Today I have an (almost) free program. Where to get
news on the internet for our area and for the world.
A great PC Tune-up link and my next Question and Answer.
Here’s a great program that’s free to try (US$35
if you like it): Have a lot of music (MP3s, etc) on
you computer? Try Helium2 (http://find.pcworld.com/37184).
It finds all your music files and creates a data base for
you. It’ll even use the internet to look up information
about your songs, and then will update the song’s file
list. It even has a bulk-rename feature that will let
you easily change “Nora Jones” to “Norah
Jones”. Sort your collection by artist, or by
genre to make it easy to create play-lists.
News on the internet. Here’s a list of web sites
to check for news about Bali; Indonesia; SE Asia; or the World
(please send me any I missed):
http://www.abc.net.au/news/ Australian Broadcasting
Corp news Online
http://www.atimes.com/ Asia Times Online
http://www.time.com/time/asia/ Time Magazine – Asia
http://www.thejakartapost.com/headlines.asp Jakarta Post
http://www.cnn.com/ASIA/ CNN – Asia
http://www.feer.com/ Far Eastern Economic Review
http://www.smh.com.au/ Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.news.com.au/ ”..is the leading
online news and information network for Australians.”
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ Taipei Times
http://www.theage.com.au/ Electronic edition of Melbourne’s
daily newspaper The Age
http://www.voanews.com/ Voice Of America
http://www.stuff.co.nz/ Good coverage of New Zealand
(has links to other NZ news sites)
http://www.travelbiz.com.au/ Business Travel site from
Australia
http://www.thewest.com.au/ Even West Australian news!
http://www.goasiapacific.com/ Australian Broadcasting
Corp News for Asia-Pacific area
http://www.brunei-online.com/ Brunei
http://www.brunei-online.com/links/bb.html Borneo Edition
http://www.japantoday.com/ Japan Today
http://www.iht.com/ International Herald Tribune
http://www.etaiwannews.com/Asia/ Taiwan News
http://www.emedia.com.my/ The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia)
http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=indonesia
Yahoo’s list of news articles about Indonesia
http://jakartanews.net/ Jakarta News.net
http://latitudesmagazine.com/ Latitudes magazine
http://www.baliwww.net/ Bali Echo magazine
http://www.insideindonesia.org/ Inside Indonesia magazine
http://www.scmp.com/ South China Morning Post on-line
http://news.asiadragons.com/world/indonesia/ Indonesia Top
Stories
Favorite LINK: A PC Tune-Up even Mom can do http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,110363,00.asp
Q: When you use a search engine to find older information
or something that is date sensitive, often time the page no
longer exists. Sometimes the link description shows
one thing, but the actual page has been updated since the
search engine last indexed the site, so the information that
you were actually looking for is no longer there...
So what can you do? A: In search engines, such as Google,
after the description and the actual web address there is
often a link called ‘Cached’. This means that
the search engine has a copy of what it saw when it indexed
the site, so that you can actually view an older version of
the page if it still exists or especially if you get the dreaded
“404 File Not Found” error. Simply click
on the word ‘Cached’ to view the older version
of the page. This is very handy on sites that frequently update
their information, such as events calendars or concert schedules.
You can see Goggle’s explanation at: \l “cached”
\t “_blank” http://www.google.com/help/features.html#cached
