Author: Tarandeep Kaur

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Google Toolbar – make your life easier

If you’re using Google Toolbar 5 for Internet Explorer (or Toolbar’s Firefox version), you can add the Gmail custom button to make your life easier. With the Gmail button, you can get new message alerts, see previews of your mail and use Toolbar’s search box to find any message no matter what page you’re on.

Google Toolbar also has a “Send to” feature: when you click on the “Send to” icon, a Gmail compose window opens that automatically includes a link to the page you’re currently on and any text you have highlighted on that page. This makes it easy to email your friends interesting pages you come across as you browse the web. Continue reading “Google Toolbar – make your life easier”

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How To: Hard Reset/Factory Reset T-Mobile G1

Returning your unit to T-Mobile or for any other reason, you wanted to perform factory reset the T-Mobile G1? Here is how to do it:

  • Power off the G1
  • Hold Home Key + End key for 20 seconds or till you see a triangle with an exclamation point and a picture of the G1
  • Open the QWERTY keyboard and hit Alt+W
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Panels working on HTC Touch HD

First we had news of Touch HD’s TouchFlo3D working on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and now someone has been able to run Xperia’s panels on the HTC Touch HD. This is a great news for the HTC Touch HD folks as now, they too can have the best of both worlds just like Xperia X1.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Panels working on HTC Touch HD!

According to harvsingh (at xda-devs), who has made this possible says that he has found the ‘frontend’ a lot better than the TouchFlo3D interface. He has also posted a proof-of-concept video. You can see the video below.

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Get Atom processor on Red Fox Wizbook Netbooks

I guess, most of you must have never heard of Red Fox Netbooks. This is probably because they are sold only in Philippines. Anyway, they have been upgraded with an Atom Processor and larger display now. Look how similar is it as compared to ASUS EEE 1000H (specification wise too!)

Here are the specs of Red Fox Wizbook:

  • 10.2″ display screen (1024×600 pixel)
  • Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 80 GB SATA HDD
  • 1.3MP webcam
  • WiFi 802.11 b/g
  • Built-in Stereo Speakers
  • LAN Slot RJ-45
  • Card Reader SD/MMC/MS

It comes with just 4000maH battery which should provide you battery life of around 2-2.5 hours.

Offical Red Fox Wizbook link

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VIA and NVIDIA – no partnership

There are rumors that the partnership for Netbooks and MIDs between VIA and NVIDIA are now over.

It would have been great if the deal between the VIA and NVIDIA was successful. It could have given rise to netbooks with powerful GPUs. Running more powerful Operating system and games would also have been possible.

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Android on a Sidekick – Fake it!

Some people say that Sidekick is for the kid and T-Mobile G1 is for the grown up user. Hardware wise (as-well-as software wise), you cannot even get close to T-Mobile G1, but no one can stop you from faking your Sidekick that it runs Android.

Get the themes from this link and bend it like Android!

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Witty: Twitter client for Windows XP and Vista

Witty is a free, open source Twitter client for Windows Vista and XP. If you are a twitter fan, then this application will let you twit without going to twitter.com and then pressing F5 again and again just to see the new tweets.

Witty includes the following functionalities:

  • View recent Twitter statuses from the people you follow (auto-refreshing)
  • View recent replies to you
  • View a specific user’s timeline
  • Update your twitter status
  • View and respond to Direct Messages
  • Links will open in the user’s default browser

Download Twitty

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HangTimer: New iPhone App Sets Bar Higher Than You Can Jump!

DropZone Corporation, the creator of HangTimer™, today launched a new sports technology application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. HangTimer uses the iPhone’s accelerometer to determine your airtime starting from the moment you leave the ground.  The HangTimer tracks your airtime and keeps a list of your ten best jumps.  In addition to the measuring your air time the HangTimer application also detects your ski resort automatically anywhere in the world and downloads ski reports, lift status and trail maps. Webcam access is also available through HangTimer at select resorts.

With the iPhone 3G, HangTimer offers bonus features using the built-in GPS system that include the detailed speed and location of every jump, a link to Google Maps to plot your hits as well as a record of the top speed at takeoff for every jump.

The HangTimer application can be purchased from the iTunes store online via the HangTimer website at: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=292748877&mt=8

More about HangTimer:

The HangTimer sports technology application for the iPhone and iPod touch is designed to measure users’ air time. Continue reading “HangTimer: New iPhone App Sets Bar Higher Than You Can Jump!”

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Windows 7 on ASUS EEE 1000H – REPORT with Video

Windows 7 on ASUS EEE 1000H - REPORT with VideoI bit the bullet and installed Windows 7 on the ASUS EEE 1000H.

  • The installation is quite similar to the Windows Vista installation.
  • The installation went fine with no hiccups. It took just 20-25 minutes for the complete installation.
  • During the installation, it did get stuck at 0% for quite some time while “expanding files” and scared me a bit, but after 5 minutes, the percentage started increasing.
  • VGA drivers were automatically picked up
  • Aero was working without any problems
  • IE 8 beta is included

Here is the Video of experience of Windows 7 on ASUS EEE 1000H

The vista gave me a modest Vista experience index of 2.0 (click on screenshot to see it’s original size screenshot). Overall, the performance is quite satisfactory. It is not slower than Vista, if not faster.

So, all in all, Windows 7 should work without problems when it is finally released. Is it too early to comment on the perfomance? Yes, it is. But, so far, no problems at all right now.

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See this link to make the drivers run properly on Windows 7. That article is about making the Vista run nicely on the 1000H and applies for Windows 7 too.