The mobile template is available now on blogger

Often, when you read a webpage or blog posts on your mobile phone or PDA, you may find the cluttered and kinky appearance of them if the mobile version of the website or blogs are not available.

Of course, there are many ways to solve this problem. One of them is by using the Google Mobilizer. Read more from my previous post about google mobilizer : Google Mobilizer, a nice and easy way to read a webpage on your mobile phone

On December 17, 2010, the blogger team announced the availability of mobile platform of blogger’s blogs. With this add-on, blog readers may view a blog post properly from a mobile phone. As explained in the post by Jiho Han, the new mobile templates will re-format a blog for smartphones to enhance the better viewing of a blog.

I think this is really a good news for bloggers, because from now on their blogs will be accessible easily and conveniently through a mobile phone.

If you are a blogger user, all you have to do is just activate the mobile template setting from your dashboard. Read further from Blogger in Draft

At this moment, the mobile template only support 6 variants of the Simple template and 6 variants of the Awesome template of the blogger template designer (HRD).

Leads by the cigarette maker, here is the list of Indonesia’s 40 Richest Year 2010

On December 2, 2010, Forbes Indonesia released the list of Indonesia’s 40 Richest year 2010.

Ranked at #1 of the list was Robert Budi Hartono and his brother Michael Hartono, the owners of one of the biggest clove cigarettes corporation in Indonesia, Djarum, with the net worth of US$11 billion. As reported by Forbes, brothers Budi and Michael inherited clove cigarette maker Djarum from their father but these days get bulk of their fortune from Bank Central Asia, country’s largest private bank, which returned to ranks of Forbes Fab 50 this year.

Following was another cigarette maker richest, Susilo Wonowidjojo, the president director and owner of PT Gudang Garam, Indonesia’s largest clove cigarette maker who spotted at the second place with net worth of US$8 billion.

Eka Tjipta Widjaja, the founder of Sinar Mas Group and well-known from his palm oil plantation business and also the president commissioner of Bank Internasional Indonesia, ranked at #3 by Forbes with the net worth of US$6 billion.

Here is the list of the top ten Indonesia’s Richest year 2010 ranked by Forbes :

  1. R.Budi & Michael Hartono – net worth US$11 billion
  2. Susilo Wonowidjojo – net worth US$8 billion
  3. Eka Tjipta Widjaja – net worth US$ 6 billion
  4. Martua Sitorus – net worth US$3.2 billion
  5. Anthoni Salim – net worth US$3 bilion
  6. Sri Prakash Lohia – net worth US$2.65 billion
  7. Low Tuck Kwong – net worth US$2.6 billion
  8. Peter Sondakh – net worth US$ 2.4 billion
  9. Putera Sampoerna – net worth US$2.3 billion
  10. Aburizal Bakrie – net worth US$2.1 billion

Browse the complete list from Forbes : Indonesia's Wealthiest

The AMA 2010, who won the awards ?

The 38th annual American Music Awards (AMA) was held in Nokia Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, USA on Sunday night November 21, 2010 and also broadcasted live on ABC. Attended by many popular singers and musicians, Justin Bieber, a young talented pop star crowned as the Artist of the Year in AMA 2010. Won four nomination all together including Favorite Breakthrough Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for My World 2.0, Justin beat Eminem, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga.

Regardless the appearance of Rihanna, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus and many more today famous artists, the performance of two 90’s boybands, New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys with their hits such as ‘Backstreet’s Back, ‘My Way’, Step By Step’ and ‘The Right Stuff’ really jazz up the AMA 2010 extravaganza.

Here is the list of the 2010 American Music Awards winners :

  • Favorite Soul/R&B Album : Usher, Raymond v. Raymond
  • Favorite Pop Rock Band/Duo/Group : The Black Eyed Peas
  • Favorite Country Female Artist : Taylor Swift
  • Favorite Latin Music Artist : Shakira
  • Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist : Rihanna
  • Favorite Country Male Artist : Brad Paisley
  • Favorite Breakthrough Artist : Justin Bieber
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist : Justin Bieber
  • Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group : Lady Antebellum
  • Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist : Muse
  • Favorite Adult Contemporary Music Artist : Michael Buble
  • Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist : Usher
  • Favorite Artist of the Year : Justin Bieber
  • Favorite Country Album : Carrie Underwood, Play On
  • Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Male Artist : Eminem
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Album : Justin Bieber, My World 2.0
  • Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist : Lady Gaga
  • Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist : MercyMe
  • Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album : Eminem, Recovery
  • Favorite soundtrack Album : Glee : The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers

See the gallery of who won a 2010 American Music Award from : ABC.com

Why it is important to upgrade your TweetDeck Desktop to v0.36 or higher before 26th November ?

Before, on November 3, 2010 the TweetDeck team announced in its blog the urgency for TweetDeck Desktop users to upgrade their software to v0.36 or higher before 24th November 2010.

Here is the quote from the blog :

The result of all this techno-jiggery-pokery is that you *must* update to at least v0.36 urgently. If you have not upgraded before 24th November then your TweetDeck will start going very wrong.

Later, on November 19, 2010 it was announced again in the TweetDeck Support page with the title “IMPORTANT : Upgrade to Desktop v0.36 or higher BEFORE 26th November.”

Any Desktop version of TweetDeck prior to v0.36 will begin to break on 26th November, it said further in the post.

What is exactly happening with TweetDeck Desktop ? Read further

The New Google Adsense Interface, gives more control over your ads

As announced in The Official Google Blog on November 10, 2010, Google Adsense has launched its new interface. As mentioned in the blog, this new interface is available to all Google Adsense publishers, globally, in more than 30 languages and in each of the 200+ countries where Adsense is available.

Within this new improved interface, which still in beta version, it will be easier for you as the publisher to monitor your site’s revenue, and as promised by the Google Adsense team, the new interface will give you more control over the ads you show. It’s full of new features, including the ability to view graphical reports in your account, compare performance over time and also in finding the most relevant features quickly and easily.

While trying this new interface, after logging in into my adsense account, it really bring the all brand new appearance of the content. Within the ‘Home"’ menu, you’ll find the information of your Earning Estimates and also the summary of your ads performance. I think the information of earning estimates which placed in the ‘Home’ menu quite helpful. Using the old version, you need to make several clicks to get such information. It also gives you the new way to create and edit your ad units.

In my opinion, the new beta interface of Google Adsense is quite impressive and better than the old one.

Read further about what’s new in this version : The New Adsense Interface

Hu Jintao, the World’s Most Powerful People based on Forbes Magazine

Who is currently the World’s Most Powerful People ? Forbes Magazine in its publication on November 3, 2010 listed 68 figures as the World’s Most Powerful People.

Hu Jintao, President of the People’s Republic of China leads at the top, following by Barack Obama, President of the United States of America at the second place. And Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the current king of Saudi Arabia and head of the House of Saud ranked at the third place.

Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister of Russia landed at the fourth place. While Pope Benedict XVI, the 265th and current Pope  of Roman Catholic Church and Angela Merkel, the Germany chancellor spotted at #5 and #6 respectively.

The prime minister of United Kingdom, David Cameron ranked at #7, following by Ben Bernanke, the chairman of Federal Reserve at #8.

