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Even Keyboard Needs Condom

Sometimes you are afraid to put your cup of coffee or tea near your computer keyboard because it might spill and ruin the keyboard. Well, fear no more, now there is a special wrapper for keyboard that can be washed with water when dirty.

This ‘condom’ for keyboard is called Rasfox, made from silicone and it is believed to give complete protection by wrapping the top side of the keyboard. Rasfox has transparent design so you still can see the keyboard tuts clearly.

Furthermore, Rasfox can reduce the clicking noise when we are typing the keyboard. Rasfox is developed by Lakesen International, an Apple’s accessories specialist company based in Canada.

This keyboard condom comes in five different color, blue, pink, white, black, and clear. Unfortunately, this product is only available for Apple Macintosh keyboard.

For iMac, Mac Mini, Power Mac G5and Xserve G5 users can choose three out of five colors available, which are blue, pink, and clear. As the Macbook Pro and Power Book can only use the clear one. MacBook 13″ users can choose all the color available.

Bloggerwave, A New Way To Generate Money

There are a lot of services who offers us as bloggers to make money by writing reviews of a product or service on our blog. Bloggerwave is one of the program which I think is worth to try. The benefit of Bloggerwave from other paid review services is that you can put up to 5 blogs of yours in one account.

Bloggerwave is also unique compares to other programs, because you can accept every opportunity offered immediately. Say goodbye to submitting a bid and waiting for approval from the advertiser. Everytime there is a job appear, you just have to click “take this opportunity” and that is it, you are ready to roll.

As a new company, Bloggerware is aiming to be Europe’s biggest advertising media on blogs and you can help us grow so more and more jobs will come. So, if you like to blog and want to generate some revenue, you can join Bloggerwave.

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.

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

IE 8 Will Be Released On The Third Quarter of 2008

Microsoft will soon release the beta 2 version of its newest browser, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), in third quarter this year. This is confirmed by Nick MacKechnie’s blog. Nick Mackechnie is the senior technical account manager of Microsoft in New Zealand.

Trial of this browser version beta 2 is aimed for end-user community, bear in mind that FIrefox 3 is also in final stage to be launched publicly. IE 8 can be installed in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) (X64), Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Server 2008 (x64)

Microsoft also adds meta tag in IE8 to make sure that the web page that can be opened in IE7 will not be crashed if runs with IE8. This is important because IE8 has a new layout engine that support HTML 5 and CSS 2.1, while layout engine of previous IE does not support the internet standard correctly.

IE8 is claimed to be run perfectly under various web standard and supports Ajax programming. There is also a feature called “Webslices”, which the user can share a webpage into some parts. Another new feature is called ACR (Automatic Crash Recovery), a data recovery feature in browser tab if any hang or crash happens. So, which one turns out to be the winner, IE8 or Firefox 3? We just have to wait and try