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Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:37:03 +0000

Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook is a very economic laptop from Dell, it has the same basic functions similar to the other Dell notebooks. The price is just $299 with a lot of great features and it does not look like a cheap laptop.It is a great option for average use, however you can not opt for high level configuration for this model that is a major drawback of this model. This is one of cheap dell laptops with great features.

The design looks good with large keys in the keyboard but there is a bit of compromise with the touch pad. The screen is 10.1 inch with 1024 screen resolution, however if you want a better HQ experience then you can upgrade it to 1,366×768 screen as well.It has 3 USB ports and a SD port.You have an additional Wi-Fi add on for $25. It runs great with windows 7, it can be upgraded for efficient use.Its light in use and hence quite easy to carry.The web camera is really cool and its a fantastic experience.The Wi-fi runs quite fast and it has beautiful HD display.

The performance is great just like other notebooks and the battery life is quite decent which runs about 5.5 hours.It comes with a standard parts one year warranty which is just like the other brands.You can always opt for site service at $19 when ever needed.

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H20 info

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:34:03 +0000

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H20 is a great cam to have.It has an extremely attractive design,it is compact in size and it is best value for the money.It is very simple to operate,unlike some of the canon cameras which are a bit complex to operate. It has excellent optical zooming options thought the lens are a bit narrow.

The video recording option is really great and simple to use, we can shoot it at 10x optical zoom. The clarity is amazing and there is HD shooting mode as well.The camera is 10 megapixel and the LCD screen is of 3 inch.It is a bit heavy weight cam and not very small in size.But the buttons are large and easy to use. One drawback is the lens cover which is a physical cover and its quite annoying if you forget to open it.Easy shooting mode is quite simple and quick to handle. For video shooting there is an option for 720P HD videos. The camera comes with 10 different scene situations like fire, beach etc which you can choose for pictures. Sony’s intelligent auto is a good facility for taking pictures. The picture clarity is amazing and even in extreme contrast conditions you can take good pictures.It has three types of automatic shooting mode and the lens are more sharper and gives excellent quality pictures.The shooting speed is a bit less than other panasonic and canon cameras. This sony cyber-shot camera is an excellent deal. The features are grear when compared with the price.

Using the Windows 7 Themes in XP and Vista

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:31:45 +0000

We know that Windows Vista from Microsoft was not a great version of Windows hence Microsoft has paid more attention towards the personalizing option in the new Windows 7 which is good news for the users. If you have older versions of windows, still you can use these windows 7 themes partly or wholly by using some simple tricks. Using the Windows 7 themes in XP and Vista is not a tough job.

All you have to do is go to the Microsoft windows website and download the themes for windows 7 which you like. When you download them,they are in a zipped format with an extension “.themepack” which is only recognized by the windows 7 version. It contains many pictures,screen savers,sounds,cursors etc. You can simply rename the file with .cab extension and then extract the folder.As soon as you finish extracting it a new folder is available with the new extension. Which can be used for the versions of windows like XP or Vista.

If you want to change the icons appearance for your Windows XP version you can do it by going to the “customized desktop” option in the desktop properties and then select the items you need to change then select “change icon” and browse the icons which you wish to use from the themes folder. You can also do this for individual programs by using same procedure.

Play DOS games on your computer

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:29:14 +0000

We know that the games initially that were played on the computers were purely DOS based games.There have been some extraordinary popular DOS games of the 90’s which we still remember. DOS games are not very popular these days because of the new high graphical and 3D games but still some of the old DOS games are really worth to try. Moreover they are easily available on the net and they are free for download.They are small in size and they are legal.

You may not be able to run them directly on your new systems but with the help of few programs you can play DOS games on your computer. Most preferred way to do this is to install DOSBox on your computer. It creates an environment for running the DOS applications. It can be run by simple graphical interface. D-Fend is the most popular DOSBox used by people. After installing this application you can drag and drop the games folder in this and then start playing it!

Play DOS games on web browser:

JPC is a simple program that is based on Java platform and it is x86 emulator which can run the DOS applications on browsers which have Java plugin. In sites like www.classicdosgames.com you can find hundreds of such popular DOS games and play them on the browser.It may not be as quick as the DOSBox but you can play many games without installing them and if you like any game then you may go ahead and download it.

Easy ways for site transfer from one domain to another

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:26:22 +0000

If you have a website and you wish to transfer it to a new domain,you would opt for Easy ways for site transfer from one domain to another. The usual procedure for this is to copy all the contents of the site and transfer them to the new domain.For this, you need to implement 301 redirect on the existing site to redirect the visitors and search engine bots to land on your new site when they try to access your old site.

However this works in most of the cases but there are some instances when there could be an issue with the 301 redirects when you do not have access to the hosting server of your old site. Blogger.com is a perfect example for this. In such cases redirecting could be troublesome.

Advantages of canonical tag:

For the above mentioned problem this may be a very good solution.Though this tag may not be as good as the 301 redirect for diverting the human visitors but its certainly useful for informing the search engine bots about the new location of your site. This is quite easy to do, you have to simple add . When next time the yyy.html is being crawled by the google it will consider this as a duplicate content and give priority to your new site.The actual function of the canonical tag is for specifying if there are pages in the site that have duplicate content. Now with the new changes this tag is a very great help for web publishers. This tag can be understood by Bing,Google and yahoo bots.

Samsung Omnea II

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:23:13 +0000

The key features of Samsung Omnea II phone are that it is enabled with Windows 6.5 and TouchWiz 2.0 interface which are the prime attractions of the phone. The touch screen is very sensitive and it is very easy to use. It has Wi-Fi,3G and GPS support. The phone is a bit heavy and the Swype keyboard can be troublesome to use at occasions. It has a great user interface and multimedia experience. A very good smart phone from samsung series.

