Visit Yogyakarta

YOGYAKARTA or JOGJA is the main tour destination of the island of Java in Indonesia. YogYES.COM provides you with information on tour destinations, hotels, restaurants, and other tourism related services to help you visit Yogyakarta / Jogja

Yogyakarta (some people call it Jogja, Jogjakarta, or Yogya) is a city with outstanding historical and cultural heritage. Yogyakarta was the centre of the Mataram Dynasty (1575-1640), and until now the kraton (the sultan's palace) exists in its real functions. Also, Yogyakarta has numerous thousand-year-old temples as inheritances of the great ancient kingdoms, such as Borobudur temple established in the ninth century by the dynasty of Syailendra.
More than the cultural heritages, Yogyakarta has beautiful natural panorama. The green rice fields cover the suburban areas with a background of the Merapi Mountain. The natural beaches can be easily found to the south of Yogyakarta.
Here the society lives in peace and has typical Javanese hospitality. Just try to go around the city by bike, pedicab, or horse cart; and you will find sincere smiles and warm greeting in every corner of the city.
An artistic atmosphere is deeply felt in Yogyakarta. Malioboro, as the center of Yogyakarta, is overwhelmed by handicraft from all around the city. Street musicians always ready entertain the visitors of the lesehan food stalls.
Those who have visited Yogyakarta reveal that this city makes them long for it. Just visit here, then you will understand what this means.
Transportations to Yogyakarta:
TrainYou may reach Yogyakarta by train from Jakarta, Bandung, or Surabaya
BusYogyakarta is reachable by bus from Sumatra Island, Bali Island, and most cities of Java Island.
PlaneRecently, international direct flights from Kuala Lumpur are established to Yogyakarta. In addition, domestic flights to Yogyakarta from Jakarta, Denpasar, Balikpapan, and many others, are available now. Please check the Yogyakarta Regular Flight Schedule.
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Google Chatback Gadget

The Google Talk team has been working their arses off these past weeks and has come up with two new features that will make heavy duty chatters’ lives a lot better. First, there was the option to choose not to be seen by your contacts when you are online, the much talked about invisibility that would slow down a lot of
chat if everybody starts using it. That happened on Friday and people voiced their concerns about having
three platforms to use Google Talk and each had different features.

On Monday, the dev team came back with the Chatback Badge, that "will let visitors to your web page chat with you. They’ll be able to chat with you whenever you’re signed in to Google Talk." Their official description is not inaccurate, but it isn’t really complete either. In order to chat with somebody using the gadget, you first have to approve the chat request before the person will be allowed to talk with you.

It’s pretty easy to use, more like a series of clicks: the visitor on your site clicks on the link to chat with you if he/she sees you online. A Google Talk Gadget will open for the person and, at the same time, you will be notified and asked whether you’d like to join the chat, providing a link to the Google Talk Gadget that will open in the browser. Next comes the typing, no more clicking, sadly.

One problem is that the visitor can remain completely anonymous and nobody has only fans or people that like them. Avoiding an embarrassing conversation can only take you as far as the Chatback badge, from that point on you’re on your own.

Apparently, the chats are off the record, thus not being stored in Gmail, according to Luka from Zorgloob. Checking the option to keep them will not help.

Gmail Cracked!

The spam-free Gmail is about to become spam-full and on an accelerated rate from now on. When the email
service from Google first came to be, it prided itself with its filters that would redirect spam directly to the
folder specially created for it. Slowly but surely, hackers managed to evolve methods of fooling the rigid filters and some unwanted messages started finding their way into users’ inboxes.

The next step was to create as many Gmail accounts as possible but Captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) stopped this attempt fairly well. Until now. After successfully hacking their way into fooling the Windows Live captcha used by Hotmail, cyber criminals took a poke at Google’s mail service and it turned to be a poke in the eye. Internet security firm Websense reports that the captchas used by Gmail have been defeated by the bots created with just that purpose.

