Koneksi atau akses internet masih merupakan barang langka bin mewah untuk sebagian besar masyarakat Indonesia. bisa dibilang sebagian besar masyarakat indonesia adalah fakir bandwidth. Hal ini disebabkan  harga bandwitdh internet di Indonesia yang termasuk mahal jika dibandingkan dengan harga internet bandwidth di negara lain, diperparah dengan ketersediaan koneksi internet yang belum merata ke seluruh pelosok.

Situasi seperti ini tentu menyulitkan seorang fakir bandwidth seperti saya untuk terus menjaga semangat ngeblog. Karena itulah diperlukan alat bantu agar bisa tetep belajar ngeblog, menulis posting dan edit blog offline walopun tidak sedang terkoneksi dengan internet (offline). Berikut ini beberapa Offline blogging editing tools yang pernah saya coba untuk ngeblog secara offline.
Drivel Journal Editor (Linux)

Thingamablog (Linux)

Microsoft Windows Live Writer (Winshit)

Qumana Blog Editor (Winshit/Mac OS X)

Post2Blog (Winshit)

BlogDesk (Winshit)

ScribeFire (Firefox Extension/semua OS)

w.bloggar (Winshit)

BlogJet (Winshit)

Ecto (Winshit/Mac OS X)

WB Editor (Winshit)

MarsEdit (Mac OS X)

Itulah beberapa off-line Blog Editing Tools yang saya bisa sebutkan, diluar daftar diatas masih banyak blog editor lainnya yg belom saya coba. silahkan donlot dan coba sendiri, sebagai catatan, posting ini saya tulis menggunakan Drivel Journal Editor, yang menurut saya masih merupakan yang terbaik di lingkungan desktop Linux. Untuk desktop winshit, saya merekomendasikan WLW dan Blogdesk sebagai alternatif terbaik. Semua blog editing tools diatas, bisa dipakai untuk edit blog offline pada hampir semua platform blog, semisal wordpress, blogspot, typepad, moveable type dan lain-lain.

Semoga bermanfaat

Source : http://www.arielz.net/blog/ngeblog-offline-dengan-blog-editing-tools

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Ada teman yang bertanya, apa beda Profesor Riset dengan Profesor (akademik) di perguruan tinggi? Ada perbedaan, tetapi ada juga persamaannya. Sejenak kembali ke sejarah munculnya profesor riset. Keberadaan profesor riset diawali dari gagasan Pak Habibie saat menjadi Menristek tahun 1990-an untuk menghargai profesi peneliti. Gagasan itu baru terwujud dengan keluarnya SK Menpan 2004 tentang Jabatan Fungsional Peneliti serta SK bersama BKN dan Kepala LIPI yang mengatur pelaksanaannya. Profesor Riset adalah gelar yang diberikan kepada Peneliti Utama IVe berpendidikan S3 yang telah menyampaikan orasi ilmiah dalam suatu upacara pengukuhan.

Jadi perbedaan profesor riset dengan profesor akademik di perguruan tinggi adalah perbedaan jalur profesi. Profesor akademik adalah gelar yang diberikan kepada pemegang jabatan fungsional dosen yang tertinggi (yaitu Guru Besar), sedangkan profesor riset diberikan kepada pemegang jabatan fungsional peneliti tertinggi (yaitu Peneliti Utama IVe). Tentu perbedaan profesi menyebabkan unsur yang dinilai ada perbedaan, tetapi ada beberapa unsur yang sama.

Pada keduanya, kemampuan meneliti dan mempublikasikan karya tulis terkait penelitiannya, membina kader ilmiah, serta pengabdian masyarakat merupakan unsur-unsur yang dinilai. Penilaian seperti itu lazim disebut angka kredit kumulatif. Berdasarkan Keppres 87/1999 tentang Rumpun Jabatan Fungsional, saat ini ada kesetaraan jabatan dan pangkat untuk semua jabatan fungsional keahlian, termasuk jabatan fungsional dosen dan peneliti.

