Sabtu, 30 Juni 2012

NuxTools Update v1.3.0 :
Aplikasi ini digunakan untuk membuat c̶o̶r̶e̶t̶ ̶t̶e̶x̶t̶, a̸r̸s̸i̸r̸ ̸t̸e̸x̸t̸, g̲a̲r̲i̲s̲ ̲b̲a̲w̲a̲h̲.
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/nuxtools1.3.0/nuxtools.jad

Live Profile Update v1.0.19 :
http://download.liveprofile.com/blackberry/v1.0.19/6.0.0/LiveProfile.jad

FontCollection 2.8 :
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/fontcollection2.8/FC.jad

PhotoBooth 1.2.10 :
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/photobooth/photobooth.jad

CaptureNux v3 :
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/captureNux_v3/capnux.jad

Ghost Camera :
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/ghostcamera/ghostcamera.jad

BatteryWatch 1.7.22 :
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/batterywatch/batterywatch.jad

LockApps :
http://icelzdownload.netii.net/bb/apps/lockapps/lockapps.jad

buat foto jd format gif
http://app.ibnux.net/AvatarNux/Avatar_Nux.jad

Bolt Browser
http://goo.gl/lh1fZ

Font Collection 2.8
http://goo.gl/NzPIi

Blacberry Protex
OTA
(Blackberry OS 5)
http://goo.gl/k5NYJ
(Blackberry OS 6)
http://goo.gl/5bqYx

Kisses Spy Detectec
http://goo.gl/ru5XK

Ram Optimis
http://goo.gl/53hou

Advance Ram
http://goo.gl/wRpXG

Camera Mute
http://bit.ly/7HpSxc

Capture Nux
http://bit.ly/jxVAjj

Senter
http://bit.ly/oodbeA

Senter Berry Tourch
http://bit.ly/13019i

Control Bbpanel
http://goo.gl/gnDiF

Slider
http://goo.gl/o7KPp

Action Pad
http://bit.ly/oHoOwX

Bbm 6.00.129
Os 6 : http://goo.gl/qiGHw
Os 5 : http://goo.gl/AAVXK

Refresh Signal
http://goo.gl/OXvv1

Insert Contact
http://goo.gl/n1GrX

Lcd Pecah
http://goo.gl/AG5L0

Kumpulan Theme
http://bit.ly/pEhFXt

Berry Slider 8520
http://bit.ly/q4nDCR

Sms warna warni lampu 2 lampu
http://goo.gl/etPTQ

Yahoo Koprol
http://bit.ly/q7seHS

Blaq Twiter terbaik
http://bit.ly/ahnf9E

Update YM, window terbaru
http://bit.ly/rcau6U ( semua os includ sini )

Batery Ex
http://bit.ly/omjpfe

Add Contact
http://bit.ly/pfPetV

Bahasa Indonesia
Os 6 : http://bit.ly/cHJ1gO
Os 5 ; http://bit.ly/phz8h2

Agar huruf tidak terbaca kotak2 global font
Os 5 : http://bit.ly/n5sQIt
Os 6 : http://bit.ly/olj8SJ

Unrar
http://bit.ly/azAta6

Ubber Social
Os 5 : http://t.co/Ku137Hh
Os 6 : http://t.co/5riC5h3
Os 7 : http://t.co/J6G2X6E

Facebook 2
Os 6 : http://t.co/kfnkEOt
Os 5 : http://t.co/Nc70ckA
Os7 : http://t.co/N35d9qL

Speed Notes
http://t.co/YZYrCjU

Seperti yang sudah tercantum diatas , tinggal pilih mana yang mau di download , yang biasa adalah autotext yang paling dicari di Free Download Blackberry Application .

EURO 2012 SPANYOL VS ITALIA

Aplikasi Android Terpopuler 2012

Aplikasi Android Terpopuler 2012- Ini merupakan game android paling populer untuk androider saat ini. Kesan yang ditimbulkan sangat spectakuler bagi pemain. Sebagai pengalih perhatian seseorang yang hobi memancing dengan game android yang satu ini sangat cocok.

Aplikasi ini sangat menarik , pemain dapat menggunakan kapal boot untuk memancing dalam aplikasi game android yang satu ini.

Berikut ini adalah screen shoot dari aplikasi android terpopuler 2012 Bass Fishing 3D Free :

Selamat menikmati aplikasi android terpopuler 2012.

Jika anda menginginkan aplikasi android terpopuler 2012 yang lain aplikasi android terbaru.

Koleksi Free Aplikasi Android Terbaru

Koleksi Free Aplikasi Android Terbaru - Berikut merupakan kumpulan download free game android, download free aplikasi android dan yang berhubungan dengan android. Bisa anda coba satu persatu.

Dengan adanya kumpulan link download free game android , download free aplikasi android kita dapat dengan mudah mendownloadnya. Kita bisa share dengan teman-teman. Beritahu teman kita dan bisa saling menikmati. Kita bisa main game sepuas kita dengan free aplikasi dan tak perlu berbayar.

