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Rapidshare is a name synonymous with free file uploading on the internet. If a file is too large to send as an email attachment, just upload it to rapidshare and email the file link to the recipient. Rapidshare also provides a delete link so that you can remove the file from Rapidshare servers once the recipient has download the file to his own computer.

When you download a file from Rapidshare, you will notice a download counter or a waiting limit. This is only for free rapidshare accounts and if you can spare a few Euros and buy a Rapidshare premium account, the download counter is removed. Plus you get unlimited downloads otherwise there’s a restriction on the data that you transfer during a certain period.

Rapidshare will delete files that have not been accessed for 30 days or longer. Rapidshare premium account supports download managers and provide much faster downloads. There are very rare moments when Rapidshare provide free accounts for a week rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/freeaccount.cgi but it is next to impossible to get hold of them as the limit is exhaused very soon.

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Planning a vacation this summer? You’re not alone. Tourism as an industry is booming, and is growing every year. By 2020, according to the World Tourism Industry, international borders will be crossed roughly 1.6 billion times annually, as tourists zigzag back and forth across our ever-shrinking planet.

As a result, a network of grassroots movements dedicated to environmentally-friendly and socially-responsible travel is emerging. The International Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism, for example, as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people. Subscribers to pro-poor tourism aim to improve the living conditions of the poor population inhabiting their travel destinations.

A growing number of natural heritage organizations in countries across the world are offering volunteer tourism opportunities, sometimes known as voluntourism for travelers who would like to spend their holiday making a difference: building shelters, working on farms, cleaning natural parks. These kinds of holidays often offer access to more remote parts of the world that would otherwise be closed to commercial holiday-goers.

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Diambil dari Kompas, 7 Oktober 2007
Oleh: Evawani Ellisa, Pengajar di Departemen Arsitektur Fakultas Teknik Universitas Indonesia.

Gambar diatas adalah sebuah mal bernama Namba Park yang terletak di kota Osaka

Di kawasan kota yang telanjur padat, memperoleh lahan terbuka bukanlah soal mudah. DKI Jakarta dengan lahan seluas 66.126 hektar dan ruang hijau 9 persen atau 5.951 hektar, perlu membebaskan sekitar 13.000 hektar lahan bila ingin memenuhi patokan lazim 30 persen lahan terbuka hijau.

Jepang juga menghadapi persoalan sama. Sejak abad ke-17, sifat land hungry (lapar lahan) dalam praktik mengonsumsi lahan perkotaan telah menyebabkan tampilan kota di Jepang tak jauh berbeda dari kota besar Asia lainnya.

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Google recently held a webinar for AdSense publishers. They gave out some adsense optimization tips that they have gathered over the past few years. The transcript is pretty lengthy, so here’s the summary:

• Ad Location - “the middle, above the fold location perform best.” Also “if you have an article page with a long body of text, the bottom of that article is actually pretty successful”
• Ad Formats - “the top three formats are the 336×280 that you see on the page; the 300×250 medium rectangle; and then the 160×600 wide skyscraper.” Additionally “the wider ad formats are doing better than the other ones and the reason is that they actually take up fewer lines. And so with every additional line, you have a chance of losing that interested user.”
• Ad Colors - Pick colors that blend well with the site. Matches the background color, and compliments the site. Make them feel like a part of the site. They give an example where a customer went from blended background to yellow, and clicks dropped 65%
• Ad Blindness - if the colors stick out too much, readers may immediatly identify them as ads and not even look at them. Also frequent readers may stop reading ads so you could alternate positioning and colors to get their attention. “The more you blend in with the site, the less chance that ad blindness will occur.”
• Experiment - this was a big theme in the webinar echoed by all experts. Use channels to test different colors, positioning, and formats to find out what works best. They show that you can more than double your revenue just by finding the right color, position, format combo.
• Image Ads - If you want to maximize revenue they recommend turning them on. I personally disable them in my account, because I find them too distracting/annoying to the user. Yes you may increase your CPC, but you will probably decrease impressions over time.
• Link Units - Don’t take up much space, and also “allows the user to refine what they’re interested in. So if they may not be interested in specific ads on your page, they might be interested in a particular topic, and by clicking on a link unit and a link in the link unit, they’ll be able to specify that they’re interested in that specific topic and get a lot more options and variety on the ads that might appear.” I also bet google remembers what they click on and then tries to generate better ads for the page… just my speculation.
• AdSense For Search - You can use this for your site search, and you get a percentage of ad clicks.
• Focus on Content - Duh!
• Don’t click on your own ads - One of the callers asked the question “I was just noticing that someone asked about clicking on their own ads and it says you’re not supposed to. And I don’t remember reading that. And I occasionally do click on the ads… So is that detrimental in some way?” - I can’t believe they said that to google. Google’s response was: “Yes, that’s sort of chief among the terms and conditions”.
• Impression Counter - Google confirmed that Page Impressions are counted when a public service ad (or alternate ad url or color) is displayed.
• Your site is unique - all these things may not matter, the best location, format, and color is different for every site. So again, go experiment.

Haven’t signed up for AdSense Yet?

KapanLagi.com - Tak mau kalah dengan pabrikan lainnya yang mengeluarkan kendaraan minim polusi, Toyota Motor Corp. berencana meluncurkan kendaraan hemat bahan bakar yang ultracompact empat penumpang di Eropa pada 2009, seperti yang dilaporkan Nikkei Business, dan dilansir dari Reuters, Selasa (25/09).

Kendaraan dengan basis prototipe IQ tersebut dipamerkan produsen otomotif Jepang itu di Frankfurt auto show bulan ini. Prototipe IQ ini didesain di ED2, studio desain Toyota di Selatan Perancis yang dikepalai Wahei Hirari, yang menjabat sebagai Toyota’s Design Managing Officer.

Dengan mengusung tiga keunggulan yang meliputi solusi cerdik transport kaum urban, desain dengan sentuhan filosofi ‘Vibrant Clarity’, dan pajang tak lebih dari 3 meter, Hirari optimis Toyota IQ ultra kompak ini akan menjadi idola tahun depan.

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