Berikut ini kesetaraan jabatan fungsional tersebut:

Angka Kredit Pangkat Jabatan Dosen Jabatan Peneliti

1050     IVe      Guru Besar                      Peneliti Utama

850       IVd      Guru Besar                      Peneliti Utama

700       IVc       Lektor                            Kepala Peneliti Madya

550       IVb       Lektor                            Kepala Peneliti Madya

400       IVa       Lektor                            Kapala Peneliti Madya

300        IIId      Lektor                            Peneliti Muda

200        IIIc      Lektor                            Peneliti Muda

150         IIIb     Asisten                           Ahli Peneliti Pertama

100          IIIa    Asisten                           Ahli Peneliti Pertama

 

“Profesor” itu gelar atau jabatan? Merujuk pada UU Sisdiknas "Sebutan guru besar atau profesor hanya dipergunakan selama yang bersangkutan masih aktif bekerja sebagai pendidik di perguruan tinggi", karena pada penjelasan sudah ditegaskan jabatan Guru Besar langsung identik dengan profesor. Guru besar atau profesor adalah jabatan fungsional bagi dosen yang masih mengajar di lingkungan perguruan tinggi". Di aturan jabatan fungsional dosen tidak ada terminologi "profesor", yang ada hanya "guru besar". Tetapi, merujuk pada aturan jabatan fungsonal peneliti, “Profesor Riset” adalah gelar kehormatan, artinya  tetap melekat, tidak ada batas waktunya, seperti halnya gelar Doktor. Rupanya disinilah akar masalah kontroversi gelar atau jabatan "Profesor". Kita semua tahu, jabatan fungsional Guru Besar atau Peneliti Utama bisa saja berhenti karena tidak terpenuhinya angka kredit pemeliharaan atau karena pensiun/berhenti. SK pemberhentian yang ada adalah SK pemberhentian jabatan fungsionalnya, bukan surat pengukuhan profesornya, karena penetapannya berbeda. Keluarnya SK Peneliti Utama atau Guru Besar tidak berarti langsung dikukuhkan, perlu waktu untuk menyiapkan orasi dan upacara pengukuhannya.

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Installing Windows 7 From Pen Drive

Installing Windows With a USB

Ever thought of installing Windows 7 with a USB drive? This makes your work more simpler and easier. Use a pen drive to install Windows to your computers and keep your Windows disks protected.

Installing Windows 7 from a pen drive can keep your disks secured and apparently saves installation time.Some Tablet PC don't have optical drive so you might think that how to install the new Windows 7 on it? The answer is your pen drive.

The step by step process will help you to install the rocking new Windows operating system in no time.

Note: The Guide only works for Windows 7 and Windows Vista Installation's.

Use a minimum 4GB USB drive to make it a bootable disk.

1. Formatting Your USB drive-

Plug in your USB drive and backup all your existing data to some other media's or drive. You need to format your USB key before you can make it bootable device.

Open command prompt in Windows with Administrative right. Now type "diskpart" in your command prompt(if it gives an error, go to c:\Windows\system32 and then type it).

The command will open the disk Partition command line tool.

Type "list disk" to get the list of all active disks, each of them are associated with a number. Make a note which one is your USB drive(here i have a 8GB USB disk).

Now type the Following codes stepwise:

"Select Disk #" (where # is the number of your USB drive).

"Clean" to remove any existing files on your USB key.

"Create Partition Primary" it creates a partition with default parameters).

"Select Partition 1" focus on the newly created partition.

"Active" (It sets the in-focus partition to active, informing the disk firmware that this is a valid system partition).

"Format FS=NTFS" (It formats the partition to NTFS format).

"Assign " Assigns a drive letter to USB Disk, in my case I was assigned "L".

"Exit" closes the partition tool.

2. Now turning the USB key into Bootable-

Now insert the windows 7 DVD and copy all the files to your desktop or any other location. Incase you have an ISO extract it to a folder. I have copied it to a desktop folder( path of the folder C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\Desktop\Windows 7\).

Open the command prompt and type the following code:

Navigate to C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\Desktop\Windows 7 or to the location where you have placed Windows 7 Setup files.

"CD Boot" (This gets you into the "boot" directory).

"Bootsect.exe /nt60 L:" (where L is the drive letter assigned to the USB drive, replace L with your drive letter).

This command infuses boot manager compatible code into your pen drive.

Now close the command prompt.

3. Copying Windows 7 Files into your USB drive-

Copy all the files of Windows 7 from the extracted ISO file or the folder you copied the files of Windows 7 into your pen drive.

Your USB Key is ready to go! Restart the PC and select the boot device priority form the BIOS (genrally opened by pressing F2 during the startup) to USB drive.

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Linux Mint Gloria 7- 1o Reasons To Switch To Mint

10 Reasons to Switch to Linux From Windows

Bored with old and fuzzy look of windows? Want to try something new and cool. Linux Mint is just the thing you are looking for, with elegant looks, easy to use and an amazing Graphic User Interface(GUI). Read The Top 10 reasons to switch to Linux from windows.

