Menjaring Backlink Dengan MLM Backlink

Ada info baru dari sobat blogger di Buitenzblog. Ternyata, MLM sekarang gak cuma digunakan buat nyari uang saja baik bisnis online maupun bisnis offline. Di dunia blogger, sistem MLM ini juga digunakan untuk mendapatkan backlink yang banyak. Buat temen-temen blogger lain yang ingin mengikuti MLM Backlink ini, silahkan copy paste tulisan dibawah ini dengan mengikuti ketentuan yang telah dibuat.... yang pasti Gratis sob... dan kita lihat seberapa ampuh sistem MLM digunakan untuk backlink...

Siapa yang meragukan kedahsyatan faktor kali? Siapa yang menganggap remeh kehebatan penyebaran produk dengan pemasaran sistem Multi Level Marketing? Nah, saya ingin mencoba mengajak anda semua untuk memanfaatkan kedahsyatan faktor kali dan kecepatan penyebaran ini dalam bentuk backlink.

Caranya sangat mudah. Anda hanya perlu meletakkan link-link berikut ini di blog atau artikel anda:

1. Okezone
2. Facebook
3. Marketing
4. Bisnis Online
5. dimas0883 blogspot
6. Freeware-Asik
7. Buitenzblog
8. Ini-bisnis-koe
9. Another Story From Me
10.express

Tapi ingat, sebelum anda meletakkan link diatas, anda harus menghapus peserta nomor 1 dari daftar. Sehingga semua peserta naik 1 level. Yang tadi nomor 2 jadi nomor 1, nomor 3 jadi 2, dst. Kemudian masukkan link anda sendiri di bagian paling bawah (nomor 10).

Jika tiap peseta mampu mengajak 5 orang saja, maka jumlah backlink yang akan didapat adalah

Ketika posisi anda 10, jumlah backlink = 1
Posisi 9, jml backlink = 5
Posisi 8, jml backlink = 25
Posisi 7, jml backlink = 125
Posisi 6, jml backlink = 625
Posisi 5, jml backlink = 3,125
Posisi 4, jml backlink = 15,625
Posisi 3, jml backlink = 78,125
Posisi 2, jml backlink = 390,625
Posisi 1, jml backlink = 1,953,125

Dan semuanya menggunakan kata kunci yang anda inginkan. Dari sisi SEO anda sudah mendapatkan 1,953,125 backlink dan efek sampingnya jika pengunjung web para downline anda mengklik link itu, anda juga mendapatkan traffik tambahan.

Nah, silahkan copy paste artikel ini, dan hilangkan peserta nomor 1 lalu tambahkan link web anda di posisi 10. Ingat, anda harus mulai dari posisi 10 agar hasilnya maksimal. Karena jika anda tiba2 di posisi 1, maka link anda akan hilang begitu ada yang masuk ke posisi 10.

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New Microsoft Online Business Reality Show Via MSN

A new Microsoft online business reality show is scheduled to debut today, June 15th, via MSN. The first episode of “It’s Everybody’s Business with Jack & Suzy Welch,” will welcome viewers to an online business designed as the “la piece de resistance” of an interactive website dedicated to business customers. For this endeavor, the Redmond
company has partnered with advertising agency JWT, production company Reveille, as well as General Electric CEO Jack Welch, and his wife, business journalist Suzy Welch.

“We've all sat in those less-than-pleasant meetings where people don't agree,” said Gayle Troberman, the advertising general manager in charge of the “It’s Everybody’s Business” campaign. “Tough decisions and choices have to be made. This first episode shows how one company and one business guru, Jack Welch, approach decision-making, particularly in this economy.”

Troberman explained that the new online business reality show was designed to reach out to customers, and also to get them engaged and involved, through commercial advertisements that have evolved into a comprehensive series for the campaign. In addition to the episodes featuring the Welches, users will also be able to access a variety of resources including case studies, technology solutions, white papers, and even social media commentary, Microsoft informed. Troberman, who is also leading the efforts behind the “I'm a PC” campaign, indicated that in the end, the focus of both marketing efforts was to illustrate to customers what they could do if they picked Microsoft as their partner.

