Google Sites Kini Gratis untuk Semua

Anda mungkin sering memakai search engine Google. Namun tidak semua orang bisa menggunakan Google Sites – group Website tool untuk membuat situs Web pribadi. Sebab tool yang merupakan bagian dari Google Apps itu hanya bisa diakses oleh perusahaan dan organisasi yang ingin menggunakan layanan tersebut di domainnya sendiri.
Itu dulu. Kini Google Site sudah terbuka bebas. Siapa pun bisa menggunakannya. Juga tidak perlu meng-hosting-nya di domain milik sendiri.

“Anda bisa dengan aman meng-host website Anda sendiri di http://sites.google.com/[your-website] dan menambahkan sebanyak mungkin halaman yang Anda inginkan secara gratis,” begitu tertulis di situs resmi Google.

Menggunakan Google Sites tidak sulit. Anda bisa membuat berbagai jenis halaman dari awal dengan satu klik tombol, lalu menanamkan (embed) dokumen, kalendar, foto, video, dan gadget langsung ke halaman-halaman tersebut.

Mirip Google Docs, built-in editing tools-nya dapat menerima perubahan teks dan format secara langsung, ala WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Begitu situ Anda aktif, Anda bisa mengundang siapa pun untuk berkunjung atau meng-edit isinya semudah memasukkannya ke alamat e-mail mereka (kalau memang itu yang Anda inginkan, level akses bisa Anda ubah sewaktu-waktu). Anda juga bisa menambahkan atau menyunting informasi kapan saja.

Google Sites ini gratis dan mencakupkan 100MB Web storage, 6,75GB e-mail storage, dan akses ke suite lengkap dari Google Applications (Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, and Google Docs.).

Namun jika ingin kapasitas lebih (10GB+ Web storage, 25GB e-mail storage per akun, opsi untuk tidak mendapatkan iklan berbasis teks di sebelah e-mail, conference room scheduling, dan dukungan 24/7), Anda bisa memilih Premier Edition of Google Sites dengan biaya US$ 50 per user account per tahun.

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Alert : Account Suspension (Warning)

Please beware.

Another Maybank2u phishing attempt.

The message goes like this...

"Dear Valued Maybank Customer,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and security verification procedures, we have detected an error in your account details and security profile. This might be due to either of the following reasons:

A recent change in your personal information.
Submitting invalid information during the initial security update process.

..."

It is redirecting you to the site http://www.data-online-2verify.com/Maybank-Online.htm



Do not login!

Check out more for Maybank.

Publish PowerPoint Presentations To the Web

Want to publish your MS Powerpoint presentation over the web so that you can share with more people rather than bombing email boxes with huge file ?

Here is what I do..

Of course, you can always upload to free site like rapidshare.

But if you want things to be more organized, rapidshare is not something to go for, since you can't create profile in rapidshare.

A better option would be Google's Docs.

Theoretically, you should be able to upload the whole powerpoint file to it and Google will help you to convert automatically and even better, you can actually make use of the web editor. However, Google Docs only accept up to 10 MB of powerpoint file for upload, more than that, you have to manually edit it online.



So, this may not be ideal if you are going to rush off schedules. A better way would be using Adobe Presenter and publish the powerpoint file into PDF format.



The good thing is that the published PDF file is not just a document, it is a flash presentation enclosed inside a single PDF file (which makes it easy for you to upload). The best thing is that the published powerpoint file will be compressed and is possible of up to 20%.

After that, upload your file to Acrobat.com, a free site for sharing PDF files and other forms of collaborations. The speed of accessing Acrobat.com and uploading PDF file is dependent on your Internet speed. And of course, it will only accept PDF file. Check out more for Acrobat.com. It is still in Beta.



Adobe Presenter is shipped alongside Adobe Acrobat 9.

Tech Blog Malaysia Statistics (Oct 2008)

What People Search on Tech Blog Malaysia (Oct 2008) ?

As usual, check out the analysis for 2007.

For month of Jan 2008
For month of Feb 2008
For month of Mar 2008
For month of April 2008
For month of May 2008
For month of June 2008
For month of July 2008
For month of Aug 2008
For month of Sep 2008

For Oct 2008, we have the followings:

• The brand of this blog
  
• A company providing HAPS technology (This company is popular!)
  
