September 2, 2011
Dedicated television apps are not a new idea, but HDTV buyers are usually restricted to using only those that ship with their HDTV. Opera today announced a new app store, called the Opera TV Store, which could provide access to a wider variety of software. Using HTML5 as its language of choice, this new app store hopes to give developers access to a market of users that have so far been inaccessible.
July 13, 2011
While many people set up their mobile phone – such as rooting an Android or iPhone, for example – to allow for tethering and accessing the cellular data network with a PC, it is a practice that is generally frowned upon by the mobile providers. However, there are times when you’re just desperate for Internet access, and you need the larger screen that your laptop offers.
November 2, 2010
If the struggle between web browsers was a war, I’d probably want Opera on my side. Oh, sure, Opera is never the biggest fighter on the field, but Opera never gives up. No matter what, it slogs along, happily adding new features and occasionally coming up with some interesting innovations. One feature Opera has been [...]
October 7, 2010
Opera Mobile Emulator is a must-have testing tool if you’re designing a website. Whether you develop using Linux, OS X or Windows you can test how your site will function on a mobile device quickly and easily. Designing websites for desktops is hard enough. Between Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and the infamous Internet Explorer web [...]
July 26, 2010
To draw a comparison, the internet is like the badlands of the Wild West. Full of opportunities but also a free-for-all, where you don’t know when the next attack is going to come from. The browser is one of the most vulnerable soft spots. The browser remains our main porthole for viewing the web. It’s [...]
July 18, 2010
One of Windows 7′s most exciting new features was the redesigned task bar. Apart from bigger icons, open windows were now grouped per program, and sometimes expanded in so-called preview tabs upon mouse-over. By now, this feature has been added to all major browsers. There’s but one catch. Not everyone enjoys it. Whether it’s due [...]
July 8, 2010
As with any web browser, users of Opera may want to block annoying advertisements from appearing. For some users this functionality is so important that they will only use a web browser that has a good ad blocker available (usually this means Firefox,or perhaps Chrome). Opera does not have as wide of a user base [...]
June 20, 2010
It wasn’t so long ago that tabbed browsing didn’t exist. If you wanted to open a website but you didn’t want to leave the website you were viewing you had only one option – open a new window. Tabbed browsing was first made popular by Firefox, and it has caught on. Now every browser uses [...]
April 15, 2010
As powerful a device as the iPhone is, its native mobile Safari browser leaves a lot to be desired. Until now, it has had no real competition in the iTunes app store , but with the launch of the Opera Mini browser browser for the iPhone – that could change. The launch may come as [...]
December 5, 2009
Firefox is a great browser and we all love it but you might have at some point however tried different browsers. I bet you had a feature or two that you really loved in them and wished one browser could have all you need. Well as it stands today, with so many Firefox addons, almost [...]
