Opera 9b2 Followup and Conversations

More on Opera 9 beta 2 (last post). Simplerich has shared his take on it recently (in short, doesn’t like it). What’s interesting is that one of the things that drives him nuts is my favorite feature of Opera! I like going back to the most recently used tab when closing another

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New Asides

Was using the nifty Sideblog plugin for WordPress and liked it very much. But I couldn’t get it to play nicely with the UTW plugin that helps with all my tagging. Basically, with both on, clicking tags was broken along with some other features. So, I spent about 10 minutes today implementing

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Err, I broke my Xubuntu

Suppose you have an Xubuntu install on an old laptop. Now suppose you’re not quite sure what you did… but after a reboot you couldn’t log in. Awkward, eh?

I’m a bit stumped over how to work around this one. I boot in “graphical mode”. I enter my username and password and

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Opera 9 – Beta 2

Opera 9 beta 2 was released today.  Here’s the (windows version) change list for it.  Something dramatic changed with how widgets work.  Apparently, whatever I had setup before is gone.  Guess I have a bit more reading to do… but of what I’ve seen so far it seems a bit more intuitive.

Gliffy – Public Beta

Saw this posted at the Gliffy Blog: Gliffy is now in public beta. More symbol libraries too:

Flowchart
UI wireframes
Floor plan
Network shapes
Basic shapes

I’ve been dabbling around with this in the closed beta for a while now (previous post) and have been very impressed. And with the additional symbols it just got better.

I’d say these

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