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ITB LC serves you better ACADEMIC WRITING 2006: 2006-03-19

Friday, March 24, 2006

How to take care of your soft-top car

If you drive a car whose convertible top, You have to take care of soft-top condition in order to keep it in a good condition. That is why I suggest you some steps. First, clean the soft-top using warm water, then wash it using soft soap. You can make it with mixture of two cups soap and 10 litre water . You should use soft brush, then start to brush it from front to back and do not press hard. Wash off again with water until it is really clean away from soap. Last, dry it by insinuating or trying to prevent from sunbeam directly. Beside them, you should not forget enviromental effect. You are not suggested to spray with high pressured water. Finally, by following step by step, you can take care of your soft-top car wisely.

Get connected with Friendster!

It is so easy to make a profile in Friendster.


All you have to do is follow these steps.

Fisrt thing you have to know, Friendster requires an email address. This is very important, in case something happens with your profile in Friendster, Friendster can mail you right away.

Now it is time to sign up a profile in Friendster.

Go to www.friendster.com and choose the "Join" option.

You will see an application form in the next page.

Fill all the blank space.

If you have filled all the blank space, click the "Register" tabs.

Now you have already got a Friendster profile.

To complete the steps, you need to verify your email address, so Friendster can inform anything that happens with your profile.

Open you email, and you will see an email from Friendster.

Follow the instruction, and now your email have been verified.

Next step is to inform all your friends that you have a new Friendster profile.

You can do this thing in Friendster.

Choose the “Tell Friends” tabs, and write down all your friend’s email addresses.

This way, your friends will notice that you have made a new Friendster profile, so they can add you as their friends.

Now it is your turn to add as many friends you can find in Friendster.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

How to Dispose a Computer

How to dispose a computer

Disposing a computer can not be done in rough way, like burning or just leave it without any safety treat in the landfill. Because, a computer contains many dangerous material, like heavy metal and toxic chemical compound. These materials can cause a bad effect to human and surrounding environment. This is a simple way to dispose a computer with safety treat. First, we have to separate the computer into few simple components. This could be done by opening the screw and remove softly the harddisk, power supply, transformator, cd-rom, etc. Next, is assembling the same component into one group. Like assembling cables into one group. In this step, we also separate the toxic component and Non-toxic component. Non-toxic component is plastic, iron, cables, etc. The toxic component is a component which contain dangerous material, such as electrolyte compound, heavy metal, Nickel, Cadmium, and Hidrargyrum. After we assemble the component, next step is put the assembled components into a container. These containers are based on the type and kind of the material. Like, put the non-toxic component into one box. Do this step carefully to toxic component, like put it into a box which safe enough to prevent it from polluting the environment. Finally we can dispose a computer with a safe way which can reduce the harm of computer materials to the surrounding environment.