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New Facebook Security Update!

Sunday, December 27, 2009 posted by admin 11:37 am

To respond to the response to the request, on Wednesday, asking facebook 350 million users to update their privacy settings. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has made a new privacy settings to the user to provide a more secure control for information provided. Making this new security is strengthened by the statement Scharge Elliot, Senior President of Communication Network that Facebook is now entered into the virtual world with the users hebohnya more than 350 million so is important to make reforms in the security of user information. This is punctuated by the words “We are always designing Facebook is easier for users to share information to be given to anyone, it was the reason why our services continue to grow for various user groups from around the world. ”
Facebook effort to distribute information on the Internet, backfired in recent years, especially the beacon feature posted by facebook users to purchase third-party sites, including Amazon.com and Overstock.com, without permission. Facebook Beacon remove programs and agreed to pay $ 9.5 million for the establishment of a foundation nonprofit to promote online privacy, safety and security. Settlement also includes $ 41,500 for the 19 people who filed suit. This is supported by organizations including the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the changes on Facebook.
“I think Facebook is clearly concerned about the privacy of its users, and they respond to a request from the EPIC and
users who have expressed concern, “said EPIC Consumer Privacy Counsel Kim Nguyen. He added that while Facebook moving in the right direction, the user must still consider how the information they were use.
Nguyen said that “facebook users have reason to worry because the history of Facebook that shares information with all the options and Beacon easily. “This would not be a problem for facebook users who basically wanted to share the information to everyone, but there are also people who do not want to share all the information that would cause problems for them.
Awalanya Facebook provides facilities for its users to provide information one institution as the scope of their school friends in facebooknya network. But now Facebook has changed its system in giving personal data by giving users the option to provide information that is available only to friends, friends of friends of users, or any person. In addition to eliminating regional networks, Facebook is also simplified with the privacy settings page consolidate some of the settings and grouping users in a more “logical” and “direct.” Starting Wednesday, the user will be given a transitional tool that will ask them to review and update the settings their privacy. Users will first see a message explaining the change and then be given two choices:
Save the settings of their old or receive recommendations from Facebook.
During this transition using the tool, users will be given the option to learn more by clicking the link led to the company’s new privacy center. After the settings have been updated, your friends will see a confirmation page which will enable them to review their arrangements.
Facebook executives said there would be no change in our advertising program and it will continue the policy for not sharing information with advertisers, except under user control.

Code Red, 1219 Site Shop Online Fraud has been found

Sunday, December 27, 2009 posted by admin 11:36 am

A total of 1.219 site has been turned off by a large police force in England. Thousands of these sites have been advertising a lot of big brands such as Ugg boots, Tiffany jewelry and Links of London is finally removed by the British Metropolitan Police. Criminal gangs in Asia are believed sebagaidalang of thousands of fake sites are online stores. Customers who bought items from the site will not accept anything, or even place the buyer’s credit card theft.

More than 400 sites that advertise deleted including Ugg boots, boots. Criminal gangs to make the site look legitimate by registering domain names with “. Co.uk” at the end of the URL and also get a lot of money from the results of these scams. Police from the British criminal unit in collaboration with agencies responsible for domain names, Nominet, has deleted the fake site, including Australiaugg4shop.co.uk, hotlinksshop.co.uk and etiffany-shop.co.uk.

According to Nominet, the site counterfeiters person using false details or hiding in anonym email address when they sign up, and almost impossible to trace. Nick Wenban-Smith, senior consultant of Nominet, which regulates more than 7 million domain names in English, telling you that they have been frozen, and can not be registered again or ‘recycled’ again.

Fuji Soft Humanoid Robots Introduced

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 posted by admin 9:00 pm

In Japan recently, Fuji Soft introduces the first commercial two-legged humanoid robot at the All Robot Tournament. Unknown robot’s name has an altitude of about 15 inches and weighed about 3.5 pounds, has 20 degrees of freedom in the legs, arms, and head and has a protective LED array in which to display a variety of expressions, similar to the AIBO robot dog back in the day , and capable of image and voice recognition so expect at least one camera and microphone. Inside, the robots walk with OS Ubuntu Linux on Intel Atom 1.66GHz CPU, which is then integrated with Eclipse and wireless LAN. Notice how they appear here. Representatives from Fuji Soft revealed that the robot will target students early next year. What does it cost, and what can she do to please their owners, still hung in the air.

Magic Mouse For MacBook Users

Saturday, December 5, 2009 posted by admin 11:25 am

Latest products from Apple notebooks, wireless mouse with the design of clean white case as an alien artifact called ‘Magic Mouse’. The design of this mouse is much thinner than usual where the mouse is comfortable for small hands. Surprisingly, this mouse has no ball or button, only with a brilliant white design that can be polished like normal functioning mouse to ‘click’ and respond to some of fingertip gestures.

This mouse is very intuitive to petfotm-scrollan and panning: Only by shifting use one finger from the mouse in any direction. Some functions such as shifting to the right or left, can function as a scroll to view the next image files, for example.

Unfortunately, this mouse is equipped with masiih not shift to two fingers. And the rest, this mouse is less convenient for its movement due to slightly slower. And also, to be able to use this mouse takes three software updates and of course Reboots several times quite troublesome.

Canon EOS 7D DSLR Camera

Thursday, December 3, 2009 posted by admin 11:29 am

One of the major camera companies in the world market, Canon USA, Inc.. have found a high competitive re-creation of products with the latest DSLR camera that is Canon EOS 7D, which features a pretty horrendous with the 18MP CMOS sensor, Dual DIGIC 4 processor, and improvisational multi-axis-19-point cross-type AF system offers the manual and automatic menu settings of the camera software which includes Zone and Spot AF to track and arrest the subject quickly and accurately.

Unique features of the Canon EOS 7D:

* 18 megapixel Canon APS-C CMOS sensor and Dual DIGIC 4 Imaging Processors fuel its 14-bit A / D conversion data
* Large, clear 3-inch Clear View II LCD screen with 920,000 dot / VGA resolution and solid structure
* Advanced 19 cross-type focusing points that remain fully functional with maximum apertures as small as f/5.6
* EOS Movie records full HD video HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) with variable frame rates and manual exposure control
* Fast 8 frames per second continuous shooting and a wide range of speed settings from ISO 100-6400 (expandable to 12.800)
* Canon iFCL Metering System (Intelligent Focus, Color, Luminance) with 63-layer, dual-zone metering sensor that reads both illumination and color for consistent results in all lighting conditions
* Intelligent Viewfinder (1.0x magnification with 100% coverage) uses liquid crystal overlay is to provide clear and precise displays of focusing points and zone
* Canon’s new built-in Dual Axis Electronic Level roll shows both the horizontal and vertical pitch for easy leveling while shooting
* EOS 7D’s pop-up flash Speedlite Transmitter Integrated features for control of multiple off-camera EOS Speedlites (without external transmitter)
* Intelligent Tracking Macro function helps reduce blur during macro shooting
* Dimensions: 148 x 111 x 74 mm; Weight: 820g (without battery)

“The EOS 7D represents a completely new chapter in digital photography and Canon’s product development,” said Yuichi Ishizuka from, senior president and general manager, Consumer Imaging Group, Canon USA “This camera stands alone as the most functional and innovative DSLR Canon has released to date, bringing together all of the best professional features offered, along with numerous user requests, at a price point everyone can appreciate.”