Blogger Adds Spam Filter for Comments

Blogger's commenting system still needs a lot of work. Even though you can now display the comment box below the post, you can subscribe to comments by email and sign in using OpenID, the authentication procedure is still clunky, you can't reply to a message, read other comments from the same user or edit a comment after posting it.

The good news is that Google finally solved two big problems for Blogger authors: comment spam and managing comments. If Gmail has a great spam filter, why Blogger can't use a similar technology to detect spam comments?

"Blogger now filters comments that are likely spam comments to a Spam Inbox, much like the spam folder in your email. When someone leaves a comment on your blog, it will be reviewed against our spam detector, and comments that are identified as possible spam will be sent to your blog's Spam Inbox, found at Comments | Spam," explains Blogger's help center.


Blogger's spam filter works well and you can improve it by clicking on "Not spam" next to a false positive or mark as spam a message that hasn't been filtered.

Now it's easier to manage the comments from your blog even after they're published. The new Comments tab lists all the published comments and lets you delete them or mark them as spam. You no longer have to visit each blog post and manually remove spam comments.


Blogger's help center says that the Comments tab should be displayed even if you don't enable comment moderation. Unfortunately, the tab disappears when you disable comment moderation. As Blogger's blog admits, comment moderation can be annoying. "To fight spam, some of you enabled moderation of all comments or required word verification or login. While somewhat effective, these checks limit real-time conversations around your blog."

For now, I've enabled comment moderation for posts that are older than 30 days. Hopefully, you'll no longer see spam comments.

Search Google Docs and Google Sites in Gmail

Gmail Labs has a new feature that extends Gmail's search by showing results from Google Docs and Google Sites. If you enable Apps Search, you'll see a list of results from Google Docs and Google Sites below Gmail's search results. For some reason, Apps Search has a bug and returns incorrect URLs for Google Docs results, but I'm sure this will be fixed.


It's interesting to see that the Gmail Labs feature has been developed by the Apps Search team, which suggests that it's part of a bigger project. Most likely, Google will let you search all your data stored in a Google account from a single search box. If Google's universal search can combine images, videos, books, tweets, news articles in a single search results page, why can't Google develop an unified search service for Gmail messages, Google Calendar events, Google Reader subscriptions, Blogger posts, Picasa Web photos, contacts, tasks, Google Voice history and more?


Tip: If you want to search Google Docs and Google Sites, without displaying Gmail results, add -type:mail to your query.

Unexpected bonus feature: After enabling Apps Search, Gmail will show a "did you mean" message if your query includes misspellings:



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Download SQLyog v 5.0 FULL

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SQLyog adalah salah satu software yang bisa digunakan sebagai gui database manager untuk database MySQL.  Kemudahan dalam membuat database ada disini. Software ini berukuran sangat kecil, hanya 5Mb. Dengan software ini kita dapat membuat databse baru, mengupdate tabel, menghapus tabel, menambahkan entry baru, dan masih banyak lagi.

Versi dari SQLyog yang saya berikan ini adalah versi 5.0. Walaupun versi ini agak lawas, tapi ini adalah FULL version. Jadi kalian tidak akan mengalami banyak masalah dengannya.
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Ini Dia Bentuk CPU Unik Hasil Modifikasi

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Ada yang tahu apa itu CPU? CPU atau Central Processing Unit sebenarnya adalah suatu perangkat dalam komputer yang bekerja dengan memahami dan melaksanakan perintah dari perangkat lunak. Tetapi orang awam kerap menyebut CPU itu adalah casing dari komputer yang lengkap beserta isi didalamnya seperti harddisk, DVD-ROM, Processor, dan lain sebagainya. Karena orang-orang sudah menganggapnya seperti itu, maka disini saya akan menganggapnya seperti itu juga. Karena artikel ini memang bertujuan untuk memberitahu bentuk-bentuk unik dari CPU.

Beberapa hari yang lalu saya sempat menelusuri google untuk melihat macam-macam bentuk CPU yang telah dimodifikasi. Bentuknya menjadi sangat unik dan tentunya beda dengan CPU pada umumnya.Kalian penasaran dengan bentuk-bentuk unik CPU tersebut? Berikut gambar-gambarnya.

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YouTube Tests Tag Refinements

YouTube experiments with a new search results page that lets you refine results by selecting related tags. For example, if you search for [race car], YouTube shows a list of popular tags related to your query: #autos & vehicles, #indycar, #cars, #wreck, #car crashes etc. YouTube also shows the list of tags for each search result.


If you click on one of the tags, you'll restrict the list of search results to videos that have a certain tag.


YouTube doesn't use only user-defined tags, some of the tags are video properties (#hd, #fresh), tags used in comments (#omg, #lol, #wtf, #ftw, #fail, #cute), usernames.

