Global Warming

Global warming is the process of increasing the average temperature of the atmosphere, ocean, and land Earth.

The average temperature at Earth's surface globally has increased ± 0.74 ° C 0:18 (1:33 ± 0:32 ° F) during the last hundred years.

Increasing global temperature is expected to cause changes such as sea level rise, increased intensity of extreme weather phenomena, as well as changes in the number and pattern of precipitation.

The consequences of global warming is terpengaruhnya crops, loss of glaciers, and the extinction of various species of animals.

Here are tips Reduce Global Warming to save our planet:

* Reduce consumption of meat.
* Eat and cook from fresh ingredients.
* Buy local products
* Recycling aluminum, plastic, and paper.
* Buy the big package.
* Turn off your oven a few minutes before time.
* Avoid fast food.
* Bring bag that can be reused.
* Use washable cups.
* Shop at your neighborhood. Will greatly save transportation cost and your fuel, and must reduce global warming.
* Planting a tree at every opportunity.
* Lower the temperature of your air conditioner.
* Use a timer to avoid forgot to turn off the AC.
* Use a solar water heater.
* Turn off unused lights and do not leave water dripping.
* Use energy-saving lamps. Although more expensive, they average 8 times more powerful and more efficient up to 80% of normal incandescent lamps, and reduce global warming.
* Maximize natural lighting.
* Avoid stand-by position on your electronics!
* Use lights that have plugs on-off button it. Or pull the cord from the electrical source.
* If you are recharging the battery is full, immediately pull!
* Reduce time in opening your refrigerator.
* Do not buy cut flowers.
* Cut food in smaller sizes.
* Use cold water to wash and wash it in large quantities.
* Use cleaning detergents and environmentally friendly.
* Use your furniture again.
* Donate toys that are not appropriate for your child's age.
* If using a deodorant or spray products others, do not use aerosols, which spurred the global warming.
* Lunch at the office. Avoid plastic wrap or media stereofoam (Derived from petroleum and difficult to unravel).
* Use less paper. Turn off your office equipment. Turn off from the source. Do not make stand-by, turn off UPS and transformers.
* Use e-banking. Maximizing the use of e-banking will save you a lot of time and costs.
* For the industry, begin to use sources of renewable energy (wind power, water, solar, etc.).
* Vacation at home and use transportation!
* Reduce your business trip.

There are many ways to reduce global warming. You can contribute in it by doing the little things, starting with yourself and your family.

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Benefits of Online Learning

Today, more and more companies and individuals who use the Internet as a means of learning online, for weighing the various benefits offered by the web-based learning this internet. Among them are as follows:

1. Flexibility

Online learning system allows anyone to learn without being bound to time and place, the Internet connected home, without the need to travel to a particular school. Packaged learning resources electronically and available to be accessed by students via the internet, so it can interact anytime and from anywhere. Learning task can be submitted to the instructor as soon as completed, without having to adjust the time to meet with the instructor.

2. Broader coverage

By studying online, so anyone can follow this learning activity. Learning opportunities actually open to anyone in need. Not surprisingly, then AsianBrain.com, Internet Marketing learning centers in Indonesia, having thousands of students scattered across the country and even abroad, at the age of practically still young. Space and place and time no longer a barrier. Anyone, anywhere, and anytime, anyone can learn.

3. Are Independent

When learning online, the success of control in your hands. You can choose yourself when to learn, what is learned. You can ask for trouble you do not understand the instructor or resource person, by sending an email or join an interactive dialogue at certain times, or to see the results of discussions at the forum provided. You can learn at random, according to your interests.

4. Saves Cost

By studying online, then many could save costs. You do not need the cost of transportation, provision of physical facilities for learning (eg: lease or provision of classrooms, chairs, whiteboard, LCD player, OHP), and so on. Of course you can still do your regular activities, like work.

5. More intense interaction

Online learning, can strengthen the interaction between the students with the instructor. Unlike conventional learning, students are sometimes still too shy to ask, with limited opportunity.

6. Facilitate the completion and storage of learning materials

In a way, online learning system easier to update. Organizers can revise the material at any time, so that the information presented is always up to date. Likewise with the various facilities provided will continue to grow, to help facilitate the development of learning materials. In this way, the students will be facilitated to understand the teaching material provided. This method also allows students to brainstorm improvements in methods and curriculum being taught.

There must be commitment from the instructors who will monitor the development of learning activities and student participants on a regular basis as well as motivate their students participating.

7. Sustainable Motivation

In this online learning system, instructors are expected to understand the teaching materials well, and transfer them through easily understandable language. It is no less important, constant motivation to do the instructor to encourage students to not get bored to keep learning. In this way, it becomes a challenge with success.

