31 years ago, Geir Ivarsøy and I started working on the Opera browser. A year later we founded Opera Software.

At Opera we wrote all our own code from scratch.

In 2011 I left Opera due to disagreement with investors about the direction Opera was heading.

Two years later, I co-founded Vivaldi to build a browser for you.

So I have been building browsers for 31 years. I think I know what it takes to build a browser.

Our Vivaldi team is for the most part in Norway and Iceland with a few people distributed around Europe and a couple of business people in the US.

Vivaldi is available for your computer and your phone, unless you have a very specific setup. Vivaldi might even be available for your car as well.

We go out of our way to provide you with a browser that matches your needs. I hope you like it.

#Vivaldi #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #ios #Computer #Mobile

Considering options to Big Tech?

May I invite you to try Vivaldi?

vivaldi.com

#Vivaldi #BigTech #Windows #Macos #Linux #Android #ios

Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser

It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!

^{Vivaldi Technologies}

Fors Sala (Ceremonial Reverb) v1.0 VST3 AU CLAP LiNUX Windows MacOS

[FREE]Sala is a reverb that can turn even the smallest of sounds into a wash of shimmering textures. While it excels at huge ambient spaces with deep and colorful modulation, it can zoo

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#AU #CLAP #VST3 #ambient #AU #CLAP #deep #FM #Fors #free #Galaxy #Linux #MacOS #Modulation #reverb #textures #VST3 #Windows

A nice technical read about why macOS is more reliable and doesn’t need a reinstall. macOS, at least the system volume is immutable and sealed. The article walks through the process of installing and updating macOS itself.

eclecticlight.co/2021/10/29/ho…

#apple #mac #macos

How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling

How APFS, the boot volume group, hashes, and Secure Boot all combine to guarantee the integrity of your system, and save you trouble and work.

^{The Eclectic Light Company}

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. computerworld.com/article/3840…

#opensource #macos #windows #linux

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week.

^{agam_shah (Computerworld)}

Vivaldi now has Proton VPN built in our versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. Time to get away from Big Tech!

Enjoy!

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#Windows #Macos #Linux #browser #Vivaldi #Privacy #BigTech #Vivaldi @Vivaldi

Vivaldi is partnering with Proton VPN to help people break free from Big Tech | Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi is now the first major browser to ship with Proton VPN built right in, giving uncompromising privacy from two of Europe’s most trusted tech companies.

^{Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)}

Apple patched CVE-2024-54471, a macOS vulnerability that allowed NetAuthAgent to leak file server credentials and iCloud API tokens due to missing sender verification. Update to macOS 15.1, 14.7.1, or 13.7.1 to stay protected.

wts.dev/posts/password-leak/

#macOS #CyberSecurity #Apple #InfoSec

Leaking Passwords (and more!) on macOS | Watch This Space

A security research blog.

^{Watch This Space}

tl;dr: What's your recommendation for a good Apple-ecosystem Mastodon app?

#macOS and #iOS users - It's time for me to revisit my choice of Mastodon apps. The one I'm using is completely dropping the ball when it comes to working with the system spellcheck and text replacement stuff. I'm constantly editing posts after seeing errors that *should* have been highlighted as I type.

The one thing that Mona has that I didn't see in other apps was the ability to group like notifications, so I get one "these people liked your post" message as opposed to a bunch of individual ones. It seems like such a no-brainer that I assume the other apps have that, too, now?

#Mastodon #macOS #iOS

SolidFuel solidArp (Stable Random Arpeggiator) v0.3.0 Windows MacOS Linux

[FREE]Stable Arpeggiator VST3

Most random arpeggiators do not give you the same pattern every time through.
This one does.

You can get it

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Wordify (AI Speech To Text) v2025.03 VST3 ARA Windows MacOS Linux

[FREE]Navigate Your Project
Never have to listen to all the speaker stems again. Simply let Wordify analyse it and use Wordify Search to navigate through your project!

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#ARA #VST3 #AI #AppleSilicon #ARA #Dark #DAW #easy #free #Internet #Light #Linux #MacOS #Speaker #stems #Text #Time #VST #VST3 #Windows #Words

Socalabs Wavetable Synth v1.0.23 VSTi VSTi3 AU LV2 Windows MacOS LiNUX

[FREE]Versatile Wavetable Synth

2 wavetable 1 noise, 1 sub oscillators
1 filters
3 mono LFOs / 3 poly LFOs
17 LFO shapes

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Bertom Audio Phantom Center (Stereo Imager) v1.0.11 x64 x86 VST3 AU AAX LiNUX Windows MacOS

[FREE]Phantom Center is a stereo imager plugin that works by extracting the phantom center from a stereo signal (this is not mid/side).

Contra

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Bertom Audio Denoiser Classic v3.0.8 x64 x86 VST3 AU AAX LiNUX Windows MacOS

[FREE]Denoiser Classic is a zero-latency noise reduction plugin for music, post-production and live use.

Features:
Traditional workflow.

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EAS Audio TapeStop v1.0.2 VST3 Windows MacOS Linux

[FREE]TapeStop emulates the warping effect that occurs when stopping a reel-to-reel tape machine while playing. Stopping the "virtual tape" will progressively slow the affected track down to a complete halt, while starting the

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#VST3 #Beat #EASAudio #effect #free #FreeDownload #Linux #MacOS #Simple #Speed #Start #Stop #Tape #VST3 #Windows

Bertom Audio Air Shelf (Dynamic EQ) v1.2.7 x64 x86 VST3 AU AAX LiNUX Windows MacOS

[FREE]Air Shelf is a dynamic EQ plugin designed to shape very high frequencies, mostly above 10kHz. Use the Boost knob to get more highs, and the Tam

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#AAX #AU #VST3 #AAX #AU #Bertom #BertomAudio #boost #EQ #free #Linux #MacOS #Mix #not #shaper #Transient #VST3 #Windows #x64 #x86

yes.

#linux #unix #opensource #macOS #freebsd

Bertom Audio EQ Curve Analyzer v2.1.1 x64 x86 VST3 AU AAX LiNUX Windows MacOS

[FREE]EQ Curve Analyzer is an analyzer and signal generator plugin to see the frequency response (magnitude and phase

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Tilr RipplerX (Physical Modeling Synth) v1.4.2 WiN Mac Linux [FREE] Update

RipplerX is a

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#AU #linux #LV2 #MacOS #VSTI3 #Windows #Ableton #Acoustic #autumn #BaconPaul #Dark #DAW #drums #free #Generator #GitHub #JUCE #Linux #LV2 #MacOS #Marimba #Mix #not #OpenSource #other #PhysicalModeling #Plate #Presets #Reaper #Session #Synth #Tilr #Time #tube #Update #Velocity #Windows