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Friday, June 17, 2011

Lebih Daripada 90 Halaman Web Digodam semalam

Skmm

Seperti sedia maklum, kumpulan pengodam yang dinamakan Anonymous telah pun mengatakan yang mana mereka akan godam laman kerajaan, Malaysia.gov.my pada pagi ini, sekitar 3 pagi kelak. Namun begitu, lebih awal daripada itu, ianya kelihatan beberapa laman kerajaan telah pun diserang oleh penyokong mereka.

Antara laman web yang telah digodam, termasuklah halaman web CIDB.gov.my, JBiotech.gov.my, UiTM Penang, TourMalaysia.com.my, KRU Studios, Parlimen.gov.my dan beberapa laman lagi. Laman Malaysia.gov.my juga kelihatan seperti tidak boleh diakses, dan seperti dibawa ke halaman Staging.Malaysia.gov.my. Buat masa ini, ianya kelihatan yang mana beberapa laman web telah digantikan halamannya, serta beberapa yang lain digodam menggunakan DDOS.

 Yes World menyediakan laporan awal pengodaman tersebut, dimana ianya dilihat lebih 20 disenaraikan samada digodam ataupun ditutup.

 
COVERAGE OF ATTACK:

Hacker group Anonymous launched their attack on websites owned by Malaysia's government in an effort dubbed 'Operation Malaysia'. In a statement posted on several online portals such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, the vigilante group revealed the reasons behind the attack, saying that it was done to teach the country's administration a lesson for censoring whistle blower site WikiLeaks, as well as the recent blocking of file-sharing websites which they claim is in violation of human rights. Multiple websites were brought down in the attack, although reports on the number of those affected varied from once source to another.

Cyber-attack on local websites can last for days

Internet sites block not rights violation, says DPM

51 govt websites attacked, 41 disrupted

Malaysian govt websites hacked

General : 51 Government Websites Attacked

41 Malaysian government websites hacked

MCMC shrugs off Operation Malaysia, says ‘little impact’

Hackers attack Malaysian government websites

Government portal, NST site down; 27 others defaced

List of government websites that was attacked by hacker group Anonymous with the help of local hacking group in ‘Operation Malaysia’.

Malaysia Official Government Website
(DoS / Switched off - Up at 3:49am - Down at 4:06am - Up at 7:00am - Down at 3:31pm)

Other Malaysian wesites:

SabahTourism.com Hacked + leaked  
Jabatan Perdana Menteri Hacked / Redirected  
Tour Malaysia (Not Tourism Malaysia) Hacked  
Tourism Malaysia Unaffected  
UiTM Penang Hacked but back up 9:40am
JBiotech Hacked  
Social Welfare Department (Ezi2Care) Hacked  
Jabatan Perpaduan Negara (Intranet) Hacked  
CIMBbizchannel (CIMB owned) Hacked  
CIDB Hacked but back up 12:20am
Land Public Transport Commision  Hacked but back up 12:15am
1Malaysia DoS / Switched off 3:45am
Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Unaffected  
ASEANConnect DoS / Switched off 8:00am
Malaysian Meteorological Service DoS / Switched off  
Ministry of Education DoS / Switched off 9:00am
Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya Malaysia DoS / Switched off 8:30am
Bomba  DoS / Switched off 8:30am
TMNet  Unaffected  
Kementerian Kerja Raya Malaysia DoS / Switched off 7:45am
Parlimen Malaysia DoS / Switched off 8:00am
Malaysian Treasury DoS / Switched off 8:00 am
University Kebangsaan Malaysia DoS / Switched off 7:00am
Jobs Malaysia DoS / Switched off 8:00am
Information, Communications and Culture DoS / Switched off 7:45am
Human Resouce Ministry DoS / Switched off 3:59am
National Sports Council DoS / Switched off 7:30am
Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) DoS / Switched off 8:00am

 

 

http://world.yes.my/?q=ytlc&id=511

 

Lanjutan daripada pengodaman dan serangan siber pada malam semalam, Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia telah pun mengumumkan yang mana sebanyak 51 web .gov.my telah diserang. Selain daripada web .gov.my, ianya juga diketahui yang mana sebanyak 40 web tempatan yang lain telah diserang, menjadikan angka keseluruhan sebanyak 91 web.

SKMM telah pun mengeluarkan kenyataan rasmi mereka, dimana melaluinya, ianya diperkatakan yang serangan bermula sekitar pukul 11.30 malam, dan beberapa halaman web gov.my telah diserang pada pelbagai tahap.

