Opera Widgets - Complete Guide

Opera
Opera is a Web browser that provides some advantages over other browsers from Mozilla or Microsoft. If you are not using it yet, we highly recommend you give it a try.Much smaller in size, Opera is known for being fast and stable and is available for a number of operating systems, including BeOS, Symbian OS, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, Solaris, and Windows.

Opera Widgets
And if we talk about a browser, just like Firefox has add-ons , Opera too has a widget system which allows you to add features to the browser.They are based on open Web standards and serve as a delivery vehicle for new Web services. Opera Widgets help users cut through the clutter of the Web to get to the info they want most. Opera Widgets share the same cross-platform compatibility with all of Opera's products, creating faster time-to-market and interoperability of functions between devices.

For OEMs and operators, Opera offers not only widgets themselves but also a whole ecosystem of solutions. With Opera Widgets and the Opera Widgets SDK, OEMs and operators can customize widgets and manage the widgets they have deployed to customers, offering useful content while opening up revenue-generating opportunities. So here, i have some useful gadgets for Opera and also their complete details:-

1. ImageGREP
ImageGREP, Grep images from various image-search websites including Google, Flickr and Yahoo! Version 2.0 now available! New, sleeker look; plus new engines added. The all you need to do is select the size, enter keyword for the image you want and site. Thats it..

 

ImageGREP Features:

• Interface and code redesign
• Overlay context links when available
• Removed broken support for My Opera albums
• Fixed support for Yahoo! Images
• Added support for Ask.com and Photobucket
• Networking XML update for Opera 10

2. Google Translator
This widgets is very useful for translating the text or even any URL.Use Google to translate text directly in the widget or translate a webpage. Google Translator uses a theme based off of Gmail's theme! You can use this widget to convert excerpts of text and entire web pages to and from multiple languages.This widget will translate only the languages that can be translated by Google's own translation service. Language options will be updated as Google adds more language translation options to their service.

3. dotoo v2.04
Organise tasks in lists and add optional counters.Based on dotoo v1.0 (thanks to tamster for upgrade permission) this widget let you keep track of your tasks with an optional expiring date which counts down in realtime.

Features:

• Multi-language support
• Remembering the last opend tasklist.
• You can add an expiring date to each task (Format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm)
• In the list overview the next expiring task is shown with remaining time and (optional) the name of the next expiring task.
• The listoverview is sorted by the deadline of next expiring task (in each list) or by the list/task name (choose in settings).
• The itemlist is sorted by the deadlines of the items or by the list/task name (choose in settings).
• Some minor options for customisation.

4. GoogleToolBar
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