I Fell from the Moon

I shall now begin collecting your souls

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Tue, 1 May 2012 14:59:08 GMT

Through my time as being manifested as a mortal man of flesh and blood I've encountered both delights and nuisances alike. One of many such delights are Pizza. And one of the nuisances have been how countless people I've never seen or spoken to as a mortal man seem to consider me their friend. I am of course referring to how you can "add" people as a friend on this very community existing in the relm of what you mortals call the World Wide Web. If only the eternal life had such variations. I think I shall choose to be reborn a human once this short mortal life is done.

Well, I thought it was a nuisance, until May 1'st, 2012 on the mortal time of christians. What a strange way to measure eternity. But I digress. I have now found that this fine community's way of adding friends is the perfect way to collect the souls of the mortal. I have now created and given my acceptance in a contract. One, which transfers the souls of the mortal to my possession upon the end of their life. Upon an entity being exposed to the words of such a contract, the will of the fifteen judges of the eternal life shall be invoked. And upon the fifteen judges receiving information of the act of agreement, the spiritual ownership of the agreeing mortal's immortal soul will be mine. Click the image to see the contract as it appears to those about to transfer the ownership of their soul to me.

How many souls will I collect? Only mortal time will show. Now, my mortal readership, here's the good part. Such a contract can be created by any mortal. Or else an entity like me would not be able to deliver such a contract to the mortal. Here follows the enchantment required:

<div id="contract">
<h2>Contract</h2><p>Under the act of this mortal clicking "Add Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli as a friend" I call upon thy will, fifteen judges of eternal life, to receive confirmation of this mortal transferring ownership of their immortal soul to me, the owner of this page. Their name or moniker appearing in my friend request page shall count as their binding spiritual signature. Their contract can only be broken by their name disappearing from my friend request page. If the cause is me accepting their request, it will be because we are already on speaking terms. If the cause is me declining their friend request, it will be because I wish to release their soul from the contract. Any other cause will also void the contract, such as the friend request page ceasing to exist.</p>
</div>

For the contract to be valid, the mortal must be exposed to the words upon clicking the "Add friend" button. By adding the enchantment to the top of your "About me" text, the contract shall display near the button, making it a valid contract. How many souls can you collect?

Edit: The inline CSS from before doen't work any more. See the comments below for an alternative.

My Opera Share - Opera extensions

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Fri, 8 Apr 2011 17:05:18 GMT

My Opera Share - Opera extensions
Just testing the My Opera Share extension.

Just figured out a way to make tabs stack ...

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:24:06 GMT

Just figured out a way to make tabs stack automatically in Opera 11. From "Tabs" in the advanced opera preferences, set new tabs to open next to the active one. When you stack tabs, new tabs will open in the same stack. #Opera11

College

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:58:09 GMT

Here's a little heads up on the latest events in my life.

My college application was accepted and I'm starting at a University College this July. After three years, I'm confident I'll get my bachelor degree as an IT engineer. I can't wait.

And I just got my drivers license, after spending lots of money on driving lessons, and lots of hard work.

I'll see how my schedule works out when I start college, and hopefully I'll be able to give you guys some regular posts.

Social bookmarks in Opera, finally!

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:26:52 GMT

I've been looking for ways to share and access my bookmarks on the web ever since I tried Delicious and Spurl respectively. I was stoked when Opera Link came out, which actually made me stop using both the other two services entirely. Ever since that I haven't been sharing my bookmark collection on the web. Sure, I've been using social news site Digg and social web page discovery site StumbleUpon, but they're sites I only visit once, and not sites I keep around for when I need them later.

Sure. There's been alternatives around forever. Firefox and Internet Explorer has had sync and sharing extensions for years. I've put my heart and soul into trying to switch to these and other browsers. But using another browser feels awkward and cumbersome, while Opera feels efficient and snappy. Web services integrated into the browser are not worth ditching Opera, which says a lot about this underdog among browsers.

So I'm glad to see another piece of the puzzle has finally fallen into place. I can share my bookmark collection with my friends directly and instantly as it changes. Thanks to Opera Unite and the Bookmarks application I'm about to come full circle in my odyssey of bookmarks in Opera.
:sst: The only thing I'm missing now is a way to make some bookmarks private.

