Crankshaft, New Feature from Chrome

More and more, our current discussion is still about Chrome, internet browser from Google that has achieved so many improvements since its released 2 years ago. Compared to other internet browsers, even to browsers that has released many years before, Chrome can be considered as the leader in the term of innovation.

In the end of year 2010, Chrome has become 3rd most popular browser with market share 9.26%, increase from 8% in middle 2010.

What is Mirror Site?

If you have ever downloaded file or freeware from internet may you provided with a list of addresses to download the same file. Those are some replicas for the existing site that you can choose to download. Those replica sites are called mirror site. In a common sense mirror site is a copy of a website or set of files hosted at a remote location, with some reason such as the site or files are available from more than one place or server, make it more easy to be accessed and reduce the network traffic on the main server. 

The second reason is to increase the speed with which files or Web sites can be accessed. File hosted in geographically closer server will more quickly to be downloaded.

Facebook to Launch Email Service?

Facebook user perhaps soon will be able to enjoy the e-mail via his Facebook account. Reported by several sources that recently Facebook prepared and ready to launch an email that uses @facebook.com address.

Those email services through Facebook account preached to update and refine the messaging services system as well on Facebook today. Currently, the service message on Facebook can not be used to forward message and send attachments.

Google Instant Preview

One more innovation from Google for its search engine, Instant Preview. Instant Preview is a feature that displays the image snapshot of the search results on Google. Previously, Google has launched Google Instant to your PC and mobile platform that provide faster searching and results. With Instant Preview you can find what you are looking for more quickly because with this feature you will be assisted search visually.

Instant Preview provides a graphic overview of a search result and highlights the most relevant sections, making finding the right page as a quick and easy as flipping through a magazine.

Big Decision

Life is like a spinning wheel, constantly changing, and sometimes we are faced with two or more choices, and we must choose one of them. Like a puzzle, we need to choose which one must be moved and rearranged, move a piece from one side to the other side, to find the solution and correct construction. And then you need your final decision that determine your all planning.

It was then that required careful consideration, especially when it relates to our “puzzle “ of life and our future. Big decisions to be taken. It may move from where we are today, moving from our present condition or change of habit over the years. That is, we will face new challenges, and of course also new risks. We must realize there is no decision without challenges and risks.

Top 5 AntiVirus Software of the Year 2010

A computer virus is a small software program that can copy itself and infect a computer, spreads from one computer to another computer and that interferes with computer operation. A computer virus may corrupt or delete data on a computer, use an e-mail program to spread the virus to other computers, or even delete everything on the hard disk.

Computer viruses are most easily spread by attachments in e-mail messages or by instant messaging messages. Viruses can increase their chances of spreading to other computers by infecting files on a network file system or a file system that is accessed by another computer.

Free Google TV For 10.000 Devoloper

Google gives serious attention to develop Google TV. This search engine giant announced will be handing out a juicy 10 thousand units of Google TV on the developers who are lucky in the United States. The aim is to encourage them to develop websites with the TV screen in mind, enticing developers to come up with creative stuff for Google TV.

Google said, the more interesting websites created for Google TV will make the user more and get a pleasant experience. Therefore, the developers are expected to realize this vision.

Google TV was created by Sony and Logitech. This device based on Google's Android and Google Chrome browsers. Google TV is meant to marry the web with television that lets users play online video, install the application to access the Internet.

Google TV: Internet Plus TV

Currently, people are pampered with a variety of entertainment such as music, movies, dramas, sports broadcasts and educational channels on television with a very good picture quality. Unfortunately, television can not meet people need on information that more flexible with a variety of content that can be freely chosen as the internet offers. On television people also can not build social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo, YouSayToo, MySpace, Scribd, etc. they could get through the internet.

Accommodate that two needs, Google has developed an application that combines television and the Internet. They call it Google TV, announced in May 2010. With Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Player 10.1, we can easily access the Internet and so young also moves to hundreds of television channels. Television channel can be searched with the search facility available on Google TV.

Civilization and Happiness

What is the civilization? And what is the happiness? What is the correlation? Although not the only, people say that the aim of building civilization is to obtain happiness.

Isolated tribal hinterland, a very humble and modest community, often called "low civilized". Conversely the more developed rural community or a large urban population, developed countries and the like often called "high civilized". Is it true?

