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PhonePoint allows you to remotely control a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (*.ppt file) from your phone.

System Requirements :

• Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or later
• Windows 2000 or Windows XP
• Bluetooth PC support
• A Symbian OS, Series60 Phone (Nokia 3650/3600, 6682, 3660/3620, 6680, 3230, 6681, 6600, 6670, 6620, N-Gage QD, N-Gage, 7610, 6670, N70, 6260, N90, 6630, Lenovo P930, Panasonic X700, X800, Samsung SGH-D720, SGH-D730, Siemens SX1, Sendo X). This software should work with all Series60 Version 1.x and 2.x devices.

First Ensure Bluetooth is enabled on both the PC and the Phone.

• Install PhonePoint.msi on the PC
• Launch the PhonePoint.exe application from the Start menu, an icon will appear in the system tray.
• Open the PhonePoint application by clicking on the slideshow icon in the PC’s system tray.
• Enter your license code by pressing the “Enter Code” button. If you don’t have a license code PhonePoint will run in trial / evaluation mode.
• Create a phone installation file (a SIS file) by pressing the “Create SIS File” button.
• Send the installation file to your phone with the “Send To Phone” button, this will launch a Bluetooth file-transfer wizard. If prompted, browse to the PhonePoint.sis file (default location C:\Program Files\PhonePoint\Sis\PhonePoint.sis). If the phone does not appear in the Bluetooth device list, ensure the phone has Bluetooth visibility “shown to all” (In “Connect.” -> “Bluetooth”).
• The installation file will be sent to the phone’s inbox. Navigate to the inbox and open the PhonePoint.sis message.
• Install the phone application on either the phone or the memory card.
• Goto Control Panel-> Bluetooth Devices-> Options -> Turn discovery on (checked)-> COM Ports -> Add Incoming Port (COM10)
• Launch the PhonePoint application on the phone (labeled “PPT” in Grid view).
• Either open a PowerPoint presentation on the PC or from the phone application’s Options Menu, select “Open Presentation”. This will open PowerPoint on your PC and load the most recent slide show (*.ppt file).
• Use the phone’s joystick to navigate through the presentation.

Please ensure Bluetooth is correctly functioning on your PC (i.e. you can browse other Bluetooth devices), and that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone. Bluetooth must be enabled when creating SIS files with the PC application. If problems persist it may be prudent to update the Bluetooth drivers on your PC to their latest revisions. PhonePoint supports the Widcomm Bluetooth stack from version 1.3 onwards and the Microsoft stack (which is included as part of Windows XP from Service Pack 2). Most Bluetooth devices are upgradeable – refer to your Bluetooth supplier’s website.

Before reading this post, please try out this first. Right-click in your System Tray /Task Bar and click on ‘Task Manager’. Is it grayed-out? This means that your Task Manager has been disabled? This is a very familiar scenario if your PC is suffering from a virus. Even if you are logged in as an administrator and you haven’t manually done anything to disable the task bar, the viruses do this so that you aren’t able to see or end the background processes that it is running and get rid of it.

So, how can you enable the Task Manager? There are 2 easy methods.

Method 1- Through Group Policy Editor

• Go to Start -> Run
• Type ‘gpedit.msc’ without quotes and enter. (Group Policy Editor will open)
• Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Del Option
• In the right pane you will see an entry ‘Remove Task Manager’, double click it (Remove Task Manager properties will open)
• Select ‘Not configured’ and click OK and that’s it your task manager will be enabled.

Method 2 – Through Registry Editor

In this method we are going to change the “registry” settings. So, before making any changes make sure that you have backed up the registry properly in case you might change something else whose result can be not so pleasant.

• Go to Start -> Run
• Type ‘regedit’ without quotes and enter (Registry Editor will open)
• Navigate yourself to ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ System’
• In the right pane there is a DWORD value ‘DisableTaskMgr’
• Double click it and change it’s value to ‘0’ (0 is for enabling and 1 is for disabling the Task Manager)
• Exit the ‘Registry Editor’ and you are ready to use the ‘Task Manager’

You can use any of the above process according to your preference to enable the ‘Task Manager’.