Related links:
Are you a social bookmarking addict? - I fell from the Moon
Bookmarks Application - Opera Unite Applications
Bookmarks on my netbook - Opera Unite on my netbook

We just went through a paradigm shift

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:09:36 GMT

Did you notice it? We just went through a paradigm shift. I'm not talking about the huge one, the singularity, but a smaller one. You can now post your location and status instantly and automatically for your friends to see. Social networking is now almost omnipresent.

I'm talking about Google Buzz. Yeah. That social inbox in Gmail. It might look like another Twitter clone at first glance. But don't be fooled. It's a highly sophisticated social networking platform. You can use it while reading your web sites every morning; you can use it while sharing your photos; you can use it to see what's happening near you; but not least, you can post updates to the web with your location and photos from anywhere.

Google Buzz is now integrated in many of Google's Services, but most importantly, Google Maps for mobile. The Buzz layer in Maps allows you to see updates nearby. You can post your own, whith a photo and geotag, and share it with your friends. Social networking just became more human, and almost omnipresent. But of course, this omnipresence raise a few questions. Is the convenience of Google Buzz worth putting your information in the hands of a huge multinational company? If you're using Facebook or Windows Live you're already guilty of this though.

Opera Mobile 10 Beta on the Omnia HD

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:24 GMT

Until now I haven't been able to browse the web properly on my Samsung Omnia HD. The built in web browser is slow and cumbersome, Opera Mini 4 or 5 beta will freeze or slow down after a while, and Opera Mini 3... Doesn't support even basic stuff from HTML.

So it was a huge surprise to see the beta version of Opera Mobile 10 be released for S60 phones. Opera Mobile 10 Beta, brings Opera's speed and standards support from Windows Mobile and UIQ to S60 phones, coupled with the new user interface innovations in Opera Mini 5 beta.

A welcome feature from the desktop version of Opera is the new opera:config editor. There's a variety of settings available, but the most welcome for Omnia HD users might be the minimum font size setting. The default minimum font size in Opera Mobile 10 Beta is 11, which is common on phones with smaller displays without touch. But on the Omnia HD's 640x360 screen, it's hard to read and links are even harder to hit with your thumbs. Setting the font size to 15 will make text more readable and links easier to touch. Here's how:

Go to opera:config in the address bar
Type in font in the search field
Scroll to the bottom and look for "Minimum Font Size"
Type in 15 in the text field
Click "Save"
Restart Opera Mobile

Once you start Opera Mobile again you'll notice that Opera Mobile has become a bit more Omnia HD friendly. Enjoy!

How Google Latitude helped me find my phone

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:13:32 GMT

I drive a scooter. I have driven a scooter since I was 16, and drive as fast as I can, all the time. As a result I have lost keys, memory sticks and now, my cell phone. A bloody expensive, Samsung Omnia HD, which cost me approximately €739.82.

I was done at work late in the evening, and went home. So I twisted the throttle and jumped over bumps in the road and all. Over a path, and through a parking lot. When I got home, I discovered that I had lost my cell phone. I had no idea where my cell was located.

So I took the wheels hold and drove back to work. It was dark and I used the light on my scooter to look for my cell phone on the road. I locked myself in to the work building and searched for my phone, without any luck. So I called my mother by the phone at work and asked her to call my cell phone while I drove home. I couldn't find it.

But all hope was not lost. I knew my phone had GPS. But not only that. Google Maps was running on my phone with Latitude. A service where you can show your friends where you are. It is useful for friends, but I never imagined it would be useful for me. Because I can actually tell where my phone is located via Google Latitude on the Internet. I turned on my computer and found out that my phone was located near the path I drove on. So I asked my mother to call the phone and jumped on my bike.

I parked in the parking lot and walked up the trail while searching with a flashlight. As I stood in the middle of the trail, I stopped. I could hear my ringtone in the distance. I continued forward, and could hear my ringtone more clearly. When I came to the crosswalk on the main road I saw it. Lying by the roadside. I answered my mother's call and said I found it. Back home I saw that my phone had some scratches. Oh well. Better than losing the €739.82 I bought it for.

