10 Best Opera Widget

By Partho, Gaea News Network
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

operaOpera widget are sophisticated tools that take your experience beyond Internet browsing. These widgets are small, standalone web applications that run outside the browser. Opera widgets are becoming more and more popular due to the host facilities they offer. The widgets help users to cut through the intricacies of the Web to get to what they want most. They are exceptionally easy to launch. It takes just a few clicks to launch the application, you don’t require to restart the browser as with Firefox. They are standalone application that don’t interfere with the browser’s work. The rich, animated interfaces of the widget is quite appealing. Above all the cross-platform, cross-device flexibility makes the widgets favorite for many. It might be an arduous job to assort the best ones from the loads of widgets out there. We have picked a list of 10 best Opera Widgets to make things easier for you.

1. Twitter Opera

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This is purely devoted to Twitter aficionados who wanna stick to the social media. With this Twitter plugin you can be updated your twitter status without moving to the site. It keeps you updated on the latest tweets and allows you to choose how many tweets you wanna display at one shot.

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2. Google Tool Bar

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Most of use Google services too often. You must be looking for a click access to the Google services. This tool bar assorts all the frequently used tools that include email, instant messenger, mapping and web search. Above all the Google tool bar offers smarter searches with stellar search results, and some extras including an automatic form filler

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3. Facebook Notifier

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It’s a cool widget to use Facebook on your Opera. With this Opera widget you will be able to see the list of all your friends’ recent status updates. It doesn’t require any data regarding your Facebook profile. However, it comes handy when you wanna access to your Facebook profile in a jiffy. It’s an easy way see what your friends are up to.

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4. Pandora Radio Widget

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This one is devoted to all you music aficionados who love Pandora. This is a small and simple pandora radio. It is shadowk added window shading and title updating.  After you launch the widget and input all the credentials, it will display the stations in a Pandora interface. It allows you to listen to the songs, and inform the services about the tracks you like. It also allows you to check other users’ stations.  All these features gives you the almost the same experience that you could afford from the site.
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5. iTunes

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To get the iTunes facilities on your Opera browser, here’s a widget. You can see the top songs, featured tracks, new releases, and top albums. For more you can filter songs by genre. In case you find a song purchasable, just click on it and you will be taken to the iTunes Store directly.  

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6. Wikipedia

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If you are one who need to consult WIkipedia too often. This Wikipedia widget for Opera helps to search and display WIkipedia articles right from the browser. As you type the query, it shows up searches relevant to your query. For shortcuts you can use the Z and X keys. Currently it supports English, Japanese, Norwegian and Swedish languages.

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7. Dotoo

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It’s a cool to-do list widget for Opera browser.  With Dotoo you can create a host of to-do-list that can be directly access within the widget. Adding a task to the list can be done easily by pressing the + button under the list and entering the task. Although you may not be able to track the progress of the task, you would have a handy to-do list to follow up.

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8. SimAquarium

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This aquarium simulation game one of the most popular Opera widgets. In the game you can buy and sell fish, aquarium sceneries(plant, rocks), lightting and other aquarium accessories. It offers a fish gallery where you can choose a fish, clicking on the info button for each fish takes you to the Wikipedia page on fish. Simply great stuff for those interested in aquarium and fishes.


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9. Brainkrieg

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Wanna a brain teaser to start your day? Here’s a cool one right on your Opera browser. With Brainkrieg you can play a few games though the Daily Training menu. The game types range from simple games like remembering the block changed when it crossed a plane to arithmetic questions that require you to figure out the missing number in a simple equation. You can always try it for a brain exercise.
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10. Basketball

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This is for those NBA addicts who had never chance to shoot at the high hoop might get on to this Opera widget. It places a hoop to the left of your screen and the scorecard right on center-top of your screen. You got the ball on the floor, click on the ball to shoot at the basket. If you miss out the hoop it gets addictive.

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Discussion
October 30, 2009: 9:43 am

Thanks for the Facebook Notifier. Wasn’t aware of it. Must have somehow missed it.

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