Android Voice Actions

Google updated Android's voice search application and added support for actions. In addition to searching the Web, you can now use the application to send text messages and email messages, find songs and start playing them, call your contacts and local businesses, launch Google Maps Navigation and get directions to a location, visit a site using Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature and more. It's like iPhone's voice control, except that there are more actions available and you need an Internet connection to use it.

"Voice Actions are a series of spoken commands that let you control your phone using your voice. To use Voice Actions, tap the microphone button on the Google search box on your home screen, or press down for a few seconds on the physical search button on your phone to activate the Speak Now screen," explains Google.

Here are some examples of actions you can try after installing the app:
* go to Google News
* map of London
* call [name of one of your contacts]

For some reason, you can't use the built-in app to play music, so you need to install Pandora, Last.fm, Rdio or mSpot before using actions like "listen to Morcheeba". It would be nice to use voice actions to launch applications or to use custom actions defined by other applications.

The new version of the voice search application requires Android 2.2 (Froyo) and voice actions are limited to English (US). Search for [voice search] in the Android Market or use this QR code. If you're not in the US, you want to try the application and you have root access to your phone, you might need to install Market Enabler and fake your location.

Google also released:

* a new version of the Gesture Search app for Android, which adds a motion gesture for starting the application
* a new version of the Google Search widget, with support for query refinements
* Chrome to Phone, which lets you send links and short texts from Google Chrome to a phone that runs Android Froyo. If you've previously installed the Chrome extension and the associated Android app, you should first uninstall them. There's also a Firefox extension that offers similar features.

{ via Google Blog }

Trailer Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1

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Sudah penasaran dengan film terakhir dari Harry Potter? Film Harry Potter and The Deathly terbagi kedalam 2 part. Tetapi kedua part ini akan direlease dalam tahun yang berbeda! Part 1 akan dirilis pada bulan November 2010 ini, sedangkan part 2 akan dirilis pada bulan Juli 2011. Seperti yang terlihat di poster resmi HP7. Kecewa memang ketika film ini dibagi-bagi dan jarak pembagiannyapun begitu jauh. Tapi mungkin tujuannya agar orang-orang tidak cepat melupakan serial Harry Potter ini. Saat ini sudah hadir trailer dari film Harry Potter 7 part 1, download linknya akan saya berikan diakhir artikel ini.
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The Old Version of Gmail Will Be Discontinued in September

When Google released a new version of Gmail, back in 2007, you could still switch to the old version by clicking on a link at the top of the page. At some point, the link has been moved to the bottom of the page, where it's still available.

3 years after releasing Gmail 2.0, Google decided to drop the old version, which doesn't include features like themes, Gmail Labs, Gmail Chat, Buzz, hiding labels or multiple file upload.

"You're using an old version of Gmail which will be retired in September. At that point, you'll be redirected to a basic HTML view. To get faster Gmail and the newest features, please upgrade to a modern browser," informs a Gmail message.

Most likely, Google continued to offer to the old version of Gmail because the new version doesn't work well in Internet Explorer 6. If you visit Gmail in IE6 and you haven't installed this patch, you can't switch to the new version, even if you manually change the URL. Staring from next month, IE6 users will be redirected to the "basic HTML" interface, used for outdated browsers.

Google rarely provides the option to switch to an old version of an application or a feature. For example, you can still switch to the old image search interface, to the old Gmail contact manager and you can still use the classic Blogger editor (an option that will be removed soon). Preserving the old version of a service could be helpful to determine if users like the new version, but it's not a good idea to keep an interface that's no longer maintained. Some users might never try the new version of the application because it doesn't look familiar, while other users might never notice that the initial bugs have been fixed.

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How Google Translate Works

Google uploaded a video that explains how Google's machine translation service works. It's fascinating to see how much Google Translate has improved in the past 4 years and how many Google services use it.

Here's the full text of the video:

"Google Translate is a free tool that enables you to translate sentences, documents and even whole websites instantly. But how exactly does it work? While it may seem like we have a room full of bilingual elves working for us, in fact all of our translations come from computers. These computers use a process called 'statistical machine translation' -- which is just a fancy way to say that our computers generate translations based on patterns found in large amounts of text.

But let's take a step back. If you want to teach someone a new language you might start by teaching them vocabulary words and grammatical rules that explain how to construct sentences. A computer can learn foreign language the same way - by referring to vocabulary and a set of rules. But languages are complicated and, as any language learner can tell you, there are exceptions to almost any rule. When you try to capture all of these exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions, in a computer program, the translation quality begins to break down. Google Translate takes a different approach.

