Pura Goa Lawah (Bat Cave Shrine)

Pura Goa Lawah (Bat Cave Shrine), located at southeastern part of Bali, is one of Bali’s popular tourist attractions that people shouldn’t miss when visiting the Island of Gods. Consistent with its name, the cave is over run with thousands of black bats. Upon...

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First Look: A Sneak Peek at Microsoft's New Windows 8

Check it out- the new desktop screen for Windows 8, a brand new interface for tablets. At first glance, it is reminiscent of Windows Live Phone Tiles. Some sources suggest that Windows 8 will be a mix of Windows 7, Xbox 360, Microsoft Office, and Windows Phone...

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How to Speed Up Your PC

How to speed up my PC, you ask?Simple tasks like starting up, opening a windows explorer folder to playing a game all require processing power from your PC. Unfortunately, the sight of aging computers turning slower month by month is getting common these days,...

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Top 10 Android Multiplayer Games

Unknown to many, the Android Marketplace has more free apps for download than Apple’s App Store. Out of that huge number, there are many top-notch multiplayer games. Here’s a list of our favourite Android games, spanning from MMORPGs to casual games.1. Pocket...

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Video games being blamed for divorce as men 'prefer World of Warcraft to their wives'

The explosion of video games and their popularity bring along several pressing social problems. Increasingly, there is one more reason to be wary of video game addiction: wrecked marriages. A study conducted by Divorce Online reveals that of the women are filing...

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Selling your phone? Ensure personal security in a few simple steps

Smartphones these days do far more than just the standard calling and text messaging. These multifunctional devices now handle jobs such as emailing, banking and the like, resulting in our phones loading up on sensitive information. Losing a phone spells disaster...

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Chinese Prisoners Forced into MMO Gold Farming

In movies, (Chow Yun Fatt’s popular Prison on Fire comes to mind) the idea of prison inmate abuse through physical punishments and hard labor has been explored to death. In real life however, there could be worse torture than just physical labor. A recent UK feature...

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Gaming: 50 Years in the Future

Futurists use “Moore’s Law” as a guideline to predict the advance in technology. The law basically outlines the annual doubling of processing power relative to the expansion of memory and decrease in cost of technology.Based on the predictions of futurists, it...

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Surviving the Modern Day Breakup

We live in modern times. Before, you could avoid seeing or thinking about post-relationship fallout for maybe weeks. Nowadays, it’s not so easy to run away. All that's needed is a Facebook blast stating that ‘you are no longer in a relationship’ and all your friends...

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PURI AGUNG KARANGASEM

People quite often need reasons to visit places, regardless distance, regardless who create them and how they are created or emerged. I’ve been living in Jakarta for more than 20 years, but many places in the city remain virgins for me until today. I’ve been...

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Pasir Berbisik is a beautiful and vast sea of sands located around Bromo Caldera

Pasir Berbisik is a beautiful and vast sea of sands located around Bromo Caldera, Probolinggo, East Java. The nick-name was apparently given after a popular movie with the same title was made at the location several years ago. The once in a while mild sand storms...

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Ngaben: A Journey to Heaven

It was an invitation from a close friend and the blog contributor, SBoentaran, that enabled me to witness one of the most unforgettable ceremonies in Bali. The final chapter of balinese Hindu rites of passage, commonly known as ngaben or palebon. The cremation...

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