Ubuntu Muslim Edition (Sabily 9.04)

What is Sabily ?

Sabily is an operating system, like MS Windows or Mac OS X. Without an operating system, a computer is unusable, and Windows is not the only OS available! (though you often don't have the choice, that's why we are working hard to fix the bug number one)

I already have Windows, why would I use Sabily ?
Because Sabily is free, already includes all software you need in your everyday tasks, and is customized specifically for Muslims. And even if you didn't buy Windows, you should not use pirated copies because then you are still supporting Microsoft by adding to the impression it's the only OS available.

It should be a tremendous work to develop an operating system?
Actually we don't start from scratch, we use the Ubuntu operating system as a groundwork. Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux distribution whose goal is to provide an easy-to-use, up-to-date, stable and free system, also for companies. Sabily customizes Ubuntu by removing, modifying and adding software, and also customizes the graphic design to make a system adapted to Muslims.

Is there a company like Microsoft which develops Sabily?
No there isn't, just a communauty of voluntaries coming from all over the world (France, Tunisia, Egypt, Indonesia etc.). You can as well participate, as a developer, a graphic designer, a tester or if you just want to share your ideas.

What are the main features of Sabily?
The main software are: Zekr and Mus-haf Othman (Quran study tools), Minbar and Firefox-praytimes (prayer times applications), Monajat (application that popups prayers every predetermined time), Hijra (islamic calendar) and WebStrict (parental control tool). Arabic language is also well supported. And of course the graphic design is also customized (see screenshots).

What other software are included in Sabily?
OpenOffice (word processor, spreasheet, presentation), Firefox (web browser), Pidgin (instant messaging), F-spot (photos management), Gimp (image manipulation program) and other multimedia software (video/audio). All of this in included in the "small" version of Sabily, but the "full" version contains dozens of other software! (educational software, tools and entire Quran recitations, see the full list here)

Sabily seems very interesting, what should I do to use it?
You have to download the ISO file and to burn it on a DVD, then to start your computer from the DVD. You will have the choice to test or to install the system. In a first time we advise you to test it because it is safe for your computer, nothing will be written on your hard disk. You can even test Sabily directly from Windows, by using a Virtual Box image.

Screenshots:

Download: Click Here


Source : www.sabily.org

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Internet Download Manager

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 500 percent, resume and schedule downloads.

Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.

Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads.

During the download process Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically, unlike other download accelerators and managers that segment files before the download starts Internet Download Manager reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve better acceleration performance.

Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, directories with authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing, and a large number of directory listing formats.

IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads.

You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line. Internet Download Manager can dial your modem at the set time, download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it's done.

Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, built-in download accelerator, scheduler pro, sounds on events, HTTPS support, queue processor, pipelining of ftp commands, html help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), command line parameters, and many others.

Here are some key features of "Internet Download Manager":

· All popular browsers and applications are supported! Internet Download Manager supports all versions of popular browsers, and can be integrated into any 3rd party Internet applications.
· Download with one click. When you click on a download link in a browser, IDM will take over the download and accelerate it. IDM supports HTTP, FTP and HTTPS protocols.
· Download Speed. Internet Download Manager can accelerate downloads by up to 5 times due to its intelligent dynamic file segmentation technology.
· Download Resume. Internet Download Manager will resume unfinished download from the place where they left off.
· Simple installation wizard. Quick and easy installation program will make necessary settings for you, and check your connection at the end to ensure trouble free installation of Internet Download Manager
· Automatic Antivirus checking. Antivirus checking makes your downloads free from viruses and trojans.
· Advanced Browser Integration. When enabled, the feature can be used to catch any download from any application. None of download managers have this feature.
· Built-in Scheduler. Internet Download Manager can connect to the Internet at a set time, download the files you want, disconnect, or shut down your computer when it's done.
· IDM supports many types of proxy servers. For example, IDM works with Microsoft ISA, and FTP proxy servers.
· IDM supports main authentication protocols: Basic, Negotiate, NTLM, and Keberos. Thus IDM can access many Internet and proxy servers using login name and password.
· Download All feature. IDM can add all downloads linked to the current page. It's easy to download multiple files with this feature.
· Customizable Interface. You may choose the order, and what buttons and columns appear on the main IDM window.
· Download Categories. Internet Download Manager can be used to organize downloads automatically using defined download categories.
· Quick Update Feature. Quick update may check for new versions of IDM and update IDM once per week.
· Download limits. Progressive downloading with quotas feature. The feature is useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy (or FAP) like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.
· Drag and Drop. You may simply drag and drop links to IDM, and drag and drop complete files out of Internet Download Manager.
· IDM is multilingual. IDM is translated to Arabic, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai languages.

