Windows 7 Ultimate Crack Available for Free Download

Though we - the loyal customers need to wait a couple of months before we get the legal copies of Windows 7. The Windows 7 Activation crack is already available online for Free download. It has been barely a couple of weeks since Microsoft made available the RTM version of Windows 7 to the OEMs and lo we have the activation crack already available for Windows 7.

The Windows 7 Ultimate Activation crack is available on a Chinese Forum(Link cannot be revealed due to piracy concerns). The Windows 7 Ultimate activation crack has been built on the OEM version of Lenovo's Windows 7 Ultimate OEM DVD. The DVD ISO of Windows 7 Ultimate along with the newly available crack is already leaked at the forum. Anyone who uses the leaked .ISO, along with the OEM-SLP product key of Windows 7 Ultimate, coupled along with the activation certificates can be obtained through the boot.wim - helps you run Windows 7 Ultimate Final version.

The new activation crack uses a very simple technique of exploiting the "OEM Activation 2.1", which happens to be an updated volume license activation system by Microsoft that was earlier available from 2006 with Windows Vista and known infamously as "Activation 2.0". Looks like Microsoft hasn't learned from the mistakes coz, Activation 2.0 was previously the easy module break into Vista way back in 2006 when Vista hit the stores.

The new crack which has been successfully been built on a Windows 7 volume license means that anyone who uses this cracked version can install Windows 7 on numerous machines without any limitations as such.

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Tips for travelling to Turkey and places to visit

Of late Turkey has become a hit with the Global Holidaymakers - I know a lot of my pals who've visited Turkey and have enjoyed the hospitality, rich culture and vibrant beaches. So, I though it was appropriate to do an article as part of the travel round up on Turkey holidays this month.

Well, Turkey is definitely a place to be for tourists who savour culture and good food. It's simply an amazing vacation destination. You'll notice delectable and recherché local food. The advisable time to visit Turkey would be between the months of April and October. The weather condition is appease during the springtime and autumn months, but temperatures get a lot more frigid during the wintertime. It will occasionally snow in the mountains during this period. While during the summertime, the seashores are really touristed. Among the metropolises of Antalya and Izmir are a great amount of coves, and the land is long-familiar for having fantabulous rivers.

The three most conspicuous forms of conveyance in the country are trains, coaches, and aeroplanes.

Magnanimous international hotels could be found in leading cities such as Turkish capital(Ankara) and Istanbul. These cities as well provide local establishments too. When it gets to culture Turkey has acted as a crucial role in the evolution of three great religions - Christianity, Islamism, and the Jewish religion. Turkey is special therein this three faiths have moulded together side by side in a peace-loving fashion for a great deal of the country's history.

There are almost a hundred contrasting festivals held in Turkey every year. You'll discover a great deal of sunlight, loads of beaches and gorgeous mountains. Betwixt the months from April to October, you'll be able to virtually enjoy Turkey alfresco. Water-sports including windsurfing, para-sailing, spurt skiing and canoeing are favorite on destined beaches.

In holidaymakers and seaward regions, opening hrs are rather flexible and during the summertime a lot of shops stay open till after-hours in the evening, 7 days a week, allowing for tourists to shop at their leisure time and break away the heat of the day. Do share your thoughts too.

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Deciding on the Best Hosting Provider Online

Deciding a trustworthy web hosting company may turn into a discouraging job if you're not certain about your expectations. In that respect there are a few requisites to anticipate in a dependable web hosting company prior to arriving at your option. It's essential to inquire yourself the following queries ahead of signing on a web hosting provider.

1) How much money is demanded in making your web site up and running? In that respect a lot of low-priced and dependable hosting providers can be found at HostingGeeks who can establish your web site to work, generally in less than 24 hrs. Website hosting might not make up the only important reason for your web site expense though. Others could include: search engine optimization(SEO), commercializing, marketing etc.

2) How much disk space will your website actually need? It’s probative to make certain if your web site calls for large database storage or a bare static web site with the use of lower space.

3) Bandwidth ought also be a criteria. Whenever you flow magnanimous files through your web site day-after-day, you may need more bandwidth. And for a static web site, furnishing merely the information on the company and contact details, you will be able to apply lesser bandwidth.

4) Make certain, whenever your web site requires any particular software package to execute scripts correctly on your website. Ascertain and also compare with the website hosting company prior to you making your pick.

5) Does your web site need a database? It's advisable to check with the hosting provider, if they can host a database and a few providers host only predestined types. Whenever your website needs a database, determine all the necessities with the web hosting provider.

Well, after you've inquired yourself the queries above, envision your web site and its functions. Induce a straight navigation chart with links from home page to each interior pages and so on. Put down the purpose of each link on the website. It is best to work at them doubly even threefold in order that when it's in reality beset your system, you and your hosting provider won't be thunderstruck by any extra necessities which may come up that you've omitted.

