Windows 8 Developer Preview (Beta) is out!

Feast your hunger of a new Windows by opening http://goo.gl/Es6EM. This link will guide you directly to the official website of Microsoft. The new Windows 8 is providing a new look which is seemed to be compatible with mobile gadgets such as tablets. After all, Microsoft provide 3 option of download packages, which include some useful social software to use (These wares are also in pre-release state, so they may change without notice). Beside of the new mobile look, it still using the same old view of Windows desktop (Almost the same look from Windows 7, with a few change of course, but too few). And you can watch the video from SoldierKnowsBest. here it is,

And how to install it on your Mac here,

And here's the links:

Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)

DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash - 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF
All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation instructions.

• 64-bit Windows Developer Preview
• Windows SDK for Metro style apps
• Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
• Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
• 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)

DOWNLOAD (3.6 GB)
Sha 1 hash – 79DBF235FD49F5C1C8F8C04E24BDE6E1D04DA1E9
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.

Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

DOWNLOAD (2.8 GB)
Sha 1 hash - 4E0698BBABE01ED27582C9FC16AD21C4422913CC
Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.

It is require the same hardware for Windows Vista & Windows 7,

• 1 Gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 Gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch
• To run Metro style Apps, you need a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater <<< with this addition

For more Information of these packages, visit http://goo.gl/Es6EM. ¡Adiós

29 new - 2nd generation processors of Intel

Intel's 2nd Generation core processors

Intel, as the largest processor manufacturing company, finally release their new processor family. Codenamed, Sandy Bridge, these new processors come with new performance and lot of graphic enchancements. After months of teasing and on-stage demos, Chipzilla is finally unleashing the details of its new Core i3, i5, and i7 processors, and considering there are 29 new CPUs in total as well as new integrated graphics options (now known as processor graphics) there's quite a bit to digest.

Intel first generation core processors were announced just a year ago, so what exactly makes this platform different? For those that haven't followed the Sandy Bridge saga, the new family of processors are all based on Intel's 32nm microarchitecture and are the first to put both the processor, memory controller, and graphics on the same die. What's that mean for you? In short, it means the package is smaller and all the parts get to take advantage of each other better -- for instance, by dynamically clocking both the CPU cores and graphics to match whatever workload you throw at it, and giving them up to 1MB of shared cache. Speaking of those graphics, while they may still not be on par with a discrete video card, they're more powerful than ever before. According to Intel, the new HD 2000 and 3000 processor graphics provide 2x the performance of Capella-based systems, and that actually holds up with what we've seen in early benchmarks (so long, GMA 4500). And Intel's improved its Turbo Boost and Hyper-threading technologies such that the new chips enable higher levels of CPU performance as well -- up to a 60 percent improvement with quad-core mobile CPUs. Additionally, the new integrated chips reduce power consumption and can actually completely turn off an idle optical drive, enabling what Intel's calling "incredible battery life."

 

Intel's provided a more detailed breakdown of each of 29 processors, including clock speeds and TDP here. You will note that there's a slightly different naming convention now -- there's the processor name followed by four numbers, rather than the previous three. As we had heard, the quad-core i7 CPUs will be the first to ship in systems -- they should be hitting this week -- while the dual-core versions won't be shipping until February. Not to worry, the ultra-low voltage (ULV) versions for ultraportable laptops are coming and will be introduced in the second half of the year. There's even a set of specially-marked overclockable 'K' series processors for the tweakers in your family, which lets them individually set the clockspeed ratios for each individual core -- though they'll also need a premium P67 Express motherboard.

 

New Features

 

 

• Intel Quick Sync Video - The title of this one isn't exactly the most self explanatory, but Intel's promising way faster video transcoding with it's new integrated Quick Sync feature, which does encoding in hardware -- it says it will be 17x faster than older generations of integrated graphics. Intel's partnered with media software companies like CyberLink, Corel, and ArcSoft to enable this hardware-accelerated H.264 and MPEG-2 video conversion.

