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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Rotary Dialer for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

Rotary Dialer for Nokia 5800 XpressMusicRotary Dialer emulate an old fashioned rotary dialer for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Its fully functional and uses the vibrate of the phone to great effect. Once you've entered your number you can hit the "Call" button to place a call.

Free Download: dialer.sis
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Friday, February 27, 2009

IIS 7 and Shared Hosting - I

In conjunction with the current project I'm working on (has to do with virtualization, which I'll touch on in later posts) I'm planning to set up a Web shared hosting environment using Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. I'm figuring out what I need to know and how to go about this, and ran across a couple of IIS7 features that are great for all of you Web hosters out there.

  • Feature delegation. I've seen a few other names for this on the Internet, including the IIS 7 site, the most common being configuration delegation. Regardless, the basic concept is that IIS 7 configuration system is designed so that the server administrator (you, the hoster), can designate specific IIS 7 features that your customers can configure on their own, without having to get in touch with you to do it. You can only delegate features at the server level, essentially telling the IIS7 configuration system which configuration settings are available for your customers to configure in their Web sites and applications.
  • Remote administration. Microsoft included a Web Management Service in IIS7 that, after you install and enable it, provides functionality that enables your customers to manipulate the configuration settings for their Web sites and applications from their own computers. They can do this using a remote instance of IIS Manager.

These two features go hand-in-hand. You set up remote administration on your servers to enable your customers to configure their sites or applications from their desktop or laptop and use feature delegation to designate which features your customers can configure.

To get up to speed on feature delegation, see the articles in Delegating Administration and the videos in Using Shared Hosting Environments.

To fully understand how feature delegation works, I suggest you read up on the IIS7 configuration system itself, too. See Getting Started with IIS 7.0 Configuration for details.

To learn more about remote administration, see the articles in Managing IIS 7.0 Remotely.
For a great overview on the benefits of using IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008 to host Web sites, see MIX08: Bringing Hosters and Developers Together with IIS7.

My next post will take a closer look at feature delegation and how to choose which IIS7 features to delegate.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

BlueWhaleMail - Free software for mobile email and social networking

BlueWhaleMail - Free software for mobile email and social networkingBlueWhaleMail is a Push Social Networking application which will allow you to send and receive Facebook status updates, as well as to Message, Poke and Wall your friends, all from your mobile phone!

Free Download:
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Sunday, February 22, 2009

SMS Me and You

SMS Me and YouSMS Me and You - protect with a password your SMS. This application works only if also the destination phone (partner phone) has installed SMS Me & and You. For security reasons you can quickly empty your Contacts using the Empty command. SMS sent and received will not saved. This application works in background and will be automatically activated every time receive an SMS.

Unlock this application for free
(Register, login and get your code by clicking che "Unlock for free" button.)

Free Download: sms_en.zip
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Saturday, February 21, 2009

Enterprise Architect

hi

What is an EA?

Microsoft write in this website about this subjet

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb945098.aspx

sAntos
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Spyphone (Babyphone) for Nokia S60

Spyphone (Babyphone) for Nokia S60Spyphone (Babyphone) this application turns your phone into a full remote surveillance tool - however, you are not the active spy, but the phone will alert you whenever something interesting is happening.

The basic setup is simple. Set the "agent" - that’s the contact’s telephone number that should be informed in the case of an emergency. Next, place the phone at the place that you want to monitor, for example next to a baby.

From now on, the application will constantly monitor the audio level of its surroundings. If they exceed a pre-defined threshold, the phone will automatically call the agent. As a normal voice call is made, you can now hear the surroundings of the phone in order to judge if something serious is happening.

Free Download: here

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Friday, February 20, 2009

How much does it cost to run a computer?

power cord

Here's something that has always hung around in my mind, but I never got around to looking up the answer. How much will running PCs add to your power bill?

Anandtech posted an article where they calculated the cost of running a PC per hour.

* For a middle of the line system, they figured one year of use is $93.51 for 8 hours a day.
* If you let your PC sit idle 24 hours a day, it will cost you $128.12 a year.
* For a top of the line system that is at full load all day long (like a server) you could spend $440.85.

These prices are calculated at the price of electricity in North Carolina. California PC users will pay almost double.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

FreeFSWP–Set Fullscreen Wallpaper On Your S60 3RD Phones(Support MR and FP1 machines)

FreeFSWP–Set Fullscreen Wallpaper On Your S60 3RD Phones(Support MR and FP1 machines)FreeFSWP can set an image as fullscreen wallpaper on your S60 3rd Mr and FP1 machines. No support for FP2 and 5800 yet.

Free Download: FreeFSWP_unsigned.sis

(FreeFSWP supports following phones: 3250、5700、6110N、6120C、E50、E51、E60、E61(i)、E62、E65、E70、E71、N73、N75、N76、N80、N81、N82、N91、N93(i)、N95)
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Toshiba A305-S6872

The Satellite A305-S6872 features Toshiba's "Horizon" case pattern in a "Fusion" finish, which basically means silver gray with pinstripes that resemble an optical illusion. The finish is almost mirror like, and even light handling will leave major fingerprints all over it. The case's rounded corners resemble the HP Pavilion dv6915nr, and the two systems are nearly identical in size.

