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Google has launched Google Public DNS on Thursday, December 03, 2009. Google Public DNS is free Public DNS service that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. Why should you try Google Public DNS? By using Google Public DNS you can: Speed up your browsing experience. Improve your security. Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection. The Google said on its site.

You can try the service with reconfiguring your network settings should use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as DNS addresses.
For more, visit http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns

Anti virus software is important for your computer. Antivirus will detect and remove viruses, worms, bots, Trojans and adware/ spyware.  Antivirus will protect your computer. If you think that it is too much money to buy an anti-virus program, you can use free antivirus software.

You can find lots of free software made to stop worms, viruses, and other malware. You can download for free. Here they are:

Avira AntiVir Free Version

Protects your computer against dangerous viruses, worms, Trojans and costly dialers.

Download: www.free-av.com

avast! Home Edition FREE

avast! antivirus Home Edition includes ANTI-SPYWARE protection, certified by the West Coast Labs Checkmark process, and ANTI-ROOTKIT detection based on the best-in class GMER technology.

Download: www.avast.com

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

The most trusted free antivirus and antispyware security software for Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.

Download: free.avg.com

PCMAV

PCMAV (PC Media Antivirus) is an antivirus made by PC Media, the leading computer magazine in Indonesia.

Download: pcmav.biz

Smadav

Smadav is a accuracy virus scan, especially the local virus from Indonesia.

Download: www.smadav.net

I hope this is useful

Motorola just launched their new product. It is called Motorola Droid. The Motorola Droid is the first ever Verizon Android Phone. I think this smartphone is very outstanding and sophisticated with reasonable price. “We’re proud to work with Verizon Wireless and Google™ on the first smartphone to feature Android 2.0,” said Sanjay Jha, co-chief executive officer of Motorola and chief executive officer of Motorola Mobile Devices.

The Motorola Droid is the first Android Phone to comes loaded with Android 2.0. DROID by Motorola features the brainpower and breakneck speed of a modern smartphone. Its specs include a 550MHz Texas Instruments OMAP3430 processor, a 3.7? WVGA capacitive display, four touch-sensitive navigation buttons, a slide-out full QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual-LED flash, 720×480 video capture at 24 fps, GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Exchange support,  a pre-installed 16GB memory card and the Motorola Droid has the best battery life out of any Android device we’ve ever tested with 6.4 hours of talk time. DROID by Motorola gives customers a lifestyle device with access to more than 12,000 applications.  CNET Reviews said, citing the speed at which the Droid opens applications and menus and scrolls through lists and switches display screens.

I think this smartphone with the specs mention, is very well worthed for you to have. I think you’re going to love it.

YAHOO will be closing all GeoCities accounts on October 26, 2009. I just got an email from Yahoo today. Geocities WILL BE CLOSING! Here the email:
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Final notice: GeoCities is closing.
Dear Yahoo! GeoCities customer,

We’re writing to remind you that Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009.

On October 26, 2009, your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web, and you will no longer be able to access your GeoCities account and files.

What You Need to Do
If you’d like to move your web site, or save the images and other files you’ve posted online, you need to act now by choosing one of the following options:

Move your site to Yahoo! Web Hosting.
We know your files are important to you, and we want to make moving to Web Hosting as easy and affordable as we can. For a limited time, you can move your files automatically, take advantage of terrific features like a personalized domain name and email, even redirect your GeoCities web address to your new site — all for only $4.99 a month for a full year.

For more information and complete terms, please see our special offer now.

Download your files to your own computer.
With your pages and images saved offline, you can re-create your site with any hosting provider.

To quickly download your published files, visit your GeoCities web site, right-click on each page, and choose Save Page As… from the menu that appears. Choose a location on your computer to save your files, then click OK or Save. Learn more about downloading your files.

Don’t Wait
Please be aware that after October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable. If you’d like to save your files, you must download them now or move to Yahoo! Web Hosting. If you need assistance, please visit the help center.

