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1O Interesting Facts About Nokia You May Not Know

Here are some facts of our beloved phone company “NOKIA”

• The name of the town of Nokia originated from the river which flowed through the town. The river itself, Nokianvirta, was named after the old Finnish word originally meaning sable,later pine marten.

• Nokia is sometimes called aikon (Nokia backwards) by non-Nokia mobile phone users and by mobile software developers, because “aikon” is used in various SDK software packages, including Nokia’s own Symbian S60 SDK.

• The world’s first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a Nokia-supplied network, by Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.
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CD/DVD Burning Softwares

Infrarecorder

A free and open source CD burning tool for Windows that allows you to burn your CD/DVD, the software has an easy to use interface, and it has numerous features available with it. One of its prominent features allows you to burn dual-layer DVDs.

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ImgBurn

Small application that makes CD/DVD writing simple. ImgBurn is available for Windows and can be run on Linux using wine. This is small software that lets you burn different types of discs with much ease.

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Nero Burning

Robust and most popular CD/DVD writing tool for multiple platforms that offers very rich features with it. Its complete installation is fairly huge, but you can customize the features installed with it so that it suits best to your needs.

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CDBurnerXP

CDBurnerXP is a Windows based free utility for burning CD/DVD. The software is free to use for everyone. This software lets you burn your discs with easy, you can burn any type of CD like audio disc, data disc and disc images. This utility requires .Net 3.5.

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MacBurn

CD/DVD burning software for Mac platform that offers many features to burn your required data on CD’s and DVD’s.

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Roxio Creator

An easy to use CD/DVD burner with many advanced features bundled with it, available in two different editions, one is the basic one and other is ‘Pro’. Roxio Creator is available for Windows & Mac OSx.

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The Most & The Greatest

The most useless thing to do……….  Worry

The greatest Joy……… ………. Giving.

The greatest loss ………… ……… Loss of self-respect.

The most satisfying work ………… ……. Helping others.

The ugliest personality trait……. ………  Selfishness.

The most endangered species….. ……… Dedicated leaders.

The greatest “shot in the arm”………… ……….Encouragement.

The greatest problem to overcome…. …… Fear.

The most Effective sleeping pill…….. …. Peace of mind.

The most crippling failure disease….. ……….Excuses.

The most powerful force in life…….. ….. Love.

The most dangerous pariah…… ……… ……….A Gossiper.

The world’s most incredible computer…. ………. The Brain.

The worst thing to be without….. ………  Hope.

The deadliest weapon…… ……… ……… The tongue.

The two most power-filled words……. … “I Can”.

The greatest asset……. ……… ……… ……… Faith.

The most worthless emotion….. ……… … Self-pity.

The most prized possession.. ……… ……. Integrity.

The most beautiful attire…… ……… ……… A Smile.

The most powerful channel of communication. ….. Prayer.

The most contagious spirit…… ……… …. Enthusiasm.

The most important thing in the life…….  ……… Allah.

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TOYOTA Integrates Breathalyzers in Cars

To curb the rise of drunk drivers, as well as in response to new legislation passed in several states in the US, TOYOTA is developing an anti drunk driving technology that shut down the vehicle if high levels of alcohol are detected in the driver.

This innovative system consists of a hand-held breathalyzer that determines the driver’s alcohol level while being photographed with its integrated digital camera for identification. If the driver is tested positive for high levels of alcohol, the system either warns him or even locks the vehicle’s ignition.

Toyota is currently conducting tests with its affiliate truck manufacturer Hino Motors and plans to install the system in selected trucks and other vehicles of their fleet customers, which include private companies and government institutions.

PS: Nissan is also working on the same technology. This will help to implement the new laws in US regarding drunk drivers.

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LG X130 Long-Lasting Netbook

With the introduction of its latest netbook, LG continues to put innovations in the competitive laptop market. It boasts of having a really long battery life: 12 hours at that! When it comes to other specifications, however, the LG X130 netbook has nothing new to offer.

A 10-inch screen with 1024×768 resolution

An Atom N270 processor

1 GB of RAM

160 GB hard disk memory

Blutooth

Wireless 802.11 b / g / n (up to 150 Mbps), wired 10/100

Weight: 1.45Kg

Its unique selling point is its claim that this netbook’s 9-cell battery can last for up to 12 hours. Although some people doubt the authenticity of this claim, as a standard 3-cell battery can only last for just over two hours. The LG X130 netbook can be a good steal as more and more people are using their laptops more often.