Walaubagaimanapun, menurut mereka, semua halaman web yang diserang telah dikembalikan seperti sediakala, dan melalui pemerhatian SKMM, serangan mula berkurangan pada 4.00 pagi. Ianya juga diperkatakan yang mana impak serangan halaman web tersebut pada para pengguna tempatan adalah amat minima.

Menurut SKMM lagi, sebanyak 76 web telah pun beroperasi seperti asal kembali, dan selebihnya dalam proses pengembalian. Walaubagaimanapun, ianya tidak begitu menjejaskan sebarang perkhidmatan secara keseluruhannya, dan dapat beroperasi secara lancar sepanjang hari ini.

Salah satu laman komuniti tempatan yang turut diserang adalah GengBlogger. Untuk mengatasi sebarang perkara yang tidak diingini, ianya diminta anda membuat salinan pangkalan data dan fail-fail penting sebagai langkah keselamatan, selain memastikan laman yang anda layari adalah sah, dan bukannya laman phishing dan sebagainya.

Pada masa yang sama, SKMM meminta para pengguna yang mempunyai sebarang informasi berkaitan untuk melaporkan kepada pihak yang berkenaan.

Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission issues statement on #OpMalaysia

http://skmm.gov.my/images/skmm_logo.png

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM THE MALAYSIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA COMMISSION (MCMC) IN RELATION TO THE HACKING OF MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT WEBSITES BY UNKNOWN HACKERS

Cyberjaya – Regarding the threat by unknown hackers to attack websites with the .gov.my domain, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) confirms that there were indeed attempts to hack several websites, including www.skmm.gov.my.  The attempt to hack MCMC’s website was not successful.

These attacks started at approximately 11.30pm, on 15 June 2011. We are able to confirm that 51 .gov.my websites were attacked and there has been disruption at various levels to at least 41 of those websites.  However, we do not expect the overall recovery to these websites to take long as most websites have already recovered from the attack.

Our monitoring of the situation showed that there was a reduced level of attacks by 4.00am this morning and upon further evaluation, so far we gauge that there has been little impact on Malaysian users as a result of this attack.

MCMC’s Network Security Center has been making concerted efforts to mitigate the attacks around the clock and will continue to work with other enforcement agencies and security experts as well service providers to monitor the situation.

The public is advised to report any information they may have regarding the identity of these hackers as the act to disrupt network services is a serious offence, which is punishable by law.”

http://news.hitb.org/content/mcmc-issues-statement-opmalaysia

Cyberjaya – Further to the statement that was made by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) this morning on the issue of the hacking of Government websites by unknown hackers, MCMC is able to confirm that most of the attacks were Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks which made it difficult for Internet users to access the websites.

In total, MCMC’s Network Security Centre detected service outages to 91 websites, 51 of which are Government-related websites. Out of the 91 websites, 76 have been recovered, so far with work continuing to achieve speedy recovery as soon as possible.  Typically, if a website has been hacked, website administrators would have to evaluate the damage caused by the attack and then proceed to restore access to the website. In most cases, strengthening of the security measures will also be part of the process. 

As of 4.00pm this afternoon, most Government-related websites are accessible to the public and have either not been affected by the service outages or have recovered from the attacks.

The MCMC would like to advise the public to exercise due caution as they would whenever making a transaction over the Internet.

 

http://www.malaysianwireless.com/2011/06/91-websites-in-malaysia-attacked/

 

 

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper

Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper
Modified shipping containers used by the Internet Archive

If you want real long-term backups of digitized ebooks, then look no further than dead tree. At least, that's the consensus of the Internet Archive project, which has announced an incredibly ambitious plan to store one physical copy of every published book in the world.

"Internet Archive is building a physical archive for the long term preservation of one copy of every book, record, and movie we are able to attract or acquire... The goal is to preserve one copy of every published work," writes IA's Brewster Kahle in a lengthy blog post about the plan.

Kahle cites a number of reasons for wanting to preserve physical copies of works that are being digitized; for instance, a dispute could arise about the fidelity of the digital version, and only access to a copy of the original would resolve it. Kahle also told Kevin Kelly that we'll eventually want to rescan these books at an even higher DPI, so the digital copies will be waiting when we do.