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Cool, Keyboard Gboard for Minor Tweaks Gmail

Gboard, a special mini-keyboard that is used to Google Mail service, now present, with keyboard shortcuts, though a bit difficult when I have to use it at first. Gboard keyboard is present since Friday (4 / 12) yesterday at a price range of $ 19.99. Gboard it has 19 buttons berwana placed in a standard size keyboard numeric pad. Existing features including start sending messages, search, and jump between meesage thread. Users also can type in anything like a normal keyboard keys.

Gboard device has a USB port and no software or special drivers, but the user must activate the keyboard shortcuts in the Gmail settings before using it. Gboard is not created by Google, but by the film producer from California, Charlie Mason, who had entered the computer hardware business.

Excess hardware Gboard Gmail:

* No need to setup process
* Easy to use keypad and color
* A good quality, the flat looks like a laptop d
* Prices are not too expensive

Disadvantages:

* Not all Gmail's keyboard shortcuts can be done from the keyboard
* Can be useful when the shortcut in Gmail changed
* Only comes in one color black

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PayPal to Present Online Store on Facebook

Some time ago, PayPal has launched PayPal's developer platform in the conference PayPal X X. The goal is to be a line financial transactions to the web. While eBay hoped that the new platform will also be well integrated with their applications.
Now, on the second day of the conference PayPal Innovative X, CTO, eBay, mark Carges speaking in the conference. He did not make a specific announcement, but he was very tertairk with PayPal and PayPal integration for e-commerce or shop online at Facebook Connect is part of the inspiration. Another fact, eBay may take part in the PayPal platform is on Facebook.

Mark also explained, his side will make a PayPal ID, the user can use their PayPal login to securely identify ditinya of e-commerce and other web applications. Unlike X Facebok PayPal, where users can easily create a fake ID and posing as someone else. The plan, at the beginning of next year will be tested PayPal ID.

An ID system PayPal is great news, but also makes the debate directly to Facebook, where Facebook is not only the ambition to enter into Facebook Connect PayPal, but also focuses Facebook payments platform Credits on that site.

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Microsoft Launches Office 2010 Beta

The giant software company Microsoft has announced a beta version of the application package Office 2010 in the event Professional Developers Conference, in Los Angeles, Thursday (19/11). Leader Microsoft Information Worker Business Group, said Jacob Jaffe Office 2010 software is a beta version to be downloaded by millions than 30.000 people who download the technical preview version of it.

"We introduced some changes in this beta version, including a new file tab, set a new visual user to make performance more quickly. Users also can save documents directly into Microsoft's online storage, Windows Live SkyDrive from within desktop applications. All Office 2010 applications will be sold in the format of 32 bits and 64 bits. Office 2010 can be installed in Windows XP Service Pack 3, Vista or Windows 7. "Jaffe said.

For enterprise customers, Office Professional Plus 2010 and Office Standard 2010 will come via volume licensing, including web applications penggunaah. While for small businesses to use Office Professional 2010 and Office Home and Business 2010, and use in the home is Office 2010 Home and Student edition.

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Prepare Microsoft Windows 8 in the Year 2012

News of the launch of the latest operating system Windows 7 still has not faded, but Microsoft has prepared a Windows operating system 8 in 2012. Last week, Microsoft Kitchen in the blog, mentioned a couple of Windows Server will be ready in the year 2012 in line with the release of Windows 8. Microsoft also has been showing in the event Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week.

In the event additional information is not mentioned other than that mentioned preparations Microsoft will update the operating system every 2 years, which means that Windows 8 will be coming soon. Microsoft also has not explained in detail to develop Windows 8, including the signs will recruit experts to help build the system.

Now Microsoft is also working on the first service pack of Windows 7 and will be released in January 2010 in beta.

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Bing.com Down, Microsoft Confused

Bing Microsoft search sites have been down on Thursday (3 / 12) yesterday afternoon. This event can actually make image Microsoft Bing became worse.

Bing.com visitors will get an error message instead of a search bar. Service Bing.com suddenly down for about 45 minutes before finally repaired at around 7:10 pm PST. Microsoft's own writing in the issue and added Twitter will investigate the problem, but without explanation.

Event 'death' search engine itself Bing.com happened a week after Microsoft announced a new capability to display the mapping Bing region.

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Twitter More Popular Than Facebook?

If Twitter is still less than the number of members about Facebook, but Twitter was able to become the most popular word in this year. It was submitted by the Global Language Monitor (GLM). GLM released 15 most popular words from the English vocabulary, drawn from the observation of 1:58 million people, and find the word "Twitter" became the most popular, but Obama and H1N1, or known as bird flu.