Sometimes a question raised in my minds, what people actually want bothered to become "highly civilized" or to become "modern"? Whether for achieving the happiness?

Perhaps one reason that it makes sense is that their life will becomes easier. Or so they could be happier with the social order that are considered "advanced" and "better". Is it true?

Rooney to Stay at United till 2015 [Update]

In this week the future of Rooney continues harassed after his statement that he wanted to leave Manchester United, after feeling the Red Devils are no longer competitive to compete for the championship in the UK and also Europe.

Finally after going through serious talks with Sir Alex Ferguson, the club management and also attended by his agent, Rooney decided to remain at the club that has been strengthening since 2004.

Not only that, Rooney was given a three-year contract extension. As a result Rooney's Red Devils will be in uniform until 2015.

“Yeah, I'm delighted. There has been a bit of controversy over the timing of it all. But I'm delighted it's finally signed. Hopefully I cans move on and get back fit and get back playing again”, he said to MUTV, on Friday local time.

Roo, From Hero to Zero?

From hero to zero;the words might describe the current Rooney’s way of life. Born in Croxteth, Liverpool on 24 October 1985 Wayne Rooney has now become a big star in world football.

Rooney began his career at age of 10 when joining Everton, and started his professional career in 2002 still in Everton. Two years at Everton, Rooney joined Manchester United in 2004. His debut for United begins when entertaining Fenerbahce 24 September 2004 in the Champions League group stage by scoring a hat trick. His career started to climb and until recently has become United's main striker. Even in last season Rooney has become a major foothold in United's score after the departure of Christiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid. In the national team one place irreplaceable for him. Rooney has become a hero who is always praised by a United’s fan as well as British citizens.

200.000 SMS Sent Every Second [Report]

The more advanced and less costly means of communication, especially mobile phones has encouraged the increased use of SMS (Short Message Service).

International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations telecommunications agency estimates, the total will be around 6.1 trillion SMS messages sent in cellular networks around the world, until the end of this year. That is, all people around the world are now sending approximately 200 thousand SMS per second.

It is also mentioned, at the end of this year's mobile phone users has reached 5.5 billion people, including nearly 1 billion as 3G users.

Google Chrome 7 Beta Released

Google has released an update to the Chrome dev channel, the third in the 7.0 line. The differences are minor from the previous release and it seems like Google is focusing on bug-fixing, resolving minor bug fixes or crashes.

The new beta, Chrome 7.0.517.24, matches that of Tuesday's developer-channel release (28 September 2010). That doesn't include too much directly visible to users--the about:labs feature for experimental options is one item--but it paves the way for major changes.

Remove Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA)

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) is an anti-piracy system created by Microsoft that enforces online validation of the licensing of several recent Microsoft Windows operating systems when accessing several services, such as Windows Update, and downloading Windows components from the Microsoft Download Center. This notification checks whether you have a genuine copy of Windows registered to your computer. WGA consists of two components: an installable component called WGA Notifications that hooks into Winlogon and validates the Windows license upon each logon and an ActiveX control that checks the validity of the Windows license when downloading certain updates from the Microsoft Download Center or Windows Update.

WGA Notifications covers Windows XP, Windows Vista and also for latest OS Windows 7. If you don't have a genuine copy of windows, you will be notify pop up in the bottom-right of your screen:

WebP will Kill JPEG Image Format

Google officially introduced the new image format called WebP (pronounced "weppy"), in the end of September 2010.

WebP is a method of lossy compression that can be used on photographic images. The degree of compression is adjustable so a user cans choose the trade-offs between the file size and image quality.

A WebP file consists of VP8 image data, and a very lightweight containers based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers WebP cans use the format to create smaller, better-looking images cans that help make the web faster. While this container format contributes a minimal overhead of only 20 bytes per image, it is extensible to allow authors to save the meta-data they would like to store.

Train Crash kills 34 in Indonesia

Deadly train accident occurred in Indonesia, Saturday 02 October 2010, 03.00 am. Argo Bromo Anggrek train serving Jakarta - Surabaya route hits Senja Utama train serving Jakarta-Semarang route. Information obtained from the officer, train Argo Bromo Anggrek  crashed into Senja Utama that was stopped at the station Pemalang city, Central Java, 300 km east of Jakarta.

