Fortunately version 8.0 of Opera is coming soon (like tomorrow)
Get yours today!
seriously- Firefox is too much of a pain in the ass. There are a few cool extensions that I wish Opera had, but I hate managing all those extension s and finding the diamond in the rough. At first glance- I see 21 choices for tabbed browsing extensions. Which one do I want? Should I try them all? With descriptions like "Adds tab dragging with drop place indicator," I sure as hell can't find out from the text what is going to happen (that's from miniT extension--also no idea what that's supposed to mean). The biggest problem with the cool extension manager is extension overload and poorly named/described extensions. Joe Bag-of-donuts programmer is not a marketing guy or usability engineer- his extension is built with only the features he wants to use and how he wants to use them. You get 21 different implementations of the same thing. Sucks really.
True, most anybody can reproduce. But not very many people can be parents.
They have kids but the priority is still with flying a plane or swimming the Great Barrier Reef as priorities instead of instilling values and teaching ABC's and answering the onslaught of questions that have no meaning to you, but help kids connect the pieces.
If you can find them, then I imagine just about anyone can, huh?:P
Your witty jab at my intelligence aside, I browsed your website with stylesheets turned off in order to find them. I'm sure not too many people browse with their own stylesheets instead of yours.
Given that a link is intended to "navigate", navigation should not "surprise" people... unless of course, you're Colombus. Navigation by definition is a controlled course. To navigate is to plan a course. None of those lend themselves to a "surprise" of any sort.
And in closing, it does not make me more inclined to see what else is there. Unless I'm at "Homestarrunner.com" I don't want to hunt for easter eggs, your site (being a business) should not make me hunt for information. Everything I need should be easily accessible.
And in closing again.. the tigerlink.org link on your main page is not on the left menu (I know.. it's at the bottom of the page w/icon). But my question is: why have links if you don't want people to click on them? If everything is on the left, why not leave it there only? What if I didn't realize all the information is on the left and I wanted to show someone one of your links? "Hmm I think that tiger link was here somewhere! Let me move my mouse over this entire page to find it!"
And not to further nitpick.. but the orange highlighing when you try to enter a domain name to check? That's strange.
tigerhost.com ranks as one of the worst websites I have ever seen. How could you possibly think it's acceptable to have links appear as normal text? Ok.. that's really all I care to look at, so there may be more things wrong with it, but that in and of itself is pretty darn bad.
.. I play games with my two and half year old toddler.. and I know you were kidding, but it is very intellectually stimulating for me to observe how he views the games and to watch him learn and evolve. Very fascinating indeed.
Since you are geek.. replay have networking built in to it right out the box and you can run a java app on your PC that allows your replayTV to see your pc as a "virtual replay." This allows you to stream the tv shows to your tv from your pc allowing extra storage for your shows. Act now while supplies last and you can get the older models (50XX series) that allow commercial advance (automagic comm. skip) and internet sharing (slow as molasses, but interesting) of recorded shows.
Mix in the progressive scan output and the cheaper price, and case construction that looks "less cheap" than Tivo, and I say you've got a nice product. I've never used a Tivo, and from what I understand, the UI is better than replay, but I'm very happy with this product right out the box (no extra Home Media Option to network). I should point out that I don't have a land line and home networking was a must to get the guide/updates.
I would have chosen DirecTv with Tivo, but my landlord would not have allowed me to put a dish up. So I'm stuck with analog cable and my awesome replayTV.
My research shows that if cost is your concern, you should get a dish or directv system. If you are a new customer, you can get the DVR or Tivo for free, and you pay 5.95 or so per mo for the service. It is a great deal compared to what I pay now for standard cable.
I'm in Central New York, and my cable provider is Time Warner. I also have Cable modem with them as well. I recive no discount for having both. I pay 42 for the CM, and 42 for the standard analog cable (under a 100 channels). For 34 per month, you can get a comprable digital package with the sat. companies. Add the 5 bucks or so for the DVR/Tivo service and maybe another 5 bucks for another reciever and you are just barely above what my cable company charges me for analog cable.
