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Zootool Lasso button for Opera

Shaun — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:05:05 +0000

If you’re using Zootool with Opera. Here’s a custom Opera button for the Zootool Lasso.

Zootool does provide a bookmarklet for the Lasso tool for Opera, but you have to have it in your Bookmarks Bar. I don’t use the Bookmarks Bar, so I made an Opera button for the Lasso that you can use in the Address Bar or anywhere in Opera.

Click here for the Opera Zootool Lasso button

It’s exactly the same as the Zootool one except that it’s an Opera button instead of a bookmarklet.

How to create a virtual directory in Apache

Shaun — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:45:10 +0000

Suppose you’re working on your local machine. You’re running Apache/PHP or an all-on-one package like XAMPP. You have a bunch of websites, but you don’t want to store them all under Apache’s webroot. Maybe some of your websites use PHP and you want to test them locally in your browser.

Here’s how to map a directory so you can access it via Apache without it being in the webroot.

Add this to your httpd.conf file:



  Alias /myphpsite/ "D:/websites/myphpsite/"

  
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

Just update “myphpsite” with your own alias and update “D:/websites/myphpsite/” with the drive/directory of the actual site. I tested this using Apache2.2.

How to get the Citi Cards website to work in Opera

Shaun — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:57:18 +0000

If you can’t log in to the Citi Cards website in Opera, here are a couple of ways to fix that…

You need to disable Flash to get the Citi Cards website to work.

For a temporary fix. Press F12 to bring up Quick Preferences and uncheck Enable Plugins.

But you’ll have to remember to enable/re-enable this every time. Or you can setup a a Site Preference to permanently disable Flash for the entire site.

Go to the Preferences settings by pressing Ctrl + F12. Go to the Advanced tab. Click on Content, then click on the Manage Site Preferences button.
Now add a new entry, for the site enter: www.citicards.com and then under the Content tab uncheck Enable Plugins.

After you do this, you should be able to use the site with no problems.

How to fix “find as you type” in Opera 10.50

Shaun — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:43:25 +0000

Here’s how to fix “find as you type” and “find in page” in the new version of Opera (10.50).

I upgraded to the new version of Opera and “find as you type” wasn’t highlighting the search terms. Also, “find in page” wasn’t working either; when I was hitting Enter, it was taking me to a dictionary page. This was really frustrating! Thanks to the Opera Forums I found out how to fix this.

To fix it, edit your search.ini file and add this entry.


[Search Engine 23]
UNIQUEID=368291005FC211DD8DE6B90756D89593
Name=
URL=
Query=
Key=f
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=
Search Type=12
Verbtext=0
Position=-1
Nameid=71103

Just replace “23″ with the next sequence in your search.ini file. So, if your last entry was Search Engine 15, this one should be Search Engine 16. Restart Opera and it should be fixed!

Easy way to enlarge online videos

Shaun — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:15:18 +0000

I find it annoying that when watching videos online most sites only have the choice of original video size and full screen. Some sites don’t even offer full screen. And what’s annoying about full screen mode is that if you have dual monitors, you can’t navigate to the secondary monitor with the video in full screen mode. Here’s a tip to increase the video size.

If you’re using a browser with “page zoom” most browsers nowadays have it (Opera, Firefox, Safari/Chrome, IE7). Just zoom in on the page by using the plus/minus keys or by holding down Control (or Command) and using the scroll wheel on your mouse to zoom in or out. This will increase the size of the video. It’s not quite as good as full screen; most videos don’t look good at full screen anyway. But it does make the video bigger and gives the ability to use your second monitor. I use “page zoom” on almost every video I watch online now.

Try it with this video below. Use the +/- keys on the keyboard or use Control and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

How to search in Opera

Shaun — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:20:44 +0000

Here are a couple of ways that Opera makes it easier to search the Internet and to search for text on a website…

Find as you type

This type of search is similar to FireFox’s find function. Press the forward slash key (/) or the period key (.) and start typing. Opera will find the word as you are typing.

To move to the next search result, press F3 or Ctrl + G.
To find the previous search result, press Shift + F3 or Ctrl + Shift + G.

Read more about this type of search here.

Keyword searches

This type of search uses keyword shortcuts in the address bar. For example, by default ‘e’ is assigned to search ebay. So you can type ‘e wii’ in the address bar and it will search eBay for Wii. To view the default keyword searches, click Tools -> Preferences (or use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + F12) and then click on the Search tab.

Also, the keyboard shortcut to set focus on the adress bar is: Ctrl + L or Alt + D or you can press F8. Take your pick!

Read more about this type of search here.

Custom keyword searches

You can also create your own keyword searches. In any search form field, right-click and select Create Search. Then in the dialog box, assign this search to any keyword or letter.

Read more about this type of search here.