The Opera Web Browser is celebrating it’s 10-year anniversary with an online party. And what’s a party without party favors! You can now get a free Opera registration code for as long as the party lasts!

UPDATE: The Opera site states that…

Note: For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, August 31 2005 (PDT).

The title says it all – 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company .

Dean Edwards, author of the IE7 script that fixes common CSS/DOM bugs in IE, writes a tutorial on How To Disable GreaseMonkey On Your Web Site.

Dan Switzer has a great Thunderbird email tip that allows you to Temporarily Switch Composing Between Plain Text/HTML. Ever since I came across this tip, I use it all the time! Thanks Dan!

PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application!. Available for OSX only.

Sascha Ebach has written a great tutoial ho how to use Gettext to localize your Rails web applications.

A Firefox sidebar for Ruby on Rails documentation is now available that offers easy access to the Rails documentation. There are two versions, one contains all the reference files that are installed locally for offline use, and another version that requires an active Internet connection.

XyleScope is an interesting application for OSX that lets you discover, analyze and learn about the code used to create CSS based layouts. You can open up any web page on the internet and immediately begin to browse the HTML and CSS code that makes up the page.

Monket Calendar is an Ajax enabled online calendar that supports drag and drop events to change dates, drag the start/end of an event to create multi-day events, create and edit events without refreshing the page.

Adaptive Path has an excellent article titled – How i learned to stop worrying and relinquish control – that suggests that the successes of web applications like Flickr are a product of creating open API’s and giving users and developers more of what they want.