HTC's HD2 carrying a secret stash of hidden RAM

 

Will this phone ever stop surprising us? Rumblings that all HD2 devices have 576MB of RAM inside them started developing in China a little while before T-Mobile unveiled its upgraded US-bound handset with, funnily enough, the same amount of memory. Now, those trusty souls over at XDA-developers have concocted custom ROMs for everyone else to free up the extra 128MB of operational headroom, and user feedback appears to corroborate the theory. We can hardly begin to fathom the reasons for HTC disabling part of its available hardware, other than to guess that a WinMo 7 upgrade was in the company's plans for this phone all along and it just wanted to keep its ability to handle the new OS under wraps. Video and pictorial evidence of cracking past the 448MB barrier after the break.

 

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Apple tablet could stir up video game business

Now, with the looming launch of a tablet-style computer -- already nicknamed the "iPhone on steroids," with a bigger screen that might have a place in the living room -- Apple could pose an even tougher challenge to established players in the video game business.

That assumes, however, that potential buyers aren't scared off by a price that might be more than the cost of a Wii, a PlayStation 3 and an Xbox 360 combined. Apple isn't commenting on its unveiling Wednesday.

Apple's iPhone and the similar iPod Touch brought a new look to games because they have an accelerometer inside that lets people control the action by turning or tilting the device. With a touch screen and the computing horsepower for high-quality graphics, the iPhone lends itself to pared-down versions of console games like "Assassin's Creed" and "The Sims 3." Its size, meanwhile, makes it easy to consume addictive puzzles in 5-minute increments while waiting for the dentist or riding the subway.

Now the iPhone, which costs $99, $199 or $299 plus a monthly service plan, rivals gadgets such as the Nintendo DS ($130-$170) or PlayStation Portable ($170-$250), known as the PSP, which were created solely for playing games on the go. It's unclear whether Apple has taken substantial market share away, but the iPhone likely introduced people to mobile games who wouldn't have played otherwise.

"We've seen the iPhone and iPod Touch as kind of a starter kit for video games," says John Koller, director of hardware marketing at Sony Computer Entertainment America. "When those customers are ready to graduate into a deeper experience, the PSP is there for them."

Soon a tablet may be there for them, too. A touch-screen gadget that is bigger than an iPhone could provide a larger playing field for gamers and give game developers a new way to push the limits of their creativity.

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HTC Magic's Sense update ready for download

You've waited long enough, now today's the day that HTC releases ROM Version:3.05.401.3 that brings the Sense user interface to Magic owners. Just be sure and heed HTC's warning to backup your data since this update will overwrite whatever it is you've been doing. Now hit that source link and get to updating, heroes.

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Mobile Touch Screens Could Soon Feel the Pressure

Forget swiping or pinching--the next generation of portable touch-screen devices will be able to distinguish between a gentle touch and a hard poke.
Peratech, a U.K. company, has signed a $1.4 million deal to license its pressure-sensing touch-screen technology to Japanese screen manufacturer Nissha, which makes displays for companies including LG and Nintendo. Peratech's technology is one of several approaches that can be packed into portable devices. But it uses a novel quantum mechanism to sense pressure, and this promises to be more sensitive and more efficient than the other approaches.
Peratech, which was spun out of a research lab at Durham University in 1996, uses an electrically conductive material dubbed a quantum tunneling composite (QTC). Quantum tunneling occurs when electrons jump between two conductors that are brought close together, but remain separated by an insulating barrier. In Peratech's switches, a polymer acts as the insulating layer. It is embedded with spiky, conductive metallic particles, each about 10 nanometers in size.
"These are polymer materials that change their resistance as force is applied," says Philip Taysom, Peratech's CEO. So as force is applied, these particles are brought closer together. "As they come into proximity, they allow quantum tunneling," he says.
The approach allows Peratech's QTC sensors to be extremely thin: just 75 micrometers thick. The sensors line the perimeter of a display. When pressure is applied and the screen bends very slightly (as little as two micrometers), the switches detect this change. By comparing the readings from the sensors with sensory data from the touch screen, it is possible to tell precisely where, and how hard, the screen is being pressed

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Facebook hits spam, users recieving password reset emails

Botnet spam hits facebook thousands of facebook users are receiving emails saying that their password has been reset and new password is attached on zip file.But in the zip a trojan is attached rather than the password.When you extract the contents of zip filebotnet spam starts doing its work.The downloader then downloads additional malware from two servers, including fake anti-virus software, and joins the Bredolab botnet.