As a result of the collision was reported 34 people dead and resulted in the last 3 rear carriages of Senja Utama train destroyed and overturned. Officer said, train Argo Bromo Anggrek drove before the time specified. There are indications that the driver violated the beacon signal. Until this morning the victim and railway carriages that rolled still evacuated.

Not only this time, from 2004 to 2008 has occurred 28 times fellow train accidents, 108 times with other vehicles, 442 accidents caused train derailment.

How to clean Sality virus?

Sality virus is one of the viruses that infect executable (*.exe) files in the computer and in some cases also file with the extension *.com, *.dll and *.scr. When it infects a file, some viruses variant will install a helper component in the Windows System folder.

Names of this component will vary by Sality variant (source: Norman website): Syslib32.dll (All early versions) Olemdb32.dll (Sality.M, 3:03 version) Wmimgr32.dll (Sality.N, 3:04 version) Vcmgr32.dll (Sality.P / Q, version 3:07) Vcmgcd32.dll (Sality.R, 3:09 version) Wdmfmc32.dll (Sality.S, 3:07 version) If the virus has infected *.exe files in Windows System (eg explore.exe), then you will not be able to run Windows explorer and your windows will run abnormal/ unstable.

Google Instant

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as soon as you type. In other word, it will "search" before you type. This is the internet search accelerator by adding a feature that displays results as soon as people begin typing.

As a user starts to type a search, Google Instant automatically shows results for a popular search that begins with those letters. An algorithm tries to predict what the rest of the query might be based on popular queries typed by other users. The predicted text is shown in light grey in the search box, and search results and ads are automatically shown for that predicted query.

Exploring Google Chrome

Chrome Extension 

If you know the plug-in in the Firefox browser, then for Google Chrome users can get similar features in Chrome which is called extension

Like the other plug-in, extensions are a means to add feature and functionality into the browser. For some browsers, by default already has a plug-in that embed, sometimes it causes inconvenience. The reason, not all users require a browser plug-in that included all that.You will not experience this again in Chrome because you can customize it, what you need and what you don’t need.

Create Your Online Document

Do you need to update or just view your office document from every where you are? Whether you're in the office, at home, or on the way? Yes, it is possible. Microsoft offers Office Web Apps to help you get more things done virtually. You only need is internet connection and Microsoft Office Live account. You can use your Yahoo ID for this, very simple and free. With this online application you can access, view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote document directly from your web browser.

You can work like you're working with MS Office on your computer at home. And your documents will be stored online at SkyDrive. Get started here..

How to add external link on Pages tabs?

One of tens ideas to make navigation bar is by modify HTML. One of them is by adding pages Tabs. By default, this pages tabs will redirect the link to any static page within the blog. It would redirect to http://BLOG_NAME.blogspot.com/EXTERNAL_LINK_URL.

So, how to create an external link on the pages tabs?

This will need a little modification on your template HTML. Please save your template first before make any change.

Chrome 6 Beta Released

Google Chrome 6 Beta for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms is available for download now. Google Chrome 6.0.401.1 Beta. The new release is just an update and fixes bugs discovered in Earlier versions. No new features have been added in this release. 

One of them is the speed of Chrome 6 is capable of running 15% faster than previous versions, especially when running in the V8 and the SunSpider benchmark, quoted by The Register, Monday (08/16/2010). Chrome team has worked specifically on fixing the behavior of chrome while handling shortened URLs in the Omnibox 

Google Chrome 5.0.396.0 Beta added the feature of removing the http:// from the displayed URL. This worked pretty well for most of users but it was a difficulty to copy the web address from the Omnibox. This has been fixed in the current release. Now the http:// would be automatically appended even if you copy only a part of the address.

Widget on Specific Page

There are some case in which you may want the widget to appear or nor appear on a specific page of your blog. The example because of loading access or some other reason.

Widget is the code to add page element, both in the side bar, header or  in the footer. You can add, remove or rearrange widget from sub-tab page element under Design-tab on the dashboard.

Your widget can be seen on all your blog pages unless you wrap the widget in conditional tags. This mean that you can decide in which page your widget will displayed or not displayed

What is Octane Number?