Its always sensible to explore several green web hosting before you arrive at your concluding decision. Follow through their server software package, technical necessities and computer hardware. Compare with different web hosting companies before you settle your judgement.

Finally, follow through several forums relating to website hosting providers, you'll bump an abundance of good information.

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Things to look out for before getting a used car :: The complete used car checklist

I am out there in the market looking for a used car and have been doing quite a bit of research on used cars. Things to watch out for, so here's an article with all the information that I have gathered and can be useful to you too.

The most crucial things to take care before buying a secondhand car is low milelage and as well as a good body.
Ascertain under the bonnet for any leakages that you'll be able to see by eye
Make certain it looks clean in the interior of the car.
Explore the history if feasible, ascertain if the oil has been changed regularly, look inside the oil cap whenever you are able to and ascertain if you see any oil sludge or coated up oil.
Check for fine tires anticipate wear on the outermost edges if you'll be able to ask to see it up on a automobile lift to search any defective holes or anything merely if its mechanicly sound and motor looks fair and the body feels benevolent no holes and no rusting and runs unspoilt without any engine noise
View the engine cooling system as well, take away the radiator cap and look to ascertain if the water supply is corroded or brownish looking which would suggest conceivable serious issues.
These are what i do seeking a new automobile take it for a trial drive get the car all warmed and go sit down and have a coffee and when your finished having a coffee inspect under for any fluid leakages whenever there is no leaks you recognize the seals are all good be sure that the exhaust system is effective and not corroded out.

• Check over for servicing records, and the way it senses when you sit down in it.
• Check to ascertain want warrantee gets on the car and what it covers up.
• Check the body for holes or rusting. and for collision damage.
• Checkout to see how the car starts
• Check out all lights and electric functions.
• Ascertain under the bonnet for belts and hoses being fagged out and chapped and loose.
• Check off all fluids and levels. if the engine is overly clean wonder how come?
• Check up on the under carriage for holes and the exhaust system for leaks and disturbance.
• Check the transmission see how it shifts. Is it a used transmission?
• Check the handling and the drive.
• Check tyres and brake system for wear.

Do let me know if there is something that I've missed out on.

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The Nokia N97 : Beast Unveiled : A complete Review

Nokia E-series and N-series mobile phones have for a few years now had, by far, numerous capabilities than any other mobile phone out in the market - but they've not all of the time embodied to be the hottest or held the most encompassing mass appeal. Also, though Nokia sells many more smart phones than anybody else worldwide, they've not aimed or commercialized the US market to a great extent.

Nokia have got at last flaked the rubble and propelled onto the post-iPhone touch screen era. But whereas Apple borrowed quite a couple of UI elements from the Motorola Ming, and some other producers successively proved to imitate the iPhone look and feel, Nokia has considered a decidedly distinct approach path.

Pros of the nokia n97:

• The keyboard is okey-dokey. They're not the most adept keyboard out in that respect and also there Is not umpteen tactile feedback from the keyboard as such.
• The camera. is a very good 5 MP, dual LED flash one. It takes very nice pics, but why not utilize a single xenon flash instead I would really ask?
• Looking for a specific contact is very engrossing with a fresh type of exploring that reminds of the SureType technology incorporated in the BlackBerry Pearl.
• Google Maps -This mappings application is exactly as perfect on a n97 as elsewhere.
• There's a courteous lock button on the side of the n97 that appears reasonably responsive (you can easily lock/unlock with a snap of your thumb).
• 48 GB storage capacity so beneficial
  

Cons of the Nokia n97:

• The touchscreen applies resistive technology and not capacitive technology like in the Apple iPhone. You'll have to apply the tip of your finger for most dependable response and not the bottom flesh of your thumb.
• Zero iSync support.
• The batery life on an n97 is like 24 hours.
• The deficiency of an editing version for Quickoffice can really be a damper too.

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Rare Coin Collecting - A Hobby

Some people have hobbies that don't really make a poor man afford - well, I am not talking about golf here but it is of a different kind. It is called as Rare Coin Collecting. Coins come in different shapes and sizes and also of different materials like Steel, Copper, Iron to even precious metals like Gold and Silver.

To get started you will need to first approach a coin dealer who can guide to essentially the best coins that you can easily afford. Always remember to purchase a graded Rare Coin than an ungraded one. Even if you are an expert in the Rare Coin field yet you could be easily be cheated at your nose.

There are lots of advantages of getting a coin graded. Whenever a rare coin gets graded it is immediately placed inside a permanent plastic display case. This case is transparent for the spectators to view the coin without damaging it. Also, in the case you will find the Rare Coin along with the year the coin left the mint, the official name of the rare coin and grade on a label.

