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Happy New Year: New Year with Google

December 31st, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

First of all warm new year wishes to one and all. Finally the world has stepped into the new year. 2010 will be a prosperous year to the whole world. Let us take nice decisions and work hard to achieve our goals. Google had its own unique New Year celebration on its home page www.google.com. Those who have pressed the “I’m feeling lucky” button might have seen a count down. That was actually the time in seconds for the new year to arrive. The whole world was waiting to see what will happen at the end of the count down. When the counter reached “0″ google home page was filled with fireworks. Checkout the fireworks below.

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Google’s New Year count down?

December 23rd, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

I have seen the Google search page many times. Clicked the “Google Search” a lot. But yesterday I clicked the button next to it that is the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Just to know what will happen. On clicking the button I saw a strange count down. It appeared just below the privacy policy of Google search page. You can also give a try. You have to click the “I’m feeling lucky” button without entering any query in the search box. So just do it and see the countdown. A screen shot of which is shown below.

So what is the meaning of this strange count down? It is nothing but the time in seconds left for the New Year to arrive!!

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Free download- Free personal password manager

December 21st, 2009 by Thomson | 5 Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Today you have to remember a lot of passwords. You need a password for your Windows network logon, for your e-mail account, your homepage FTP password, online passwords for website member account. The list goes like this. Also, you have to use different passwords for each of your account. If you use only one password for all your accounts, and if someone gets this password everything is gone. The thief can access your e-mail account, homepage, etc. The situation is unimaginable.

KeePass is a free open source personal password managing software. It helps you to manage your personal passwords in a more secure manner. All your passwords can be put in one database. This database is locked with one master key or a key file as the case may be.

So you by remembering one a single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database containing rest of your passwords. The databases are encrypted using the most secure and best known encryption algorithms, AES and Twofish.

You can specify the master key and/or the key file as shown below.

Add a new password entry as shown below

How to get the KeePass for free?

Download KeePass Password Safe (1.3Mb)

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Free serial key of Avira Antivir

December 19th, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Avira AntiVir Premium is world’s one of the best Antivirus technology. Avira AntiVir can protect you from all threats. It can protect you from viruses, worms, trojans. Rootkits, phishings, adware, spyware, bots etc cannot harm you. Avira AntiVir has best detection rates. It has top-class security with several updates a day. This is an opportunity for you to get Free 3 Months Genuine Serial key of Avira AntiVir Premium. Avira AntiVir Premium has got many features.It stops all types of viruses. Ad/spyware is eliminated by AntiAd/Spyware. AntiPhishing proactive protection prevents phising. AntiRootkit prevents hidden rootkit attacks. AntiDrive-by avoid downloading viruses during surfing. EmailScanner enhances email protection. WebGuard protection keeps away all malicious websites. A bootable rescue CD can be created by the rescuesystem. QuickRemoval kills all viruses at the push of a button.

You can just fill a simple form to get the Genuine License Key of Avira AntiVir Premium. The key will be valid for 3 months.

How to get the free serial key of Avira AntiVir Premium?

Step 1: Go to the promotional web page of antivir at http://www.antivir.com.tr/cebit/premium/

Step 2: Key in your title, name, surname, email address and country as shown below. Note: the webpage is in Turkish language, you can use Google translate to view it in English.

Step 3: Check your inbox for the free serial key having a validity of 92 days. The key would be like, HBEDV.KEY, store it in your PC.

Step 4: Download and install the software by following the link shown below.

http://dlpe.antivir.com/package/wks_avira/win32/en/pepr/avira_antivir_premium_en.exe

Step 5: During installation you will be asked for the license. Just import the license when asked.

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Free Download- windows 7 compatible yahoo messenger 10

December 17th, 2009 by Thomson | 6 Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Yahoo Messenger which is one of the most popular instant messaging applications used to chat with friends and family. Yahoo has released the latest version of its messenger that is Yahoo Messenger 10. Yahoo Messenger 10 is fully compatible with Windows 7.The latest Yahoo Messenger 10 have many features and improvements. Enhanced video calling and improved language support are some of the key features of Yahoo Messenger 10.

Key features of yahoo messenger 10

Ultra high-quality video calling – Webcam feature has been enhanced to make it 1:1.This allows you to make ultra high-quality video calls from anywhere. It is also possible to have a full screen video. The video call can be sync with voice calling. Video windows can be swapped. You can also position the video windows in such a way that they reside side-by-side. Options are there to mute the call or to place it on hold.

