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Opera: New Build | 9.5 Beta Coming Next Week

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Opera Watch and the The Opera Desktop Team Blog have posted an announcements that we’ll see Opera 9.5 Beta next Thursday (10/25/2007). They also plan on celebrating the release at the Rock Opera Party in San Fransisco. Looks like it’ll be a pretty cool event, to bad it’s all the way across the country. I’ll drink a beer as I download Opera 9.5 Beta to join in the celebration from afar. ;)

There will be more at the event than just live music, an open bar, and Opera 9.5 Beta. According to an earlier post on Opera Watch, Opera Software will also be launching a new product. I’m really curious as to what this will be. ll have to admit, I’m a bit behind in all things Opera related. Yes, that’s sad considering I’m a self proclaimed Opera Browser fan boy. I need to do some catch up.

As a warm up, the Opera Desktop Team has released a new snapshot build. Keep in mind, snapshot builds contain known bugs and may crash. Use at your own risk. – Though to be honest, I don’t think I’ve ever had a major issue with an Opera alpha, beta, or snapshot build.

Apple Safari For Windows

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In case you haven’t heard, Apple has released a beta version of Safari 3 for Windows. That’s right, Apple has released their special browser for “that other OS”. Sounds like a bad idea to mix software like that… but then again, in this day in age, we have PCs running OSX. Why not Windows running Apple software?

If you look at the “Performance” chart, you might get the idea from looking at it that Safari is incredibly slow. Look again. The smaller number is better, not the bigger graph!

No, I’ve not tried it yet… and to be honest, I haven’t decided if I want to or not.

Picasa Web Albums (Beta)

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It’s been a hot rumor on the net for the past few weeks, and now it has finally materialized. Google’s Picasa photo management software has opened up, for a limited number of people, Picasa Web Albums.

The service, if you can get in, will allow you to host about 1000 images for free. If you run out of room after that, there is the option to upgrade to 6GB of storage for a yearly fee of $25.00. Kind of makes me wonder if that is a direction that GMail will be headed.