According to this PCWorld staff blog post, Opera is offering free registration codes for its browser as part of its tenth anniversary up until midnight today (August 31). Just visit this Opera page, type in your email address, and then copy/paste the generated registration codes.
At the moment, my “John’s Choice” in the web browser area is Mozilla Firefox, but access to this free no-ads version could give me a chance to try out and possibly review the Opera browser.
Microsoft seems to be on a roll – first they released Windows Vista Beta 1, and now shortly after they’ve released their first WinFS (Windows File System) Beta a year before schedule! (They were supposed to have a beta ready when the final version of Windows Vista was released.) WinFS won’t be part of Windows Vista when it’s released, but will available as an add-on sometime in 2007. For more information on the beta release and WinFS in general, visit this PCWorld article.
Who knew you could search for Google AdWords advertisements? Just go to http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks and type in your query. This could be useful for finding out how many affiliate ads there are for a company/product, or for checking out your AdWords competition.
Occasionally, you’ll notice that the logo on the Google homepage has changed to celebrate a certain occassion. After some browsing around on the Google website, I’ve compiled this list of the various logos Google has had over the years.
All Logos By Year (FYI, some of these pages have links to more logo pages):
What happens when you cross Google and Dilbert? You get a Google/Dilbert logo/cartoon, which you can find at the Google and Dilbert Doodle page.
You can also visit this page for another interesting read on the person who designs all of these Google doodles and logos.
And finally, the Google Fan Logos page contains more logos compiled by Google fans.
As some readers will know, Pope John Paul II had given “themes” to certain years. The “Year of the Rosary” was October 2003 to October 2004, and the “Year of the Eucharist” is October 2004 to October 2005. I think it’s highly possible that Benedict XVI will continue this tradition. If so, I’m going to make a wild guess as to the theme… I’ll say, “Year of the Priesthood.” I’ll find out if I’m right or wrong in two months 
. I haven’t seen or read any other predictions for the October 2005-2006 theme yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some other people have made this or other guesses. Do you have a theme prediction? If so, what is it?