Google Maps runs on almost all phones, and Google Latitude works even if you do not have GPS on your phone. You can use it to see where your friends are on Google's Latitude, or check where your phone is in the world, like I did.

This is why you don't use Windows on your public terminal

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:11:17 GMT

Samsung Omnia (I8919) HD feature overview

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40:38 GMT

Samsung released Samsung Omnia HD recently, and I jumped at the chance to buy one as early as possible. Samsung Omnia HD runs Symbian s60 5th edition, just like Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic and Nokia N97. It has a gorgeous 360 by 640 pixels 3.7 inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen. It has an 8 megapixel camera and is the first phone capable of recording HD video. It has GPS, a digital compass and 16 GB's of built in memory.

Capacitive touch is not as accurate as resitive touch and doesn't work with a stylus. But because of the large screen, you won't miss resitive touch. Capacitive touch also feels snappier

Samsung replaced the default home screen with their TouchWiz widget interface, which allows you to add any of 31 pre-installed widgets to one of the three configurable home screens. Before you say wow, most of the widgets are huge disappointments. Some are pretty default home screen elements, and some are just shortcuts to web services or phone features. The music player and radio widgets are the only ones whom offer any interesting functionality. And the calendar widget does not display any information from your calendar, which makes it quite useless compared to the the s60 home screen. However, you can download new widgets from the More Widgets widget. The selection isn't that great yet, but anyone can develop and share their widgets.

The phone has a bunch of other goodies. Some applications have eye popping 3D and reflection effects. Some even make use of the built in accelerometer. When swiping left or right with your finger you'll switch to the menu or photo contacts via a 3D view. The photo contact viewer lets you assign contacts to photos from your phone, and browse through contact photos by swiping up or down with your finger, as if you were browsing through a bunch of polaroid photos.

The music player also have some nice effects. If you tilt the phone into landscape view while playing a track you'll see a cover flow-like interface with all your albums at your fingertips.

Another eye-popping feature is the MediaBrowser application. It displays your photo thumbnails in a horizontal list. Tilt your phone and the photos slide over the screen.

While I haven't compared the GPS on the phone to other phones, it's pretty good. The GPS software included on the phone is Route 66. It detects your position quite fast when in a car or outdoors. And it speaks the directions out loud while driving. It also shows information about businesses and gas stations nearby. But strangely enough I encountered several roads which weren't added to the GPS maps. There's lots of downloadable content as well, such as weather and traffic information.

The phone includes the s60 browser, based on webkit, the core of the Safari web browser. This version features an updated interface which works well with the touch screen. However, it's not as smooth or fast as Safari for iPhone, Opera Mobile or even Opera Mini, which is a shame since Opera Mini gets horribly slow after you've browsed a few pages on the web on the Omnia HD.

The phone comes with a few office tools as well. A calculator, converter, note taker, calendar, business card reader, dictionary, file manager, zip app, document viewer and PDF viewer. QuickOffice however, is a scam compared to the version you got with Sony Ericsson P1i. You have to buy a license key to create documents.

The phone excels on the camera. It's a eight megapixel camera and the first mobile camera that captures HD video. It features geotagging, facial recognition, smile shot, and blink recognition. And the panorama creator is fantastic as it snaps each part of the panorama after guiding you through the viewfinder. You can also upload your photos to Facebook, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Photobucket, Friendster and MySpace. I was unable to log in to Picasa however, which means I'll keep using the Picasa software to upload my photos.

The phone also comes with some other nice software. Such as a motion sensitive version of Asphalt 4. Thanks to DNLA support, it's also a home media server. There's a easy to use podcast app, with a podcast directory as well. Omnia HD features the Smart search app as well, which allows you to search all your content on the phone and Google or Windows Live. The RoadSync exchange sync app is also available. I tried it on Google Sync without any luck however.

The Bluetooth settings interface is the best I've tried on any phone. It displays a radar view with the phone in the middle, and your bluetooth devices around the radar disc. Tap the phone to toggle bluetooth, tap a device to get a menu or drag the device to your phone to connect.

Samsung Omnia HD is pretty slick, and you can't mention all the features at once without losing your breath. But all the time while using it you'll have the feeling it would be the perfect phone if it didn't have these minor annoyances. But it looks expensive and the interface is fantastic. It'll make your friends go wow when they see the phone and their eyes will pop when they see the multimedia applications on the phone.

