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Apple Pulls Plug On Wikileaks

Image via Wikipedia Association with the Wikileaks as a brand is something of a red herring for most financial institutions. Now interestingly Apple has all of a sudden joined the bandwagon of banning Wikileaks from its platform. In news today is the recent action of the tech giant where they removed an iPhone and iPad app from the App store which allowed the users to check the troubled site and follow the twitter feed. It is being widely reported that Trudy Muller, a spokes person for Apple said that the App in question actually violated the developer guidelines. She also added that Apps must comply with all local laws and may not put an individual or group in harm’s way.

How To Get Travel Tips From Facebook Friends on TripAdvisor

Image via CrunchBase FaceBook the Social Media titan has announced its collaboration with travel website TripAdvisor to enable users to get timely advice from friends as he logs into his Facebook account. The new easy TripAdvisor’s interface will allow you to select any location from the map and the read the user experience of your friends who have been using the “Where Have You Been?” FaceBook app. The news is not really surprising as TripAdvisor had bought the app way back in 2007 for $3 million. According to industry estimates it is already the world’s largest travel site. Hene the pair should make a great combo. We are sure many people will discover things like where to eat, stay and have fun via the experience of the people on the friend list.

Anak Kelas Lima SD Memperoleh Sertifikasi Autodesk 3ds Max Associate

Rupanya usia tidak menjadi halangan seseorang untuk berkarya. Dengan dedikasi yang kuat semua orang bisa melakukan apa saja, tanpa adanya batasan usia atau pun dari mana dia berasal. Ze Kun Chen, seorang murid kelas lima SD di China, menjadi orang yang paling muda mendapatkan sertifikasi sebagai Autodesk 3ds Max Associate. “Saat saya mengetahui bahwa saya lulus dalam ujian seratifikasi Autodesk 3ds Max, saya sangat gembira sampai menari-nari hingga tidur larut malam,” ujar Ze Kun Chen lugu. Awal mula Zen Kun mempelajari 3ds Max, karena ia ingin membantu bisnis keluarganya bergerak di pembuatan bingkai. Dia menyadari bahwa pelanggan mengalami kesulitan memahami penggambaran bingkai dalam kualitas 2D, dan menyadari bahwa visualisasi 3D dapat mengkomunikasikan desain lebih baik.

Triks: Bikin Firefox 4 Lebih Kencang

Image via Wikipedia Pertama-tama, buka dulu browser Firefox 4 Anda, lalu ketik di url / address bar dengan tulisan " about:config " (ingat tanpa tanda petik) Lalu cari beberapa sintaks berikut ini: browser.history_expire_days_min ganti nilainyanya menjadi 10 ( default : 90) browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers ganti nilainyanya menjadi 1 (default: -1) network.http.max-connections ganti nilainyanya menjadi 100 (default: 30) network.http.max-connections-per-server ganti nilainyanya menjadi 20 (default: 15) network.http.max- persistent-connections -per-server ganti nilainyanya menjadi 8 (default: 6) network.http.pipelining ganti menjadi true (default: false) network.http.proxy.pipelining ganti menjadi true (default: false) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests ganti menjadi 8 (default: 4) network.http.request.max-start-delay ganti menjadi 0 (default: 10) network.prefetch-next ganti menjadi false (default: true)

Glassy-Eyed Zuckerberg Is Time’s Person of the Year

Image via Wikipedia Apparently deciding this whole WikiLeaks hubbub will blow over, by declining to pick readers’ choice Julian Assange, Time Magazine picked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as its Person of the Year . (Zuckerberg and his team also helpfully gave Time tons of access, resulting in photos and videos and sidebars galore.) Assange placed No. 3, after the Tea Party. Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel writes : In a sense, Zuckerberg and Assange are two sides of the same coin. Both express a desire for openness and transparency. While Assange attacks big institutions and governments through involuntary transparency with the goal of disempowering them, Zuckerberg enables individuals to voluntarily share information with the idea of empowering them. Assange sees the world as filled with real and imagined enemies; Zuckerberg sees the world as filled with potential friends. Both have a certain disdain for privacy: in Assange’s case because he feels it allows malevolence to flo...

Gmail Extends Free Telephony Service Till 2011

I said the last time that Google Mail has slowly evolved into a force of nature and just to prove that I was not lying Google has announced another new perk for the Gmail users that is sure going to make your decision to migrate from your existing mail id (Wahoo). The tech goliath has announced that the user of Gmail will be able to make free calls to the US and Canada for at least the rest of the year. The service when announced was quite a rage with 1 million calls getting placed within the first 24 hrs of the service going live. This stat had the pundits raving for Google’s feature some even went to the extent of calling it the “Skype Killer”. The free calling will get many more people hooked onto Google’s service. Not much was heard of the service regarding the launch regarding updates hence it is definitely Google’s queue to jump into the telephony business big time. The service originally advertised per minute rates starting at $0.02 per minute ...

Can Microsoft Compete with the iPad?

Reports indicate that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil some new slates from Samsung and Dell at CES next month that are designed to compete with Apple's incredibly popular iPad.  The company has not confirmed, and the sources of the info are unnamed, but evidently trusted by the New York Times , which reports :  The Samsung device is described as "similar in size and shape to the Apple iPad, although it is not as thin. It also includes a unique and slick keyboard that slides out from below for easy typing." The people familiar with this device said it would run the Windows 7 operating system when in landscape mode, but will also have a layered interface that will appear when the keyboard is hidden and the device is held in a portrait mode.