Opera 11 Beta For Win, Mac, & Linux

On 12.02.10, In Applications, blogging, Web browsers, By Dan Calloway

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 2 December 2010

WEAVERVILLE, NC – I recently upgraded my version of Opera for Debian Linux on my desktop PC running Ubuntu Linux version 9.10. I hadn’t used the Opera Web browser for many months, perhaps even years. If Opera 11 beta is anything like its predecessor, Opera 10.63 Stable, then I just don’t know what I’ve been missing.

If you haven’t tried Opera 11 beta yourself, then you must give it a try. This Web browser is truly remarkable in what it can do for the user. It’s smart, clean, and professional-looking interface will astound you.

First of all, the feature that caught my eye right away was the stacked tabs feature. Unlike most tabbed Web browsers these days, such as Mozilla Firefox, Chromium, and IE, Opera 11 beta allows the user to take their pointer and drag one tab over another to create a stacked tab effect. If the user wants to see the Web page that corresponds to a tab below the tab in the forefront, all they have to do is pass their pointer over the topmost tab and hold it there. Opera will reveal in thumbnail windows next to the tab every Web page for each tab including the topmost tab. Then, all the user has to do is slide over and click on the Web page they wish to surf to. Remarkable!

Secondly, Opera 11 beta sports a new feature called “visual mouse gestures.” This feature is activated by the user by right-clicking and holding the right-mouse button down on any Web page to reveal a compass, which allows the user to then move in any direction of the compass, changing the interface to reflect the actions that can be made with subsequent movements. When you complete an action, a notification briefly shows the user what action s/he took. Best of all, the visual-mouse-gesture feature learns this movement and corresponding action and doesn’t reveal itself in the future.

Third, if you’ve used Opera Mail in the past, now Opera 11 has drop-and-drag functionality in the client on the left sidebar that allows you to move mail content into folders and to drag accounts where you want them.

Fourth, this version of Opera has a “safer addressbar” for the Web browser that hides the complexity of Web addresses to make the browser safer to use. Clicking the badge on a website automatically reveals the security information associated with that site.

Fifth, Opera 11 beta has a “smart search” query field that automatically makes suggestions as you type in your search query criteria keywords. This makes searching with Opera 11 beta much faster and less bothersome.

And, finally, the Opera 11 beta Web browser contains an extensions functionality area to the right of the Search field that allows the user to see the extensions that are loaded as well as to add other extensions from the extensions library that haven’t been loaded and installed yet.

More than 150,000,000 users worldwide currently use the Opera Web browser. But, if you haven’t tried Opera 11 beta or are running an earlier version of the Web browser, I highly recommend upgrading to the latest beta version. I’ve been running it on my Linux platform for several days now and haven’t had any issues, including crashes.

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Introducing “The Chronicler’s Web” Toolbar for the Firefox Web Browser

On 05.14.10, In add-ons, Web browsers, By dancalloway

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 14 May 2010

WEAVERVILLE, NC – I have created a toolbar add-on for the Mozilla Firefox 3.x Web browser that I would like all my subscribers and site visitors to try out. This browser toolbar add-on is easy to download and install and is entirely safe and free of adware, spyware, and viruses.

The Web browser toolbar installs like any other toolbar that you may have currently running in Firefox. Once installed, you can always remove the toolbar from view by clicking on View | Toolbars, and unchecking The Chronicler’s Web toolbar temporarily so that you can view other toolbars without taking up too much space at the top of your Web browser window. If you ever want to remove the toolbar, it comes with its own convenient uninstaller, or you can go into the add-ons section of the Web browser and remove it permanently that way. But, I think when you install my Web browser toolbar, you’ll like it enough that you won’t want to remove it or uninstall it.

The Chronicler’s Web toolbar is customizable and, so, you can add your own apps to it if you like. What comes standard in the toolbar is a Google search field, so that you can search the Web directly from the toolbar; a direct link to your Facebook or Twitter accounts; a ticker tape scrolling News, Entertainment, and Technology news feed, which scrolls from right-to-left while you’re surfing the Web–all you need to do to access these feeds is to click on them as they appear in the ticker tape window and a separate Web browser window will open to display the pertinent Website information; a configurable Weather widget; and a configurable E-mail checker that will alert you when you have mail in your Inbox.

To get the toobar, simply click here to go to my toolbar’s download page. With the toolbar, you’ll always be connected to my blog site, which will be only a click away by clicking on the text for “The Chronicler’s Web.’

If you enjoy The Chronicler’s Web toolbar for Firefox 3.x, please let all your friends, family, co-workers, and colleagues know about the toolbar by sending them to my toolbar page above or by sending them to The Chronicler’s Web and ask them to press the “Get the Toolbar” button in the middle of the page near the bottom. It’s as simple as that.

I would like to hear feedback from you after you have downloaded, installed, and used the Web toolbar. You can do this by sending me an email or by visiting the Contact Me page on my blogsite and filling out and submitting the contact form you find there.

Enjoy my Firefox Web toolbar!


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Build a Website and They Will Come…or Will They?