As said before, always getting the rare coin professionally graded adds a lot of value to the rare coin and it also makes it easier to sell the coin at a later date. The difference in grades for the rare coin can change the value of the rare coin significantly. When the rare coin is graded, there will be no question in your(seller) or also on the buyers head.

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Microsoft Soapbox to Shutdown

MSN will no longer offer Soapbox!! Soapbox was Microsoft's version of user generated video service and was also a part of MSN Video. Sadly it has met the grave and will be laid to rest on August 31, 2009. Microsoft Soapbox was considered to be the tech giant’s answer to Google’s most-popular video sharing service YouTube. The demise was announced via a formal e-mail a few minutes ago.

Microsoft hasn't completely backed out of the video sharing/streaming market though - as MSN Video will remain online. MSN Video gets roughly about 88 million unique visitors per month that translates to 480 million video streams a month. On the other hand Soapbox was getting a mere less than 5% of what MSN Video gets. So, it was quite obvious that the service need to be shut down. Hope Soapbox videos don't get listed on Irish buy and sell web site.

From 29th July 2009, users will NOT be able to upload any videos onto Soapbox and those folks who have uploaded videos earlier into their Soapbox account will have time until August 31, 2009 to download them. So maybe you need to download and upload onto youtube for greater prosperity!! I feel that the folks at Microsoft should have given an easy option for the SoapBox users to directly send the videos onto their MSN Videos account.

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Simple difference between Java Beans and Enterprise Java Beans(EJB)

JavaBean - A Java Bean is a software component written in the Java programming language that conforms to the JavaBeans component specification. It is an API for objects which expose their properties via standard naming convention (getXXX(), setXXX(), isXXX()). These properties can be determined at runtime via reflection and introspection. For true JavaBeans, they should be Serializable and have a default constructor. The orginal intent was to make them easy for tooling (tools could discover their properties, expose them to configuration, etc.).

The JavaBeans APIs became part of the "core" Java APIs as of the 1.1 release of the JDK.

EJB - Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) are Java-based software components that are built to comply with Java's EJB specification and run inside of an EJB container supplied by a J2EE provider. It is an "enterprise" api for distributed objects. Provides a standard approach to building such objects and allowing an EJB container (EJB application server) to manage the lifecycle of the beans. EJB's provide persistance, scalability, and distributed transaction support (via the container).

An EJB or an enterprise java container provides distributed application functionality such as transaction support, persistence and lifecycle management for the EJBs. Further Details about apache tomcat or simply tomcat server and JavaBeans can be found at Sun Java Tutorial.

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Advantages of Processing your clients Credit cards on your own

Processing credit cards all over the World Wide Web is among the quickest flourishing sections of dealings nowadays. These type of dealings or "card-not-present" dealings demands a exceptional type of merchandiser business relationship. Most credit card companies use exceptional standards to measure risk and they have a different fee structure since you never physically ascertain the credit card. There are a lot of benefits to taking into account this than to use a system like PayPal per se to set up your card-not-present account. Some of the best reasons why I feel that you must use your own service as compared to the Online ones are mainly pertaining to ease of use. It is more like using your own credit card machines when your client asks for processing their card.

Some very good advantages are like :

• You can accept totally all leading credit cards as well as electronic checks, Internet auctions and gift cards.
• You can also very easily forestall hoax - distinguish fishy transactions with value - added merchandises when you have your own processing set-up.
• Also, you can set up the system to do either Real time or batch transaction processing of the Credit Cards.
• Even you can set up Mobile Interfaces to work on card processing on the move.
  

You only need to have your own merchant account and that's it. Just run a web search and you'll come up with thousands of them. But approval can be hard and the fees will add together for a small business.

If you have an online business you will be able to use an online gateway which is fairly cheap. From there you will be able to accept all major credit cards. PayPal has a very good program in place but doesnot really work out well mainly due to high transaction or monthly fees that you are required to shell out.

Merchant Warehouse's cutting-edge innovation has been aptly named as MerchantWARE Mobile. MerchantWARE Mobile is basically a POS (point-of-sale) app that runs off mobile devices. It helps in providing merchants with the power to process credit and debit transactions instantly by accepting payments rather very innovatively on their Apple iPhone or iPod Touch. MerchantWARE Mobile is an idealistic for any merchant in the business. He could simply be a sales rep, or a cashier in a small store, or a vendor at a trade show or even simply a pizza delivery driver. A merchant exclusively needs to sign on for a merchant business relationship with the company, download/install the application program through Apple iTunes and establish a WiFi, Edge or a 3G network connection. That's all it takes now!!

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Kindle 2 price Dropped!! Is there something more than what catches the eye?

The best selling e-reader of all times, Amazon’s Kindle 2 price has been been slashed by almost 15% recently to an all time low of $299. This might sound as a very cool news for many who wanted to buy a Kindle for themselves or gift someone a Kindle. But is there something behind the price drop by Amazon that catches the eye?