Another reason for keeping a physical copy, and one that Kahle doesn't mention, is that the problem of long-term digital storage still isn't completely solved. The cloud as a large-scale storage medium has only recently emerged, and it's definitely not perfect as a long-term archival medium. Digital archivists have long pointed out that given a sufficient length of time, data loss is a problem even for highly redundant, highly available, distributed storage systems. Apart from the well-known phenomenon of bit rot, bits can get flipped for any number of reasons as they traverse a network and multiple software stacks, and ECC and other failsafes don't catch 100 percent of these errors. So on a long enough time horizon with a large-enough, complex-enough system, these undetected, flipped bits will begin to accumulate.

Realistically, Kahle and Co. expect to preserve 10 million books, out of an estimated 100 million published. These will be packed into climate-controlled storage containers, and stored in a facility in Richmond, CA that opens this month.

Kahle describes the details of the physical preservation as follows:

  • Books are cataloged, and have acid free paper inserts with information about the book and its location,
  • Boxes store approximately 40 books with labeling on the outside,
  • Pallets hold 24 boxes each,
  • Modified 40′ shipping containers are used as secure and individually controllable environments of 50 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit and 30% relative humidity,
  • Buildings contain shipping containers and environmental systems,
  • Non-profit organizations own and protect the property and its contents.

In order to reach its goal of collecting one of every book ever made, the Internet Archive is soliciting contributions of books from everyone from libraries to individual collectors.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Konvensyen ICC Perpustakaan Semalaysia Ke-3- Langkawi Kedah

[[posterous-content:pid___0]]Satu Konvensyen Kumpulan Inovatif & Keratif  (KIK/ICC) Perpustakaan Semalaysia kali Ke-3 anjuran Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Kedah dengan kerjasama Majlis Pengarah-Pengarah Perpustakaan Awam SeMalaysia dan Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia Kumpulan Utara di adakan pada 9 -11 Jun 2011 bertempat di Hotel City Bayview, Langkawi.

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Perpustakaan UiTM, Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (PTAR) menghantar 2 KIK iaitu:
Kumpulan : TITANIUM dengan  Tajuk Projek: Mempercepatkan Penyediaan Surat Panahanan Konvokesyen dan
Kumpulan : SOLVE dengan Tajuk Projek: Kesukaran Menyediakan Kekulit Buku.

Beberapa orang staf Jabatan Pengurusan Sistem & Teknologi Maklumat (JPSTM) telah terlibat. Sekalung tahniah kepada Kumpulan : SOLVE kerana telah mendapat tempat ketiga  yang menerima hadiah wang tunai RM1,500 

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Sebelum ini pada 2 siri KIK/ICC Perpustakaan Semalaysia telah di menangi oleh Kumpulan : e-Wave dari JPSTM dua tahun berturut-turut. 

Konvensyen ICC Perpustakaan SeMalaysia ke - 2 , 
Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (25 - 27 September 2009) 

Kategori Perpustakaan Akademik:
Projek KIK : Menambah Kemudahan Mesin Pinjaman Buku Layan Diri Di Perpustakaan
- Johan (e-Wave)
- Persembahan Terbaik-(e-Wave)
- Fasilitator Terbaik - Ahmad Faizar Jaafar (e-Wave)

http://ahmadfaizar.blogspot.com/2009/09/keputusan-konvensyen-icc-perpustakaan.html


Konvensyen ICC Perpustakaan SeMalaysia  - 1 ,
Hilton, Kuching, Sarawak,  (3-4 Nov 2008)

Projek KIK : Computer Lab Information System
- Hadiah Pertama (e-Wave)
- Hadiah Fasilitator Kumpulan ICC Terbaik- En. Ahmad Faizar Jaafar (e-Wave)
- Hadiah Khas Persembahan Projek ICC Terbaik (e-Wave)

http://perpustakaanuitm.blogspot.com/2008/11/keputusan-konvensyen-icc-perpustakaan.html

http://library.uitm.edu.my/inovasi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=75&Itemid=2

Berita seterusnya:

LANGKAWI, 12 Jun (Bernama) -- Kumpulan Whopedia dari Pusat Maklumat dan Perpustakaan Bernama (InfoLib) menjuarai Konvensyen Kumpulan Inovatif dan Kreatif (KIK) Perpustakaan SeMalaysia kali ketiga, yang berlangsung selama tiga hari di sini dan berakhir semalam.

Sebanyak 12 pasukan melibatkan perpustakaan awam seluruh negara menyertai konvensyen anjuran Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Kedah dengan kerjasama Majlis Pengarah-Pengarah Perpustakaan Awam SeMalaysia dan Persatuan Pustakawan Malaysia Kumpulan Utara.

