WordPress 2.6 has been released, and it has useful new features. Watch the video below or watch the larger version at the WordPress blog:

One thing: the Press It feature allows you to add a button to your browser toolbar and then, as you surf the web and feel like blogging, just click the button to have your WP window pop up … then start blogging. It'll also allow you to quote sections of text — and use images from the webpage you're visiting. All but the last sound good to me. In the past, bloggers had to jump through a couple of hoops, albeit elementary, in order to snatch images from websites. Now WordPress helps them do it. <sigh>

That said, given the, uh, ongoing nature of my web surfing, and the fact that I've got four blogs now, I think I'll keep an eye on the WordPress forums for any gotcha's. And then I'm going to upgrade.

One of the beauties of Opera is it's Speed Dial feature … a "page" containing nine slots in which you can specify websites to open at the click of the mouse. The problem, though, is that this feature (which I initially thought was silly, but grew to love) gets full pretty quickly, so nine slots does not quite do it. Especially if you have a large monitor.

(Yes, I know: Firefox now has its own version of SpeedDial.)

Any way, Remco Lanting at My.Opera.com has posted a quick method of increasing Opera's speed dial slots:

Close Opera
Edit speeddial.ini in your profile to add this:

[Size]
Rows=4
Columns=5

What I had to do to be able to edit the speeddial.ini though, was not so easy. After closing Opera and locating speeddial.ini in my profile, I couldn't edit it in NoteTab Pro … even after I dragged it to my desktop. I finally edited it in NotePad, dragged it back, and had 20(!) Speed Dial slots available. And, as always, you can drag items to other slots.

Cheap thrills, eh? :)

Kudos to Mr. Lanting.

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Hint: the big clue is not too far into the video.

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If you don't know, WordPress 2.5 was released today. They've been testing for a while, and now it's here.

This version has some great features. Some documentation

• WordPress 2.5 — Matt Mullenweg from the WordPress blog
• Matt's Screencast and WordPress 2.5 RC2 — a little video to show you some neat new features

I'm interested in digging into the code a bit, as some of the folks from the Web Standards Project were involved in coding.