The latest version of Microsoft Windows, Windows 7, was released a while ago. I’m a Mac user at home, and Ubuntu user at work, but this release of Microsoft Windows, and the many words I heard about it, made me want to try this particular version.

OK read, I have not used Windows 7 yet, when I was writing this.

So, the first thing I figured I would check is what editions are they offering. To my shock, I see all these (ref: Wikipedia):

• Windows 7 Starter
• Windows 7 Home Basic
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Windows 7 Professional
• Windows 7 Enterprise
• Windows 7 Ultimate

Horror! How am I going to choose from them? And that does not include the upgrade editions from Windows Vista to Windows 7 (ref: Wikipedia).

Although they have a comparison chart widely available (ref: Wikipedia), it still makes me scratch my balls.

Here’s a little thought, what I think they should do:

• Offer very few editions, say maybe Basic, Home, Professional.
• Have a marketplace or store of some sort, allowing users to get what extra features they want in their edition, with a price (I can’t say free can I, Microsoft?)

I would prefer that, it reduces all the complexity of choosing that many different editions, which is a pain, in my opinion.

What do you think?

To try Google Public DNS, you gotta change your DNS server details to:

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4

Now we have a new alternative to OpenDNS.

I was greeted by this.

So what is this new feature about? It provides a new interface for doing retweets by a (few) mouseclick(s), and provides a new display for retweeted tweets.

To retweet another tweet, click the tiny ‘retweet’ icon at the bottom right of a tweet, right beside the ‘reply’ icon, then share to you followers.

So once I have retweeted, I see something like this in my timeline.

I think it is kind of neat.

.. come home, come home, cause I’ve been waiting for you, so long, so long ..

I like :)

I was reading Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax, and found these advice useful:

JavaScript pseudo-protocol - Awful!
<a href="javascript:window.open('help.html')">contextual help</a>
Pointless link - Bad!
<a onclick="window.open('help.html'); return false;" href="#">contextual help</a>
Using the DOM - Better.
<a onclick="window.open(this.getAttribute('href')); return false;" href="help.html">contextual help</a>
No inline JavaScript - Best!
<a class="help" href="help.html">contextual help</a>

Use external JavaScript functions to deal with the rest.

No, it’s not Pokémon.

I didn’t get to be there, but Carolyn offered to help me get a Poken and passed to me the next day.

What is a Poken? It’s a tiny little cute toy that allows you to share your online identities (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, just to name a few), through the touch of your Poken, and someone else’s. You can choose which social networks you want to share with others through the main Poken website, Do You Poken.

From the way people are interacting these days, I don’t see the need of giving out business cards that often anymore. Let’s just poken, get back home, sync it with your account, and you can already follow that person online.

I think David is ordering some more Pokens, get in touch with him or me, and I’ll pass the words, if you want one.

Now, let’s Poken.

in⋅ter⋅pret (verb) to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate

To interpret a message correctly, is a two-way actions. First, the one conveying the message has to be clear and unambiguous; secondly, the one receiving the message, can’t be taking it the wrong way.

A misinterpretation is costly, it can cost you money, friendship, relationship and whatnot.

Unfortunately, not everyone is good at interpreting the message given out by a particular individual. You shouldn’t blame them, you explain it to them.

Have you ever misinterpreted something? Or have you ever sent out ambiguous messages and someone else misinterpreted it?

I don’t intend to promote or market that browser, you can see it for yourself. But it does look clean on my Mac, at least I like the appearance much better compared to Firefox on Mac, but that’s just me.

I have yet to explore all available features that are shipped with the beta, but I am liking Opera Turbo, where it compresses the network traffic, to cater for slower connections. By turning it on you can experience that websites are loaded much faster, as they compress the data in the traffic. You will notice that images are in low quality, and some plugins such as Flash are not loaded by default.

A few things to mention, I have gotten so used to doing Cmd+Click to open a link in a background tab, and that doesn’t work on Opera 10 Beta 2. You have to do Shift-Cmd-Click in order to open a tab in the background, otherwise it will open in the foreground.

And I also miss my 1Password browser extension, too bad it isn’t available for Opera, I’m sure it will come.

Have you tried Opera 10 Beta 2? What do you think of it?