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SoundationCreate your own music. Use clips from their library and record your own.tags: music, toolsPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are he...
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Perkembangan Jaringan Nirkabel tahun 2010 dan beberapa tahun kedepan : HSPA+ , LTE , Wimax
USB Wireless Network / USB dongle telah menjadi perangkat pendongkrak popularitas 4G bersama dengan CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) dan laptop. Akan tetapi, handset mobile akan menjadi kunci keberhasilan WiMax. Sebagai contoh, Yota (Rusia), Sprint dan Clearwire (Amerika Serikat) telah menyediakan layanan mereka dengan perangkat dari HTC dan Samsung.Di saat yang sama, operator mobile juga terus berusaha mendapatkan lisensi LTE (Long Term Evolution). Sekitar 20 operator diperkirakan akan meluncurkan layanan mereka pada kuartal keempat 2010 mendatang. LTE sendiri merupakan Next Generation dari GSM setelah HSPA+LTE capabilities: Downlink peak...
Friday, May 28, 2010
How to copy charts into a word processor
When copying charts into a word processor, whether in Microsoft Office from Excel to Word or in openoffice.org from Calc to Writer, the software embeds a special object that links back to the original spreadsheet. If you then change the details in the Excel spreadsheet the chart in the Word document will change accordingly. In many cases this is advantageous; however, it can cause problems if the Word document cannot 'see' the Excel file, for example, if you email the Word file to someone without the Excel file. It is generally better to paste the chart as an image in the first place using the 'Paste special' facility.I will start by explaining...
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Amid Backfire, Facebook CEO Overhauls Privacy Settings
Palo Alto, California -- Amid escalating criticism from users, privacy advocates and lawmakers alike -- that the world's largest social-networking site Facebook lacks competent privacy controls, CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday overhauled its privacy controls to fend off dissatisfied users that it is betraying the trust that has made it the world's biggest social network. Now, keeping your personal information underwraps on Facebook just got simpler.In a news conference at its headquarters, Facebook's 26-year-old founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg addressed the attendees with: “Quite a lot of users are upset with us,” while he took the stock of recent blunders that caused growing pains said as he announced simplified privacy controls.“It has been a pretty intense few weeks for us,...
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Yahoo Makes Content Deal With “Farmville” Developers Zynga For Social Gaming
Sunnyvale, California -- Internet pioneer Yahoo seems to be on a tear has agreed to a deal with Zynga, makers of the monumentaly popular Farvmville and Mafia Wars games on Facebook, the alliance will see Yahoo integrating Zynga games across Yahoo's broad range of sites and service offerings, that includes Yahoo's home page, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger, which is a significant indication that Zynga will not need Facebook alone to thrive.Zynga has just announced a new partnership with Yahoo, a major victory for both companies. A representative for Yahoo quoted by WebProNews, “The partnership integrates Zynga's most popular social games across Yahoo!, empowering users to easily play games and access updates across some of its most popular properties including the Homepage, Yahoo! Games, Yahoo!...
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Google Announces Chrome Stable For Linux, Mac
Mountain View, California -- Google has moved the latest version of Chrome 5 for Windows out of beta and also announced stable versions of Chrome for Mac and Linux, and upgraded the browser for the first time withmany new features and speed, since launching the Web browser's fifth revision in less than two years.The latest Windows version operates JavaScript 30% to 35% faster than the earlier version, according to Google. The new stable release for Mac and Linux empowers users to synchronize bookmarks and browser preferences across multiple computers and platforms so consumers can feel at home no matter which machine they work on. Preferences include color themes, homepage, startup settings, Web content settings and page zoom settings.According to threatpost.com, the release also resolves...
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Google allows Street View car inspection
Internetgiant Google is to allow German data protection officers to examine one of its controversial Street View cars, which collect data for its online mapping service, the company announced Thursday.Earlier this month, German officials were highly critical of a data protection gaffe which enabled the Google's vehicles to collect snippets of private data on unencrypted wifi networks as they trawled the streets gathering information to appear on Street View.The decision came after Hamburg data protection officer Johannes Caspar asked to inspect a Street View vehicle, when Google admitted the error earlier this month."Since we announced two weeks ago that we wrongly recorded wifi user data, we are globally working hard to address the associated concerns of data protection authorities," Google...
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Facebook overhauls privacy settings
San Francisco : Social networking site Facebook introduced a new set of privacy controls Wednesday in an attempt to quell criticism that it was lax about protecting users' personal information.The new controls are featured in a streamlined privacy panel that allows users much easier management of who can access their information."We believe in privacy. We believe in giving people control," Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg said at a press conference to announce the overhaul."But more and more, people want to share information. As long as they have good control over that, I think that's where the world is going".The new settings feature a single control that limits who can see the content posted by a Facebook user, and allow users to control who sees their list of friends and their personal...