With a 3 inch TFT display, Japanese technology brings a new device with both functionality of Mobile phone and TV as well. The new Mobile TV phone by a huge electronic manufacture company PANASONIC integrated TV Mobile phones and TV technology together for a people who are willing to watch TV in their mobile phone handsets and named it after the company’s line of LCDs and plasma displays, VIERA.
With Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) feature, it is possible to keep yourself updated with TV news, reviews. Now you won’t lose any of your favorite TV programme and you won’t miss any of your phone calls. The handset works on GSM and W-CDMA networks and weighs 135 grams. It means its lighter as other mobile phones. It has the same design that most of the “TV phones” made in Japan have: a simple, rectangle shape, to easily integrate the biggest screen possible.
Features:

• 3 inch internal screen,
• 16:9 display with a 480 x 854 pixel resolution
• an external 0.77 inch, 96 x 25 pixels display
• 5.1 Megapixel CMOS camera with Auto focus
• a secondary camera
• Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)
• E-mail
• Internet browsing
• about 200 minutes of talk-time
• up to 340 hours of stand-by on GSM networks
• up to 580 hours of stand-by on W-CDMA networks

3 inch internal screen is perfect screen size for perfect videos and TV. An external 0.77 inch display is provided for viewing information like incoming phone calls or any missed calls without opening the phone. 5.1 Megapixel CMOS camera with Auto focus is sure to make good picture clicks and video capturing. A secondary camera is just for video calls, or you may use it to capture low resolution photos and videos to send as MMS. 200 minutes talk time is awesome. Overall, its good phone with TV facility to busy users who can now stick with TV, no matter how much busy s/he is.

Ubuntu is one of the world’s most popular Open Source Linux-based Operating System (OS). And you all know that open source is offered for free by community. Ubuntu is also developed by community and updated regularly. It is designed to be user friendly and comes with built-in software for office productivity office user (word processor, spreadsheets and presentation applications), e-mail, calendar, chat, web browsing, photos, and many more.

From couple of month back, Dell is gradually releasing no. of its laptops with Ubuntu OS. XPS M1330 laptop is a laptop offering built-in DVD playback. It’s thin, sexy and shining. It’s stunning, eye-catching and irresistible… it’s powerful and stylish. And last but not least, Dell’s XPS M1330 also has Ubuntu OS updated to version 7.10.

Features:

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5250 (1.50GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB) / T7500 (2.20GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
• Up to 4GB shared Dual Channel 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Intel Graphic Media Accelerator 3100 or an optional 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS video card
• 13.3″ UltraSharp CCFL WXGA display (1280×800, 220 nits) with TrueLife and 2.0MP webcam
• Up to 200GB configured with 7200 RPM SATA hard drive
• Integrated Slot-Load DVD+/-RW Drive
• Weight: Starting at 1.79 kg

Linux official website will give technical details of the supported systems. They are also going to give the users information on the device drivers used for system peripherals, details of Dell’s Ubuntu factory-installation, and information of the problems and troubles during testing with fixes.

Don’t worry if your mouse is not working, or it is given to repair. When there is a will there is a way. You can use your keyboard as exactly as mouse. MouseKeys is a keyboard feature that enables you to use the numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer and to click, double-click, and drag. MouseKeys enables the keyboard to perform mouse functions. MouseKeys is designed for people who have difficulty using a mouse. MouseKeys allows you to use the numeric keypad to control the mouse pointer. If you want to use the numeric keypad for data entry as well as for navigation, you can set the MouseKeys to be activated by pressing NUM LOCK.

To turn on MouseKeys:

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Accessibility Options.
2. On the Mouse tab, under MouseKeys, select the Use MouseKeys check box. To turn off MouseKeys, clear the Use MouseKeys check box.

