ThrottleLock is a little app to lock your device. It will only be unlocked when a pattern is drawn on a grid of points. The Throttle lock also gives you sliding answer and ignore buttons as seen in the screenshot below. So, how does it works? Whenever your device goes into suspend mode (or standby mode), it locks the device. When you switch it on again, you have to draw a pattern on a grid of points.
Get this nice nifty application from here
Is not it odd, when you hear the netbook manufactures costing you a bomb when you want higher capacities battery for your beloved netbook? Quite a lot of times, you end up paying almost 1/4th of the actual price of the whole netbook when purchasing an extended battery. Take the example of the HP Mini 2140 netbook, whose basic model costs $449. It come with a 3-cell battery, which lasts you about 2-2.5 hours depending on your usage. The 6-cell battery, if you purchase it later on will make shell out a mind-boggling $129, which is more than 1/4th of the price of base model of Mini 2140.
Instead, when buying a Mini 2140, you can bundle a 6-cell battery for a lot more affordable price of $25.
Last year, immediately when the MSI Wind U100 was released, there was a uproar on the various netbook websites regarding how weak the hinges of MSI Wind U100 were. Now, nearly after an year, how do the hinges stand? Well, the hinges are still strong and have shown no signs of aging.
Looks like MSI has done a great job of keeping the hinges stylish and functional. People have infact praised the built quality of the MSI u100. One of them even accidentally dropped it from nearly 5 ft and nothing happened to the hinges.
[msiwind.net forum thread]
The Skype has released version 4 of their desktop client. The new version:
The first thing I did when I heard the version 4.0 news was to install it in my now old EEE 701. Interestingly, it fits itself very nicely into it’s WVGA display. See the following screenshot. I’m still exploring the new features it offers but it’s interface alone wins over me.
[download skype 4.0]
Resco has updated the Brain Games and now supports the devices with WVGA screens and WQVGA screens. The game also now includes:
– 44 brain training games
– manageable favorites
– profiles
– improved graphics
– and many more…
So, now the users of WVGA screens which includes users of HTC TOUCH HD and SE XPERIA X1 can now play this exciting game. It is nice to see the WQVGA users, which includes Samsung Omnia can also play this game now.
Note: All Resco Brain Games users, who have purchased the game within the last 60 days, are entitled to obtain the newly released v3.0 for free. Owners of Resco Brain Games 2.x can upgrade to Brain Games 2009 for half price.
Garmin Ltd. and ASUSTeK Computer Inc. today announced a strategic alliance that will leverage the companies’ navigation and mobile telephony expertise to design, manufacture and distribute co-branded location-centric mobile phones. Garmin and ASUS have already begun joint development on a diverse mobile phone product line, which will be known as the Garmin-Asus nüvifone™ series. The companies expect to bring to market several Garmin-Asus nüvifone models in 2009, and a new Garmin-Asus nüvifone model will be announced at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, February 16-19, 2009.
We were also able directly from folks at ASUS that the phone that were released under the name Garmin nüvifone will be rebranded and renamed to Garmin-Asus nüvifone. ASUS has partnered with a huge company which is the global leader in satellite navigation, and has sold more than 43 million devices.
