{"id":29021,"date":"2025-03-25T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=29021"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:24:56","slug":"tech-tip-opera-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/25\/tech-tip-opera-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Opera Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/operaair-Chase-Masters-600x347.png\" alt=\"The Opera Air browser open on a Mac laptop. There is a bubble floating along the screen.\" class=\"wp-image-29020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/operaair-Chase-Masters-600x347.png 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/operaair-Chase-Masters-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/operaair-Chase-Masters-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/operaair-Chase-Masters-665x384.png 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/operaair-Chase-Masters.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This month\u2019s tip is a new web browser designed to enhance your digital well-being by seamlessly integrating mindfulness tools into your daily browsing routine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opera.com\/air\">Opera Air<\/a>. Unlike traditional browsers, Opera Air prioritizes mental health with features like guided breathing exercises, meditation sessions, neck stretches, and binaural beats to help you stay calm, focused, and productive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The browser\u2019s Take a Break feature encourages regular pauses with customizable reminders, offering activities such as full-body scans and relaxation techniques to reduce stress and improve mindfulness. Additionally, the Boosts feature uses binaural beats and ambient soundscapes to stimulate brainwaves, enhancing creativity, focus, or relaxation, depending on your needs. Whether you&#8217;re working, studying, or simply browsing, Opera Air could become your mindful companion for a balanced digital life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What web browser are you using? What are its stand-out features? Please share in the comments below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a cool app, tool, or tech tip you\u2019d like to share? <a href=\"mailto:mastersc@umich.edu\">Contact Chase Masters<\/a>. Please note that Tech Tips are personal recommendations and might not be officially endorsed or supported by U-M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s tip is Opera Air, a new web browser designed to enhance your digital well-being by seamlessly integrating mindfulness tools into your daily browsing routine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-29021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-mental-health"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Chase Masters, University Library","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mastersc\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"This month\u2019s tip is Opera Air, a new web browser designed to enhance your digital well-being by seamlessly integrating mindfulness tools into your daily browsing routine.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29023,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29021\/revisions\/29023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}