Tips n Tricks

FOUR THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO:

Very, very useful info for you all:

4 THINGS YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW YOUR MOBILE PHONE COULD DO

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST Emergency

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone.

Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk).

Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'

THIRD Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

FOURTH How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #

A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

This is the kind of information people don't mind receiving, so pass it on to your family and friends

Nikon Coolpix S520

Nikon Coolpix S520 8.0MP:

Features:

* 8 mega pixels CCD
* Optical Vibration Reduction
* 3x Zoom-NIKKOR lens
* High ISO 2000
* 2.5-inch LCD

8 mega pixels resolution keeps images sharp and detailed, with enough quality to be printed in large formats or printing just from selected areas.

Optical Vibration Reduction combats the effects of camera shake to maintain clarity even in low light.

Canon PowerShot A590

Description:
Featutes:

* 8 megapixels CCD
* 4x optical zoom
* 2.5-inch LCD screen
* Advanced Face Detection
* Motion Detection Technology





The Canon Powershot A590 comes with an 8 megapixel lens and 4x optical zoom. With different shooting modes taking photos is easy and you can view them back on the 2.5-inch LCD screen. With ISO sensitivity from 80 – 1600, the Canon A590 IS comes with 'Advanced Face Detection' with which you can track up to 9 faces in the frame and changes exposure, contrast and zoom to makes sure every face is in the frame at optimum settings. The Canon A590 IS AF-Point Zoom and Auto Red Eye Correction makes portrait taking simple and uncomplicated. Weighing in at only 176 grams without battery, the Canon A590 takes two AA batteries making it easy to replace when they run out.

Firefox 3.1 Beta

Firefox 3.1 Beta

Here are some of the things that we would like to share with you.
(Based on some testing we have found these)

Firefox 3.1 the third development milestone and first beta release of Firefox, forthcoming version of the Firefox web browser.

The other web browsers may take 14 seconds to load a web page but Firefox takes only 7-8 seconds to load them.(A wonderful development)

Righto, straight into the topic....


Firefox - Whats new?

Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine

Support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3

Support for new tab-switching etc,.

Improved control restriction to special characters search.

Support for new web technologies API, JavaScript, video, audio.

Supported OS:

Windows:

* Windows 2000
* Windows XP
* Windows Server 2003
* Windows Vista


Mac OS :

Mac OS X 10.4 and later

Linux:


* Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:
o GTK+ 2.10 or higher
o GLib 2.12 or higher
o Pango 1.14 or higher
o X.Org 1.0 or higher

* For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
o NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
o DBus 1.0 or higher
o HAL 0.5.8 or higher
o GNOME 2.16 or higher

Open Source Windows - Free Softwares 2

Instant Messaging

Pidgin:
Connect to multiple IM accounts simultaneously in a single app, including: AOL IM, MSN, and Jabber.

Click on the above link to download Pidgin

E-mail:

Mozilla Thunderbird

Powerful spam filtering, solid interface, and all the features you need.

Click on the above link to download Mozilla Thunderbird.