Berikut ini adalah link Download Koleksi Free Aplikasi Android Terbaru:

http://ul.to/rup2pxv3/700+.android.apps.part1.rar
http://ul.to/44xc4myq/700+.android.apps.part2.rar
http://ul.to/kr9lp7tl/700+.android.apps.part3.rar
http://ul.to/a9wgooz5/700+.android.apps.part4.rar
http://ul.to/58uv1ii2/700+.android.apps.part5.rar
http://ul.to/phg0nnli/700+.android.apps.part6.rar
http://ul.to/jlc1rwou/700+.android.apps.part7.rar

Berikut ini adalah link Download Koleksi Free Aplikasi Android Terbaru ke 2:

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730728651/700+.android.apps.part1.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730742011/700+.android.apps.part2.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730742131/700+.android.apps.part3.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730742231/700+.android.apps.part4.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730463471/700+.android.apps.part5.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730464231/700+.android.apps.part6.rar

http://www.filesonic.com/file/1730464161/700+.android.apps.part7.rar

Berikut ini adalah link Download Koleksi Free Aplikasi Android Terbaru ke 3:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/JX48dN3/700+.android.apps.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/gn2y88a/700+.android.apps.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/dtMkkNq/700+.android.apps.part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/xnBfxm7/700+.android.apps.part4.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/FSNZTf3/700+.android.apps.part5.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/zkeeBWj/700+.android.apps.part6.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/byBpTdE/700+.android.apps.part7.rar

Demikianlah link yang komplit tentang koleksi free aplikasi android terbaru.

LINK APLIKASI ANDROID APK

Aplikasi Android APK_Sekarang yang paling keren adalah sistem operasi ANDROID. Kita sering kebingungan atau kesulitan untuk mencari aplikasi android selain di android market. Bagi pemula ini ada sebagian link yang dapat aku share disini. Antara lain tema, game, aplikasi, pernak-pernik tentang isi handphone android,

Berikut ini daftar link download aplikasi android

file apk :

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Androidsoft4u http://www.androidsoft4u.com/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Brothersoft http://www.brothersoft.com/mobile/android/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Free Android Ware http://www.freeandroidware.com/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Android Apk http://android-apk.info/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Blapkmarket http://blapkmarket.com/en/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Apktop http://www.apktop.com/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Android X http://www.androidxmarket.com/

*Link Download Aplikasi Android - Apk Free http://apkappfree.com/

Silahkan menikmati link aplikasi android dengan bebas, gratis dan free.

Maaf jika ada sebagian link aplikasi android apk ada yang mati. Tidak ada masalah untuk mencoba . Berani mencoba lebih baik.

Aplikasi bersihin file sampah windows di hardisk

Aplikasi buat bersihin file sampah windows yang bikin berat hardisk!

Wise Disk Cleaner Professional 5.62 Build 258 FULL

Supaya hardisk bekerja lebih maksimal.....

Aplikasi ini sangat-sangat ringan untuk dijalankan dikomputer kita.

Tested 100% mantap.

Jika anda suka monggo.

Tidak ada salahnya mencoba bersihin file sampah yang ada dikomputer kita.

Buat yang suka,jangan lupa tinggalkan jejak. . . .

Monggo walaupun kuno lumayan ....

download di sini

Belajar Android (Instalasi Android di Eclipse)

Mari Belajar Android (Instalasi Android di Eclipse)

Android Development 101

Mungkin anda pernah mendengar tentang Symbian, iPhone, Java ME, dan Blackberry. Tapi pernahkah anda mendengar tentang Android? Betul sekali, satu lagi peserta dalam ajang kompetisi perangkat mobile yang dikembangkan oleh Google Inc. Di Indonesia, teknologi mobile ini masih tergolong sangat baru.

Apaan sih Android itu? Menurut Wikipedia, Android adalah sebuah Sistem Operasi berbasis Linux yang dikhususkan untuk perangkat selular. Android pertama sekali dikembangkan oleh Android Inc. Perusahaan ini kemudian dibeli oleh Google pada tahun 2005. Oh iya, Android bersifat open source.

Pengembangan Aplikasi Android menggunakan Eclipse

Kali ini, saya ingin mengajak pembaca-pembaca yang budiman untuk ikut terjun dalam dunia pengembangan aplikasi Android. Dalam pengembangan aplikasi Android ini, kita akan menggunakan Eclipse 3.6 Helios sebagai Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Oke, mari kita mulai:

I. Download dan install Eclipse

Pengembangan aplikasi Android ini dilakukan menggunakan Eclipse sebagai IDE. Penulis menggunakan Eclipse versi 3.5 (Helio).

1. Download eclipse dari:

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-developers/heliossr1

2. Pilih tipe sistem operasi anda

3. Download-lah IDE Eclipse tersebut.

4. Setelah selesai, extract file .zip yang telah di-download tersebut ke direktori yang anda inginkan. Misalnya C:\Program Files\Eclipse

5. Ketika pertama sekali anda menghidupkan Eclipse, anda akan diminta untuk menentukan direktori workbench anda. Workbench adalah direktori kerja anda dalam mengembangkan aplikasi Android nantinya. Tentukanlah direktori tersebut. Misalnya: D:\PlayingWithAndroid

II. Download dan Install Android SDK di Eclipse

Setelah kita selesai dengan Eclipse, yang selanjutnya perlu dilakukan adalah menginstall Android SDK dan plugin Android Development Toolkit (ADT) untuk Eclipse. Kedua file ini bisa didapatkan dari:

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (untuk SDK) *Ralat: Jangan lupa untuk menginstall Android SDK yang kita dapatkan dari link di atas. Pilih “installer_r10-windows.exe” (yang direkomendasikan pada halaman web tersebut)

http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html (untuk ADT) Untuk sementara ini, kita tinggalkan dulu ADT karena akan kita install langsung dari dalam Eclipse nantinya. Kita akan beralih ke Eclipse. Pada Eclipse, lakukanlah langkah-langkah berikut:

1. Pada Eclipse, pilih menu “Help”. Lalu pilih “Install New Software”

2. Masukkan alamat berikut pada textbox “Work with”: https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/ lalu tekan “Add”

3. Pada dialog box “Add Repository”, masukkan nama software yang akan di-install dan klik OK

Aplikasi Android menggunakan Eclipse

4. Eclipse akan mencari komponen yang dibutuhkan pada alamat yang tadi kita ketik. Mohon bersabar.

5. Setelah proses selesai, centanglah checkbox “Developer Tools”, lalu klik Next

6. Eclipse akan menginformasikan software2 yang akan di-install pada anda. Klik “Next”, dan klik “Finish” pada halaman berikutnya

7. Mohon bersabar selagi Eclipse menginstall komponen2 yang dibutuhkan . Jika muncul “Security Warning”, klik saja “Yes”.

8. Mungkin akan muncul perintah untuk me-restart Eclipse. Lakukanlah.

9. Setelah itu, pilihlah menu “Window” dan pilih “Android SDK and AVD Manager”

10. Pada “Android SDK and AVD Manager”, pilih “Available Package” dan centanglah pilihan2 berikut pada “Android Repository”:

• Android SDK Platform Tools, revision 1

• Documentation for Android SDK, API 9, revision 1

• SDK Platform Android 2.3, API 9, revision 1 (sesuai pilihan anda). Note: anda tidak perlu mencentang semua SDK Platform Android yang ada

• Sample of SDK API 9, revision 1 (jika diperlukan)

Kemudian pada “Third party add-ons”, centanglah:

• Salah satu dari Google API yang sesuai dengan SDK Platform yang anda install (dalam kasus ini: Google API, Android API 9 , revision 1)

• Google USB Driver Package

• Google Market Licensing

11. Klik “Install Selected” dan selanjutnya pilih “Accept” jika anda sudah yakin dengan pilihan2 yang anda buat, dan klik “Install”

12. Eclipse akan menginstall semua komponen yang anda pilih tadi. Bersabarlah.

Oke, kita telah menyelesaikan tahap paling pertama dari pengembangan aplikasi Android.

Selanjutnya terserah anda.. xiiixiiiixiiiiii

jika ingin belajar blackberry disini

Jumat, 29 Juni 2012

Aplikasi Blackberry Protect

BlackBerry Protect adalah aplikasi Gratis yang dirancang untuk membantu anda mencari BlackBerry Smartphone anda yang hilang atau dicuri, juga terdapat fitur-fitur yang bisa mengamankan BlackBerry smartphones anda.

Alasan menggunakan blackberry protect

Jika BlackBerry anda hilang/dicuri anda hanya perlu login ke device anda dan kunci semua data di device anda ke Website Blackberry Protect Anda juga bisa hapuskan semua data di device dan memory card anda via Website Blackberry Protect jadi user baru tidak dapat akses data anda sama sekali.

Jika anda kehilangan BlackBerry anda dan ingin mencarinya, anda bisa membuat pesan di homescreen BlackBerry anda kepada yang menemukan untuk mengembalikan handheld anda. Anda juga bisa melacak/mencari lokasi BlackBerry anda via peta/map dan menemukannya.Anda membeli BlackBerry baru? Fitur ini seperti di desktop manager, anda bisa simpan semua settings dari BlackBerry .Device lama anda yang anda backup dan restore ke device baru.

Pengertian blackberry protect

Protect adalah aplikasi Gratis yang dirancang untuk membantu anda mencari BlackBerry Smartphone anda yang hilang atau dicuri, juga terdapat fitur-fitur yang bisa mengamankan BlackBerry smartphones anda.

file bisa di download di sini

Aplikasi ini dapat anda nikmati gratis dan selamat mencoba. Kalau agan mau cari aplikasi yang lain bisa di Download Aplikasi BlackBerry

Semoga artikel blackberry protect tersebut bermanfaat bagi anda

Tiga tombol rahasia Blackberry bukan aplikasi

Seri Curve mungkin adalah seri pada keluarga BlackBerry yang paling banyak digunakan saat ini. Bagi Anda yang baru saja mengenal ponsel pintar ini, ini bukan aplikasi terbaru ,tapi cara alternatif dan darurat atau kata lain cara simple :

1. Restart Tanpa Mengeluarkan Baterai

Setelah menginstal sebuah aplikasi atau ingin menjalankan layanan baru, biasanya ada beberapa penyesuaian. Nah, cara yang paling sering digunakan untuk menyelesaikannya adalah dengan me-restart Blackberry Anda, kemudian mengeluarkan baterainya.

Tujuan cara ini sebenarnya untuk me-refresh memory Blackberry dari awal. Namun kurang efektif dan terkesan ribet. Sebenarnya pun ada cara yang lebih mudah, yakni: tekan ALT + SHIFT KANAN + DELETE. Dengan cara ini Anda juga dapat menyegarkan memori dan me-reset Blackberry tanpa buang-buang waktu.