I for once surely feel that the price drop has been done by Amazon to flush off it’s aging inventory of Kindle 2’s while the company banks on the newly launched Kindle DX. Amazon it seems for once has completely sold out the first batch of Kindle DX's in an amazing 72 hours flat. Again the same story repeated after two weeks later, Amazon once again sold out "due to heavy customer demand" (as published on Amazon’s website). Currently the Kindle DX has a super cool four to six week wait for the fresh inventory to arrive.

But on the contrary you can readily purchase the 6-inch Kindle 2, isn’t that interesting?.

You can purchase the Kindle 2 online easily and securely on Amazon.com.

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Complete list of Orkut Country Specific Websites – use these when Orkut is blocked to scrap

Orkut – the popular social networking website from the Google stable has many country specific websites. Though most of us are only aware of www.Orkut.com yet there are specific websites for India, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Israel, Portugal and Australia currently.

Orkut is very popular in Brazil, followed by India – but atleast in India I see Facebook to become more popular by the day – though the quizzes may be crazy, games may be kiddish – yet the flocks head towards FaceBook!!

Here is the list of Country specific Orkut websites that may be useful for you to use when the Orkut.com website is blocked at your school, college or office. You could try one of the below Orkut websites and can log-in with your original user credentials.

• India : www.Orkut.co.in
• Australia : www.Orkut.com.au
• United Kingdom : www.Orkut.co.uk
• Brazil : www.Orkut.com.br
• Canada : www.Orkut.ca
• Germany : www.Orkut.de
• Israel : www.Orkut.co.il
• New Zealand : www.Orkut.co.nz
• Portugal : www.Orkut.pt

Happy Surfing!! You could also use one of the proxy websites to access Orkut when it is blocked.

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100 Free Stunning Bing Wallpapers

Following my last article “ How to easily set the Bing Wallpaper of the Day as your Desktop Wallpaper automatically? ”, I decided to go deep under and unearth all the Wallpapers that have made it to the Bing website. I could find 100 such wonderful and superb Wallpapers that can make your Desktop simply stunning.

All these wallpapers have a size of 1916 x 1024 pixels which must fit almost all screen sizes. If you want to download the entire set of 100 Wallpapers, you can get it from this link : http://www.mediafire.com/file/ctjiaeynwmm/Jsbi 100 Free Bing Wallpapers.zip (.zip , 78.9MB).

Else, you can click on each of the Individual images below and on the resulting screen you can right-click and save the Wallpaper.
Update : For some strange reason - the individual images have been uploaded in 640px × 342px below. So, it is advisable to download the entire set above that has the 1916px x 1024px images is high quality. If you need only a particular wallpaper, feel free to mail me a request .

Please Note that the Images are copyright to their respective owners. And also, Bing is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Click to Enlarge and Save

Hope you liked these. Do let me know your thoughts.

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How to easily set the Bing Wallpaper of the Day as your Desktop Wallpaper automatically?

Bing – The latest web search engine from the Microsoft Stable is liked by some and scorned by others who would bet that Google is the best anytime. But whatever side you take – whether you like it or hate it – you will always like the daily changing background image that Bing sports.

Now if you want to automatically set the Bing Wallpaper of the day as your desktop wallpaper, you have a small utility that has been developed by MugunthKumar called as Bing Downloader. It is a small exe that is just about 10KB in size and can be easily downloaded here. All this fantastic utility (BTW, the code is open source – so you can change the C# code to ur whims and fancies) does is that it picks up the latest wallpaper from Bing and automatically sets it as your Desktop Wallpaper.

But what is missing in this light weight app is that there is no “Advanced Options” which would allow us to say download yesterday’s or any previous background wallpaper. Also, the user will need to run the Bing Downloader once a day to download that day’s Bing background image to the computer’s Desktop wallpaper.

Also, another issue is that the Bing background wallpapers are usually 958×512 pixels in size and this maynot make them very suitable for use on many Desktop Computers with large screens and having a larger display. But such users can easily center the wallpaper to make it look more pleasing. As for general NetBook or Laptop users this must be great. But my Acer D250 has a native resolution of 1024x768 so this is smaller for it too.

Below are some cool Bing Wallpapers that I have seen over the days.

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Gmail Finally graduates out of Beta

Yes, it seems that GMail has finally graduated pretty silently out of Beta. Sometime back we had an answer on Gmail Support which read as,

What happens when Gmail goes out of beta?

Once you have a Gmail address, it's yours. Even after Gmail goes out of beta, you'll keep the same address and username. We can't say when we're coming out of beta, but we're looking forward to it!

