You don't need goo.gl. Just edit the url where you are redirected to.

@Chaim Chaikin: I was happy with my xp machine, until it broke a week ago. Going from windows xp to windows 7 is very easy, I like it a lot.

Many asus laptops have this special touchpad (Smart-Pad) from ELAN. Those laptops can also do these tricks (open programs, zooming, scrolling, rightclick, middleclick, whatever).

@ioniconiterm & @Florian Arendt: Currently I have 33 tabs open in Opera 10.01 and its only using 211.760 kB.

I rather use Syncplicity because, with Syncplicity it is possible to sync multiple directories across your hard disk. They don't have to be on one place. That means that you don't have to move directories and files in order to work.

I don't know exactly how the message was, but basically a "woman" asked me to send a wood oven to Ukraine, because the could not afford gas to heat there home.

You could use WolframAlpha, following the description above and wikipedia article about twilight. The best time at sunrise is 'begin civil twilight' and at sunset is 'end civil twilight' respectively civil dawn and civil dusk.

@Sensai: Actually AleksanderAas was before me.

Unfortunately you have forgotten Opera :-(. Lifehacker writes often things about firefox or chrome but forget Opera. It is a shame.

You can do this also in Opera. It is pretty simple: Go to tools->preferences->search. Click on add. Enter a name like &Wolfram|Alpha (by using the ampersand, the icon of the site will be used as searchicon), enter a keyword like wa (so you can enter wa [here your searchquery] in the urlbar to search) and enter [www.wol…

I think that the captcha is to easy, it looks nice, but it is just a javascript overlay.

With Opera you can browse in "User Mode". When you browse in User mode, all the distracting images and stuff will be gone. It works better than this Readability thing.

An own feature of Opera is Block Content, so you don't need a special program or an extension. Just rightclick on the page, block content and click on the image what you want to block.

@MillicentLeto:

@Midget Man: I use XP. I have tried it 3 times, that should be enough.

Well, I will uninstall this app immediately:

What are the extra´s? Notepad++ has those things too...

My mother isn't very strong in her hands. So when she wants to open up a jar, she use the back of a spoon, not the front (that piece what you put in your mouth).

So the main point of this post is that the bars are hide when you go to fullscreenmode? Does this serious need a post?

Opera 9.50: 6.391 seconds