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If you haven't heard of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, you should try it out. It actually works surprisingly well. Unfortunately, the Opera browser does not currently include Bing in its search box, so you have to add it manually. Here's how:

1. Go to the Bing home page at bing.com. Look at the pretty picture and read the fun captions. :) Then right click on the search box and select "Create search."
2. In the Create Search box, you can leave the "Keyword" field blank, or assign it a letter...

I signed up for the pretty cool URL-shortening service tr.im today, mostly because of the statistics it enables users to view about each link. (Yes, there are issues with using URL shorteners, but if you have to use them, you may as well use a good one.) To make using it more convenient, I wanted to add a button to my browser to automatically shorten a URL.

They had a convenient bookmarklet that worked in Opera, my web browser of choice, but when I added it, I realized all custom buttons get...