2. Bersihkan Memori pada Event Log

Event log pada Blackberry menunjukkan sistem apa saja yang sedang berjalan. Saat mengalami error, dengan melihat daftar event Log, pusat permasalahan dapat ditemukan. Makanya, cara ini juga dapat digunakan sebagai solusi saat Blackberry error.

Cara untuk mengakses event Log, pertama kali Anda harus berada pada home screen. Tekan ALT disusul mengetik 'LGLG', event log pun akan segera muncul.

Anda dapat membebaskan memori yang sedang penuh tersebut untuk mempercepat Blackberry Anda. Caranya dengan menekan HOME dan pilih 'Clear Log'.

3. Berpindah Aplikasi

Salah satu cara cepat dan efisien dalam berpindah aplikasi adalah dengan memanfaatkan ALT + ESC keyboard Blackberry . Fungsi fitur ini sejatinya sama seperti tombol ALT + TAB pada komputer.

Saat menjalankan sebuah aplikasi, tekan dan tahan tombol ALT dan segera disusul tombol ESCAPE (logo panah kiri sebelah kanan trackball atau trackpad). Dengan hanya menggoyangkan trackball atau trackpad ke kanan dan kiri, Anda juga dapat memilih aplikasi yang diinginkan. Sedangkan untuk masuk ke aplikasi tersebut cukup hanya dengan melepas keduanya.

Selamat mencoba dan menikmati cara simple buat Blackberry kesayangan anda.

DOWNLOAD APLIKASI BLACKBERRY GRATIS

Download Aplikasi Blackberry Gratis - Para onliner pasti deh tahu dong dengan HP blackberry yang sudah mendunia banget dengan segala kemudahan serta fitur-fitur yang di berikan membuat HP ini banyak banget peminatnya, bukan hanya kalangan muda-mudi yang pengen gaul akan tetapi para pebisnis juga, serta para lansia banyak juga kok :) dan tentu kita pengen tahu dong beberapa Aplikasi Blackberry ya sapa tahu temen-temen sekalian butuh dengan software-software tersebut baiklah ini Beberapa Aplikasi Blacberry Gratis buat anda sekalian dan juga kalo mau Game HP jajal aja sob sapa tahu cocok.

1. Google Mobile

wah ini cocok buat kalian yang selalu online dalam hal informasi terkini untuk selalu siap siaga xixixi dalam mencari berita terbaru melalui mesin pencari google dan tidak hanya itu di google mobile juga memberikan fitur seperti google talk(untuk chatting) dan juga google sync untuk sinkornisasi dengan kalender (wat yang sibuk) dan sobat sekalian bisa mendapatkan Aplikasi Blackberry tersebut melalui http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/mobile.html

2. BB Notepad
ini adalah notepad versi BB akan tetapi memiliki kelebihan yang sama seperti notepad di komputer dan tentu support dengan file teks ANSI, UNICODE, UNICODE-BE dan UTF-8 dan bila berminat langsung kunjungin http://coolove.pcriot.com/

3. Onda FXconverter
yang pada berkecimpung di dunia mata uang atau lebih kerennya tukar mata uang ada baiknya anda mencoba Onda FXconverter buat mencari tahu konvers2 mata uang dan anda bisa mendapatkannya melalui
http://m.fxconverter.com/

4. Minimoni
bagi sobat yang sering lost control dalam hal pengaturan penggunaan yang berdasarkan volume base ada perlunya juga memiliki ini software yang berfungsi melihat banyaknya bit penggunaan internet sobat biar gak meledak xixixixi bila berminat langsung aja ke http://www.blackberryfreaks.com

5. Opera Mini
seperti sebelumnya saya bahas mengenai browser opera mini buat sobat sekalian yang pada bingung mo cobain monggo langsung di jajal soalnya tuh software gratis dan easy banget wat di gunain :D

6. BlackBerry Messenger
ini cocok bagi kalian yang suka nge chat tentunya xixixi gak ada salahnya mencoba nih aplikasi keren kok nih aplikasi langsung aja cek di http://id.blackberry.com/services/blackberrymessenger/

7. Mobile Pocket Reader
kalo di komputer biasanya namanya sih adobe reader atau gak sih foxit reader dan banyak nama lainnya di komputer dan sobat sekalian bisa membaca ebook dengan basis format data pdf dan ini bisa di lakukan di hp sobat sekalian langsung aja sob cek it dot http://mobipocket-reader.en.softonic.com/blackberry

Sementara itu dolo ya sobat sekalian kalo yang mau nambahin silahkan tulis komentar di bawah ini, oh ya jika ada yang pengen nih ngelindungin komputernya dengan antivirus coba aja deh Smadav Terbaru dan ada versi terbarunya lhoo Smadav 8.5.

Demikianlah beberapa Download Aplikasi Blackberry Gratis

Luvvies & Boffins Night at the Museum

This week saw the second gathering of Google’s Luvvies and Boffins -- this time with added boffinry courtesy of London’s Science Museum.

The idea came from Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture, delivered in Edinburgh last summer, in which he said Britain needs to bring art and science back together if its creative industries are to have a successful future. Guests were handed lapel badges denoting “Luvvie”, “Boffin” or the Renaissance “Luvviboff”.

