Google Donation

Google known so supported open source community was given fund donation US$ 400,000 to Open Source Lab, Oregon State University. This additional fund will support their effort to provide hosting services that used by many projects and open source community. Chris DiBona, Google Program Manager explains that Oregon State University (OSU) has already given contribution to open source world. This makes OSU as leader in global education. This year, OSU also fallowed to be participant as organization adviser in Google Summer of Code Program. Contribution that Google given was part of campaign for OSU, a campaign given fund supported for publication in 2007. This campaign have goal to get US$ 625 million that will be used for scholarship, research, new learning facility, and other.

Printee 1.5.1

Sometimes we need to print information from website page. Commonly, user do copy paste to text contain editing application to get information they need from website page and rearranged. But this way take times and difficulties. To resolve it, you can used this application known as Printee. This application is add-on Internet Explorer browser to print of some part or only content from website page that you want it. You can erase all pictures and background, advertises, and another item that you don’t want to print. Even with this application you can changed font, width, and page style layout. Printed output surely only take website page content wanted. You can download this application at www.irido.com/download/printee.exe (size file : 435 KB).

Dell Ended Mini 12 inch Netbook.

Dell announced will to end their Mini 12 inch netbook that used Intel Atom processor and will be focus on Mini 10 inch netbook. For meanwhile, conventional ordinary netbook will fill this empty space that left by Mini 12 inch. According to Dell, to their customers, 10 inch display is more suitable to used in netbook because portability is the most important key of netbook users. From circulated news on internet, their have possibility to developing a new netbook used CULV (Consumer Ultra Low Voltage) processor. According to another news, this decision cause by conflict of interest between Dell and Intel. Intel prefer to 12 inch netbook used dual core processor than 12 inch netbook. By this Dell decision, so limitation between netbook and small notebook size will be more not clearly.

Facebook Implemented New Rules

Facebook have plan to implemented new changed in their Term of Service. One of the changed rules is banned thing to write by Facebook users on their status row. That changed will be ban to user status for commercial purposes. So if Facebook user still used to sale their status update to an advertiser, it will be consider as rules breaker. In commonly, Facebook private user profile will be ban for use to get commercial gain. Draft of new rule goes as follow: “You will not use your personal profile for your own commercial gain (such as selling your status update to an advertiser).” This time, the new rules just submitted by their official blog and you can see it in Facebook Site Governance. If have no objections, Facebook will be implemented this draft as new rule that must obeyed by all members.

China Canceled Their Censor Software

China finally cancelled their effort to censored internet contain massively. China government no longer obligation all internet user in their country to used censor software named Green dam Youth Escort. That censor software said China officer was had no obligation for computer user to use it. After installed that software, China internet users have right to choose. If you buy computer attachment with floppy disc or compact this contained censor software, buyers have choice to use it or not. This decision ended China government controversial plan that arise up on June. In that time, China government required to all computer users to install that censor software, and this decision made people and netter all over the world angry. They accused China government trying to increase their control on internet. China then busy to make self defenses about their decision. At last, their make officially canceled that decision.

Symantec Announced The 100 Dirtiest Websites.

Do you want to know the 100 dirtiest website on internet for this summer 2009? According to threaten quantities that detected till August)? Symantec via Norton Safe Web project provided their information for you. The website list that must be you avoid was thrown by website that contained no less than 56,271 malware threaten. If you approximately to all website in the list, that average number became 18,000. There is no weird if adult websites take 48 of 100 positions on the list. But that surprising enough to known another website have work in not dangerous image, like catering, skating figure, deer hunt, and legal or retail service. Virus, according to Norton Safe Web, is the most common threaten that they found it. Only with no purpose action when you have navigation to the one of that dirtiest websites, user become exposed their computer to virus attacker wave or information stealer. There are many ways to make a website became malware infection, but attacker usually used SQL injection technique to exploration web server technology weakness. The champion of the dirtiest website or the number one in Symantec list version is Arab Saudi website that used host in United States found already spread many downloader trojan infection. That must be beware is website owned by US based catering company with infection number reached 23,414. For information detail, see at http://safeweb.norton.com/dirtysites.

Adobe Provide Video Upload Feature Till 2 GB

Tragic for Adobe Flash that become dominant platform enough for video streaming hosting like YouTube and Hulu, for this long time never been launched own hosting service and video sharing, But in recently time, Adobe will catch their fact falling behind with added video upload feature at Photoshop.com, editing service, and website based picture sharing. Maybe you already known, Adobe is not the first company that have video added feature to website that originally designed for picture. But compared with Flickr that asked video upload duration no more than 90 seconds limit, Adobe permitted their user to video upload till 200 MB if you used web browser, or till 2 GB if you used via Adobe AIR uploader. After finished to upload, you can played at Photoshop,com or share with another users. By the way, for user service also get free 2GB capacity storage space. Beside that new feature, Adobe also provided chance for user to make Group Album. This album can collaboration with another user. Instersting? You can directly visit www.photoshop.com.