YouTube's player added a new button for playing a vuvuzela sound file. If you watch the World Cup football matches on TV and you're missing the loud vuvuzela noise when you're watching YouTube videos, there's a new button for you.
"The vuvuzela is a typical 65 cm (2 ft) plastic blowing horn that produces a loud, distinctive monotone B♭3 note. The vuvuzela is most used at soccer matches in South Africa, and it has become a symbol of South African soccer as the stadiums are filled with its loud and raucous sound that reflects the exhilaration of supporters," informs Wikipedia.
Unfortunately, if you click on the vuvuzela button, you might not be able to hear the original sound of the video. YouTube has an option that provides automatic captions for videos, but the results are rarely accurate.
YouTube's blog informs that YouTube won the case against Viacom. In 2007, Viacom sued YouTube for $1 billion because the video site hosted copyright infringing videos that included content from Viacom.
"YouTube's strategy has been to avoid taking proactive steps to curtail the infringement on its site. Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising off of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws," said a Viacom representative in 2007.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act has some provisions that protect web services by creating a safe harbor against copyright liability. To be protected by the DMCA, online service providers must not make money from the infringing activities, must not be aware of the presence of infringing material and must remove the infringing material if the copyright owners send a notice to the service provider. Viacom said that YouTube's employees were aware that the site hosted copyright infringing videos, but the court didn't think that it was enough.
Mere knowledge of prevalence of [copyright infringement] activity in general is not enough. That is consistent with an area of the law devoted to protection of distinctive individual works, not of libraries. To let knowledge of a generalized practice of infringement in the industry, or of a proclivity of users to post infringing materials, impose responsibility on service providers to discover which of their users' postings infringe a copyright would contravene the structure and operation of the DMCA.
That makes sense, as the infringing works in suit may be a small fraction of millions of works posted by others on the service's platform, whose provider cannot by inspection determine whether the use has been licensed by the owner, or whether its posting is a "fair use" of the material, or even whether its copyright owner or licensee objects to its posting. The DMCA is explicit: it shall not be construed to condition "safe harbor" protection on "a service provider monitoring its service or affirmatively seeking facts indicating infringing activity".
This decision is not important only for YouTube and Google, it's important for any other sites that host user-generated content.
Pernahkah kalian menghadapi masalah seperti ini, kalian mempunyai teman, dan teman kalian tersebut memiliki sebuah game bagus yang kalian suka. Tetapi ukuran dari game tersebut terlalu besar untuk dikirim melalui flashdisk. Mudah jika kalian mempunyai harddisk external, tetapi untuk membeli sebuah harddisk external tentu akan menguras uang. Nah, kalian bisa menggunakan kabel cross LAN untuk mengirim data dari dua buah komputer yang saling terhubung. Dengan menggunakan kabel UTP cross, kalian bisa membuat jaringan LAN sederhana. Kalian dapat memindahkan data dari komputer/laptop ke komputer/laptop lainnya.
Jika memang kalian sedang menghadapi masalah seperti diatas, maka tidak salah kalian berkunjung kemari. Disini saya akan memberikan cara untuk men-setting latop/komputer kalian agar bisa memindahkan data dari laptop/komputer teman kalian.
Google Spreadsheets added a feature that lets you copy the formatting a cell and use it for other cells. It's called "format painter", like the similar feature from Microsoft Office.
To use the format painter, select a cell that has special formatting, click on the "paint format" button from the toolbar and then select one or more cell to apply the formatting.
Microsoft offers an example to show why this feature is useful:
"Say you've written a report in Word. You like the look, especially your headings, which are 14 pt. Bookman Old Style, centered, green, and bold, with a nice subtle shadow. Fifteen minutes before you're supposed to present the report to the team, your manager asks you to add four new sections to the report. You spend thirteen minutes adding the information, and the next two wishing that you hadn't chosen such complicated formatting for your headings, since you now have to apply it to all the new ones. Using Format Painter saves you that time and duplicated effort. Instead of having to manually apply the font, font effects, centered paragraph alignment, and other formatting to each new section heading, you can quickly copy all of the formatting attributes by using one toolbar button."
Unfortunately, format painter is not available in all Google Docs applications and you can only use it in Google Spreadsheets. So much for the Google Docs consistency.
If you're in the US, you can now use Google Voice without asking for an invitation. Three years after acquiring GrandCentral, Google finally makes the service widely available.
"A little over a year ago, we released an early preview of Google Voice, our web-based platform for managing your communications. We introduced one number to ring all your phones, voicemail that works like email, free calls and text messages to the U.S. and Canada, low-priced international calls and more—the only catch was you had to request and receive an invite to try it out. Today, after lots of testing and tweaking, we're excited to open up Google Voice to the public, no invitation required," explains Google.
Google Voice has a lot in common with Gmail. They're both innovative communication services and they both help you manage your communication flow. Gmail has been available as an invitation-only service for about 3 years, just like Google Voice.
The next steps for Google Voice should be expanding the service's availability outside US, integrating with Gizmo5 and becoming a VoIP service, integrating with Gmail and Google Talk.