In central New York, we have weather that is not very desirable. From what I hear of Sat. owners, it has not been a problem getting reception, although the installer who came to my house spend a half hour looking at trees and trying to predict where the trees will bloom in spring so that I could get a decent line of sight with the SW skies. Seemed really picky. (Of course, as I mentioned, I never got it installed, so I don't how it would have worked)
in addition to everything you read here, I like Opera because you can customize the ini files. I have my right click context menu able to handle or access a vast majority of my surfing tasks. Mix that with the mouse gestures (which seem more responsive and native than in Moz), and I can browse very quickly. I not only have bookmarks accessable from the right click, but frequent bookmarks (like Slashdot) at a the root level for super quick access.
Also.. Sessions are nice.. you can load a session up that launches all your favorite URLs at once.. It's like a "load all these bookmarks" features.. but it also changes your browser as well.(full screen, side panel, etc)
Oh.. also, the "notes" feature is really handy once you learn how to use it (think notepad running on the side of the browser and integrated with it). You can copy a piece of code you read on a dev forum into a note and when you click on the note, it will take you back to the URL where you copied it from. You can also double click notes to paste the contents into forms. Handy for things like postal tracking numbers and things like that.
All that.. and more! Call now, supplies are limited.
"Not if you sign a non-complete contract"
I'm not sure I know what that is.. but you signed it (presumbably at the time of employment), so you sign away your own rights.. serves you right. Don't complain about not having any rights when you agreed (by signing/accepting the job) to not have them in the first place.
Well, it just looks like clever couples costume. Or.. even if your single.. you can be the "male" part and hand out the "female" part to a female you like at a party.
I don't think this is the avenue for a web design discussion.. but I say skip the intro and go into some content.. like perhaps the blog if you ever get it up.
If you can't tell the difference between efficient and lazy.
I don't understand the constant need to label mouse gestures as lazy. As if moving the mouse all over the screen prepares you for the Mr. Universe contest. My gestures let me back out of crappy posts like this so I can read informative ones quickly... so I can get to gym faster.
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Opera has been around for over 10 years now.. and they are growing.
Fortunately version 8.0 of Opera is coming soon (like tomorrow)
Get yours today!
seriously- Firefox is too much of a pain in the ass. There are a few cool extensions that I wish Opera had, but I hate managing all those extension s and finding the diamond in the rough. At first glance- I see 21 choices for tabbed browsing extensions. Which one do I want? Should I try them all? With descriptions like "Adds tab dragging with drop place indicator," I sure as hell can't find out from the text what is going to happen (that's from miniT extension--also no idea what that's supposed to mean). The biggest problem with the cool extension manager is extension overload and poorly named/described extensions. Joe Bag-of-donuts programmer is not a marketing guy or usability engineer- his extension is built with only the features he wants to use and how he wants to use them. You get 21 different implementations of the same thing. Sucks really.
I like Opera's extension for that too! Oh... yeah, it's built in to the browser.
I can get the gimp for free too. That is totally better than Adobe
Evidently FF does. Everyone claims it to be the "lean mean browsing machine"
True, most anybody can reproduce. But not very many people can be parents. They have kids but the priority is still with flying a plane or swimming the Great Barrier Reef as priorities instead of instilling values and teaching ABC's and answering the onslaught of questions that have no meaning to you, but help kids connect the pieces.
And in closing, it does not make me more inclined to see what else is there. Unless I'm at "Homestarrunner.com" I don't want to hunt for easter eggs, your site (being a business) should not make me hunt for information. Everything I need should be easily accessible.
And in closing again.. the tigerlink.org link on your main page is not on the left menu (I know.. it's at the bottom of the page w/icon). But my question is: why have links if you don't want people to click on them? If everything is on the left, why not leave it there only? What if I didn't realize all the information is on the left and I wanted to show someone one of your links? "Hmm I think that tiger link was here somewhere! Let me move my mouse over this entire page to find it!"