When botnet spam finishes downloading all the required files.Hacker can easily steal your personal information and can also control your pc.One of the servers is based in the Netherlands, with the other in Kazakhstan, according to an alert on Websense, a security research company.So if you are also the victim of  botnet spam and received email saying that your facebook password has been reset then the best option you will have is just delete that email from your inbox ASAP.
According to Websense, the address of the sender is spoofed to display “support@facebook.com,”

Kingston Introduces 128 GB USB Flash Drive(DT 200)

If we talk about memory chips and USB flash drives we have only one name in mind which is kingston and kingston has proved itself by always introducing quality products in market.Recently kingston has amazed lots of peoples by introducing largest USB flash drive of 128 GB.Now a Flash drive which is of size almost equal to a thumb can carry all of data on your desktop computer.
With huge space of about 128 gb  you can have movies,games,songs and almost anything in your pocket.This 128 gb USB flash drive also has password protection so you also won’t have to worry about your data if you have forgotten your USB flash drive somewhere else.

Kingston’s new DataTraveler® 200 USB Flash drive is ideal for storing and transferring digital images and presentations and transporting all kinds of data. With capacities up to 128GB, the DataTraveler 200 featurespassword protection via Password Traveler software, which allows you to create and access a password-protected, secure area of the drive called a “Privacy Zone.”
Features :
# Capacities* — 32GB, 64GB, 128GB
# Dimensions — 2.77″ x 0.49″ x 0.89″ (70.39mm x 12.52mm x 22.78mm)
# Operating Temperature — 32°F to 140°F (0°C to 60°C)
# Storage Temperatures — -4°F to 185°F (-20°C to 85°C)
# Simple — Just plug into a USB port
# Practical — Durable, capless design
# Guaranteed — Five-year warranty
# Safeguarded — Includes Password Traveler security software for Windows
# Enhanced — for Windows ReadyBoost™ on Vista-based systems**
# Compatibility Table:
But as this huge capacity USB flash drive recently introduced it will cost you too much to get a 128 gb USB flash Drive.Prices are given below.

• DT200, 32GB – $120
• DT200, 64GB – $213
• DT200, 128GB – $546

Oh! $546 is too much for a USB flash Drive.We can have a good netbook on this amount which will have 160 GB of Space.We also have another option available which is we can have an External Hard Drive which will cost us less as compare to this 128USB flash drive but that External drive won’t be that much small in size and convenient to take anywhere with you.

What is Electronic Shelf Labels?

For about 20 years, most product store around the world is still using a single piece of paper to display their product price, weight or quantity. They used it because it was easy to use and affordable with cheap price. This is definitely not professional for the large store that has a big number of products and store owner needs extra labor for labeling purpose.

What is Electronic Shelf Labels?

Electronic Shelf Labels or ESL is a technology that is used to display price tags. It equipped with wireless technology allowing transfer the price and promotion information around the supermarket.

Besides giving more convenience to customers, Electronic Shelf Labels are also allowed store owners update the price changes or even the product details immediately throughout the single store or even multiple stores. With this latest technology, store owner can planning price strategies and timing. For example, they could change the price to promotional price during the festival or season. Thus, this will give advantage to the store owner to improve their sales.

Electronic Shelf Labels are also providing another advantage to store owner. The Electronic Shelf Label price tags can contain additional information such as product levels, product location codes, or any other useful information regarding the products.

Increase your computer’s performance by Disk Defragmenter

Hi friends . 

Fragmented files in your hard disk causes your computer to slow down to an extent. Because if we need to read from a fragmented file it needs more time for the computer to find that file. so defragmenting makes your pc works faster. you can do this by following these steps

Step 1 : Goto My computer, Right click on the disk drive and select properties.

Step 2 : Click on the Tools Tab And Click on the Defragment Now Button.

 

Step 3 : Then Disk Defragmenter Window comes. then select the drive you want to defragment and click on Analyze to Analyze the disk selected or click on the Defragment Button to start the defragmentation process.

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How to automatically clear Temporary files and cache on system startup.

One of the main reason of some PC error and slow performance is the tons of temporary files and cache.These files can be more than 100 mb.Temporary files and cache can be cleared manually but it is always good to clear the cache using a software.

Cleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

CCleaner also has another cool option which is automatically cleaning.To perform automatic cleaning with ccleaner what you need to do is to just use the /Auto switch.

Now lets start the process.

First of all download and install CCleaner.

When ccleaner is installed you will have a shortcut on your desktop.

Right click on shortcut and click on properties.

Now copy the following line and replace it with the line in target field with quotes.

