Lewat beberapa petunjuk, kita bisa menjawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan tadi dan menjadikan pengalaman belanja lebih nyaman dan aman.

1. Hati-hati dengan tempat Anda belanja. Banyak yang melakukan pencegahan dengan belanja hanya di situs yang sudah populer, menyangka bahwa hal itu aman. Meski demikian, penjahat cyber mengeksploitasi rasa aman itu dan menargetkan situs belanja dengan trafik tinggi. Pastikan Anda selalu menggunakan tool yang bisa memindai malware dan memberi peringatan jika situs yang Anda kunjungi berisiko. Contohnya, Norton Safe Web, sebuah tool online gratis yang memberi peringatan soal situs tak aman langsung di hasil pencarian dan otomatis memblokirnya.
2. Cek dan review penjual. Toko online juga seharusnya punya alamat fisik, layanan customer service lewat telepon dan kebijakan pengembalian jika barang yang diterima rusak.
3. Jangan jadi korban phishing dan pharming. Para penipu menggunakan phishing agar Anda menyerahkan informasi pribadi dengan mengirimkan email yang meminta Anda untuk memasukkan data kartu kredit atau password. Bisnis yang sungguhan tak akan meminta informasi tersebut lewat email. Pharming, lebih sulit dideteksi. Ini adalah situs palsu yang menipu pengguna untuk menyerahan informasinya. Solusi keamanan yang baik adalah perlindungan terbaik untuk melawan phishing dan pharming. Selain itu, selalu ketikkan alamat toko di browser dan bukan hanya mengklik dari tautan di email.
4. Belanja di situs dengan keamanan SSL. Beberapa situs memiliki label ‘certified secure’ dan menampilkan sertifikatnya di halaman depan atau saat checkpit. Situs ini menggunakan pengamanan Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Jika tempat Anda belanja tak menggunakan SSL, ya sebaiknya Anda belanja di tempat lain.
5. Kredit, bukan debet. Salah satu ketakutan yang banyak dibicarakan adalah penipuan kartu kredit. Ironisnya, membayar dengan kartu kredit adalah cara paling aman untuk belanja di web. Teknologi enkripsi dan validasi yang digunakan telah banyak mengamankan transaksi online. Ditambah lagi, kartu kredit biasanya punya perlindungan terhadap penipuan, pengiriman yang hilang, barang rusak dan masalah lain. Di sisi lain, kartu debit adalah sambungan langsung ke rekening Anda.

Terakhir, sama seperti Anda melindungi file dan uang di rumah, Anda harus juga menjaga alat transaksi digital Anda. Solusi keamanan yang komprehensif, sah dan up-to-date bukan hanya menghilangkan keragu-raguan atas transaksi online, tapi juga membuat belanja online lebih aman.

Kebanyakan masyarakat di Indonesia, hanya mengonsumsi susu sewaktu masih anak-anak. Alhasil, banyak kasus terjadi seseorang mengalami diare ketika mengonsumsi susu di saat beranjak dewasa.

Menurut ahli gizi dari Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) Prof. Dr. Ir. Made Astawan, MS, kondisi tersebut disebabkan oleh intoleransi laktosa. Ini adalah suatu keadaan di mana seseorang tidak memiliki enzim laktase yang cukup untuk mencerna laktosa pada susu.

Normalnya, kata Made, kalau seseorang minum susu, maka laktosanya akan masuk ke dalam tubuh. Laktosa itu adalah gula dalam susu yang diubah menjadi glukosa dan galaktosa.

“Tetapi kalau tidak ada laktase, begitu dia tidak minum susu, maka laktosa tidak dapat diubah menjadi glukosa dan galaktosa. Sehingga menjadi diare,” ungkapnya.

Hal tersebut, lanjut Made, terjadi karena enzimnya terlalu lama tidak pernah diumpani, sehingga tidak bekerja laktasenya.

‘I got there and they had a little area for my wardrobe, and I felt okay when I walked in and saw all the beautiful shoes,’ Crista said to Playboy when asked if she had been nervous at the prospect of taking her clothes off. ‘It scared me,’ she admitted. ‘[But] I thought it was exciting that something still scared me. I was really nervous about it, and then I thought the only thing that would be embarrassing would be if I hated my body.’