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Apple's iPad hits Japan in international launch
TOKYO, Apple Inc's iPad made its overseas debut on Friday, with buyers storming Japanese and Australian shops to be among the first outside the United States to snap up the long-awaited tablet PC. The device, which has a 9.7-inch color touchscreen for surfing the Web, watching movies, playing games and reading e-books, also goes on sale in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the UK and Canada later on Friday. At Apple's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, about 1,200 people lined up before the store opened at 8 a.m. ''I wanted to touch it as soon as possible. I felt a true excitement when it was finally in my hands,'' said Takechiyo Yamanaka, a 19-year-old who camped out in front of the Ginza store from Wednesday evening to be the first in line....
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Novas edições de Informix: Saldos? [Verifique o novo artigo e nota final]
Hi. In the last IIUG conference I had the chance of talking to some Brazilian members of the Informix community and they gave me the idea that there is an high demand for Portuguese content. When I started the blog I decided to do it in English (and that was not an easy decision because I'm not that confident about my English) for two main reasons:I wanted to reach a wider audienceI believe most Portuguese IT workers are used to read English, so it would not be hard for them to follow this (ignoring my English mistakes of course)The last reason probably encloses two mistakes. The main one is that the Portuguese speaking audience is much bigger that Portugal (for those who don't know Portugal has around 10M people. Brazil is probably 20+ times this and then there are the African countries...
Glance to the Rescue
While I have been using Glance for awhile now and tend to use it to do webinars, many of you may not know you can also use it to view and take control of your colleagues computer. Just this morning I was able to send my colleague a link and within seconds I was viewing their computer and able to help diagnose the problem he was having. The experience went very smoothly and it was as if I was sitting next to my colleague clicking their mouse and using their computer. While I was not able to initially solve my colleagues problem seeing what was happening allowed me to think about the issue and hopefully tomorrow morning I will get another chance...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
New Informix editions: Bargain time? [ Please check end note and new article]
Again a non technical post. I'm really sorry about that... I still don't have enough free time and things are hapening that can't be ignored in this blog....Before I start, a disclaimer: This post is by no means IBM official information. Please check the URLs given as reference and in case of doubt contact your local IBM sales representative.So, you may have read it elsewhere, because it's all over the Informix related sites and forums: IBM did a total repackaging of the Informix product. That means that the different versions that we were used to have are gone (not all). Starting today there will be no more "enterprise edition" nor "workgroup edition". In their place there will be respectively the Ultimate Edition and the Growth Edition (oh... the names....). In very simple words, Ultimate...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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The Technology Facade"Abstract: This paper reports on the design, development, and application of a Checklist intended to assist educators in recognizing strengths and weaknesses in their technology-based programs at their institutions. The Checklist sampled public and private schools to validate the existence and impact of the Technology Facade. Initial findings indicate that schools have masked the effective use of computers labs and classroom computers behind the auspices of teacher activities, student participation, and parental involvement. The study and suggests possible courses of action to address deficiencies in the use of technology, the construction of the necessary infrastructure, and the design of a viable instructional strategy."tags: technologyPosted from Diigo. The rest of...
First Species whose parent is a computer!
If that's all you heard, "This is the first self-replicating species we've had on this planet whose parent is a computer.", what would you think? Would you be concerned about the end of mankind? Inevitable doom? Would you think about the potential for good? The cure for diseases, or a species that eats oil, maybe? Would you worry that it would become an invasive species that we couldn't stop, or would you be full of hope for Alzheimer patients and cancer patients and diabetics?What would your students feel?How advanced is science? Well, when they became concerned that they wouldn't be able to distinguish real DNA from synthetic DNA they decided to put "watermarks" in the synthetic DNA. Let that sink in a bit.How's this for a writing prompt idea? This video is not likely to keep many high school...
Moving from Mind Mapping to Knowledge Mapping
Much can be said about the benefits of using mind mapping software for the personal, academic, and business needs that many of us have. I know for myself that I greatly benefit from using mind mapping software on a daily basis to plan workshops, overview my content for courses, and for managing projects that I am working on. Using mind mapping software makes me more effective at the work I do and allows me to share information in a rich graphical way that resonates with my colleagues. For me, having access to the tools and techniques of mind mapping provides me a rich palette of tools to draw from when I am doing the work that I do. While using...
Sunday, May 16, 2010
xPaper - Great Digital Pen Solution
I have been a long time user of digital pen technologies and am always amazed by its feature set and simplicity. At the core of digital pen technologies is Anoto functionality which gives software developers the tools to create innovative solutions. For the past several years I have been using a solution from Talario called xPaper. In it latest iteration xPaper, lets you print your forms on ordinary paper and write on the form with the digital pen. Once the pen is docked the ink is automatically downloaded to the form and within seconds you have a crystal clear PDF of your contents that you are ready to add to your work flow.xPaper is comprised...
