Can't Access Facebook at Workingplace?

Having trouble by accessing Facebook or Twitter at your working place? Suspicious that only your company that make such prohibition? Well, if you’re thinking just that straight away, you’re wrong. I’ve been read a general report of Robert Half Technology (an IT staffing company), and the result is really shocking. Here it is: 54% of American Company block access of their computers at workingplace to social network website such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln, and Myspace during working hour. This percentage is very enormous, more than half of American Company do this blocking action.

Robert half Technology also reveals that only 10% of 1400 company chairmans confess that they allow their employers to fully access Facebook and Twitter, 19% of the employers are allowed to access and use Facebook only because the company needs those sites in purpose of supporting their business/industry, and the rest 16% of employers are allowed to access Facebook with certain limitation.

This prohibition of accessing social network website is not a surprising policy. According to the research conducted by Nucleus (a company works on Information Technology field), companies that allow their employers to access social network website loosing their productivity up to 1.5%. Other fact says that the employers spend their time up to 2 hours when they’re accessing social network website.

As the conclusion, don’t blame your company if they do such of this prohibition because most of American Companies do the same thing.

Photoshop mobile???

Adobe, at 12th October 2009 announces the new Photoshop application that is intended to the iPhone user. As we’re all know, to get a qualified software products, iPhone users must pay for them, but as a contrary, Adobe spreads this product for free. You can download this product from iPhone Store. We must admit that this is a courage act from Adobe because as we know Photoshop applied for desktop or notebook is quite expensive, approx. $599.

But, you don’t have to expect too much for this product. You cannot have the whole facility and feature of the origin product intended to deskop or notebook. There’s no complicated effect, no unique features as Liquify in this iPhone application. This product only comes for a basic need, as cropping, exposure adjustment, contrast correction, converting a colour image into a black & white one, and rotate an image.

This application is intended more to tweak and adding simple effects to a photo taken from a mobile phone device. Effects such image border, sketching or blurring is also provided.

This application is also allow its user to save and to see their photo at Photoshop.com.

This act is too late actually. Phanfare, a company that works at online photo services, also released the same application form last year. Adobe’s rival, Smugmug also released the same thing a few time ago before Adobe did, called Blossom. Well, let’s see Adobe’s next step of innovation.