My Omnia HD arrived

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:35:39 GMT

My Omnia HD arrived by mail today. So far so good. But its taking some time getting used to, since the touch version of Symbian S60 is not as user friendly as other touch alternatives out there. Expect some more coverage when I've tried the phone a bit more.

Really simple image caption

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:04:03 GMT

Caption text
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Caption text

Regular My Opera blog posts don't support captions under the images, even though it would be easy as pie to implement. So I finally got around to making my own codes.

<span class="rightcaption"> [IMG=http://files.myopera.com/drlaunch/thelaunchsite/banner.gif] Caption text </span>
<span class="leftcaption"> [IMG=http://files.myopera.com/drlaunch/thelaunchsite/banner.gif] Caption text </span>
<span class="centercaption"> [IMG=http://files.myopera.com/drlaunch/thelaunchsite/banner.gif] Caption text </span>

Basically, you add a couple of span tags like those above, around the image and caption to have a caption under the image. This is useful for things like image texts, attribution of authors and image information.

In order to make them work, you'll need to add the following code to your account's custom CSS ( Account --> Design --> Custom style sheet).

.rightcaption {
    float: right;
    display:block;
}

.leftcaption {
    float: left;
    display:block;
}

.centercaption {
     clear: both;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
}

Oh, and the new Neo RC2 needs your feedback.

Sorry Mik Furie

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:35:05 GMT

But my new Omnia HD will arrive by mail in a few days. I was going to go with the Nokia N97 because of its touch screen and keyboard combo. But I decided to go with Omnia HD because of its ridiculously long battery life and ridiculously large display.

Some of my readers might know that Furie was lucky enough to become an ambassador for Samsung Omnia HD. But unluckily enough, Samsung didn't see the advantage of sending it out to the ambassadors earlier and receive valuable feedback and endorsement before its release.

So my feelings about receiving it this week are mixed.

I have this thing for bandage

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:39:08 GMT

I do it every day and its so much fun. I like it rough and hard. Driving a scooter that is.

I overloaded my wrist while landing jumps, and now I need to take it easy to let it heal.

Neo Release Candidate 1

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:33:51 GMT

Neo is beginning to look complete. A bunch of bugs have been squished, and I skipped having to override the in line style sheet by importing only the style sheets I need. Because of that, you'll need to change to "Only use my custom style sheet" in the custom style sheet settings.

While it's a release candidate, its functionality isn't going to stay frozen. In fact, I want as much feedback as possible from you, my users. I want as many bug reports as possible and feature requests. After I've implemented the requests I approve, I'm going to release a Neo RC2, and If I'm satisfied, I'm going to clean up the source code and release the final version.

Click here for installation instructions.

Opera Unite

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:48:50 GMT

Opera Unite is Opera's way of giving you back control over the web. Instead of saving your files on websites owned by corporations, you can keep your files on your computer and share them with anyone you want. When you keep Opera Unite running on your computer, your computer becomes a website other people can browse. And this website can contain things like a music player, photo album, file explorer or a chat room. You can even create new kinds of services if you're a web developer.

Anyone can browse your Unite site if they have access to a web browser. You only need to keep Opera Unite running. Your friends on My Opera can see if you're running Opera Unite, and you can see which of your friends are running Opera Unite. You can also password protect all your Opera Unite pages, except the fridge. But since after the rush at the launch of Opera Unite, the service has been rather quiet, which brings me to my question.

I somehow haven't seen many of my friends online in Opera Unite this week. Have you gone back to Opera 9.6? Did you disable all your services? Perhaps you never enabled it. Or are you running services, but aren't getting any visitors? Please vote for your answer in the sidebar poll --> . And make a comment about your answer below. Either way, I'd really like to see more of you keeping your Unite services running when you're online.

Unite really deserves a chance, because it really is revolutionary. It gives you back the control over your content, and allows anyone to run a website. If you value freedom from the strings corporations put on the content you share, please install Opera Unite and enable some of your services. It's really easy. Just run Opera, open the Unite panel, and double click the service you want to share.

