Recommended Software and Services

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The list of services and software below is provided as a service of Opera for our users. The items included in this page have been used by either Opera users or our own Opera staff and at their suggestion included on these pages. If you find a software program or service on the net that you just can't do without please feel free to mail our webmaster and suggest that it be included on these pages.

Recommended Software

1Jump for Opera

1Jump for Opera is a free, compact Windows (95/98/NT) program that lets you jump to websites directly using everyday words, such as site or company names, brand names, stock ticker symbols, and nicknames. You can also jump geographically -- Just type a ZIP or postal code; telephone area code; or city name, and see all the sites in that area. The purpose is to get you to your destination in just "one jump" -- then, once you are there, provide you with critical additional information, such as detailed site information, brand information, company information, standardized contact forms, real-time site indexes, and related links. Without exaggeration, there is no faster way to navigate the Web, and no other service provides you with the depth of site-specific information that 1Jump does. Download 1Jump for Opera now! It's a fast download, is free of charge, and very easy to set up, even for the novice Internet user.

About My Cache

About My Cache is a powerful utility to help you keep track of what's going on in Opera's cache directory. By default, your browser keeps copies of HTML-pages, graphics and downloaded files in its cache directory, renaming them with symbolic filenames which the browser later refers to in case you visit a site you've already been to. About My Cache provides an easy way to view the contents of your cache-directory by creating a HTML-file which contains hyperlinks to your cached files. About My Cache also lets you choose the sort order (sort by Type, Date, Size, URL, ....) of the files in your cache and lets you choose what will be displayed (Title, URLs, Local Name, Size.... ) on the result page. This makes it much easier for you to view your cache offline.

Amigo!

Amigo! is a very powerful yet easy to use Information Manager which handles data of any size, in any user defined format, creates hot-links from URL's, e-mail addresses, and newsgroup names, wherever they occur. Amigo! links directly to Opera, Internet Explorer, and Netscape, and can import hot list and capture data from your browser on the fly. Amigo! uses the familiar Windows 95 explorer style interface and has a fast, full text search. Information exchange is a breeze with other Amigo! users.

Columbine Bookmark Merge

Columbine Bookmark Merge is a free memorialware utility for merging, editing, sorting, printing, converting, and publishing Opera Hot List files (2.x and 3.x), Netscape bookmark files, Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) favorites files, and NCSA Mosaic hotlists files. We would appreciate if you could support Gary's efforts of furthering education via the Memorialware concept.

DownloadWizard Plus

Are you tired of the chaos of downloaded files on your hard disk? Are you wasting valuable time searching for files that you already downloaded, what they are for and which website they came from? Do you want to administrate all of your bookmarks in your preferred categories? Are you tired of all the shortcuts on your desktop, just randomly scattered there? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then DownloadWizard Plus is ideal for you. DownloadWizard Plus is your Internet download manager that also administrates your bookmarks and desktop shortcuts. And best of all, you don't have to learn anything new. With DownloadWizard Plus, you can download files and create bookmarks just like you normally do, create and organize shortcuts on your desktop, use full zip/unzip functionality, and search anything you've ever downloaded for any text. DownloadWizard Plus administrates everything exactly like Windows Explorer does with files and folders: in a systematic and hierarchical category tree system. You will be amazed at how you can finally unlock the power of the Internet.

Dropit!

Dropit is a utility for automating filling out internet forms. Dropit's features include:

• Eliminate repetitive typing by storing your form information in Dropit's listbox, then drag and drop to fill out the form.
• Create different listbox files for each kind of form, and load the file that matches the form.
• Using the "tab" option, you can fill out an entire form with one drag.
• Dropit has a special login file for your sites which require a login and password. The site name is shown in the listbox, but your login name or account number and password remain hidden and encrypted.
• Dropit doesn't just work on the internet. Use it anywhere you have repetitive typing to do. Its drag and drop interface is faster and easier than copy and paste.
• Dropit's "always on top" window can be minimized to an icon in your system tray.
• Dropit is small (46k download!!), fast, and easy on system resources.
• Dropit has an easy user interface and online help file.
• The new Dropit Pro has a customizable popup menu which can launch programs and optionally open files with the launched program. You can even set the menu items to start your browser and open a site.