InfoLib diwakili Pengurusnya, Hasnita Ibrahim sebagai ketua pasukan, Rozlen Mustapa (penolong ketua pasukan), Jizni Azrin Juhari (setiausaha) serta Masfaliza Masmuda, Abdul Halim Ariffin, Haidazira Manan dan Wan Mohd Rady Wan A. Rahman, manakala Pengurus Pusat Kecemerlangan Norhayati Jantan bertindak sebagai fasilitator.

Whopedia yang membentangkan tajuk "Pelanggan Kad Profil Tokoh Rendah" membawa pulang wang tunai RM3,500, trofi dan sijil.

Tempat kedua dimenangi Kumpulan Klik dari Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) dengan tajuk "Mempermudahkan Pencarian e-Jurnal Teks Penuh Langganan Perpustakaan", untuk meraih wang tunai RM2,500, trofi dan sijil.

Tempat ketiga diraih Kumpulan Solve dari Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) yang menerima hadiah wang tunai RM1,500 melalui pembentangan "Kesukaran Menyediakan Kekulit Buku".

Turut bertanding ialah Kumpulan I-Solution dari Perpustakaan Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), Kumpulan Prodigy 6 dari Pustaka Negeri Sarawak, Kumpulan Monsopiad dari Perpustakaan Negeri Kedah, Kumpulan Smart Acqlib dari Perpustakaan Sultan Abdul Samad, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) dan Kumpulan Smart Layer dari Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Terengganu.

Kumpulan Titanium dari Perpustakaan Tun Abdul Razak (UiTM), Kumpulan Inspirasi dari Perbadanan Perpustakaan Awam Perak, Kumpulan i-SMART dari Perpustakaan Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIAM) dan Kumpulan Pantas 3 (UKM).

Konvensyen itu bertujuan memberi pendedahan kepada peserta berhubung produktiviti dan kualiti, selain menitikberatkan KIK sebagai satu alat untuk penyelesaian bagi penambahbaikan berterusan.

Ia juga memberi peluang kepada peserta membentang idea dan projek mereka selain berkongsi pengalaman KIK masing-masing.

sumber -- BERNAMA

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=593320

Bengkel Pemurnian Plan Perancangan Strategik ICT(ISP) Jabatan

Satu bengkel pemurnian ISP ICT JPSTM akan diadakan hari ini : Tarikh ; 14 -15 Jun 2011
Masa : 8.30 pg -5.00 ptg
Tempat : Bilik Seminar PTAR




 

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Microsoft unveils new series of Kinect games , Sony Corporation named ‘PlayStation Vita' , Nintendo- Wii game console at E3

At E3 it's all about exclusives, and Microsoft devoted more than half of its press conference to announcing Xbox 360 and Kinect exclusive titles.

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Microsoft unveils new series of Kinect games at E3


Microsoft
 on Monday launched a new set of games and entertainment services to use its Kinect sensing motion device.

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Japan’s Sony Corporation named ‘PlayStation Vita’ as its next portable video-game player with 5-inch touch screen at the E3 gaming conference on Monday. Also Nintendo said it has plans to come out with a sequel to the Wii game console.

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Microsoft of Redmond, Washington, launched “Star Wars" game for its Xbox 360 system which uses the Kinect sensing motion device that will allow gamers to move objects with their arms, the WSJ reported.

The three major companies are facing stiff competition from smaller novel forms of gaming, like the ones on Facebook, to the cheap games which are designed for smart phones and tablets.

Around 10 million games designed for Kinect have been sold since its release in November.

According to Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business, the Kinect will make players feel the "real deal".

EA (Electronic Arts) has announced the launch of four sports games wiPublish

th the likes of Tiger Woods golf, Madden football, FIFA soccer and another game with an unannounced title which will use Kinect.

EA will launch, "Mass Effect 3", in March 2012, which will use the Kinect technology and allow players to converse, affecting the overall behavior of the game.

EA displayed at an event on Monday, 'The Sims Social' where the characters can dance and do many 'virtual' things.

Microsoft has also announced the launch of a new version of its Xbox Live online entertainment service that will provide members with access to video from Youtube and a variety of other television events. The company said it will add a search function to the service to help users to look for videos, music and games using the voice commands.

Sony's PlayStation Vita, with a price tag of $249 and $299 respectively for the models that can access wi-fi and the 3G network, was the biggest surprise at E3 with its lower prices despite having features like a touch screen and rear touch pads, analysts said.