We want to thank you for being a GeoCities customer, and hope you continue to enjoy our other Yahoo! services.

Best regards,

The Yahoo! GeoCities team

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Goodbye Geocities.

Do you install more than one browsers on your computer? Some people run more than one browsers. They use such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari.

Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome all use different rendering engines. The software that figures out how to process the code of a web site and display it for you. Like me, sometimes I use Firefox as my favorite browser, but sometimes websites do not work then I must switch over to another browser. Now, you don’t need multiple browsers because Lunascape has released an alpha version of its Lunascape browser. Lunascape is a great alternative for multiple browsers.

Lunascape is a web browser developed by Lunascape Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. Lunascape says from their official sites, Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. What this means is that you can have the best features, performance, and speed of, Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Apple Safari all in one browser and can view any website in an optimal way without a need to open another browser.

Lunascape supports 3 rendering engines for major browsers: Gecko (in Firefox), Trident (in Internet Explorer), and Webkit (in Chrome and Safari). Lunascape, handles all three of the rendering engines at once. Another feature of Lunascape, you can simply change the style of skin, proxy, Windows, Settings, and more outstanding in the sidebar. Lunascape is highly customizable and functional browser. Lunascape has been downloaded over 10 million times in Japan and it’s now available globally in 11 languages.

More info: http://www.lunascape.tv/

Nokia is my favourite handphones brand. Now, Nokia introduces Booklet 3G ‘mini laptop’. This is first Nokia’s netbook. I think is nice to see a nokia netbook.

Nokia Booklet 3G specifications:
Nokia Booklet 3G comes with premium design with a chassis made from a single piece of machined aluminum (Three different colors at launch: black, ice (white) and azure (blue)). Nokia Booklet 3G uses Intel Atom Z530, 1.6 GHz with Intel Poulsbo US15W, fanless design. The size of this netbook  has a thickness (19.9 mm thin), with only 1250 g weight. The Nokia Booklet 3G comes toting a glass 10.1-inch HD display. Other specs include a memory : 1 GB DDR2  533 Mhz and HDD: 120 GB 1.8”/5mmH/SATA  8 MB cache 4200 RPM and it also supports integrated 3G wireless and a hot-swappable SIM card,  1.3 MP front facing camera with integrated microphone, integrated A-GPS. The  Nokia Booklet 3G notebook comes with a 16 cell, 56.8 Wh, Li-Ion prismatic, removable design which is said to give around  up to 12 hours.

Nokia says, powered by the efficient Intel Atom processor, the Nokia Booklet 3G delivers impressive performance with up to 12 hours of battery life, enabling people to leave their power cable behind and still be connected and productive.

I have notebook named acer aspire 4710. Sometimes the screen of my acer notebook goes whole white. When I have left the notebook for over 30 minutes or so, the screen goes blank. It suddenly display a white screen . This also happens at random times, sometimes white screen comes and it wont go away. Restarting the notebook seems to boot normally but the flaw repeats a few days later; my screen turns white again.
I found on many forum and blog in internet some people have got the same problem for their notebook acer product.  Their notebook having the same white screen problem.  I want to share my solution with everyone who might experiencing this problem.
One way to do that is unplug and remove the battery. Put the battery back in and turn it on again.   This way maybe solve your white screen problem but you will lose your work and it was not save.
Other way to fix the problem you can set turnoff monitor after 1 min.

Here the step to set turnoff monitor for Windows XP

• First click on the Start Button.
• Then click on the Control Panel.
• Double click on the Power Options icon to open the Power Options Properties Window.
• In the Power Options Properties dialog box, click the Turn off monitor list
• Click on the menu arrow to choose a specific time to turn off your monitor (example: 1 min). Set the time for both Plugged in and Running on batteries.
• When satisfied, click on the OK button to close the Power Options Properties window.
• Then close the Control Panel to return to your windows session.
• Windows will now turn off your monitor according to the time setting specified.