The shortcut for MouseKeys is: Press left ALT + left SHIFT + NUM LOCK.

To click by using MouseKeys:
Use the buttons on the numeric keypad to click, double-click, or right-click. If MouseKeys doesn’t function, press NUM LOCK, and then try MouseKeys again.

• To click, press 5 on your numeric keypad.
• To double-click, press the plus sign (+) on your numeric keypad.
• To right-click, press the minus sign (-) on your numeric keypad, and then press 5 to click, or press the plus sign (+) to double-click.
• To click as if you were using both mouse buttons at once, press the asterisk (*) on your numeric keypad, and then press 5 to click or the plus sign (+) to double-click.
• To switch back to standard clicking, press slash (/) on your numeric keypad.

To drag by using MouseKeys:
Use the buttons on the numeric keypad to drag and drop objects.

• To move the pointer over the object you want to move or over the area you want to move to, press the arrow keys on your numeric keypad.
• To hold down the mouse button, press the INSERT key on your numeric keypad.
• To release the mouse button, press the DELETE key on your numeric keypad.

To move the mouse pointer by using MouseKeys:
Use the buttons on the numeric keypad to move the mouse pointer.

• To move the pointer horizontally or vertically, press the arrow keys on your numeric keypad.
• To move the pointer diagonally, press HOME, END, PAGE UP, or PAGE DOWN on your numeric keypad.

iText and iTap are two predictive text input systems for writing messages in cell phones like Nokia and Motorola.
iText allows you to enter text by pressing once on a key for each letter of a word, and it will predict whole words as you key press. For example, to type the word “tomorrow”, press 8 6 6 6, “tomorrow” will be predicted as candidate.
iTap allows you to multi-tap each letter, but will predict and display complete words that contain your sequence of key presses. If your target word is not proposed, simply continue to multi-tap the complete word. For example, to type the word “welcome”, press 9 for letter “w”, press 33 for “e” and press 555 for “l”, “welcome” will be predicted as candidate.
Spell? - This personal dictionary function allows you to multi-tap your own words that not included in the static database, and saved for future prediction.
You can save all words not included in the static database for future prediction, and learn and promote frequently used words. Predict the next word by using learned phrases to propose the next word without pressing another key. You can capitalize the next character after a full stop punctuation followed by a space. And you now are able to insert Smiley like happy :).

And the various key pad numbers in your mobile phones will surely functions different:
‘0’ - Inserts space
‘+-‘- Next candidate (Single candidate display mode)/ Symbol table
Joystick Up/Down – Candidate navigation (Multiple candidate display mode)
Joystick Left – Accept the typed portion of the candidate
Joystick Right – Accept candidate without space
‘#’ short press – Capitalization mode switch
‘#’ long press – Input mode switch
‘1’ short press – Smart punctuation
Pencil Button – Edit / Copy / Paste

Sony Ericsson M610i Lizy Phone has just finished FCC testing and has been approved. A date for its release has not been revealed so far. So it’s too hard to make prediction about the features of mobile phones. But it is sure that it will act like a successor of previous Sony Ericsson M600 model. Among the few sure things known about it is that it supports Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. Moreover, it is a tri-band phone, which supports GSM900/1800/1900 networks.

The cell phone follows the path line set by the Sony M600i model when it comes to design. Instead of plastic, it now has a metal case. Even more, it shares the same keypad with the M600 phone model, as to provide QWERTY keyboard on the number buttons. Considering its simple design, this promises to be a considerably practical phone model, which will come as great help for information transfer with Bluetooth. Moreover, the Wi-Fi connectivity means that it can easily handle media, by downloading music, images and videos to be later listened or viewed.

