Hikmat Surya Permana

Microsoft has been tiptoeing around Windows 7 since Windows Vista hit the market back in January 2007. Kevin Kutz, Director, Windows Client, came out back on February 13, 2007, just two weeks after Vista's general availability and stated that Microsoft was "not giving official guidance to the public yet about the next version of Windows, other than that we’re working on it. When we are ready, we will provide updates". At that time, Windows development was moving away from under the leadership of Jim Allchin, (Former) Co-President, Platforms & Services Division, and under Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group. Over 18 months later, Microsoft continues not to be ready to talk Windows 7. But transparent cracks are starting to be engineered in the official Sinofsky-branded translucency communication policy imposed for the successor of Windows Vista. The recently-launched Engineering Windows 7 initiative with the combined effort...

Google is definitely the most powerful search engine around the globe. And we believed that don't need to explain more about it. So let the post begin. Or you can go straight to : The Most Frequently Used Modifiers and Operators . Phrase searches Sometimes you'll only want results that include an exact phrase. In this case, simply put quotation marks around your search terms. Example : "the long and winding road" Phrase searches are particularly effective if you're searching for proper names ( "George Washington" ), lyrics( "the long and winding road" ), or other famous phrases ( "This was their finest hour" ). Negative terms If your search term has more than one meaning ( bass , for example, could refer to fishing or music) you can focus your search by putting a minus sign ("-") in front of words related to the meaning you want to avoid. For example, here's how you'd find pages about bass-heavy lakes, but ...

The SEO Stats This image in the left is The Digital Enquirer's SEO Stats. It's all about Search Engine information of the site. So let me describe it a little more. Rank : is Google Page Rank PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E). The name PageRank is a trademark of Google. The PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999 ). The patent is not assigned to Google but to Stanford University. Google staff describe Page Rank as "PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page...

By following a few simple guidelines, you can maintain your computer and keep it running smoothly. This article discusses how to use the tools available in Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Windows Vista to more efficiently maintain your computer and safeguard your privacy when you're online. Free up disk space By freeing disk space, you can improve the performance of your computer. The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up space on your hard disk. The utility identifies files that you can safely delete, and then enables you to choose whether you want to delete some or all of the identified files. Use Disk Cleanup to: • Remove temporary Internet files. • Remove downloaded program files (such as Microsoft ActiveX controls and Java applets). • Empty the Recycle Bin. • Remove Windows temporary files. • Remove optional Windows components that you don't use. • Remove installed programs that you no longer use. Tip: Typically, temporary Internet files take the most amount of space bec...

Please note that the article is involving some easy technical issue. Increase download speeds by opening TCP port 6881, the "dedicated lane" for torrent file downloads. If you are a Bit Torrent downloader, you know what slow download speeds are like...frustrating and annoying, to say the least. Instead of getting your music or movie within a couple of hours, your software predicts it will take 2 to 4 days. Now, while many of the speed factors involved are out of your control, there is at least one thing you can do at your receiving end to improve this speed. It is called "Port Forwarding", or "opening your specific TCP ports". This is how it works. 1) That blue or green network cable coming out of your computer/modem/router is actually a busy highway comprised of 65,536 tiny electronic lanes (yes, over sixty-five thousand little lanes for your electrons). Each lane is called a "port", and each port is designed to allow only specific types of info...

Please note that the article is involving some easy technical issue. Some users of the BitTorrent (Torrent) client report experiencing slow downloads when sharing P2P files. This is most likely to occur on computers behind a home router or software firewall. Being behind firewalls, the BitTorrent client may block incoming Bit Torrent network connections. Given the load balancing and "swarming" nature of the BitTorrent network, clients unable to take incoming requests for uploads will naturally be allowed less bandwidth for downloads. To solve this problem, consider the following: When a user starts a BitTorrent client, the client sets up a network resource called a "port" to allow other Bit Torrent clients to connect ot it. Each port possesses a unique number called the "TCP port number." A BitTorrent client normally associates the TCP port number 6881. However, if this port is busy for some reason, the client will instead try successively higher ports (68...

uTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/ Known as both "u-torrent" and "micro torrent", this is the most popular torrent tool today. uTorrent has all the functions a torrent downloader will ever need, and it only requires 1 MB of hard drive space and memory. uTorrent has all the downloading and seeding performance of its competitors, but with minimal impact to the rest of your computer's speed. BitComet http://www.bitcomet.com/ (Good, but losing popularity to uTorrent) ABC http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net/ (Another very popular Torrent client) BitLord http://www.dailysofts.com/program/907/29391/Bitlord.html (A popular tool that has a built-in torrent search engine...you may never need to use a torrent search web site ever again with this product) TurboBT http://www.turbobt.com/ (Nice-looking GUI appearance with this package) Azureus http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ (A Java language client; was considered "king" of the torrent programs until uTorrent s...

Bellow there are images that I'm working on a few weeks ago, when I had two weeks off in vacation. Click to view the original image. It's an 16:9 image to use as a replacement to my old desktop wallpaper. [JPG, 201kb, 1920x1080 pixels] Or you can access this image in Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/28307796@N05/2653700336/ or in DeviantArt : http://xhspz.deviantart.com/ And below, an image derived from the image up there : Click to view the original image. It's an 4:3 image wallpaper for 4:3 monitor screen. [JPG, 156kb, 1024x768 pixels] Or you can access this image in Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/28307796@N05/2652878277/ Click to view the original image. It's an image to use as the image header in my old site. [ But not anymore since I change the theme :) ] [PNG, 152kb, 806x189 pixels] Or you can access this image in Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/28307796@N05/2653702114/ A bit of background : I'm using a Photoshop CS in Athlon 900 Thunderbir...

Updated : 2008/08/16 Related Post : • How To Download Torrent • What is Bittorent (Torrent) • The Best Torrent Client/Softwares • How To Increase The Speed of Torrent Download Part 1 • How To Increase The Speed of Torrent Download Part 2 The criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: breadth and depth of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, and readers' comments. Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Unless you live in Canada where citizens are shielded from P2P copyright lawsuits, then downloading P2P files may put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any other country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materi...

Let's practice by example then. 1. Firstable download and install uTorrent (µTorrent) from http://www.utorrent.com/download.php . Or you can go the bottom of this post to download right away the uTorrent installer. (Version 1.7.7). Currently the version 1.8 is in beta-testing stage. Why uTorrent? It's the best torrent client available. Yes uTorrent has been recognized as the best torrent client by the most people around the world. 2. After uTorrent installed, then go to http://thepiratebay.org . Why ThePirateBay? Because it's the biggest torrent tracker available. (The Pirate Bay, by readership size, is the most popular torrent search site today. Pirate Bay has an immense database of 600,000+ torrents, the largest database at this time.) (May 31, 2006: The Pirate Bay has been shut down by Swedish authorities. Details are available on the Pirate Bay home page). (June 2006: The Pirate Bay has restarted operations, now that the police have duplicated the PB hard drives for for...

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of data. The initial distributor of the complete file or collection acts as the first seed . Each peer that downloads the data also uploads it to other peers. Relative to standard internet hosting, this provides a significant reduction in the original distributor's hardware and bandwidth resource costs. It also provides redundancy against system problems and reduces dependence on the original distributor. Programmer Bram Cohen designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation on 2 July 2001. It is now maintained by Cohen's company BitTorrent, Inc. Usage of the protocol accounts for significant Internet traffic, though the precise amount has proven difficult to measure. There are numerous BitTorrent clients available for a variety of computing platforms . Operation A BitTorrent client is any program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. Each client is capable of prepari...