“C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe” /AUTO

Now press OK.

Now copy the shortcut icon from desktop.

Right click on start menu and select open

Go to > Programs > Startup

Paste the shortcut icon.

Now everytime when you will start the computer ccleaner will run automatically and will also be closed automatically after clearing all the cache.

Convert Text files to PDF for Free

Rather than sending the text files in email it is always good to convert text files to pdf as pdf files look good and easy to view.You cannot convert text files to pdf without using any software.You can use adobe acrobat to complete this task but acrobat is really a resource consuming program and takes lots of space in HD.

It would be better to use a small utility which is free and takes minimum resources.Zilla TXT to PDF Converter allows users to set Page Size, Font, Author and Keywords information etc.You will simply need to add the source TXT files and choose the destination folder.


Conversion process is also really really easy.You can add a single file or a whole folder that contains bunch of files and then press Start converting button to convert into pdf then with in some seconds you will have the converted files.It is easy,isn’t it.

Free version of Zilla TXT to PDF can only convert text files.If you upgrade to the paid version you can convert the following files.


Convert PDF to Word
Convert PDF to RTF
Convert PDF toTXT
Convert PDF to BMP
Convert PDF to GIF
Convert PDF to JPG
Convert PDF to TIF
Convert PDF to PNG
Convert PDF to HTML
Convert PDF to SWF

6 Online Image Converters

Hi Friends ,

Last Night, I need to convert My website Logo from “.jpg” to “.gif” but unfortunately There was no Image Editing software installed on My PC Like Photoshop,Fireworks etc.That’s Why, I Searched Internet for some online image conveters.While Searching I found some Great Websites Thats Provide Online Image Convertion.These Websites support many image formats and also have lots of function.

For Example www.iaza.com can convert “.bmp “, “.jpg” , “.png” and “.gif”.Other Function includes Rotate , Label , Transform, Color, Crop, Contrast,  Sharpness, Saturation and Much More.
Below is the List of 6 Online Image Converters.If you need to convert Images you should give them a try.
www.iaza.com
www.fixpicture.org/flash/
www.pictureresize.org/online-images-converter.html
www.coolutils.com/Online-Image-Converter.php
www.online-utility.org/image_converter.jsp
www.online-image-converter.com/


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IdeaPad U1 Hybrid Tablet Laptop

While everyone is tightening up seat belts for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show 2010, Lenovo is already here with its new ThinkPad lineup update. Lenovo has unveiled a unique laptop IdeaPad U1 Hybrid that incorporates features of a multi-touch tablet and a notebook. Appearing like James Bond's next gadget, IdeaPad U1 Hybrid sports two different processors and separate storage for the tablet and the notebook both. Priced at $999 (Rs. 48,000 approx.), we expect this hybrid notebook to be available from June 1 in U.S.

When housed on the laptop, the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid has Intel's ultra-low voltage processor - Core 2 Duo SU processor. This notebook includes up to 4GB RAM, Intel GMA integrated graphics, built-in 1.3 megapixel web camera, two USB 2.0 ports, eSATA port, HDMI, VGA port and 4-in-1 memory card reader. Users can add up to 128GB SSD for storage of which 16GB would rest on the tablet. We think this is great as whenever one wishes to type, the tablet can be attached again to the notebook and used.

Lenovo's interesting innovation of combining a tablet with a laptop will surely draw attention from iSlate and other multi-touch tablet enthusiasts. Also, consumers would find this two-in-one device money-wise better than paying $1000 (approx.) for a multi-touch tablet that won't offer any tactile keyboard. 

Search All 3 Engines at one click . . Yahoo , bing and Google !!!

Hi friends ,

For searching specific content what we do is , we open different 3-4 search engines and search key term. But what if you get all the three basic search engines ( Google ,Yahoo , Bing ) at one click !!

Now you can save your time by searching all the three search engines Google, Yahoo! and Bing at the same time and get the results at one click.

 

Url.com is a searching community and a specially designed search engine to save all our time by searching Google, Yahoo! and Bing and get all the three search engine results at click once. It also provides you with a popular search or recent searches of what people like, vote and comment on the search results if you like.

 

All you need to do is - Enter your search term and hit Search button. You also have other three sub categories of search like special search on Lyrics , Games and Layouts.

So Url.com is a best way to spend your time for researches and save your time by quickly accessing all the three major gaint search engines easily.

 

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New Heights of Technology . . . ! ! !

1) iFood Dinner detector 

I wish I had this for my mom's chili...but then again, with hers you could always check to see if it was eating through the tablecloth...Please view full as compression is killing my careful work...