• Intel InTru 3D / Clear Video HD - 3D Blu-ray playback over HDMI 1.4? Not a problem for Intel's Core 2011 platform. This doesn't mean Intel's providing the 3D technology for laptops or desktops, but it's promising that you can play stereoscopic 3D and HD content on your TV using HDMI.

• WiDi 2.0 - Our biggest complaints about the original WiDi was the lack of support for 1080p. Well, Intel's finally enabled streaming of full HD with its latest processors. There's still lag and you will need to pick up a new TV receiver, most likely a new one from Netgear, to take advantage of the new full HD abilities. We've got more details on this and Intel's new Insider video content service here.

  Intel describes there will be 500 new systems based on the new platform. So, get ready for a boatload of PC and laptops with these!

Google Android 3.0 - Honeycomb Preview

Because it's optimized for tablets, the preview are mostly came from tablets. And here is the introduction video:

And get ready to welcome the new Google Android 4.0 - Ice Cream Sandwich in Q4 2011!!

Google Office in Indonesia

Google as the most fast-growing company (maybe) in the world, intends to open a representative office in Indonesia on November this year. The statement was made during a meeting with Vice President Boediono on Friday. The reason why they choose to open it on November is because our "world conqueror", the president of America, Barrack Obama will visit Indonesia in that month. Refer to the quote:

According to vice president spokesman Yopie Hidayat, as quoted by kompas.com, in the one-hour meeting Schmidt stated that the representative office in Indonesia would be ready before 2012.

Yopie said that the multinational corporation investing in internet search, cloud computing and advertising technologies wanted to develop programs to connect Indonesian small and medium sized enterprises with foreign buyers.

He added that Google had been involved in serious talks with the Communications and Information Technology Ministry regarding its business plan and would soon prepare a memorandum of understanding with the government.

And this quote too:

"Google wants to open their office in November, coinciding with the arrival of President Obama to Indonesia," said Deputy Ambassador to the United States (U.S.) for Indonesia, Ted Osius in Jakarta, Wednesday (27/07/2011).

This is a gggoodd news for Indonesia :). Because the users in Indonesia will be more considered and noted as a potential field for Google.

Some Leaked Info of Google Android from Github

This is a listing which appeared in githtub. Okay this is so not-updated info, because some of you maybe have been read this before and I am too late to post it now Ha ha. I have read these listing and I got some of these codename are false but you could save this in your mind as a good info for predicting the next codename of Android. Here it is:

/**
 *
 * @author Brad Fitzpatrick, bradfitz@android.com
 */
public class JankableListAdapter implements ListAdapter
{
    private static final String TAG = "JankableListAdapter";

    private static final String[] CODE_NAMES = new String[] {
        "1.0",
        "Petit Four",
        "Cupcake",
        "Donut",
        "Eclair",
        "Froyo",
        "Gingerbread",
        "Haggis",
        "Icelandic Icing",
        "Jalape\u00f1o",
        "Koala Krisps",
        "Liver",
        "Minced Meat",
        "Nuts",
        "Otter",
        "Penguin",
        "Quail",
        "Rabbit",
        "Salad",
        "Taco",
        "Umbilical Cord",
        "Vodka",
        "Wurst",
        "Xiaodianxin",
        "Yoghurt",
        "Zatar",
    };

    private final int mJankMillis;
    private final LayoutInflater mInflater;
    private final boolean mAsyncEffect;

    public JankableListAdapter(LayoutInflater inflater,
                               int jankMillis,
                               boolean asyncEffect) {
        super();
        mInflater = inflater;
        mJankMillis = jankMillis;
    mAsyncEffect = asyncEffect;
    }

    public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        final View view = convertView != null
        ? convertView
        : mInflater.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);