Opera users should appreciate the size and speed of Dropit. Like Opera, it accomplishes a lot for the resources it uses.

InoculateIT

InoculateIT Personal Edition is complete virus protection for Windows 95/98 PCs and Windows NT Workstations. InoculateIT Personal Edition is based on one of the leading anti-virus products in the worldwide market, consistently performing well in independent tests. InoculateIT PE automatically detects and cleans conventional file and boot sector viruses as well as macro viruses that infect Office 95, Office 98, and Office 2000 Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. It provides excellent protection against Internet and email-borne viruses, protecting your PC from infected files downloaded from web sites around the world, and from infected attachments sent to you via email.

NetSonic

Don't spend any more time waiting for your favorite Web sites to load! With NetSonic's patent-pending technology, incredible speed improvements are only a mouse-click away! The latest version of NetSonic now fully supports Opera 3.0, making your web surfing experience even faster and cost-effective. NetSonic is the only accelerator that:

• Gives you maximum Internet speed--with no compromises!
• Free, fully-functional and will never time out!
• Works seamlessly with all major browsers, including AOL and Opera
• Extremely easy to set up, with no extra learning required
• Reduces Internet traffic by up to 80%

Pop-Mouse Lite

Pop-Mouse Lite is a freeware version of Pop Mouse which is an innovative software that lets you access your favorite applications, documents, www pages, program commands, folders and more... with minimum effort! You can create you own menus and toolbars that pop-up when you touch the screen borders with the pointer or by shaking or wiggling your mouse. You've got to try it! Pop-Mouse Lite includes a reduced set of features. Fully functional. Free registration!

SANDRA

SANDRA (System Analyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a comprehensive set of system diagnostic and benchmarking tools designed to allow you to keep your computer running at peak performance.

• SANDRA provides diagnostic, benchmarking, and performance tune-ups for over 65 different hardware devices and subsystems including CPU, Modems, BIOS, Drives, Graphic cards, DOS and Windows Memory, and many more.
• SANDRA includes powerful testing and reporting wizards to quickly gather and analyse system information.
• SANDRA's rich reporting features also allows you to easily save, print, fax, or email detailed system reports within SANDRA.
• SANDRA evens updates herself automatically via the Internet, always keeping you up to date with new technology.
• SANDRA provides powerful diagnostic, benchmarking, performance tune-ups, and reporting features for every major computer subsystem including: CPU and BIOS Hard Drive, CD-ROM and Floppy Drives PCI BUS Modems, Network Monitors, Graphic Cards and Drivers Hardware IRQ, DMA & I/O Settings Windows and DOS memory Sieral and Com Ports Keyboard, Mouse, and Game Controllers Sound Cards, Printers MCI Devices (Audio & Video) Printers Advanced Power Management Windows, WinSock, Modules, Processes DOS Device, OLE, Direct X Protected and Real Mode Interrupts Handlers CMOS.

Scroll++

Scroll++ is a utility that adds advanced scrolling capabilities to your mouse, through an exclusive patented method which uses simple mouse movements to control several operations. Scroll++ turns your own mouse into an advanced wheel mouse, but without using any wheels! Scroll++ works with any kind of input device, including track-balls and touch-pads. Scroll++ provides all the features available in a wheel mouse and more:

Scrolling:

Scroll++ lets you command scrolling without ever touching a scroll-bar. You will be impressed how much more comfortable can be to operate any Windows application using this feature.

Soft-Wheel:

This exclusive feature allows you to emulate a mouse wheel by making slight mouse wiggles (called "glicks") with you mouse. In this way, all operations normally assigned to a mouse wheel can be triggered with your own mouse (or any other one!). Among the applications of the Soft-Wheel feature are:

• Zooming: With Scroll++ you can zoom in and out of documents in all Office 97-compatible applications.
• Navigating: Greatly improve www navigation with Scroll++'s "Back/Forward" feature. Perform searches opening multiple browser windows and switching among them through the exclusive "Next Instance" feature. Use it in IE40 to navigate your folder trees easily and efficiently.
• Editing: If your daily work requires you to use the clipboard hundreds of times each day, you can assign the most used editing Windows commands (Copy, Cut, Paste and Delete) to mouse movements and save lots of time and energy.

