Paul O'Flaherty

Opera finally gets it!

Well it looks like the bods over at Opera have finally realised that nobody is going to pay them for the browser when the competition is free. They’ve removed the banner ads from the browser and done away with the licence fee, although you can still get premium e-mail support for $29 dollars.

The Opera browser includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, e-mail, RSS news feeds and IRC chat and is a good alternative to IE or Firefox (although I still prefer Firefox).

You can get the latest version, 8.5, from Opera.com.

Technology Hits

Technology Hits is a new link blog that I’ve started just to see what AOL Journals are like.

It is simply a link blog to good technology sites and stuff that I come across, and it should be really easy to update as I can post directly to it using AIM or GAIM.

I don’t expect to develop any kind of “conversation” on that site, and intend just to use it as a link repository.

Oh, if you guys have some good links that you’d like to get promoted or mentioned over there, then just drop me and email at paul.oflaherty at gmail dot com, adn I’ll get them up asap.