CJ, a reader of this blog, already found some signs of a future integration:
"Late last year, Google Talk appeared as an option for Phone Type when adding a new phone in the Google Voice settings. I added my Google Talk account, but could not verify it. I just left it in there unverified because I knew at some point the day would come. At some point in the past few weeks, I was able to get my Gmail Voice Chat client to ring when attempting to verify the Google Talk account in my Google Voice account, but the call always immediately failed. Now in the past two or three days I've been able to answer the call and hear the prompt to enter the verification code, but there's no way to send the verification digits. I tried generating DTMF tones and sending them through the microphone, but it doesn't work. So close!"
Apple's iOS 4 (iPhone OS 4) added an important missing feature: a way to save your notes online. If you add an IMAP mail account like Gmail or Yahoo Mail and enable the notes feature, you can create notes that are saved to your email account.
For Gmail, Apple creates a label called Notes and saves the notes created in the Gmail section to your Gmail account. The notes can only be edited from an iPhone or iPod Touch and the changed are reflected in Gmail.
Some other new iOS 4 features that should be useful for Google users: Google Suggest in Safari's search box, an option to search the Web in Spotlight and the ability to add multiple Exchange accounts.
Kalian mungkin nantinya akan diajari bagaimana cara membuat kabel UTP cross untuk jaringan LAN. Maka dari itu saya akan memberikan sedikit tips mengenai cara pembuatan kabel cross UTP ini. Kabel cross digunakan untuk menghubungkan dua buah komputer/PC/laptop. Kalian mungkin sudah mempelajarinya dalam Packet Tracer saat mempelajari simulasi jaringan dengan Packet Tracer. Saat membuat kabel UTP cross, kalian membutuhkan sebuah kabel UTP dengan panjang minimal 1 meter, minimal 2 buah konektor RJ-45, crimping, dan tester untuk menguji keberhasilan kalian membuat kabel.
Saya sarankan agar kalian setidaknya memiliki 4 buah konektor RJ-45 dan kabel dengan panjang minimal 1 meter. Kenapa? Jika kalian mengalami kegagalan saat membuat kabel UTP cross pertama kalian, kalian tentu perlu konektor baru lagi, karena yang gagal tidak bisa dipakai lagi. Serta kabel tidak menjadi terlalu pendek ketika kita memotong kabel lagi saat mengalami kegagalan.
Google Maps Labs added a feature that used to be available as a mapplet: distance measurement tool. After enabling the Labs feature, you'll notice a small ruler at the bottom of the map. Click on the ruler and you'll be able to use the distance measurement tool by clicking on the map and tracing the path you want to measure.
If you click on "I'm feeling geeky", you'll be able to pick from a long list of measurement units, including light-year, parsec, PostScript points, Olympic swimming pools, American footbal fields, Persian cubits and more.
When you upload files to Google Docs, you'll notice a new option that tells Google to convert the text from PDF and image files to Google Docs documents. The feature has been released last year as an experiment, so Google had enough time to improve the accuracy of the results.
I've tried to convert an excerpt from the book Rework and the result wasn't great. About 10% of the text has been incorrectly converted and the formatting hasn't been preserved.
"This document contains text automatically extracted from a PDF or image file. Formatting may have been lost and not all text may have been recognized," explained Google in a note included in the document.
To be fair, ABBYY Online wasn't able to produce much better results:
Update: Google Docs Blog says that this feature only works for the following languages: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish. "For the technically curious: we're using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) that our friends from Google Books helped us set up. OCR works best with high-resolution images, and not all formatting may be preserved."
Gmail's contact cards, which show up when you mouse over the sender of a message or a Gmail Chat contact, have a new interface. Action buttons are displayed at the bottom of the card and you can no longer edit the name of a contact inline. When you click on the name of a contact, Gmail opens the contact manager.
Contacts cards haven't changed too much since 2007, when Google released a major Gmail update.
If you'd like to see how much Gmail has evolved since 2007, open Gmail's old version. It's surprising to see that Gmail still offers the old version, which lacks most of the features released in the past three years.
Hi young programmers, diantara kalian semua pasti ada yang sangat berminat dengan pemrograman web. Dengan belajar pemrograman web kita akan bisa membuat website. Ada banyak bahasa untuk membuat pemrograman web, seperti PHP. Tetapi untuk pemula atau dasar, kita akan menggunakan HTML. HTML tidak dikategorikan sebagai bahasa pemrograman. Mengenai hal ini, kita akan bahas dilain kesempatan.
Untuk belajar HTML ada beberapa syntax atau tag dasar yang harus kalian ketahui. Berikut adalah format dasar untuk membuat file html. Continue Reading »
Ketika kita mempelajari atau menerjemahkan bahasa inggris, kamus adalah alat yang tepat untuk digunakan. Akan tetapi ukuran kamus yang terlalu besar tentu menjadi tidak praktis untuk dibawa kemana-mana. Dengan perkembangan teknologi yang semakin maju, kini kamus telah hadir dalam bentuk aplikasi dalam handphone. Nama aplikasi ini adalah PD English - Indonesia. Pocket Dictionary yang mampu menerjemahkan bahasa inggris ke bahasa indonesia atau sebaliknya.
Saat kalian sedang keluar rumah, terkadang kalian memerlukan kamus, siapa tahu di jalan kalian menemukan istilah bahasa inggris yang tidak dimengerti, aplikasi ini menjadi alternatif yang sangat cocok sebagai solusi masalah kalian.
