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The new Green PC out by Medion, the Medion Akoya Nettop-PC E2010D with the 18.5 inch LCD TFT Monitor E53002D included, is going to hit the shelves in Australia on Thursday 25th of June 2009.

The green beast, although I wouldn’t say very powerful since it only has an Intel® Atom™ 230 processor 1.6 GHz, 512 KB Cache, 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM, and 160 GB hard disk is for sale for $699AUD with a possible 50% Education Tax Refund, making the product around $350. For more information about the tax refund, you can click here.

The Nettop PC uses 50% less power consumption then a normal desktop PC as it only uses a maximum of 65 watts. Although I’d love to get my hands on this PC, I don’t see it fitting my needs.  The only people I see buying this product is people who don’t like laptops and regularly move to different places requiring a desktop PC.

If you love your stylish desktop PC’s and want to have a lot of space on your desk, this is a PC for you, but if you want performance and portability, you can find yourself a nice laptop. Although it will cost a bit more money, it will better suit your needs.

I don’t think that this computer will be successful in the market, but if you like a green, stylish, desktop PC, this is the one for you.

To see more specs, and photo’s, have a look after the break.

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Do you own and run your own website or blog in Australia? Then you might want to have a look at a few fact sheets by the Australian Copyright Council.

Did you know that any original content that you write on your website is automatically protected by copyright?

There is no system of registration for copyright protection in Australia.

You do not need to publish your work, to put a copyright notice on it, or to do anything else to be covered by copyright — the protection is free and automatic. There are no forms to fill in, and there are no fees to be paid. You do not have to send your work to us or to anyone else.

A work is protected automatically from the time it is first written down or recorded in some way, provided it has resulted from its creator’s skill and effort and is not simply copied from another work. For example, as soon as a poem is written, or a song is recorded, it is protected.

Australian copyright works are protected in most other countries, and copyright works from most other countries are protected in Australia.

 

Source: Copyright Basics. More information about how you can get copyright can be found here.

Did you know copyrighted material lasts for 70 years after the contributors death?

For most material, copyright lasts for 70 years after the end of the year of the creator’s death, or 70 years from the end of the year the material was first made public.

The source and more information on how long copyright lasts can be found here.

Did you know that if you run a website such as a forum with user generate content (UGC) you do not necessarily own that content.

Under the Information Sheet G057v08, contributors own the content that they post on your website, unless contributors agree to give their permission before or after they have posted content on your website.

If you do wish to acquire copyright in material users post to your site, you will need to have contributors assign
copyright to you by “signing” a written agreement to that effect. In this context, typing their name may
constitute a “signature”, but you may need legal advice on this.

If you do not own the rights to the user generate content, you will not be entitled to use their material offline and grant website visitors permission to only view and listen to the content.

If you want to own the UGC, you may be able to contact them after they have made this content (if possible) and make sure you have terms and conditions stating who will own the content.

Did you know that if someone uploaded copyright material to your website such as someone else’s photo or music, you may be liable if legal action is taken.

In some cases, UGC may infringe copyright. For example, a contributor may post someone else’s photo, or upload
a video that uses someone else’s music in its soundtrack. This may often be as a result of ignorance on the part
of the contributor but, whether or not you are aware of the infringing material, you are likely to liable if there is
an action for copyright infringement.

To protect yourself from this, make sure you set out a binding agreement with contributors that will indemnify you from any infringing behaviour. Make sure you get a lawyer to draft your terms. Make sure you remind contributors not to post copyrighted content without the owners consent and that you will remove any posts that violate this rule. Also moderate the content so you can remove potential copyright material before it becomes a problem. If a problem does arise, remove the content immediately.

The source and more information about user generated content can be found on The Australian Copyright Council Website.

Do you know when you can use copyrighted material?

• The copyright has expired
• The content is not protected by copyright
• You are not use a ‘substantial part’ of the full content
• In special exceptions

Source: Information Sheet G057v08.

Did you know that direct linking to third-party website content may be illegal?

If you direct link to someone else’s content, it may be illegal because you are bypassing that websites homepage.

More information can be found from Information Sheet G057v08.

For more information on copyright in Australia, please visit the Australian Copyright Council by visiting: http://www.copyright.org.au. For more Information Sheets, visit http://www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm

*Disclaimer: This post is intended for general information only and a summary of notes from the Australian Copyright Council website. For legal advice, please see qualified person. Information from this post (including quotes) has been gathered from http://www.copyright.org.au. If any incorrect information has been interpreted, please post in the comments.

To have a successful online forum, your forum needs to be unique. A forum that can not be found elsewhere on the internet.

You must also have a target audience. A target audience are the people or groups of people you are targeting to. Whether it will be people in a particular country, suburb, area of interest or expertise.