“Yahoo Updates” view of the contact list – You can have your friend’s latest updates from sites including Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter, last.fm and many more with the newly added “Updates” view of the contact list. Updates can be disabled by just going to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates. From here the alerts can easily be turn on and off. You can also set update preferences by contact or by type of updates.

Modified language support – Your preferred language can be changed in Yahoo! Messenger with a few mouse clicks.16 different languages are supported by the new Yahoo messenger 10. All the buttons, menus and different parts of the interface will get changed to that language within seconds. By going to Messenger > Preferences > Language your language selection can be made.

Stealth and Privacy Settings – This new feature allow you to control who sees you online. You can also easily block unwanted IMs. By right clicking on a friend in your contact list individual stealth settings can be accessed. You can also appear invisible to an entire group of friends.

Instant Messaging – Text messages can be sent in real-time to your friends on Yahoo! Messenger.

Chat Rooms – Chat rooms allow you to join a chat room. You can meet new friends in various chat rooms.

Photo Sharing – Photos can be shared from your desktop or Flickr. Details about the shared photos can be discussed over IM when you and a friend view the photos together.

Webcam – You just need to plug in your webcam to share live video with your friends over the new Yahoo messenger 10.

IM Conferencing – Conference rooms can be created. You can have IM with many of your friends at once in any conference room. This also includes voice capabilities.

IM with Friends on Other similar Networks – You can have IM with friends who use Windows Live Messenger, Reuters Messaging etc right from Yahoo! Messenger.

File Transfer – You can easily share files to your friend while you IM.2 GB is the upper limit.

Other features of Yahoo Messenger include:

IM Forwarding to Mobile phones, the new contact Search Bar, modified Yahoo! Address Book, Yahoo! Mail alerts, Tabbed IM Windows, Emoticons, Avatars, Skins, Yahoo! Games and lot more.

How to get the free Yahoo messenger 10?

Click on the links below to download the free yahoo messenger 10.

Yahoo messenger 10.0.0.1102 download link

Yahoo messenger 10 download link

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AMD Triple-core Athlon II X3 435 and 425 Processors

December 16th, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

The California-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the upcoming availability of its new desktop processors. The new processors come under AMD’s leading line of Athlon II chips. The newly announced chips are the company’s first Athlon triple-core processors. The newly announced array of Athlon II CPUs has quad-core models. The chips have triple-core and dual-core in eight total new chips. Out of that six chips are the parts of the energy-efficient line-up. The low-cost model among the processors of AMD is the dual-core Athlon II X2 235e. This processor is specially designed to offer high speed of 2.7GHz. It can also give a TDP of 45W to the users.
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Download free WiFi client

December 11th, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Even though your operating system has the built-in ability to detect and connect to the available WiFi networks you can do the same using a simple software application. Most of you find it difficult to use the default WiFi monitoring utility of you operating system. But the task can be made simple of you can monitor and connect to the available WiFi networks using a utility that can be launched by a double click on its icon on your desktop.
LucidLink WiFi client features:

Using the WiFi client discussed here you can connect to home, office or public WiFi networks. This WiFi client can be installed and used with ease and can solve a lot of problems faced by WiFi users. Incompatible network security settings can be corrected by the users themselves, by looking at the message (if any) provided by the WiFi client. Potential security attacks like Evil Twin and Man-in-the middle are detected and warned. WEP, WPA-PSK and open networks are supported by this handy WiFi client.

How to download the free version?

Follow this link FREE DOWNLOAD and then click on the site1 link given under Download Locations.

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Recharge your mobile phone from laptop

December 10th, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Simplification is the order of the day. All of us want everything to be done with minimum resources. From this point of view, if you have a laptop a charging device for your mobile phone would be an extravagance. It would be more convenient if you can charge your cell phone from your laptop. It is possible by the use of the USB mobile charger discussed here.

Instead of the bulky mobile phone chargers you can charge your mobile phone using this USB charging cable. Following mobile phones are supported by this USB charging cable.

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Nokia:

8200
8800
252
282
3200
3300
5100
6100
7100
8200
8800
nk402
nk702

Motorola:

Startac Vader
Talkabout
T8090
T8097
T8160
T8167
T8197
Timeport

Samsung:

2000
6100
3500
8500
n150
n200
t300
850
sch-411

Ericsson:

A2618
A2628
R310
R320
R380
R520T20
T28World
T28z
T29
R250
R280
R600
600
700
800
738
768
788
T10
T18
A1018
SH868
SH888

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Free software to cool down your hot lap top

December 10th, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Most of the people face the problem of their laptop being heated up. Here you can read about, download and use a free software tool to fix the overheating problem. Using this free software called speed fan you can control the speed of your laptop’s cooling fan. This free software allows you to monitor the temperature of your laptop’s hard disk and motherboard. You can use S.M.A.R.T or SCSI attributes for this purpose. Custom events can be created to handle all the events automatically.
You can down load speed fan from the website of speed fan.

