As we all know, Opera is the master of mobile internet browsing. I have installed Opera Mobile 10 which is a symbian version and worked flawlessly on Nokia 5800. The entire layout and user interface which appears on Nokia 5800 gives a feel as if you are not browsing on a handset.

This version of Opera is much more stable than previous versions. The kind of functionalities that have been included is really useful and power packed. Features like to copy text on your webpage, webpage save option, password save option, Download files with Opera 10 are just fantastic.

You can set your own preferences like, page magnification value, full screen option, Opera Turbo option and a whole bunch of other settings. I browsed through our entire blog, other websites on Opera 10 and it did not even crash once. The load time for pages was as usual very fast and optimized to eat up as less data as possible.

Its time to say bye bye to the nasty phone browser. I recommand installing Opera 10 on your mobile phones.

A first-class mobile Web experience

Opera provides a brand-new look and feel in a class of its own with smooth animations and visually appealing graphics. The Opera rendering engine displays complete Web pages, just like on your computer, and is fully standards-compliant.

Switching between open Web pages is a snap with tabs, and Speed Dial launches your favorite Web sites with a single click.

Opera’s well-designed user interface has you navigating gracefully and efficiently on both touchscreen and keypad devices. The browser comfortably adjusts to your needs by switching between portrait and landscape mode and also lets you adjust the font size for easier reading.

The Web has never been so fast on your phone. Opera’s streamlined rendering engine and server-side compression allows Opera to load Web pages much more quickly than other mobile phone browsers. Features, such as the address bar, shortcut keys and touchscreen control, save you time and effort when performing

basic tasks, such as entering addresses or scrolling rapidly through pages.

User experience

Multitask with tabs

Keep several pages open at the same time and easily switch between them using tabs – just as you would on your desktop computer. On touchscreen devices, visual tabs even allow you to see a preview of the open pages you can select.

Feel at ease on any device

The user interface has been designed for both touchscreen and keypad-style mobile phones. Scroll and pan at warp speed with your keypad or flick the touchscreen to use kinetic scrolling for long pages.

Instant access to your favorite Web sites

See your top Web sites visually laid out on your screen in Speed Dial and load each of them with a quick tap. It is easy to add your preferred pages to Speed Dial, and you even can synchronize them with your desktop, using Opera Link.

Enter addresses with far less typing

Effortlessly enter addresses thanks to our sophisticated URL auto-completion. Opera intelligently guesses what URL you are typing in the address field, allowing you to start loading that site after entering only a few letters. Your bookmarks and previously visited addresses also appear in a list as you type,

so you can select the one you want.

Read the largest pages comfortably

Even pages designed for large screens are easy to read on your mobile phone, with text wrapping, which ensures that you can read most content without having to scroll sideways.

Your view where you need it

When moving around large, complex Web pages, Opera will stop just where it needs to, snapping the view to the column you want to read.

Type without losing focus

Entering text into your browser with a touchscreen phone just got easier. On phones where the default touchscreen keyboard provides a less-than-optimal user experience, you can use Opera’s virtual keyboard to type and edit information without ever leaving the page you are viewing.

Make the most of your screen

Take advantage of every pixel that your phone’s screen has to offer with Opera’s fullscreen mode. The address bar and toolbars disappear until they are needed, allowing you to see more of the page you are viewing.

Get a better view

Opera smartly fits Web pages to your screen when you visit a site, showing you an overview of the site. To get a close-up view and begin reading, a simple tap or button press is all that is required to zoom in exactly where you want to look.

Congratulations to Opera on the new release!

@Astro_TJ, as Flight Engineer TJ Creamer is known on Twitter, posted the first live update about a day ago while in orbit, saying:

“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s”

Using a Nasa software upgrade on the international space station, astronauts now able to update their Twitter feeds themselves. Using a new, high-powered wireless connection which has been established between orbiters and groundlings, international space station astronauts can post tweets directly from their spacecraft.

Previously astronaut’s tweets have had to be emailed to ground control and then posted to astronauts’ accounts by Nasa’s administrative team. The new powerful web connection, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station, allowing astronauts to browse and use the web.

This development will enhance the astronaut’s personal lives during long missions, easing the isolation associated with life in a closed environment. According to Nasa, astronauts will follow the same internet use guidelines as government employees on Earth.

Astronaut Mike Massimino, a.k.a. @Astro_Mike, may be credited with the first tweet from space, but technically it was “assisted,” and hence not live. Move over @Astro_Mike, @Astro_TJ just sent the first real-time tweet from space.

Here’s how NASA describes the new technology and what it means:

“This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the ability to browse and use the Web. The system will provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment.

During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have remote access to the Internet via a ground computer. The crew will view the desktop of the ground computer using an onboard laptop and interact remotely with their keyboard
touchpad.

Astronauts will be subject to the same computer use guidelines as government employees on Earth. In addition to this new capability, the crew will continue to have official e-mail, Internet Protocol telephone and limited videoconferencing capabilities.”

By making this possible, NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space

Ever wondered from where on earth the short and smart URLs coming from, specilly while reading tweets on Twitter like social networking websites? And yes, It does makes sence to shorten your URLs when there is a limit set on the total number of characters for a tweet.