If your forum is targeting technologist enthusiast, you definitely have to be unique so people will visit your site and not your competitors. You also need a niche. A little pocket or area of interest. For example, technology in a particular country or dedicated only to software or hardware or internet.

Once the above is established, you can then work on marketing your forum, create incentives for people to come back, give free stuff away such has gift cards or rewards for visiting and posting to your forum. Or even when users post a certain number of posts, they gain access to exclusive content on your site or forum that regular users do not have access too.

Start of small in your target niche, then expand as you grow. Make sure you post on your own forums, moderate carefully and reply to your visitors.

It is also good to set up forum rules so users know what they can and can’t do.

I hope that this has enlightened you and gave further information of how to have a successful forum.

If you have visited Facebook recently, you would  have noticed that the homepage has been changed. It is more like twitter with your friends post and “What’s on your mind questions” To see your photo’s, you have to click on the photo link on the left hand side.

So what are your thoughts on the change?

You will never have to miss your favourite TV show ever again with two useful website’s, RerunCheck and Crap, I missed it!

Rerun Check simple checks if their is a new or old episode of a certain show is on TV and what time the show is meant to be and on what channel.

Crap, I missed it on the other hand sends you an email reminder on the day the show is on. You can chose from all new episodes or season premiers only which after a break, will let you know when it returns.

With knowledge of these two useful tools, you will never miss another episode.

Wikipedia now allows you to create your own hard copy or PDF version of a particular topic from pages on Wikipedia.

Simply login to Wikipedia, under ‘create a book’ click ‘add wiki page’. Simply do these for all pages that you want, follow the prompts and you can download for free or get them printed and set to you for a small price.

Wikipedia now lets you have your own custom encyclopedia on your bookshelf.

We more and more younger people being born, the question of “how was the Internet made” is being ask more frequently.

So here is a quick 8 minute video that tells you how the world wide web was formed.

You can see the video after the break.

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Ever since Google Chrome was launched by Google, the way the Internet currently works is changing. The online war between Microsoft and Google is only beginning. Currently, Google is winning the war, and is proven by the fact that Microsoft can’t even handle people downloading the BETA version of Windows 7.

But being forgrounded is that this war between the two multimillion dollar companies will effect us, the end user.

So we have the two sides:

Google

• Largest Search Engine
• Google Maps
• Google Docs
• Gmail
• Google Reader

vs

Microsoft

• Live search
• Live search maps
• Microsoft Office
• Windows Live Hotmail

Now how would this war effect the end users of the Internet? Well its pretty simple, and the root of the cause is at the web browsers. The four main web browser currently being used is Internet Explorer version 6 and 7, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Now being a regular Internet surfer, I only use one web browser and that is Chrome, because on a 10inch laptop screen, Chrome shows me more of the webpage then Internet Explorer or Firefox.

But recently, websites such as Gmail are giving messages to the IE6 users to update and change their web browser to Google Chrome, and Microsoft is doing the same with their email client, Windows Live Hotmail by prohibiting the use of Google Chrome Browsers sending out emails. In the Internet world that we live in today, this is not benefiting the end user, it is creating a monopoly by disallowing certain sites to be accessed from different browsers, which is not ethical.

With this war only starting, in the near future, don’t be shocked when certain ‘features’ of a website are only available to certain web browsers. Features are of websites won’t be available due to compatibility issues, but it will get us to use ‘their’ browsers, all so they get people using their software for their websites.

This rivalry war will require us users to use multiple web browsers when visiting our most frequent web pages, which is something that I am not looking forward too. Are you?

We have all head of sleepwalking before, and maybe sleep eating, but the new craze is sleep emailing. Now a women who has taking a bit to many pills, got up one night, and sent an email off to her friend while she was asleep.

Saying something you don’t remember to someone over the Internet can be somewhat embarrassing; just like going to the toilet when your asleep but not actually physically going anywhere.

So before you get into the habit of getting out of bed unconsciously, it may be a good idea unplug the computer before you go to bed. And by doing so, you will also save some electricity while your at it.

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Introduction

This is a game I used to love playing at School. We called it Wikipeda Race. The aim of this mulitplayer game is to start of on one page of wikipedia and try to get to another page by online clicking links on that page.

How to Play

For example. You are starting of at Windows 7 and you have to try and get to the koala page by only click links in the page. The first one to get to the page you were trying to reach wins.

Sounds simple and fun? Yes it is.

Rules

• You can only click links that are in the article
• You are not allowed to use the search function on the left side of Wikipedia
• Its up to all players to agree if you can or cannot use the control+F search function in your browser or to click back a page.
• First one to reach the end wins

If you can think of other ways to play, change it how you wish.

We hope you enjoy.

This game was developed by Roger, Aidan, Chris, Mell, Josh, Dan and Jack and you saw it first on jicola.com blogs. Give Credit