Whenever white screen comes, leave every thing for 1 min. So that screen goes off. To reactivate your monitor, move your mouse, or press a key. You can get your normal screen back. This solution will work for you for a while. But this is not pemanently repair your problem. You can call Acer and repair your notebook in the Acer service. You still need a qualified person who knows how to open the monitor to repair the inside.

There are a lot of netbook operating systems out there. Moblin is one of OS linux. You can use Moblin as your primary OS on netbook. Moblin Project released the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. Moblin is an open source operating system focused on building a Linux-based platform optimized and built specifically for mobile devices such as MID and Netbook.

Moblin is a new version of Linux designed specifically for Atom based Intel processors. Operating system home page includes a calender and your favorite apps and on top you have drop down menus which take care of your internet , media and other needs. Computer users worldwide will be able to enjoy media, interacting with your social networks and the internet with moblin. It’s a friendly way to get the most out of your netbook.

You can download a Moblin image on Moblin.org and get it running on your hardware.

Sometimes notebook driver lost when you want to search and re-install the operating system. If the driver is not installed or not installed correctly, it may cause system malfunction or unable to be identified.

The drivers need to be install because driver can help you to identified the system hardware facilities and ensure that the hardware and operating system are stable. If your notebook’s sound card has no sound or web cam unable to connect, or other device does not work, re-install the driver is one way to solve the problem.

You can download the latest notebook driver from your notebook manufacturer’s Web site. I want to make it easy for you to get the following links to download some good notebook drivers.

You can try downloading the following link:
Download Acer Notebook Drivers

Toshiba Notebook Drivers

Lenovo Notebook Drivers

HP Notebook Drivers

Dell Notebook Drivers

Fujitsu Notebook Drivers

Sony VAIO Notebook Drivers

Benq Notebook Drivers

Zyrex Notebook Drivers

Byon Notebook Drivers

Hopefully helpful

After introducing 2 inovative netbook last May 2009, which are Bee 103G (netbook with built-in 3.5G/HSDPA modem) and Wakatobi Mini 963 (the first netbook in Indonesia with tablet/convertible ability), Zyrex launch their newest product: Zyrex SKY Series.

Zyrex launch 4 series of product, which all of them share the name SKY, an art with characteristic thin, light, durable, high quality, and interesting design. SKY Series consist of 1 netbook, 2 notebook and 1 nettop:
- SKY 1812 netbook with Intel® Atom® N280
- SKY 2712 notebook with Intel® Pentium® CULV SU2700
- SKY 3420 notebook  with Intel® Pentium® CULV SU4100
- SKY T315  nettop with Intel Atom N230

SKY 1812 comes with a dark red color with a Intel Atom N280 processor. The size of this netbook has a thickness of not more than 1 inch (264×190x24.6 mm), with only 1 kg weight (including battery). Netbook uses LED screen,  10.1 “SWVGA that supports 16:9 screen ratio. Other specs include a memory 1 GB DDR II 800 MHz, hard disk and 1.8 “of 120 GB. It has a 4-cell Lithium Polymer battery which is said to give around  3.5 hours.

Different from the SKY 1812, SKY  2712  choose blue as the color basically. Notebook features: Intel Pentium SU2700 (1.3 GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, dan 800MHz FSB), chipset Intel GS40. Memory and Hard disk that is used is not different from SKY 1812. The SKY 2712 notebook comes with Li-Polymer Battery providing up to 4 hours backup.

SKY 3420 uses Intel core2duo SU4100 with 2MB Cache L2 and Intel GS45 chipset. Other specs include a memory of 2GB DDR II 667MHz (can be upgrade to 4GB) and use the hard disk with large capacity,  500GB. This notebook also use Li-Polymer battery providing up to 4.5 hours.

Last, Zyrex SKY T315. Specs: Intel Atom N230 as processor. Equipped with 1GB DDR memory 667 MHz, and 250GB hard disk. Its consumes only 20 watts to 40 watts max of power .

More info: zyrex.com