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It’s Opera, the lesser known browser. But this time, Opera’s new UI impresses:

A couple of caveats though. Firstly is the tabs on the top of the browser. When it is maximize, the tab is not touching the edge of the screen. For users who tend to move their pointing device too much, the cursor overruns the click area of the tab. I keep having to move my mouse pointer lower from the edge. This is undesirable. Also the new recycle bin feature is cool although I wish it remembers the state of my web page, such as the inputs that I have filled in halfway.

All in all, it’s a cool upgrade. I like the new feel. The transparency in Windows 7 pleases me. I noticed the View zooming feature at the lower right hand corner, it’s a nice touch. The browser is breeze and responsive as usual. Yet another great Opera release.

For web developers, Opera 10.50 also supports web storage and web SQL database. Read the full change log here.

To download, click here.

Indian dance music:

Love Marriage: Wilbur Sargunaraj- Official Music Video

He and Gaga can collaborate some time.

From The Genius of Charles Darwin Uncut Interviews. Seriously this is one of the worst interviews I sit through watching. Richard Dawkin interviews Wendy Wright, a Christian from Concerned Women For America. I watch it terribly annoying.

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 1/7)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 2/7)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 3/7)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 4/7)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 5/7)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 6/7)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright (Part 7/7)

SINGAPORE: The buzzword in the news media world appears to be “integration”, which involves one newsroom providing content across different platforms.

And that’s what Media experts from all over the world including the US, Germany and Hong Kong have been discussing at a two-day conference in Singapore.

Said Dr Chitra Rajaram, director of MediaCorp NewsHub: “…In any integration I think (the challenge is) change. So change in many forms. Change is very hard for people. People have been doing the same thing for the longest time. So to come together and think differently – different workflows, different ways of writing stories, different ways of putting it out together. I think all these are change elements that we have to take into account.” (Source: Channel News Asia)

“Integration” is the new buzzword? But integrate what sort of things? If what they are planning is to integrate Twitter and blogs right into a daily news digest, it’s probably not going to work. All these blogs and Twitter, to me, are just distractions to news reporting. What’s need, however, is better article organization. News has so much more value if every name is tagged to a person, every event happening is tagged to a GPS location, every minute is properly timestamped. Blogs and Twitter are secondaries to return user opinion in a news article. Metadata such as persons involved, GPS locations and time are used to facilitate the retrieval of such mentions. Citizen opinions can be bias, news reporters ought to know better. I feel news reporting can go back to being just news reporting. News websites just have to get smarter.

And regarding newspapers? Milk the cash while it last. It’s going to evolve. Our consumption habits are changing. I see news delivered directly in the decline and news delivered through social mediums via recommendations the uprising trend. With a single recommendation, I would like to find out more and that is when I read news. I don’t poke around a news website to find news to read; I am directed via instinct and recommendations to find out more.

Just my 75 cents.

This works for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It creates a backup of all the Windows Live Messenger (or MSN Messenger) emoticons and display pictures to your Dropbox folder.

Note the syntax, unless your name is “KahWee”, your user directory is likely different. This updates Dropbox should there be any change to your ObjectStore folder.

Using this method you can also sync folders that are not within the Dropbox folder.

A good presentation by Jesse Schell where he discusses the future of game design and the possibility of it entering the real world. Even if you’re not too much a gamer, you should stick check this video out if you have half an hour to spare. You can level up in the process:

If this gets affordable enough, this could be truly revolutionary.

The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home