Twitter allows you to add a website URL up to 40 characters without any problem. Say I wanted to tweet “Check this! DigitalPercept has shared a new article today http://www.digitalpercept.com/2009/12/avatar-an-audio-visual-treat-with-3d-technology-and-a-story-told-from-the-heart/” this will show an error stating the number of “extra” characters. That means you need to shorten the text. Here you cannot link text in your tweet, thus you just add the URL and Twitter creates the link for you.

There are plenty of websites helping you to shorten the link. What all these websites do for you is, storing the URL provided by you on there server and providing you the short URL pointing to your URL. Quite smart idea.

Few websites providing this service:

http://bit.ly
http://tinyurl.com
http://lizzer.com

Firefox Addon:

TinyUrl Creator 1.0.5

Few desktop applications providing this service:

Twhirl

twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

Seesmic Desktop

TweetDeck alike features include the capability to monitor multiple feeds side-by-side in a similar fashion, create custom user lists, and post from multiple accounts while the application keeps track of which ones are which to keep duplicates at bay.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in public beta. It aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.

This will allow you to convert those long URL’s into Short tiny URLs.

The Google Nexus One smartphone is now ready to rock the world. You can view the Google Nexus One smartphone’s features and specifications here as well as watch the Nexus One in action courtesy of a series of videos.

Nexus One is the much talked about Google Phone that would be designed, branded and sold by Google.The phone has no physical keyboard like the Motorola Droid instead it uses the touchscreen technology.This smartphone, which was made HTC, runs on open-source operating system Android.

Nexus One looks almost similar to Apple iPhone and other high-end touchscreen mobile phone released recently. It has a big screen (3.7-inch) with a small button at the bottom. After unlocking, you can see the bright and clear the screen. The screen is a low-power, LED screen which allows deep and vivid colours.

Google has mentioned this phone as “Web meets phone”. A web defined by Google. At the time of setting the phone for first time, the phone prompts you to log into your Google account. Poof! It synchronizes your email, web searches, contacts book and any other information you happen to have with Google.
You become Google designed, Android controlled zombie giving bits and pieces of your information handy to Google.

Is it a much talked iPhone killer? Not sure. But it has potential to do so considering price and the opensource OS platform used.

Google Nexus One smartphone – Technical Specifications

Nexus One: “Web meets phone”

Using your Nexus One

Nexus One – Customization

Nexus One – Google Maps

Reference Links:

• Google NexusOne – YouTube Channel
• Google NexusOne – Technical Specifications

Tag Cloud – Defination – What is a tag cloud?

A tag cloud is a stylized way of visually representing occurrences of words used to described tags. The most popular words are normally highlighted in a larger, bolder font. Visitors to a blog or site using a tag cloud, are able to easily see the most popular topics within the website by clicking on the respective tags.

If you are using the Wordpress Tag Cloud widget, you will come to know that you are unable to style it the way you like. If you call it directly from PHP in your template there are a few options you can use to control the look. The widgetized version does not give you access to options to control the style
neither you can style it with CSS. Not a problem! Now, You can fix the Tag Cloud Widget with this php function without touching the Wordpress core code.

HTML code of the default Tag Cloud widget:

< a href="http://www.digitalpercept.com/?tag=wordpress" class='tag-link-1' title='3 topic' style='font-size: 8pt;'>wordpress< /a>

The CLASS attribute is unique per tag and does not include any weighting information. And the STYLE tag hard-codes the font size based on weight but would override any CSS font-sizing we might have been able apply with the CLASS. Lets use the font-size information from the STYLE to determine the weight and
write a small filter function to rewrite the CLASS and STYLE declarations so we can use CSS to style the tag cloud.

Copy this filter function code block to your functions.php file in your active template.


// filter tag clould output so that it can be styled by CSS
function style_my_tag_cloud($tags)
{
$tags = preg_replace_callback("|(class='tag-link-[0-9]+)('.*?)(style='font-size: )([0-9]+)(pt;')|",
create_function(
'$match',
'$low=1; $high=5; $sz=($match[4]-8.0)/(22-8)*($high-$low)+$low; return "{$match[1]} tagsize-{$sz}{$match[2]}";'
),
$tags);
return $tags;
}


Hook the created php function into the rendering of the tag cloud widget

add_action('wp_tag_cloud', 'style_my_tag_cloud');

The function rewrites the tag links to look like this:

< a href="http://www.digitalpercept.com/?tag=wordpress" class='tag-link-1 tagsize-1' title='3 topic'>wordpress< /a>

The default tag cloud uses font-sizes from 8 to 22 points. The filter function uses a regular expression to extract that size and remap the default range (8-16) to the range defined by the $low and $high variables, for this example I used 1 though 5. An additional CLASS is added ‘tagsize-n’ where ‘n’ is 1-5 and then the STYLE attribute is removed. With the additional class you can now add something like this to your style.css and make the Tag Cloud look any way you’d like!


a.tagsize-1 { font-size: 8px; }
a.tagsize-2 { font-size: 10px; }
a.tagsize-3 { font-size: 12px; }
a.tagsize-4 { font-size: 14px; }
a.tagsize-5 { font-size: 16px; }