Teksoft has released a freeware title called AudioRoute a tool that switches the audio for VoIP software to the earpiece speaker.
This tool that can be used to route the audio from the earpiece speaker to the back speaker and vice versa. A good addon for VoIP utilities.
Features:
If you care about your Acer Aspire One, do not play the songs at full blast when you are NOT using your earphones. The reason is little odd: right speaker causes enough vibration and / or magnetic interference to throw the hard drive into a tizzy, leading to a whole host of errors and even some potential data loss.
This is not a sign of good design. I do not play music at high volumes on my Acer Aspire One and perhaps that’s the reason, I’ve not faced any problems with the HDD. The SSD owners are not facing this problem (as there are no moving parts there)
[via hardwarecult]
A couple of weeks back, I was offered a deal about Aspire One that I just could not reject. I absolutely love it. Since then, I have been using all the time. My desktop is now biting the dust. However, one of the things for which I am not happy with the Aspire One is its battery life. It shipped with just 3-cell battery. That battery is able to give nearly 2.5 hours. If I use it heavily, it gets reduced to mere 2 hours.
The utility called a1ctl from a geek called Noda is a great way to underclock your Aspire One. By underclocking, you will be able to run your Aspire One’s processor at a slower clock rate. What will you get by that? You will be able to squeeze more juice out of your Aspire One.
If you are doing basic web surfing and office editing, you certainly won’t need all the horse power of the CPU.
Features:
– no installation needed
– small memory footprint (~5Mo)
– complete fan management, with stopped/slow/auto fan modes
– support newest bios, from v0.3109 to v0.3305
– CPU speed management (XP only)
– fast screen resolution changes, with 1024×768 scrolled and downscaled modes (XP only)
– can enable/disable webcam/ethernet/wifi to reduce power usage
– can be started with windows automatically
– option to prevent HDD clicks
– show temperature & battery in tray icon
– customizable icons & colors via .ini file
– integrated ACPIEC driver patching to prevent log writing
We have been hearing about this sweet technology from past so many years, but no useful fuel-cell product has ever hit the market. Not any more. Next month, Toshiba will begin the production of fuel cell in Yokohama. The fuel cell will be of type direct methanol fuel cell. One of the products that will be produced will be Toshiba’s portable fuel cell. Unfortunately, since this is still its early stages, the prices are going to be too high for the average consumers costing between $100-$500.
The fuel cell technology has a lot of potential to completely change the way we use our devices. With fuel cell, it will be possible to have very light weight devices with days and in some cases, months of battery life!
[via crunchgear]
At CTIA, Opera is going to announce the Opera Mobile 9.7 for Windows Mobile. Few days back, we mentioned about the Opera Turbo (here and here) and how it could radically change our thinking of web-browsing when we are mobile.
Continue reading “Opera Mobile 9.7 for Windows Mobile coming soon”
There are two ways to recover back to factory settings:
The hidden restore partition contains the restore image of the Windows XP home. To recover using this method, follow the following steps:
commentary: this is a great step by ASUS to let the users to recover back to factory settings when they do not have access to the external DVD drives. Also, it is a faster way to get back to a working system in case something went horribly wrong with the OS.
After HTC and Toshiba, Acer F1 is going to be the third windows mobile phone to sport a Snapdragon processor. The F1 will come with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Snapdragon processor. However, for some reason, the Acer will only allow to run at 800MHz and not 1GHz. The most obvious reason right now seems to be battery life. The Acer F1 will also come with ATi graphics card and Acer’s own flash-based today screen shell.
Continue reading “Acer F1 coming in September. Are you ready iPhone?”
After releasing EEE 1000HE, which was an incremental upgrade for the EEE 1000H (better keyboard, more battery juice), ASUS has silently rolled out EEE 1002H, which is basically an upgrade version of the EEE 1002HA, which we reviewed a week back.
So, what has changed? Since I have EEE 1002HA with me, the differences were easy to notice:
So, what is new in this release?
Video of skype beta in action:
Odd Fact: Few bloggers are lamenting about the lack of Video calls in Skype mobile. I guess they should be aware of the fact that the Skype mobile takes a lot of processing power even though it is just processing our audio. I guess we will have to wait for the video feature for some more time. Perhaps until all the Windows mobile devices have the 1GHz snapdragon processor.
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At CeBIT, Gigabyte unveiled three Gigabyte netbooks: M1022, S1024, T1028. M1022 and S1024 use the old Atom N270 whereas the T1028 uses the new Atom N280. All of them have almost the same features like the 10.1-inch screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 1 GB of RAM. Shipment of these new netbooks will start around 30th April.
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