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Archive for September, 2008
By Saad Kamal in Tech on September 9th, 2008
Just some quick updates regarding swintalk.com, those of you who were facing problem uploading photos to swintalk, I have looked into the matter and I belive that it works well now. When writing a post, simply click on : “Add Media-Image” to add an image to the post. Check the screenshoots below:
Once you click the button, you should be able to see another Popped up window like the following:
Click on “Choose file to upload” button and select an image from your computer. It will instantly upload your picture and will bring you to another screen like below:
This is the final step, as you can probably see, the image is already uploaded and a small thumbnail is being displayed on the top left corner. This window allows you to change different properties of the images such as : how you want it to appear in your post – Left, Center, right etc. (All my pictures in this post has been centered and thats why they appear in the middle.
If your pictures are big, you can specify the size as “medium”, then it will automatically make it smaller for the post. But if users click on the pics, it will open another window and show them the big original picture.
Once everything is done, just click on “Insert into Post” and it will automatically add the picture in your post. If you face any difficulties, please dont hessitate to shoot us an email at - info[at]swintalk.com
Happy Blogging!
By brendan goh in Swinburne on September 8th, 2008
Hey, wassup! Y’all
I am Brendan and this will be my very first post on swintalk.
I have been wanting to blog something in here for quite a while but no topics can come out of my mind
But usually all my posts is on my flagship blog, www.brendanconfessions.blogspot.com. The link is available here and on swintalk’s list of bloggers under the name Brendan Goh. So anyways, I am basically a music addict, no song deemed cool to me is not in my beloved iPod named Maxt. Now my taste is more on to the pop, hip-hop and R&B side. But adding in a little rock and indie as well. Here are a list that you so need to download into your iPod and why. There is no rating cause every single one of them gets a 5/5 from me. Just download in and try it out, believe me, cause most of my recommendations rocked. Which means I have an AMAZINGLY GOOD taste in music.
1.The Man Who Can’t Be Moved by The Script
This song is like seriously awesome. Its sort of relaxing, sentimetal and meaningful at the same time. Guys, if you wanna set the mood and put the moves on a girl in the car, I strongly recommend this.
2.Crush by David Archuleta
Now we all now that other than Jason Castro (dude with seriously long dreadlocks), David Cook is another guy who is seriously overrated in American Idol 7. David Archuleta on the other hand ROCKS! His first single, Crush did way better than David Cook’s ‘Time of My Life’ on the Billboard Hot 100. Plus I think girls will become serious Archuholics after listening to this. Heck, me and a few other guys are already serious Archuholics too.
3. Migrate by Mariah Carey
Now this is a song from here album E=MC2, not released as a single yet but the song really rocked it for me. Its the very first song from the album and it made me feel like I wanna Migrate. Plus its starts off the usual chillingly high Mariah notes which is cool. Plus I think that the music is a little more different than the past.
4.The World Should Revolve Around Me by Little Jackie
This girl got it going! Little Jackie is an artist that I have never heard of before, possibly new. But this song is making waves in the British music scene. She reminds me of a sassy version of Corrine Bailey Rae with a touch of Sara Barielles spunk and a little of Lil’ Mama. Plus this is definitely a feel good, girl power song.
5. If this is Love by The Saturdays
If you like Sugababes, Girls Aloud and Spice Girls, you would definitely adore the Saturdays. This song is good, just because it is.
6. Rabbit by Matt Duke
Its sentimentally romantic about a little Rabbit running. Cute and it feels like eating Gaelic Irish Cream in a nice little beach in a summer’s night.
7.Just Dance by Lady Gaga ft Colby O’ Donis
If you haven’t heard of the Estonian Lady Gaga and Colby O’ Donis aka Akon’s protege who sings ‘What You Got.’ then, where the (expetive) have you been for the past year? This song is blazing towards number one on Canada and a great song for a party! Listen to it and Just Dance!
8. Bad Girl by Danity Kane
This is wild, hot and affectionately naughty. Just so you know girls, the cute and damsel in distress act, plus the powerpuff girl action (enlarging your eyes and puffing up your cheeks) when you take pictures is so over. Us guys want mean, saucy, ravishing Bad Girls!!!!!! Cause they rule!
9. Cry for you by September
A real cool song. Techno lovers will love this. Heck I love it too. It just seems good.
