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)

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
