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Posted by hina on November 13, 2009 under Accessories, Software | 
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Here’s something to occupy you for a good 5 minutes or so. This is a picture with icons representing various developments in the computing world, from A to Z. Can you identify all 26 of them?
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If the latest Iphone news were not enough to sway you to your feet, try Mac Mini. Web rumors of the possible demise of Mac Mini are causing quite a stir in the online community. Here are some snippets of what we heard.
AppleInsider has the story of one Apple enthusiast, who was so concerned that the company might kill the Mac mini that he e-mailed an Apple executive and received a phone call suggesting that the Mac mini may not be down for the count just yet.
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In your daily routine, it would be very common to get to see bar codes around you. But it became not so ubiquitous when the bar codes are not long just systematic black lines. Japanese people are really creative indeed, first the sexy alarm clock that can be stop by hitting bullseye with a gun, now comes the uncommon barcode. Here are some amazing collection of uncommon and creative barcodes that I have found on the net which will be shown right after the break.
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If you have been a premium rapidshare user, this article will be old news. But for the benefit of the majority, we have consolidated some of the recent changes and updates to the popular Rapidshare. There are more news after the break.
Updates of RapidShare
1) RapidShare.com has decided to decrease the download limit for new premium customers from 300GB earlier to the current 80GB per month. For those users who download heavily, this bad news is sure to make them reconsider whether to renew their current RapidShare premium account. However, old premium account holders can continue to enjoy the former limits after the new policy change until they choose to extend their premium account.
2) RapidShare has made it clear that it will not control nor monitor uploads to its servers. What it meants is that your personal files should be safe unless it is related to distribution of illegal content. The stand has been made clear enough that data privacy is deemed important in the eyes of RapidShare.
3) Rapidshare Security Lock is the latest additional security feature added by Rapidshare in its fight against phishers and account hackers who steal and change the account credentials. With this new feature activated, hackers will not have unauthorised access to users files, passwords and email address. The second password will only be known to the actual owner, hence premium users can now be more assured that their Rapidshare premium access will not be easily compromised.
Posted by hina on November 12, 2009 under Accessories, Software | Comments are off for this article
As the year 2008 draws to a closure, it leads me to wonder what i have gotten out of the year. Painful year it is for me, having to cope with many setbacks that seemingly appear around every corner. I suppose it is my destiny that things do not always turn out as what i wanted, but i just want to leave it at that. Understandably, quoting from a friend of mine “You don’t always get what you want”
Having said that, sometimes I cannot but feel helpless in situations where I really wish I could turn back time. Because you know the decision you make will affect the rest of your life, you tend to be a little hesitant. But when the time comes when you need to make an important decision, you have got to do it. Not so much of the part thereof, but rather there are really times where I wish I could save this moment and reload back that particular moment just to go through the life depicted by the other option i din choose.
The recent credit crunch did not prove much help either.The turmoil engulfing the world economy is equally disturbing in the daily routine of my life. Indeed, the global financial crisis has ushered in a new age of uncertainty where you know your instincts can only be your best bet. Statistic misleads and extrapolation mistakes.
There is a part of me which I want to leave behind in 2008. I have learnt the hard way that being good and nice never begets any good result. Pragmatism and selfish are necessary sometimes. Why be nice when other treat you in a less than shabbily way? Tell me about it.
Certainly there are things that makes 2008 memorable. Friends and family are the bonus in our life. At this point in time, I’m still in the midst of struggling to be a responsible and mature adult. No matter what happens in life, I hope I can take it with a pinch of salt and still smile.
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Many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy..
What happens if you leave the mobile phone plugged in all night?
According to measurements from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the average cell phone draws 3.68 watts of power from the outlet while it’s charging and 2.24 watts when charged. Let’s take the worst-case scenario and assume that you’re over-juicing a charged battery for the entire night. Leave the average phone plugged in for eight unnecessary hours, and it’ll use about 0.018 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Do that every night for a week, and the figure rises to 0.13 kWh; every night for a year, and you’re looking at a grand total of 6.5 kWh of electricity.
What if you leave your phone charger plugged in all the time, even when the phone itself isn’t attached—how much vampire power would that suck up? Again using the Berkeley Lab figures, if the average charger is plugged in for the entire 8,760 hours of the year, it’ll use about 2.3 kWh of electricity.
Your iPod or Zune probably isn’t worth worrying too much about, either: According to Chris Calwell, the founder of energy efficiency consulting firm Ecos, digital music players only draw about 0.25 to 0.4 watts when fully charged.
What about laptops? If you got yours in the last few years, it may not be much of a nighttime energy hog. According to figures from the University of Pennsylvania’s IT department—which looked at several laptops purchased between 2005 and 2009—today’s laptops draw between one to three watts when switched off but plugged in, and roughly the same amount in sleep mode. That puts them in about the same ballpark as cell phones. A laptop that’s idle, but not asleep, will draw closer to 15 to 20 watts.
Given that the average American’s residential electricity consumption is more than 4,000 kWh each year (PDF), the Lantern doesn’t think that a handful of kilowatt-hours are worth much tossing and turning. You could do way more for the planet, for example, by swapping out a single incandescent light bulb in your home for a compact fluorescent one; as the Lantern pointed out in a previous column, that simple action alone can save 126 kWh a year. Plus, charging your gadgets while you sleep has the added benefit of shifting a tiny fraction of your energy usage from the daytime, when demand is highest, to the nighttime, making things just a bit easier on your local grid.
Posted by hina on November 11, 2009 under Accessories, Digital Camera | Comments are off for this article
Look at this tiny projector which is so tiny that can quietly rest on the palm of your hand. It’s definitely a handy gadget for those who always travel around and presentation is always a need in your daily job.
Carrying such a little projector will not make you sweat a single drop. This pint-sized projector had actually hit the market a month ago, and the price is commonly affordable for most professionals. It costs about $200 only.
The device measures about 6.7 in x 3.9 in x 3.5 in, which is kind of qualified to be called Micro projector. The device can only throw an image of a maximum of around 30-inches diagonal before the image gets distorted. But, 30 inches should be more than sufficient for any presentation that you need for your job.
The tiny projector is compatible with both NTSC and PAL devices. It connects to any device with a composite video output. It comes with built-in speakers, which definitely helps so much while you’re watching movie, which at least lets you hear the sound. The projector can even play movies, music and display photos directly from a SD card. But the light source of this projector would not be as bright as others, as it’s powered by a high-power LED light source instead of a discharge bulb. It shouldn’t give you much problem, as long as you dim all the lights in the room, to get a better quality of projection. And the best is this projector can run on AA batteries for about a 2.5 hours at a time.
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Solar cells have been made into various form factors in order to be handy and provide best absorption of sun lights to power our gadgets. We’ve heard solar cells will be made so tiny which can be used as paint and sprayed on your entire house to absorb solar energy to power your house and various gadgets.
Mitsubishi Corp., Tokki Corp. and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have teamed up and developed the organic thin-film solar cells, which form the leaves of fake plants.
It’ll be great use in offices and living spaces, that have fake plants around for the sake of spicing up the environments. The solar cells on these fake plants make them unnoticeable that they’re actually those dull cells which collect energy for you. They’ve now become part of your home decors, being part of the fake plants that make your living or office space more lively. Besides, they also have potential to be used in building construction, such as embedded in those building materials, since they’re super thin. Of course, they’re super easy to be incorporated into various gadgets that will not add any bulk to gadgets.