“The relationship we want to have with business customers involves authentic, strategic partnership and counsel,” Troberman added. “This show is designed to help IT and business people learn through the real experiences of other companies. It’s an amazing moment in marketing when we can use technology to bring this type of behind-the-scenes business experience to millions of people who might never have the chance to go toe to toe with the Welches on their own business challenges.” Read More .....

Introducing SMS for Windows Live

Free except for the costs of the text messages

There is now a new way of accessing information on Windows Live accounts via SMS. Microsoft has introduced SMS for Windows Live in the US after the service debuted in the UK. What SMS for Windows Live does is allow mobile phone users to leverage text messages in order to view and update the information associated with their Windows Live accounts. Just simple text messages, no Internet mobile browsing, no extra charges on users' data plans.

Dawn Hollingsworth,, from the Windows Live team, explained that via SMS for Windows Live users would be able to “update your personal message; check your Windows Live Calendar; invite people to join your network; get contact info for people in your Windows Live contact list.”

According to Hollingsworth, users will need to associate their mobile number with a specific Windows Live account. After signing in to the Windows Live account, the mobile phone number needs to be entered in the text box under Set up SMS. For the next step users will have to make corrections if any are necessary, and then wait for a text message containing a four-digit PIN code.

“Enter the PIN code and click Next. Your mobile phone number is registered with your Windows Live account. Now you need to start the service. To start using the new SMS for Windows Live services, under Personal Message, Calendar and Contacts, click Start. You’re all set to go,” Hollingsworth explained.

There are no additional costs for using SMS for Windows Live beyond standard SMS messaging costs, Microsoft informed. The Redmond company underlined that any charges would be exclusively with the mobile operators, and that SMS for Windows Live was otherwise free.

In addition to the steps enumerated above, users will also be required to “send a text message (SMS) with a “command” to a shortcode: If you’re in the US and your mobile operator is AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, or Nextel, your shortcode is MyLive or 695483. If you’re in the UK and your mobile operator is Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile, O2, or Virgin, your shortcode is 88804,” Hollingsworth said.

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Germany and Google Still at Odds over Street View

The company still needs to clarify some issues according to data protection officials

Last month Google's Street View once again came under scrutiny, this time in Germany. While at the time it looked like the two parties, the search giant and the German data protection officials, were on their way to an agreement, it seems like their dispute hasn't been resolved yet, because they haven't been able to reach a compromise on how long certain data should be stored by the Mountain View company for its Street View service.

Google Street View offers photos from every street corner in cities around the world, which has had some people worried about public privacy. This prompted German data protection officials to question the search giant's practices and asked it to change certain features and procedures. The most debated issue was for how long Google should be allowed to keep raw images it acquired from its mobile outposts. These images are processed and faces and license plates are blurred to protect citizens' privacy.

The Internet company had a video conference on Wednesday with the German officials from Hamburg discussing this latest issue, with the latter wanting to know why and for how long Google needed to store the raw photos.

Johannes Caspar, head of the data protection agency in the Hamburg region, the man who first threatened Google last month with “unspecified sanctions” if it did not comply with their demands, said that while the company had been cooperative in certain aspects the issue of the raw photos remained unclear.

The search giant stated that it did permanently delete the raw photos but only after it was done processing them and using them to enhance its blurring technology. "The request to introduce a fixed period during which the data is retained has implications for the industry as a whole and will therefore require broader discussion," the statement said.

Google Street View isn't yet available in Germany but the company has been collecting photos for the service. The data protection agency is still debating how and if the German law applies to Street View and will provide an answer as soon as next week. Read More .....

Zune.net Gets Updated

New features are now live

Microsoft has updated Zune.net adding new functionality to the website. As a direct consequence, Zune.net was down on the night of June 8, with Jessica Zahn, Zune Social program manager, having announced in advance that new features would be coming. The new additions introduced to the website will allow users to better keep in touch with their
favorite musician, both on the web and in real life. At the same time, Microsoft is boosting the social networking capabilities of Zune.net, and is making it easy for music fans to discover new content by recommending items.

