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Browser war huh? After all that posts and reviews about IE and Firefox, today I want to open a new window to those of you who’d love to browse as safe, as confident and as fast as possible!
How many of you have ever heard of Opera?
Do you know that many of those nice features, such as tabbed browsing, already implemented in Internet Explorer, Firefox and the newborn Google Chrome are actually inherited from Opera?

And as an answer to my friends who ask me “Hey dude! If it’s this good, then why it is not as famous?” I can just say “Because it is not AMERICAN! It is Norwegian and that’s why it has every thing sorted and disciplined! ![]()
The good thing I love about Opera is its innovative soul! It has been always many many years ahead of its rivals in terms of new and interesting features and services.
The other good thing about Opera is that its damn fast! You have to try it to see, oh no sorry FEEL, the difference!
I warmly invite all of you to go and try it by yourself and comment about it here.
Below is a short list of this awesome browser’s features, as Coxy says:
If all of us liked Opera, we can ask our IT department to install it on school’s PCs and then we’d get all our favorites and bookmarks, browsing history and Speed Dial everywhere, on every PC we use at school! IS not that great?
To be honest, I could go on - but I’ll stop now. There are so many good reasons to give Opera a try; even if you’re happy with Firefox or just don’t give a crap about web browsers - at the end of the day it’ll ensure you’re safe from nasty things on the web, or that you’re browsing that little bit faster.
If one person came up to me after reading this and said “I read you blog, I downloaded Opera.”, I’d be happy for the rest of the day!
Download and installation is free, quick and easy. Opera works on Windows, Mac and Linux… your mobile, your Nintendo Wii, your Nintendo DS and a handful of other devices. Just click the button.
When Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, three Harvard students started Facebook in 2004, it was originally meant to network Harvard students to keep in touch with each other. By 2005, Facebook grew to include an amazing 800 college networks across the US of A.

Fast forward 2008. Facebook is now home to more than a 100 million active users worldwide.
All this left me wondering why isn’t there a Swinburne Sarawak network Swinburnites can join. There is a network created for our parent campus in Melbourne, but it doesn’t seem to accept our emails.
So yours truly decided to take this matter into his own hands and attempted to create a Facebook network for Swinburne Sarawak. After about a month of email correspondence with the slow-replying Facebook team using my Swinburne webmail, they finally agreed to create a network just for us!
Easy.
If you have a Facebook account. Just head to the Settings dropdown and choose ‘Account Settings’. At your ‘My Account’ page, click on the Network tab. If you’re having trouble reaching your Network settings just follow this link: facebook.com/editaccount.php?networks.
At your Network tab, you should have a section on the right that says ‘Join a Network’, looking like this:

Enter ‘Swinburne’ as the Network name and voila! =D

The next steps you’ll have to fill in are pretty much self-explanatory. Even Swinburne Staff and those of you who’ve graduated can join this network!
For the School Email field, you’ll have to enter your email address provided by Swinburne which looks something like ‘<insert your own student id here>@students.swinburne.edu.my’. Facebook would then shoot you a verification email. You’d have to login your Swinburne webmail via this link: studentmail.swinburne.edu.my to verify your address.
Click on the link included in the email and you’re done!
Now spread the news!
P.S: I’m undecided on what should be the name of the network. It’s currently pretty long, ie. ‘Swinburne University of Techonlogy Sarawak’ Our parent campus’s network is just ‘Swinburne’.
What do you guys think? Should it be just ‘Swinburne Sarawak’ or ‘Swinburne (Sarawak Campus)’?
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!
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.
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
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