How to Get Notified When Someone Hacks Your Facebook
Facebook just announced a tool that notifies you by e-mail or SMS text message when someone logs into your Facebook profile from an unknown computer.The idea is to help you recognize when a hacker has broken into your account so you can respond quickly by either changing your password (if that’s still possible) or contacting Facebook.Once you enable the notifications, you’ll be required to identify each computer you use to log in when you first use it and choose whether or not it’s a private or public machine. You’ll be able to see a history of registrations from machines potentially used by hackers, and of course those hackers will be forced...
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TweetDeck Heading to Mobile Web Browsers
Popular Twitter client TweetDeck announced today its plans to make TweetDeck into a browser-based mobile application that can run on a variety of devices. By focusing on building an application for the mobile browser — rather than native platforms — TweetDeck hopes it can get on more devices and increase efficiency in the process.TweetDeck (TweetDeck) already has apps for the iPhone (iPhone) and iPad, with plans for an Android (Android) app also in the works. However, for the hundreds of millions of smartphones out there that aren’t iPhone or Android models, the development process is more complicated, and thus a web app is a better alternative.By creating a web app, TweetDeck will be able to support Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, Symbian and webOS handsets. The mobile web app strategy...
Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
There’s only one person who Twitter loves more than Justin Bieber, and that’s Mom. Her special day came in at number one on this week’s top trends list.Even after the results of the UK’s general election were in, the new coalition government remained on the minds of many tweeters this week. Sports (sports), music and movies took home the rest of the list, which you can view below, courtesy of our friends at What The Trend. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart.You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topics section as well as read more about this past week’s trends on What The Trend.Top...
Twitter Improves Trending Topic Algorithm: Bye Bye, Bieber!
Twitter has updated the algorithm behind its popular Trending Topics feature, changing the focus from the most discussed items to what is “most breaking” and “immediately popular.”Twitter confirmed to Mashable that on Wednesday it made updates to improve the relevancy of trending topics. In the past, trending topics were dominated by consistently popular items (e.g. Justin Bieber) with little regard as to what was “hot” at any given moment.Here’s how Twitter explained the new changes in an update to the Help section: “The new algorithm identifies topics that are immediately popular, rather than topics that have been popular for a while or on a daily basis, to help people discover the ‘most breaking’ breaking news from across the world. (We had previously built in this ‘emergent’...
New Entry-Level MacBook Leaked
A Vietnamese website — the same one that got hold of another Apple 4G iPhone last week — has posted a video and details about the new entry-level MacBook 7.1.The machine’s CPU was upgraded to a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, increased from 2.26GHz in the previous generation, and graphics were given a shot in the arm with a NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU. These updates will be the first for the MacBook since October 2009, when the notebook got a longer battery life and overall design reworking.Apple’s recent round of laptop refreshes has thus far included upgrades to the MacBook Pro, including a standard 4GB of RAM and a choice between Intel’s i5...
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Happy 50th birthday to the laser
It was dismissed by some scientists as "a solution looking for a problem."But when the first working laser was rolled out 50 years ago this week -- developed at California's Hughes Research Laboratory -- it didn't take long for the hyperfocused beams of light to find work.Having fascinated science-fiction fans since the origins of ray guns in the late 1800s, lasers (literally "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation") have become common in modern life.From talking on the telephone to listening to a CD, laser technology makes a lot of what we do happen."Everyone has some sort of connection every single day to lasers -- even...
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Some quitting Facebook as privacy concerns escalate
Concerns over Facebook's new privacy policy and the online social network's recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site's faithful to delete their accounts -- or at least to try to.On Wednesday's episode of a podcast called This Week in Technology, host Leo Laporte, a well-known tech pundit, said he had to search wikiHow, a how-to site, to figure out how to delete his Facebook account permanently.After finding the delete button, which he said is hidden deep within the site's menus, Laporte proceeded to delete his account during the online broadcast."That's it. It's gone," he said during the show. "And I think that's the right thing to do."It's unclear how many people have chosen to delete their Facebook accounts in recent weeks. The popular social network...
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Facebook launches new security feature
(CNN) -- Facebook has announced a new security feature that aims to keep hackers from tapping into users' personal information.The change comes amid rising concerns about privacy and security on the online social network, which has 400 million members worldwide.The new feature, announced Thursday, makes Facebook a bit more like an online banking site. Users can identify certain "approved" computers and mobile phones that are allowed to access their Facebook accounts. If an unauthorized device tries to log in, the user will be notified of that activity by e-mail or text message, allowing them, in theory, to shut down an attack before any information is stolen.In order to access a Facebook account from a new computer, or from a friend's phone, for example, users may have to answer a security...
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