"Twitter represents a new form of social interaction, where all communication occurs in only 140 characters. "Said Paul Payack, president of GLM.

In years past, there GLM noted the word "Change", "Hybrid", "Sustainable" and "Refugee" on the top list GLM. While Saturday (29/11) and then, Microsoft explained that the top search Twitter also in Bing and became popular words in the search engines second after Michael Jackson.

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Fishbowl, Free Desktop Program of Artificial Facebook

Fishbowl, Microsoft made this application as well as following the introduction of 4 new Silverlight, which can now be downloaded. Fishbowl has ineterface like Facebook, including badges, mini-news feed, and so on, it's just a special present in the Fishbowl desktop. At first appearance, looks like Fishbowl redesigned Facebook, but it is lighter than Facebook. At the top, looks like a regular section on Facebook, there are Home, Profile, Photos, and so on, and on the left side there is a choice that the user wants to enter. By navigating the section, it will be like on the website Asama Facebook.

However, as a desktop client, Fishbowl has added a slightly different features than Facebook. In the photo section will lead to a similar interface iPhoto or Picasa, users can scroll the album and view pictures as usual, zooming, slideshow, or print directly from the Fishbowl. Users can also upload images using photo uploader Fishbowl. As for motifikasi also dealt with the sweet, from the taskbar icon that support for the badges, when someone writes something on the wall the user, send messages or comments on photos. To see the notification, the user can into the program and click the notification icon or right click on the taskbar icon and see jumplist the Fishbowl. In addition, Aero Peek still has a small keypad for easy navigation to the Home, Friends, Profile, or photos in the Fishbowl Facebook.

Fishbowl application also has a mini window that displays the status update on news feeds, can scroll up to 200 status. However, if the Fishbowl in full view mode, then a few pages, especially news feed will appear slow when loaded. Fishbowl (fishbowlclient.com) can be downloaded for free for Windows systems, and require the use of Silverlight.

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Still Want To Be Existed, Friendster New Design Change

Pioneer's first social networking, Friendster has released a new design starting Thursday (3 / 12), and will be focused on the demographic of fans first, the young Asian market. According to Reuters, Friendster itself has been sold to buyers in Asia at the end of this month at a price of $ 100 million.

Still, Friendster still exist, although the first largest social networking has been almost dilibas by Facebook and MySpace. Now let's call it Friendster has 75 million users are already registered and as many as 90 percent of which came from Asia-Pacific area. Friendster is a new design, also added a virtual game currency, a series of games, and virtual gifts.

While CEO of Friendster, Richard Kimber, said that Friendster has already sold its shares and make investors bank, Morgan Stanley to handle the sale. Kimber himself a former Google employee, recently joined with Friendster in the last year, at the same time as Friendster reached $ 2 million in a joint venture held by IDG Ventures.

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Internet applications for the Blind

People who suffered blindness in his eyes, when he will be using computers in general is assisted by a screen-reader software. But to buy a screen-reader software cost is quite expensive, about more than USD 1000, so sometimes they can not sit like a normal person in a library or Internet cafe (cafe). Now, a program with the latest web base will help the blind people to change the situation.

Programs on the web is called WebAnywhere. WebAnywhere was developed by computer science graduate student from the University of Washington, Jeffrey Bigham. Unlike other software to be installed on PCs, WebAnywhere is an Internet application that can make the Web accessible to people who are blind.

Bigham hopes that the people who are blind will be able to check flight departure time on the computer Airport, planned to take a bus to a desired route through the computer in the library, or typing a quick email over the Internet. To get WebAnywhere, people who are blind should be set to online, which will collide with mugkin computer is not ready to give verbal feedback again. However, Bigham found in his research, that WebAnywhere, specifically used by blind people, would know the keyboard tricks and when to ask for help.

Once WebAnywhere online via the Internet, people who are blind can surf using WebAnywhere browser, which can be connected to the web page and then voiced content of the article in these pages with hard, as long as computer has speakers or headphones. WebAnywhere program can also jump section titles, tab, charts or read the page from top to bottom.

Lindsay Yazzolino, coed 19-year-old blind man from Brown University, who worked part time at the University of Washington, revealed that a large improvised WebAnywhere is the total lack of public access for this. Yazzolino, very pleased with the features and some WebAnywhere owned keystroke navigation pages in it, mainly because the program is free WebAnywhere used.

Bigham expect others to make improvised WebAnywhere program, by making it as open source that will invite people who like to play with the code and open to programmers from anywhere. Richard Ladner, a professor of computer science faculty of the University of Washington, want a commercial search engine will adopt WebAnywhere module, and one day hopes Ladner, also blind people can design their own web pages. (h_n)

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