Lorre is now talking SVG to a lot more people:
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
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How to install Opera 10 Alpha under Linux
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Opera claims that a alpha or beta version will not interfere with a standard installation, but that’s mainly true for Windows. For Linux you have to be a bit more carefull, but still it’s easy.
How do you install the latest Opera Alpha/beta version on a Linux/ Ubuntu box? The download page doesn’t offer the dedicated Ubuntu versions like it does for main versions. But don’t worry, it is easy.
Opera 10 Alpha in action
There a several version for download, for AMD64 bits for 64 bits systems or intel-linux for 32bits setups. Make your choice.
Then you have to choose for different GCC and QT versions. GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection the standard compiler for most Linux systems. QT refers to the LIBQT libraries. Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt’s primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality. You can check your versions in the Synaptic Package Manager and choose.
I took the easy way: I simply downloaded the bundled version with the latest versions, and it worked.
Don’t take the RPM or DEB’s packjages. They will be installed with installers like dpkg and interfere with your existing Opera browser. Choose the gz or bz2 packages instead.
Download the packages to your home folder, extract, and run!
To extract the bz2:
tar -xvjf opera-10.00-4102.gcc4-bundled-qt4.i386.tar.bz2
Then:
cd opera-10.00-4102.gcc4-bundled-qt4.i386/
And run:
./opera
That’s all! Opera runs just fine. And the new rendering speed is fast, really fast. I noticed that scrolling is not always smooth on complicated SVG pages, but hey, it’s a alpha. Webfonts are cool. Expect a demo here soon.
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CSS Counter for search results
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Most SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts claim they can offer services to any webmaster by helping pushing more traffic to their websites. Not necessarily the PageRank, which is an importance ranking of Google, but the position in Google result pages will be the goal most people are targeting.
Inbound links help, but most traffic to ordinary sites will come from search engine result pages. Even my aunt simply types everything in Google, including URL’s.
The power of Google is that they made their homepage so simple, and the searchbox is so centered, that newbies automatically start typing in there. Addressbar, what’s that? Even the technically smart and userfriendly way of making the addressbar a super searchfield, which was introduced years ago by Opera – and stole my heart immediately – and that is now copied by Firefox and Chrome, and now known as Omnibox – is too difficult for computer illiterates
I’m getting of topic. For generated traffic it does make a difference if your website is listed 7th or 68th. I prefer to have the default amount of results changed to 100. Sometimes it’s a bit hard to see, their is no explicit numbering in Google or Yahoo, so I’ve created a little CSS file that adds a that number: Search Engine Counter CSS
Works in Google
Works in Yahoo
As a CSS Userfile
For Opera users just save this file in the User CSS directory, normally in the profile/css/user path. The you can simply select it in the dropdown menu.
Operation
As a Javascript bookmarklet
An alternative way of operating is a bookmarklet powered by Javascript. Drawback: it doesn’t work, when javascript is disabled.
To install it: drag the bookmarklet to your Bookmarks Toolbar, Links Bar or Personal Bar or whatever it’s called.
Result-counter
A bookmarklet is a little javascript helper to execute some small automated tasks in your web browser
Use: push the button on a Google or Yahoo result page.