Besides great cocktails and conversation, the evening featured a stellar line-up of computing-themed activities. There were guided tours of the new Turing Exhibition, up-close demonstrations of the Babbage Machine in action, and hands-on soldering workshops to make Lumiphones.

As an added bonus, our evening coincided with Science Museum Lates, a monthly night at the museum for adults only. Geek activities abounded -- punk science comedy, a cockroach fancy dress tour, even an impressively silent disco.

Overall, it was a wonderful evening, as the Storify below attests. Thanks to the Science Museum for being such great hosts, and to everyone who came along.

Posted by Peter Barron, Director of External Relations, Google EMEA

Jumat, 22 Juni 2012

A tribute to Turing, the father of modern computing

“The past is a foreign country—they do things differently there.” It’s a saying that rings especially true in the world of technology. But while innovating requires us to focus on the future, there are times when it’s important to look back. Today—the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing’s birth—is one such moment.

Statue of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park

Turing’s life was one of astounding highs and devastating lows. While his wartime codebreaking saved thousands of lives, his own life was destroyed when he was convicted for homosexuality. But the tragedy of his story should not overshadow his legacy. Turing’s insight laid the foundations of the computer age. It’s no exaggeration to say he’s a founding father of every computer and Internet company today.

Turing’s breakthrough came in 1936 with the publication of his seminal paper “On Computable Numbers” (PDF). This introduced two key concepts, “algorithms” and “computing machines”—commonplace terms today, but truly revolutionary in the 1930’s:

Algorithms are, in simplest terms, step-by-step instructions for carrying out a mathematical calculation. This is where it all started for programming since, at its core, all software is a collection of algorithms.
A computing machine—today better known as a Turing machine—was the hypothetical device that Turing dreamed up to run his algorithms. In the 1930’s, a “computer” was what you called a person who did calculations—it was a profession, not an object. Turing’s paper provided the blueprint for building a machine that could do any computation that a person could, marking the first step towards the modern notion of a computer.

Considering the role computers now play in everyday life, it’s clear Turing’s inventions rank among the most important intellectual breakthroughs of the 20th century. In the evolution of computing, all paths trace back to Turing. That’s why Turing is a hero to so many Google engineers, and why we’re so proud to help commemorate and preserve his legacy.

In 2010, Google helped Bletchley Park raise funds to purchase Turing’s papers so they could be preserved for public display in their museum. More recently, we’ve been working closely with curators at London’s Science Museum to help put on a stunning new exhibition “Codebreaker - Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy.” This tells the story of Turing’s vast achievements in a profoundly moving and personal way, through an amazing collection of artifacts—including items loaned by GCHQ, the U.K. government intelligence agency, never before on public display. Topics addressed include Turing’s early years, his code-breaking at Bletchley Park, his designs for the Pilot Ace computer, his later morphogenesis work, as well as his sexuality and death. The exhibition opened on June 21 and is well worth a visit if you’re passing through London in the next year.

And finally, we couldn’t let such a momentous occasion pass without a doodle. We thought the most fitting way of paying tribute to Turing’s incredible life and work would be to simulate the theoretical “Turing machine” he proposed in a mathematical paper. Visit the homepage today— we invite you to try your hand at programming it. If you get it the first time, try again... it gets harder!

Turing was born into a world that was very different, culturally and technologically, from ours—but his contribution has never been more significant. I hope you’ll join me today in paying tribute to Alan Turing, the forefather of modern computing.

Posted by Andrew Eland, Engineering Director, Google U.K.

Hack4Kids winners pick up prizes in Parliament

After 30 hours of intense coding - and personal visits from Vice President Neelie Kroes and journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow - it was time for the 37 hackers of 11 nationalities who took part in Hack4Kids to find out who would win the 5000 euro first prize awards.

In the Child Safety Track, the jury awarded:

First Prize: to Team Bodoques (Spain/Italy) with their eyeTime Tool informing kids and parents about the duration of their online session.
Second Prize: to Team Soe (Germany/Sweden/Cambodja) with their SecondFriend chat app allowing kids to chat with counselors from helplines in an easy, intuitive and privacy-friendly manner.
Third Prize: to Team Milktooth (Italy), with their Milktooth filter activated by the presence of the parents’ phone (by bluetooth) and filters of content that are picture/ad specific so that kids and parents watching the same website see customised pages.

In the Child Creativity track, the jury awarded:

First Prize: to Team Water (Finland), with their Waterbear tool to make coding for kids easier, so that they not only use digital products and services - but also understand them and learn how make them!
Second Prize: to Gianluca Cancelmi (Italy), with his semantic WikiQuiz including social media aspects.
Third Prize: to Team LeGarage (France), with their Kwizzle space invader quiz.

MEPs Sabine Verheyen, Róża Maria Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Sean Kelly and Petru Luhan awarded the prizes at a special ceremony in the European Parliament.

The next step for all the sponsors (Google, Orange, Vodafone, Facebook) is to work with the coders to see if we can turn their ideas into real tools that can be used to make the web a better - and more creative - place for children and families.

Posted by Marco Pancini, Senior Policy Counsel

Big Tent braves the beach in Cannes

When the advertising world convened this week in the South of France for the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, we pitched up our Big Tent to debate innovations in social media and the marriage of technology and creativity.

