Get your favorite live TV and Radio channels at your desktop

Delicast is the directory of the streaming media freely available on the Internet. With this, your could quickly locate your favorite international radio and live international television channel and play it in the media player on your desktop.

The site is multilingual and displays the country specific channel listings.

So next time when you are traveling abroad and need to catch up with telecast on your national television, keep this handy!

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Google Chrome - A Search Centric Browser

 Google Chrome, an open source browser from Google, became available for downloads today. It must be just a few minutes past the moment that I noticed a link on Google  search page and downloaded the brand new browser.

Here are some of the key differentiators :

• Its based on the theme which Google does the best .. Search!!
• Browser has a combined search and address bar. Browser starts suggesting possible addresses as user starts entering web links or search strings.
• Each new tab that opens on the browser provides a snapshot of most visited sites, book marks and recent searches.
• User can search the browsing history instead of looking for it in the drop-down list. Also, users can use incognito window for private browsing where no browsing history is registered.
• The tabs on the parent browser window can be pulled in and out to form separate windows or tab groups.
• Each browser tab works as an independent process which means that if a site crashes on one tab, it would leave rest of the tabs intact while bringing down the tab on which a site crashed !!
• The browser has softness of Apple's Safari and a punch on Mozilla's Firefox. It can  inherits the configuration from the installed browser.

 

Here is some more info of interest ....

• Its an open source browser !
• It uses components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox.
• Beta released is for windows, Mac and Linux versions would gradually follow
• Its build over V8, a more powerful java script engine!

With a simple yet winning look and feel, its a browser that you would certainly like to try and decide like other Google products.

Google Chrome can be downloaded here

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Web 2.0 Style for Printed Newspapers

If you consider user participation as one of the primary ingredient of Web 2.0, Daily Newspapers in India are making a beeline on that route. 

Printed newspapers in India are encouraging Citizen Journalism where readers  contribute to the columns with social and civic issues, eye-opening photography and touching true experiences and stories.

The approach works wonders as it allows reporting of news right from the true source of its creation. It also reduces the load on official reporters and encourages collaboration with the common man. Typically, 5-10 percent of print seem to be originating in the hands of readers these days.

Thanks to the technology as people equipped with cell phone cameras, SMSs, PDAs with wireless Internet and mobile computing are able to catch the action live and report it on proper channel within no time.

Here are some of the interesting examples from a reputed Indian Daily ...

READER REPORTER : Crumbling Bangalore Roads

SOUL CURRY 

CITY MAILBOX

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