“We'll have some new features on the web – including "follow an artist," where you can explicitly state that you like a particular artist and get news and updates from that artist. We'll do RSS feed aggregation on artist pages – which means that from the one artist page on zune.net, you can see your favorite artist's latest Twitter posts, blogs, and so on (and if your favorite artist doesn't have this data already, you will be able to add the links yourself). We're adding more content, including concert dates, to the web, and we've redesigned our home page to showcase more of our social data,” Zahn explained.


Microsoft indicated that the update would focus on making the website faster, with performance improvements. At the time of this article the update to Zune.net had already been delivered, and the website was up and running at full capacity. Users will be able to take advantage of the new features immediately.

At the end of May 2009, Microsoft confirmed that it was stepping up its game when it came to the digital media player device face-off with Apple, and that it was planning to go against iPod Touch in the second half of this year. The Redmond company revealed that it was planning to deliver Zune HD, a device sporting features such as OLED touch-screen interface, 16:9 widescreen display at a resolution of 480x272, support for 720p HD video files, and even an HD Radio receiver. Read More .....

Behold, the New iPhone 3G S Is Here

The new iPhone iteration has been rumored to get an official launch at WWDC for the past couple of months, and it seems that Apple has decided to put an end to all the speculation and finally unleash the revamped handheld onto a world of awaiting fanboys and fangirls, either confirming of debunking some of the many rumors in the process. And while the new iPhone 3G S is indeed a very interesting piece of equipment, it remains to be seen whether the upgrades with respect to the previous 3G model are so radical that they're really worth the high price point.

First and foremost, the most important fresh feature the iPhone 3G S will be its running the new iPhone 3.0 operating system, which, as we all know only too well, represents a major step forward from the point of view of usability and available features. But we've already talked earlier about this new OS, so we'll move forward to the actual spec improvements.

According to Apple, the new iPhone 3G S features an improved processor (although no specific info regarding this component has been provided), capable of doubling its overall functioning speed. Plus, it takes advantage of the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for high-quality 3D graphics, thus improving mobile gaming and other graphic intense applications.


New iPhone 3G S features built-in compass
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Another major upgrade is represented by the fresh 3-megapixel autofocus camera, which lets users adjust focus, exposure, color and contrast, and includes an automatic macro focus for extra close up shots. Additionally, the camera can be used for recording videos at 30fps and 640x480 pixel resolution, the OS also providing very useful in-phone editing features.

Furthermore, the iPhone 3G S also supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA for faster networking speeds and an improved battery life, offering up to five hours of talk time on 3G, up to nine hours of Internet browsing on Wi-Fi, and up to a whopping 30 hours of music playback time.

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Another function worth mentioning is the voice control feature in iPhone 3G S, which offers hands free operation for both iPhone and iPod functions by allowing users to simply speak the appropriate commands into the built-in microphone or headset microphone to dial by name or number. Apple’s handheld also sports a new built-in digital compass for instant navigation, plus a couple of fresh accessibility features including VoiceOver, a screen reader that speaks what appears on the iPhone 3G S display, enabling visually impaired users to make calls, read emails, browse web pages, play music and run applications and the new universal Zoom function that magnifies the entire screen. iPhone 3G S supports Mono Audio, which combines left and right audio channels so that they can be heard in both earbuds for those with hearing loss in one ear.

And now, for the pricing. The fresh iPhone 3G S will be available in the US on June 19 for a suggested retail price of $199 for the 16GB model and just $299 for the new 32GB model, but people who want it, will have to enter, as expected, a two-year agreement with US carrier AT&T. No word on worldwide availability for the time being, but that's most likely to follow in the coming months. Read More .....

The World's First Windows XP-Powered Phone

A Chinese manufacturer came to the Computex show in Taipei on Friday with a mobile phone that it claimed to be the first handset in the world to run under Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Basically, said device comes as a combination between a mobile phone and a pocket-sized computer and has been developed by In Technology, a company from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou.

The so-called xpPhone includes a custom-made chip from the Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro Devices, and is reported to have the capability to wake the Windows operating system from a standby mode when it receives a call or a text message.