Member of the Week! Woohoo!

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:44:12 GMT

Woohoo! After almost four years and lots of devotion, and thanks to everything I've shared with all of you, I've been crowned Member of the Week for the first time. But this would never have happened if I wasn't inspired by my friends and all the kind members of the community.

This one's for you! :cheers:

Compact Setup - New

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:08:38 GMT

Some of you might remember when I shared my beautiful Opera setups earlier. This week, Opera Unite was released, and a new version of the menus as well. My old setups aren't fully compatible, so I created some new ones.

The Compact Menus and Toolbars. They attempt to make an Opera equivalent of the menus in Chrome and Safari. They gather some of the menu bar items in two menus, and remove a few buttons from the address bar. Items you can find by right clicking or clicking a toolbar button are not included in the menus. The search field has been removed as well, but you can search by keywords such as "g search terms" to search google. For a full list of keywords go to Tools --> Preferences --> Search.

There are two versions available. One for the new Unite version of Opera and one for older versions of Opera.

Compact Setups - New

Compact Menu - New
Compact Toolbar - New

Compact Setups - Old

Compact Menu
Compact Toolbar

Instructions

You'll need to save the files in their respective directories. You'll find them by looking at the Opera directory under Paths in opera:about. The menu file needs to go in the menu directory and the toolbar file needs to go in the toolbar directory. If the directory doesn't exist, you'll need to create it. Make sure you save them as *.ini files and not *.* files. Both files are required to be saved correctly for all features to work.

Once you've placed the files in the correct directories enable them from Tools --> Preferences... --> Advanced --> Toolbars --> Compact menus - New/ Compact toolbars - New --> OK.

The Pirate Bay joins Anonymous against Scientology

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:33:00 GMT

The Pirate bay has been assimilated into the legion of Anonymous. Why? To aid Anonymous in the fight against the harmful ways of The Church of Scientology. The Church of Scientology is a sinister corporation, using brainwashing and crime to exploit the followers of Scientology for money, and manipulation of authorities to hide their operations, until Anonymous combined effort, known as Project Chanology cracked their corporation wide open.

The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is a tracker and search engine for BitTorrent, a file sharing protocol where you use a file sharing program to open a torrent file. The torrent file contains instructions for how to connect to a central server. The central server keeps track of people sharing the file, allowing you to connect to these people to download the file.

~~The pirate bay are now linking to Operation Sea Arrrgh II on their home page.~~ The Pirate Bay homepage is no longer linking to Operation Sea Arrrgh II. A pirate themed protest against the Church of Scientology. Many pirates have now been assimilated into the legion of Anonymous.

Anonymous

Anonymous is the name of a legion of anonymous Internet users with roughly the same goals. Anonymous has no leaders and no organization structure, and no specific center of operations, making them an virtually impossible target to take down.

As David himself writes:

We are anonymous
We are legion
We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us

While their operations have been mostly humorous and often misunderstood pranks, they've also gathered forces for great justice. Project Chanology is one of these efforts.

Project Chanology

Project Chanology is a protest movement against the Church of Scientology. It exists to uncover the sinister operations of The Church of Scientology, protest against its methods, and finally bring a stop to its harmful operations.

This is done by protests from Anonymous. They gather in various locations for peaceful protests. Often wearing Guy Fawkes masks and carrying informative banners about the Church of Scientology. Several successful protests have been completed. They've gathered a fair amount of media coverage and followers of Scientology are starting to wake up to their Church' harmful ways.

SeaArrrgh II - Protesting the Cult of scientology - June 13 & 20, 2009 -- from TheDonzerlyLight on Vimeo.

Credits

Thanks to Encyclopedia Dramatica (Warning: Might contain objectionable content) for pictures of anonymous.

Neo 0.5 Beta milestone

drlaunch@gmail.com (Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvli) — Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:32:30 GMT

Neo has gone from being a concept design to a theme. The design is now at beta quality, and I think it's useable for most people. But be warned, it contains a lot of bugs, which I'll be ironing out before the final release. I'll also be working on making the theme look more similar to the concept. But I'm going to drop the rainbow colored menu in favor of red. All red. Neo is my first red design ever.

Click here for installation instructions.