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011

Wwdc

http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) showcases the latest innovations and the newest technologies in iOS and Mac OS X. Over 1,000 Apple engineers guide you through five exciting days of in-depth technical sessions and hands-on labs that demonstrate how to harness the incredible power of the world’s most advanced operating systems into your apps

WWDC is an incredible experience where you'll learn about new technologies, work one-to-one with Apple engineers, and enjoy special events.

Steve_Jobs_takes_stage_at_WWDC.flv Watch on Posterous

What was your favorite announcement?

 

Rich Siegelfounder and CEO of Bare Bones Software Inc., which makes Yojimbo: The amount of user-facing work that’s going into Lion and iOS 5 is truly impressive, especially as it reflects an enormous amount of infrastructure work.

Gedeon MaheuxPrincipal / Designer at The Iconfactory, which makes Twitterific: We’re most excited about all of the potential in iOS 5, such as Apple’s new iCloud API. Hopefully synching Twitter timeline positions across multiple copies of Twitterrific will work with relatively little effort.

Ken CaseCEO of The Omni Group: I’m really looking forward to updating our document-based apps (OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle . . . ) to leverage iCloud’s document syncing.

David Framptonfounder of Majic Jungle Software, which makes Chopper and Chopper 2: AirPlay Mirroring. I wasn’t expecting that, as it seems a pretty amazing technical achievement. Not sure on the details yet, but it could be a big deal for gaming.

Layton Duncanfounder of Polar Bear Farm, which makes Air Forms: By far iCloud, specifically Photo Stream. Photos across multiple devices, iPhone, laptop and desktop have been a real pain point for a while. It’s nice to have something to now sync consistently and transparently across all my devices.

What were you not expecting to see?

Maheux: Personally I’m excited about iMessage as a potential replacement for the aging application iChat and the newly redesigned notification system in iOS.

Case: Reminders in iOS 5 looks good! Glad to see Apple providing it as important baseline functionality (and challenging us to take things further).

Siegel: When they announced iTunes music storage, my immediate question was, “But what about music that I *didn’t* buy from iTunes?” The answer to that comes as iTunes Match, which was a pleasant surprise for me.

What was the most overdue announcement?

Frampton: Fixing the notification system. It’s been pretty bad, so it’s great to see that they’ve made some major improvements.

Duncan: Absolutely the notifications overhaul. They have been terrible in iOS for a long time. Now it looks like they finally have a scalable solution.

What new feature is going to have the biggest long-term impact?

Duncan: To me it’s the iCloud document syncing. It’s a feature that in the future you’ll not necessarily notice day-to-day because it just happens, but won’t be able to live without.

Siegel: It’s really impossible to fully gauge the developer impact just yet, but these user-facing features are exciting developments, and they’re backed by a huge number of new APIs. As the week goes on I expect to have a better sense of how we can employ the internal developents to make better software.

Frampton: iCloud is a big deal. It takes a bunch of totally separate devices and unifies them, which I think will permanently change the way we view and use them.

Anything that worries you?

Frampton: Apple announced a number of new apps and features that totally obsolete many third-party apps. This has caught a number of developers off guard, and there is no guarantee they won’t obsolete other apps and business models in the future. In fact, they certainly will.

Duncan: There were some concerns with new features, specifically the Reminders app, which seems to directly compete with developers, with no real reason, given it’s a feature that doesn’t need to be deeply integrated into the OS. Secondly, the use of the volume button as a camera button, given the history of that feature in Tap Tap Tap’s Camera+ app [it was introduced to Camera+ as a hidden feature, which prompted Apple to pull the app from the App Store for many months]

source http://gigaom.com/apple/what-developers-think-of-the-wwdc-2011-keynote/

On Monday, WWDC 2011 revealed a number of enhancements to OS X, iOS and iCloud. 

Here was news about updates to the computer operating system – Mac OS X Lion – about the iPad and iPhone operating system – iOS 5 – and about a new service/product called iCloud.

No new gadgets this time around.

 

Mac OS X Lion

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Image Credit: BENM.AT

Out of 250 new features, Apple highlighted only some of them during the keynote. A major takeaway: you have access to everything everywhere all the time.

Trackpads will now respond to multitouch gestures including scroll, pinch and zoom.

A new control on the upper right will let you take an app full screen with a swipe, another swipe at the upper left will exit full screen.

Mission Control unifies Expose and Spaces. You can swipe to see all open apps and spaces. Another swipe takes you back to the desktop. If you've loved using Spaces, Mission Control will make it easier for you.