After downloading the executable file double click the setup file to agree with the licence terms.

Browse the location to which the tool is to be installed and click install.

On successful installation you will get a message like installation has been completed successfully.

Now launch the software by double clicking the shortcut icon added to the desktop during installation. You can see a screen like this upon launching the software. Click on the readings tab to know the CPU usage and CPU temperature.

Speed fan will automatically detect the hardware configuration of your laptop. But you can configure by the click of the configure button.

A few tips to avoid overheating of your laptops:

1) Clean out your laptop fan often.

2) Purchase a laptop cooler to increase the life of your laptop.

3) Do not block the air intake and exhaust vents of your laptop.

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How to find out your lost mobile phone?

December 7th, 2009 by Thomson | 2 Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

All the mobile phones sold around the globe carry a unique identification number called IMEI number. It can be expanded as International Mobile Equipment Identity number. IMEI is a 15 digit unique number given to all the mobile phones used by the people around the globe. This IMEI number is transmitted every time a particular mobile phone is used. Now you can see that if your mobile phone is lost you can track your mobile phone with the help of this IMEI number, will be transmitted when the thief use your mobile phone.

How to find out IMEI number?

The 15 digit IMEI number is found in the battery compartment of your mobile phone.

Just dial #06# from your mobile phone to get the 15 digit IMEI number.

Now make a note of your 15 digit IMEI number and keep it safe.

What to do when your mobile phone is lost?

Of course you can inform the police.

You can also send an email to cop@vsnl.net with the following information.

Your name, Address, Phone model, Phone make, Last used number, Email address, Missed date, and the IMEI number.

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How to find out your stolen laptop?

December 6th, 2009 by Thomson | 2 Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Suppose your laptop was stolen by someone from the coffee shop you visit regularly. Of course you can give a complaint to the police. But you can have your own mechanism to track your stolen laptop. A free and 100% secure software application can help you to recover your stolen laptop. You can install the application named Adeona in your lap top. This will run as a process and will send the location of your laptop to adeona server at regular intervals of time. A recovery tool will help you recover the location details.

How to obtain and install adeona?

Go to http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/downloads.html and download the free adeona for your operating system. Run the setup file.

Install both client and recovery tool in your laptop.

Here you are asked to enter the password using which you can open up the location details.

You will get a screen like this when adeona is successfully installed.

At the same time you can see a file created in your lap top as shown below.

This file contains the retrieve credentials that is needed for the retrieval of laptop location details. So it is better to email a copy of this file to your personal email as shown below.

In order to retrieve the location details you have to run the recovery tool installed at some other machine.

Enter the password and click next to get the location details of your stolen laptop.

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3 easy steps to reuse a scratched CD

December 5th, 2009 by Thomson | 1 Comment | Filed in Coreelectronics

Our cds and dvds usually get scratched irrespective of the care that we give to avoid them being scratched. A scratched cd may not be read by cd or dvd readers. Spend a few seconds on this article to avoid throwing away your scratched cds and dvds. How is it possible to fix a scratched cd? The answer is simple. Data is written not on the surface of a cd or dvd, but it is burned into a surface residing a bit lower from the surface of the cd or dvd that come in direct contact with the reading lens of the cd or dvd reader.

As shown in the figure data is written on the surface below the polycarbonate outer surface. The laser bean traverses the outer surface to read or write data to and from the cd or dvd. What happens when a scratch appears on the outer polycarbonate surface.

The laser beam that is used for reading data will undergo refraction due to the scratch. Now we come to know the idea that if the scratch can be levelled by applying some sort of solvents the laser beam can easily traverse the outer polycarbonate surface to read the stored data.

Step 1:

Pour a small amount of metal polisher on to a paper tape and spread it over the surface of the CD. Use ample amount of force, so that the scratches are filled by the metal polish.

Step 2:

Allow it to dry. At this time the scratches on the surface of the cd will get filled.

Step 3:

Now rub off the excess metal polish. After this has been done the scratches on the surface of the cd will no longer be a reason for the laser to get refracted. So the cd or dvd will work normally. Simple no? Just give a try.