Along with the eight page spread is an essay titled ‘It’s a Mad World,’ which was written in the Sixties by provocative advertising man George Lois. Accompanying the article are advertisements that were featured in Playboy issues throughout that decade. Flanagan has previously portrayed quirky roles on US sketch comedy series MADtv and the hit Larry David show Curb Your Enthusiasm. She admits that she relished the opportunity to do the photo shoot because she never gets to play pretty on screen.

Sure, she was the daughter of actor Jon Voight, but back then she was just plain Angelina Jolie.

Well, plain is never a word that really applies to Angie, and as these soon-to-be-auctioned pictures reveal, the 34-year-old actress was exceptionally gorgeous even as a teenager.

The most interesting image is the close-up shot of the 15-year-old Angie in a trim black dress. Even now, that pic could practically pass for Angelina in 2010, it’s astounding to think how much her photogenic face has stayed the same over nearly 20 years.

Using a computer, they compared the size of the food to the size of the heads in 52 paintings of Jesus Christ and his disciples at their final meal before his death.

If art imitates life, we’re in trouble, the researchers conclude. The size of the main dish grew 69 percent; the size of the plate, 66 percent, and the bread, 23 percent, between the years 1000 and 2000.

Supersizing is considered a modern phenomenon, but “what we see recently may be just a more noticeable part of a very long trend,” said Brian Wansink, a food behavior scientist at Cornell University.

The study was his idea. For biblical context, he sought help from his brother, Craig Wansink, professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College in Norfolk, Va., and an ordained Presbyterian minister.

The study is “not very meaningful science,” said Martin Binks, a behavioral health psychologist  and a consultant at Duke University Medical Center. “We have real life examples of the increase in portion size — all you have to do is look at what’s being sold at fast-food restaurants.”

“I believe Michael was murdered, I felt that from the start,” the 53-year-old said. “Not just one person was involved, rather it was a conspiracy of people. He was surrounded by a bad circle. Michael was a very meek, quiet, loving person. People took advantage of that.

“Less than a month ago, I said I thought Michael was going to die before the London shows because he was surrounded by people who didn’t have his best interests at heart.La Toya said she had ordered a private autopsy. Jackson, one of the world’s most popular entertainers, died on June 25 at the age of 50.

“Michael was worth more than a billion dollars. When anyone is worth that much money, there are always greedy people around them. I said to my family a month ago, ‘He’s never going to make it to London’. He was worth more dead than alive.” Murder under Californian law can include killings that are not premeditated.

Opera Mobile 9.5 beta has a new user interface (UI), presented as more intuitive and cleaner than the UIs from the previous versions. Furthermore, the new browser is faster and features the following:

– support for Opera Dragonfly, which enables developers to check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or debug JavaScript;

– pan and zoom – full page viewing is now the browser’s default mode and users can pan and zoom into any desired area of the page(s);

– quick and easy page and image saving;

– and enhanced standards support;

“Our fans have been eager for the release of Opera Mobile 9.5 since it first appeared at the Mobile World Congress this year. We are now answering the call of the people and delivering what we proudly proclaim to be our best Opera Mobile browser to date. It is a totally new user experience,” said Jon von Tetzchner, Chief Executive Officer at Opera Software. That’s surely an enthusiastic statement, but maybe Mr. von Tetzchner should have waited until the browser gets to be released in the 9.5 final (and stable) version.

The bugs and issues that the 9.5 beta version of Opera Mobile comes with include:

– no ActiveX support – hence embedded video streaming and Flash plugins will not work;

– custom-made IMEs (input method editors) are “buggy at best, not working at worst” when Opera Mobile 9.5 beta is installed on your handset;

– in overview mode, the text will not be displayed correctly;

– when installed on a memory card, Opera Mobile 9.5 beta may cause unexpected problems (crashes, most probably);

– except English, no other language is supported.

These being said, before installing the new Opera Mobile 9.5 beta on your handset, make sure not to expect a flawless functionality. Moreover, the installation of the 9.5 beta is only recommended for advanced users and developers, since it may lead to “data loss or other unintended actions”. Thus, regular users had better wait for the final 9.5 version of the famous mobile browser.