The second latest of the top ten was Sonia Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress Party. And William Henry “Bill” Gates III (Bill Gates), the founder and chairman of Microsoft who already crowned as the most richest man in the U.S by Forbes Magazine closed the top ten ranked of the World’s Most Powerful People based on Forbes Magazine.

Read further from Forbes.com : The World's Most Powerful People

Photo source : News.xinhuanet.com

Doing Business 2011, Singapore ranked on top of ease of doing business

The Doing Business 2011 report released on November 4, 2010 as a co-publication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. As expressed in the preface of the report, Doing Business 2011 is the eighth in a series of annual reports benchmarking the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The report presents quantitative indicators on business regulation and the protection of property rights for 183 economies – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. The data are current as of June 2010.

Further, it said that a fundamental premise of Doing Business is that economic activity requires good rules – rules that establish and clarify property rights and reduce the cost of resolving disputes; rules that increase the predictability of economic interactions and provide contractual partners with certainty and protection against abuse. The objective is regulations designed to be efficient, accessible to all and simple in their implementation. Doing Business gives higher scores in some areas for stronger property rights and investor protections, such as stricter disclosure requirements in related-party transactions.

In conducting the survey, economies were ranked on the basis of 9 areas of regulation : (1) for starting a business, (2) dealing with construction permits, (3) registering property, (4) getting credit, (5) protecting investors, (6) paying taxes, (7) trading across borders, (8) enforcing contracts, and (9) closing a business.

The survey was limited in scope. It does not consider the costs and benefits of regulation from the perspective of society as a whole. Nor does it measure all aspects of the business environment that matter to firms and investors or affect the competitiveness of an economy.

The Doing Business 2011 report was done successfully in favor of more than 8,200 local experts, including lawyers, business consultants, accountants, freight forwarders, government officials and other professionals routinely administering or advising on the relevant legal and regulatory requirements in the 183 economies covered.

Within the report, rankings on the Ease of Doing Business, Singapore ranked at the top, following by Hong Kong SAR, China at the second place, New Zealand at the third place, United Kingdom spotted at #4 and United States at #5.

Where is the position of Indonesia ? It was ranked at #121 in the category of Ease of Doing Business, #155 in Starting a Business, #60 in Dealing with Construction Permits, #98 in Registering Property, #116 in Getting Credit, #44 in  Protecting Investors, #130 in Paying Taxes, #47 in Trading Across Borders, #154 in Enforcing Contracts and #142 in Closing a Business.

Explore the complete list of the rankings from the official website : Doing Business - Economy Rankings

As reported by Jakarta Globe on November 05, 2010, Sofyan Wanandi, Chairman of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) said the drop in overall ranking was inevitable because other countries kept making big improvements while Indonesia still had a lot of “homework” to do. Read further

Download the report from here :  Doing Business 2011 - Making a difference for entrepreneurs

The WSJ Asia’s 200 most-admired companies

The Wall Street Journal has announced its Asia's annual review of Asia's 200 most-admired companies. The project was conducted through the survey of a total of 2,742 executives and professionals participated in the online survey, polling through newspaper and online subscribers as well as other businesspeople in the 12 Asian-Pacific markets.

The Asia 2010's Rankings covering the region of Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and also Thailand.

Wollworths Ltd was named Australia's most-admired company within the list of Australia's Top 10, following by Coca-Cola Amatil at the second place and Westfield at the third place.

While for China's Top 10, the e-commerce leader Alibaba.com Ltd came out on top with high scores in the innovation and vision categories. Following, at the second place was China Merchants Bank and Tencent Holdings at the third place.

Amongst the Indonesia's Top 10, Astra International named the most-admired company in Indonesia. Unilever Indonesia and Bank Central Asia spotted at the second and third places respectively.

Read further : The Wall Street Journal Asia 200

The new improved version of Yahoo! Mail Beta

Several times ago, Yahoo! Mail has announced its new version of Yahoo! Mail Beta.

In this new improved version, it promises a faster, safer and easier to use of your webmail based Yahoo! Mail. Faster in speed which will make your tasks done quickly and easily, better in spam protection using the latest technology which will delivers only the emails you want and blocks the spam you don't want, free unlimited storage (I think this is already included in the previous version of Yahoo! Mail) and also more mobile in any internet-enabled device, including iPhone, iPad and Android.

Yahoo! Mail Beta also promises a better performance in social networking. It will give you more power while linking to your Facebook connection or while chatting to friends using an instant messenger such as via IM or through SMS.

With its new improved design, now you may do multimedia tasks more easily and in more convenience way. You may  view photo slideshows, watch inline videos and many more right from within your mail.

This latest new version of Yahoo! Mail Beta works best with Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3 and newer, Safari 4 and newer, and also Chrome 5.

If you want to know more the new improved features within this Yahoo! Mail Beta, go from here to its original website (HRD).

The 2010 Most Influential Men based on AskMen.com

Who is the most influential man in 2010 ? Maybe you'll say Barack Obama. You may be right may be wrong.

AskMen.com, Men's Online Magazine in its annual polling voted by half a million voters, published recently its "Top 49 Most Influential Men 2010."

In the list, Jon Stewart, widely known as host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program ranked at #1 as the most influential men. Last year he was listed at #13.

Why he was chosen at the top ? Here's the explanation from AskMen.com :

While the U.S. wages war in the Middle East, Jon Stewart has been fighting his own brand of war in the vicious battleground of cable television, leading the charge of personalities and ideals against the behemoth, ultra-right American news media. Stewart may host his ever-popular The Daily Show from behind a desk, but make no mistake: He’s on the front lines, and it’s getting ugly.  Read further

Following, chosen at the 2nd place was the Microsoft founder Bill Gates. And Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the world's largest social network Facebook seated at #3.

Ranked at #4 was Steve Jobs, the big boss of Apple inc, who brings the iPhone, iPod. iPad and MacBook at your front. And following, Kanye West, an American rapper, singer and record producer spotted at #5.

Further, Drew Brees, the quarterback of New Orleans Saints ranked at #6. James Franco, an American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, author and painter and well known after rolling as Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man trilogy. He was ranked at #7 by AskMen.com.

While Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Jose Mourinho, the manager of Real Madrid and also the Portuguese football manager, and Graydon Carter, a Canadian-born American journalist and the editor of Vanity Fair ranked at #8 to #10 respectively.

Several famous male celebrities were ranked in the list, such as Eminem at #24, following by Ben Affleck at #25 and Leonardo DiCaprio at #43.

So, where is Barack Obama ? Was he in the list ? Yes, the polling of AskMen.com voters seated him at #21 after Matthew Weiner the creator of Mad Men.

Explore the complete list from AskMen.com.

Let’s Pray for Indonesia

Several disaster happened in Indonesia during October 2010.  Starting from the flooding in Wasior on October 4 and the current West Sumatra’s Mentawai island earthquake which caused a local tsunami on October 25 and following by Merapi’s volcanic eruption on October 26. Hundreds of people were killed, hundreds were missing and hundreds lost their dwelling.

Regarding the disaster, peoples around the world expressed their condolence. The Twitter’s Pray for Indonesia hashtag #prayforindonesia becomes one of the trending topics, mostly after the eruption of  Merapi, the most dangerous mountain in Indonesia.