WebPhone from NetSpeak

WebPhone gives you the power of enhanced, effective communications by offering full- duplex audio, point-to-point video and interactive TextChat capabilities all in one package. WebPhone delivers high-quality, enhanced audio that automatically detects and adjusts to your voice, so you won't miss a single word. Large video display areas allow you to view remote parties in real time, even over low bandwidth dial-up connections.

• Bypass Long Distance Phone Charges: WebPhone lets you keep in touch with family, friends and colleagues across the globe without long distance telephone bills. Because communications travel in the form of compressed digital packets over the Internet, WebPhone enables you to bypass traditional telecommunications networks. The only costs incurred will result from your Internet Service Provider's standard Internet connection rates.
• Complete Business Telephone Functionality: WebPhone contains all the features you would expect from a high-end business telephone. WebPhone comes complete with four lines, caller ID, call conferencing, speed dial and online/offline voice mail. Store frequently called Internet telephone users in your own personal directory or search the NetSpeak Global Information Server for WebPhone users around the world--all with just a few clicks of the mouse.
• New State-of-the-Art Interface: WebPhone's new state-of-the-art telephone look and feel is highly intuitive. To use WebPhone, all you need is an Internet connection, microphone and speakers. Installation is a snap--WebPhone walks you through the entire process. An Audio Setup Wizard guides you through speaker and microphone configuration. You'll be ready to make calls in just a matter of minutes!
• WebPhone Business Solutions: WebPhone can be used in a variety of business applications to reduce long distance costs, increase productivity, extend communications and serve telecommuters. WebPhone also enhances call centers and business Web sites by allowing Internet users to click an icon to speak directly with a company's live representative--without needing to disconnect from the Internet or wait for a callback.

TopStyle

With TopStyle, creating cross-browser style sheets is a breeze! Even though CSS has been around for years not every browser fully supports it. Worse yet, what is supported is often patchy or buggy, making it very difficult to create style sheets that work in all the popular browsers. TopStyle sorts out these issues for you, relieving you from becoming a "browser expert" and allowing you to concentrate on creating instead. TopStyle eases the burden of creating cross-browser style sheets by providing a powerful multi-browser style checker and validation engine, not only alerting you to invalid entries in your style sheets, but to bugs in popular browsers that may affect the display as well. What's more, TopStyle's color-coded editor will flag any unsupported properties as you type.

WinTabs

WinTabs provides exactly the sort of functionality so many Opera users are looking for--an easy way to switch between multiple documents. WinTabs works by placing a tab for each document in the title bar of the program you're using. WinTabs works for many popular Windows programs, is highly configurable, and runs in your system tray. Highly recommended!

Recommended Services

TracePack

TracePack is the best solution for fast and convenient package tracking--online, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With other package tracking services, customers need a tracking number to track their packages. With TracePack, all that is needed to track a package is the name of the addressee's company. Package tracking data can also be protected with a password at the customer's request. This greatly simplifies the process of tracking packages, and allows you to provide your customers with much better service.

HotWired

You'd think that HotWired got mentioned because they gave us good reviews, would you? Well, apart from the fact that it's only fair enough to return the favor, we believe that they are a darn fine bunch of folks who know what they are talking about when it comes to computer and technology news. So if you are looking for really 'hotwired' content, we suggest you look here first. And besides, we like people who look beyond the hype and tell things as they are. Enjoy HotWired!

Lexiconn Internet Services

If you're looking for an affordable hosting service with the same quality attitude towards customer service, please give our friends Jason and Rob at Lexiconn a chance. Opera Software hosts its US site with them, and we can genuinely say they are tops in reponsiveness and meeting customer requirements.

Zeus Technology

Zeus Technology provides web-hosting companies with high-performance, easily administrable, feature rich web server software. Their mission is to quickly establish themselves as Europe's leading vendor of Internet server software. To this end they fully support (amongst others) the premier European 128bit enabled, Opera software browser. Through their close working relationships with companies such as HP, SGI, Digital and IBM, their engineers have crafted the world's fastest and most scalable Internet server engine. Independent benchmarks consistently confirm Zeus Web Server is the market leader in performance. Upon this world-leading technology, they have built a highly modular, feature-rich product providing the scalability, reliability and usability required for mission-critical commercial applications.