Sep 202005
 

Last month Opera gave away registration codes for free, now they’re removing the adds AND THE LICENSING FEE! Check it out here. Premium support is still something you pay for.
I like that they use the Bittorrent technology to distribute Opera (as an alternative to regular downloads!).

One feature I particularly like about Opera is the ability to take notes. You don’t need a seperate program, just select text from a webpage, and tell Opera to create a note of it. You will have the text in the note, and Opera will remember from what URL you got the text from.

 Posted by at 23:28
Sep 202005
 

Read the article. This is more threatening than it sounds. Why are these gadgets/devices invented? People like their privacy. But the law is not behind them, not in the way they would like. So there is a market for devices or gadget that go further than what the law will give them. It’s sick. It will only give these people a false sense of safety, since there are other (worse) things that invade their privacy, with further reaching consequences. Think of all the goods you pay for electronically. Think of cellulars with GPS. Or regular cellulars. How about insurance companies asking you questions they are not allowed to asked? You won’t get the insurance if you don’t answer all of their questions!

Give the amateur photographer a break. A lot of software has a LTU for home-users (as opposed to commercial users) that allows them to use the software for free or at a reduced price. Apply the same in photography. Commercially used images should comply to stricter rules than the pictures of an amateur. Who cares if I take a lucky shot of some celebrity sunbathing half naked? I can brag about it with my friends, but other than that it gives me nothing. And it does not harm the celebrity. If I was a tabloid-photog and shot the same picture, that’s a whole different ballgame. And other rules should apply.

 Posted by at 09:18