Several Hollywood celebrities posted their tweets to express out their sympathy.

Tom Cruise wrote in his twitter account on October 27 : “Our hearts go out to the people of Merapi & Jakarta Indonesia.” 

Johnny Deep said : “just found out about the earthquake. Everyone, please pray for the people there. #prayforindonesia.”

While KimKardashian posted that :”My heart goes out to all those affected by the quake and the volcano eruption in Indonesia #lifeisprecious #prayforindonesia”

The famous teenager singer Justin Bieber said that : “just found out about the earthquake in Indonesia. Everyone please pray for the people there. #prayforindonesia.”

As reported by Jakarta Globe on October 27, 2010, the US President Barack Obama on Tuesday (26 October) voiced sadness at the lives lost in a tsunami in Indonesia and pledged US help.

“First Lady Michelle (Obama) and I are deeply saddened by the loss of life, injuries, and damage that have occurred as a result of the recent earthquake and tsunami in West Sumatra.” Obama said. Read further

Minka Kelly, Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive 2010

Minka Kelly Esquire, the men's magazine which published in the U.S by the Hearst Corporation, in its annual feature of Sexiest Woman Alive 2010 crowned Minka Kelly as the Sexiest Woman Alive 2010.

Minka Dumont Kelly, born in Los Angeles, California on June 24, 1980 is the daughter of Rick Dufay, the former guitarist of the famous music band Aerosmith and a Las Vegas showgirl Maureen Kelly. Kelly was famous after starred in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights as Lyla Garrity from 2006 to 2009.

Photo source : CBS News

Who is the 2010 richest people in China ?

Hurun Research Institute through Hurun Report on October 12, 2010 released the Hurun Rich List 2010, the annual ranking of the richest individuals in China. Ranked about 1,363 individuals with personal wealth of US$150 million, it put Zong Qinghou & family at the top of #1 with US$ 12 billion wealth.

Zong Qinghou, born 1945 is the founder and CEO of the Hangzhou Wahaha group, the leading beverage company in China.

As reported by Telegraph.co.uk on September 29, 2010, Mr Zong founded Wahaha, which means "Laughing Baby" in Chinese, in 1986 as a small grocery shop in a school in the eastern city of Hangzhou. This year the company, which is privately held, announced a sales target of 70bn yuan. Wahaha's fruit-flavored milk drinks have become staple products. Read more : Zong QingHou named as China's richest man 

Spotted at the second place was Li Li & family with the moneybags of US$6 billion. He and his wife Li Tan along with her cousin Shan Yu were the founders of Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co. in 1998 and went public in May 2010.

As reported by Bloomberg on May 6, 2010, Hepalink, the world's biggest maker of the blood-thinner heparin, climbed to 175.17 yuan on the Shenzhen stock exchange from its initial public offer price of 148 yuan. Today's 18 percent gain values Goldman's stake, bought for $4.9 million in 2007, at more than $1 billion. The IPO price was the highest by any company in China, helping Hepalink raise 5.9 billion yuan ($864 million) to expand production capacity to supply clients including Paris-based Sanofi-Aventis SA. Read more : Goldman Gets 235-Fold Return on Hepalink in Stock Trading debut

According to Hurun Report, this is the first time a pharmaceutical tycoon has made it into the Top Five of the Hurun Rich List.

Following, seated at #3 of the Hurun Rich List with the moneybags of US$ 5.6 billion was Zhang Yin, the founder and director of Nine Dragons Paper Holdings, a recycling company and the biggest paper maker company in China. In October 2006, she became the first woman to top the list of richest people in China published by Hurun Report.

Amongst the top ten, positioned at #4 was Liang Wen'gen of Sany with US$ 5.4 billion of wealth . While Robin Li Yanhong, the founder of China's most popular search engine Baidu.com seated at #5 with US$ 5.3 billion of moneybags.

Read further the complete list from hurun.net : Zong QingHou of Wahaha Tops Hurun Rich List 2010

The story of Bai Fang Li, a poor pedicab driver who donated 350,000 yuan in his poverty

If a poor donate from his poorness, then he must be an angel, a heaven occupant sent into the world, to teach us for always be grateful and share with others.

This is the story of a poor pedicab driver of Tianjin, China, a generous honorable old man named Bai Fangli, who passed away on September 23, 2005 at the age of 93 in a hospital.

Starting to donate to an orphanage in 1987, when he was 74 years old and retired from his pedicab driving job, after witnessing a poor 6 years old kid who worked hard helping people at the market to earn some money. At 2001,  he gave his latest donation of 500 RMB. China.org.cn wrote that “In 2001, he drove his pedicab to Tianjin YaoHua Middle School, to delivering his last installment of money. Nearly 90 years old, he told the students that he couldn’t work any more. All of the students and teachers were moved to tears”.

Until his latest donation, he had donated 350,000 RMB, supported 300 poor students using the money he earned from his job as a trishaw puller.

Now available (officially) at : maps.google.co.id, Indonesia local platform of Google Maps

If you reside in Indonesia and want to find a place around you, now there is an easy way which you can do through Google Maps.

Google has launched the Google Maps Indonesia, a local platform of searching app that will help Indonesia internet user to find a geographical information, such as online map, satellite images, driving direction guide, addresses and also company list, directly in your PC or cell phone.

As reported, on October 6, 2010, the Head of Product Management Google South East Asia, Andrew McGlinchey in Jakarta announced that Google Maps Indonesia has launched officially and available to serve Indonesia internet user.

“User can easily search and find the information of any desired location, at anytime and anywhere. Just go to the website : maps.google.co.id and type in the keyword”, explained Andrew.

This Indonesia local platform of Google Maps was expected to be the most richest in content and the most relevant for location searching surroundings Indonesia.

How this Google app will really help Indonesian users and fix the problems while using the prevailing Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) to find location in Indonesia ? Try and proof it by yourself.

100 Free Full Version Software listed just for you

Freeware Files.com has listed the Top 100 Downloads free full version of software and application.

From the list, AVG AntiVirus Free 10.0.1120a3152 spotted at the top with 939,522 times of downloads. Following by YouTube Video Downloader 2.5.4, the free software to download and convert YouTube videos which has been downloaded by 775,112 times.

Another popular softwares and applications within the list are Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0.677, Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.6.2, CDBurnerXP Pro 4.3.7.2423, K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 6.4.0, KMPlayer 3.0.0.1438, CCleaner 2.36.1233, Winamp Full 5.581, Daemon Tools Lite 4.35.6, LimeWire 5.5.16 and many more.

Besides, they also cateqorized the 100 List into several categories such as : Top Games, Top Security, Top Audio/Video, Top Desktop, Top Utilities, Top Internet Tools and Top Games Sites.

With a total of 100 free full version software, I think you must be tempted to have a look into it. Just click the following link to get into the webpage : Top 100 Downloads

The 2010 Forbes Power Women (The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women)

Forbes.com Michelle Obama, the first lady of the United States of America was nominated as the World's Most Powerful Women. In its publication of 'The World's 100 Most Powerful Women' on October 6, 2010, Forbes ranked Michelle Obama at #1, following by Irene Rosenfeld, the CEO of Kraft Foods Inc. at the second place. While, Oprah Gail Winfrey, the most famous talk show host spotted at the third place amongst the top ten of the list.