Download : IDM 5.17 + PACTH

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A to Z for Life

A : Accept.
Terimalah diri anda sebagaimana adanya.

B : Believe.
Percayalah terhadap kemampuan anda untuk meraih apa yang anda inginkan
dalam hidup.

C : Care.
Pedulilah pada kemampuan anda meraih? apa yang anda inginkan dalam hidup.

D : Direct.
Arahkan pikiran pada hal-hal positif yang meningkatkan kepercayaan diri.

E : Earn.
Terimalah penghargaan yang diberi orang lain dengan tetap berusaha
menjadi yang terbaik.

F : Face.
Hadapi masalah dengan benar dan yakin.

G : Go.
Berangkatlah dari kebenaran.

H : Homework.
Pekerjaan rumah adalah langkah penting untuk pengumpulan informasi.

I : Ignore.
Abaikan celaan orang yang menghalangi jalan anda mencapai tujuan.

J : Jealously.
Rasa iri dapat membuat anda tidak menghargai kelebihan anda sendiri.

K : Keep.
Terus berusaha walaupun beberapa kali gagal.

L : Learn.
Belajar dari kesalahan dan berusaha untuk tidak mengulanginya.

M : Mind.
Perhatikan urusan sendiri dan tidak menyebar gosip tentang orang lain.

N : Never.
Jangan terlibat skandal seks, obat terlarang, dan alkohol.

O : Observe.
Amatilah segala hal di sekeliling anda.
Perhatikan, dengarkan, dan belajar dari orang lain.

P : Patience.
Sabar adalah kekuatan tak ternilai yang membuat anda terus berusaha.

Q : Question.
Pertanyaan perlu untuk mencari jawaban yang benar dan menambah ilmu.

R : Respect.
Hargai diri sendiri dan juga orang lain.

S : Self confidence, self esteem, self respect.
Percaya diri, harga diri, citra diri, penghormatan diri akan
membebaskan kita dari saat-saat tegang.

T : Take.
Bertanggung jawab pada setiap tindakan anda.

U : Understand.
Pahami bahwa hidup itu naik turun, namun tak ada yang dapat mengalahkan anda.

V : Value.
Nilai diri sendiri dan orang lain, berusahalah melakukan yang terbaik.

W : Work.
Bekerja dengan giat, jangan lupa berdoa.

X : X’tra.
Usaha lebih keras membawa keberhasilan.

Y : You.
Anda dapat membuat suatu yang berbeda.

Z : Zero.
Usaha nol membawa hasil nol pula.


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Panik! Panik! Panik....! Hard disk Terformat......!!!

Yah mungkin itulah yang saya rasakan ketika hardisk komputer saya tidak sengaja terformat.....!. Jadi waktu itu saya benar2 panik karena semua data saya ada di dalamnya. Dan parahnya lagi yang terformat termasuk hard disk yang berisi Master program komputer yang penting. Seperti program untuk Recovery, justru pada saat dibutuhkan malah program itu yang hilang.....! Tapi alhamdulillah di rumah conect internet jadi bisa cari lagi program file recoverynya.....dan alhamdulillah data yang hilang bisa diperoleh kembali......(Hore..!)

Bagi teman2 mungkin ada yang mengalami hal yang sama dengan saya gak usah susah cari link download program untuk meRecovery data yang hilang (terformat atau terdelete), dibawah ini ada linknya langsung aja di download.


Download : KUMPULAN FILE RECOVERY.rar (42.59MB)

Note: yang saya pakai untuk mengembalikan data : OnTrack Easy Recovery Professional v6.10, karna setelah saya bandingkan kerjanya lebih cepat, data yang diperoleh langsung dalam bentuk hierarki sebagaimana sebelum terformat. Lalu tinggal di save...

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5 Top Tips for Getting your English Beyond Usual

1. Find something new to talk about. One useful way of doing this is to start a reading group with friends. Each month, arrange to read a different book (preferably in English) then have a meeting to discuss it – in English. Make sure you choose a variety of different books so that you have to learn some new vocabulary each time.

2. Meet new people. If you only speak English with friends, you will probably use the same, informal language all the time. By joining a new club or going to events where you know English will be spoken, you will need to use a different register of English. If this isn’t possible, forming a drama club can help you to create opportunities for using English in different ways.

3. Activate what you know already. Even in our first language, we all know or understand more words than we actively use.Try to test your knowledge by ‘brainstorming’.Think of a topic and give yourself 5 minutes to write down all the words you know related to that topic.You may be surprised by how many you can remember.

4. Vary the programmes you listen to. For example, if you only listen to sports programmes, you will limit the vocabulary you learn to sport-related words.The wider the variety you listen to, the wider your vocabulary will become.

