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About a month after it’s release Opera v8 has crossed the 4 million download mark,thus prooving that it has created quite a bit of interest among netizens.Offcourse Firefox fan would perhaps grinn sarcastically at this figure as in about the same time Firefox had grossed twice the number of downloads.However that doesnt make any difference to me as download number entirely reflect quality,but what it reflects is popularity.And yes,Firefox is definitely much more popular thanks to it’s FREE and OPEN SOURCE tag.Offcourse Opera is a “Commercial software” which requires you to pay 39$.However a free ad-supported version of it is available for download free of cost.Sadly due to bad experience with other crippled sharewares people flinch to download anything which isnt absolutely free.
But TRUST ME even the add-supported version of Opera is worth it.The google ads are just like the ones you would see in websites.As you can see from the screenshot the viewing area is almost same as Firefox.

Anyway vertical scrolling isnt very concerning(as long as you mouse is equipped with a mouse wheel).However what is irritating is Horizontal scrolling,and that is where Opera does excellently.Opera can reallign and rezise the page to remove horizontal scrolling.It works very nicely in most cases.However Opera screws up when it tries to resize pages with large flash files.You can also zoom in and out of pages easily.
Opera is packed with features.It would take me pages to describe them in detail.So I am touching upon them briefly below.

It has RSS feed manger,IRC client,NNTP newsgroups and an email client(with spam filter).Opera was among the first to arrange mails according to views.Offcourse it was gmail who made this concept popular.
Another innovative feature is the ability to save notes while browsing.The magic wand manages your passwords with ease and style.
Opera was the probably the first browser with pop-up blocking and handy search bar.It is also the first browser to have voice recognition feature.Yes!YOu can fully controll opera with your voice.Not only that Opera can read out webpages and your emails aloud using high quality voice libraries from IBM.
Opera’s security track record is worth envying.It is a standard compliant browser with support for Jacascript and CSS.Features like ability to continue browsing from where you left last time to re-opening acceidentaly closed pages,searchable history,editing web pages on the fly make your life easier.
A very less known feature of Opera is Opera show.Opera Show is a presentation tool that can turn your web pages into presentations. Taking regular HTML, and adding a little magic CSS, the web page is transformed to look more like a PowerPoint document.The presentations will appear as a full presentation in Opera with a simple press of the F11 key.
For more info on Opera show and it’s advantages over Power point visit howtocreate.co.uk
And finally a fully customisable interface is the icing on the cake.Several beautifull skins are available on the net.

And all this is available in a tiny 3.6mb setup,which is much less than Firefox in spite of having lots of more features.If you feel worried that it may be bloated,well it is not!It is lighter than most browsers(Firefox included.)

Get the latest version from
URL http://snapshot.opera.com/windows/

Opera is also available for other platforms.

N.B:This was written quite a few months ago for my previous blog.I have just copied it here.

Finally,i got my blog up and running.I had to change host as i couldnt acces the admincp of my previous host!As a result of that i couldn’t get my mysql db also backed up.
I have put up some of my old articles but all comments have been lost.
Let’s hope that this host lasts longer than the previous one.;D

P.S.To my friends,i havent got my blogroll updated.I would do that soon.

Advani’s recent comment that “Jinnah was secular” has created a huge political storm in India.In the face of barrage of attacks from RSS and internal grudgings Advani has decided to resign.
But the question is was Jinnah secular?

Jinnah was an well educated Muslim who didnt belive in the supersitions and rituals of the religion.Initially he was an open minded individual.Infact he played an important role in the Lukhnow Pact.This Pact brought the Muslim League and the Congress closer together.During this period he was a secular man who wanted Hindu Muslim unity.

But things began to change after 1925.Gandhiji’s influence began to rise.The congress left constitutional means of agitation and switched to more effected and drastic means like Non cooperation.This pushed the League and the Congress apart.Due to clever British policy of divide and rule and his own jealousy and ambition Jinnah started to belive that no good could be done to the Muslims as long as Congress was at large.In later stages of his carrier he definitely wasnt secular.

Click here to read an interesting article published by The Telegraph on this topic.

Here are the excerpts

Even as late as 1925, Jinnah retained the political attributes that harked back to the early Congress. He remained committed to secular reform and national independence. When the young Raja of Mahmudabad spoke of himself as a ?Muslim first??, Jinnah chided him: ?My boy, no, you are an Indian first and then a Muslim.?? Jinnah began on the fringes of Muslim politics but he marked out for himself a space in Indian politics by becoming the sole spokesman of Muslims in India and also by making himself the champion of the two-nation theory……
…..He was a Westernized and secular man who contributed to the making of communal politics in India.

Click here to see excerpts from Jinnah’s address on Aug11,1947

Another interesting piece was in a Bengaly newspaper.It says that there was a rumour that when Advani was 20 he was among the group of people that had tried to kill Jinnah.Was Advani trying to compensate for the mistake he commited in his youth?

The Taj Mahal a mausoleum in Agra, India,is one of the seven wonders of the world.It is considered as a symbol of the eternal love.The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan had it built in memory of his wife, Arjumand Banu Bagam, known as Mumtaz Mahal (Persian for ?Elect of the Palace?), who died in 1631.

Recently there has been a lot of controversy over the ownership of the Taj.Recently it was declared Sunni Wakf property on the ground that it is the grave of a woman whose emperor husband was a Sunni.Untill now The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) had been looking after it.

Hoever there are people who are raising an entirely different questions.
Was the Taj Mahal a Vedic Temple?

This is what the site has to say:

We have all heard how the Taj Mahal, which is considered one of the great wonders of the world, was built as the preeminent expression of a man’s love for a wife. That it was built by emperor Shah Jahan in commemoration of his wife Mumtaz. However, in our continuous effort to get to the truth, we have recently acquired some very important documents and information. There is evidence that the Taj Mahal was never built by Shah Jahan. Some say the Taj Mahal pre-dates Shah Jahan by several centuries and was originally built as a Hindu or Vedic temple/palace complex. Shah Jahan merely acquired it from its previous owner, the Hindu King Jai Singh.

This controversy is something I have explained more thoroughly in my book, “Proof of Vedic Culture’s Global Existence.” So, for those who want to know the details of this issue, you can find it there. And here is the photographic evidence that will provide greater insights into this. The point to consider is how much more of India’s history has been distorted if the background of such a grand building is so inaccurate.

Not only that the site also contains photographs and references to proove it’s point.

So,is this true?Or is the author of the page a budding Dan Brown?

Don’t forget to read the full article here