Monday, June 16, 2008

Opera 9.5 Released

Opera has released it's new desktop version.

Opera 9.5 beautifully engineered

New features contain :

- Faster speed : up to 2 times as fast as the already fast 9.2x builds
- Opera Link : Sync your bookmarks between your desktop(s), opera mini and more
- Fraud protection : According to the company, it is "the first publicly-available browser to protect you from malicious software on the Web." Opera's protection is assisted by Haute Secure, Netcraft, and PhishTank.
- A brand new skin

And of course it is still free. Just click the image above to go to the download site.

After more than a year of testing the alpha / beta / RC builds,
I like the new version, it is much faster,
my only gripes with the new version were :
- When I installed it changed something so that I could no longer just type my search query in the address bar (luckily there is a quick fix : tools, preferences, search tab, edit google properties and check the use as default search provider)
- The close buttons are small (not really a problem as I use mouse gestures)
- The add tab button is moved from the left to the right of the tab bar (but that was also a small change)

So after a small test weekend I like the new version and have not encountered any bug.

Happy surfing!

Edit : 9.51 was released and it fixes a good number of problems users were having with 9.50, just click the banner and you will get the new version.

Monday, June 2, 2008

Newest addition to the family

Yesterday we decided to add another member to the family,
abut the largest we have to day :)

Our newest member is Hector, the Shire horse.
(Yes they are large, but I like large horses and I like their character, just don't put your toes under the horse :))

Hector is one year old, but is already a decent size
(about 1m60, or in hands : 15.3 hands, or for you americans : 5.25 feet)



More pictures can be found : Here