Filed under: Internet, Browser Tips, Beta
Opera 9.5 alpha is ready to download
As promised, Opera has released a public alpha of Opera 9.5 today. Aside from the juicy updates like full history search and bookmark synchronization, there are a ton of tweaks and bugfixes in the latest version of this web browser.Here are a few goodies we found hidden in the release notes:
- Added an "open with" feature that lets you open pages with other applications including Firefox or Internet Explorer (for pages that still don't render well in Opera)
- Content blocking improvements
- Added an undo option for Speed Dial
- Improved thumbnail rendering quality
- Automatic page refreshing can now be overridden
- New brushed metal skin on the Mac version
- Dropped support for OS X 10.1 (Puma)

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, ...