Octane number of gasoline indicates the content of carbon chain of C8 (octane) contained therein, similar to the Cetane number for diesel fuel as a measure of fuel quality despite having a different understanding. In the case of combustion, octane rating will determine the fuel ability to not ignite spontaneously in the combustion chamber. Spontaneous ignition means with the compression process without any sparks from spark plugs air and fuel mixture burn by itself. The occurrence of spontaneous combustion is characterized by the occurrence of knocking in the engine and can cause engine damage. Fuel does not burn completely but explode.

The octane number is determined by comparing the characteristics of a gasoline to isooctane (2,2,4-trimethylpentane) and heptane. Isooctane is assigned an octane number of 100. It is a highly branched compound that burns smoothly, with little knock. On the other hand, heptane, chain a straight, unbranched molecule is given an octane rating of zero because of its bad knocking properties.

Pertamina fuel quality is Questionable

Pertamina, the State Owned Oil Company denies that their gasoline products has low fuel quality.  Pertamina President Director, Karen Agustiawan claimed that their fuel products are in accordance with the standards. "Who said we were under a standard gasoline, if it turns out they were wrong I would claim”, she said. 

Pertamina Corporate Secretary Toharso said its lowest grade car fuel Premium is produced based on the standards set by the Oil and Gas Directorate General of the Energy and Mineral Resources Department, and that "There are no reports on fuel pump damage due to the quality of Pertamina's Premium came from any party”. The fuel pump damage caused by vehicle users does not use the fuel according to the specifications of his car, which is can be the fuel octane rating.

Why did the Earth getting hotter?

When we noticed, from time to time the earth's temperature was getting hotter and hotter. Why did this happen? That is what we called global warming.  Global warming is the increase in temperature of the earth because of the influence of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane. In the normal amount, these gases are useful to maintain the temperature of the earth keep warm. In excessive amounts, these gases will cause the greenhouse effect.

The greenhouse effect can be explained as follows: The sun's rays penetrate the earth's atmosphere, in which greenhouse gases are also located, toward the surface of the earth. Most of the solar energy is absorbed by the earth and causing the Earth's surface temperature increases. Some is reflected back into the atmosphere in the form of infrared rays. 

Caffeine - New Google's Indexing System

On June 8, 2010 Google announced the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. According to a company blog post, Google built the new search indexing system over a year ago to keep up with the evolution of the Web and to meet rising user expectations. Caffeine offers 50 percent fresher results for web searches than Google's last index and boasts the largest collection of web content the company has ever offered.

Live Link Cafe: Free Live Link

Did you know Vinefire? This portal is one of media to promote our website directly with earnings based on three categories: add link, click on the links and referrals. Unfortunately, Vinefire is not online anymore now.

If you are still looking for similar sites, this one may be very useful. Its name is Live Link Cafe. The system is similar to Vinefire, do not provide earnings in the form of money, but a certain number of "views" towards a "post points" which allows you to add your own link to the system. Every 10 link views you will earn 1 live link named a "post points", and you will get 50 free live links/post points from referral.

Read and Sign Up !!

"Barcelona" in the World Cup 2010

As a finalist of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Spain recorded a successful outcome of the entire stage. Never lost during the preliminary stages and defeated  by Switzerland only in the group stage, Vicente Del Bosque team reached the finals to face the Netherlands.

As one of the seeded teams, Spain was not as impressive as the other leading teams such as Brazil and Germany, which is several times to win by more than one goal difference. Spain lost 0-1 against Switzerland, 1-0 win against Portugal, winning 1-0 against Paraguay, 1-0 win against Germany. Ordinary result, but consistent.

Round of 16 World Cup 2010

Entering the macthday 3, World Cup 2010 has placed  16 countries from group A, B, C and D to the round of 16. Uruguay and Mexico in Group A, Argentina and South Korea from the group B, the United States and England from group C as well as Germany and Ghana from group D. The host South African and two superior teams, France and Greece are in fact eliminated in the qualifying round group. Cameroon is the first team eliminated from group qualifying.

16 teams remaining from Group E, F, G, and H to determine who will follow to the round of 16. Dutch, Japanese and Danish are still more likely to go through stage of 16, as well as Brazil, Portugal and Ivory Coast in Group G. From group F Paraguay, New Zealand, Italy and Slovakia are still more likely to escape. From group H Chile, Spain and Switzerland are still more likely entered the last 16.