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5 steps for data recovery from crashed external hard drive

December 4th, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

External hard drives which run off USB can help us a lot with its greater storage capacity and portability. Most of us store valuable data in our external hard disc and one day we will be shocked to see the drive not being detected by the computer! But there may be some sort of jerking produced by the disc. But the good news is that we can recover data from such kind of damaged external hard discs in just 5 steps.

Step 1:

Unplug the damaged external hard drive from which you need to recover files.

Step 2:

The only tool that is needed is just a screw driver. By using the screw driver remove the cover of the external hard drive from which you need to recover data.

Step 3:

Disconnect the power cable and data cable from the external hard drive from which you need to recover files.

Step 4:

If no IDE ports are free, disconnect the DVD drive and connect the external hard drive in place of DVD drive. Now restart the computer.

Step 5:

The operating system will automatically detect the connected external hard drive automatically. If it is not detected automatically, get into the BIOS and make necessary changes.

Once the hard drive is detected, you can copy the data to your system’s hard drive. It is better to copy the data to a DVD to prevent future disasters.

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5 Useful Green Electronic Tips

December 3rd, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Electronic devices play a vital role in our day to day life. The usage of electronic devices is so high and we are unable to live without our computers, laptops, mobile phones, television etc. While the electronic devices give us loads and loads of enjoyment, the thrown out electronic equipments cause serious environmental pollution. Waste of electronic equipments is referred to as e-waste, which is being accumulated in our premises at an alarming rate.

On these grounds the term “Green Electronics” gains importance. It refers to the intelligent usage of electronic equipments without causing wastage of electricity and environmental pollution. The following 9 green electronic tips furnished below will help you to go GREEN in the usage of electronic gadgets.

Tip 1: Avoid Phantom power loss

Common people think that their electronic devices are not sucking electric power once switched off but not unplugged. But the fact is that there will be phantom power loss. That is plugged electronic devices will draw power even when they are switched off.

Remedy:

The straight forward solution to the above problem is to unplug the electronic devices when they are not in use.

There are devices available in the market which can be used for reducing phantom power loss. An example is SPARA.

Tip 2: Buy less power consuming devices

Buy electronic devices by looking at their power consumption. Electronic products labelled with Energy Star, which is the international symbol for energy efficiency consume less power. So if you want a flat television go for the LCD stuff not the plasma one.

Tip 3: Use the right batteries

Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) batteries need less maintenance but they have to be discharged fully before recharging. Nickel-metal-hydride (NiMh) batteries are not that robust but no need to discharge them fully before recharging.

Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) or Lithium Ion Polymer (LiPo) batteries are the latest in the battle field of batteries. They outperform other batteries. But they are the most fragile.

Tip 4: Take the advantage of recycling

Electronic equipments thrown away cause serious issues. Many companies are taking back the used products to recycle. So give away your used equipments to such organizations and save our earth from e-waste. Also try reselling your electronics.

Tip 5: Go for EPEAT registered products

EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) is a new kind of certification for computers (CPU, monitors, notebooks etc). Buy EPEAT registered products.

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SUMA-3D squeezable input device for laptops

December 2nd, 2009 by Thomson | No Comments | Filed in Coreelectronics

Mouse is the most popular pointing kind of input device that gives the users a 2D control. Initially mouse with left and right buttons were available in the market. Now we use wireless scroll mouse. Most of us might have dreamt of an input device that is capable of some sort of 3D control. Let us try to understand this using an example.

We use 3D modelling and animation soft wares like MAYA, 3D-MAX. And lot of 3D games. A pointing device which is capable of 3D control can help us a lot in using the above mentioned applications and games.

What is SUMA?

SUMA is a squeezable mouse-like pointing input device that gives three-dimensional control to its users. The device is called Suma, which is short for satsuma or the mandarin fruit.

The above figure shows SUMA:

How does it work?

SUMA consists of a sensor core. This sensor core is surrounded by light actuators. When the device is squeezed the light actuators detect pressure and movement. Electrical signals are produced by the sensors corresponding to the pressure and movement. Specially designed software inside SUMA process these signals to make it more standardized and is sent to the software program that drives the device (SUMA).

In 2D controllers like mouse only motion is taken into account, not pressure. But as far as SUMA is concerned pressure applied by the user’s finger is also taken into account.

This additional factor ‘pressure’ helps in the manipulation of the shape of the objects other than its motion.ie SUMA would be a great help in using 3D animation and modelling softwares and games.

SUMA can be recognised as a standard input device by laptops and PCs. SUMA can run off the USB power.

SUMA can also be used in medical field to help the disabled.

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