Even, that question has now been removed!! Guess, they found the answer. The official Google Blog and also the GMail Blog has a detailed article and also information that many other Google Apps have also graduated out of the Beta stage. The other Apps are Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both their enterprise and consumer versions will now be out of Beta. For regular users there is NO change in any of the apps, but for the enterprise users Gmail will now support mail delegation, mail retention and also a slew of ongoing enhancements to Apps reliability!!

Before :

After :

So, it’s taken Google almost 5 long years to graduate Gmail out of Beta. But, there many of us who have been so very familiar with the grey BETA added to the logo and simply can’t really stay without it – Google has an option for such users. Just head to Settings in your Gmail Screen, click on Labs, and turn on "Back to Beta," . You will now have the GMail logo replaced with the earlier Beta one!! One hell lot of innovation I would call (Pun Intended).

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Got a new NetBook – Acer Aspire D250 exclusively for Blogging

Yes, we got a new NetBook last week after quite some research. There were just so many contenders that it made the process of choosing the right NetBook that much more difficult. The NetBooks’ on offer were from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, HCL, Sony, Acer – all the top brands have atleast 2-3 models on offer and each of them have different specs and whistles added to woo the buyer.

I visited a couple of stores in Bangalore like Croma (Koramangala), eXcite (Koramangala), Staples(Marthahalli) and eZone. Also visited numerous online websites to look for reviews and recommendations. Finally I narrowed in on the following models:

• HCL MiLeap MH214 – Priced at INR 19000 (Approx 400 USD )
• Wipro e-go Atom 26an – Priced at INR 20000 (Approx 420 USD )
• Acer Aspire One AOD250 – Priced at INR 22000 (Approx 460 USD )
• Lenovo S10 – Priced at INR 23000 (Approx 480 USD )

As you can see there was much competition in the price points too – after all we are all so very price conscious. The stores didn’t have any in-house discounts or frills thrown in for any of these models, but the company’s did have a few optional whistles on offer. Here’s my review of each of these models.

HCL MiLeap : It comes with the following features (specifications):

• A modest 7" TFT touch screen.
• Runs on the older 800 MHz Intel A110 Processor which comes with 512 KB L2 Cache and 400 MHz Front Side Bus.
• Has the Mobile Intel 945GU (ultra low voltage) Express Chipset Motherboard.
• Like the rest it comes with 1-GB DDR2 533 MHz SDRAM (You can Max it upto 2 GB in 2 slots)
• A moderate 80-GB 5400 rpm SATA hard disk
• An integrated 1.3 MP Camera
• Integrated WiFi 802.11a/b/g LAN connection
• Integrated Bluetooth v2.0
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN connection
• 4-in-1 Media Card Reader, Multimedia Card (MMC), Memory stick (MS), Secure Digital Card, MS-PRO
• It can be converted into a Tablet with Touch Screen also has a Stylus Pen.
• Comes pre-installed with Windows XP Home
• Weighs only 960 Grams
• 2 USB v2.0 ports
• Touchpad with 2 button
• Build-in Stereo 2 stereo speaker system 1.5 Watts each
• Built-in Microphone

But what set me off was the very poor built quality. It is very plasticky and I really doubt if it will last a year or so with regular use. NetBooks are mean’t to be more rugged as they are mostly used on the move. So HCL MiLeap quicky went off my list though the price was pretty tempting – but the older ATOM processor on board, 80GB Hard Disk and the 7” screen was surely a downer. Also, I had lots of concerns with the touch screen – the demo piece at Croma was just filled with finger smudges and also the OS was already corrupted.

 

Wipro e-go Atom : This was next on my list and had pretty decent features(specifications) as follows :

• Runs on the new Intel Atom N270 processor which packs in 1.60 GHz, 533 MHz FSB and a good 512 KB L2 cache.
• This too has the Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset.
• Has a very good 10" WSVGA high-brightness LED Backlit screen.
• Has a 1-GB DDR2 533 MHz SDRAM.
• A good 160GB hard disk
• Integrated WiFi 802.11a/b/g LAN connection
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN connection
• Media Card Reader which natively supports Secure Digital (SD) Card, MultiMediaCard (MMC), Reduced-Size Multimedia Card (RS-MMC), Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick PRO (MS PRO) and xD-Picture Card (xD)
• Upto 3-hour battery life with a 6-cell Lithium-ion battery pack
• Comes pre-installed with Windows XP Home
• Weighs 1.26 kgs
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• An integrated 1.3 MP Camera
• Touchpad with 2 button
• Build-in Stereo speakers
• Built-in Microphone

First things first, this is simply a wonderful NetBook – it comes packed with features. The look and build quality is very good. There are even some very crazy or eye-turner colours like a bright splash of Yellow (sure it’ll turn a few eyes). A very decent 160GB Hard Disk that must be quite sufficient for the data on the move. But, I was very skeptical that though this machine came with a 6cell li-ion battery – it is claimed to last only 3+ hours, not sure why? One downer is that there is NO integrated Bluetooth which is finding good use atleast with me – I can easily pair and transfer files from most mobiles and lappy’s.