Think About Marriage

One thing that became almost everyone's agenda is marriage. Marriage will be something big because it was a new era had never experienced before.

When a person is still far from thinking about marriage, maybe the word "marriage" will mean only limited to words that are not so profound meaning. Married to understand just to get a couple who will always accompany with every day.

When the time comes and someone patterns of thinking has changed, the understanding of marriage must have changed.

Synthetic Fuel

Today, the supplier of the world's energy needs, especially gasoline, is still dominated by petroleum based. Petroleum reserves that could be considered not renewable day to day will become thinner and eventually will run out because the rate of formation is not proportional to the exploitation. On the other hand, world energy demand will increase from year to year. Own domestic energy crisis had begun. The high world oil prices brought a very large impact on fuel prices regional economic and the Indonesian economy in general. Limitations of the energy sources are supposed to trigger the discovery of other type of energy sources. One of them is synthetic fuels.

Converting File System: FAT and NTFS

This article describes how to convert a FAT16 file system or a FAT32 file system to an NTFS file system and NTFS file system to FAT32 in Microsoft Windows XP. The requirements or the conditions for converting your file system are explained first to minimize problems. A troubleshooting section is provided at the end of the article in case you experience any problems while trying the conversion.

Microsoft Windows XP supports the following three file systems for fixed disks:

1. FAT16
2. FAT32
3. NTFS

We recommend that you use NTFS with Windows XP because of its advanced performance, security, and reliability features. This article describes how to convert a FAT16 volume or a FAT32 volume to NTFS and vice versa.

Blog Submission to Google

Behind your effort to write any article in your blog/website, there is still another "hard" effort needed. Your job hasn't finish yet. Remember, your main purpose to have a blog or website is to promote whatever within your blog. It will need visitor to know your blog address, visit your blog and explore the contents.

Google is one of the most popular search engines where billions of internet users try to find what they need through internet. What can be found in Google are site URL/site addresses that indexed by Google. You need to submit your blog to Google to make it indexed. After your submission, google will aware that there is a new blog or link address need to be indexed. Google spider will crawl over regularly to your site.

To do submission to Google you need to visit Google Webmaster Tools:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps with your google account.

1) Under sub tab Adding a site, click Add a site.
2) Enter your URL site. In this example http://luvoshop.blogspot.com/.  Then click Continue

You will be asked to verify your blog ownership and the Verification status still: Not Verified.

There are two verification methods:
a. Upload a html verification file provided by Google, or
b. Insert meta tag generated by Google.

The first method requires litle bit more effort where you need to upload the html verification file (something like this: google451754c404f7fe37.html) into your root directory and then verify upload successfully through your browser with address:[Blog URL/html verification file]. In this example: http://luvoshop.blogspot.com/ google451754c404f7fe37.html

The second method, more simple, where you just need to insert meta tag, something like this:
<meta name="google-site-verification" content="t3d7FkdI0-p8iCXWrEfMI_Yi7uE3yWTtve3iYOccVCM">

within <head> section.

Let's try the second.

Note that you need to insert the meta tag first before continue to hit verify button. Login into your Dashboard, Layout, Edit HTML and find the <head> section in your Edit Template. Save your template.

Back to Google Webmaster sitemaps and click Verify. If verification success, you will be brought into your Dashboard. And when you back to Google Webmaster Tools, your blog URL Verification status become Verified.

That's all you need to submit your blog to Google.

Place on Earth First Experienced the Turn of the Year

A few hours ago, people around the world prepared to celebrate the New Year 2010. Did you know where new year celebrations will occur the first time in the world? The answer is Kiritimati. Kiritimati or Christmas Island is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands and part of the Republic of Kiribati.

New year celebration in Kiritimati recorded as the first in the world. Kiritimati is in the world's furthest forward time zone, UTC +14 or +6 hours earlier than Jakarta-Indonesia. Kiritimati is the first inhabited place on Earth to experience the New Year each year.

For the category of major cities, Auckland in New Zealand is the first city in the world to celebrate the turn of the year. The next shift occurred in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and eventually America.

Please zoom the map out  if you can't see the location. It is very small atoll [coral island] eastern of Papua Indonesia in North Pacific Ocean, north east of Sydney.

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