The handset boasts a 4.8-inch LCD touchscreen that delivers an 800 x 480 pixel resolution, while also featuring a QWERTY keypad and a hard-disk with a capacity of 120GB. The 2.5 centimeters thick mobile phone weighs 400 grams and is powered by a battery that can boast up to seven hours when not in standby mode. However, it also allows for a larger battery to be included, one that could allow it to run for 12 hours.

According to the news, the Windows-powered device will also come with Wi-Fi connectivity, along with optional WiMax, and GPS. Unfortunately, it seems that the company hasn't stated anything specific about the processor that powers the handset, only calling it the “AMD Super Mobile,” and neither has it explained how the phone would allow users to make calls from Windows XP.

Even so, it seems that the company plans to get the device out on the market in China in a three months’ time, and make it available in other markets later during the ongoing year, according to Brad Wu, vice president of In Technology. In addition, the company is also reported to plan on developing the China-developed 3G mobile standard called TD-SCDMA (Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access).

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Internet Advertising Revenue Down in Q1 2009

Confirming what many already feared, Internet advertising was down in the first quarter of 2009. According to reports released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), an association of industry players that governs ad standardization on the web, and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), Internet advertising revenues in the US went down to $5.5 billion in Q1 2009.
The decline represented a 5 percent drop over the same period of 2008 and follows a surprising rise in the last quarter of 2008 where ad revenue was at an all time high. “Current economic conditions are clearly challenging," David Silverman, PwC Assurance partner, said. “Nonetheless, interactive media continues to consume a larger piece of the overall advertising pie.”

“Interactive advertising has taken its rightful place as a fixture on marketing plans across sectors, which means we aren’t immune to broader economic trends,” said Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of the IAB. “Nevertheless, consumers are spending more and more time with interactive media. For this, and other reasons, interactive media continues to gain share of marketing spend. We’re confident that growth will resume as the U.S. economic climate improves. Interactive advertising is the most accountable way to reach consumers - and in this economy, digital media will be a core component of any successful marketing campaign.”

The results are not surprising considering the current economic environment as advertising revenues went down in all major mediums with newspaper advertising revenue dropping an unprecedented 28.28 percent in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period last year. This amounts to $2.6 billion in lost income. These figures include both online and print advertising but the biggest drop was in real-life newspaper ads with a 29.7 percent decline to $5.9 billion. Online newspapers ad sales also declined by 13.4 percent to just $696.3 million in the same period. Read More .....

Windows Startup Manager

Enable, disable or remove items from Startup

System Startup affects the way your PC will boot. In order to gain time and boot faster you need to optimize, sort and manage startup items. On a regular basis, it is recommended to boot with a small number of applications that “eat” all resources and decrease the amount of memory left for the operating system’s components to load, and in this regard there are solutions to optimize the loading process.

You can create some sort of order for the applications to start (leave the ones that require more memory at the end of the list so that OS components would load first), apply delay time between loading applications, or just use the smallest, easiest startup manager you can find and remove or disable unwanted startup entries.

The latter solution is easy to apply but not so effective, because we often need certain applications to start with Windows (antivirus – which takes a big bite out of the system’s memory, firewall, or any other security-related programs) and others to launch with a delay. This kind of programs will make the difference, when it comes to system startup.

The WhatInStartup application was designed to be a small, easy-to-use startup manager that would help the user disable, enable or remove startup entries. From the get go I must mention that the review was made for the initial release (1.00) of the software, so it is still a work in progress.
WhatInStartup is free of charge and requires from Windows 2000 up to Windows 7 operating systems to work. It does not install or add any registry entries to Windows, and all you have to do is extract the files and run the application. It can also be copied to portable drives and run from there. All the modifications that are made will be stored in a configuration file within the root directory.

I can say that I was pleased to notice that WhatInStartup lists all the startup entries instantly, when you first run it (I found other startup managers that were a little slow with the indexing process). The main window will display a list with the available items. Column Settings will let you choose what columns you would like to appear in the main window. Select all of them and you will have a report about every item.