2)  Power Razor

This super razor has several utilities such as: A special detector spotlight, USB port to interact with other devices, a rear view mirror (we are never too prudent), multifunction digital display, front antenna, several others sensors and all this controlled by a powerful 8088 Intel processor with 16 Meg of RAM. Connectors sold separately.

3) Sleep Master

    

I can't count the number of times that I've stopped myself in the middle of a dream and wondered, "Hey, how long have I been sleeping?" If only I had the Snoozy Sleep Master at a time like that!

How to view hidden passwords without using any software.

Hello ,

You must have seen and used softwares which are capable to show all the passwords hidden behind Asterisks on a webpage but downloading,installing and using a software is always boring and time taking job so finding an another way will be beneficial.
Recently i came across a cool javascript that can show all the passwords hidden behind Asterisks what you need to do is to just simply copy and paste the javascript to the address bar and the hidden password will be shown to you.Isn’t this a cool and easy way to show and view hidden password rather than using a software.

First of all open up the webpage on which you wanna show the hidden passwords and then Just copy and paste the following JavaScript into the address bar of the browser and you are done.

javascript:(function(){var%20s,F,j,f,i;%20s%20=%20%22%22;
%20F%20=%20document.forms;%20for(j=0;%20j
%20{%20f%20=%20F[j];%20for%20(i=0;%20i
%20{%20if%20(f[i].type.toLowerCase()%20==%20%22password%22)
%20s%20+=%20f[i].value%20+%20%22\n%22;%20}%20}%20if
%20(s)%20alert(%22Passwords%20in%20forms%20on%20this
%20page:\n\n%22%20+%20s);%20else%20alert(%22There%20are
%20no%20passwords%20in%20forms%20on%20this
%20page.%22);})();

After copying and pasting the JavaScript given above press the enter key and hidden passwords will be shown to you.

I have tested it on IE , Firefox and Opera . . try out ..

Following is the screenshot of hidden password that is shown the JavaScript given above.

Your PC can talk with simple Notepad

Hi friends ,

Have you ever used talk it software that can read the text written by you.Now you don’t need to use any software  only 3 lines of VB code can make your PC talk.You will just need to copy and paste the code in notepad.

Now let me share the method of how you can make your PC talk by only using notepad.

Copy and paste the below code in notepad.( Without inverted commas )

"" Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox("Enter your text","Talk it")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak msg ""

Save the file with a (*.vbs) extension then you will have a VBScript file just double click on that file and it will prompt you for text.Enter the text you wish to hear from your computer and press OK.

You will hear the text your wrote in the dialog box.This is really cool i loved it and hope you will love it too.

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Online Free Web Instant Messenger

Hi friends . .

WeBuzz.IM is a JavaScript based online free web instant messenger that helps you chat with your friends on Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, ICQ or Jabber/XMPP. WeBuzz.IM team is dedicating to build web IM services with better security, accessibility and user experience.

 To use WeBuzz.IM, all you need is a JavaScript enabled modern browser, like Firefox 3.0+ (Recommended), Google Chrome 3.0+ (Recommended), IE 6.0+, Opera 9.0+ or Safari 3.1+. You can use WeBuzz.IM anywhere, Windows/Linux PC, Mac, home or office behind firewall.

To enjoy this cool stuff visit www.webuzz.im

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Cool Websites To Watermark Your Images

1) Online Watermark Tool

WaterMark.ws is a modern tool that allows you to watermark your photos online. The power of this tool outperforms every other downloadable watermark software on the market. It offers features like batch processing, resizing, image compression, text and image watermarking with transparency and organizing your photos just to name a few. No download. No installation!

2) Free Online Watermarker

With our Free Online Watermarker, you can quickly add image or text watermarks to your digital photos without having to download any software. This free version of Watermarker supports popular image formats like JPG, GIF, PNG, and BMP.

Image Search Engine for face

Usually for searching any images or photos we hit google or live or any other serach engine . But if suppose we wants to search image of face or particular person then in this case if we search it on such sites then it shows some irrelevant images also which we do not require .So what to do to get only faces alone ?

facesaerch is an image search engine for faces powered by Google. All images (thumbnails) are provided, hosted and managed by Google.

How to use this FaceSaerch ?

Hit your pointers to www.facesaerch.com

Enter a search term i.e. a name of a person

Hit Enter.

For example if you enter search term Bill Gates then it will display images as follow . .

Find out if your mail has been read or not !

SpyPig is a free email tracking system that sends you a notification email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message.

