Ever tried to browse on a phone with a touch screen and felt the urge to use a pencil sharpener on you finger to be able to click links? Or wanted to throw your phone out the window when you realized that you yet again managed to click the wrong link despite carefully aiming with that one nail that is a millimeter longer than the others? Opera has now introduced a feature called Opera
Fingertouch that will take all your frustrations away.

In short, it grows links that you tap close to if there are multiple links nearby. You can then easily tap the link you wanted to open. It also makes form controls bigger and easier to interact with. So to sum up more user friendly browsing on touch devices.

But I might be a little biased so see for yourself :). If you have an UIQ phone you will find a beta version available for download. For the ones without a UIQ device there is a YouTube video you can take a look at.

I got tagged ages ago by ResearchWizard about which 5 things I want to see in Opera. I finally decided to get off my lazy ass and blog. Or actually it meant that I had to sit my lazy ass down in front of the computer and blog.

It wasn't easy to do this because many of the things I want I cannot talk about. So I decided to not talk too much about mobile browsers and concentrate on how I use the Opera desktop browser as a tool to get my work done. I use it quite extensively for other tasks than just browsing. I for example, use it for e-mails, as a notepad, and I use it for keeping track of friends through RSS feeds (and Facebook). The latter seems to have killed pretty much any blogging but that is another story :) .

The first problem I have is that I have three different computers I regularly work on and a mobile phone all equipped with Opera. I would love to be able to share for example my bookmarks and which RSS feeds I have already read. I hate having to set the same feed as read multiple times on different computers.

Another problem I have at work is that I need to encrypt some of my e-mails and I would really like to see PGP inbuilt into M2 in a nice, user friendly way. I am not a security freak and would never dream of encrypting anything private but I have to do it at work and hence expect it to just work... Doing copying and pasting into M2 from an external tool isn't exactly the safest most reliable way.

I want an inbuilt spell checker that doesn't require me to install anything extra and set it up. I frequently install new versions of Opera and there is no way I have time to install it every time. It should work out of the box. It is a bit embarrassing to send e-mails full of spelling errors to customers... and don't forget about my blogs.

Something that annoys me almost everyday is the password manager. Why can't it prefill the fields (with a drop down if there are more than one login)? It would be nice if it was a bit less buggy too.

And last but not least the shallow me really wants a prettier browser. A new logo maybe, better graphical design of the user interface... Sure Opera has plenty of inner beauty but that doesn't really count for browsers :) .

There finally! I wrote a blog. Lets see how long it takes for me to write another one :) .

P.S. Dear Santa, I also want a calender which I can synchronize between all my Opera versions. Oh and if you could add a time machine in there...

I had promised myself I wouldn't go down this road again!It is a bad sign when you simply start working late at night because it makes you think less about work...

If you take private picture on your mobile phone the latest Opera Mini version might not be for you...

Explanation for my non Norwegian friends. Conradi is a Norwegian actor which lost his mobile phone with some private pictures on it. They were put online.

If anyone has ever wondered how we fix bugs at Opera, here is your chance to find out.

Yes, we make quality products:-).

I have some news for anyone that owns a Series 60 phone: We have just released a new version, 8.65. The biggest improvement this time is really usability. We put the user interface on a diet and slimmed it down so now there is more space for the web page itself.

Interaction with forms is much simpler now as you can simply start typing after selecting the field. Shortcuts have been turned into two key shortcuts (hash key + key) to avoid accidental use of them. For fans of the old way of doing things, I recommend taking a look at settings and you might just find some magic to get the old way back;-).

In addition there are some smaller tricks that have been added such as opening a link in a new page (either with a configurable shortcut or by holding down the pencil key when you open a link). Then we of course fixed some bugs and we support more of the newest phones.

Give it a spin and let us know what you think!

How do you know if you just attended a good Opera party? Well, I at least know because I always feel like I have been twisted like a wet towel by some giant hand the day after. My entire body is aching (not just the head like with normal people).

I am just grateful to the wonderful guys that actually do know how to dance and have the patience to dance with me even if it is obvious that I don't know a single dance step. This time I even vaguely remember making it into the air... Great fun and worth all the pain! Well, at least now when the pain has started to go away:-).

Mediumgeek is going extra geek soon. Mediumgeek is flying to Finland attending her first demoparty this week! Assembly '06 to be more specific.



For the ones of you that don't know what a demoparty is, it is gathering of people that come and produce non-interactive audio-visual presentations, which are run real-time on a computer. Sounds a little complicated doesn't it? To put it simpler, it is a party where people do cool stuff with graphics on their computers. In addition, they play games, chat and generally just have fun.


Opera is sponsoring the event and will be setting up a stand there where you can try some of our products, ask questions, and be recruited by us. Opera is also organizing the Widget competition and sponsoring the Browser Compo.



While I am slightly worried that I will feel a bit out of place (that my geek genes don't quite measure up), I am just happy to try something new, travel to Finland, and I really hope I will get the chance of having a beer with my friend Daniel! If there is anyone else there that I know please give me a shout or come and visit our stand at the party!



The group of people going has started a Assembly blog on my.opera.com and I will probably be blogging from there during the event.

This maybe exceeds my medium geekiness a little bit but good news has to be shared:-).



Opera on Series 60 is the first mobile browser to pass the Acid2 test! This is a version still in its early stages but this is definitely promising.

This entry is for anyone that owns a Nokia Series 60 phone. We have finally released a brand spanking new version of the Opera S60 browser and this version runs on all the new 3rd edition phones in addition to the old ones.



I wont go into detail about all the new features and all the improvements. You can read about those on Opera's pages. I will however mention the one thing that alone makes the upgrade worthwhile: Autocompletion with inbuilt search (and that allows you open the page in a new window).

• Type the first character in a url, which you have typed previously, and voila you get a list of all urls starting with that character.
• Enter a search word, select the "Search the web: searchword" item, click Goto, and you will search the web.
• Hit the "c" key after opening the field and you get a list of all the urls in you history.

And let me hint the ones of you that know this from the desktop version. It is not officially supported but let me whisper it in your ear... "search.ini"



Warning: There is no going back to older versions or other browsers that don't have autocompletion. I have tried it and it causes extreme frustration and can potentially damage your phone (you get this urge to beat the phone into the next table when you realize it doesn't have autocompletion).



While you go and download the new version, I will start working on the next version:-).