For each entry you can select to view the name, type (Machine or User Run), command line (the process runs with command line parameters, e.g. -hide, -autorun), disabled (status: yes / no), product name. The following five columns provide user information about file version, product description (as mentioned by manufacturer), company, location (and this is very important because you can see the actual registry key location) and product path.

There is much information about the entries, so WhatInStartup also provides an HTML and text report summary for all or each item separately. The first test that I did was using Winamp, which adds an entry to the startup list. WhatInStartup will allow you to create a system tray icon so that any modifications to startup can be indexed. After installing Winamp, with WhatInStartup running in system tray, the entry did not appear in the main list.

After a quick refresh (use the Refresh button) the entry was added to the list. I think that a small adjustment would help a lot – to let the user set up some sort of refresh time for new entries to be indexed. Instant refresh would be even better.

The developer talks about “a special Permanent Disabling feature” (see product page) that is implemented in Permanent Disable Mode, found in the Options tab menu. It refers to the applications that you disabled and which will try to create startup entries again.

The test that I did to prove that this feature works involved disabling Winamp from WhatInStartup. All changes that are made will take effect after system reboot. Although the Winamp Agent entry was still in the list of startup items found by msconfig command (Start>Run>msconfig), the Winamp tray icon did not appear after reboot.

The User Interface offers you the possibility to choose the startup scheme from Advanced Options. This is very useful when you have multiple OSes installed and you want to load other startup list than the one in C:\Windows.

The Good

The application provides a simple but efficient way to enable, disable or remove startup entries in order to optimize system boot time. All information about the items can be summarized in an HTML or text report. WhatInStartup does not require any installation so you can run it from portable drives too. The Permanent Disabling feature and its implementation are something I found only in WhatInStartup.

The Bad

Unlike the msconfig command (Start>Run>msconfig), WhatInStartup will not show startup services too. The User Interface needs a few adjustments to look more attractive, even if you run the application on XP.

The Truth

WhatInStartup is a simple, easy-to-use tool that can help you view information about startup entries, create a summary report, enable, disable, and keep applications disabled, or remove entries.

To gain more time in system boot you can use three general schemes: apply a delay after each component, create boot order, or remove unwanted applications that require a lot of memory from startup. WhatInStartup provides only the last scheme. It would be a plus to find one more.

Here are some snapshots of the application in action:



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Free Backup Solution Home use file backup alternative