10. So What by Pink
‘So what I am a rockstar, I got my rock moves’ Pink is back with a new Single and I like it. So what? It rocks! If you don’t like it, I dont’ care and I am sure Pink doesn’t either. Do what you wanna do and Rock it out to show everyone you are alright!
By @lex in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on September 7th, 2008
Many people have wrote about the Grand Opening for Swinburne Extended Campus already, so I will just share the photos that all I have in this post, just like the Graduation post that I did few days ago.
Actually, I want to put a slide show in here but I don’t know why the slide show can’t view in here. So, if you want to view the slide show, you can go to my blog. Still the same, if you want to grab the photos, just go to my photobucket. But some of the photos is very blur, so please forgive me because this is the first time I use the DSLR camera.
By johnsonwoan in Swinburne on September 6th, 2008
For those who have been eating in Swinburne Cafeteria for many years, you will comprehend what am i trying to bring out right now.
Which is, of course, the super-duper-yummy-quality noodles which is no longer available and to be found in Cafeteria since early this year. What a sad news indeed.
I remembered every time when it comes to lunch break, i would certainly rush myself straight to the Cafeteria consistently, order my preferable noodles and enjoy every single bite. It tasted just so nice.
However, that very day when the tauke told me that it’s his last day of working in Cafeteria, i instantly felt so heart-rending. Not only me, i believe. To most of the students, faithful noodles eaters, and even the Swinburne Staffs, this was utterly a bad news for them. Bad bad news.
Right now, i really pine for the return of the tauke. Hoping to bring myself back to those times, sitting on the chair, and waiting patiently and desperately for Pak Loh Noodles, Curry Noodles, Beef Noodles, Chicken Mushroom Noodles, Lemon Chicken Noodles and so on.
**drooling**
By Saad Kamal in News, Tech on September 4th, 2008
I’m sure you have already heard that Google has came up with an awesome web browser called – Google Chrome, which is fast, sleek & very light weight.
But now Microsoft has also joined the battle zone with Internet Explorer 8 (Beta 2), and IE looks rock solid once again.
Internet Explorer 8 looks more elegant and easier to use, while adding many of the missing features. The brand-new implementation of Standards mode in Internet Explorer 8 offers the best viewing experience of web pages created according to the some of the latest web standards. That means many of the web pages that include code custom tailored for IE won’t look very good, so you need to enable a compatibility view (for some reason, intranet sites are rendered in the compatibility mode by default).
IE has brought several CSS improvements, support for data URIs, AJAX enhancements and support for DOM storage. Internet Explorer 8 has added support for suggestions in the search box and this feature is no longer restricted to Live Search. Microsoft lists many search providers that can be added: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and others.
Another cool feature that should have been added to IE7 is inline search: now you can search inside a page from an elegant bar similar to the one from Safari, Google Chrome & Firefox.
IE8 includes a security feature that will be rarely used for non-adult sites: private browsing. InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer 8 helps prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies, and usernames and passwords from being retained by the browser, leaving no evidence of your browsing or search history. (~This feature is known as Incognito in Google Chrome~)
Overall, this is a highly recommended update for IE7, even though you’ll find some sites aren’t displayed properly.
By @lex in Celebration & Events, Swinburne on September 3rd, 2008
Oh, this is my first post in SwinTalk. My first post should be about the Grand Opening but I haven’t finish editing the photo. So, just let me post some of the photos that I took during the graduation day. Ya, before I start, I think I should congrats all the graduands including Saad also.
So, this is what I will post in this thread, for those who want to view all the photos I took at that day, you can always go here. And for those who might find yourself in the photos, you can also grab the photos there.
By Saad Kamal in News, Tech on September 3rd, 2008
You may have heard a rumor that Google Team is working on a web browser to compete with Internet Explorer & Firefox. Many technologist previously referred to it as “GBrowser” but now in reality the browser has been just been released with and has been named “Google Chrome”. (Read my blog post on Google Chrome to know more about its features).
Google’s brand new Open Source browser is extremely Light Weight & Fast. The browser loads even faster than Internet Explorer in my Windows XP machine & doesn’t really take up much memory. Each tab is allocated separate memory blocks in the Computer’s RAM, thus there is less chance of browser hangs, memory leaks and so on. Most importantly – it has very nice Google Integration – You can create desktop shortcuts for Google Services like Gmail, Google calender etc. You can also search google directly from the address bar, access your most visited websites, visit web in *spy* mode etc.
Try it today, and you’ll forget all other web browsers that ever exisited: Download Google Chrome
