Opera has always been the dark-horse of web browsers, known for its strict adherence to web standards, apart from being known for its speed. The newest version of the browser, Opera 12 (available on Windows, Linux and Mac) brings with it a significant number of improvements with regards to performance, stability and security.To begin with, Opera has always known for its phenomenal cold-boot times (The time from when you click on the icon to when the application loads) Opera 12 has managed to further improve its startup time with a new smart tab-loading sequence for restoring previously opened tabs. New APIs allow developers to access the computer’s webcam as well as better support for browser windows and tabs in extensions. Notably, Opera has decided to discontinue its Opera...

The epoch-making ‘share’ era of Facebook and Twitter have led the developers of URL shortening services to come up with the concept of “Multi-link sharing with one URL”.Also known as ‘Link Bundling’, the service allows you to club together a number of URLs into a single short-link. There are hundreds of websites that provide URL shortening service, which has become increasingly popular in today’s age of microblogging and short-form status updates.But what about those times when you want to share many links with a friend or in your 140 character update? Perhaps a link that contains all the YouTube videos of your favourite band? Or a bunch of articles around the same topic? The best way is to stack up all your links, and create a single shortened...

Have you ever come across little kids working in a tea stall, and notice they can’t even read the menu on the board? Have you ever thought “I’ll do something for the poor people”, but weren’t able to decide how? Does working for an NGO seem the only option to do social work?For everyone who thought software and social problems don’t go in tandem, the Google Developer Group, New Delhi is setting a precedent. All you developers building apps for smartphones and monetising it, pause for a moment and take a look at this! What if you can “Code for a Cause”?The Google Developer Group, New Delhi is organising a hackathon titled, “H-A-C-K 2012 ‘Code for a Cause’” on 16th and 17th June 2012 at the India Habitat...