Our first session featured Noelle Jouglet from Kony 2012 sharing how their documentary video garnered 100 million hits in 6 days and mobilised thousands of young people around the world to take part in advocacy work against the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Bradley Horowitz from the Google+ team shared his insights into how the social web is providing new ways for everyone from Barack Obama to Cadbury to interact with their supporters in meaningful ways. Both speakers shared important lessons about how to empower audiences for the marketers in the audience.

In the second of our Big Tents in Cannes, Arianna Huffington and Iain Tait from Google’s Creative Lab took part in perhaps a counterintuitive conversation for a technology company: how to best disconnect from technology in order to recharge your creative juices. After sharing how long each speaker slept the night before, Arianna and Iain’s conversation explored issues as diverse as breaking our obsession with being ‘always on’, the Tetris challenge of your inbox and making time for your soul.

After this busy week of Big Tents we’ll be recharging our batteries ahead of our next event in Sendai, Japan on the role of technology in preparing and responding to crises.

Posted by Jon Steinberg, External Relations

Kamis, 21 Juni 2012

Commemorating Alan Turing at London’s Science Museum

As Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor and popular science author, recently wrote:

“It would be an exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing explained the nature of logical and mathematical reasoning, invented the digital computer, solved the mind-body problem, and saved Western civilization. But it would not be much of an exaggeration”.

For proof, look no further than the stunning new exhibition “Codebreaker - Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy” which opens to the public today at London’s Science Museum. This tells the story of Turing’s vast achievements in a profoundly moving way, through an amazing collection of artifacts -- including items never before on display.

Photos from last night’s gala opening

This exhibition is especially close to our hearts at Google, since not only is Turing a founding father of computing, in a way he is also the father of our collaboration with the Science Museum.

A few years ago one of Google’s senior engineers heard there was an idea to stage an exhibition about Turing. He got in touch and volunteered to help; and from that small seed, Google’s association with the Science Museum has now blossomed into a fully-fledged partnership.

In this, the centenary of Turing’s birth, we’re proud to sponsor such a fitting tribute to one of computing’s true heroes. The exhibition will be open until the end of June 2013, and entry is free, so do visit if you can.

Posted by Lynette Webb, Senior Manager, External Relations

Rabu, 20 Juni 2012

Big Tent - from Ireland to Israel

Our second Big Tent of the week took place in Tel Aviv, where we delved into the impact of the Internet on democracy, civil society and education. Large public protests, sparked by online social networks and similar in some ways to the protests sweeping the Arab world, have swept over Israel.

By enabling each of us to express ourselves, and reach a national and global audience, participants agreed that the Internet allows new voices to influence the political process. Israel’s Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar invoked the philosopher John Stuart Mill to describe how the net is providing the means for a move from representative to direct democracy. This bottom-up revolution, he said, poses a challenge for politicians and the media who were previously the gatekeepers of information.

Our Big Tents aim to voice diverse views, and we certainly heard a wide range of opinions in Israel. Representatives from politics, traditional and new media posed powerful questions. Do extreme and violent voices dominate the online debate? Is traditional media more scared than leading in the face of the online challenge? Why did the Arab Spring not deliver a single new democracy?

Journalist Ilana Dayan put those points and more to our Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, who was making his first visit to Israel following a trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan. While he accepted it’s impossible to predict exactly the impact the internet will have on society, he described villages he had visited which - with the advent of smart mobile devices - have gone from having access to no information to all the world’s information. That, he said, must mean a better future.

The Big Tent rolls on, next stop is a beach on the south of France where we’ll be debating innovation and creativity at the Cannes Lions Festival. You can view all previous debates on our Big Tent YouTube channel.

Posted by Doron Avni, Head of Policy and Government Relations

Hacking for child safety online

Fri June 22, 16:00, correction made in final paragraph, names of MEPs added.

The EUhackathon is back in Brussels - and this time, it’s about online child safety.

A year ago, we hosted an inaugural EU Hack4Transparency, bringing together crack coders from all over the world with the goal increasing transparency on the Internet. Today and tomorrow, programmers are at the Google Brussels office for 30 hours of continuous coding. Entries this year come from 11 countries: France, the UK, Romania, Poland, Finland, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Sweden and even Cambodia.

The new hackathon is part of the European Commission’s Better Internet for Kids initiative. Five civil society organisations: eSkills, Family Online Safety Institute, European Schoolnet, eNACSO and Missing Children Europe, are lending their support. Corporate contributors include Facebook, Orange and Vodafone, all of whom have dispatched engineers are to assist.

The coder’s task is to develop the best tools, websites or applications that will enhance children’s safety and creativity online. Our goal is to raise awareness of child safety and online creativity - and generate innovative ideas and solutions. European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes is a keen supporter.

Children are central to this latest EUhackathon and are being given the opportunity to participate in the competition. Our youngest hacker is 13 years old! A total of 25 teenagers from the European schools in Brussels, aged between 12 and 15, will assist, participate and get first hand experience of computer coding.