Instead of trying to teach our computers all the rules of a language, we let our computers discover the rules for themselves. They do this by analyzing millions and millions of documents that have already been translated by human translators. These translated texts come from books, organizations like the UN and websites from all around the world. Our computers scan these texts looking for statistically significant patterns -- that is to say, patterns between the translation and the original text that are unlikely to occur by chance. Once the computer finds a pattern, it can use this pattern to translate similar texts in the future. When you repeat this process billions of times you end up with billions of patterns and one very smart computer program. For some languages however we have fewer translated documents available and therefore fewer patterns that our software has detected. This is why our translation quality will vary by language and language pair. We know our translations aren't always perfect but by constantly providing new translated texts we can make our computers smarter and our translations better. So next time you translate a sentence or webpage with Google Translate, think about those millions of documents and billions of patterns that ultimately led to your translation - and all of it happening in the blink of an eye."

Download Macromedia Flash Professional 8 + KeyGen

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Flash merupakan salah satu bidang yang banyak diminati dalam bidang IT saat ini. Dengan flash kita dapat membuat gambar animasi, atau bahkan game. Untuk membuat sesuatu dari flash, kita membutuhkan software Macromedia Flash, atau yang lebih anyar lagi, kalian dapat menggunakan Adobe Flash.

Jika kalian berminat menggunakan software Macromedia Flash, IT Programmer akan memberikan link downloadnya. Silahkan download Macromedia Flash Professional 8 beserta keygen nya. Download pada link berikut ini:

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Download Film Avatar The Last Air Bender versi Asli

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Tentunya kalian sudah tahu kalau sekarang ini sudah ada film Avatar The Last Air Bender versi manusia asli! Ya, Avatar Aang tidak hanya ada dalam film kartun yang sering tayang di salah satu stasiun tv tanah air. Tetapi kini acara anak-anak ini juga sudah dibuatkan filmnya, tetapu ada yang beda. Film yang dibuat ini tidaklah versi kartun, tetapi yang memainkannya adalah manusia asli.

Jalan cerita dari film ini juga sama dengan yang terdapat dalam versi kartun dimana negara api ingin memperluas wilayah kerajaan mereka. Disinilah peran Avatar dibutuhkan untuk menyelematkan dunia.

Jika kalian tertarik mendownload dan menonton film ini, silahkan download pada link dibawah ini:

DOWNLOAD FILM

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Gmail's Streamlined Interface and Better Contact Manager

Google launched a slightly refreshed Gmail UI that hides unessential features and uses more screen estate to display your messages. Gmail's logo is smaller, the links to mail, contacts and contacts are grouped in a collapsible panel, while the options that let you select all messages, starred or unread messages are available in a drop-down.

"Overall, there's now a smaller header area that puts the first message in your inbox about 16 pixels higher on the screen than before," explains Google.


Gmail's contacts section has also been redesigned to better integrate with Gmail. The updated interface supports keyboard shortcuts, saves the changes automatically, adds structured name fields and lets you sort contacts by last name. The notes field is now really big, but I don't think it deserves so much attention.


These features will be rolled out today to all Gmail accounts. The new Gmail contact manager won't be available in Google Apps right now, but it will be released in the near future.

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Google's Plans to Improve Ad Targeting

The Wall Street Journal got hold of a confidential Google document from 2008 about interest-based advertising, a feature that was released last year. In addition of providing ads that match the content of a page, Google wants to improve ad quality by creating user profiles based on the sites you've visited.

Selling ads is Google's big money-maker, but the online-ad business is broadening away from Google's sweet spot, selling ads tied to the search-engine terms people use. Instead, advertisers want to target people based on more specific personal information such as hobbies, income, illnesses or circles of friends. (...) Few online companies have the potential to know as much about its users as Google. (...) Significantly, however, Google doesn't mix the separate pots of personal data. For instance, it doesn't use data gleaned from a person's Gmail account to target ads to that person elsewhere online.

Google's internal document suggests that this might change. Google could use data from properties like Gmail, Orkut and even search queries to improve ad targeting. Here's an extract from the document:

Over time, as the value of audience targeting is proven and the market reaction to these practices is realized, we will discuss the use of Search data. Google Search is the BEST source of user interests found on the Internet and would represent an immediate market differentiator with which no other player could compete. Search could be used to populate user interests. It can also be used to create new surround-search targeting options in which relevant display ads (or text ads) could be delivered on [Google Content Network] to a user within 15-60 minutes of a given search, whereby the timeliness of the ad would presumably increase its relevancy to the user.

It's important to note that the author of the memo is Aitan Weinberg, a former DoubleClick executive who is now a senior Google product manager for interest-based advertising. WSJ says that Google's executives were against using cookies to track people online, but the DoubleClick acquisition changed their perspective.

For the first time, Google had the ability to deliver ads targeted to individual people's computers. But just because it had the ability, Google didn't start using it. There was still too much internal resistance. (...) Tensions erupted during a meeting with about a dozen executives at Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters about 18 months ago when Messrs. Page and Brin shouted at each other over how aggressively Google should move into targeting, according to a person who had knowledge of the meeting. (...) Mr. Brin was more reluctant than Mr. Page, this person said. Eventually, he acquiesced and plans for Google to sell ads targeted to people's interests went ahead.