Linux Mint is pretty much same as windows, although it has many extra pre-installed features. The Linux Mint has no hardware issues, it runs smoothly on low system requirements.

The
top 10 Reasons why you should switch to Linux Mint:

1.Look and Feel: Linux Mint has awesome looks, the GUI is very good as compared to older Linux versions. The Mint has a fully customizable desktop like windows changing wallpapers, desktop shortcuts etc. The Linux Mint has Mint Menu which is fully customizable, with different layout views. It is a much improved version of Linux with easy task performing. As compared to windows it is way better.

2.Pre-Installed Application's: It is packed with many Applications for common use, you don't have to spend time installing Acrobat reader, K-lite Codec packs, wifi cards, drivers, Firefox, Software Updater and much more. Once you install you have all the basic applications installed. This saves a good time.

3. Switching Over From Windows is easy: Switching from windows is easy job. Backup all your files in a drive and make a partition for Mint(minimum 20GB). Burn the Linux Mint Disc and boot from the disk and start the installation. The installation is similar to Windows but for partition table you have to choose between different formats. The best recommended is ext3 format. Don't worry about your other partitions, they will be in access from Linux mint.

4. Easy Management: Linux Mint has tools for easy management of your computer. There are tools to control the working, speed and storage of your computer just like windows. There are mini tools like MintMake, MintUpdate, MintMenu, MintAssistant, MintConfig etc. These tools make Mint fully custom, just the way you like.

5. Forum Support: Though it is new, its forums has all the information you will ever need. The Forums has quality answers to support your issue. The support is good and fast. If you have some issues you can report them and soon they will give you a fix.

6. They Implement: Have an idea? Just write to the Linux team, if its good they will implement it in few weeks and will add up in the next releases. That's the power of open-source. They respect everyone's view and work on it to make it better.

7. Run Windows Application's: For running windows application's on Linux there are no. of ways. Its up to you which method you choose. You can have a Dual Boot, use Visualization tools or use emulators like Wine-HQ.

8. System
Requirements: System requirements are low, it does not require high system configurations like Windows and Mac. So if you don't have high end graphic cards or GB's of RAM you can still run Mint smoothly.

9. Different Architecture Options: The version of Linux mint 7 codename "Gloria" is available in both 32bit as well as 64bit versions. So if you have a 32bit processor, you can still install Mint.

10. Open-Source: The best thing in Linux mint is, it is free for use. You don't need to pay like windows or Mac OS X. You get all support and software's free from the website. So why not, give it a try.

Download Linux Mint 32 bit
Version: Download x86 iso

Download Linux Mint 64 bit
Version: Download x64 iso

Have my word, once you get your hands on it, you wont switch back to windows. It will be an addiction.

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Microsoft Surface- The New Face Of Computing

Microsoft Surface Multi-touch Screen

Crazy about multi-touch screen computers? Windows has come up with the all new Microsoft surface and is now available for Business and Commercial use. The multitouch screen surface responds naturally to hand gestures and objects.

The surface handles all the digital content in a very intuitive manner, with its large horizontal user interface. The surface creates an interactive way of sharing, comparing, transferring data etc. for multiple users. It changes the whole new concept of interacting with the digital content, Leave the mouse and keyword away use your hand for every single work. Sharing is fun. The all new surface also identify objects like glass of water, when it is kept on the surface it gives cool tags around it.

Transferring of data is easy you don't have to connect your device with bluetooth, USB cable or anything, just put your phone or camera on the Microsoft surface and you're all set for sharing. The Microsoft surface is very intelligent and recognizes your natural hand gestures.

The Surface comes at a price of $5,000 to $10,000 now. Soon it will be cheaper and will take a place in your home.

The video shows how the touch screen works and what actually Microsoft Surface look like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0

 

Do Comment on Microsoft Surface the new multitouch sharing panel.

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Sociofluid Plugin Disallow Google Crawling

Sociofluid Plugin Wordpress SEO Error Fix

Sociofluid is a cool plugin of wordpress which enables you the feature of social bookmarking.The plugin gives some serious errors, which effect your search results. When Google index pages of your website it also index the sociofluid plugin data in your post. Fix the error in simple ways.