Now you can find out when your email has been read by the recipient! No more guessing: "Has he or she read my email yet?"SpyPig is a simple email tracking system that sends you a notification email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message.

It works with virtually all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo Email, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others.

Best of all, SpyPig is FREE! No spam, no virus, no adware, no spyware. You can use it as often as you like, and there's no catch. The system is very easy to use. In just few minutes, you'll be able to use it like a real spy!

To start using SpyPig, follow the link www.spypig.com

To start using SpyPig, follow the simple steps below -:

1. Hit your mouse pointors to SpyPig Farm
2. Enter your Email address and Message title.
3. Select a image, so that it can track your email
4. Click Ok to activate your SpyPig
5. Copy the selected image and paste it into your email message before it is activated.
6. Send your email as usual.

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Celebrity Blogs :)

I daily visit to blog of one of the famous Bollywood actor Mr.Amitabh Bacchan . I think he is blogging from april or may of 2008. I like his blog . .

If you are interested then you can visit his blog http://bigb.bigadda.com . He has a huge number of fans and subscribers . Almost there are 600-700 comments to his each post . . Really its very difficult to get such huge number of fans .

In reality they don't have to do anything they just hire bloggers pay him and at the end of day give him summary of day .. the blogger just expand this summary 3-4 times and post it on blog and they get high response . . .

Windows most Hidden facts or you can say tricks

People says " Nobody Is Perfect " . The same thing applies to technology as well . There are certain tricks which i wants to share with you.

Trick #1 :-

These one is quite interesting one , the tricks is we can't create the folder name "CON" (without inverted commas) .Try this out on your windows. The whole staff of Microsoft fail to explain the cause behind this . .

Reason - Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL. If you used DOS, you will figure out why. 

Trick #2 :-

Windows users try the following 

a) Open an empty notepad folder
b) Type "Bush hid the facts " (without inverted commas)
c) Save the file anywhere you want
d) Close the file and again open it.

see the magic :)

Trick #3 :-

This one is  something pretty cool trick At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself…
Open Microsoft Word and type " =rand (200, 99) " (without inverted commas)
And then press ENTER
and then see the magic

Split large files into small files using File splitter

Now we have such softwares which helps us to split large size files into numerous small sized files and merge it. This is an excellent tool to split large chunks of files into multiple chunks. Further, you can merge all these multiple chunks to generate one file.


File Splitter is a freeware program which does not require installation and can be used to split files to multiple chunks as well as to merge multiple chunks into a single file.

Now "Splitting a big file with File Splitter "

 

First of all, choose a file to split. It can be any file of any size. Then, choose a destination folder. File Splitter will save all chunks to that folder. For example, if your source file was mybigfile.exe, the program will create files named mybigfile.exe.chunk001, mybigfile.exe.chunk002, mybigfile.exe.chunk003 and so on.

Choose the proper size of a chunk and click Split.

Now "Merging files with File Splitter "
                                    

First, choose any chunk from the set of chunks. File Splitter will locate all chunks in a particular set automatically. Then just choose the destination file (it will be overwritten without a warning).

Just click Join and all chunks will be merged to a single file

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Snooze your emails - HitMeLater

Hi friends ,

Many a times we receive a lot of emails and we pushed to a situation we have to flag some emails for later review or delete that emails. But later we forget to deal with such emails. From now you do not have to delete that emails or flag that , you can just snooze such emails ( like our mobile alarm snooze ) and deal with them later with the use of HitMeLater

HitMeLater is a smart and simple service to snooze your emails, its very simple to use also, what you have to do is to just forward that emails to 24@hitmelater.com. By doing this they will resend you that email in 24 hours. Here 24 is acting like a normal variable . You can replace "24" with any number or day. For example, forward it to 4@hitmelater.com and you'll get it back four hours later. Send it to Wednesday@hitmelater.com and they will send it back to you the first Wednesday morning after today. You can even specify specific dates or time periods

Here are a few examples of addresses that you can forward email to -:

* Day - wednesday@hitmelater.com (or) wed@hitmelater.com
* Date - january12@hitmelater.com (or) jan12@hitmelater.com
* Minutes - 5minutes@hitmelater.com (or) 5m@hitmelater.com
* Hours - 5@hitmelater.com (or) 5hours@hitmelater.com
* Days - 5days@hitmelater.com (or) 5d@hitmelater.com
* Weeks - 5weeks@hitmelater.com (or) 5w@hitmelater.com
* Months - 5months@hitmelater.com

For more information – www.hitmelater.com

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