After a teasing post on the blog last week, Opera 10 Alpha is now available for download.

Quote: It seems like yesterday we released Opera 9.6 and now you can all get your hands on Opera 10.0. Rather than ramble on, here's a quick list of what's new:

• Presto 2.2 Engine
• Performance boost
• 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
• Auto-update
• Inline spelling checker
• Opera Mail improvements, including rich text composition and delete after X days
• Widget Improvements on Linux

Can't wait to get your hands on Opera 10.0 Alpha 1, then get it now! Obviously this is a little too soon to expect the new UI so it still runs with the old one from opera 9.6
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Hi,
the wife has spent a day or 2 on the "tidying up" bits of a job... the last pedantic changes to commas, words, spelling, etc.

But now the Quark file won't turn this file into a PDF!

Blaaargh! At some stage over the last day or so the computer must have crashed. Any ideas on how to check for file corruption as we go? Any automated checks on files that would report any corruption as they occur? Anything? Bueler? Bueler?

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Category: Education
Released: Nov 30, 2008
Price: $4.99

Description:
A COURSE in an APP! Perfect for Travelers!! Over 900 questions and answers written by certified teachers and professional translators with a focus on exam preparation. Highlights essential Japanese words and phrases. Both Japanese characters (Kana) and easy pronunciation are included. Prepare for quizzes, tests, and the SAT II exam. Restaurant, hotel, etc. Examine study cards one by one in sequence, and eliminate them from your stack once you've learned them. Topics: Translations include spelling in English and Japanese characters (Kana). Colors, Numbers, Time, Family, Days, Months, Shopping, Hotel, Telephone, Banking, Post Office, Adjectives, Restaurant, Travel, Sports, Sightseeing, Theater, Weather, Health, Simple Conversation, Greetings, and more! CUSTOMER PRAISE Really helped me prepare for my exams. ----Kristian Paras, Senior, Bergenfield, N.J. Hi-thank goodness for your flash cards because I had forgotten a lot. Now that my mind has been refreshed, I can continue and I'm learning so much more. Thanks. ----Sarah Thomas, Student, Seattle, WA Exambusters really helps students. ----John Johnson, teacher, St.Paul, MN This is the best way to master a subject, and it really works! Thanks a lot for all of your help. ----James Shaw, Navy, Sulphur Springs, Texas A real time saver, great for cramming. ----Joe McCarthy, Senior, State College, PA These cards helped my daughter through a very demanding exam period. I will recommend them to my friends. ----Lisa Yumibe, Indianapolis, Indiana Thank you for introducing us to your product. They are a winner. ----Preston Young, President, Learning Dynamics Tutoring, Hackensack, N.J. These study cards are a perfect supplement to any textbook. ----Barbara Silber, Science Department Chair, The Fieldston School, Riverdale, New York Exambusters really do the job! ----Alex Tushinsky, Instructor, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey



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Category: Education
Released: Nov 30, 2008
Price: $4.99

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How many people does it take from Mac Rumors forum to change a light bulb?


1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently.

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs.

1 to move it to the Lighting section.
2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section.

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs.

5 to flame the spell checkers.
3 to correct spelling/grammar flames.
6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" and another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid.

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp".

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct.

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this
discussion to a lightbulb forum.

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum.

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty.

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs.

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's.

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group.

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headders and signatures, and add "Me too".

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy.

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?".

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs".

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/6967?ns=guardianpageName=Football%3A+FA+asks+Liverpool+to+explain+show+of+support+for+convicted+criminalch=Footballc3=The+Guardianc4=Liverpool+FC+%28Football%29%2CPremier+League+%28Football%29%2CFootballc5=Premier+Leaguec6=Daniel+Taylorc7=2008_12_03c8=1127848c9=articlec10=GUc11=Footballc12=Liverpoolc13=c14=h2=GU%2FFootball%2FLiverpool" width="1" height="1" //divpThe Football Association is to write to Liverpool for an explanation into the orchestrated support shown for the jailed fan Michael Shields during Monday's 0-0 draw with West Ham United at Anfield./ppOfficials at Soho Square are considering whether to bring disciplinary charges after taking exception at the manner in which Liverpool have publicly backed a man who has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of a Bulgarian waiter, Martin Georgiev, in May 2005./ppAnother Liverpool fan admitted being responsible for the crime before later retracting his confession and Shields' case will go before a high court review tomorrow. The FA, however, is alarmed that Liverpool should openly use a live televised game to try to influence the matter./ppRafael Beniacute;tez's players wore T-shirts bearing the slogan Free Michael Now during their pre-match warm-up and the actress Sue Johnston was invited on to the pitch with Shields' parents to make a speech calling for the justice secretary, Jack Straw, to "do the right thing"./ppA mosaic was held up in the Kop spelling out Free Michael Now and the match-day programme contained an article declaring the 22-year-old's innocence. "Liverpool fan Michael Shields should be here at Anfield for tonight's game," it began. "Instead, he will be sitting in a prison cell."/ppThe FA's concern is linked to the recent disciplinary case against the Ipswich midfielder David Norris for supporting the former Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick. Norris had been charged with improper conduct after making a handcuffs gesture in dedication to McCormick, who had been sentenced to seven years in prison for causing the death by dangerous driving of two young brothers./ppThe FA's disciplinary department fined Norris pound;5,000 and is alarmed that Liverpool should also publicly back someone convicted of a serious crime and, in the process, open themselves to allegations of playing judge and jury. /ppThe matter became a subject of controversy on radio phone-ins yesterday and the FA will, at the very least, remind Liverpool that it does not believe it is the club's role to take on such issues. "We are not comfortable about this," one source told the Guardian./ppThere is also an element of concern as Liverpool, according to the FA, had not informed the authorities of their plans. In 1997, their then striker Robbie Fowler was fined 2,000 Swiss francs by Uefa for revealing a T-shirt expressing his support for the city's sacked dock workers./pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/liverpool"Liverpool/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/premierleague"Premier League/a/li/ul/diva href="http://www.guardian.co.uk"guardian.co.uk/a copy; Guardian News Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html"Terms Conditions/a | a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/webfeeds/1,,1309488,00.html"More Feeds/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_I9J6nCzqYSY2T1vgV0CwTpWQlI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_I9J6nCzqYSY2T1vgV0CwTpWQlI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/p

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Che poi duemila post non sono neppure pochi eppero’ lo spelling mi piace sempre….