And not to further nitpick.. but the orange highlighing when you try to enter a domain name to check? That's strange.
tigerhost.com ranks as one of the worst websites I have ever seen. How could you possibly think it's acceptable to have links appear as normal text? Ok.. that's really all I care to look at, so there may be more things wrong with it, but that in and of itself is pretty darn bad.
.. I play games with my two and half year old toddler.. and I know you were kidding, but it is very intellectually stimulating for me to observe how he views the games and to watch him learn and evolve. Very fascinating indeed.
Mix in the progressive scan output and the cheaper price, and case construction that looks "less cheap" than Tivo, and I say you've got a nice product. I've never used a Tivo, and from what I understand, the UI is better than replay, but I'm very happy with this product right out the box (no extra Home Media Option to network). I should point out that I don't have a land line and home networking was a must to get the guide/updates.
My research shows that if cost is your concern, you should get a dish or directv system. If you are a new customer, you can get the DVR or Tivo for free, and you pay 5.95 or so per mo for the service. It is a great deal compared to what I pay now for standard cable.
I'm in Central New York, and my cable provider is Time Warner. I also have Cable modem with them as well. I recive no discount for having both. I pay 42 for the CM, and 42 for the standard analog cable (under a 100 channels). For 34 per month, you can get a comprable digital package with the sat. companies. Add the 5 bucks or so for the DVR/Tivo service and maybe another 5 bucks for another reciever and you are just barely above what my cable company charges me for analog cable.
In central New York, we have weather that is not very desirable. From what I hear of Sat. owners, it has not been a problem getting reception, although the installer who came to my house spend a half hour looking at trees and trying to predict where the trees will bloom in spring so that I could get a decent line of sight with the SW skies. Seemed really picky. (Of course, as I mentioned, I never got it installed, so I don't how it would have worked)
in addition to everything you read here, I like Opera because you can customize the ini files. I have my right click context menu able to handle or access a vast majority of my surfing tasks. Mix that with the mouse gestures (which seem more responsive and native than in Moz), and I can browse very quickly. I not only have bookmarks accessable from the right click, but frequent bookmarks (like Slashdot) at a the root level for super quick access. Also.. Sessions are nice.. you can load a session up that launches all your favorite URLs at once.. It's like a "load all these bookmarks" features.. but it also changes your browser as well.(full screen, side panel, etc) Oh.. also, the "notes" feature is really handy once you learn how to use it (think notepad running on the side of the browser and integrated with it). You can copy a piece of code you read on a dev forum into a note and when you click on the note, it will take you back to the URL where you copied it from. You can also double click notes to paste the contents into forms. Handy for things like postal tracking numbers and things like that. All that.. and more! Call now, supplies are limited.
I don't have time to write extensions. That's why I like Opera.
"Not if you sign a non-complete contract" I'm not sure I know what that is.. but you signed it (presumbably at the time of employment), so you sign away your own rights.. serves you right. Don't complain about not having any rights when you agreed (by signing/accepting the job) to not have them in the first place.
iPods retail for $299 (us) in their cheapest form. I you can tell me where to get one (other than eBay) for 200, do tell.
I agree with the parent. This is the first time I've actually emailed friends and family to watch out for this
No it doesn't (Opera 7.23 is fine) ...and the parent is not informative.
Opera (7.23) is not vulnerable to this.
I'm sure this is here.. I'm too lazy to look
Demolition man == Taco Bell
Well, it just looks like clever couples costume. Or.. even if your single.. you can be the "male" part and hand out the "female" part to a female you like at a party.
Sorry SharpFang
If you can't tell the difference between efficient and lazy. I don't understand the constant need to label mouse gestures as lazy. As if moving the mouse all over the screen prepares you for the Mr. Universe contest. My gestures let me back out of crappy posts like this so I can read informative ones quickly... so I can get to gym faster.