Fastest and Elegant Browser on Earth – Opera 9.52

Opera 9.52 is considered to be as the most powerful web browser that offers number of utilitarian features without penalizing the performance. As its counter part, Mozilla Firefox becoming more and more famous among web users, Opera is also becoming one of the major competitors against Firefox. Although many people are used to boring and tiresome Firefox, Opera’s latest version came up with a bunch of awesome features.

Faster Rendering Engine – Presto Rendering Engine

Opera uses their very own rendering engine (layout engine); ‘Presto’. ‘Presto’ is much faster than the tedious
‘Gecko’ layout engine (Mozilla project’s layout engine).

Elegant Look

You should use it and experience it. Here are some screen captures.

Download Manager with BitTorrent

Download files quicker with Opera. Opera starts downloading as soon as you’ve saved the file, so there’s no wasted time. Pause and resume downloads with the push of a button, and choose multiple files to download simultaneously without any fuss. Opera also features built-in support for the social file distribution protocol, BitTorrent, which makes it easy to download Torrent files without the need for a separate application.
I guess you know this .. Firefox download manager sucks!!

Opera Link and Speed Dial

Access your favorite Web sites everywhere!. Opera link syncs your bookmarks and Speed Dial between your computers and mobile phone. See the screen shots to see the use of speed dial.
(Firefox and IE copied this from opera. )

Tabs and Sessions

Most comprehensive tab browsing was introduced by Opera. Opera is very light on your computer, so it’s possible to have many tabs open at once. Drag and drop tabs around to change their order, or get a preview pausing over them with your mouse. You can even save a session of tabs for later, making it easy to pick up where you left off.

Zoom and Fit to width

Is it difficult to read the content on a page? Use Opera’s Zoom button in the lower right corner to resize Web
pages. If the page is too wide for your screen, simply hit “Fit to Width” and Opera will resize the Web page so you avoid horizontal scrolling.

Built-in e-mail and newsfeeds

Opera’s built-in e-mail client features improved responsiveness. It also retrieves and searches your mail and news feeds even faster than before. In Opera, newsfeeds are stored on your computer so you can read them later, even when you’re offline. Easily tag articles so you know which ones you want to read, which ones are important, which ones are funny, etc.

Quick Find

Have you ever forgotten the page where you found that great article or that perfect gift? When using Opera the browser remembers not only the titles and addresses, but the actual content of the Web pages you visit.

Visit – http://www.opera.com/

Best IDE for Linux – Emacs Code Browser

A C/C++ developer on Linux platform, is someone who always seeks for a IDE that suits his work, but ends up with using tedious ‘vim’ or unstable eclipse CDT or Netbeans C/C++.

But for me the most powerful IDE for C/C++ development in Linux platform is emacs. Using just only emacs would do a little but emacs gain enmourse power when it used with Emacs Code Browser (ECB).

This is almost an IDE that is enriched with all the possible features in the modern IDEs in Windows like VS or IntelliJ. Have a look .

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Facebook is not just an addiction–it’s a disease

If you are a dummy pc user, there is nothing to complain about using Facebook (and other such social networks) .. because you don’t have any other work to do with web or computer.

The problem arises if you are a IT Professional and still wasting time on Facebook. Here is a nice article that tells the true story.(I’m pasting it here )

source: Collegiate Times, by Susan Mulla

These words will go down in history: “Susan Mulla has requested to add you as a friend, but before we can do that, you must confirm that you are, in fact, friends with Susan.” If you’re ever lucky enough to receive an email saying that phrase, you best accept my friendship. If you don’t, how else can we read each other’s profiles every five seconds, or write inside jokes on each other’s “walls”? I think we all know what I’m talking about here; it’s the Facebook <WWW.THEFACEBOOK.COM>, and it has changed the way we live as college students.

Some have said, “Facebook is the worst social disease to hit college campuses nationwide,” and I would have to agree with that statement. So let’s take a deeper look into this new fad that has taken so many of us captive.Being a member of this cult following, I’ve realized that quite possibly the most crucial aspect of the Facebook is creating a flawless profile. Many of us are guilty of spending hours upon hours crafting our profile to ensure we come across as desirable to that special someone stumbling upon it. A flattering picture is the first step to the perfect profile. Next, your music interests have to be listed, but in all honesty it’s just an opportunity for people to pretend they are really eclectic with their music tastes. For example one might write: “I’m totally into ‘Death Cab for Cutie,’ ‘The Pussycat Dolls’ and ‘Yo-Yo Ma.’” You don’t have to try to impress people by listing every band you’ve ever heard of — it’s pretty obvious you’re faking.

Then there is always the request for friendship from that old high school “friend” who you actually never said a word to in high school. Maybe it was the person who laughed in your face when you asked them to prom, and now expects you to accept their friendship. Heck no. I say reject that “friendship” and show them what they missed out on. Then, there’s that whole “poking” deal. I will never forget the first time I was “poked.” I just sat there at my computer dumbfounded, in awe of the words I saw in front of me: “You have been poked, do you want to poke back?” I wasn’t sure if I should be flattered, offended or violated.

There’s also that whole stalking thing, too. Let’s be honest. We can all admit that Facebook has opened a door to the opportunities to stalk people. For example — last year there was a guy in one of my classes who caught my eye, and being too scared to talk to him in person, I Facebooked him. About five minutes later I find myself sitting in my room listening to the mp3s I got off his AIM profile and flipping through his Web shots. What was I doing? I didn’t even know the guy and already he was serenading me.Now, I can’t help but ask myself what is going to come of us if we continue communicating via Facebook and Instant Messenger? Will we eventually meet people, start dating, get engaged, get married and have kids and get divorced, all in one chat session? I know it might seem like I’m sitting here pointing my finger at all of you, but I’m just as guilty of Facebook addiction and compulsive away message reading as the next screen name on your buddy list. To be completely honest, I haven’t yet met my Collegiate Times editor in person, because all we do is pass e-mail back and forth.

What killed normal human interaction? I think we have simply become lazy. It’s easier to put up an away message that will let people know if you’ve had a bad day or billboard every single detail of what your schedule entails for that day: “Off to class, then lunch, then the gym, then the bathroom, then washing my hands, then drying them.” Who needs to know all of that?

So here is what I say to you all of you who sit at your computers and check away messages and stalk the guy you saw at Hokie Grill once — stop living like this. I’m convinced that we could fritter our whole lives sitting in front of the computer screen. What we need to do is ask ourselves this question: “What will happen when all of my buddies are away, or when the Internet connection cuts short.” We need to face it and realize that life doesn’t happen on a computer screen, that having 202 friends on Facebook doesn’t make you cool.

Atif Aslam

Atif Aslam is one of the youngest yet a powerful voice in the indian pop music feild. He got unique voice which is a blend of Indian and Pakistani vocices. Infact he originated in Wazirabad, Pakistan and finally became one of the most wanted background singer in Bollywood.

He has released sevaral albums under TIPS and Fire Records lables and they were quite successfull as his various singles released in latest movies like Race, Kismat Konnection etc.

He is well-known in the subcontinent and with ex-pats for his songs ‘Aadat’, ‘Hum Kis Gali Jaa Rahe hain’, ‘Ehsaas’, ‘Doorie’, ‘Kuch Is Tarah’, “Woh lamhe”, “Pehli nazar mein” and “Tere Bin”. He was formerly the lead singer of Jal.

If there is something that rellay impress many people around the world.. that is his voice.. Its not Hindi .. its not Urdu.. just listen to this..

Atif Aslam | Pehli nazar mein | race