One of the darnest things about computers is that you can't really trust them. As advanced as technology today is, hardware failures still happen, sometimes taking with them important files and data with low chances of recovery. There is little you can do to work against this malevolent happening (and most times, there is absolutely nothing to prevent the disaster) but at least some preventing actions can be taken in order to ensure the retrieval of the lost data. Backing up your most important files is a simple task that can be performed manually by simply copying the desired information to a safe location (external hard disks would be my first recommendation) or automatically, with the use of specialized software. GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition could be one way to make copies of important data easily and without hassle. The application has a strong background to rely on as it is actually Neobyte Solution's Titan Backup, a good application for the matter at hand. But the difference is that GFI makes available the data backup answer free for home use. Other than that, everything is pretty much the same. Once installed and launched, the application will take a second or two to load all of its components, but after this is done, a pretty looking interface with sections well defined awaits. The four divisions let you create a new backup and restore files, view all of your tasks, and synchronize data between two locations. You are given clues for all of them and the explanations are more than comprehensive. Regardless of the section you choose, if you proceed with an action sooner or later, you'll hit a wizard that guides you through a successful job. This way, even a total noob will work his/her way successfully without too much hassle. The backup jobs GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition has been designed for include files, folders, registry keys, emails, or user settings for different pieces of software, basically almost all one would need. As for flexibility, the app allows you to store the backup locally, in a LAN location, removable storage devices, send it to a remote location via FTP or burn it to a CD/DVD. Each operation in GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition is saved as a task that can be run multiple times (manually or automatically, according to a schedule you set). For backing up data, a five-step wizard will walk you through the entire process, from choosing the data and where you want it to be stored, to defining the frequency of the task. The starting screen lets you name the task, provide a brief description, enable email notification in case of errors, warnings or summaries, and pick the group you want to place it in. If creating different groups can be done straight from this window, providing the necessary details for email notifications is to be done from the Options screen of the application. Moving onward to the source of the backup, you will find the possibility to save both files and folders, but emails (Windows Mail, Opera, Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Eudora and Microsoft Outlook are the clients supported for which you can save accounts, settings, etc.), registry keys and the settings for various other applications you may use. For the last, there is a list of over 40 programs available covering different utilities (Total Commander, PuTTY, WinSCP, WinRAR, WinZip, etc.), web browsers, instant messengers, graphics and web design apps, text editors, audio and video players. Besides the fact that all of them are popular programs, so the chances for you to use them are greater, the beauty of this list consists in the fact that the software not present on the system is grayed out. To put it shortly, GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition detects the installed apps. As mentioned above, the destination location of the resulting backup can be any path on the system (removable devices such as USB sticks and memory cards included), a LAN folder, or you can upload them to a remote location via FTP. The credentials for FTP uploading can be inputted from this window directly, but management of multiple locations can be properly done from the Options panel of the software. To ensure that all's right, GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition lets you test the connection first and then save it for future uploads. Compression and Encryption step of the wizard deals with making the backup file as small as possible, as well as protect it against any unauthorized access. It uses ZIP compression, password protection and AES 256-bit encryption. As for the type of backup, GFI Backup supports both incremental (saves only the changed files) and differential (the backup does not include the files that are no longer present in the source) jobs. But it also features Stack Backup, which will create different versions of the file, with the possibility to automatically preserve only a user-defined number. Completely automatizing a backup task is also possible with GFI Backup, as the flexible scheduler permits planning a task with a certain frequency or at a specific time. If the backup time is missed, you can enable rescheduling the task. The final step before actually proceeding to creating the backup is the notification section. Here you can enable visual, audio and email sending notifications for errors (halts executions), warnings (does not stop execution) and summary (after task completion). There is also the possibility to enable the verification of the job or running different software before/after the task. My Tasks window shows all the jobs you create (backup and synchronization) and permits adjusting the settings as you see fit. From this window, you can start a new backup/synchronization/restore job. Moreover, encrypted archives can be decrypted, erase RW CDs/DVDs, duplicate tasks, access the logs, or import tasks. Restoration procedure may be a reverse backup operation, but the truth is that there are much less settings to deal with. It consists only in choosing whether you want to restore an entire backup or just individual files and folders from it. The advanced view in My Tasks screen permits browsing through all the folders of the selected task and choose the elements you want to yank out. Needless to say, the data can be placed either in the original location or any other place you want on the local hard disk. Synchronizing two folders is not much different from backing up data. There are six steps of the wizard now, but only three of them are a bit unfamiliar. The first two are for the locations involved in the process where the second is almost exactly the same as the destination screen for backup. The details for the first location permit choosing whether to retain the folder structure or not (it all depends on the number of sub-folders involved). Under Options, GFI Backup provides two comparison modes (by date only and by date and CRC), as well as the automatic actions to be taken for conflict resolution (prompt and wait for user input, prompt for 5 minutes or no prompt at all) and the default action for conflict window (copy the newest/oldest file or the one from first/second location). GFI Backup is a complete solution for home use, to create backups of all your important documents, pictures, emails, settings and more. The easy-to-manage interface combined with the wizard to guide you through and the configuration options make it suited for beginners and advanced users alike, as you are given the chance to choose individual files or folders, as well as file types, registry keys and application settings. The backups can be stored safely thanks to the proprietary format and, for better security, they can be encrypted using the AES 256-bit standard. Scheduling leads to automatic task running that can be checked with the use of the logs. The Good The software has a clear interface with straightforward wizards to guide you through the successful completion of the job. You can store the backups practically anywhere you want, as FTP upload is supported, CD/DVD burning and all sorts of removable devices. ZIP compression features the creation of a self-extracting archive for more comfortable restoration, without the need of the application itself. It supports incremental and differential backups. Tasks can be organized in groups for even easier management and everything can be manipulated from the system tray agent. The Bad The only downside to the application is that, sometimes, after creating a new backup task and setting it for manual run, it would take quite a long time for it to start. The Truth Released as freeware, and given the easy management of the tasks, as well as the possibility to full automation of the jobs, GFI Backup 2009 Home Edition has little competition to fight with. The application addresses both beginners and advanced users through its wizard-driven task creation and flexibility of options.

