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Opera 9.5 alpha coming Tuesday

Opera 9.5 alpha
The first public alpha of Opera 9.5 is due out tomorrow. Opera might not get as much attention as Internet Explorer or Firefox, but the company deserves a lot of credit for innovation in the web browser market.

Opera Mini and Opera Mobile offer blazing fast page rendering on mobile phones and PDAs. And the Opera browser for the Nintendo Wii makes web browsing on a standard television set bearable thanks to a nifty zooming feature.

So what's new with the flagship desktop web browser? Well, there's a new rendering engine, a bunch of bug fixes, and generally faster program start times. But let's look at the juicier features first.

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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, ...

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