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Get Opera for free - today only!
by Marc Perton Aug 30th 2005 at 8:49AM
Want to get the Opera browser without the annoying embedded ads?
Usually, it'll cost you $39. But today, and today only, Opera Software
is offering the full version for free. The giveaway is part of the program's 10th Birthday celebration.
Whether you love Opera, hate it, or haven't even bothered to try it,
now's your chance to give it a shot. Just hurry; at midnight (PT)
tonight, the price goes back up.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Juan Aguilar said 10:40AM on 8-30-2005
After downloading and installing, you must go to http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml and, in exchange for your e-mail address (or somebody else's for that matter), you get your very own make-the-banner-ads-disappear registration code.
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Stu said 10:54AM on 8-30-2005
to make it free make sure to go to http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml and opera will give you a reg code, otherwise you'll have just downloaded the same old ad infested opera
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Chrs said 10:54AM on 8-30-2005
Great tips, both the editor and first comment, thank you both!
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tpp said 10:55AM on 8-30-2005
btw, if you don't want to use your own Email address, do NOT use random ones. Those "random" ones, more often than people think, actually belong to someone.
Use madeup email addresses using the example.com domain name, that's guaranteed to not belong to anyone, e.g. na@example.com, noemailforyouoneyear@example.com
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Nic Seow said 11:07AM on 8-30-2005
you could always use pookmail.
http://www.pookmail.com/
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AFD said 11:08AM on 8-30-2005
Or you could make up a throw-away address from Pookmail.com, Dodgeit.com, Mailinator.com, etc. to give them.
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Jeff said 1:36PM on 8-30-2005
Why is your link to download Opera is taking me to a Windows version page?
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AFD said 2:57PM on 8-30-2005
#7 - Here is the download page for the 7 other platforms:
http://opera.com/download/
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Man said 7:22PM on 8-30-2005
I'm currenlty using my free Opera to write this comment and troll through Weblogs Inc.
It does seem to knock me offline like when I use Firefox. That's good, I like it.
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Andrew Stewart said 5:54AM on 8-31-2005
I have wanted to get a copy of opera to test my websites in and hate ads so thanks for giving us this heads up!
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Austin said 9:21AM on 8-31-2005
thanks for the tip. i wasn't using opera because of the ads up top... they weren't too annoying really, but ehh why bother when FF doesn't force ads on you.
tried it at work and many of the web aps we have do _not_ work with opera. some problems with FF too so it's not all thier fault.
the interface is nice, and at least you can re-arrange tabs.. my #1 gripe about FireFox. I still use the old version of MyIE2 the most since it has the best compatibility with everything (uses IE core).
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