The Mac App Store is built in. That means you can buy software on your laptop with no trips to the store. Apps can be arranged and stored in folders like on iOS. When you launch an app, it takes you right back to where you were when you left off. Apple calls this feature Resume.

Auto-save is automatic in documents now. Plus versions of a document are saved as you work, which you can browse through with an interface that looks like Time Machine.

Tapping a document name opens up a contextual menu, including Browse All Versions. You can quit an app without saving, because Lion saves it for you.

AirDrop will appear in the Finder. Use it to drag and drop documents between computers in your network.

Mail is brand new. It looks like the version of Mail on an iPad and is optimized for reading. Search in mail can recognize if you are searching for a person, a subject or a date. The threading of mail is called "Conversation View" and appears in a separate column.

Lion is only available in the Mac App Store for only $29. It will be available in July. It looks like users currently running Leopard must first upgrade to Snow Leopard ($29) to gain access to the Mac App Store, so it will be a $60 fee to upgrade if you're not already at Snow Leopard.

iOS 5 on iPhone and iPad

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Image Credit: BENM.AT

Apple is calling iOS 5 a major release. There are 200 new features. The big ten were mentioned in the keynote.

Notifications will now be collected in a Notifications Center. They will be reachable without being so much of an interruption. If the screen is locked, they show. Swiping over a notification puts you into the relevant app, even from the locked screen.

Newstand will make it easier to get all your magazine subscriptions. Subscriptions will now be downloaded in the background.

Twitter will have a single sign-on across all your iOS apps. It's integrated into apps like the Camera, too.

Safari will have a Reader feature and make it show just the story you're reading. You can request full page and won't have to tap from page to page. And you can email contents from what you're reading rather than a link. That one may not be a big hit with web sites wanting traffic. Reading List lets you save stories to read later. A big one for me is that there is now tab browsing for Safari in iOS 5!

Reminders lets you store lists, dates, locations, todo items. It syncs with iCal.

Camera is faster and has a shortcut from a lockscreen, even if you have a passcode set. You can pinch to zoom in the camera. The camera can lock in auto expose and auto focus. You can edit right in the camera app – crop, rotate, red eye, etc.

Mail will add rich-text formatting, controled indentation, draggable addresses, and support for flagging. You'll be able to search messages. There will be more support for S/MIME. There will be built in dictionary across all iOS apps, including Mail. You can split the keyboard to type with just your thumbs.

The new PC Free feature is a nice one. You can set up and activate the device without your PC. Software updates come straight to the device without being tethered to a computer. Updates shouldn't take so long either, since they will only update what's changed.

Game Center is more social. Games can be purchased and downloaded from Game Center.

iMessage is a new service between all iOS users. Messages can include text, photos, videos, contacts. You can see when the other person is typing. You can request delivery receipts and read receipts. iMessage pushes to all your iOS devices. Start with your iPod Touch and finish on your iPad. Messages don't interrupt what you're doing, they fade in and out without stopping things.

iOS 5 ships in the fall.

iCloud

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Image Credit: BENM.AT

Steve Jobs handed off the speaking duties for the OS updates, but introduced iCloud himself.

iCloud lets you move your digital hub into the cloud where everything stays in sync between all your devices. Do something with one device, it gets sent to the cloud and pushed back down to all your other devices. It's integrated with all apps – contacts, calendar, mail, App Store, iBooks, Documents, iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote), photos (using the Photo Stream app), iTunes. A change anywhere propagates everywhere. Including any new devices you buy as soon as you activate it. You're limited to 10 devices.

There's once a day backup to iCloud of all content.

iCloud is free. And it works for Macs and PCs.

The photo storage is only the last 1000 photos you've taken, so they have to be downloaded and stored somewhere outside iCloud if you have more than 1000.

There's also a space limit in iTunes music.

To get iTunes in the cloud, just upgrade your phone to iOS 5. iTunes in the cloud will also run on iOS 4.3. It will be built in to all iOS 5 devices shipping in the fall.

You don't have to buy the music from iTunes to use it on iTunes. iTunes Match can convert songs you've ripped from your CDs to the the Apple encoding (256 kbps AAC) and store them in the cloud. Jobs didn't mention what the implications to the music industry might be of iTunes Match "legalizing" music you pirated or downloaded from some questionable source. The service is $24.99 a year no matter how many songs you have. And a sync is fast when compared with other services.

My Two Cents

Mac products continue to get better and better, and the cost of upgrading to the latest and greatest is not burdensome. The laptop is becoming a bit more iPad-like in operation while the iOS devices become more and more capable.

