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Vivaldi browser releases version 2.1 with improved Quick Commands
After a robust upgrade to version 2.0, the Vivaldi browser continues transforming users’ everyday interactions on the Web – boosting productivity and efficiency and adding fun to browsing. Today, Vivaldi 2.1 releases slick new additions to one of its flagship features, Quick Commands.
Vivaldi – An essential toolbox for every web surfer
“If you’d like to go beyond the vanilla browsing experience offered by the big-name browser makers, if you’d like to customize your browser in myriad ways, and if you’d like to have more control over your browsing experience, Vivaldi is well worth trying.” – Ars Technica
Vivaldi is a browser that anyone can use to navigate the Web with more control. Vivaldi’s real appeal is that it comes with a ton of productivity and organization tools already built-in.
As more and more people spend a significant amount of time online, options that help optimize the way they browse are always welcome.
“Vivaldi does not have a blanket approach to productivity. To be effective, a productivity tool needs to fit the specific needs of the users. And that’s where Vivaldi’s flexibility comes in”, says Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner. “After a phenomenal response to our massive update version 2.0, we are looking ahead to make Vivaldi even more efficient for you”.
Vivaldi’s Quick Commands
With Quick Commands, users don’t need to memorize a thousand different shortcut combinations. It lets them type in the action they want to gain access to any part of the browser, in addition to searching the Web.
They are easily opened using F2/⌘ E by default, closed by the ESC key, and accessible under Tools in the main menu.
Quick Commands help users work at lightning speed and save time in various ways, such as:
View a list of open tabs: Finding and viewing a particular tab can become hard when many tabs are open. Viewing a list of open tabs and getting the total count through Quick Commands is easy. Navigation is convenient through this list with arrow keys or Tabs to find what users are looking for.
Credit: Vivaldi Browser
Find a list of open tabs with relevant keywords: Scrolling through the list can get cumbersome with a zillion tabs open. Quick Commands are helpful as users can search their open tabs in the browser with matching keywords.
Search browsing History: Quick commands help track down past entries. It is a handy option when users cannot recall an entry that they had seen last.
Find a command: Quick Commands lets users access the Main Menu’s functionality. They can both search for and execute a command from the same interface. A clickable result (along with a display of its corresponding shortcut) will appear when searching for a command. With a simple click, the command can be executed.
Moreover, users can use the full Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet from Quick Commands and remind themselves of the shortcut to open it.
Fine-tune Quick commands in Settings: Easily customizable, users can choose categories in searches made through Quick Commands. For example, users can show results from History or Page depending on their preferences instead of using the interface to search Bookmarks.
Open Bookmarks quicker:
For frequently used websites, Quick Commands can speed up the process of opening Bookmarks helping users greatly. By enabling “Open on Nickname match” in Settings, users can instantly use Quick Commands with their assigned nickname without using the Enter key.
For example, “rd” can be assigned as the nickname for a bookmark for Reddit submissions (https://www.reddit.com). Entering “rd” into Quick Commands will allow the page to open immediately (either in a new or current tab, depending on your Settings).
Quick Commands and Notes come together.
Users can now create Notes through Quick Commands. Notes are available only in Vivaldi, another unique built-in feature that lets users jot down ideas in a small window embedded in the expanded Panel while browsing online.
To create a new Note via Quick Commands:
- Open Quick Commands using F2/⌘ E (or the Tools menu).
- Type the text of your Note directly in the Quick Commands interface; for example, in the video below, a new Note is added with the text “Add Notes quickly.”
- Select “Create Note…” from the list of options shown.
- The Notes panel will open automatically, displaying the newly created Note.
When users type in Quick Commands, it will also search Notes content and display the relevant ones in a list of results – another great way to find results quickly.
These new refreshing inclusions in day-to-day browsing work very well, especially for keyboard lovers, journalists, researchers, and all those who love to use Notes extensively.
Support for Quick Commands Parameter
Vivaldi offers users various ways to increase the UI Zoom if they find the UI elements too small. In this update, Vivaldi adds support for the Quick Commands parameter that can be used for both Page and UI Zoom.
Users can now change the Zoom levels to any value according to their preference through Quick Commands.
The UI Zoom can be assigned with dedicated keyboard shortcuts. To assign shortcuts for UI Zoom, go to “Settings → Keyboard → View → UI Zoom In/Out.”
Similarly, Page Zoom can be assigned a new value and reset to default with shortcuts in the Settings.
For example, to zoom a page to 125% hit QC (F2/⌘E) and type “Page Zoom 125”. By typing “Page Zoom 100” or “Page Zoom Reset,” the default setting can be brought back.
“Users need their sense of freedom, and most of us want to do things ‘our way.’ This holds regarding navigation and how you interact with your browser. Quick commands allow you to grow into the browser without hunting for an extension”, says Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner.
There’s more in Vivaldi 2.1
This update brings video standards to the forefront of supporting Open media and Video1 (AVI).
AV1 is an open-source royalty-free video codec backed by industry giants and streaming services. As we advance, videos will work out of the box for every Vivaldi user, and imperfect proprietary media issues will get resolved.
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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