Ever growing in number, the methods of fooling the captchas have crowned king the record breaking HotLan Trojan, which managed to create some 500,000 spam email accounts with Hotmail, Yahoo! and Gmail in just little over 6 months of ‘activity.’ The latest hack that is able to go through the captcha defense is by far the most promising, it manages to create a spam account for every five attempts it makes. Not a very impressing percentage, but it is sophisticated enough, using two zombies (compromised hosts) for the job, and each of those uses a different technique to analyze the captcha.

Gmail is the holy land for spammers because it grants many advantages. Apart from gaining access to all of the Google services, it also has the advantage of not being in danger of having the domain blacklisted, and it’s free, let’s not forget about that.

A new age is upon us, spam-wise. The Gmail team should be on the lookout now, and slowly eliminate the proven spam addresses as well as working some more on their captcha system, if it is the one they will be sticking to in the future,

Google Accused of Grabbing Clients’ Money

AdWords clients were announced about a beta version of a new feature, dubbed Automatic Matching. Google might have wanted to keep working on it or to never have come up with it at all, by the waves it stirred. The feature will redirect the remaining sum of daily budget, if any, into what the Mountain View-based company thinks it might be a relevant search area.


The example given by Google referred to a site selling Adidas shoes and pointed out that, alongside the
natural queries such as ‘shoes,’ ‘adidas’ and ‘athletic’, it would also connect to ‘slippers,’ somehow similar. Once again, it’s the Internet giant to the rescue in case human mind fails (irony). "Automatic Matching automatically extends your campaign’s reach by using surplus budget to serve your ads on relevant search queries which are not already triggered by your keyword lists through analyzing the structure and content of your website and AdWords campaigns," according to Google. The beta run of the feature starts on the 28th of February and some customers have been sent invitations and have been asked to participate.

SEO expert Dan Thies is quoted by Silicon Republic as saying that Google is essentially "offering you the exciting opportunity to bleed every penny of your budget every day, advertising against keywords that you didn’t want to bid on." He also claimed that Automatic Matching would waste the budget surplus on relatively irrelevant keywords that would probably not lead to a click-through at all, but it is in Google’s financial benefit and interest to spend it all.

However, there’s no way the Mountain View-based company would exceed the budget, so even the most worried customers should be at ease. If you don’t care about the surplus and believe that Google might strike rich with one of the adjacent queries to the keywords you selected, there shouldn’t be any problem.

iTunes Copying, a Hacker’s Work

Apple’s iPod is no longer the sole beneficiary of music downloaded via iTunes. Jon Lech Johansen, also known
as DVD Jon, has created software that converts the restricted format into others, making it available for non-
Apple devices. The famed Norwegian hacker was formerly involved with breaking copy-protection for DVDs (hence the nickname).

His company has released the doubleTwist software because the media landscape has "become a tower of Babel, alienating and frustrating consumers," as Web User reports. Truth be told, the Apple only restriction can become very infuriating at times, especially when, say, you have a song that you’d want your girlfriend to listen to but she’s got something other than an iPod.

DVD Jon’s company is also called double Twist, and its co-founder told the cited source that "When you receive an email, you can read it on your BlackBerry, webmail, or Outlook. Email just works. With digital media such as video from a friend's cell phone or your own iTunes playlists, it's a jungle out there." The man is preaching! I’m a big iPod fan myself ,but it’s obvious he has a point there.

"It can be an hour-long exercise in futility to convert files to the correct format and transfer them to your Sony PSP or your phone. Our goal is to provide a simple and well-integrated solution that the average consumer can use to eliminate the headaches associated with their expanding digital universe," he continued.

Obviously, the removal of the protection and the conversion will start a spree of piracy, so to say. There’ll be nothing left to keep average iPod Joe from sending all of his friends the entire slew of tracks bought on iTunes, and from there on it’s going to be like an upside down pyramid game, only that instead of money there’ll be songs and video.

Rich for Google, Poor for Yahoo!