Following, at the 4th position was Angela Dorothea Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany. And, Hillary Clinton, the United States Secretary landed at #5. Another business woman, Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi, an Indian American CEO of PepsiCo Inc.ranked at #6.

After that, Lady Gaga, Gail Kelly, Beyonce Knowles and Ellen DeGeneres ranked at #7 until #10, respectively.

Browse the complete list from Forbes.com : The World's 100 Most Powerful Women

Most Powerful Women 

Photo source : www.forbes.com

The success story of John Vechey, founder of PopCap Games company

On October 1, 2010, Inc.com posted a story of John Vechey, founder of PopCap Games company, an American video game developer and publisher, based in Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

The success story of the company was started with how John Vechey, the college dropped out guy started his wok on a computer game with his pal Brian Fiete. They started the PopCap company in 2000 and this year is on track to bring in $100 million. PopCap employs more than 300 and has offices in Shanghai, Seoul and Dublin, with studios in San Francisco, Chicago and Vancouver, British Columbia. Bejeweled, the company’s flagship game which first developed in 2001 has sold out more than 50 million units across all major platforms. Until now, it already released up to four version, Bejeweled in 2001, Bejeweled 2 in 2004, Bejeweled Twist in 2008 and Bejeweled Blitz in 2010. If you are a Facebook fan, you must be familiar with this game.

Here is an excerpt from Inc.com :

My dad's family worked in steel, but my parents were hippies. My dad taught me that it's not worth doing things you don't want to do -- he never worked more than a part-time job. For him, spending time with his friends, family, and women was more important than making money. He had priorities.

Read more from Inc.com : How I Did It: John Vechey, Founder of PopCap.

More about the PopCap Games company from Wikipedia.org : PopCap Games

Create A Great First Impression in A Job Interview

Headhunters, career counselors, and professionals engaged in recruiting efforts at Fortune 100 companies all stress the prime importance of creating a great first impression.

Following are some of the most important key business etiquette you should pay close attention to achieve an excellent interview and creating a great first impression :

(a) Arrive a few minutes early. It is important that you not be late. It is also important that you are not too early - more than ten minutes before the appointment is too early and can be seen as rude or too aggressive. Arrive five to ten minutes early, a a sign that you are punctual and that this interview is important to you.

(b) Arrive with a professional-looking pad and pen. It is very important to some interviewers that you take some notes about what they say. Note-taking signifies that you find importance in what the interviewers are saying. However, do not take too many notes, and do not take notes if you believe jotting down a note will be interpreted as trying to bind the interviewer to some statement he or she might not want to be held to later. Use moderation, and before you start to take notes, ask the interviewer whether it is Ok. Getting permission to take notes sets a good tone at the start of the interview.

(c) Appear organized, carrying related documents with you. For instance, if the employer supplied a list of all of the persons you should interview with, take the list with you on the day of your interviews. Also have a few copies of your resume on hand in case any of the interviewers does not have your resume readily available.

(d) Shake hands with the interviewer. When you meet the interviewer, be certain to shake hands with him or her. Keep your handshake firm and steady.

(e) Wait to be asked to take a seat. As a common etiquette practice, you should not move toward a seat and sit down until the interviewer points out where you should be seated and invites you to sit. If the interviewer does not do so right away, you can politely ask, "Where would you like me to sit?" This is a sign of respect.

(f) Use the interviewer's last name. You should treat the exchange as formal, using the interviewer's last name and proper title (Dr., Mrs., Ms., Mr.) unless the interviewer gives you permission to do otherwise.

Source : How to Interview Like A Top MBA - Dr.Shel Leanne

You may also interested to read this related article : How to Make a Good First Impression During a Job Interview

Windows Live Writer 2011 is available now, but not for Win-XP users

On September 30, 2010, Microsoft published the latest version of Windows Live Writer. Named Windows Live Writer 2011, is part of Windows Live Essentials which also includes Windows Live Messenger, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Mail, Family Safety, Windows Live Mesh, Bing Bar, Messenger Companion, Microsoft Silverlight and also the Outlook Connector Pack. You actually don’t have to install the complete package of the Windows Live Essentials. You can install Live Writer as the stand alone application, apart from another packages of Windows Live Essentials.

But, there is a bad news for a Live Writer user. If you still use Windows XP as your operating system, you won’t be able to try this latest version of Live Writer 2011. It only support Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Vista SP2.

The latest version of Live Writer 2011 (version 15.4.3502.0922) is available at Microsoft Download Center.  If you’re still running Windows XP, you may download the latest compatible version of Live Writer 2009 (version 14.0.8050.1202) from FileHippo.com.

Read also another references :

  1. Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 Now (Softpedia.com)
  2. Windows Live Writer 2011 (Microsoft.com)

Some small but important things to do in an interview

Let’s say that this morning you just received a phone call from a company informed you to attend an interview by tomorrow. So, how do you prepare yourself for this important occasion ? Maybe, you will be busy preparing clothes to wear during the interview, go to salon or barbershop for a hair cut or maybe reading a dozen of books about interview tips.

That’s all you have to prepare ? Of course not. There are several things, small things but important enough that you must not miss out before the interview session :

(1) Warming Up. In a tense situation, particularly if this is your first time interview, your voice and the way you speak can be very different from the usual. Your voice can be transformed into impressively indecisive, or on the contrary it may changed to an explosive voice because of the adrenaline that makes you rugged and bad-tempered in appearance. To avoid this, do some warming up before the interview by talking to someone who available to talk to, or if you’re alone at that moment, making a phone call and talking to a friend. This will then lighten the tension so you can speak naturally, clearly and firmly during the interview.

(2) Relax. It will be not enough just relaxing your mind and your hear beat. When sitting in the room, the first thing you have to do is sit comfortably. Second, put yourself in the position that you are offering your skill and capability, not begging for a job. Although the interviewer usually conditioned the situation of the interview as superior and inferior, put yourself in line with the interviewer so that the conversation will go on smoothly. Just be noted to always be polite and maintain the good communication.

(3) Offer your capability. As mentioned at the previous point, you’re offering your skill and capability. In the bargaining situation like this, you have to be smart enough to show out your potentiality. For example, if you have been asked about your weaknesses, express it out but directly add it up with your idea on how to overcome such weaknesses.

(4) Be professional. Your attitude may contribute substantially in the overall scoring. Therefore, although the position that you are applying do not need the attitude of a Public Relation, you still have to smile, greet and staring at the eyes of the interviewer, and you have to do it with your full confidence.

The above points may seem trivial, but apparently, it will really safe your day (Hrd).

Live Spaces is moving to a new place @ WordPress.com

Windows Live Spaces, a blogging service provided by Microsoft is moving to one of the giant blogging resources, WordPress.com. The news was announced on September 27, 2010.

“Welcome Windows Live Spaces Bloggers!” greet Paul Kim, staff of Automattic, the provider of WordPress.com as posted in WordPress Blogs on September 27, 2010. Further he wrote that :

We’re excited to announce that WordPress.com is now the default blogging platform for Windows Live Spaces users. We’ve worked with our partners at Microsoft to create a simple migration service for Spaces bloggers to easily bring all their posts, comments, and photos to WordPress.com.