        // Note which position this View is currently being used for,
        // so we can change it later in our Async callback, to see if
        // it's still the same one then.  (so it doesn't get recycled
        // to be somebody else's then...)
        view.setTag(R.string.tag_async_list_pos, position);

        final TextView tv = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textview_in_list_item);
    final ImageView iv = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.star_in_list_item);
        final String newText = CODE_NAMES[position];
        tv.setText(newText);
    iv.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.btn_star_big_on);

    if (mJankMillis > 0) {
        try {
        Thread.sleep(mJankMillis);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
    }

    if (!mAsyncEffect) {
        return view;
    }

        tv.setTextSize(15.0f);
        tv.setTypeface(Typeface.create(tv.getTypeface(), Typeface.NORMAL));
    iv.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.btn_star_big_off);

    new AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void>() {
            @Override protected Void doInBackground(Void... unused) {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(500);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
                return null;
            }

            @Override protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
                if (Integer.valueOf(position).equals(view.getTag(R.string.tag_async_list_pos))) {
                    // The view (and its children) is still the same,
                    // and hasn't been re-used by the ListView.
                    iv.setImageResource(android.R.drawable.btn_star_big_on);
                    tv.setTypeface(Typeface.create(tv.getTypeface(), Typeface.BOLD));
                    tv.setTextSize(25.0f);
                } else {
                    Log.v(TAG, "async callback done, but View's been re-used. ignoring.");
                }
            }
    }.execute();

        return view;
    }

    public boolean areAllItemsEnabled() { return true; }
    public boolean isEnabled(int position) { return true; }
    public int getCount() { return CODE_NAMES.length; }
    public boolean isEmpty() { return false; }
    public Object getItem(int position) { return CODE_NAMES[position]; }
    public long getItemId(int position) { return position; }
    public int getItemViewType(int position) { return 42; }
    public boolean hasStableIds() { return true; }
    public void registerDataSetObserver(DataSetObserver observer) {}
    public void unregisterDataSetObserver(DataSetObserver observer) {}
    public int getViewTypeCount() { return 1; }
}

You may notice that "Higgins" has been changed to "Honeycomb". In that case, maybe these are false Wakakak :D.
Source

Good Thing Came from iPhone

 These iPhone Auto Correct failure is worth reading:

For another Auto Correct failure visit: http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com

Apple's Being Richer Than U.S.

Apple now has more cash to spend than the United States government.

Apple Inc. chrome logo

Latest figures from the US Treasury Department show that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn (£45.3bn).

Apple's most recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn.

The US House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill to raise the country's debt ceiling, allowing it to borrow more money to cover spending commitments.

If it fails to extend the current limit of $14.3 trillion dollars, the federal government could find itself struggling to make payments, and risks the loss of its AAA credit rating.

The United States is currently spending around $200bn more than it collects in revenue every month.

Apple, on the other hand, is making money hand over fist, according to its financial results.

In the three months ending 25 June, net income was 125% higher than a year earlier at $7.31bn.

Spending spree

With more than $75bn either sitting in the bank or in easily accessible assets, there has been enormous speculation about what the company will do with the money.

"Apple keeps its cards close to its chest," said Daniel Ashdown, an analyst at Juniper Research.

Industry watchers believe that it is building up a war chest to be used for strategic acquisitions of other businesses, and to secure technology patents.

Bookstore Barnes and Noble and the online movie site Netflix have both been tipped as possible targets, said Mr Ashdown.

The company may also have its eye on smaller firms that develop systems Apple might want to add to its devices, such as voice recognition.

Apple dipped into some of its reserves recently when it teamed-up with Microsoft to buy a batch of patents from defunct Canadian firm Nortel.

The bidding consortium shelled out $4.5bn for more than 6,000 patents.

Taken from BBC News

Death Upon Video Games

This is not Chris Staniforth

Chris Staniforth, 20, who would play his console for up to 12 hours, died in May from deep vein thrombosis (DVT). His father David believes the condition may have been triggered by long gaming sessions. DVT can form during long periods of immobility and can kill if the clots travel to the lungs.

