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Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial

Posted by kdawson on from the easter-already? dept.

Thelomen writes "Opera Browser contains an Easter egg that is not widely known, recently reported over at OperaWatch.com: type /. in the address bar and you are taken directly to slashdot.org. Other recent news from Opera is their new Speed Dial feature, present in the most recent build from Desktop Team. At first glance Speed Dial just looks like 9 bookmarks you can open with CTRL+1 to CTRL+9. However, the pages on the Speed Dial are shown in thumbnail and are automatically pre-fetched in background — a useful thing if you have some heavy pages among your top bookmarks."

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  1. In other news... by Ethercircuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft just announced these features will be available in IE 7.1 slated for release in Q3 2008.

  2. Or by malkir · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could just hit your CTRL+1 preset :P

  3. Hooray for Opera! by dreddnott · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a classically-trained singer, I heartily endorse this software in the hopes that it will raise cultural awareness of the musical art form.

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    1. Re:Hooray for Opera! by Bob+Cat+-+NYMPHS · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is that you, Fat Lady?

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  4. Re:easter egg? by l0cust · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree. Its kinda cool and all but doesn't have the charm of real easter eggs. Now the great easter eggs would have been soemthing like:

    1. Type 'nerds' and it opens slashdot, digg, and theregister in tabs.
    2. Type 'mafia' and it opens RIAA and MPAA sites in tabs.
    3. Type 'sux' and it opens microsoft website.
    4. Type 'spam' and it opens hotmail.
    5. Type 'pr0n' and it turns off the pop-up bocker, opens 20 pr0n sites and an online catalog of kleenex in tabs .
    6. Type 'loser' and it opens ascii porn sites.
    7. Type 'kawaii' and it opens aninewnewsnetwork and anime sections of isohunt,piratebay and torrentleech in tabs.
    7. Type 'needalife' and it opens startrek and trekkipr0n sites.

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  5. Why not to put /. on speed dial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *ring*
    Anonymous Coward: Hello?
    CmdrTaco: Stop requesting my website and closing the connection ungracefully!
    Anonymous Coward: Say what? Who is this?!
    CmdrTaco: You know who this is!
    Anonymous Coward: I have no idea..
    CmdrTaco: Fool! I know you have Slashdot on speed dial, don't be playin'
    Anonymous Coward: But I..
    CmdrTaco: I star 69'd you! Don't you be disrespecting my server no more *click*
    Anonymous Coward: ..

  6. Re:easter egg? by GFree · · Score: 4, Funny

    trekkipr0n sites
    WHAT?!? These exist and no-one ever told me?

    I've wasted my life!
  7. Re:So... by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Wingding shovel.
    Have fun figuring that one out.

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  8. Re:g and r by Joebert · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gis mapper !

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  9. Of all articles to show up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I heard about this on IRC, tried it out and this article was the first one that showed.

  10. Amaziiiing stuff by ady1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You mean jumping on one leg while holding the Wii controller open slashdot?

    1. Re:Amaziiiing stuff by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 4, Funny

      "You mean jumping on one leg while holding the Wii controller open slashdot?"

      You really want to taunt a Wii user? He's bound to be in better shape than you.

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  11. Re:Not an easter egg! by zsau · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damn, time to change the keybindings on my apps to something less obvious.

    You use Emacs to run Opera? :)

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  12. Re:Not an easter egg! by R2P2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    A "completely unlikely" shortcut for Slashdot would have to involve the Windows key.

  13. Re:Not an easter egg! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, what do you suggest he use Emacs for, editing text?