These children and their teachers - ultimately, the people who will use the tools created during the hackathon - will get to vote for their favourite entries, and their opinions will be taken into account by the jury in their deliberations. On 16:15 on 21st June, MEPs Sabine Verheyen, Róża Maria Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, Sean Kelly and Petru Luhan will hand out EUR 5,000 prizes to the first prize-winning teams at an award ceremony in the European Parliament.

Posted by Marco Pancini, Senior Policy Manager, Google Brussels

Selasa, 19 Juni 2012

Big Tent brings transparency debate to Dublin

(Throughout this week, we’ll be presenting posts on our Big Tent and its travels around the world. The first dispatch comes from Ireland.)

It was a historic venue for a 21st century debate. We brought our Big Tent to the famed “Round Room” of Ireland’s Mansion House to coincide with the Organization of Security and Cooperation’s meeting on Internet Freedom. Here the First Dáil assembled on 21 January 1919 to proclaim the Irish Declaration of Independence. This week, here we assembled the Irish high tech community with diplomats and officials from 56 member countries to launch the update of our Transparency Report and to debate the danger of government control over the Net.

The danger is certainly rising. More than 40 countries now censor or filter the web, up from only four a decade ago, according to the Open Net Initiative. Our Transparency Report details the requests we receive from governments around the world to censor content or collect information on Internet users. This report has proven a powerful tool for freedom of expression. This biannual update shows how some Western governments, not just the usual suspects are censoring legitimate Internet search results.

As the report’s creator Dorothy Chou explained, Google’s report represents only a narrow snapshot. It is limited to a single company. Imagine, she asked the audience, if an entire country came clean. This would give a global look at freedom in their country. The more transparent a government is, the less likely it will be to censor or request information on users. At least, the authorities will think twice before cracking down on the Net.

From this starting point, the Big Tent explored the danger of international organizations, and specifically the International Telecommunications Union, to undermine the bottom-up, sometimes messy system of governing the Internet. Our own chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf outlined the issue in a video address that followed up from his recent New York Times op ed.

Estonia’s President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and State Department advisor Alec Ross continued to debate the issue. The Estonian president warned of “computer savvy despots” who would destroy Internet freedom, harkening back to another United Nations organization, UNESCO, and its attempt to strangle media freedom with a “new world information and communications order” in the 1980s.“ In Ross’s view, the free Internet faces an imminent attack from “monsters under the bed.”

The evening ended with an emotional and lyrical exploration of free expression from War Horse author Michael Morpurgo. He weaved together a tale about illiteracy, libraries and unicorns, ending with the vow to pursue his right to to say what he wants, and even “believe in unicorns.” The Irish band Hudson Taylor, who came to prominence on YouTube, closed the evening.

Big Tent now moves to Israel and to Cannes, to coincide with the world’s largest advertising meeting. Keep a watch out for upcoming reports of these events bringing together diverse viewpoints to debate the impact of the Internet on our world.

Posted by William Echikson, Head of Free Expression, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Senin, 18 Juni 2012

Energy efficiency in the cloud

At Google, we’re obsessed with building energy efficient datacentres that enable cloud computing. Besides helping you be more productive, cloud-based services like Google Apps can reduce energy use, lower carbon emissions and save you money in the process. Last year, we crunched the numbers and found that Gmail is up to 80 times more energy-efficient than running traditional in-house email.

We’ve sharpened our pencils again to see how Google Apps as a whole - documents, spreadsheets, email and other applications - stacks up against the standard model of locally hosted services. Our results show that a typical organisation can achieve energy savings of about 65-85% by migrating to Google Apps.

Lower energy use results in less carbon pollution and more energy saved for organisations. That’s what happened at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which recently switched its approximately 17,000 users to Google Apps for Government. We found that the GSA was able to reduce server energy consumption by nearly 90% and carbon emissions by 85%. That means the GSA will save an estimated $285,000 annually on energy costs alone, a 93% cost reduction.

How is the cloud so energy efficient? It’s all about reducing energy use for servers and server cooling. Here’s how it works:

A typical organisation has a lot more servers than it needs—for backup, failures and spikes in demand for computing. Cloud-based service providers like Google aggregate demand across thousands of people, substantially increasing how much servers are utilised. And our datacentres use equipment and software specially designed to minimise energy use. The cloud can do the same work much more efficiently than locally hosted servers.

In fact, according to a study by the Carbon Disclosure Project, by migrating to the cloud, companies with over $1 billion in revenues in the U.S. and Europe could achieve substantial reductions in energy costs and carbon emissions by 2020:

US companies could save $12.3 billion and up to 85.7 million metric tonnes of CO2
UK companies would save £1.2 billion and more than 9.2 million metric tonnes of CO2
French companies could save nearly €700 million and 1.2 million metric tonnes of CO2

We’ve built efficient datacentres around the world, even designing them in ways that make the best use of the natural environment, and we continue working to improve their performance. We think using the super-efficient cloud to deliver services like Google Apps can be part of the solution towards a more energy efficient future.

Posted by Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure

Where roads aren't - and why it matters

(Throughout this week we'll be publishing a series of posts on our Green Blog about our activities at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Our full schedule at the conference is available here, and follow our activities as they happen at #googleatrio20.)

On Friday, we unveiled at the Rio+20 Conference the initial fruits of a unique collaboration with a member of the European Parliament and the Society for Conservation Biologists: a global, interactive map of the world’s “Roadless Areas.”

