Pop quiz: what’s the largest photo site on the web? Flickr? Photobucket? Picasa? Nope, it’s Facebook.
Like me, you might find that fact a bit surprising, since we don’t immediately think of Facebook as a photo sharing site — that’s just one of its features.
What’s even more interesting when thinking about Facebook as a photo sharing site is that it has a built-in permission system that says that if you are tagged in a photo, you are given permission to see that photo.
A new Mac and Windows application called PhotoGrabber uses that permission (and your credentials) to go harvest all of the photos it can find of you on the service, and download them into a local folder. It can also download all the photos you have access to of your contacts.
Interestingly, it doesn’t appear to download profile pictures, but sticks strictly to photos where the target person has been tagged.
[via Lifehacker]
The biggest full moon of 2010 will rise in the east tonight, and it’ll appear with a bright sidekick: Mars will cozy up just to the left of the supersize moon.
January’s full moon is also called the wolf moon, according to Native American tradition associating this month’s full moon with wolves howling in the cold midwinter. (Take a moon myths and mysteries quiz.)
The 2010 wolf moon will appear 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger than any other full moon this year, because our cosmic neighbor will actually be closer to Earth than usual.
The moon will be at its closest perigee—the nearest it gets to our planet during its egg-shaped orbit—for 2010 at 4:04 a.m. ET Saturday, reaching a distance of 221,577 miles (356,593 kilometers) from Earth.
At its farthest from Earth, the moon is said to be at apogee. Perigee and apogee each happen generally once a month, but the moon’s wobbly orbit means that the satellite’s exact distance at each of those events varies over the year. The moon’s phase can also be different during each apogee and perigee.
“This month has the largest full moon of 2010, because it coincides with the special moment when the full moon happens to occur on the same day as it is at perigee,” said Marc Jobin, an astronomer at the Montréal Planetarium.
And in a remarkable coincidence, Mars is at opposition tonight—directly opposite to the sun in the sky—so that as the sun sets in the southwest, Mars rises in the northeast.
Letter from Banta Singh to Mr. Bill Gates
Subject: Problems with my new computer
Dear Mr. Bill Gates,
We have bought a computer for our home and we have found some problems, which I want to bring to your notice:
1. There is a button ’start’ but there is no ’stop’ button. We request you to check this.
2. One doubt is whether any “re-scooter” is available in system? I find only “re-cycle”, but I own a scooter at my home.
3. There is ‘Find’ button but it is not working properly. My wife lost the door key and we tried a lot trace the key with this ‘find’ button, but was unable to trace. Please rectify this problem.
4. My child learnt ‘Microsoft word’ now he wants to learn ‘Microsoft sentence’, so when you will provide that?
5. I bought computer, CPU, mouse and keyboard, but there is only one icon which shows ‘My Computer’: when you will provide the remaining items?
6. It is surprising that windows says ‘MY Pictures’ but there is not even a single photo of mine. So when will you keep my photo in that.
7. There is ‘MICROSOFT OFFICE’ what about ‘MICROSOFT HOME’ since I use the PC at home only.
8. You provided ‘My Recent Documents’. When you will provide ‘My Past Documents’?
9. You provide ‘My Network Places’. For God sake please do not provide ‘My Secret Places’. I do not want to let my wife know where I go after my office hours.
Regards,
Banta
Last one to Mr. Bill Gates:
Sir, how is it that your name is Gates but you are selling WINDOWS?
1. Firefox / Chrome (Web Browser)
Both Firefox and Google Chrome are excellent browsers. They are both fast, user-friendly and known to be secure. So, which one do you choose? The rule of thumb here is that you should use Firefox if you’re looking to add additional features (i.e. ad blocker, password manager, video downloader, page translator etc.) to your browser.
You can see all add-ons for Firefox at https://addons.mozilla.org/. There are extensions for Google Chrome as well, but the choice is rather limited. See, 10 Cool Extensions for Google Chrome.
2. AVG Anti-Virus (Anti-virus Software)
AVG Free Anti-Virus is the most popular free anti-virus software in the world. It’s also the most downloaded software program according to Download.com.
