Monday, August 24, 2009

Classified Pendet oldest dances in Bali







Pendet or welcome dance is one of the oldest dances in the dance that is similar in the island resort. 

"According to some accounts, the Balinese performing arts experts agreed to name the year 1950 as year of birth Pendet dance," said Professor Institut Seni Indonesia (ISI) Denpasar professor Dr. I Wayan Dibia in Denpasar, on Saturday. 

He said since the creation of the dance is always used as the opening act for another dance performance presentation, whether to treat the important guests who come to Bali and are shown to foreign countries. 

"Pendet is a dance group that is usually danced by a group of young women in which each dancer brought a silver bowl (bowl) that contains colorful flowers," he added. 

At the end of the dance, the dancers throw their flowers that they bring to the audience, as a form of expression and welcome. 

About the initiators of the dance by artists Dibia was born two villages namely Denpasar Sumertha I Wayan Rindi and Ni Ketut Reneng. 

"Both these artists create a welcoming Pendet dance with four dancers to be presented as part of the show turistik in a number of hotels in Denpasar, Bali," he added. 

In 1961, I Wayan Beratha Pendet reworked dance becomes a pattern like now, including adding the number of dancers to five people. 

Then in 1962, I Wayan Beratha and his colleagues created the mass Pendet dance, with the number of dancers no less than 800 people, to appear in the Asian Games opening ceremony in Jakarta.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Send SMS Free Use iPod?


For who do not know, debutants named Apple iPod Touch turned out to also be used to send short messages (SMS). Since the iPod Touch is not designed like the iPhone that are useful for communication, there must be a requirement for iPod Touch users can send SMS. 

Interested to send SMS using the iPod Touch? You can use a service called IPTexter, but before you must register first before you can start sending / receiving SMS via iPod Touch. Obviously users are required to connect to the WiFi connection that would connect the iPod to the internet. 

IPTexter addition, there are other applications that also serves to SMS for free using the iPod. One of the latest application called Textfree Unlimited. As well as the IPTexter, when using any Textfree Unlimited connections required to connect to WiFi. 

Unfortunately, only limited user can send no more than 15 SMS per day, if it wants to send more, then the additional charge of U.S. $ 6. However, these services do not apply to all countries. Textfree itself only applies to the United States alone.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Phishing also (be) attacked Outlook


Usually phishing attack friendship sites such as Facebook, MySpace or Friendster. However, do not relax once, the article has found evidence that phishing can also attack the email account, one of Microsoft Outlook. 

This was conveyed by Sarah Calaunan (analyst from Trend Micro). Sarah reported a phishing attack that led to Microsoft Outlook. That attack was aimed at Outlook users who will direct the user to perform re-configuration of Outlook. 

Like phishing action on friendship sites, Microsoft Outlook users will be redirected to a site called Microsoft.com. There, users will be directed back toward the charging column confidential data to sign. And this is where the user's confidential data was stolen. 

Calaunan asserted, phishing action will be successful if the user successfully deceived and enter confidential data on these fake sites. So, for Microsoft Outlook users requested to not be easily tempted to fill out confidential data on the fake field.