Another good feature was that it had a LED Backlit screen which displays very crystal clear images(You must see to believe it). But the processor was N270 while there are competitors with N280 though they have an added 0.6GHz of higher speed – but it surely does matter on the move when processing power is at a premium. The price seems good too.

 

Lenovo S10 : The specs of the Lenovo S10 are pretty cool and are as follows :

• Has the new Intel Atom N270 processor which has the same 1.60 GHz, 533 MHz FSB and 512 KB L2 cache.
• This too has the Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset.
• Has a very good 10" WSVGA TFT screen.
• Has a 1 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz.
• A good 160GB (5400 rpm) hard disk
• Integrated WiFi 802.11a/b/g LAN connection
• Integrated Bluetooth
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN connection
• 4-in-1 card reader slot (SD/MMC/MS/MS pro)
• Only a 3-cell Lithium-ion battery pack
• Comes pre-installed with Windows XP Home
• Weighs 1.25 kgs
• Only two USB 2.0 ports
• An integrated 1.3 MP Camera
• Touchpad with 2 button
• Build-in Stereo speakers
• Built-in Microphone
• Has a added feature of an express card slot

The Lenovo looks very sleek and has most of the features you need. Packs in also an Express Card Slot which maynot be really very useful currently. You don’t currently get that many devices that will plug into the Express Slot and moreover what else do you need coz it’s got almost all the essentials integrated. Also, it comes with the Face Recognition Software for unlocking the machine – kinda cool but do you really need it on a netBook?

The downer was as usual the N270 Atom processor so also the price, also it didn’t come with a LED display and sports the TFT screen. Also, has only the 3-cell li-ion pack.

Acer Aspire One AOD250 : The Acer Aspire One AOD250 is well built, well and are as follows :

• Runs on the most advanced and latest Intel Atom processor N280 which boasts of 1.66 GHz processing speed, 667 MHz FSB and also 512 KB L2 cache.
• This too has the Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset.
• Has a superb 10.1" SD 1024 x 600 (WSVGA) pixel resolution, high-brightness (200-nit) Acer CrystalBrite LED-backlit TFT LCD.
• Has a 1-GB DDR2 SDRAM .
• A good 160GB hard disk
• Integrated WiFi 802.11 a/b/g LAN connection
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN connection
• Multi-in-1 card reader
• Upto a whooping 7-8 hours battery life with the standard 6-cell Lithium-ion battery pack
• Comes pre-installed with Windows XP Home
• Weighs 1.27 kgs
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• An integrated 0.3 MP Camera
• Has a Multi-touch(found in high-end Laptops) Touchpad with 2 button
• Two built-in stereo speakers
• Built-in Microphone
• Integrated Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
  

This is one hell of a beast I must say – has the latest N280 processor, a 160GB HDD and what makes it stand out from the crowd is the 7-8 hours of seamless battery backup that it offers via a 6-cell lithium ion Battery pack. The multi-touch keypad that supports gestures is also a very good added feature – this helps you easily scroll webpages / documents, also you can easily zoom or shrink an image with a pinch gesture.

The Back-Lit LED display serves two purposes – one, it provides very stunning image quality that is in par to high end HD televisions and secondly, having an LED display saves a whole lot of power and also the life of the screen is considerably increased.

The Final Verdict :

So, as I said before – the NetBook market is currently spoilt for choice. You have just so many options and all of them revolving around the same processor’s (N270 or N280) and the identical MotherBoard and very similar RAM , HDD features. So, in the end you need to make a choice of “Value For Money”. I found the Acer Aspire One D250 to be more of a value for money and also it fulfilled all my needs perfectly.

I got a Acer Aspire One D250 “Sunset Red”, coz as the official website says

Red is a heartbeat, the color of determination, passion and of a fiery soul.

So, it very much speaks for itself and my passion for blogging. As you might have already observed – the number of blog posts and the frequency has already begun to increase. Will keep you folks posted on updates as I use more of the NetBook on the move than my Monster Desktop.

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Green Dam hits the Great Wall of China!!

For those of you who are not aware of what the Green Dam I am speaking is all about – it’s a new piece of software that was thrust upon it’s Citizens a few weeks back. It is officially called as the “Green Dam for Escorting Children" filtering software which the authorities claim to filter pron and other malicious websites from easy access to children and adults too!! The last of the official statements that was announced by the Chinese IT officials was way back on June 30th, eversince they have kept numb – you may be wondering why?

Well, the new software seems to open a Pandora box of issues including many serious security issues – than protect the users from such stuff for what it was designed in the first place. Last month there was a damning report by Prof. J. Alex Halderman and his team that seems to have nailed the Green Dam to the Great Wall.