Most of the MakeUseOf authors use AVG and we highly recommend it to others. It’s easy to use, consumes a relatively small amount of system resources and auto-updates itself with virus definitions on a daily basis. Install it once and it will keep your system secure without your intervention.
For those of you who frequently shop online and do regular online banking, AVG recommends AVG Internet Security. While it’s not free, it does offer complete Internet Protection that will keep you safe even from advanced online threats.
Download AVG Free: http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage
Download AVG Internet Security (Free Trial): www.avg.com/gb-en/download
(Platform: Windows only)
3. Auslogics Disk Defrag (Disk Defragmenter)
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a must-have free PC maintenance tool that was designed to cure system sluggishness and prevent crashes caused by disk fragmentation. Windows already comes with its own disk-defragmenter but Auslogics Disk Defrag is considerably faster and much more efficient.
It’s extremely simple to use, does not require any analysis phase and is faster than most of the other disk defragmentation software.
While there are several other free disk defragmenters, Auslogics seems to be the defragmenter of choice according to the poll results on MakeUseOf, Lifehacker and mega tech sites like CNET.
Download Auslogics Disc Defrag: www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/overview
(Platform: Windows only)
4. Glary Utilites (System Maintenance)
Glary Utilities is a free system maintenance tool for protecting, cleaning, repairing, and speeding up your PC. It comes with one-click maintenance option that automatically runs all optimizations and repair jobs with a click of a button.
But the best thing about Glary Utilities is that it integrates over 15 other useful tools that nearly every computer user likely to make use of. These are:
- Uninstall Manager
- Startup Manager
- Memory Optimizer
- Context Menu Manager
- Registry Defrag Tool
- Track Eraser
- File Shredder
- File Undelete
- File Encrypt/Decrypt Tool
- Disk Space Usage Analysis
- Duplicate File Finder
- Empty Folder Finder
- File Splitter and Joiner
Highly recommended!
Please note, it’s highly recommended that you create a System Restore point when using system maintenance tools like Glary Utilities. This is a precaution to ensure that you can always revert your PC to an earlier state in case something goes wrong unexpectedly.
Note: During the installation process make sure to uncheck the Ask Search toolbar.
Download Glary Utilities: www.glaryutilities.com/gu.html?tag=download
(Platform: Windows only)
5. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (Spyware Removal)
[update: In the original list we recommended the Spyware 360 as a primary tool for fighting spyware. But then we found out that Security 360 was actually using the definition library of Malwarebytes.]
Malwarebytes currently ranks among top 10 most downloaded software on Download.com. It’s a very simple tool that does an important job, that is protecting your computer from spyware, hijackers, keyloggers and other kind of malicious craplets.
What makes Malwarebytes standout from the pack is its huge library of threats to protect against. That’s exactly what it makes so effective when it comes to detecting spyware that other spyware scanners miss. This same library made the earlier recommended Security 360 a powerful tool.
Malwarebytes may not be as feature-laden as say Spybot Search and Destroy (another good spyware removal tool), which has a ridiculous number of tools, but it is a very lightweight alternative with good spyware coverage.
There are both free and premium versions. The only difference between two is real time protection. With real-time protection Mawarebytes will alert you about the spyware before even it’s able to install itself on your system.
Download MalwareBytes (Free): www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
Download MalwareBytes (Premium): https://store.malwarebytes.org
(Platform: Windows only)
6. IZArc (Universal Archiver / Extractor)
One archive utility to rule them all. This archiver suppots both popular (ZIP, RAR, ACE, 7-ZIP, TAR etc.) and less popular (IMG, ACE, TZ, GZ, TAZ etc.) archive formats.
Basically this unpacker/archiver gives you everything you get with other popular archivers (ex. Winzip, Winrar etc.) but with additional features and support for a huge number of archive formats. It can decompress archived folders in over 40 formats.
7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CDI, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
That is to say, it supports pretty much every format you’re likely to come across.
There is something else, you can also use the IZArc utility to open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. Do you know of any other free archiver that can do that?
Note: When installing IZArc make sure to uncheck the “recommended” option to install PalTalk.
