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Apple approves and released on Apple App Store

As you might have heard Apple have approved the Opera Mini App for the Iphone. To be honest I thought it was a no ho-per as Opera operates to mimic some of the Apple product functionalities. So far the new Browser App seems to be a hit with the users, offering faster browsing. Though as it is a first release I see a few improvements which needs to be made. For instance the Apple version seems like a port rather than an individual ipod / iphone product. As some functionality is mainly aimed at the smart phone market.

Apart from that it seems like a solid product which is quite fast and did I also mention it was free? To find this app you might have to search for it as in my whats new section of itunes did not display it as a newly released app as I think Apple does not want to advertise it to much.

Full story to this can be read here

Opera have released a new version of its browser, while not classed a full version step it is still a big step on the performance of the Opera browser. Opera is a seriously misjudged web browser. I have been using the free browser for years since my friend introduced me to it. Now with the new Javascript tendering engine put it on performance on bar or better than Chrome.

If you want a browser which has just about everything build into it, chat, email, newsgroups, RSS then Opera is a worthy checkover. Even my girlfriend uses it.

Download the new Opera 10.50 browser now at www.opera.com

On Friday 6th of March, at work we have noticed that a few of our sites were not working. After a few checks we found out that depending on the area the site would work fine or will not display at all. At first we assumed it could be our local name server list in our DNS settings but when we researched the issue we found out it was not just us that had this problem.

On the BT forum some other web design agencies were having the same problem, and not just with BT, Virgin and Orange seem to be also effected according to some reports. While the issue is beyond the control of the people managing the DNS records for the client we could be held responsible for the downtime of our clients sites.

While this is a temporary issue it still affects area of website ranking, businesses that rely on their website for income and the confusion of Google knowing if the website has been taken down.

Hopefully, whoever caused the problem within the nameservers, the issue will be resolved as soon as possible but I am quite shocked how this problem has been kept quiet and expecting us to ignore the problem not just for the developers but for Internet users.