Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Software | 
While other rush for the craze of the Eee PCs, theysaY looks further and envisions other gadgets in the near future. OLOC XO-2 was short-listed as one of the futuristic sexy and affordable gadgets. A first look at OLOC XO-2 reveals that it is a compact gadget that packs a punch. Now for its highlights according to Larry Dignan:
OLPC is betting that new developments in hardware, software, display and processor technologies will lower the XO-2’s price tag to $75.
OLPC is going with the 1 watt power consumption target so XO-2 can be powered by a hand crank.
The XO-2 will feature dual-touch displaces for the e-book.
XO-2 laptop
The whole idea is very refreshing. Taking a lesson from the previous XO model, XO-2 will be given a new outlook. Featuring two 16:9 touch-screens, one of which can be used as a touch-sensitive keyboard and the other as a display screen. Also, OLPC is set to market the new model XO-2 to developing nations as an e-book reader.
Overall, OLPC XO-2 looks great compared to its pre-descendent which is bulky and heavy. However, the pretty promises to deliver by 2010 seem too soon and good to be true.
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All windows users would have one time or another experience your computer hanging when you are in the midst of your work. To make matter worse, you cannot simply restart your computer because you have not saved your project that you rushed through the night. However you can try a simple trick to unfreeze your windows without restarting your computer.
Unfreeze your windows when your computer hang
1) Press ctr alt del / right click your taskbar and select Task Manager to access your Windows Task Manager.
2) Under the Processes tab, select explorer.exe and press end process. Select yes to confirm your action.
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For apple users, you will be delighted to know that there are indeed alternatives to the inertia and bloated iTunes. Today, I will be sharing two iTunes alternatives for managing your Apple devices equally if not better than the like of iTunes.
First we have iPhone PC Suite. If you are a proud owner of an iPhone, this sleak and powerful software is designed especially to blow you mind. With the promise of diligently sorting out you images, music, contacts to managing your camera, bookmarks, themes, all these via a specially crafted iPhone interface.
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There will come a time where you need to do a screen capture of what you are doing, be it you are a blogger or not. So it is convenient to be familiar with the how to go about making screen captures of your current window or just simply the whole monitor. By default, there is the infamous Print Screen button on most of our keyboards, well its somewhere near the top right hand corner. Here are the common ways to capture your current screen in Windows and Mac.
Windows Print Screen Shortcuts
* Prt Scr – The magical print screen button will allow user to capture the entire screen and store in temporary in the clipboard. After which you can do further editing with GIMP or Windows Paint by simply pasting.
* Alt + Prt Scr – By holding on to the Alt key and pressing print screen button, you will only capture the current active window.
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The ScribeFire Blog Editor is a Mozilla Firefox addon that has received rave reviews from bloggers from all over the net. Its a blogging tool built into the Mozilla Firefox interface by way of an add on, allowing you to have access to a WYSIWYG editor while browsing the net for inspiration or references.
ScribeFire is easily installed, and once the installation is done you can easily add your blog address,username and password to the Scribefire interface. Scribefire allows you to add multiple blogs from multiple blogger accounts so that you can choose which blog to post to easily.
Once this is done, a easy to use blog editor just like that in blogger allows you to easily compose your posts and add images. You can browse through existing entries in your blogs, or go through saved posts which are either unfinished or unpublished, all located in an easy to use tabbed interface that will ensure you never face the problem of a missing unfinished blog post again.
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If you’re anything like me you probably love experimenting with your computer a lot. And if you’re anything like me you’ve probably messed up your master boot record more than a couple of times while trying to dual boot OSx86 on your computer or something. The last time that happened to me it took a couple hours of failed boots, Windows repairs and grinding of teeth before I managed to fix up the corrupted MBR of my hard disk.
Thats why I should probably have backed up my MBR before I started. Of course if you haven’t even heard of an MBR before you started reading this article this tool is probably not for you, but its always good to know what to do in the event that your computer freeze and simply refuses to boot to Windows.
MBRWizard is a tool that allows you to backup your master boot record, the sector of your hard disk that stores information on how to boot up, and incidentally the area of your hard disc most prone to editing by partition tools and boot managers and thus the most susceptible to corruption. Once done you can copy the backed up MBR into a removable drive or the like so that you can easily restore your MBR if anything goes wrong while your grubby hands are fooling around with more dual booting.
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This is not the latest news. Windows 7 which is debuted to replace the current Windows Vista is causing a huge hype in the web. Just recently, Windows 7 Build 6801 was leaked on torrent portals after its release at PDC 2008. Attached are the screenshots that a user took after installing the new OS.
Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Computer Hardware, Software |
The two images above are maps of the Internet, specifically the “routers” – equipment that passes data to its intended destination – and the paths between them. Think of it as the Internet’s highways and exit ramps. The maps were made by Lumeta, a tech-security company. The map on the left was made 10 years ago, and shows about 88,000 routers. The one on the right was made a couple of months ago. This time Lumeta mapped over 450,000 routers.
