free Media Player for Vista it is going to have to go to..
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Songbird 0.6

Jun 24, 2008 Software 1 Comment

This little guy was quite impressive. It has a really slick looking and easy to use UI. It only took me a couple seconds to learn how to get around, probably because it looks VERY similar to another media player.. itunes anyone? Although it looks a lot better then itunes, it needs to be changed.
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Foobar2000 0.9.5.3

Jun 23, 2008 Software 1 Comment

After going to Foobar2000's website I almost didn't even bother to download this media player. The website is VERY plain it does not do justice at all to this media player. Right after you install Foobar2000 it give you a series of choices. These allow you to pick a color scheme, a layout, and some others. I really like this because I got a media player that I like to look at by default.
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