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June Link Dump

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

First, thanks to Matt Round who inspired me to do dumps in this format, and whose blog is fantastic.
Here is some straight-talking about what makes good tequila. I always found that there is some good, subtle, tasty tequilas out there, but now I know what makes them different. I personally enjoy the very
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JavaScript: The deal with ===

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Most people don’t seem to use the === operater in JavaScript. Some lists of JavaScript operators don’t even include it. It is not as useless as the community’s negligence would suggest. There are times when it can be used to write more precise code. So what does it do, anyway?
==
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Opera 9.5 Review

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

As an Opera user, I was one of the few people excited about their recent 9.5 release. Overall it is a good release, though I’m going to start with the bad news first in a second. I’m going to discuss things from my perspective rather than cover all the features in the change
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Opera 9.5 Screens

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Opera 9.5 is finally out.  I’m one of those weird Opera users, so this is actually exciting news for me!  I’ll do a more complete rundown of the release later on, but for now here are some screens of the new darker, sleeker look ‘n’ feel.
Here is the landing page for the new release, in
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A few minor iPhone tricks

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

These are things I figured out from experimentation. I have no doubt that they are documented out there somewhere, but I’m not much for reading manuals, I confess.
Double-press the menu button
This does one of two things, depending on the context.
iPhone locked: This will bring up iPod controls. The touch screen will now let
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