The differences in audience for the two largest Internet companies fighting for online search supremacy came
as a shocker. Hiwise released some data that proved that Yahoo! draws the younger audience, while Google
is most visited by older and more wealthy people, no discrimination intended.

Although some might consider this to be highly disturbing, please take note that Yahoo! is still the number one online traffic destination, due to its portal, clearly overpowering the search engine only Google homepage. The graph on the left, provided by Hitwise, explains how much money the social categories are spending online: "Visits by MOSAIC Group to Search.Yahoo.com are plotted on the y-axis and to Google.com on the x-axis. For example, the top left hand box indicates unique strengths for Yahoo! Search, in that they are groups that are over-indexed relative to the online population on Yahoo! Search but under-indexed on Google.com. The bigger the bubble the higher the propensity to have spent $500 online (based on offline data collected by Experian)," Heather Hopkins, VP Research, explains it.

The rough bottom line of the whole graph is that based on precedents, the groups over-indexed on Google.com are most likely to be big online spenders. While Yahoo! settles for the Struggling Societies, Google is pretty contemptuous with the Affluent Suburbia, that’s the big difference. Microsoft knows this and it wants Yahoo! more than ever just because it wants a destination that would link to it, sort of a ‘while you’re here’. The Redmond based company wants the young, Google just wants ads being clicked and successful advertising campaigns. While it’s not difficult to see why, the very purpose of this research cannot but have some discriminatory feel about it.

There’s no spin off it, it’s clear as crystal: Google is emerging to be a more professional tool while Yahoo! is just a destination for everybody. And surprisingly, ‘everybody’ means less than ‘some’ in this case.

New Piece of Malware Hits Mac OS X!

Mac OS X was always described as a more secure alternative for Microsoft's Windows because most virus writers and hackers have focused on Windows infections, Trojan horses or other kinds of attacks. However, 2007 proved us that Mac OS X can be vulnerable as well, as a new type of threat was detected by security companies around the world. Today, a new report comes to support the idea that Mac OS X is not as safe as we know it: OSX_MACSWEEP.A, a new Mac infection, has been spotted in the wild. Security vendor Trend Micro set a low damage potential and a low distribution potential, so extra-care should be enough to remain on the safe side.

According to the security company's report, this new piece of Mac OS X malware can be deployed once a user visits an infected webpage. However, it can also be installed by another infection that already exists on your computer, Trend Micro explains. "It may arrive bundled with malware packages as a malware component."

The Mac OS X infections have never been too dangerous and this one is pretty similar to its predecessors. Trend Micro informs that OSX_MACSWEEP.A was designed to remove certain software installed on an affected system. "Once it finishes scanning for so-called dangerous files in the system, users can choose to remove these in the system but a window prompts them to purchase a product."

That's right, it acts like a rogue security solution, just like the old-fashioned infections targeting the Windows operating systems. Usually, these threats installed on people's computers provide fake security alerts, informing the users that certain viruses, Trojans or worms, were found running in the memory. In order to be removed, the user has to buy the full version of the 'fake' application, which is obviously useless and doesn't really remove any infection.

Gejolak 7 Keajaiban Dunia Baru

MACHU PICCHU – Dalam lagu Wonderful World ciptaan Sam Cooke, Louis Armstrong menyanyikan betapa dunia ini sangat indah dan ajaib.

Pada 7 Juli 2007 depan, dunia akan menerima tujuh keajaiban baru.Tepatnya, di Lisbon, Portugal, daftar tujuh keajaiban baru itu akan diumumkan. Lembaga independen New Open World Corporation (NOWC) yang bertanggung jawab untuk mengumumkan tujuh keajaiban baru ini.

Sejak 2006 lalu, NOWC yang dipimpin Bernard Weber ini mengumpulkan ratusan bangunan bersejarah maupun modern untuk kemudian dikompetisikan menjadi tujuh keajaiban dunia baru. Cara pemilihannya sangat unik, NOWC mengajak seluruh masyarakat dunia melakukan voting guna memilih bangunan dan tempat bersejarah mana yang pantas menempati daftar tujuh keajaiban dunia baru.

