Opera Unveils Mini 4 Beta

Opera today released Opera Link. Wherever you are, whatever Opera browser you use, or whichever device you use Opera on, you can instantly access your bookmarks, Speed Dial, and personal bar.
Opera Link is supported in Opera 9.5 beta and the newest beta of Opera Mini 4. There is also a Web interface for users of any browser at my.opera.com. The Opera Web browser for PC/Mac/Linux and Opera Mini are available completely free for anyone to use and enjoy.
Opera Link allows users to sync bookmarks between PC and mobile device, and also supports RSS feeds. Another great feature the Opera server offers is that the compression level of pages is carried out well enough to help reduce data charges. This Java-based app can be installed in virtually any mobile. “The web provides a key platform for mobilising content across a wide range of devices and web browsers remain the primary portal to that content,” said Tony Cripps, senior analyst, Ovum. “Tighter functional integration between browsers running on different devices is a natural and important extension that will further benefit the user experience of the web when away from the PC.”

“We refuse to believe people should compromise their experience when they access the Web from different devices,” said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera. “With Opera Link, we give them a consistent experience uniquely suited to the way they want to use the Web. But as cool as we think Opera Link is now, we’re already hard at work making it even more valuable to our users in the future. Opera Link means convergence without compromise.”

Google Earth : Security Risk

Barely two years after former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam warned of the security risks posed by Google Earth, reports emerged today of Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip using it to launch rocket attacks on Israel.A failed attack on oil facilities in Yemen in September last year was also reportedly planned with the use of Google Earth, which provides detailed satellite maps of the world, the Daily Telegraph reported, without quoting sources.The newspaper revealed in January that Iraqi insurgents were using Google Earth to attack British bases in Basra, prompting the company to replace images of military positions in the southern Iraqi province with others taken before the war.Kalam had warned of the dangers from Google Earth in 2005 when he said its high-resolution images could further compromise the security of some developing countries that were already targets of terrorism.Google Earth and the Indian government were later reported to have struck an agreement to show “fuzzy, low resolution pictures and distorted building plans” of installations that the government considered sensitive.However, Google Earth in partnership with Digital Globe, the world’s most advanced commercial imaging satellite, has also responded quickly to provide high resolution photographs during unfolding crises such as the fires now raging in California.Images provided by it are also being used by experts to analyze and gather startling information.Experts at the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), said Wednesday that comparisons of Google Earth images of an area in northern Syria before and after an Israeli air attack September 6 show it may have housed a small nuclear reactor under construction.Images predating the Israeli attack, about which very little is known, showed a large industrial building and a pumping station near the Euphrates river that the ISIS said bore a resemblance to the Yongbyon nuclear facility in North Korea.But images taken more than six weeks after the attack appear to show that the building has been completely removed and the ground scraped clean, experts said. The reactor was believed to be of a design thought capable of making about one nuclear weapon’s worth of plutonium each year.

Day One – God said

The day when we all were proud to be a member of this great college… standing up with heads raised beyond imagination for the oath and flushing all the time. Again discussing about the rooms in the hostel and murmuring’ hope we all are in room’. Meanwhile parents speaking out their ragging experience and at last with a sigh ”anyway that all can’t happen now”.

Anyway with a small place for fear we stepped into the one and only Men’s Hostel. Though the condition is no better but it was better than what we could manage….Walking between the green walls of the corridor rushing for a room we never could imagine what is to happen next. Everyone running about to occupy the best rooms and to carry the best tables and chairs some with the label Gordrej( if you thought it was a spelling mistake.. NO!!) Chairs instilling in our minds thoughts of the peacock throne… but all told it was better than what they had in the past,

And it was time for the parents to leave,,, at last making us think cant they leave now and at least the advices will come to an end..
Now we into the hands of our warden as told by our professors but actually into the hands of the seniors( experience teaches). Hours pass making friends and complaining about what we don’t have…

Its time for the game to start. TIME FOR MESS announced the one called security.. And into the mess when we learned many…..no learned to make words that were not in the dictionary actually all rhyming and beautiful until you find their meaning. And you are called by one to sit near him. he asks you to ask the name of other and the other……( no not all have to be explained,,, these are all trade secrets which has to be revealed in the years to follow) No you cant eat the porottas which were once your favourite,,,, no you cant eat even a piece more and you think the chicken piece starts to taste bitter. and then the one caring senior near you puts three porottas more in your plate and the desperate you tries to fill your mouth and not stomach anymore… Your trials to at least have a vomit all ends in vain since it has been tried many a times over the years. If its kindness well with something like that the one opposite to you gives you permission to rise after issuing a warning that not this T-shirt any more!!!

OK its better to run to the room now. and the knocks on the door by whoever going to the mess. Which should never be answered since if the door opens it would never close again that night.