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Opera for Near Sighted Cowards (ver. 4)

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Slide 1: Greetings


Welcome to a

HAL-PC Special Event

Friday March  4, 2005



Opera for Near Sighted Cowards (ver. 5)

by Rick Archibald

Slide 2: Theme

Opera for Near Sighted Cowards


A browser alternative

from the perspective of the older surfer,

stressing easy magnification

through zooming, font control, & icon sizing ;


... and a bunch of other features & conveniences.

Slide 3: Introductions 1

  • Who am I?
    • Wearing bifocals for 25+ years
    • Started programming in college in 1964
    • Been using micro-computers since the early '80's
    • HAL-PC:
      • Volunteer Help Committee   (Opera, Linux, ...)
      • SIG Leader:  Linux Workshop, Samba SIG
      • HAL-PC Learning Center Instructor:
        • Basic Computer Use / Basic Computer Use - Linux
        • Moving to Linux
      • HAL-PC Special Event Presenter
        • Linux for Cowards
        • Windows Keyboard Secrets
        • WebMail

Slide 4: Introductions 2

  • Fun with Presbyopia:

    • Can you say "Presbyopia"?

    • Can you spell "Presbyopia"?

    • Can you define "Presbyopia"?

    • Do you have Presbyopia?

    • (Are your arms too short?)



Seriously, Presbyopia  is the medical term for aging eyes and the resulting "short arm" syndrome.

Comments

Here are some links I found with Google  &  alltheweb ("a" in Opera).

Slide 5: Introductions 3

  • Who are you?
               Please answer by show of hands:


    • Admit to being over:  20 ... 30 ... 40 ... 50 ... 60 ...
    • Wear bifocals?
    • Hate Microsoft® Internet Explorer's
        inadequate text size control?
    • Used another browser?
      • Netscape / Mozilla / Firebird / Firefox
      • Other
    •            ... recently?
    • Came to Robert Spotswood's Mozilla Presentation

Slide 6: What is ... ?

  • What is Zooming
      Everything gets bigger:
    • Text
    • Images
    • Frames

  • What is Font Control?
      Only the letters are changed

  • What is Icon Sizing?
      Your Opera icons size can be changed

  • What are the differences?


Next slide please.

Slide 7: The Differences


         Magnification                   Font Control         
  Images are enlarged   Text only
  Frames change:
    Unpredictable Display 		  Text flows naturally
  Quick:  1 key stroke   Preference setting
  Affects only
  what you are looking at 		  Applies to all Opera
  windows and tabs



Icon Sizing affects only the Opera icons.

Slide 8: Zooming in Opera

Is done when you need it
 Num pad Key            Change            Regular Key 
+ + 10% 0
– - 10% 9
Ctrl  + + 100% 8
Ctrl  – - 100% 7
* 100% (original)
i.e. back to normal 		6
Advanced users can even define their own additional keys
by editing text based .ini files.

Now let's demonstrate & demonstrate again

Slide 9: Font Control in Opera

  • What can we do?
    • Size can be changed
    • Typeface can be changed

  • How can we do it?
    • On the Preferences Menu

  • Where is that?
    • By keyboard shortcut:  [Alt P] | Fonts (and colors)
    • By mouse or keyboard —
      • Opera 7.23:  File | Preferences | Fonts and colors
      •  Opera 7.5:  Tools | Preferences | Fonts

Again, let's demonstrate ...

Slide 10: Icon Sizing

Affects only the Opera Tool Bar icons
  • Preferences | Skin  ...  Size
    ( dropdown box in lower right corner)
And demonstrate one more time ...

Slide 11: Getting Opera

Getting Opera is easy —

  • Pick your Java Option:
    • Non-Java, the default, is probably fine
    • But consider installing real  Sun Java on your machine

  • "Choose" a download location — the default is probably fine
        Simtel, and its confusion, is gone
        but I still often use one of the Western European sites

  • Click the "Download Now" button.

Comments

During the ver. 4 presentation, we noticed that Simtel is no longer the default; in fact, it is no longer offered as choice at all.  A great improvement. 

With this change, there is very little reason to change the default behavior. 

Slide 12: Getting Opera, Part 2

Okay, you clicked the "Download Now" button; now what?

Mostly, it depends on your current browser
      & your operating system (OS).

In general, you must tell them (the browser & OS) to:

  • Save, not open, the file
  • Pick an appropriate spot on your hard disk
  • Give the final go-ahead


Let's get an up-to-date copy for this machine.

Slide 13: Installing Opera

Installing Opera is as straightforward as downloading it:

  • Go to directory (Folder)
       where you just saved the Opera Installer.

  • Run it. (Double click on the file, or use the keyboard).

  • Answer the 6 easy questions. — About 7 clicks.




Let's install the up-to-date copy we just downloaded.

Slide 14: First-time Setup

Running Opera the First Time —
     You will have to make some choices:
  • Welcome screen
    • Advertising Choices:  Google or generic
    • Buy a license for $39 (normal price)

  • 2nd setup screen
    • Skin preference:  (Opera or Windows)
    • Icon size:  (60% – 140%)
    • Toolbar setup:  (Standard or Minimal)


Already, you are making choices that affect legibility.

Slide 15: After the Break

  • Using Opera

  • Opera Features

  • More Opera Features

  • Opera Help & Learning Opera

  • Questions

Slide 16: Break Time

Opera for Near Sighted Cowards (ver. 5)

by Rick Archibald

RickArchibald+Opera@hal-pc.org

713/862-7368
M–F  9–6,  Sat  11:30–6

plato.smx.com
My home server

twiki.hlug.org
The Houston Linux Users Group interactive web site

www.opera.com
The Official Opera Site

Slide 17: Using Opera

Here we are in Opera,

  • Let's go through the UI top-to-bottom ...

  • And the Menu Bar left-to-right ...

  • Finally, let's tour the Preferences menu.  [Alt P]

  • Explore on your own — right click everything.

Slide 18: Opera Features

Slide 19: More Opera Features

2 Surveys of Opera Features





Slide 20: More Opera Features 2          

  • Small size
  • Sessions
  • Multiple Document Interface     Tabbed browsing
  • Changing clients
       import bookmarks ...
  • The Wand                               Opera's password manager
  • Pop-up blocking

Comments

Size comparison chart:
    Windows     Linux     Mac OS X  
  Opera   3.4 MB 3.6 - 4.9 MB 4.2 MB
  Firefox   6.2 MB 7.3 MB 8.9 MB

Slide 21: Opera Help & Learning Opera

Slide 22: Questions




Now It's

Your Turn

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Feedback

If you have comments, questions, or suggestions about this presentation, please post them here: 
    Opera Presentation Feedback 2?
If you do not have a TWiki account, e-mail me at: 
    Main.RickArchibald+OperaPresentationFeedback@hal-pc.org

If you would like me to give this presentation, or one on any aspect of Opera, to your group, SIG, or company, E-mail me at: 
    Main.RickArchibald+PresentationInquiry@hal-pc.org      with "Opera" somewhere in the subject

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-- RickArchibald - 04 Mar 2005


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