Their cloud service seems to be a better deal than the others available right now, or at least offers some stiff competition. If you've already got online backup storage in the cloud, iCloud might not provide the storage capacity you need to let it go. In iCloud's favor, it is dead easy and syncs to all your devices automatically.

Virginia DeBolt, BlogHer Section Editor for Tech
virginia.debolt@blogher.com

 

 

Monday, June 6, 2011

What Are We Doing With Social Media?

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What Are We Doing With Social Media? | From the Bell Tower

It's now been several years since academic libraries began dabbling in social media. Are we are any closer to strategically capitalizing on it to improve our relationships with students?

Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Jun 2, 2011 

The application of social media in higher education is in the news because of the attention being garnered by John Maeda, university president at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). It seems that Maeda, a tech savvy design expert, sought to have an open, transparent presidency driven by frequent blogs posts and tweets. Maeda played out the strategy well, taking advantage of blogging, Twitter, and YouTube to constantly share his thoughts with students and faculty. It didn't work out. In this case social media flopped. Maeda now acknowledges that his strategy conflicted with the culture of RISD.

"I ate the Jell-O, I drank the Kool-Aid. But now I realize that what I thought could work in the digital era doesn't have the same impact locally as it does globally," he said in an interview. "People don't want more messages; they want more interactions. There's no perfect memo where you can press send and get connected, or Facebook group you can join to be committed."

Librarians sip the Kool-Aid
Early on the academic library community became interested in social media. At first it was MySpace and Facebook, and we rushed to establish a presence in hopes that our students would eagerly seek our virtual friendship even if they were lukewarm to getting to know us personally.

By 2006, our literature began to reflect the movement, with Brian Mathews sharing his experienceat attempting to connect with a segment of students at this institution. Since then there are multiple studies aiming to answer questions related to the impact of social media in academic libraries orwhether students even want to have social media contact with librarians. Academic librarians have also explored YouTube as a vehicle for reaching students virtually, and while most are of questionable value, a very few have gone viral.

Since those early efforts to connect with students in social media, real breakthrough developments have yet to be seen. Yet we still keep plugging along with social media.

What are we up to now?
In more recent years our social media behavior is changing. Rather than simply establishing a presence and hoping students will notice, we're developing strategies for making the best use of our time in social networks. I've taken note of some academic libraries that have social media teams that plan out approaches for different media, recognizing they have unique qualities and that one strategy for all of them may not work.

At my library, a group has worked this spring to establish a more concrete social media plan, and they just recently issued guidelines for coordinating our strategies and establishing a core of social media journalists within the library.

Also, this blogger shared the results of his poll to learn more about libraries using incentives to encourage community members to interact with the library. For example, one academic library has a special gift for any student who becomes Mayor of the library. Another held a contest for the best tweet about the library. At LJ's recent Day of Dialog preceeding BEA, a panel of experts discussed what librarians need to do in order to truly engage their communities using social media. Just throwing tweets out willy nilly or randomly posting to Facebook and then dropping away is unlikely to result in a robust community in either forum. The panelists provided suggestions for creating more engaging content, but the overarching message is that getting results with social media depends on well planned strategic deployment.

Facebook rules
A new report sheds some light on the state of social media in higher education. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) produced a report titled Best Practices in Social Media. Nearly 1000 colleges and universities were asked how they use social media in order to better understand its use in marketing and the extent to which the tools are being used.

Among the findings, 96 percent used Facebook, 75 percent use Twitter, and 40 to 60 percent use YouTube, blogs, and Flicker. In a bit of a surprise, the main audience for social media is neither current nor prospective students but alumni. By a wide margin Facebook is most heavily favored, and it provides the best results.

One question asked respondents to rank the major barriers to an effective social media strategy. Number one was insufficient staff for managing the day-to-day media strategies. That's a problem for academic libraries as well. We have great ideas and strategies, but lack the necessary staff to make a social media librarian a more common fixture in academic libraries.

Lessons worth learning
Despite some of the uncertainties about where we are headed with social media we should continue to explore how it might be best used to promote the library, provide a student-preferred communication channel, and contribute to growing a loyal user base. Along the way, we may make some mistakes. When it comes to social media the landscape is littered is bad choices and serious misuse. In his Inside Higher Ed essay titled Beyond Tweets and Blogs, Kevin Tynan reflects on the problems of social media as a higher education marketing tool. He cautions institutions to move carefully with blogs and video, and to avoid worrying about keeping up with the latest trendy social media resource.

