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Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial
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."
Microsoft just announced these features will be available in IE 7.1 slated for release in Q3 2008.
As a classically-trained singer, I heartily endorse this software in the hopes that it will raise cultural awareness of the musical art form.
I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.
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:
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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.
Politicians and Pedophiles: Two groups of exploitive bastards who are most dangerous when they're thinking of children.
I'm posting this from my Wii and indeed typing /. works here as well.
That's not an easter egg. Easter eggs are hidden features which are unrelated to the main task of the program. Usually they give credit to the team in a fun way.
At best, this is an undocumented shortcut. Lots of software has them.
(You can tell it wasn't hidden, because the obvious shortcut for "slashdot" is "/.". If it were hidden, you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item.)
Look out!
Here's a fun trick for you:
/. into that field.
/. as a the URL in your address bar, you'll be taken straight to Slashdot. If you think that's cool, do some looking into the keyword search bookmarks Firefox allows you to create.
Bookmark Slashdot in Firefox. Now right-click the bookmark and select 'Properties'.
In the window that comes up, there's a field marked 'Keyword'. Enter
Now any time you enter
(Accidentally posted this anonymous the first time. Reposting it so hopefully people see it.)
*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:
I use both firefox & opera on my USB stick, but I find Opera more useful. It packs a lot (email with IMAP, IRC+RSS+torrent client, widgets in a small package), and with the latest version, you can block ads and add your own searches, which you could not easily do before (though you could with Firefox). You can also have the browser read pages to you aloud which I haven't figured out how to do with Firefox.
Mod me as a troll, if you wish, but my Opera experience vs. Firefox is similar to Mac vs. Ubuntu. This is not to say that it's necessarily better, but sometimes you just don't feel like configuring everything, and for those times, it's great to have someone who does it right for you, and to top it all, gives it away for free.
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I've wasted my life!
I don't use Mozilla/Firefox because of weird HTML bugs in valid HTML 4.x Strict pages.
There's something wrong when Firefox renders something incorrectly that IE gets right. Particularly for a 9 year old standard (published 18 December 1997).
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A Wingding shovel.
Have fun figuring that one out.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
"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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