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iPhone 3GS & iPhone OS 3.0

The launch of the iPhone 3GS in June 2009, also ushered the release of iPhone OS 3.0, which is a newer version of the mobile operating system developed by Apple for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This is compatible with all generations of the iPhone, OS 3.0 addresses many shortcomings of the previous iPhone software.

MMS

The first and foremost feature is the rudimentary Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). For two years since it launch, the iPhone was unable to send and receive messages that included multimedia objects such as images, audio and video. OS 3.0 brings this basic feature to the iPhone. In the US, support of MMS is expected to start by October, whereas Pakistani iPhone enthusiasts overcome this barrier via a minor software hack in order to enable MMS on a cellular network.

Mobile Me

Users with a tendency to misplace their mobile phones will fine the Mobile Me service included in the iPhone OS 3.0 quite useful. It takes about two minutes to locate your phone on Google Maps (Through the Mobile Me Web Interface). Users can also send an alert beep or an “Important Message”, deactivate it, or remotely wipe its contents.

Copy & Paste

Catering to the popular demand of iPhone users, OS 3.0 enables users to select text, copy it and paste it between applications.

Magnification

This is another useful feature not found in many smart phones. Unlike the zoom feature, which blows up the entire page, magnification can enlarge a section of static text around which a user’s finger is held down on the screen.

Internet Tethering

Internet tethering, although not officially supported and mentioned, is built into the new operating system and is available to OS 3.0 users through a minor hack that enables them to use their carrier-provided internet service on their computers.

Shake & Shuffle

Before, iPode Touch users could brag about this particular feature initially absent in the iPhone. Apple has now enabled this feature using the built-in accelerometer. Users no longer need to look for that forward button; a simple shake can change the song. Apple has also enabled the shake feature to undo changes made in a document.

Push Notifications

Unlike some smart phones, the iPhone does not support multitasking with applications. With OS 3.0, however Apple introduced a push notification system where an activated application could at least push data to iPhone – such as reminders for Namaz on iPray or chat messages on Fring – through the internet to notify users of application events and updates.

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5 Easy steps to change Password on MAC

Being a human, sometime we forgot the passwords. If you forgot your password on MAC Just cool. You can easily retreive your password.
For this purpose you need to follow the 5 steps written below:

1. Start (boot) your computer in single user mode. For this, press CTRL+S when the power ON.

2. Check your file system consistency with the command:
fsck -fy

3. Now, mount root file system by the command:
mount -uw /

4. Load com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist with the command:
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist

5. Use the utility “dscl” to reset your password
dscl . -passwd /Users/username password
Here just change username and password to your new username and required new password.

Restart your computer.

In the above 5 steps no boot or recovery disk required.

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Track or Count Online Users List

During interview, this is the common question which are asked by the interviewer that How can we track or count total number of online users. This is tricky but really simple question and most of the times interviewee is not able to response on this simple question.

There are two solutions by which you can get the number of online users.

SOLUTION I:

Whenever user come on your site and logged-in on the site. Then set a flag value in DB. And reset the flag whenever user logged-out the site. But this is a major issue in this case. You are totally dependent on the user’s logged-out step. But if user left the site and close the browser or directly goes to other site you can’t reset the flag in the DB. DB state will show that the user is online while he/she is not online. So, this is not recommended.

SOLUTION II:

Make another table for this purpose and add at least 4 fields in this table which are

1. username
2. datetime
3. ipAddress
4. session value

Whenever user logged-in on the site insert a record in this table. Also store the session values in COOKIE. Now, on each page first try to read the COOKIE contains the value of session. If the session value found then update the table row with the current datetime where the session value exist.

Now, at this point you can get the information that how many people are currently logged In. Also by the username you can also get the user’s information. But you need to fix you timings that for how long the user’s session should alive. It means if you think that if there is no activity on the site by user within last 10 minutes then it suppose that user has left the site. So, you must get only count of people in last 10 minutes.

You can implement this in any server site scripting like PHP, ASP .Net, CGI, Perl, Ruby etc.

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