Computer records showed his son would sometimes play online on his Xbox for periods up to 12 hours.

The coroner said a clot formed in Chris' left calf before moving to his lungs. Once there, it caused a fatal blockage, known as a pulmonary embolism.

Mr Staniforth said: "After my research I saw there was no difference to Chris sitting at a desk on his Xbox and someone on a long-haul flight.

"Sitting still is literally the danger zone. Chris loved to play and would stay up all night.

"Millions of people worldwide are playing these games for hours, and there is a risk."

While Mr Staniforth has no problem with games consoles, he wants to highlight the heightened risk of DVT associated with being immobile, and is in the process of setting up a website.

In a statement, Microsoft, who manufacture the Xbox console, said: 'We have always encouraged responsible game play through our education campaigns such as Play Smart, Play Safe.

"We recommend that gamers take periodic breaks to exercise as well as make time for other pursuits."

Meanwhile in other side of the world, in Indonesia, a boy died after playing online games for 5 day long. This nutty boy just eat a plate of noodle and drinking a glass of water a day. 

This event happened in my cousin's game center in Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia. And the time is at the time of school holiday. That time every school in Indonesia having holiday for two weeks or more and the game center is a very crowded place.

This nutty starting to play without any contact to the admin until the admin cleaning the game center and found the boy has died on the fifth day.

With this gamers should beware of their own life than their level progress!

New Portable Graphic Design Tools

Heyho! It's been a long way to find a good portable graphic tools. But, your search ends here because here I'll give you what you've been looking for. I found many tool in addition of graphic design tool. Check this out these new portable-cracked tools:

Corel DRAW X5 Portable (http://cramit.in/5jgtrcoo5d78)
Photoshop CS5 Portable (http://www.mediafire.com/?p335htdy2tuhrzf)
Dreamweaver CS5 Portable (http://www.mediafire.com/?m8nt59rdumv2eec)
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Portable (http://v5.indowebster.com/download/files/adobe_illustrator_cs3_portable)
3D Blender Portable (http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/project/portableapps/Blender%20Portable/Additional%20Versions/BlenderPortable_2.58a.paf.exe)

The additional tool will be added soon!

Vector Versus Bitmap

In these last years, design is important. More than feeding your fish, doing your homework, and repairing your old-PC. I'm not sure how important it is, but design is very very important in our daily life since it used in many aspects. Especially for graphic design. It used for many aspects. Starting from creating ads, building a web or blog, and etc. As we know that in graphic design the available kind of graphic to use is vector  based graphic and pixel based or bitmap graphic. Vector is a coordinate based picture, and bitmap is dot (.) or pixel based. By means vector is indestructible by zooming picture, and pixel will be a blur image with pixels if the zoom is strong enough. But in these many years, pixel were used in a very large amount to create a large image with high resolution, so it pixel won't appear, with an effect that the image created is using very large amount of memory. Meanwhile in vector, many user try to trace bitmap to vector without losing its details, and still using the main purpose of vector, using small amount of memory. So, which one is the most flexible in usage?
The answer is none of these is flexible. The process of creating these two kind of image will be using very long time if we want to create one of these kind of image to has the same properties to another. Well, it's kinda difficult to using both without losing our time. Well, we still found many of the media using vector, and pixel-based picture to fill their content. Once again its a matter of creativity.    