Over a six month period, beginning today, Windows Live Spaces users will have the option to move their blogs to WordPress.com. To make this possible, we’ve created a brand new importer for Windows Live Spaces to WordPress.com. New Windows Live users will also be offered a WordPress.com blog when they choose to create a new blog. Read further

Why is Live Spaces moving to WordPress.com ? Here is the answer from Windows Live Solution Center :

Many customers have asked us for a richer and more functional blogging experience. And like we’ve partnered with other services you know and love, we’ve now collaborated with one of the premier blogging services WordPress.com to deliver an exciting experience to you. This means that you can give your blogging experience a fast, easy, and free upgrade to WordPress.com.  All of your posts, comments, and links will transfer and your friends will still be able to see updates from your posts in Messenger.

On WordPress.com, you’ll also find great themes and widgets to customize your experience, tools to help you track how your blog is doing and who’s visiting. You’ll get tagging that enables people to find you and for you to find like-minded people and some of the best comment and trackback spam prevention in the blogging world. Read further

Read also another related articles :

  1. Microsoft Pulls Plug on Live Spaces Blog Platform
  2. WordPress.com and Windows Live partnering together and providing an upgrade for 30 million Windows Live Spaces customers
  3. Microsoft Dumps Live Spaces for WordPress
  4. Windows Live Outsources Blogging, Migrating 30 Million Users To WordPress.com

The Richest People in America (Forbes 400 year 2010), who owned the biggest moneybags ?

Whistling_to_the_BankBill Gates, again has been crowned as the most richest man in the U.S by Forbes Magazine in 2010 with the net worth of $54 Billion, up by $4 billion from last year.

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born in Seatle, Washington October 28, 1955), the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked amongst the world's richest people by Forbes Magazine and was the richest overall from 1995 to 2007.  Unfortunately, in 2008 his position was down to #3, beaten by the American legendary investor Warren Buffet and Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu & Family.

The second position was occupied by a businessman, U.S most beloved investment guru Warren Edward Buffet (born August 30, 1930) with a net worth of $ 45 billion, up $5 billion from last year.

Within the top ten list of "The Forbes 400 The Richest People in America" are :

  1. Bill Gates ($54 Billion)
  2. Warren Buffet ($45 Billion)
  3. Larry Ellison ($27 Billion)
  4. Christy Walton ($24 Billion)
  5. Charles Koch ($21.5 Billion)
  6. David Koch ($21.5 Billion)
  7. Jim Walton ($20.1 Billion)
  8. Alice Walton ($20 Billion)
  9. S.Robson Walton ($19.7 Billion)
  10. Michael Bloomberg ($18 Billion)

Youngest American Billionaires

Only eight of America's richest are under the age of 40. Among them, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984), Facebook's co-founders, ranked at #35 with a net worth of $ 6.9 billion due to his 24% share of Facebook. The 26-year old man was designated as the Youngest American Billionaires.

Another youngest American billionaires are Lawrence "Larry Page" (born March 26, 1973), an American computer scientist and industrialist, the co-founder of Google Inc. ranked at #11 by Forbes with the net worth of $15 Billion, along with his team-mate Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian, born August 21, 1973).

Read the complete story from Forbes.com : The Forbes 400 - The Richest People in America

The Room Boy who got his most surprising tip

 WHEN the room boy knocked at the door and said “Room Service!”, maybe he didn’t realize at all who was behind the door and what will happen after that second.

As the door opened, WOW! his perfect day just began. 

“Thank God I got this job,” maybe this was what came up of his mind after witnessing the scenery in front of his eyes.

And after that, the lucky room boy got his most surprising tip from the “FHM Hottest Woman.”

That was the scene of “The Tip”, the AJ-Armani Jeans advert of Emporio Armani staring Megan Fox.

Watch the full version video of “The Tip” below (from YouTube.com) :

Keep away the Job Stress, build the positive thinking at the workplace

Job_Stress_2 Many times we feel uncomfortable at the office, not satisfied with the working environment and loosing the self-reliance of ourselves. Keep holding on with such attitudes eventually will drive a code-red to and ruin our career.

If you always think and act negatively, it will not do you any good. And you will always stacked behind the unfinished works.

The following tips may help you get out of this condition :

1. Open up yourself and you mind. Accept any positive or negative inputs. This will broaden your insight and will help you solve problems easier, because you don’t just focus on a single point of view.

2. Always use the positive words. Avoid the using of any negative of pessimistic words such as “I can not afford” or “I’m weak.” Instead, use the positive words which will build a self motivation to yourself such as “I can” or “I’m definitely capable.”

3. Don’t get influenced with gossip. Rumor or gossip tends to identical as something negative. Don’t pay attention or react immediately to any gossip or negative news. It’s better to just ignore and keep ignoring it. Get it away from your mind.

4. Be grateful. Always be grateful with your life and everything that you already owned because it will keep yourself relax and eliminate stress from your life.

6 Ways to Keep Yourself Motivated

All people possess a common set of needs and wants that, when triggered, activate their respective levels of motivation and their drive to improve upon their current situation. There are six motivational premises that you can apply to bolster your motivation and your chances of getting promoted.

1. You must have reasons for what you want to do. Okay, you want to get yourself promoted. Does the challenge of getting yourself promoted really turn you on ? Is it something that you want to do ? If your answer is no then you’ll lack the motivation to get yourself promoted.

2.  You must have goals and objectives that you’re constantly sorting through and working on every day of the week. Your challenge is to pursue foals that fit within your plan to get yourself promoted.

3.  Your behavior should be directed at goals you believe are good for you, goals that have perceived values for you. You’ll lose your motivation if you pursue goals that have no personal value.

4.  You should not work toward accomplishing a goal unless you believe it is attainable. Most people, no matter how valuable a goal might be to them won’t make the effort to go after it unless they believe that their chances of obtaining it are good. For example, you may fantasize about becoming the company’s president, but won’t do anything about it if you believe that your education is inadequate to reach that goal.

5.  The situation under which a goal is pursued can change its value. The work environment can change the value of goals you’re working on. For example, your boss has told you that if you reach a specific goal, you will be promoted to branch manager. When you reach your goal and discover that you will be branch manager in a remote location, the goal may lose its value to you.

6.  You will only pursue goals if you are motivated, and the reverse is true; if you do not have goals to pursue, you won’t be motivated.

Keep improving yourself. Everybody in today’s business world could be more successful, make more money, and be happier if they really wanted to. Why, then, are so many unable to accomplish this? Somewhere along the line, they have stopped self-improving. They have become complacent and aren’t willing to take the initiative to improve on what they are doing. Even more important, they are not willing to learn how to do new things that will increase their value to their organizations and themselves.

Source : 1,001 Ways to Get Promoted - David E. Rye

Blogger ‘Blog’s stats’ and ‘Popular Posts’ gadgets are available now

Blogger-64 On August 30, 2010, the blogger team announced the launching of Blogger Gadget, “Blog’s stats’ and ‘Popular Posts’.