At 6.4 pounds with the included nine cell battery, the Satellite A305-S6872 is a reasonable weight to carry on occasional trips but too heavy to carry every day. The stripes continue inside the case, both along the sides of the keyboard and on the wrist rest (even the touch pad has a subtle striped design). The keys are made of very glossy plastic that fits the aesthetic but is so shiny, it can be distracting.

Fortunately, the keyboard is comfortable; with your eyes closed it feels like any other nearly full size board. The touch pad is likewise roomy, though we were annoyed by the glowing white stripe across the top of the pad, which seems to be just decoration (we thought maybe it would change colors if the touch pad were disabled, but no dice).

We took some consolation in the fact that it along with other distractingly illuminated case elements, a Satellite logo in the bottom left hand corner and a row of touch sensitive media controls above the keyboard can be turned off using Toshiba's HWSetup utility.

The 15.4 inch wide screen LCD display offers a 1,280x800 native resolution, which is standard for a screen this size. The display's glossy finish produces rich colors and contrast we found it minimally distracting while surfing the Web and typing email, but quite enjoyable for movie watching. A Webcam above the display lets users conduct video chats.

Other Features
  • Video VGA out, Webcam VGA out, S-Video
  • Audio Stereo speakers, headphone or microphone jacks Stereo speakers, headphone or microphone jacks
  • Data 3 USB 2.0, mini-FireWire, mulitformat memory card reader, eSATA port 4 USB 2.0, SD card reader
  • Expansion ExpressCard/54 ExpressCard
  • Networking modem, Ethernet, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi modem, Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optional WWAN
  • Optical drive DVD burner DVD burner
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Toshiba Qosmio G55-Q802

Instead, the $1,549 Qosmio G55 adds a handful of genuinely unique extras, which run from gimmicky to useful under certain, limited circumstances. The 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 is joined by a second Cell processor (just like the chip powering the PlayStation 3). Toshiba calls this combo "Quad Core HD," and uses the extra horsepower to power both a Webcam based gesture control system and accelerated video encoding (as long as you're using the prescribed software).

Neither addition is going to be of much use to casual consumers, but we can see limited circumstances where specific tasks encoding lots of HD video to DVD would make the G55 worth a look, and note that the non Blu-ray versions of Acer's and HP's 18 inch laptops cost around the same, even without the extra processing power.

Specification
  • Price as reviewed / Starting price $1,549
  • Processor 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 (plus 1.5GHz Cell processor)
  • Memory 4GB, 800MHz DDR2
  • Hard drive 250GB 5,400rpm (x2)
  • Chipset Mobile Intel P45 Express Chipset
  • Graphics 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT
  • Operating system Windows Vista Premium (64 bit)
  • Dimensions (WDH) 17.8x12.2x1.9 inches
  • Screen size (diagonal) 18.4 inches
  • System weight or Weight with AC adapter 10.7/12.1 pounds
  • Category Desktop replacement
Easily the biggest and bulkiest of the current crop of 18 inch laptops at nearly 2 inches thick and almost 11 pounds, the G55 dwarfs the (relatively) smaller HP HDX18 and Sony Vaio AW170.

The system's glossy (and fingerprint prone), pinstriped design resembles the recently revamped Satellite line, but the chassis itself has the same clamshell look, with the edges of the lid curling in slightly, as on the 17 inch Qosmio X305-Q701.

It's not for those without ample desktop space, but the G55 also feels solid as a rock. The full keyboard and separate number pad are typical for Toshiba which is to say very glossy.

The keys themselves are comfortable and easy to use, but there's a bit too much flex around the middle of the keyboard. A row of standard touch sensitive media control buttons sit above the keyboard, but we're much more excited about the small volume control jogwheel that's on the lower left side of the keyboard tray. We always find jogwheels easier to use and more responsive than volume up and down buttons, or touch sensitive volume sliders (which never respond fast enough for our tastes).

The 18.4 inch wide screen LCD display offers a 1,680x945 pixel native resolution, which is a bit of a mystery. Every other 18 inch laptop we've seen has a 1,920x1080 pixel resolution, which is a natural match with the 16:9 aspect ratio and 1080p HD content. The G55 also lacks the Blu-ray drive that the other 18 inch laptops we've reviewed all carry as standard equipment. However, since Toshiba laptops were saddled with HD DVD drives for long past that format's useful life, we can call this progress, of a sort.

Other Features
  • Video VGA out, HDMI VGA out, S-Video, HDMI
  • Audio Stereo speakers, headphone/microphone jacks, S/PDIF jack Stereo speakers with subwoofer, headphone/microphone jacks.
  • Data 4 USB 2.0, mini FireWire, multiformat memory card reader, eSATA 4 USB 2.0, mini FireWire, SD card reader
  • Expansion ExpressCard/54 ExpressCard/54
  • Networking modem, Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth modem, Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, optional Bluetooth
  • Optical drive DVD burner DVD burner or Blu-Ray
The G55's two most interesting features are its gesture controls and its extra processing power for video editing and encoding. Both features make use of what Toshiba calls "Quad Core HD," which means the standard Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 working with a second processing chip. That chip, essentially the same Cell processor found in the PlayStation 3 (and originally co-developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba), has a clock frequency of 1.5GHz.
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