It is a great looking tall phone with awesome 3.6inch AMOLED touch sensitive screen which offer sharp and enhanced color pictures.There is a volume rocker and a 3.5mm jack on the top of the phone. It has a QWERTY keypad with Swype technology which is predictive input method.It allows you to drag the letters on the keyboard and select the word from various options.Apart from the dictionary words its a bit of complication to add the non dictionary words.There is a widget on the left side of the screen where you can drag and drop the selected widget items.You can download third party widgets as well. It has the internet explorer as the web browser which is improved version.We can send e mails through direct push technology. You can also configure various POP3 accounts and also have fun with IM like windows live messenger and yahoo. It also has opera browser loaded in the phone. There is Wi-Fi and it is 3G capable phone.

The divX videos can be played and which in fact are of magnificent clarity.The speaker sound is loud enough and with decent audio quality.

LG Shine II

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:21:19 +0000

LG Shine II phone from LG isn’t a great phone to have but it has a great metallic look and good display which makes many people to buy it. The signal strength is not so great like other phones.The streaming video quality is really stunning. The keypad is not so great to use.It has a shining eye catchy sliding metallic design which attracts everyone. The display is of 320×240 pixels resolutions. The colors are sharp and bright.A bit heavy in weight. There is bluetooth,voice recorder,voice command,instant messaging and many other features.

The toggle keys are far too large for the keypad. It has a 2 megapixel camera on the back side of the body and there is an option of 5 different resolutions for pictures. We can edit the brightness,image quality and color effects. It has option for night mode and it can zoom 2x when needed.

It is a decent 3G phone and you can find Cellular video for streaming videos. LG shine mobile phone is a good middle range phone to try.The streaming video quality is quite satisfactory.The sound is loud and clear. But one can experience some issues due to the improper signal at times.The external speakers give a strong audio output.You can personalize the color,wallpaper,ringtones.It comes with games like Uno,Tetris and Dinner dash 2. The battery life is decent which runs 3 and half hours of talk time.

New Samsung Instinct (Sprint)New Samsung Instinct (Sprint)

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:19:08 +0000

New Samsung Instinct (Sprint) HD phone is one of the best models from samsung. It has an excellent display and great graphical interface. Decent menu design and extra ordinarily cool camera and video recording. But the price is a bit high than the normal. The opera browser is quite difficult to use. The display is 480×320 which is very good and it has 16 million colors.

It has microsoft search facility and also social networking like Twitter and facebook. The touch sensitivity is decent but at times it may get slow. There are 3 touch buttons below the screen. It has a QWERTY keyboard with relatively large buttons but it is not of the standard QWERTY format. It supports microSD card and it also has 3.5mm jack. That is how samsung instinct mobile is built.

It has a great camera which is of 5 Megapixel which is ridiculously good for capturing images, certainly one of the best camera phone in the market.The video recording is quite exceptional with a significant clarity which is 1,280×720 resolution! Apart from HD, videos can also be recorded in VGA and QVGA formats. It has a 3G which enables you to connect to sprint TV where you can see pay per view channels. There are widgets like twitter,myspace,youtube and facebook. We can customize wallpapers,themes,ringtones as per our liking. This is a great camera phone to have but a bit too expensive.

Apple iPhone black (AT&T) 3GS Mobile

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:16:12 +0000

This new 32GB Apple iPhone black (AT&T) 3GS mobile from Apple is really a good model.It is a faster version than the previous phones.The battery life is really promising and it has a great multimedia quality. There are also other features of a common phone. How ever there is no facility for Multi-tasking and USB transfer. The 3Gs quality is not so great. The 3G has real good speed when compared to the previous phones.

The accessing of home screen and various menus multiple pages is a bit tedious. The user interface has nothing new in it. The camera is decent but there is no features like white balance or photo editing, even the digital zoom option is not available. The 3GS camera picture quality seems to be better than that of the 3G camera. The video recording is very good, even the video editing is so much simpler and just a touch away, you can edit it while playing. The video’s can be uploaded on the internet or sent via e-mail. One more attractive feature is the 3G magnetic compass.

Interestingly it has a feature called Nike, it comes with a sensor that has to be attached to the shoe, it can calculate the distance traveled by you! The landscape keyboard is pretty good and easy to use. There is also a user friendly cut-copy-paste option for users.

From the itunes stores, you can rent or purchase movies and some TV shows and also you can redeem the gift cards at itunes store.

Mitsubishi LCD TV LT-52249

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:14:06 +0000

Mitsubishi LCD TV LT-52249 is a high class LCD TV from Mitsubishi,It is one of the best of LCD TV’s since it has significant sound system. A great looking TV with glossy black color has a very thin side border which is less than a couple of cm. It has a couple of speakers and a row of 16 tiny speakers which are hidden. The main advantage is that it comes with Vudu feature, except Mitsubishi, only LG has made LCD TV’s with Vudu features. We can stream live channels on demand and movies in this TV.Though it does not support streaming like youtube etc.

Great to have apps like Flickr and Picasa for viewing the pictures on your TV screen.There is a US map which shows what other users are watching on Vudu. These apps are easy to use and there is a good well instructed Graphical user interface.

The picture quality is great and they offer five different picture modes, additionally there is an option for temperature control and noise reduction.The remove control is not so great since the design is not very good, its quite complicated to use and there are lot of sub menus. Universal remote controls can be used which need additional IR port to be attached to the TV.

There is a great deal of customization of sound controls, we can set the dimensions of the room and angle of the sound and layout information of the audio channels.The sound is really great and to be honest it does not need any external sub woofer or speaker.

The picture clarity is very fine with great uniformity and certainly the video and audio are the biggest advantages of this TV. For some one who don’t want to attach an external audio device this is a great deal.