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Mac App Store pins silly 17+ rating on Opera browser
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Internet, Software,
Opera, the least popular of the full Web browsers, became the first non-native browser to be included in Apple's Mac App Store on Thursday. But as per Apple's tradition with rating browsers, it has been slapped with a 17+ rating.
To download Opera from the Mac App Store, users will be prompted to verify that he or she is at least 17 years old.
"I'm very concerned," Jan Standal, vice president of Desktop Products for Opera Software, joked in a statement. "Seventeen is very young, and I am not sure if, at that age, people are ready to use such an application. It's very fast, you know, and it has a lot of features. I think the download requirement should be at least 18."
When it comes to rating browsers, Apple treats the entire Internet as its content and thus always gives the highest rating to browsers, as apps in the App Store demonstrate.
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VIDEO: 10-Year-Old Opera Singer Wows Talent Judges
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Music, Prime Time, Reality, NBC, Video,
Watch out, Susan Boyle. Your (much) younger American match has just been found.
Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent, a small singing sensation wowed the judges with her large voice. That’s when Jackie Evancho, discovered through YouTube auditions, stunned the crowd with her rendition of “O Mio Babbino Caro.”
“I started singing when I was eight years old, because we went to see Phantom of the Opera, so I started singing songs around the house,” the 10-year-old from Philadelphia explained in her pre-taped bio.
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Opera Mini is top free app in all App Store regions
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Productivity, App Store News, Free Apps,
Surprise, surprise - looks like iPhone and iPod touch users the world over are downloading the recently-approved Opera Mini app, a free Safari web browser alternative. In fact, it’s so popular, that it’s the number one free download in all 22 App Store regions. Have you tried it?
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Brokeback Mountain Comes to the Stage
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: FOCUS, Adaptation, Drama, Romance,
Two years after Brokeback Mountain won three Academy Awards comes news of another plan for Annie Proulx’s tale. The New York City Opera has just commissioned composer Charles Wuorinen to adapt the love story for the stage.
Wuorinen said the relationship between Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar was something he has always wanted to tackle. “Ever since encountering Annie Proulx’s extraordinary story I have wanted to make an opera on it, and it gives me great joy that Gerard Mortier and New York City Opera have given me the opportunity to do so.”
While some may think this production is an attempt to capitalize on Heath Ledger’s recent death, the opera’s scheduled date may change a few minds. Brokeback Mountain will not even open until 2013—a whole five years from now.
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Kleer Opera Cordless Headset
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Accessories, Portable Audio / Video, Wireless / WiFi,
Kleer has teamed with the Korean company DigiFi to create Opera, a cordless headset that wraps around your head and over your ears with an iPod adapter. They claim it has CD-quality audio with up to 10 hours of continuous play. The Opera also has multi-point Listen in technology so that four people, if they also have a set of the buds, can listen to the same audio stream. We would love to find a set of earbuds that are really comfortable and have no cords to choke on but might think twice at a MSRP of $98.00.
Google’s RSS Reader Now Wii-Compatible
Posted by Chris Pereira Categories: Internet, Nintendo, Wii, Wireless,
Google Reader has always been a personal favorite of mine among online RSS readers. It’s light, is a part of your Google account, and works well – can’t really ask more than that. While porn and gaming sites have been quick to implement Wii-friendly versions of their sites in order to garner more traffic, Google has now done the same with their RSS reader.
4 Color Rebellion found the page, which has an adjusted resolution and improved functionality for the Wiimote. As Google says, “Google Reader can take advantage of the buttons on your Wiimote, letting you navigate easily from the comfort of your couch.” The controls are as follows:
- up/down: scroll up/down
- right/left: next/previous item
- 1 button: show subscriptions
- 2 button: show links
When showing subscriptions:
- up/down: previous/next subscription
- right: select current subscription
- left: close
- -/+: collapse/expand folder
The page can be found here. The number of reasons to actually move from the chair in front of you TV is dwindling.
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Wii Internet Channel Finally Ready
Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Internet, Nintendo, Wii,
Those Wii owners with WiiConnect24 enabled probably woke to find their Wii slots glowing blue, their consoles fresh with a notification from Nintendo that the final version of the Wii Internet Channel was now ready. For those without the WiiConnect24 service enabled, the full browser is just a system update and a visit to the Wii Shop channel away. Those that have been playing with the Beta version will notice a few new things about the final version. A better manual zoom option has been added, for somewhat better navigation and readability. Users can now toggle or disable the toolbar that has haunted the bottom of the screen, so videos can take up more of the screen and the Flash-based gaming experience should be improved. Along those lines, general performance of the browser seems to be improved; some of the YouTube videos that used to give the browser problems seem to stream and zoom a lot more smoothly now. The browser still isn’t perfect – a lot of the rich media experiences on the web still aren’t supported, but for free this is an excellent option. The browser won’t be free forever, though – after June 30th the price jumps to 500 Wii Points. At $5.00, this is still a decent bargain for an alternative browsing option to a PC.
Nintendo’s full press release continues below.
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Final Opera For Wii Delayed
Posted by Christopher Sasaki Categories: Internet, Wii,
It looks like Nintendo Wii owners will have to wait just a bit more for the final version of the Opera browser. According to GameSpot, Nintendo has announced that the browser, initially scheduled to be finalized in March, has been pushed back a few weeks to an April release. Nintendo claims that the extra time will be used to implement a number of changes including:
improved zoning and scrolling, a better zoomed font, quicker start-up times, faster access to favourites, the ability to erase the toolbar, and pre-set buttons for phrases like www and .com.
A toggle-able toolbar would help for viewing full-screen video and playing Flash-based games on the Wii, and the improvements to scrolling will help as well. With this announcement, it also looks like USB keyboard and mouse support is off the table; with the Wii-remote, this isn’t actually a huge deal, but would help with long input forms.
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Bleeding Edge 085: CES 2007 Video: Opera On The Wii Internet Channel Browser
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: CES, CES 2007, Features, Internet, Software, Video Games, Videocasts, Videos,
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Bleeding Edge 085: CES 2007 Video: Opera On The Wii Internet Channel Browser
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Gizmatic, High Score, Short Bytes, CES, CES 2007, Features, Home Entertainment, Internet, Video Games, Videocasts,
The people at Opera took some time at CES to talk with us about developing the Internet Channel for Nintendo’s Wii. We found out some very interesting information on the process, and the interview answers some of the more common questions gamers have been asking since downloading the beta.
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