Sony Ericsson M610i Lizy is sure to be equipped with a Megapixel Camera higher than M600 models’. It will probably be 3G and Symbian OS enabled. MP3 is likely to be the first audio support. And we are hoping the touchscreen capacity of recognizing handwriting, as it was the case with the other phone models. Crossing the finger, let’s hope that it will rock the market with its great features in market.

Media Safe software for Series 60 mobile phones allows you to store media files encrypted and password protected. You can store secret Photo, Audio, Video and Note files secure on your mobile phone. Media Safe uses advanced cryptography methods to protect your media files. The program has friendly and fully customizable user interface.
Now it’s safe to keep any kind of media files safely in your phone memory or memory card of your mobile sets secured from accessing by unauthorized person. Media Safe protects it with password and as well as encrypt your required media files encrypted unknown file format so that no other application can open it.
To get strong data encryption Media Safe uses 256 bit BLOWFISH block cipher (one of the most secure and fastest encryption algorithm) and SHA1 secure hashing algorithm.
Features of Media Safe:

• Possibility to encrypt and store media files of the different type: Images, Sounds, Videos and Notes.
• Strong and fast data encryption (BLOWFISH and SHA1)
• Comfortable and customizable user interface.
• MMC support

BLOWFISH: Description of a New Variable-Length Key, 64-Bit Block Cipher (Blowfish) http://www.schneier.com/paper-blowfish-fse.html
SHA1: RFC 3174 – US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3174.html
You can download latest version of Media Safe visiting this site http://www.epocnova.com

I’ve been looking to buy a laptop for myself. I’ve been surfing in the internet a lot and trying to get the best deal (minimum price for the top level configuration). Still, I haven’t had much of luck with my findings.

HP Pavilion tx2000z series is a cool Notebook actually with its new “Echo” inlaid design and light weight (4.3 lb) ultra portability feature. It has all that you need - a 12.1″ (diagonal) high-definition touch screen and it optimizes handwriting capture: you simply write on it with a dockable/rechargeable eraser pen without need of any batteries. And, the screen twists for easy viewing of documents and movies in cramped spaces. Cool huh?

Some other features of this notebook are:

1. The tx2000z is equipped with powerful AMD Turion 64 X2 dual-core processors with HyperTransport technology. This improves system performance when running multiple applications. It has also been stated that these processors also supply enhanced virus protection as well as PowerNow for longer battery life.
2. The high-definition, spacious 12.1″ diagonal display on this compact notebook means comfortable viewing that won’t strain your eyes.
3. Swipe your finger across the optional integrated reader on the side of the panel to log on to your tx2000z and password-protected Web sites and documents.
4. The tx2000z features the same finish as our other new Pavilion notebooks: a high-gloss black case with inlaid “Echo” pattern.
5. You get 802.11b/g wireless LAN standard with these models, or you can upgrade to 802.11a/b/g.

These are just few of its feature. This sleazy looking notebook comes with a base configuration of price $1,299.99* which you can configure according to your need. Personally, I think it’s a great laptop but still can’t afford it. Dell’s Vostro 1500 with almost same configuration comes in a lot cheaper. But it fails to match the style and class of HP. My search is still on. Hope I’m not just wasting my time.

Microsoft is going to get shocked this Monday as several newspapers and news agencies have confirmed that Yahoo’s board will dismiss the $44.6bn (£22.9bn) offer as being inadequate.

Microsoft had offered $31 a share which was 62% above the level at which Yahoo’s shares was trading. Looked like a pretty decent deal to many at that time but Yahoo’s shares closed on Friday at $29.20. So, it’s pretty unlikely that the offer is going to be accepted. Predictions are that higher price may be offered by Microsoft. But Microsoft’s shares have fallen 12% since it made its offer, which may reflect concerns that it has already offered too much or that such a large deal would distract its management away from its core software business.

A source quoted by the Wall Street Journal said that Yahoo’s board would be unlikely to consider anything below $40 per share.

I wonder what Google is thinking right now. Must be laughing hahaha…