Logitech Wireless Desktop MK320 Combo Review



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VAGXZC/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_39

Been using for 6 months now and these work very well so far. Keyboard battery is still going strong. Mouse battery had to change about 2 times now, but I guess its also my fault cos I forget to turn the mouse off while I take it in the back pack.

Keyboard has many shortcut keys and multimedia keys, I find them useful.

Mouse is pretty good for travel, its small and light. Not the most feature
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My review of Amazon item: Micro USB OTG to USB 2.0 Adapter

This is my review of the Amazon item: Micro USB OTG to USB 2.0 Adapter, 4 Pack 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HVT2600/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_0 

For some reason Amazon keeps rejecting this review on the product page saying review is not inline with their guidelines, but i can't see why. But posting here in case someone searches for it and finds this...

I thought of doing this fairly extensive performance review because while
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Connecting Your Phone to Internet through Laptop’s Wifi

Most smart phones users will like to use wifi to connect to internet from their phones rather than using GPRS/3G/3.5G connections, especially when you're not in an unlimited data package. But what if you dont have a wifi router?

Facing a similar situation, I too googled to find a solution. So one easy solution is to use a wifi adapter in a PC (most Laptops/Netbooks these days includes a wifi card). But when I googled about implementing this, I found that most users face numerous problems and I too had to fiddle with settings for couple of hours. Most of the time phone will display an error saying ‘No Gateway Reply’.

So I thought to write this step by step guide to get connected right away. For that
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Firmware Update v40.for Nokia 5800XM !


Its out !! It really is out, the newest Firmware update for Nokia 5800. And its not just a bug fix either. It include many welcoming features to make your 5800XM a better experience. So we’ll look at the feature list

Change Log for Firmware v40:

o Kinetic scrolling
o Home style widget with Nokia 5530
o Touch is more responsive
o Slide to Unlock during call
o Improved stability
o Auto activation of Full QWERTY keyboard in
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Use Your ‘Resistive Type’ Touchscreen Right !



In today’s mobile market touch screens are used in phones, notebook PC and PDAs. The thing is there are various types of touch screens with their own pros & cons. One thing to keep in mind is those different types of screens acts differently and wants to be ‘touched’ differently.

Lets get a basic idea about their technology in brief:

Capacitive type: As the name implies they use the change of capacity to identify touched point on screen. These are used mainly in mobile phones and equipments such as iPhone, iPod touch etc. Usually have a good responsiveness to touch. Problem of using capacity is only some things such as human skin changes capacity of those screens when touched. In short, they are only sensitive to human skin and like elements. You cannot use thing like plastic pen (stylus) on that. And they’re also lacks precision point identification compared to others.


Resistive type: This uses the change of resistance of multilayered thin films on top of screen to identify touch point. This is commonly used in mobile phones and PDAs. This is sensitive to any thing that
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How intel turns sand into CPU chips!

From Sand to Silicon “Making of a Chip” 

This is from an article posted on intel website. Hope this will help you to get an idea about chip making process. 

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1. Sand

 
With about 25% (mass) Silicon is – after
Oxygen – the second most frequent chemical
element in the earth’s crust. Sand –
especially Quartz - has high percentages of
Silicon in the form of Silicon dioxide (SiO2)
and is the base ingredient for semiconductor
manufacturing.

2.Melted Silicon 

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Opera mini 5 beta – on Nokia 5800 - Review


This is a review on Opera mini’s newest version, 5beta. I am using it on Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. First I installed it to my phone when phone was on firmware version originally come with, that is v21.0.025. I went to ‘m.opera.com/next’ page with phones browser and download it directly to phone (it was something like 250kb in size). Operamini as always is a free JAVA application, so you can use on any Java app supported phone. Installation was easy and quick. I’ve already got Operamini 4.2 installed, it wasn’t affected by this. You can even use both versions simultaneously without a problem. 

Main Feature List:

  Virtual Keypad –NEW

  Multiple Tabs browsing – NEW

  Kinetic Scrolling –NEW

  Password Manager –NEW

  Styling - Improved

  Touch optimized -Improved

  Speed Dial – Improved

Touch Optimization:

As you know Nokia 5800 is a full touch phone without any hardware keypad apart from 3 buttons under the screen (read my review on Nokia 5800XM). So it is

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