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- Desperately Seeking Revenue (Microsoft, not me)September 18 2006
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(Originally posted on Monday, July 31, 2006, updated Monday, September 18th)
So Microsoft is going to charge $1.50 (USD) for Office beta downloads. Here's what CNet had to report on the new item.
- Opera 9.01 ReleasedAugust 2 2006
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Opera 9.01 has just been released.
Wondering what’s new? Changelog for Opera 9.01.
I can’t say that I’ve been personally effected by any of these issues, but the x.01 release generally means that any particularly hairy bugs have been worked out.
Download Opera at the usual place.
- CNet on Opera 10July 31 2006
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I was dumbstruck not once but twice while reading Opera reveals version 10 vision (CNet)
Once in the same way most people probably were, wondering: “Why are they talking about Opera 10 already, didn’t 9 just come out?”
Secondly, I was amazed because CNet actually managed to put together an article (341 words) without mentioning Firefox.
Surely someone will be getting sacked later.
- Unplanned ObsolescenceJuly 26 2006
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Question: Name something which used to interest me whenever I saw it but which now I toss into the trash without even being opened.
Give up?
Answer: The most recent catalog from Dell.
- Spoil The WandJuly 26 2006
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If you have the synaptic wherewithal to load this page into a web browser, you’re probably aware that browsers will offer to save your username and password when you login to web sites such as webmail, or Amazon, or the My Opera Forums or any of the roughly 4 gabillion websites out there which offer you (or, more likely, require you) a username and password to join the discussion.
Opera 9 changed the way that it saves passwords, or, more accurately, changed the User Interface.
The new change annoys me. But as much as I might hate it — and I do, like sitting on a dull throbbing tack which randomly heats until I smell my own flesh start to burn — that isn’t enough to make it a bad change, or a good one.