Namun, pilihan itu benar-benar sulit, mengingat kandidat yang harus dipilih memang mempunyai sejarah yang kuat dan unik. Kandidat terakhir ada sekitar 21 bangunan yang lolos. Mulai Taj Mahal di India, Tembok Besar China, Patung Liberty di New York, hingga Opera House di Sidney. Semuanya saling bersaing ketat. Sistem polling yang digunakan ini memang membuat tren tersendiri.

Akibatnya, dunia pun bergejolak dan saling berlomba agar bangunan bersejarah milik mereka bisa dinobatkan sebagai keajaiban baru. Lihat saja ulah Presiden Brasil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, yang harus turun tangan untuk berkampanye di radio dan mengajak masyarakat Brasil agar memilih patung Christ the Redeemer (Patung Kristus) agar bisa masuk daftar.

Ulah Da Silva bukan yang pertama dan terakhir. Pemerintah China bahkan meminta semua mahasiswa dan pelajar sekolah di China untuk memberikan suara mereka. Tentunya supaya Tembok China bisa mengalahkan kandidat lainnya. Keluarga Kerajaan Yordania juga tidak mau kalah.

Dengan kekuatan finansial yang dimiliki, mereka mengajak masyarakat Yordania menyatukan kekuatan agar kandidat mereka, kota kuno Petra yang dibangun sejak 8 Masehi bisa dikenal dunia. Pemerintah Peru lain lagi. Mereka menyediakan komputer-komputer gratis di setiap tempat umum agar masyarakat Peru mau memilih reruntuhan suku Inca, Machu Picchu, dalam persaingan tujuh keajaiban dunia baru.

Sementara itu, pemerintah Meksiko mengajak Coca-Cola untuk membantu reruntuhan suku Maya, Chichen Itza, agar memenangkan kompetisi ini. Jangan kaget, di setiap kaleng Coca-Cola yang ada di Meksiko ada gambar Chichen Itza berikut cara memberikan dukungan melalui polling. Nah, bangunan mana yang bakal termasuk dalam ajang yang disebut-sebut sebagai ”architectural idol”ini? Kita tunggu saja 7 Juli mendatang. (wahyu sibarani/sindo/mbs)

Candi Borobudur Bukan Keajaiban Dunia?

SEBAGIAN besar literatur di Indonesia menyebut Candi Borobudur adalah bagian dari tujuh keajaiban dunia. Namun, mengapa New Open World Corporation (NOWC) justru tidak memasukkan Borobudur dalam daftarnya?

Kalau mau dirunut lagi, sebenarnya Borobudur tidak pernah menjadi bagian dari tujuh keajaiban dunia versi Antipater Sidon yang paling populer. Sidon membagi daftar tersebut menjadi Piramida Giza, Taman Gantung Babilonia, Patung Zeus di Olimpia, Kuil Artemis di Turki, Mausoleum, Colossus, dan Mercusuar Iskandariah.

Yang benar, Borobudur adalah bagian dari World Heritage List yang dikeluarkan oleh United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), badan PBB yang salah satu tujuannya adalah mempromosikan dan mengamankan keragaman dan warisan budaya dunia. Direktur Utama Taman Wisata Borobudur Wagiman Subiarso berpendapat, hingga saat ini Candi Borobudur masih berada pada daftar yang dikeluarkan oleh UNESCO itu.

”Polling yang dirilis NOWC itu sebenarnya sangat subjektif, tidak menggambarkan keadaan yang sebenarnya. Karena, hasilnya hanya dinilai dan bergantung dari siapa yang menggelar polling,” ujar Wagiman. ”Dalam hal ini, daftar pihak berwenang (UNESCO)-lah yang seharusnya dirujuk,” ujar Wagiman.

