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5 Internet Applications To Make Your Life Easier

Often got problems in scheduling your daily activity? Why don’t you use free internet applications? As quoted from PCWorld, these are some online applications that can be useful to help organizing your life.

1. Get your task schedule with “Remember The Milk”
Daily life can be messy if the our task is not scheduled properly according to their priority. Download the application called “Remember The Milk“. Even though sounds funny, this application is very handy and helps you to arrange your daily schedule properly.

2. Save Your Important Notes in “Backpack”
Save every of your important notes in “Backpack“, an application that looks like a web based writing book. Lots of idea can be put privately in here. Backpack can also save email address so you can put writings in email wherever you are.

3. Get “Sandy” as your Virtual Assistant
Why don’t you use a beautiful virtual assistant to remind you any of your important schedule? Use “Sandy” who will notice you

4. Manage Your Finance With “Wesabe”
Confuse with your unmanaged money tracks? Try to use online application called “Wesabe” which useful to manage your finance properly

5. Plan Your Vacation With “Tripit”
Planning your holiday to make it run perfectly is taking a lot of time. Consider to use “Tripit“. This freeware application will organize your trip plan with map, recreation area conditions and hotel bookings

Schism, Fitna Has A Rival

The spreading of Fitna, a film directed by a member of Holland parliament, Geert Wilders, has harvest protests and creating anger on Moslems in some countries. In response of that, a film to match Fitna has been created by a 33 years old Arab blogger.

This film that has 6 minutes duration was made based on exegesis of the Bible that motivate people to go to war and do crimes. The film even displays clip of soldiers torturing Iraqis.

This film called “Schism” was uploaded in YouTube on 1st March 2008, but was moved immediately by YouTube administrator. However, this deletion of Schism was protested by some people, because Fitna is never deleted and they thought it was not fair. That is why, Schism back on YouTube.

Nokia N78, Bring Online Community In Your Hand

Nokia just announced Nokia N78, multimedia computer that claimed has bundle of music, navigation and photography with mobile facility.

Many new technologies promised by Nokia in N78, including integrated A-GPS, free Nokia Maps, WLAN and high speed HSDPA 3G, 3.2 mega pixel camera with Carl Zeiss optic lens, and microSD memory card support up to 2GB.

Nokia claimed the greatness of N78 is on location tagging, a process to add geographic identification such as coordinate. It means, automatically can give tag on picture with location metadata, thus enable user to view information of the picture taken place whether from map or by online.

Another ability is the high speed internet connection, WLAN or HSDPA. User can upload photo and video to social community sites, such as Flickr with one touch.

Quit Smoking with Video Games

Once you smoke, it will be very hard to stop or quit, whereas we all know that the danger of smoking is not small. That is why, an interactive video game to stop smoking is under develop. So while you play an entertaining game, your smoking habit will soon disapear.

This game is developed by Ubisoft, and will be released on November 2008 for Nintendo DS console. The method for quit smoking that is used in this game is based by a book “Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking”. You should know that this method has help millions of people quit smoking.

According to Ubisoft, in this game player will be asked to input their smoking history, then they can choose virtual training that can guide them controlling their smoking habit. There are total of 15 games that will use to avoid the nicotine addiction. Players can also view their progress on scale that is called “Path Of Freedom”. Players will actively interact in this game so the smoke addicts will know that quit smoking can be fun too.

New Spam Site Every 3 Seconds

The growing of email spams is likely unable to be stopped. According to the latest data compiled from Sophos, a computer security bureau, about 92.3 precent of email traffic in the first three months of 2008 is all spam  emails. They also said, 23,300 new webpages has been created everyday to facilitate spamming activities on that period of time. That means, a webpage of spam has been created every 3 seconds. No wonder my Inbox always filled with spams everyday. huhhh…

For the first time, Turkey is in the top three countries in the world that spread spam email. The first and second country are USA and Russia, and they have promised to take serious steps on spammers. Russia perhaps has to double their efforts, since the spams sent from this country has doubled in the first quarter of 2008 compares to 2007. As for now, 7.4 percent of spams source in the first quarter of 2008 comes from Russia compares with only 3 percent in the first quarter of 2007

Facebook Is More Dangerous Than Porn Sites?

Porn sites are often thought to have many negative effects for our computer thus results on banning them. But in office computers, it is not porn sites that has been favorite to be blocked, but the traveling sites and social networking site.

At least, that is according to the survey by Webroot, a software company. In this survey, that involves 300 England companies, sites about traveling and social network such as Facebook are being primary target to be blocked or banned. Porn sites only rank behind those two content sites. Is this mean that social network sites are more dangerous than porn sites for worker?

Sites with porn and gambling content often has to be banned. But after while, traveling sites or social networking sites are considered to be wasting time of the office worker a lot more thus they’re banned by the company, as said by Neil Hammerton, Vice President of European Webroot.

Dikutip detikINET dari VNunet, Rabu (23/4/2008), pemicu lain pemblokiran adalah karena situs jejaring sosial dinilai lebih membahayakan keamanan jaringan kantor.

Seperti diketahui, pemblokiran situs di kantor memang sudah jadi tren. Di Inggris menurut Departemen Bisnis setempat, sekitar 38 persen pelaku bisnis melakukan kebijakan seperti itu.

Will GTA IV Break The Record?

This new version of the most controversial yet always missed video game, “Grand Theft Auto IV”, is said to be on the market on 29th April 2008. Regarding the excessive amount of violence scene that has been an issue in this game, this GTA IV is classified as video game for adult, and will be available for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 consoles.

GTA IV has been predicted by some analyst to have huge profit up to USD 400 million in first week sales. Variety, a popular entertainment site has even predicted that the launch of GTA IV will be the biggest debut in the history of entertainment world.

No wonder, the console companies have also prepared to have big promotion on this GTA IV release. Just for your information, GTA IV offers multiplayer game capability and a lot more new mission. Can GTA IV break the record debut sales in the history?

Let’s wait and see