Despite the internal resistance, it's tempting to cross-correlate data about users. Showing contextual ads in Gmail seemed creepy at first, but the ads turned out to be quite useful.

{ via Google Blogoscoped }

Google, Verizon and Net Neutrality

After a year of negotiations, Google and Verizon published a proposal for a set of policies on network neutrality in the US. Both companies agreed that "wireline broadband providers would not be able to discriminate against or prioritize lawful Internet content, applications or services in a way that causes harm to users or competition", but broadband providers would be able to offer "additional, differentiated online services". Mobile broadband was exempted from these rules because "the rapidly evolving wireless Internet is a different kind of network, with unique technical and operational challenges, demanding different consideration than wireline networks."

In a blog post from October 2009, Google and Verizon admitted that they were perceived as two "unlikely bedfellows". Some of the proposals from the agreement released this week were already agreed at that time, but there was an important disagreement. "While Verizon supports openness across its networks, it believes that there is no evidence of a problem today -- especially for wireless -- and no basis for new rules and that regulation in the US could have a detrimental effect globally. While Google supports light touch regulation, it believes that safeguards are needed to combat the incentives for carriers to pick winners and losers online."

Even if some will be quick to say that Google made an important concession by exempting mobile broadband from these rules, Google also managed to convince Verizon that net neutrality rules are necessary and that wireline broadband providers shouldn't prioritize certain Internet traffic. Google shouldn't be able to pay an ISP to prioritize the requests to google.com or youtube.com because that would be an unfair advantage.

Here's what Google wrote about net neutrality in 2006: "Today the Internet is an information highway where anybody – no matter how large or small, how traditional or unconventional – has equal access. But the phone and cable monopolies, who control almost all Internet access, want the power to choose who gets access to high-speed lanes and whose content gets seen first and fastest. They want to build a two-tiered system and block the on-ramps for those who can't pay."

The agreement between Google and Verizon is not a complete solution for this problem, it's just a pragmatic first step. "Under this proposal we would NOT NOW apply most of the wireline principles to wireless" suggests that this might change in the future. Sometimes, instead of being inflexible and not managing to solve any real-world problem, it's better to solve at least part of the problem.

Cara Memasang Widget Live Traffic Feed dari Feedjit

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Halo bloggers, kali ini saya akan memberikan sebuah tips untuk melihat traffic feedblog secara langsung. Dengan live traffic kalian bisa melihat langsung pengunjung yang datang dan pergi di blog kalian. Selain itu keterangan yang diberikan oleh traffic feed ini juga mendetail. Contohnya, ada pengunjung yang datang dari google, disana akan terlihat apa keyword yang diketikkan pengunjung sehingga pengunjung tersebut bisa sampai di blog kita.

Jika kalian ingin memasang widget ini di blog kalian, pertama kalian harus memasang widget live traffic feed dari Feedjit pada blog kalian. Kunjungi Feedjit lalu isilah form yang ada pada halaman tersebut. Jika sudah klik tombol Get your Traffic Feed!.

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Cheat Game Age Of Empire II: The Age of King

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Ada yang masih suka game Age of Empire 2? Masih sering memainkannya? Game ini adalah salah satu game keren pada masanya. Mungkin hanya segelintir orang yang masih memainkan game ini. Jika ada yang mengalami kesulitan saat memainkan game ini, IT Programmer akan memberikan cheat dari game ini kepada kalian.

Mungkinakan terasa kurang seru saat kalian menggunakan cheat, tapi tidak ada salahnya jika kalian mencoba sesekali. Atau ketika kalian memainkan game ini dengan level terberat. Coba saja. Cara untuk mengaktifkan cheat ini, cukup tekan Enter saat kalian memainkan game ini, kemudian ketikkan kode curangnya. Berikut cheat gamenya:

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System-Level Google Chrome Setup

Google Chrome's setup installs the software only for the current user. This way, you don't need administrator rights to install Chrome. Until now, those who wanted to install Google Chrome for all the users of a computer had to use the Chrome build from Google Pack.

Google has recently added a more straightforward location for a system-level setup: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?msi=true. The MSI installer only works in Windows, it currently installs the latest Dev Channel build and it seems to be targeted toward enterprise users.

"The current user-level installation experience doesn't require elevation (installing at system-level does), and most users don't know or care about system-level installs. That said, it would probably be a good idea to have some links on the download pages that say 'click here for a system-level install or MSI', so interested/advanced users could find it easily as part of the normal download install flow," explained Glenn Wilson, a Google Chrome engineer. The link to the MSI installer will probably be added to Chrome's download page in the near future.