First presented together with the J800 model, which is a slider, the new Samsung M150 comes in a simple but nice candybar case. It measures only 106.5 x 45.4 x 12.7 millimeters and brings the following features: a 1.77 inch TFT display with 65K colors and 128 x 160 pixels, dual-band GSM connectivity with GPRS (EDGE is missing), Music player (supporting MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+ and RA), FM radio, WAP 2.0 browser, email capabilities, personalized ringtones, a VGA camera with video recording, speakerphone, embedded games, calendar, alarm clock, 20MB of internal memory and so on (it’s not clear yet if the phone has a microSD card slot too).

In order to attract as many users as possible, Samsung will offer the new M150 in no less than 5 color versions: Ice Blue, Pure White, Light Gray, Charcoal Gray and Lavender Pink.

The first market to get the Samsung M150 (or SGH-M150) will be Germany, where the slim candybar should be on sale starting mid-August. After that, the handset will also be released in other markets across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Apparently, mobile users from North and South America will not be able to buy the M150.

No word yet on the exact retail price of Samsung M150, but its features don’t actually qualify it for one higher than 200 Euros. With a contract agreement from some carriers, the M150 might even be offered for free, so if free handsets are your coup of tea, be sure to check out this new Samsung.

Now the FCC brings Ezze into the spotlight again, as it approved the new Ezio Mega4 too, a touchscreen phone that looks like a mix between Apple’s iPhone and a Sony Ericsson handset (the W910 Walkman slider, for example). Well, it’s not the first (and certainly not the last) time when a new device brings similarities with older ones, so I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised by this new handset.

From Ezio Mega4′s User Manual we know that the new phone features the following: TV out, Video player, Music player with auto equalizer, FM radio (with recorder but sans RDS), a 2 Megapixel camera with Flash, self-timer and video recording (no auto focus, though), Photo Editor and Photo Album, MMS capabilities, Bluetooth 1.2 , WAP browser, email, e-book reader, flight mode, Caller ID, Java MIDP 2.0, 2 embedded games, sound recorder, file manager, vCard, To Do list, calendar, calculator, alarm clock, world clock, unit converter, currency converter, stopwatch and a BMI (Body Mass Index) application.

A thing that’s not at all great about the new Esio phone is that it only features tri-band GSM connectivity (850 / 1800 / 1900 MHz) with GPRS, hence it won’t be able to provide fast data transfer speeds or an optimal Web browsing experience.

The size and resolution of Mega4′s touchscreen display is not known, nor are its weight and size or its internal memory.

Since the new Ezio has just received FCC’s blessing and it’s compatible with the North American GSM networks, the handset might soon hit the US market – although, being GPRS-only, I’m not sure how many users will be enthusiastic about it.

Well, no, O2 hasn’t made any Vista deal, nor did Microsoft license the use of its latest OS (or of its name) for any mobile device on the market. The mystery behind the handset called O2 XDA Vista can be found in China, where the Pocket PC was made and where, according to IT168, it will be on sale, for retail prices of around 3,500 yuan – the equivalent of $510 or 325 Euros.

To make it clear, O2 XDA Vista has nothing to do with either the real O2 or with the real Vista. It’s just another copycat device, but one that has the “merit” of cloning and ripping off quite a lot of handsets and brands.

When closed and seen from the front, the O2 XDA Vista looks like a Nokia handset, as its navigation keys are made in such a way that they resemble the ones of an Eseries smarpthone (E90, for example). When seen from the back, the XDA Vista unveils a 3 Megapixel camera as well as the logos of O2 and Windows Vista – both put there without the consent of their true owners.

When open, the O2 XDA Vista unveils a full QWERTY keyboard, bringing in mind several HTC devices as well as the Toshiba G900. The display packed by O2 XDA Vista is a 480 x 800 pixels touchscreen one, à la Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.

What’s funny is that, although it bears the Vista name and logo, this new Chinese Pocket PC doesn’t even run on the latest Windows Mobile 6.1, but only on the 6.0 version.

The rest of the features packed in the XDA wannabe apparently include: GPS, Wi-Fi, 3G connectivity, mobile TV capabilities, Music player and an Intel XScale 520 MHz Processor.

What’s left to say is that the company that made the so-called O2 XDA Vista should seriously think not to release it on the market, as there are at least three giants that can easily accuse it of ripping off their work – O2, Microsoft and Nokia.