Ramnit, The Most Sucks Virus Now

Have you ever feel your computer slow every time you run programs? Have you ever found your svchost.exe process more than 2? Have you ever found any Watermark.exe files in your computer? Then your computer is infected by ramnit.b variant. Ha ha ha ha eat that! Because this virus doesn't need any base file execution from removable storage. Once an infected removable connected to your computer, although you have turn the autoplay off, it will infect your computer in no time. Although the Watermark.exe file is deleted, it's not eradicated yet. And the most surprising function of this virus is not deleted although you format the infected disk. This virus have more than one variant, maybe the builder still improve it. My PC have been infected until now. It sucks. Every time I open a program, the pagefile of my PC increasing spontaneously, up to 1,5 GB. I tried to reinstall my PC but it doesn't work. I scan my PC every time, but the base file is never found because it drops a code inside HTML files, and EXE files. What a jerk. Almost every antivirus I use, will delete all HTML files in an infected computer. I tried to browse in Google about this virus, and eventually found a way to stop the virus without eradicate the virus completely. But, my buddy tells me to use Avast antivirus. Err, it works. IT WORKS!! So, you should try this antivirus. But, I'm not suggest you to buy it because I'm not making an advertisement here.  

Google Conquers All

Google is a search engine provider. Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Not satisfied with its SE, Google adds few more services. In this last few years, Google has made another services (again) to go. Android, Youtube acquisition, Blogger acquisition, Buzz, Chrome, Chrome OS and the latest (in progress) is Google Plus, which will be the greatest rival of Facebook. These innovations have made the competitors get mad. For example, in Microsoft. One of their CEO is an anti-Google person. Every employee who use Android will be fired right away if he knew. And the iPhone provider, Apple, is very depressed on facing market competition with Android. Up until Apple accuse one of the Android phone provider, Samsung. They accuse Samsung copy their design and function of iPhone. Google made many products and innovation, but they indirectly making trouble. But the trouble is for Google's competitor not for them, and us ha ha! Maybe someday, every electronic will be owned by one corporation which is Google Inc. with their development right now, it definitely will happen. Is chaos or world end will be happened? Just wait the time.

Natty Narwhal - Ubuntu 11.04

Ubuntu by Canonical

I have checked the official Ubuntu site and they have a good news for Linux users. The Natty Narwhal has end its beta phase, means it's released. What's new? Canonical adds some new toys to play, starting from The Launcher, which is an icon dock with a perfectly adapted function of Star Dock, Object Dock and etc. then they adds The Dash, why 'dash'? Because it will make the search being more efficient than in older versions, you know what? That 'dash' is a start menu with search bar, just like in Linux Mint. And the other function is merely same with some bug fixes. But the real good news is Linux Mint, Super OS, and Ultimate OS will develop their new version too, that's what we Linux user waiting for. Because as we know, Ubuntu have many problems in hardware drivers. They doesn't include the drivers so we should download it manually. Some people thinks, it's good it gonna be more flexible. Yes it is, but in many packages (some of old version) doesn't include any network driver which is the most critical thing. That's why some people choose Ubuntu-based distros to solve it. But until now Ubuntu is the most used Linux distribution all over the world. They choose Ubuntu for its ease of command. The most favorite command is 'apt-get', which used to get packages of drivers, and softwares. Maybe some of Ubuntu users have forgotten the base of Ubuntu, Debian. That distribution has been eradicated by the power of Ubuntu. Ha ha, overstated. Nah, just check yourself by get the Natty Narwhal by here: 

http://ubuntu.pesat.net.id/releases//natty/wubi.exe (Windows installer of Ubuntu 11.04) (Indonesian server)

http://ubuntu.indika.net.id/ubuntu-releases//natty/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso (Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit image file)(Indonesian server)

for installation problems visit the official website of Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com)

Hi, I'm Vazlo!

I'm the operator and the owner of this blog. I named my blog with such ridiculous name as a reminder to some of my friends. Yup, some of 'em are freaks. But hey, the friends of freaks are freaks, right? So I think you know what it means. This blog is just a blog but if you copy my contents, I think you are not creative to do that. Creativity is a good point of reason of making blog. You will get creative. So I think, blog is more useful than many people thought of. Even though this blog isn't ready yet, it gonna be a good work of me then, if you wait and pray for this blog's succession it's not a bad thing to do. Yep, I think you should wait some more time for this blog...