5. Set yourself some new learning goals.You can now express your ideas – but what would you like to be able to do next? By setting yourself clear goals to achieve over the next month, you will be able to revitalise your approach to learning English.

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Improving Your English Speaking Skill

All of us has known that nowdays english language has become the most important language around the world. You can get all of the information in the world with the english language. And one of the most important thing in english is speaking skill. If you have dream to continue your school to abroad, such as USA,Germany, Japan, and etc, you must speak English, eventhough you want to go to malaysia. If you can't speak english then just go to your bedroom, sleep and just dream it.

If you need to get ahead you have to have a good mastery of the English language. In our national curriculum, English is still a foreign language, not the second language. That is why most English teachers are still teaching the language as a subject or just to understand the language itself. The teaching and learning is oriented on how to know the content (the language) and to answer the test. But now, in accordance with the need of English as the worldwide medium of communication, the teaching and learning of English should be oriented on the real-contextual and meaningful usage.Okay, so what are we need to have a great speaking skill? there are just three keys items:

1. Form-Focused Speaking

When learners first begin to speak in another language their speaking will need to be based on some form-focused learning. Based on the writer’s experiences in teaching speaking for the beginners, it is an effective way to learn to speak a language. It will enable the learners to improve the language and grasp it by themselves outside the classroom.

The speaking activities can be started on some useful, simple memorized phrases and sentences. A teacher can begin the speaking activities by giving the learners some common greetings, simple personal descriptions, and simple questions and answers. All the activities can be practiced in Repetition drills.

The teacher first says a phrase or sentence (for example; “What is your name?”) several times and then asks the class to repeat. Some learners can be called on to repeat individually. Then the teacher says the answer (answer; My name is James) and the learners repeat again. Then they repeat it by changing the answer with their own names. By the same question and answer, the learners can take turns to do with friends.

Having done the simple practice and repetition, the teacher can change the object of the question with others words, such as; What is your hobby? What is your favorite color? What is your favorite food? What is your favorite animal? And so forth. To avoid boring atmosphere, the teacher needs to find out ways of varying repetition activities, so it will keep the learners interested and continuously practice the language.

The use of drills, however, should be seen as merely one kind of form-focused activity that needs to be balanced with other types of form-focused activities, as well as with meaning-focused and fluency development activities. Drills play a useful part in a language course in helping learners to be formally accurate in their speech and in helping them to quickly learn a useful collection of phrases and sentences that allow them to start using the language as soon as possible.

2. Meaning-Focused Speaking

Beside form-focused speaking, language learners should also be exposed to and given opportunities to practice and use meaning-focused communication, in which they must both produce and listen to meaningful oral communication. The following are some ways to explore the learners’ skill in speaking;

1. For beginning learners, the oral speaking can be started by giving each learner a number and a topic. The topics could be about family, hobbies, sports, school activities, colors, traveling, and so forth. Then all the learners are requested to take a number and a topic. Having got them, each learner can think about their topics for a minute or two and then the teacher calls a number. The learner with that number then says two or three sentences about his or her particular topic. The speaker then calls a number and the learner with that number has to ask the speaker a question or two related to the topic just spoken about. When the question is answered, the questioner calls for another number to do the same. After several times then the speaker calls the number of a new person who will speak about the topic that she or he was given. Then he or she will do the same steps as the first learner has already done.

2. Before the learners speak on a topic, they can work in pairs or groups of three or four to prepare it. This gives the learners the chance to learn new items from each other. Here is an example using a same or different information gap activity. Then each learner can describe pictures or topics to each other. Without looking at other learner’s picture or topic, the opponent speaker must response to the description whether it is the same or different. All learners can take changes in practicing this way.

3. The learners are given topics to talk about. They prepare at home, using dictionaries, reference texts, reading sources, and so forth. Each learner has to choose a short and interesting article from an English language newspaper to present to the class. The learner must not read the article aloud to the class but must describe the main points of the article. The class should then ask the presenter questions.

3. Fluency focused speaking

Fluency in speaking is the aim of many language learners. Signs of fluency include a reasonably fast speed of speaking and only a small number of pauses. These signs indicate that the speaker does not have to spend a lot of time searching for the language terms needed to express the message. There are some techniques for developing fluency;

a. The learners can be called to read certain reading or text in a limited time given by their teacher. The learners should be completed reading the text on the exact time provided.

b. The learners choose a topic or are given a topic with which they are very familiar. Then they try to explain the topic given as fast as possible with the limited time provided.

c. The learners can be led to work in groups of about four people. First they read a given text carefully until they have reached a good understanding of it. They discuss their understanding of the text to make sure everything is fairly clear. Then each learner takes turn to retell the text in their own word, and others will deliver some questions. Then the next learners utter the tasks again in turn, like role plays.


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