Prof. J. Alex and his team claims to have found several serious security flaws in the software which are likely attributed to “Programming Errors”. Also, his team claims that once the Green Dam software is installed it makes the user much more vulnerable to website scripts that can easily take control of the user’s system. Also, these scripts that can target the Green Dam’s vulnerability can easily steal sensitive information off a PC, also can steal passwords, send Spam or simply turn the computer into a botnet. Also, since Green Dam is designed to process blacklist updates – it can easily allow hackers or even the software makers to install malicious code on a user’s PC during the update process.

So, all these seemed to have nailed the Chinese very ambitious Green Dam project – also the program is available only for the PC version, so users of Mac, Linux and other OS’s are spared. Coupled with all this – it is one big flop!!

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How to easily get the Highest Score and Fastest Time in FaceBook / MindJolt Crazy Taxi Game

Well, of late I have been playing a few FaceBook games like SCRAMBLE, SCRABBLE, Crazy Taxi, etc. I was just checking the High Scores for Crazy Taxi and found quite a few folks having a magic 7 Digit score and I was here struggling with my pals with scores of 5 digits.

So, this afternoon I was looking for any tricks to update the score manually – I found that there was the score being sent via the query string along with a Random Key called as ‘gamekey’ which was being changed for every game. But with so many trials and errors – yet I couldn’t find a solution. Again, a few moments back the idea struck to me to find a solution and I did quite a bit of research and here is the solution I found.

Using these simple steps below you can very easily get high scores in FaceBook Crazy Taxi game:

• Download the latest version of a cool software called Cheat Engine 5.5 from here (MediaFire Link) or the creator’s website and install it.
• Now goto the Crazy Taxi Game page using either Internet Explorer or Mozilla FireFox (I haven’t tested it on other browsers yet).
• Once, you get the main screen of Crazy Taxi – head over to the newly installed Cheat Engine and Open it.
  
• Click on the “Computer Icon” (Step 1 in above Screenshot).
• A Process List Pops up, If you are using Firefox – select it from the list (Step 2 in above Screenshot). Else if you are using Internet Explorer, you will need to select iexplore.exe from the list.
• Then hit the Open Button (Step 3 in above Screenshot).
  
• The above screen opens up.
• Select “Enable Speedhack” (Step 1 in above Screenshot).
• Then set the speed to around 100 by using the slider or entering the value (Step 2 in above Screenshot).
• Click Apply (Step 3 in above Screenshot).
• Now head back to the Crazy Taxi game in your browser and hit Start.
• Remember to hold the Up arrow key before you press start again.

Now you can simply sit back and enjoy as your scores fly by and also the cars. You can very easily score really high points like me (Screenshot below).

As you can clearly see, I have simply crossed all my pals scores in just a tiffy. Now am aiming to come up at challenging the “All of FaceBook” high scores.

But please note that this method is currently working in Windows XP and Vista only. Hope you folks find this useful.

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Airport staff not to have Pant Pockets : Nepal experiments a novel way to curb Bribery

Most developing countries are plagued with one common problem “BRIBERY”. Wherever you go and whatever you do – you’ll need to shell out some bribe to get your work done. It gets more rampant in countries that have a less stable economy. Though India and China boast of stable economy but they beg to differ on the issue of Bribe.

Atleast in country’s like India and Sri Lanka I find some good government officials. Airports are the most famous of all locations where bribing is very rampant. Tourists and travellers are always in a hurry and that’s when the Bribery Virus strikes. When you fly back into the country your luggage is subject to just so many gizzmo’s and the end result of all that is you end up paying more bribe. There are many officials who would directly ask you for the Moolah (a local dialect for cash). But Nepal seems to have found a very intuitive method to curb on bribery at Airports – Ban all Airport staff from having trousers with Pockets!!

Though it may sound crazy to hear at first, but I am sure it will deter the officials from exhorting bribe to some extend. What will the officer do with the bribe he collects? Sans pockets he can’t store the booty anywhere.

Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport has now officially banned pants with pockets for all its employees. Nepal is a tiny mountain state surrounded by India and China. The economy relies mainly on tourism but due to the recent turmoils and the fall of the monarchy – it is finding very hard to come back on it’s knees. Surely the officials don’t want to deter the prospective tourists due to the bribe hungry airport officials. Let’s see how this shapes out to be – hope it becomes a success for other airports to follow too.

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Some Summer Vacation Planning Ideas for an All Inclusive Vacation

Adventure travel is becoming more fashionable all the time. It can comprise really expensive plans , though the all inclusive resort are simply too good , and can become even a little too unsafe for some of us. It does not have to either, though when you go for vacations at Runaway Bay Jamaica or beter still any other Bahamas resorts. Here are a couple of thoughts for modest adventures you can afford. They're abided by a definition of adventure that will assist you add together your own to the list.