With all trends indicating that social media is spreading across all age demographics and becoming a regular part of our daily routines, we can ill afford to pass up opportunities to leverage these tools to connect with our communities. Increasingly, the library plays an important role in supporting social network use as well. In a recent presentation, The Networked Librarian, Lee Rainey shared the latest data and trends in social networking and libraries, and told the audience that "librarians are well adapted for supporting this." According to Rainey, when librarians engage in social media, through our blogs, videos, and tweets, we serve as content creators and this is going to be increasingly important to our work if we want to engage with all the other content creators out there.

For those of us not already doing so, it's time to start approaching social networking and the use of social media more strategically to connect its use to specific outcomes. The days of dabbling and experimenting should lead us to a new phase, one in which social media is used with intentional design to improve our libraries. But let us remember the lessons learned the hard way by Maeda. Stay focused on the culture of the community, and remember that people want more than messages—they want engagement and interaction.

source :http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/890844-264/what_are_we_doing_with.html.csp

Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, will be the incoming vice president/president-elect of ACRL. For more from Steven visit his blogs, Kept-Up Academic LibrarianACRLog and Designing Better Libraries or visit his website.

 

 

 

Netbook Solar Daripada Samsung

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Samsung Malaysia dijangka akan melancarkan di Malaysia sekitar bulan Ogos atau September kelak.

Walaupun ianya didatangkan dengan panel solar, ianya masih juga didatangkan dengan plug seperti netbook-netbook biasa. Dan menurut pihak Samsung, jangka hayat bateri netbook terbaru daripada Samsung ini adalah agak lama.
 


Ianya juga membawakan papan kekunci yang menarik sekali, selain turut membawakan skrin yang anti-silau, membolehkan anda menggunakannya dengan senang dibawah sebarang cahaya. Dan ianya juga boleh dicaj menggunakan cahaya lampu biasa, dan tidak semestinya cahaya matahari. Info lanjut akan menyusul sebaik sahaja kami dapat mencubanya terlebih dahulu.

 


Kamera oleh saudara Syazwan
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http://amanz.my/2011/06/eksklusif-netbook-solar-daripada-samsung-diperlihatkan/  

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/solar-power-NC215S-netbook-Africa-Lee-Kun-hee,12735.html

http://www.cheapnetbookdeals.net/samsung-netbook/samsung-develop-a-solar-powered-netbook/

http://www.gadgetpark.com/samsung-netbook-solar-released.html

http://www.netbook-samsung.com/samsung-develop-a-solar-powered-netbook/ 




 

 

Friday, June 3, 2011

Enhancing academic reputation with new social media

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Program : “Enhancing academic reputation with new social media”
Tarikh : 06 Jun 2011 (Isnin)
Masa : 10.00 pagi - 11.00 pagi
Tempat : Auditorium 2, iLQAM
Penceramah : Prof Casey Chan, Adjunct Professor at YLL School of Medicine & Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore

Learning objectives:

At the end of this workshop you should be able to:
·    Set up an academic blog focused on your research interest and public outreach
·    Learn how to use Twitter and Facebook to increase your post- publication publicity
·    Create discussion groups on Facebook
·    Use WizFolio to share references with your colleagues and the public
·    Use WizFolio to upload your publications to the Internet.

Synopsis:

Social media has expanded beyond personal connectivity into mainstream branding and customer outreach for all the major consumer brands. Its impact on political change is self-evident. Partly due to unfamiliarity and partly due to the association of social media with disrepute academics have been slow to embrace this medium.

In this talk, the role of social media in academic reputation will be discussed. For academics, social media is a new media is a new way to rapidly disseminate their research work and enhance their online presence. The use of the new media has to be carefully managed to avoid pitfalls.

In this workshop, tips will be given on how to utilize conventional social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to integrate with the new generation of reference managers. In addition to discussions on CiteULike, Mendeley and Zotero, Prof Chan will demonstrate the use of Wizfolio to create an online presence by coupling with the new media. 

About the Speaker:

Casey Chan is an adjunct professor at the YLL School of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He is active in teaching and research in both faculties, and regularly mentors the younger academic staff and graduate students on their career development. WizFolio, the journal reference management software he has developed, is widely used by undergraduate and graduate students for their final year projects and graduate theses. Prof Chan has led the effort to integrate WizFolio with resources from Scholarly Portal, a consortium of 21 university libraries in Canada.