The project came about when we were approached by MEP Kriton Arsenis, the European Parliament´s Rapporteur on forests. He explained that, while most people using Google Maps want to know which roads will get them from point A to point B, the same information is useful for conservationists who want to know where roads aren’t. In his words:

The concept of "roadless areas" is a well-established conservation measure coming from conservation biologists from all around the globe. The idea is that roads in most parts of the world lead to the unmanageable private access to the natural resources of an area, most often leading to ecosystem degradation and without the consent of the local and indigenous communities. Keeping an area roadless means that the specific territory is shielded against such exogenous pressures, thus sustaining its ecosystem services at the maximum possible level. An important tool which will drive environmental, development as well as global climate change policy forward will be the Google development of an interactive satellite map of the world's roadless areas.

We were intrigued by Kriton’s idea, so we decided to give it a try.

Start with where the Roads ARE

We started by taking all the road data (plus rail and navigable waterways) in Google maps today, and importing that into our Google Earth Engine platform for analysis. For example, here is what the road network in Australia looks like when zoomed out to country-scale:

Australia road network – coastal population centers such as Sydney, Perth and Adelaide show up as dense road networks, whereas the interior “Outback” is more sparse.

Then figure out where the roads AREN’T

Based upon advice from Kriton Arsenis and his project collaborators in the Society for Conservation Biology, we decided to define a “Roadless Area” (for the purposes of this prototype map) as any area of land more than ten kilometers from the nearest road. Using the global-scale spatial-analytic capabilities of Google Earth Engine, we then generated this raster map, such that every pixel in the map is color-coded based on distance from the nearest road. Every pixel colored green is at least ten km from the nearest road, and therefore considered part of a Roadless Area. For example:

Prototype “Roadless Areas” in Australia - all green areas are at least 10 km from the nearest road

Or consider the island of Madagascar, home to some of the most unique species on Earth.

Prototype “Roadless Areas” on the island of Madagascar, home of the endangered Indri lemur.

From these maps it becomes more apparent how the simple construction of new roads can fragment and disturb habitats, potentially driving threatened species closer to extinction.

Finally we decided to try running this “Roadless Area” algorithm at global-scale:

Prototype “Roadless Area” interactive map at global scale.

Large roadless areas are readily apparent such as the Amazon and Indonesian rainforests, Canadian boreal forest and Sahara desert.

Caveats and Next Steps

The road data used to produce these maps inevitably contains inaccuracies and
omissions. The good news is that Google already has a tool, Google Map Maker, that can be used by anyone to submit new or corrected map data, and in fact this tool is already being used in partnership with the United Nations to support global emergency response.

We look forward to continued development of this prototype, which can help to turn the abstract concept of “Roadless Areas” into something quite concrete and, we hope, useful to policymakers, scientists and communities around the world.

To explore these Roadless Area maps yourself, visit the Google Earth Engine Map Gallery.

Posted by Rebecca Moore, Manager, Google Earth Outreach and Google Earth Engine

Minggu, 17 Juni 2012

More transparency into government requests

About two years ago, we launched our interactive Transparency Report. We started by disclosing data about government requests. Since then, we’ve been steadily adding new features, like graphs showing traffic patterns and disruptions to Google services from different countries. And just a couple weeks ago, we launched a new section showing the requests we get from copyright holders to remove search results.

The traffic and copyright sections of the Transparency Report are refreshed in near-real-time, but government request data is updated in six-month increments because it’s a people-driven, manual process. Today we’re releasing data showing government requests to remove blog posts or videos or hand over user information made from July to December 2011.

Unfortunately, what we’ve seen over the past couple years has been troubling, and today is no different. When we started releasing this data in 2010, we also added annotations with some of the more interesting stories behind the numbers. We noticed that government agencies from different countries would sometimes ask us to remove political content that our users had posted on our services. We hoped this proved an aberration. But now we know it’s not.

This is the fifth data set that we’ve released. And just like every other time before, we’ve been asked to take down political speech. It’s alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect—Western democracies not typically associated with censorship.

For example, in the second half of last year, Spanish regulators asked us to remove 270 search results that linked to blogs and articles in newspapers referencing individuals and public figures, including mayors and public prosecutors. In Poland, we received a request from a public institution to remove links to a site that criticized it. We didn’t comply with either of these requests.

In addition to releasing new data today, we’re also adding a feature update which makes it easier to see in aggregate across countries how many removals we performed in response to court orders, as opposed to other types of requests from government agencies. For the six months of data we’re releasing today, we complied with an average of 65 percent of court orders, as opposed to 47 percent of more informal requests. We’ve rounded up some additional interesting facts in the annotations section of the Transparency Report.

We realize that the numbers we share can only provide a small window into what’s happening on the web at large. But we do hope that by being transparent about these government requests, we can continue to contribute to the public debate about how government behaviors are shaping our web.

We’re assembling a Big Tent in Dublin tonight precisely to address these alarming issues. Estonia’s President Toomas Ilves is among the participants. Years after earning its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, his country fought off a cyber attack. The Estonian government emerged determined not to shut down the Internet, but to keep it open and free.

Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kuy will also be in the Irish capital this evening to receive an Amnesty International award. As her experience and our Transparency Report show, freedom can never be taken for granted. We must remain vigilant in its defense.

Posted by Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst