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Opera Browser "Speed Dial"
Blog I have recently started using "Speed Dial" in the Opera web browser a lot more. Even better, you can set the Speed Dial windows to automatically refresh periodically, at intervals ranging from 5 seconds to 30 minutes, so if I want to just monitor a...
[April 8, 2008, 11:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An array of underwater microphones is planned, feeding a dial-up service where you can tune into the merry creatures when you’re in need of some new-age relaxation. Gibbon-centric Google, anyone, or Dial-A-Platypus?
[August 8, 2003, 18:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary (or, A Week With Bill)
Blog Sure got one now, though: "Incorrect Information Specified", it says, just before it should dial. It was a blank screen, with repeated dial tone One likes to have one's routine in the morning: get up, put kettle on, wash, grab email, leave for office.
[February 1, 1997, 7:00]
The Intricacies of International Callback Service
Blog After a few seconds, the switching center calls back the customer and prompts him to dial the destination number. The international call back has speed dial mechanism that is a “faster” means of making international or long distance calls.
[May 12, 2008, 14:03]
Opera Web Browser 9.6 Released
Blog I also like the "Speed Dial" feature, having nine of my most frequently visited web pages easily available and prominently displayed. When I think about it, I wonder why I like Speed Dial so much, when the first thing I do after installing Firefox...
[October 9, 2008, 8:54]
Android becomes an accessibility testbed
Blog It interprets any place where he first touches the screen as a 5, the center of a regular telephone dial pad. To dial any other number, he simply slides his finger in its direction — up and to the left for 1, down and to the right for 9, and so on.
[January 6, 2009, 11:46]
Opera 10.00 Available
Blog The highlight of this release for me, though, is the improvement in "Speed Dial", which has long been my favorite feature in Opera. I have said previously that I wished they would allow more than nine speed dial tabs, and apparently I was not the...
[September 2, 2009, 10:25]
Video IM / VoIP - Where are we now?
Blog In fact, you can have up to six participants of any kind in a chat, so you can have some on video, some audio-only via ooVoo, and you can even invite some via telephone dial-out! I have personally done all of those; I regularly have three-way video...
[March 27, 2008, 10:00]
Opera Web Browser version 10.10 Released
Blog Customizable Speed-Dial. Now you can have anywhere from 2 to 25 Speed-Dial buttons, and you can select the background of the Speed-Dial page. I love Speed-Dial, in my opinion it is the single best feature of Opera.
[November 23, 2009, 19:26]
Shiny Shiny Chrome
Blog There aren't many options in the application, I sadly couldn't stop the 'speed dial' type page from loading when I open a new tab, which is kind of annoying. I wish the "undo close tab" was available on the tab context (right-click) menu, sadly it...
[September 3, 2008, 9:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog you and they will see around 10 kilobits a second, or about a quarter of what you could reasonably expect from a dial-up link. While all might be swimming in Stockholm, friends of mine in the Swedish sticks say they've got a better chance of...
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
Keeping the net connection up no matter what.
Blog There is of course not so good old dial-up. Most ISPs offer a pay as you go dial-up as a backup. In a future post or two I'll take a look at services in the cloud but that can demand super reliable connectivity, here are four affordable ways to...
[December 16, 2008, 12:44]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog That's before the high priced games and other dial-up cash guzzlers kick in. The brochure also proudly advertises a number of dial-up services available over the emailer, including "Live Physic Readings".
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
The Gizmo Project
Blog The audio quality is quite good even on a 56k dial-up connection, and of course it is excellent on a broadband connection. I found that I could receive incoming Gizmo calls when I was at my office, and even when I was at home but connected via dial...
[December 16, 2007, 20:36]
Web 3.0 Community Launches for Semantic Web Developers
Blog As we all know, web 1.0 was where it all started in a totally non-dynamic dial-up ‘go and look for it kind of a way’. Web 2.0 is pretty much where we are now with blogs, social media, push content, broadband, streaming and interconnectivity at...
[June 19, 2009, 8:18]
Isn't iPhone a limited market .... as it is?
Blog Most people just want to dial, talk 'n text, simply. I really think the hype is just that. The iPhone is for fashionistas who think it somehow makes them cool, or Geeks who like working complex things.
[July 15, 2008, 13:09]
CallOut from VoIP Programs to Fixed/Cell Phones
Blog The next step in my process of evaluating and comparing the major Video / VoIP / IM programs is to look at their PSTN/POTS (Public Switched Telephone Network / Plain Old Telephone Service) dial out capability.
[February 14, 2008, 19:24]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Phrack is - or was, or will be - one of the archetypal hacker magazines, starting back in the days of 1200bps dial-up bulletin boards when ASCII graphics were fabulously cool and line noise the last rearguard action of analogue.
[July 15, 2005, 19:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Take the experience of Richard Perlman, who is one of the great and the good of the online world -- creating telco dial-up IP access networks here, being a 10-year member of the Internet Society there -- and can be reasonably assumed to know what...
[November 5, 2004, 17:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Which, at around a tenner more than the normal unmetered dial-up monthly wedge, is much more like it. Thursday Some good news on broadband! Blueyonder, Telewest's 512k cable modem service, just got cheaper.
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