• About Malaysia's recent telco initiatives
  
• MS Windows Installation Tips
  
• A Crystal Report 8.5 Deployment Issue
  
• Malwares and Phishings
  
• A Common MS Windows' Problem
  

Overview:

• Total monthly traffic decreased by 0.3%
  
• Traffic from referring sites improved by 0.6%
  
• Google still tops contributor (67.96%). Slightly up from last month.
  
• Top 5 countries (Malaysia, US, UK, India, Singapore). Check out here.
  
• 86.55% of visitors are new visitors. (A % increased from last month, this is attributed to the total monthly traffic surged.)

DEFENSE AUTHORITIES TO CONGREGATE AT EC-COUNCIL ROUNDTABLE FORUM

EC-Council to host global defense authorities and information security experts at inaugural APAC Roundtable Forum (ECC|RF) to discuss Cyber Warfare & Cyber Crime

Press Release:

KUALA LUMPUR, October 31, 2008 – EC-Council, the worlds’ leading e-business and security certification organization today announced that global defense authorities and information security experts will be congregating in Kuala Lumpur for the inaugural Asia Pacific (APAC) Roundtable Forum (ECC|RF) on “Modern Defenses Against 21st Century Cyber Warfare & Cyber Crime”.

The roundtable held in conjunction with the H@cker Halted Conference, will take place on November 6, 2008 under the chairmanship of EC-Council President, Mr Jay Bavisi. It will be co-chaired by Prof Dr Lech J. Janczewski, Associate Professor of the University of Auckland, New Zealand and Chairman of the New Zealand Information Security Forum (Cyber Warfare) and Mr James Aquilina, Executive Managing Director for Stroz Friedberg LLC who has served as the Executive Committee Member of the California Law Review (Cyber Crime).

Check out the full press release.

Discover The Shortcut to The Brilliant Adobe Creative Suite 4 Launch Malaysia (11 November)

Image via WikipediaAdobe Systems is holding a free end-user event in the Sabah Room of the Shangri-La Hotel KL from 8.30am – 6.00pm on Tuesday 11 November, for the Launch of Adobe Creative Suite 4. Free seat reservations are at http://www.adobe.com/go/asiaevents. You must reserve to ensure a place! “

Discover the shortcut to brilliant, with Adobe: exciting new tools and services, improved features in all products, and tighter-than-ever integration all add up to make Creative Suite 4 a must-have solution. Join Adobe at the launch and discover how you can get brilliant faster. “

It will host a series of talks which include:

• Innovation in Print and Design by Tim Cole (Creative Evangelist, Adobe Systems)
  
• Powering Video Production with HP Mobile Workstation (Hewlett Packard Speaker)
  
• Video, Video, Video by Karl Soule (Creative Evangelist, Digital Video & Audio, Adobe Systems)
  
• Extraordinary in Web - Digital experiences, interactivity and inspiration by (Paul Burnett, Senior Worldwide Evangelist, Creative Solutions, Adobe Systems)

And Lucky Draw!!!! For sure they are giving out free Creative Suite 4.

Check out the full press release here.

OPENSOCIAL GADGET CONTEST: MALAYSIAN DEVELOPERS COMPETE TO BUILD HOT SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS

In conjunction with Google's first ever Google DevFest held in Singapore today, Google is organizing an OpenSocial Gadget Contest for local developers to use their coding skills and creativity to build OpenSocial applications. The main objective is to support the developer community and encourage innovation on the OpenSocial platform.



Malaysian Developers at Google Fest (Singapore)

Google will award 4 prizes in Singapore and 4 prizes in Malaysia to local developers whose applications are picked by a panel of judges from Google, eXo Platform, Friendster, Globant and hi5. The top winner in each country will receive a Nintendo Wii and the rest of the winners will get an Apple iPod Touch. More importantly to the developers, the winning OpenSocial applications will be promoted to drive widespread user adoption on OpenSocial partner websites to potentially reach hundreds of millions of Internet users worldwide.

Developers can register and submit their OpenSocial applications at http://code.google.com/events/apacdevfest/contest from November 15, 2008 to January 10, 2009.

Google DevFest saw over 400 Singaporean and Malaysian developers in attendance being hosted by Google, eXo Platform, Friendster, Globant and hi5.

Press release about Google DevFest and futher information on the OpenSocial Gadget Contest is attached here. Please feel free to call me or Rene Leow (017-883 0848) for further inquiries.

Check out here for full press release.