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Windows Live OneCare Bests Kaspersky, Symantec, McAfee, Nod32, BitDefender But not Avira

If you're going to go out, at least go out with a bang. This seems to be Microsoft's motto for Windows Live OneCare, a security solution that, in the latest comparative tests performed by AV-Comparatives, managed to best almost all rival products, including offerings from Eset, BitDefender, Kaspersky, AVG, Avast, Sophos, Symantec, McAfee, Norman, Kingsoft, G Data and F-Secure. OneCare, which has but a few more months to live, had a proactive detection rate of new malware of 60%. Only Avira AntiVir Premium 8.2.0.374 managed to score higher, with a detection rate of 69%.

The tests performed by AV-Comparatives were focused on the generic and heuristic techniques security products use in order to detect and stop malicious code for which no virus signatures exist. AV-Comparatives only updated the security solutions tested until February 9, 2009, and used malware samples from February 9 until February 16.

“AV-Comparatives published the May edition of its proactive/retrospective testing to measure 16 anti-virus vendors’ capability in detecting new threats. Microsoft anti-virus received one of only 3 Advanced+ ratings. Our detection rate was 60%, the second best among the participants, and we had the fewest false positive samples,” revealed a member of the Forefront team.

Eset's Nod32 delivered a proactive malware detection rate of 56%, BitDefender 12.0.11.4 managed just 50%, AVG Anti-Virus 8.0.234 - 45%, Avast professional Edition 4.8 – 42%. For Sophos Anti-Virus 7.6.4 the detection rate was 37%, 35% for Symantec Norton 16.2.0.7, 25% for McAfee VirusScan Plus 13.3.117 and 14% for F-Secure Anti-Virus 9.00.149.

Still, what recommends Windows Live OneCare's proactive protection over that of its rivals is the extremely low number of false positives. OneCare did not have more than a couple of false positives, which means that the security solution is highly unlikely to detect genuine files as malware. Read More .....

IE8 RTW – Download New Wave of Releases

Microsoft may have already started gathering feedback for Internet Explorer 9 and debuted planning for the next iteration of IE, but it is still in the process of making Internet Explorer 8 available worldwide. On May 29, 2009, the Redmond company released a new wave of IE8 RTW downloads, the third one since the initial release of the browser. A total of 20 new flavors of Internet Explorer 8 have been released to web and are now up for grabs for users worldwide.

The 20 new IE8 releases offered represent just as many new localized versions of the browser. IE8 now comes in Albanian, Assamese, Basque, Bengali (Bangladesh), Bengali (India), Gujarati, Indonesian, Kannada, Kazakh, Konkani, Kyrgyz, Malay (Brunei Darussalam), Malay (Malaysia), Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Uzbek (Latin). While IE8 RTW in all the languages enumerated above is indeed available for 32-bit Windows Vista, the same is not valid for users of Windows XP.

As far as x86 XP is concerned, some support is missing for some languages such as Assamese, while for other ones, including Punjabi, the release is “coming soon,” according to Vishwac Sena Kannan, international program manager, Internet Explorer. With the latest wave of downloads, Internet Explorer 8 now comes with support for a total of 63 languages. That's seven short compared to Firefox 3.5, which is now at Beta 4 stage and heading toward the first Release Candidate. With Firefox 3.5, formerly version 3.1, Mozilla offers no less than 70 localized versions of the open-source browser.

Microsoft released IE8 to web in March 2009 at the MIX09 conference. At that time, the software giant was offering just 25 localized versions of the browser. The number grew with the addition of 18 releases on April 28. At the end of April, Microsoft had also started the automatic distribution of Internet Explorer 8. The browser is offered through Windows Update to all users of IE6 and IE7, but also pre-final IE8, on Windows XP and Windows Vista with AU enabled. Users have to give the update the green light, as previous versions of IE will not upgrade to IE8 automatically. Read More .....