Previously, the blogger user may use the ‘Blog’s stats’ directly from the dashboard menu, and now it still there. Moreover, now you can put the ‘Blog’s stats’ gadget as part of your blogger page elements. But, I think the function of this gadget is limited. It doesn’t preview any other information but the page visit counter. If you click on it, it doesn’t bring you to anywhere. You still have to go to the dashboard to get more information of your blog traffic and visitors.

What I like mostly is the ‘Popular Posts’ gadget, which shows the most popular and most visited posts of your blogs.

New Blogger Gadgets

Read further from Blogger in Draft : New Stats Gadgets

Yahoo! Koprol, the Asian Four-Square. Find out who is nearby you

 What is Yahoo! Koprol ?

Koprol is a mobile community, where people meet, interact and build conversation based on location. Koprol has an expanding directory of places where you as the user can "check-in" and trade comments, sharing photos and reviews, with friends and others within your environment.

Bearing the mission of helping user to discover new and exciting people and places in the world, Koprol is designed for people in Asian cities. It has a well-moderated database of places. It works on any phone browser and doesn't require GPS.

Who are behind Koprol ?

Based in the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, Koprol was founded and developed by several talented computer geeks from Indonesia. Among the list, Fajar Budiprasetyo, as the CEO, who started his career at Silicon Valley after the graduation in Computer Science from Ohio State University, and Satya Witoelar, a freelance web designer with ten years of experience as the Chief Creative Officer.

Joining the community, there are several rules you have to comply with as stated in the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Don't be mean, destructive or annoying, don't be spammy and self-serving, don't be abusive, with phishing, trolling, harassment or hate, don't hide behind anonymity, and no pornography material allowed are amongst the things you should aware of.

Wanna try Yahoo! Koprol and starting discover interesting people and places around you ? Just get into : http://www.koprol.com, then sign-up with your Yahoo! id. You can also register using your email in here : https://secure.koprol.com/users.

Read further from its FAQ webpage : Yahoo! Koprol - Frequently Asked Questions

Watch Out! Facebook. Here comes Diaspora

An alternate social networking site for Facebook users will be launched on 15 September as an open-sourced.

As reported by PCWorld India that "the anti-Facebook project, Diaspora, a "privacy-aware, personally controlled" social network will launch its public alpha version in October this year. Open-source developer release coming in September 15. (Read further : Anti-Facebook Diaspora alpha release in October - PC World)

Open-source projects have become hot news this year when Facebook was forced to simplify the privacy settings, after they were criticized for being too complicated and confusing.

The project was started by three computer science students and a mathematician from New York University. Announced on April 24, 2010, the team already reached their $10,000 goal in 12 days, and the money continues to come in: as of Tuesday afternoon, they had raised $23,676 from 739 backers, as reported by The New York Times on May 11, 2010. (Read further : Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook)

Maxwell Salzberg and Daniel Grippi working with Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy are the four talented young nerds and the brains behind the Diaspora which they describe as "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network".

Will Diaspora replace Facebook ? "This is not about Facebook. Facebook is not what we are going after. We are going after the idea there are all these centralised services where people are giving up their personal information. We want to put users back in control of what they share. Diaspora is an anti-network. We are not planning on having big servers that store everyone's information. They will all be individually owned and operated so people can really say they have full control over their information" said Max Salzberg as reported by BBC News on May 12, 2010. (Read further : The anti-Facebook)

Read also :

Meet Leanna, a fourteen year old CEO

Can you imagine become a rich entrepreneur in your tender age ? Of course we can reach that dream with pertinacity and hard working.

Meet Leanna Archer, a teenager from Central Islip, Long Island, New York, U.S.A who already running her own business since the age of nine. Yes, really. She has been running her all-natural hair products business in such a tender age.

And, now, at her age of fourteen, she already become the owner and CEO of a company named Leanna’s Inc. Besides, she is also a teenager success speaker.

In her website (www.leannaarcher.com) she wrote about her goals :

  • I want to keep on making good NATURAL Hair Products and do more research about hair
  • I want to be a motivational speaker for young kids to bring up their self esteem by participating in Radio and TV shows, then by going to schools and public places to give speeches
  • I want to make commercials and have acting roles in Television series and Movies

And her inspirational icons are Dr. Maya Angelou and Miss Oprah Winfrey.

In 2008, Inc.com ranked her at #12 in its ’Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30’ (America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs). As reported by Inc.com, her company Leanna’s Inc. gained the revenue of $100,000 in 2007 with the amount of employees of 8 persons. (Read further : Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30).

In June 2005, Leanna's Inc. was created and started its business operation in selling hair and body products which consist of a hair dressing, hair dressing with shea butter, hair oil treatment, shampoo, conditioner, deep conditioner and many more.

Currently, Leanna's Inc. has a full line of hair products available on the internet, at some Health Food Stores and at some beauty salons.

Read further of her success story from her website : Leanna's Inc.

And read also the related story from The Straits Times : CEO at 14

“The 2010 Inc. 500/500”, the list of 5.000 fastest growing private companies in America

2010 Inc 500On August 24, 2010, Inc.com, the website for Inc. magazine released its annual survey of “The 2010 Inc. 500/500” which ranked the 5.000 of fastest-growing private companies in America.

The 2010 Inc.500/500 was ranked according to percentage revenue growth from year 2006 through 2009 of the companies that have been founded and generating revenue by June 30, 2006. The qualified companies also have to meet several criteria such as : (1) they had to be based in the U.S, (2) privately held, (3) profit-oriented companies, and (4) independent – not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies – as of December 31, 2009.

Further, the minimum revenue required for 2006 must meet the amount of $80,000; while the minimum for 2009 is $2 million.

Ranked at #1 from the list was Ambit Energy of Dallas with the total revenue $325 million in 2009 and $1.6 million in 2006. Founded in early 2006 at a Potbelly’s restaurant in Addison, Texas by Jere W. Thompson and Chris Chambless, growing to be the finest, most respected retail energy provider in America.

Following, seated at #2 was ModCloth of Pittsburgh with the total revenue $15.6 million in 2009 and $90,169 in 2006. Founded in 2001 by husband and wife team Eric Koger and Susan Gregg Koger, ModCloth is an online clothing, accessories and decor retailer that sells affordable women’s fashions from independent designers.

Ranked at #3 and #4 was two government services companies, Luke & Associates and Lexicon Consulting.

Follow this link to read the full list of The 2010 Inc. 500/500. And compare it with previous year’s list : The 2009 Inc. 500/500

Read also the original story from Inc.com : Thriving amid the turmoil

Fortune : 100 Fastest-Growing Companies, who’s at the top ?

Fortune magazine in its September 6, 2010 issue released the list of “100 Fastest-Growing Companies.”

In compiling the list, Fortune ranked companies based on the last three-year annual revenue growth rate, earning per share (EPS) growth rate, and total return for the period ended June 30, 2010.

The 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list was determined by using the following criteria : (1) a company – domestic or foreign – must be trading on a major U.S. stock exchange, (2) report data in U.S dollars, (3) file quarterly reports with the SEC, (4) have a minimum market capitalization of $250 million and stock price of at least $5 on June 30; and have been trading continuously since June 30, 2007. (5) companies must have revenue and net income of at least $50 million and $10 million respectively for the four quarters ended on or before April 30, and have posted annualized growth in revenue and earnings per share of at least 15% annually over the three years ended on or before April 30.

Amongst the Top 100, Eldorado Gold ranked #1 with the EPS growth of 119%, revenue growth of 47% and total return 46%. The 2nd position was Green Mountain Coffee Roasters with EPS growth 96%, revenue growth 55% and total revenue 64%. While Ebix seated at #3 with EPS growth 72%, revenue growth 51% and total revenue 52%.

Read further the complete list : 100 Fastest-Growing Companies

Finally, here is the new beauty queen of the universe

Finally, a 22 year old contestant of Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete crowned as Miss Universe 2010.  Competed amongst the three finalist contestants which were Miss Mexico, Miss Jamaica and Miss Australia, Jimena eventually took the first place, replaced and crowned by the former Miss Universe 2009 Stefanie Fernandez.

Following, Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillipps was chosen as the first runner-up, and Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell at the third place (2nd runner-up). Of the top five finalists, Miss Ukraine Anna Poslavska seated at the fourth place as the third runner-up and Miss Philippines Venus Raj as the fourth runner-up.

Here is the complete list of the competition :

  • The Winner (Miss Universe 2010) : Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete
  • 1st Runner-up : Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillipps
  • 2nd Runner-up : Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell
  • 3rd Runner-up : Miss Ukraine Anna Poslavska
  • 4th Runner-up : Miss Philippines Venus Raj
  • Miss Congeniality : Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell
  • Miss Photogenic :  Miss Thailand Fonthip Watcharatrakul
  • Best National Costume : Miss Thailand Fonthip Watcharatrakul

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Read also : Mexico's newest icon: 22-year-old Miss Universe

Final countdown to Miss Universe 2010, who will be crowned ?

Miss Universe 2010, the 59th edition of the pageant competition will take place and broadcast live at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada U.S. on August 23, 2010 at 9 p.m ET.

As announced by Donald J. Trump and Paula M.Shugart, President of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO), the "2010 Miss Universe Pageant" competition will be judged by celebrities and experts. The celebrity panel of judges are : Criss Angel, illusionist and mystifier; William Baldwin, actor, producer and writer; Sheila E, world-renowned percussionist and drummer; Tamron Hall, anchor of "MSNBC Live"; Evan Lysacek, 2010 Olympic Gold Medalist and 2009 World Figure Skating Champion; Chazz Palminteri, Oscar nominated actor and director best known for his work in A Bronx Tale; Chynna Phillips, American singer and actress, Jane Seymour, multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner and also Niki Taylor, international supermodel.

The Miss Universe Organization which comprised of The Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants are a Donald J. Trump and NBC Universal joint venture. Utilizing its nationwide grass roots infrastructure, the Miss Universe Organization is committed to increasing HIV/AIDS awareness by focusing on women's health and reproductive issues.

At the end of the final competition, Miss Universe 2009, Stefania Fernandez will crown her successor. During her reign, Fernandez has traveled around the world as an advocate for HIV/AIDS education and awareness. Miss Universe 2010 will continue this mission throughout her reign.

The television event is comprised of 83 contestants who will compete in three categories : swimsuit, evening gown and interview.

At the semi final round, current Miss USA Rima Fakih has been step aside from the competition.

Here is the list of the Top Ten contestants :

Miss Ireland Rozanna Purcell
Miss Albania Angela Martini
Miss Philippines Venus Raj
Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillipps
Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete
Miss Ukraine Anna Poslavska
Miss Puerto Rico Mariana Paola Vicente
Miss South Africa Nicole Flint
Miss Guatemala Jessica Scheel
Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell

Just tune in for the LIVE broadcast of this event and don’t miss the final round. It will be on air on NBC and Telemundo at 9-11 p.m ET.

The most dangerous celebrities on the internet

Cameron Diaz replaced Jessica Biel as the most dangerous celebrity that people ever search over the internet. It was based on the report of an internet security company McAfee, Inc.

For the fourth year in a row, McAfee already compiled its research to find out the name of celebrities, musicians, politicians, comedian and Hollywood stars with the highest searched over the internet. Within the study report titled 'The McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities' revealed that movie stars and models are the 'most dangerous' search topics, while politicians like Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are the 'most safe.'

Cybercriminals often use the name of popular celebrities to deceive internet users to visit the website that actually contained malicious software. Anyone that looking for the latest photos or video of famous celebrities will eventually end up with a malware-ridden computer instead of just trendy content.

The research found that 10% of online searching using the name of 'Cameron Diaz' will leads the internet users into the website that contained spyware, adware, spam, phishing, viruses and others malware.

The second most dangerous artist was Julia Roberts, while Jessica Biel ranked at the third place. Following are Gisele Bundchen, Brad Pitt, Adriana Lima, Jennifer Love Hewit and Nicole Kidman.

US President Barack Obama and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin ranked at the bottom of the list, making them the less threatening topics for internet searches.

Read also : Cameron Diaz named most dangerous celebrity in cyberspace

The Body Paint Photo Shoots, another controversy story of Miss Universe

After her controversial photos as a contestant in a stripping contest sponsored by a Detroit radio station MyFOXDC.com which were published on Mojointhemorning.com, a morning show on Detroit's Channel 955 several times ago, Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih now facing another case, the body paint racy photo shoots.

As published by ABC News on August 13, 2010 titled "Racy Photos Spark Scandal at Miss Universe", it reported that "the Miss Universe Organization is in a world of controversy yet again. New official photos have surfaced featuring many of the contestants topless, covered only in body paint Among the racy ladies who participated in the fleshy photo shoot was a topless Rima Fakih, Miss USA herself."  Read the complete story : Racy Photos Spark Scandal at Miss Universe

"Miss Universe Organization Slammed for Contestants' Topless Photo Shoot" was the related story published by FOXNews.com on August 13, 2010.

As reported in the article, "Earlier this year, the Miss USA pageant, which operates under the umbrella of the Miss Universe Organization, drew intense criticism for racy official photos, which featured the 51 hopefuls with smudged eyeliner, lingerie and come-hither expressions. And now, Miss Universe is following suit, with an official photo shoot by photographer Fadil Berisha in Las Vegas, where several of the contestants posed topless and in body paint." Read further : Miss Universe Organization Slammed for Contestants' Topless Photo Shoot

Read another related stories (latest update 18 August 2010) :

Using ‘Stats’ Widget in Blogger

If you're using WordPress as your blogging platform, you must be familiar with the Blog "Stats" Widget.

I love this widget so very much, because it really gives me lots of information of my blog's traffic and visitors. Yes, it's a great tool to monitor and analyze your blog’s visitors traffic. If you're really concern in increasing and optimizing your blog's SEO, I think this is a must have tool.

Formerly, I've searched hundreds of times over the internet, looking for the similar of this WordPress "Stats" widget which might be available for Blogger.

Thank God! Now this awesome "Stats" widget is available in Blogger blogging platform. But until this moment it's merely available in Blogger in draft version.

If you're still new with this Blogger in draft version, here is a little explanation from the Blogger website :

Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before releasing them to everyone. Think of it as our sandbox, or laboratory, or just "Blogger + new things." By taking your feedback and looking at what works and what doesn't, we'll be able to make features that much better when releasing them to everyone.

To try the Blogger in draft version, just go to : http://draft.blogger.com/ and log in with your available blogger account. And if you want to stop using it and go back to "normal" Blogger, simply log in to : http://www.blogger.com/ instead. Your blogs and posts are the same regardless of whether you use Blogger in draft version or regular Blogger. The only difference is what you see in the interface. Read more : What is Blogger in draft ?

You'll find this "Stats" menu within the Dashboard of Blogger in draft version.

Zamzar, a free online file conversion tool

If you’ve just got an email from a friend that sent you an image file, but unfortunately it was in the adobe pdf file format. And, now you want to convert it into an image file format such as png or jpeg or maybe bmp. In case you don’t have any appropriate converter software to do such work, don’t worry. You may prefer to do the conversion online with Zamzar.

What is Zamzar ?

Zamzar is a web based application to convert files online. It supports lots of file formats which categorized into five groups – Document, Image, Music, Video and Other formats.

This application is free of charge. However, you can prefer to become a paid member too. For free users, the maximum of file upload is limited to 100 MB of data split between up to 5 different files. But, if you signup for an account you can upload up to 1 GB of files. Not just that, you may also manage your files online that stored into your inbox.

Currently, a free user can only convert a maximum of 5 files in a single session. However, if you signup you can convert up to 20 files at any one time, with lots of file format supported by this application. Check it out by yourself the types of files that supported in here

After you’ve conducted the conversion process, a link to your converted file will be sent to your email and it will be remained in the server up to 24 hours. After that, the file will be deleted from the system. So you better pick up your file within that specified time. A Zamzar account holders do not have such limits.

Zamzar 

Try this free online file conversion tool by yourself in here : http://www.zamzar.com/

The most expensive Hollywood Actress this year

HollyWood-1 Who was the most highly paid Hollywood actress this year ? Megan Fox or Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston maybe ?

Forbes magazine recently released the list of the most highly income Hollywood actress during the last 12 months. And, Sandra Bullock was ranked at the top.

Staring ‘The Proposal’ and ‘The Blind Side’ in 2009 which successfully hit the theaters, Sandra Bullock defeated Reese Witherspoon and Cameron Diaz, who were ranked #2 and #3 respectively.

One of her box office screen, ‘The Proposal’ , a romantic comedy movie which gained the income of US$320 million on an estimated budget of US$40 million. While her another box office movie ‘The Blind Side’ which adapted from the true life story of an American Football player, Michael Oher earned US$310 million on an estimated budget of only US$30 million. The movie rose to No. 1 in its third weekend upon released.

Between her earnings on ‘The Proposal’ and ‘The Blind Side’, Sandra Bullock earned US$56 million during June 2009 until June 2010, top amongst Hollywood’s leading actresses.

Following, Reese Witherspoon occupied the second position of Hollywood’s Highest-Paid Actresses. This ‘Legally Blonde’ lady gained US$32 million which contributed from her latest movies : ‘How Do You Know’ and ‘Water for Elephants’. Competing with Reese Witherspoon was Cameron Diaz with her ‘Knight & Day’ also gained US$32 million.

Ranked in the fourth position this year was Jennifer Aniston. This romantic comedy movie star collected US$27 million. She is not just profiting from staring the wide screen movies but also from her famous television serial ‘Friends’.

Taking the fifth position was Sarah Jessica Parker with her sequel of ‘Sex and the City’ which earned US$280 million at the global box office. This year Jessica earned US$25 million.

Read the original story from Forbes : Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actresses

Kindle for PC, read your Kindle eBook without Kindle

Maybe lots of us already know what is Kindle. Yes, Kindle or fully named Amazon Kindle is an e-books reader developed by Amazon.com.

Besides the hardware, Amazon also released the free application for Windows PC called Kindle for PC. No Kindle hardware required to use this software on your PC or Laptop. All you need it just go to the Amazon website and download the software. This software is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

But unfortunately, currently this application is not available in Indonesia. Which means that you can not download this software within the region of Indonesia.

So, what is the benefit of using this application ?

First of all, if you're Amazon Kindle customer, with this software you may read more than 620,000 Kindle books on your computer. But, Kindle newspapers, magazines and blogs are not currently available for Kindle for PC. Further, you may also gain the ability to access your Kindle books collection even if you don't have your Kindle gadget with you.

Another advantages of this application are : (1) automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync, (2) create new highlights, notes, and bookmarks and manage those created on your Kindle, (3) full screen reading view, color modes, and brightness controls offer an immersive reading experience.

To install and use this application on your PC or Laptop, you have to meet several requirements, such as : PC with a 500MHz Intel or AMD processor, at least 128MB of RAM, setting your screen resolution to 800x600 or greater even better, Windows XP SP2 or later, and 100MB of available disk space.

Download and try this application in here

If you are a Mac user, you may download Kindle for Mac from this location

Make Up Your Facebook with Cool Emoticons

Want to make up your Facebook appearance looks like this?


Maybe you already know what is SweetIM. They supply free Emoticons, Smiley, Winks, Games and more for MSN, AIM, Yahoo and ICQ Messenger.

But, wait a second. The cool and eye-catching emoticons of SweetIM also work with Facebook. So, from now on, you can spice up your Facebook with cool smileys. Just download the application for free from : SweetIM and installed it into your PC or laptop.

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After Paul the Octopus, now peoples are talking about “Keong Racun”

If you got your eyes stuck  into your Twitter account on the morning of July 29, 2010 you may caught the new trending topic that twitter users were talking about.

The Indonesian song "Keong Racun",which means poisonous snail in English was the most talked about topic on Twitter that day. This song is an Indonesian dangdut dance song that was sung by an Indonesian local artist named Lissa. Then, it was lip-synching by two Indonesian, Bandung city teenage girls named Sinta and Jojo. After they video-taped and then posted the song on YouTube, surprisingly lots of people start talking about it.

Not just in Indonesia, even the world was talking about this. The Independent, a British newspaper on 29 July 2010 published an article titled "Current Twitter trends : 'Keong Racun', 'Thor',Raina, Kindle" (Read further) wrote that the Indonesian song "Keong Racun" is the most talked about topic on Twitter on the morning of July 29. Twitter users are going crazy over a YouTube video of two teenage girls (going by the names of Sinta and Jojo) lip syncing to "Keong Racun."

Further, the newspaper ranked Keong Racun at #1 amongst the Top 10 most talked about topics on Twitter on July 29 at 9:30 AM GMT.

While SF Weekly, a weekly newspaper in San Fransisco, California through its SF Weekly Blogs on July 30, 2010 published an article titled "Sinta and Jojo's 'Keong Racun' : Don't You Have Better Things To Do, S.F.?" (read further) wrote "It's about 11 p.m on a blustery Thursday night in July in San Fransisco. What do you think people are twittering about? #WhereThePartyAt? #YellowCabFail? #CallingInSickTomorrow? No. The most trending topic on Twitter late last night in San Francisco-and, we suspect, in much of the world - was the video you see above, of Sinja and Jojo (their YouTube names) lip-synching to the dancey Indonesian pop song "Keong Racun."

And, now the two college girls of Universitas Pasundan from Bandung City of Indonesia become so popular on media. And, so does the song "Keong Racun."

Watch the video from YouTube :

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