Download IZArc: http://www.izarc.org/download.html
(Platform: Windows only)
Sometimes in one fine day, suddenly your PC cannot boot, or your Windows corrupt. You don’t have any other choices except that you have to reformat your PC again and start from the beginning. For me, the process of installing the OS is fine but not when it comes to installing back all the softwares inside the PC. It involves very tedious task especially when you have to go to each setup files and go all the processes before it finally install in your PC.
But I found a tool that can help me to install most of the common applications i need in one click. It’s called NINITE.
Ninite is a web based application tool which you can select applications (free one of course) and it will automatically download it to you PC and install it unattended. It’s 100% free to use and all you have to do is choose the application that you would like to install and click the ‘Get Installer’.
You can start using it by visiting this link
Ada orang tanya aku.. boleh tak install SOPCAST dalam Ubuntu Karmic (9.10).. jawapannya boleh.. in fact, most of the time aku guna SOPCAST dalam Ubuntu.. this how you install it :
1. Guna command ini untuk tambah SOPCAST PPA ke Ubuntu :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jason-scheunemann/ppa
2. Update source list
sudo apt-get update
3. Install sp-auth .deb package
wget http://sopcast-player.googlecode.com/files/sp-auth_3.0.1_i386.deb
4. Install SOPCAST player
sudo apt-get install sopcast-player
Kalau berjaya, SOPCAST anda akan kelihatan seperti berikut :
Kalau sebut pasal download wallpaper terbaik di Internet.. semestinya pilihan aku adalah web InterfaceLift.. hampir semua wallpaper PC aku akan ambil dari web ni.. semuanya dijamin berkualiti dan percuma..
yang bestnya, setiap wallpaper akan mempunyai resolution yang berbeza.. so user boleh memilih mana yang sesuai dengan resolution monitor masing masing..
For now ini lah wallpaper aku untuk hari ini.. dan semestinya aku download dari InterfaceLift :
Jangan tersalah sangka.. anda tidak akan dapat gambar siti nurhaliza seksi di sini.. tujuan aku menulis post ini adalah kerana aku perasan beberapa visitor masuk ke dalam blog aku ini berasal dari keyword ’siti nurhaliza seksi’..
aku pun taktau la kenapa boleh keyword tu masuk sini.. mungkin kerana sebelum ni aku ada cerita pasal siti nurhaliza..
ini menunjukkan bahawa ada jugak surfers yang beriya iya cari gambar seksi siti nurhaliza.. personally aku belum pernah lagi ternampak gambar siti seksi..
on another note.. aku mmg minat siti.. semua lagunya masih aku dengar hingga ke hari ini.. yang paling best, aku dah pernah jumpa siti beberapa kali.. tak percaya? di bawah ini lah buktinya.. hehehe
Aku mmg sudah lama guna OS ni.. sejak dari version 6 lagi.. cuma dulu aku tak berapa serius sebab OS linux ini mmg agak susah sedikit untuk digunakan.. akan tetapi dengan keluaran version Ubuntu verion 9.04 dan yang terbaru 9.10.. aku kembali hooked dengan linux.. kenapa? sebab OS ini FREE. tidak perlu risau pasal licence.. malah boleh order free Installer CD dari internet dan akan dikirim secara percuma.. tapi aku prefer download sebab kalau order CD akan memasa yang agak lama..
Kalau dulu linux mmg susah untuk digunakan.. tetapi sekarang aku tengok ia sudah user friendly.. dan sudah banyak software yang boleh digunakan.. kebanyakannya percuma (OpenOffice sebagai contoh)..
Screenshot Ubuntu Laptop aku
Install pun tak susah.. boleh buat duat boot dgn Windows Xp dgn mudah.. dan juga boleh install dari Windows dgn menggunakan perisian WUBI..
Kalau nak try Ubuntu.. sila layari laman web ni
Dalam banyak banyak theme untuk chrome yang aku cuba, theme ni la yang paling aku suka setakat ini.. aku amat suka hingga aku install theme ni di PC office dan juga laptop aku..
Untuk download theme ni sila klik sini
Tapi sebelum tu make sure Google Chrome telah di install. Kalau belum sila download di sini
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