An example of the search result is shown here

Website.com

The website is giving errors which are shown here, the link here comes in every post you make. lens. http://website.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/ …

website.com/ – Cached – Similar

About The SocioFluid:

The social bookmarking plugin uses jquery for the mac effect in the posts. The plugin grows as you hover your mouse over the buttons.

The plugin gives a share feature for major bookmarking sites like facebook twitter, stumble upon, del.ico.us, yahoo buzz, myspace, google, technocrati and many more. It includes a list of twenty plugins.

SocioFluid SEO Error Fix:

When ever a user publish a post and Google crawls the new post of your website, the sociofluid plugin links are too crawled by the search engines. The search engine results are annoying and this makes low page rank. Every time your post is crawled by google, the address links of the plugin adds up in your search results.

To fix this error you just have to do the simple math, its very easy and fast to remove these kind of errors. You just have to edit your robots.txt of your website. You just have to disallow to crawl the plugin SocioFluid directory of your website:

Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/

or

Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/

 

You have to add this code to your robots.txt file to disallow crawl of sociofluid directory. Now you will no longer see the text sociofluid plugin link in your search results.

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Best Wordpress Plugins To Increase SEO Score

Best Search Engine Optimization Plugins For Wordpress

Among the million users, How do people find your content over Internet? There are many who write unique but to get listed Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is a key. Search Engine Optimization Services are provided to websites to get traffic, but you can do it yourself with simple search engine optimization tool.

SEO  help search engines crawl your content and understand the relevancy of your content with the related search queries. It's not necessary that your unique content will get you listed on top, as there are may who write unique you have to optimize it to get listed on top. For Wordpress Users there are many SEO tools which optimize the blogs.

Here are Few SEO plugins for Wordpress users to optimize their content relevancy:

1. All in One SEO Pack – One of the best and the most popular plugin in wordpress is All in One SEO Pack, the plugin does it all for you. If you are tired with writing HTML meta descriptions, keywords etc, The plugin makes it smooth to add meta tags, meta description, keywords and robots description. It helps by choosing the best keywords and avoiding duplicate descriptions.

2. Automatic SEO Links – Automatic SEO linking tools allows you to set the word phrase for automatic linking and can be set to "nofollow" to avoid duplicate links. Forget to put manual links just choose a word and give it a link. This plugin is user friendly and increases the navigation. The plugin also removes the back links, and thus increase your overall SEO score.

3. Google XML Sitemaps -  The XML sitemap generator builds the sitemap for website, so that website links can easily be submitted to search engines. You don't have to summit single URLs or wait for Google to index your pages. The XML site map does it all. It is the best tool for search engine Optimization. Build your site maps easily and you can exclude the URLs you don't want to index. The tool is easy to use without any hazels.

4. HeadSpace2 – HeadSpace2 is the meta data manager, it does many SEO tasks. With it you can tag posts and can create custom title and description to increase your search engine ranking. It perform's various operations like Meta-data nesting, Dynamic data extraction and a feature of mass editing. Besides it can be page specific and theme specific. It should be used to increase your SEO SCORE.

5. Simple Tags – The plugin is extremely easy to use. It helps blogger's to add tags from automated generated tags, auto-completion of tags as you type, mass tag editing. IT has an Ajax Admin Interface, which is handy to use. The tool is for dummies to increase their SEO score.

6. Meta Robots WordPress plugin – The plugin add robot meta data to pages so that search engines get to know which page to follow and which to nofollow. Prevent authors, data based archives and search results to get indexed and give irrelevant search results. To configure it, the tool needs pro skills. If you are not sure about what are robots and what does they do, do get information before using it.

7. Redirection – For may reasons you may need Redirection tool. This tool allows you to redirect URLs from one page to another. If you change the post heading the permalink gets changed, now search engines need time to re-index your new URL, So Just redirect the older one's to new ones. This simply optimize your SEO score.

8. SEO Post Link – The SEO  Post Link plugin checks the URL of your posts and if it is too long search engines won't give a liking towards it. It make the links to more search engine friendly, that is limiting it to a no of words, cut unnecessary words and much more.

9. SEO No Duplicate WordPress Plugin – The plugin allows you to search the duplicate content on your blog for whatsoever the reason may be. It sets to "nofollow" the content and helps from search engine penalties.

10. SEO Tag Cloud Widget – Tags, all know what's their power is, if you give tags for your content it will be read by the search engines and it drives traffic to the website. Tags are the keywords for your content. No tags less relevancy but good and enough tags get a flow of traffic.

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