Try treasure hunting. Lease or purchase a metal detector and pass a relaxing but intriguing weekend discovering coins, jewellery and who-knows-what in the sand at the beach.

Among the outermost islands of the Bahamas, cat Island is a quiescent holiday location for those who're looking for decompression. One of its altered pleasures & activities,is a little geographic expedition which will turn up a historic quirkiness character of the property. Aesthetic beaches in natural backgrounds welcome the nature devotee & peace quester alike.

For those fascinated in aquaticses, the cat Island Dive Center is the property to meet. They function out of the Greenwood Beach Resort & have got a assortment of diving & snorkelling packages available, & there's plenty of amercement expanses to explore, tendering a wealth of marine life & becharming geological formations. They also have aquatics gear to rent.

It does not call for to be life-threatening to be fascinating and amusing, and forced out even include a travel to the closest large metropolis for a weekend tour of the nightspots. Naturally, depending upon the places you prefer, this can comprise within reason unsafe adventure travelling.

Whenever you require the fullest all-inclusive travel Caribbean resort, then you ought to look to many more than just room with sunshine, sea, and sand. Hey, they're not called all-inclusive for nothing you know.

You wish your all-inclusive travel Caribbean Sea resort hotel to have, if not all, then at the least, something genuinely close. A buzz on the beach through daytime, a dining-room open to the night breeze, aquaticses and additional activities to go gaga on, a couch deck within earreach from the waves for a decompressing afternoon, and a comfy to retreat to – all that's available whenever you decide your all-inclusive travel Caribbean resort well. Happy Summer Vacation Planning folks.

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iPhone 3G S Specs and Accessories

The iPhone 3G S was launched a couple of days ago and it has surely turned a lot of heads. Here is a comprehensive list of features that the iPhone 3G S has.

• 16GB or 32GB Storage
• 3 MP camera with auto focus, tap to focus, photo and video tagging
• 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
• Assisted GPS
• UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
  

There are also so many iPhone cell accessories like Faceplates, Covers, Chargers, Headsets, Hands Free, Batteries, Blings, Charms, Leather Cases, Leather Pouches, Data Cables, Antennas, Holsters and Keypads which will make your iPhone that much more better.

Most folks go for an additional Faceplate or Cover so that they can easily protect the original cover from scratches and also protect the phone when there is a fall from a high place. Scratch Guards are also turning out to be a very big hit - it is cheap and yet does it's job just so well. The PVC material of the scratch guards actually take all the scratches and the original screen remains so perfectly new.

Young Teens love to add Blings and Charms to their phones to make them look more hippy and trendy. Some even paste skins to their iPhone's backside which is easily prone to finger-prints.

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Gift Ideas : Custom USB Pen Drives

A few days back I had written an article on “35 Interesting, Funny and Practical USB Pen Drive Designs” which was liked so very much by many of our readers’ – I received just so many mails. Well, as I was pondering over that article today – I struck upon an idea which could make a company’s gifting solution really easy and innovative.

A custom flash drive is a very simple yet very effective gift that a company can provide either to it’s employees or as part of promotions / campaign’s. There are just so many different types of Custom USB Pen drives that can be tailor made to suit each company. The advent of cheaper Solid State memory of 1-2GB has made this idea much more practical and also very effective.

Let’s say a company that sells laptops / Desktops give out a 2GB Custom flash drive with their name etched on it along with the website url – The pen drive is surely gonna change many hands as a person uses it over a period of time. This leads to a lot of publicity. Also, if the USB Pen drive doesnot sport the common leather / metal outer casing and instead features the company’s logo or mascot – it’s surely gonna be a real publicity spinner and will make much more people get interested about the product that is being marketed.

The costs involved in this kind of passive marketing is much lower when compared to print / media ad spends but they target the right audience and instils a positive marketing pitch with the prospective customer. The best part is that the gift is very practical too and is many times useable.

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iPhone OS 3.1 Beta And SDK out already!! Available for Free Download

iPhone OS 3.0 was released to the public barely 2-3 weeks back and already you have a next major update in the form of iPhone OS 3.1 being released in Beta. This has been the very first time in history that Apple has made such a major release in quick succession – though the new 3.1 version is in Beta, it surely does address some major issues that were reported by users of iPhone OS 3.0.

The new iPhone OS 3.1 addresses a major battery issue that many users had reported. The battery values were not getting displayed correctly, but it now seems that the issue is fixed with this Beta release. Also, another change that many users of iPhone OS 3.1 Beta have reported is that MMS has been switched ON by default – looks like the service providers have had their say with Apple. Since, MMS services are offered at a premium with almost all service providers – so turning it ON by default can rake in more usage and in-turn more profits.

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