3 Days in Iceland I spent 3 days in Iceland after Christmas and before the new year. Here are some of my thoughts on this trip. Flying out I went on this trip as part of a winter holiday with my family. We started by flying out from Glasgow (Scotland) with Icelandair to Keflavik airport. I won't say much about Glasgow other than the airport is a little confusing to drive through - spend some time beforehand looking at a map. We stayed the night before the flight at a Holiday Inn Express, link here, not to be confused with the Holiday Inn which is 100m to the west of it. Road signage to this effect is not particularly helpful. Finally in Keflavik, the airport itself is quite a ways out of Reykjavik (Reykjavik has an airport, but for domestic flights only), luckily there are is a bus shuttle services - I used flybus - to take you into the city, and these can go right to some of the hotels. The Hotel We ended up staying at Hotel Cabin, which is quite a low-budget hotel. The rooms are small and kind of packed together, making use of a configuration I must admit I've never seen before - 3 rows of rooms on one floor, whereby an unlucky patron (such as myself) can end up in a room with a window that has a nice view of the corridor...

My Vivaldi Wish List – 11 Hi, This time short guide how to watch, not only listen. Level - kindergarten, but questions and requests are purely for adults. Yesterday we dealt with MP3 and MP4 codecs for Vivaldi Commander plus how to tame MP3 Audio. MP4 is more interesting. This time let the screenshots talk more than me. MP4 directory was opened from Web Panel. Film file please open in new Window. (Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) Set the window's size as you like. (Click to enlarge) (The first left monitor has 1600x1200 px, the other 1280x1024, hence the different images.) Move your small window with a film to second monitor (on the right here). (Click to enlarge) Get back the film to your main screen and switch off Show controls. (Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) Digression I The window with the film is a normal Vivaldi window behaving accordingly to Vivaldi laws and laws of Debian's IceWM system. It may vanish under another window...

Putting down the first impressions of using the Vivaldi browser off a Raspberry Pi system on a chip computer. The one I am using is the Pi 3, strongest of the boards so far. The Vivaldi seems to do quite nicely as a browser compared to my previous experiences with either Firefox or Chrome, both of which could not handle too many tabs open at the same time. My CPU usage is low, 12 to 15% while typing this and four tabs open. Watching the YouTube video tutorials for first time Vivaldi users was also a good experience. I like videos that are less than one minute long...

Install the mod in this blog post to get rid of the EV site owner name in Vivaldi. It's not quite as useful as you might initially think. What is an (EV) Certificate? Certificates are a method of verifying that the HTTPS connection you have made between yourself and a third party is secure. It contains some extra data about what kind of encryption should be used, or how long the certificate should last (It has an expiry date). If you see a green padlock in the Vivaldi address bar, it means that the certificate is valid and your connection is secure. An EV Certificate goes a step further and also contains some information about the company that owns the website. It doesn't actually make the connection any more secure, but lets you know who supposedly owns that site. To illustrate this with an example, here is a screenshot showing how Vivaldi displays sites with Bad security, A regular DV Cert (HTTPS) and an EV Cert (HTTPS): As I will go on to mention, it's that bottom address, the EV certificate and it's owner name, that is causing me concern. Why would you want to hide it? Many other people have written articles questioning the usefulness of EV certificates. I don't want to re-iterate that too much, and you can read more

You may have different opinions on what exactly is the best phone charging strategy. I'm not a super heavy user of my phone, and I like to see just how long I can get my battery to last on a single charge. But in doing some experimenting, I found some things I consider a little odd in the latest version of Android (8.0.0). For the purposes of this blog post, I will be using my OP3 Device running the latest version of OxygenOS (which is essentially Android 8). The Problem I like my phone's battery to last. It's sort of a little game I play. Not beign a super heavy user of my phone I can often manage a few days on a single charge. I have decided that when I'm asleep at night, I want to turn my phone off. So I have enabled my phone's auto-power-off function during the night hours...

Rebecca and Eliza I read this article about a chatbot named Woebot, a sort of shrink that works on the Facebook Messenger system. Woebot app   (I have no idea why anyone would want Facebook to know even more about us than it already does?) The article immediately reminded me of Eliza, a program written by Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT intended to show how simple it was to sound human by turning sentences into questions. Eliza is cited at the end of the article. My encounter with Eliza occurred around 1978 when I was recycling from linguistics to computer science at the University of Georgia at Athens. Students in a computer club (there was no CS Department at that time) organized a demonstration of computer games. At that time games were simple programs like Pong. Our daughter, Rebecca Hill, who was about 10 years old at the time, had accompanied me to the event and was as bored as I was by the video games. As I was talking to the guys there about computers, Rebecca discovered a computer running Eliza and started interacting with her...

My Vivaldi Wish List – 08 Addendum Dec 2, 2017, 22:04 I have known that Google Translate is not available in WordPress used by Vivaldi. In such event everyone may and can use Image widget. Download one of the logo (the first one was created with GIMP) firstly, if you want, of course. Dec 3, 2017 - 09:27 ----- Those aforementioned images have appeared too long. It is important to cut left side to first character, if one wants to have sidebar with all items aligned to the left. Here are next logos: Result: ----- Then, instead of pasting to Link to hyperlink to the same logo with traditional caption (Click to enlarge) paste there address of Yandex Translate page. Everything else was left now in your hands or up to you. 🙂 Cheers, veraser Hi, Reading Vivaldi's technical forum one may see people write in several languages - truly international Vivaldi fraternity. Nothing should stop Team Vivaldi to copy the invention to Vivaldi blogs using Google Translator widget...

The current implementation of using split tabs in vivaldi is how should say.. awful? terrible? ..ok not great I'd like to point out the best tab split implementation I have ever seen in a web browser goes to Maxthon2 released like 10years ago... it would be great if Vivaldi tried to better it or at least match it. I have an old screenshot point out some of the behavior of how it worked... ..that web browser skin was my design aswel, miss the days of tabs below address bar and above webpage view made way more sense.. unlike this chromium crap design of tabs above addressbar and and even further above webpage view.. so stupid in design  Anyway the feature is essentially the actual tab bar is split aswel, and whichever active panel you are focused on or were last focused on, is the active panel that new tabs are created on..instead of currently they go back out of the split.. making it kinda crap...