Hingga kini, Candi Borobudur masih berdiri tegak dan menjadi salah satu kebanggaan Indonesia. Candi yang dibangun abad kedelapan masa Dinasti Syailendra ini menjadi inspirasi pengunjung, baik dari dalam maupun luar negeri. Umat Buddha juga tetap menggunakannya untuk perayaan keagamaan, seperti peringatan Waisak.

”Dalam satu hari, rata-rata pengunjung Borobudur dari luar negeri sebanyak 300–350 orang. Bahkan, di musim liburan seperti sekarang bisa meningkat hingga 28 ribu orang,” tambah Wagiman. (hendrati h/sindo/mbs)

Orang Tua Gilai Robot Transformer

Sarie Novian - Okezone

NEW YORK – Booming film Transformer kini mempengaruhi hampir setiap orang. Tidak hanya anak kecil tapi juga orang tua yang berumur puluhan tahun. Bahkan membeli robot Transformer menjadi salah satu alasan orang tua mengunjungi Toko Mainan.

Orang-orang paruh baya kini sedang bernostalgia setelah film Transformer menghiasi layar lebar. Mereka menikmati bayangan masa kecil ketika sedang asyik bermain dengan mobil yang dapat berubah bentuk menjadi sebuah robot.

“Sepanjang hidup, saya belum pernah menemukan mainan seperti ini,” kata Malik Nicholas (27), seorang teknisi komputer di Deutsche Bank, seperti dikutip YahooNews, Selasa (3/7/2007). “Yang paling menarik dari Transformer, adalah ide kreatif menciptakan sebuah mobil yang dapat berubah menjadi robot,” tambahnya. Nicholas sendiri berniat membeli salah satu karakter Transformer, Optimus Prime, yang akan dipajang di meja kerjanya.

Bagi seorang Pete Sinclair, Pria berusia 32 tahun yang mengoleksi karakter Transformer, mainan tersebut tidak hanya memiliki arti sebagai perubahan robot menjadi mobil, pertentangan antara baik dan buruk, tapi juga dapat memuaskan dewasanya yang suatu saat ingin kembali ke masa kecil.

Sampai saat ini, penjualan mainan buatan Hasbro yang diproduksi sejak tahun 1980 itu, laku pesat. Bahkan menurut, Christopher Byrne, Konsultan Independen untuk Industri Mainan, sebanyak 30 sampai 40 persen dari total mainan yang terjual merupakan kontribusi pembelian dari orang-orang dewasa. (mbs)

Tuding Langgar Hak Paten, LG Tuntut Quanta

Sarie Novian - Okezone


KOREA – LG Electronic mengajukan tuntutan kepada perusahaan pembuat komputer terbesar di dunia, Quanta. Disinyalir manufaktur laptop tersebut telah melanggar penggunaan hak paten atas teknologi DVD LG pada setiap laptop buatannya.

Kebanyakan klien Quanta terdiri dari beberapa vendor laptop ternama seperti Hewlett Packard dan Dell. Dalam setiap PC buatan Quanta dibenamkan perangkat pemutar DVD yang ternyata menggunakan teknologi yang telah dipatenkan terlebih dahulu oleh LG. Dengan demikian LG berhak atas royalty untuk setiap penggunaan teknologi DVD tersebut.

Oleh karena itu, LG pun menuduh Quanta telah melanggar undang-undang hak paten. LG telah mengajukan tuntutan tersebut untuk diproses di kantor Pengadilan Wisconsin, Amerika. LG menuntut Quanta untuk menghentikan penggunaan teknologi tersebut dan membayar denda atas pelanggaran penggunaan hak paten.

Seperti dilansir YahooNews, Kamis (5/7/2007), sebelumnya LG juga telah menuntut Quanta atas pelanggaran 2.000 hak paten yang berhubungan dengan perangkat dan teknologi pada PC pabrikan Quanta. Tuntutan tersebut telah diproses di Pengadilan Wilayah California Utara dan diharapkan akan selesai pada tahun 2008 nanti.

Selama ini LG telah memegang 5.000 izin hak paten internasional untuk teknologi DVD.