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By satriakid in News, SwinTalk, Swinburne on September 26th, 2008
I reckon a few students of Swinburne knew the MPH in our campus has been opened for usage by the students. It was said that it will be opened on the 22nd September for usage and with a few friends, we headed over for a game of badminton which I ended up with a sore thigh from a workout in the gym, as someone asked me to lift the weight of my own body. :\
Anyway, the place is fully ventilated by the centralized air-con, so its cool inside there, except certain time where its cold.
The MPH has allocated time and session for which sports would be allowed, which one can find it on the left of the wall when you enter the hall from the main front entrance. Its a piece of paper pratically stuck to the wall.
Overall, the place is great, with rubberized floor like Sports Arena.
And like Johnson Woon would say, “Hey, how come got wind one in the hall ar?”. That was when he missed the shuttlecock. Hope to see you all there using it.
PS: They gym is kinda cool too. Bigger. And we now have LCD TVs. 32″ of pure widescreen.
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 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
By hostpur in News on September 1st, 2008
I believe many of you have read about the case of Elizabeth Fritzl, who was abducted and raped by her own father for 24 summers, never seeing sunlight during that period.
Before the case that shook the world and and created headlines in newspapers, blogs, news sites all over the world, there is another case in Austria too. Natasha Kampusch too, was kidnapped and kept in captivity for 8 years. She managed to flee on August 2006 when she was vacuum-ing her captive’s car.
I got another shocking news to share with you guys. A Nigerian man have 86 wives and 170 children. Can you guys believe that? Read the story here
How this man can take care of his wives? How big is his house? I believe even the Buckingham Palace will not be able to accommodate his big ‘family’. And as a preacher, he sure don’t earn much bucks enough for his family.
Anyway, back to the crime issues. I believe the world is not safe anymore. Not because of terrorism but because of crime. In UK, the crime rate is expected to increase due to economic meltdown. Read here
And i read in the Borneo Post that a student, most probably from Swinburne, was robbed in front of the university! Read the news here!!
To all Swinburneans, take care of yourself!