On 05.02.10, In blogging, Blogsite, Web browsers, By dancalloway

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 2 May 2010

WEAVERVILLE, NC – There was a time in the mid- to late-90′s when I could build a website using one of my favorite web-authoring tools at the time such as FrontPage or PageMaker, and after publishing the site, I could be guaranteed that site visitors would find it. Today, this is not the case at all.

Back in the early days of the Worldwide Web (W3) there were only a scant few hundred thousand or million web pages that had been published and available for site visitors to visit. Today, there are literally billions of web pages on the Internet. What this means is that if you build a website and expect people to find it, then you’re in for quite a surprise. It would be similar to erecting a coffee shop in the Mojave desert and expecting people to be lining up at the counter waiting to be served. It’s simply not going to happen.

So, what used to be true; that is, that I could build a website and they would come, is no longer the case. What I have to do today is be smarter about how I draw traffic to my website. And, I do this using the technology made available to me in WordPress.

Site visitors on the W3 find your website today by plugging in keywords and phrases in the major search engines like Google, Ask, AOL, Yahoo, etc., and what results are pages of links to the results of their search that come from previous searches conducted by the search engines and cached on their servers. These searches conducted by the major search engines are performed by what is referred to as Web bots. These bots go out and look for web pages that have been published to the W3 and they index their searches based on meta tags that have been (or should be) placed on those pages. The meta tags are invisible to humans but not to the bots. But where do these meta tags (or keywords) come from? They are incorporated on the web pages as they are designed by the web designers in XHTML or PHP.

WordPress allows the everyday person (not necessarily a professional web designer) to incorporate keywords into their websites in the appropriate places and in the appropriate quantities so that Search Engines can find them, but at the same time, not reject them when they do. This is accomplished with a plugin for WordPress called “All-in-One SEO Pack.”

The All-in-One SEO Pack plugin is available by searching for it in the Plugins | Add New Plugins section. Once installed and activated, all the user has to do is tell WordPress to use the meta tags generated by keywords the user assigns to his/her blog posts and the SEO plugin automatically updates the meta tags for those posts so that Web bots can find them during their daily website indexing missions.

If you install the All-in-One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress into your WordPress blog, you’ll notice an increase in site visitors within the first two weeks after doing so. As time progresses, you’ll notice an even greater frequency of site visitors, and in larger numbers flocking to your website. I know I have. It works and, as a result, I can once again say: “If I build a Website, they will come.”

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Google Chrome Web Browser

On 03.08.10, In Web browsers, By dancalloway

by DAN CALLOWAY
Published 8 March 2010

GOOGLE – I recently discovered that the Google Chrome (beta) Web browser is available for Debian Linux. Since I use Ubuntu 9.10 now fairly exclusively, this was a treat since I loved the look and feel of this Web browser in Windows. However, for some reason, it seemed to crash a lot in Windows, especially Windows XP Home Edition. But, not so in Linux.

Here’s what Google Chrome has to offer:

Speed: Fast to launch, fast to load web pages

  • Quick to start up from your desktop
  • Loads web pages in a snap
  • Runs web applications faster than ever

Simplicity: Designed for efficiency and ease of use

  • Search and navigate to web pages from the same box
  • Arrange and organize tabs however you wish — quickly and easily
  • Get to your favorite websites with just a click, from the thumbnails of your most visited sites in the New Tab page

Style: Themes to add delight to your browser

Try Minimalist or Star Gazing.

For all themes, check out the Google Chrome Themes Gallery.

Download the latest version of the Google Chrome Web browser from the Help Center. There you will see download versions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Introducing K-Meleon 1.5.3 Web Browser

On 02.05.10, In Web browsers, By dancalloway

by DAN CALLOWAY (Source: Wikipedia.com)
Published 5 February 2010 @ 16:11 UTC

WEAVERVILLE, NC – K-Meleon is a web browser for the Microsoft Windows platform. Based on the same Gecko layout engine as Mozilla Firefox, K-Meleon uses native Windows API to create the user interface (instead of using Mozilla’s cross-platform XUL layer), and as a result, is tightly integrated into the look and feel of the Windows desktop; this approach is similar to that of Galeon and Epiphany (for the GNOME desktop), and Camino (for Mac OS X). This also makes K-Meleon less resource-intensive and more responsive to user input.

K-Meleon is released under the GNU General Public License and runs on the Win32 platform. The current release version of K-Meleon is 1.5.3, which was released on May 8, 2009. This release is based on the Gecko 1.8.1.21 rendering engine.

K-Meleon has a highly flexible interface design. All the menus and toolbar buttons can be customized using its configuration files. This feature can be very useful in an environment where the general public has access to the browser such as a library or Internet cafe. Despite its usefulness, it may be intimidating to an end-user, as there is no GUI to customize the individual toolbars. A user must edit the toolbar configuration file to make any changes in the button layouts, although one can move around the toolbars by simply dragging their handles.

The use of Windows native interface means that K-Meleon does not support Mozilla-based themes. Compatibility with Mozilla extensions is also limited, with only a few extensions that can be integrated. However, K-Meleon has its own plugins (called “kplugins”) and browser themes, (the default being Phoenity) which can extend the functionality and customize the appearance of the browser. There is also a macro plugin which allows users to extend the browser functionality without having to know the C programming language.

Download the latest stable version 1.5.3 in your native language from Source Forge.

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