Some Cool NOKIA Codes

Might turn out to be useful. Don't blame me if it does not work :-) ...'B'...
Nokia code	Code function
*3370#	This Nokia code activates Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR) - Your Nokia cell phone uses the best sound quality but talk time is reduced my approx. 5%
#3370#	Deactivate Enhanced Full Rate Codec (EFR)
*#4720#	Activate Half Rate Codec - Your phone uses a lower quality sound but you should gain approx 30% more Talk Time
*#4720#	With this Nokia code you can deactivate the Half Rate Codec
*#0000#	Displays your phones software version, 1st Line : Software Version, 2nd Line : Software Release Date, 3rd Line : Compression Type
*#9999#	Phones software version if *#0000# does not work
*#06#	For checking the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI Number)
#pw+1234567890+1#	Provider Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)
#pw+1234567890+2#	Network Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)
#pw+1234567890+3#	Country Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)
#pw+1234567890+4#	SIM Card Lock Status. (use the "*" button to obtain the "p,w" and "+" symbols)
*#147#	This lets you know who called you last (Only vodofone)
*#1471#	Last call (Only vodofone)
*#21#	This phone code allows you to check the number that "All Calls" are diverted to
*#2640#	Displays phone security code in use
*#30#	Lets you see the private number
*#43#	Allows you to check the "Call Waiting" status of your cell phone.
*#61#	Allows you to check the number that "On No Reply" calls are diverted to
*#62#	Allows you to check the number that "Divert If Unreachable (no service)" calls are diverted to
*#67#	Allows you to check the number that "On Busy Calls" are diverted to
*#67705646#	Phone code that removes operator logo on 3310 & 3330
*#73#	Reset phone timers and game scores
*#746025625#	Displays the SIM Clock status, if your phone supports this power saving feature "SIM Clock Stop Allowed", it means you will get the best standby time possible
*#7760#	Manufactures code
*#7780#	Restore factory settings
*#8110#	Software version for the nokia 8110
*#92702689#	Displays - 1.Serial Number, 2.Date Made, 3.Purchase Date, 4.Date of last repair (0000 for no repairs), 5.Transfer User Data. To exit this mode you need to switch your phone off then on again
*#94870345123456789#	Deactivate the PWM-Mem
**21*number#	Turn on "All Calls" diverting to the phone number entered
**61*number#	Turn on "No Reply" diverting to the phone number entered
**67*number#	Turn on "On Busy" diverting to the phone number entered
12345	This is the default security code

Cell Makers Agree on a Single Charging Plug

Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, LG, and Nokia have agreed to use micro USB as a charging-plug standard for phones. Your days of buying a bagful of accessories every time you switch phones have come to an end. Well, not quite. You will still have to toss out all your mini USB chargers, as this decision in truth indicates a rejection of that budding de facto standard. Yep, all the carriers and accessories makers will have one last chance to profit before the standard is in place.

Kudos Guys....

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Windows ReadyBoost

Windows ReadyBoost improves system memory and boosts performance.

Adding system memory (typically referred to as RAM) is often the best way to improve a PC's performance, since more memory means more applications are ready to run without accessing the hard drive. However, upgrading memory can be difficult and costly, and some machines have limited memory expansion capabilities, making it impossible to add RAM.

Windows Vista introduces Windows ReadyBoost, a new concept in adding memory to a system. You can use non-volatile flash memory, such as that on a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive, to improve performance without having to add additional memory "under the hood."

The flash memory device serves as an additional memory cache—that is, memory that the computer can access much more quickly than it can access data on the hard drive. Windows ReadyBoost relies on the intelligent memory management of Windows SuperFetch and can significantly improve system responsiveness.

It's easy to use Windows ReadyBoost. When a removable memory device such as a USB flash drive or a secure digital (SD) memory card is first inserted into a port, Windows Vista checks to see if its performance is fast enough to work with Windows ReadyBoost. If so, you are asked if you want to use this device to speed up system performance. You can choose to allocate part of a USB drive's memory to speed up performance and use the remainder to store files.

Wi-Fi Detector Shirt

The Wi-Fi Detector shirt does everything you'd dream it could do: detect Wi-Fi signals and share them, via your chest, with the entire world. Spotting both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, signal strength is displayed in real time (big animated gif post-jump). After you are done broadcasting your (super ability?) to the world, just slip the AAA batteries out of the built-in pouch and unhook the decal, and you can wash the sweat away of a hard day's work of bandwidth theft.The Wi-Fi Detector shirt is a Think Geek exclusive and will be available this October for $29.99.

Sharp develops world's thinnest 2.2-inch LCD

Sharp corporation announced the world's thinnest ever LCD for mobile devices, a 2.2-inch screen with a thickness of just 0.68mm.

Mobile devices such as cell phones and digital cameras are rapidly becoming thinner as manufacturers strive to improve portability and offer consumers more stylish designs. As a result, thinner embedded components such as LCDs are also increasing in demand. The increase in demand for One-Seg (terrestrial digital broadcast) compatible handsets is leading to demands for greater visibility and higher image quality in displays intended for mobile devices.

The development the new 2.2-inch Mobile Advanced Super View LCD is based on proprietary Sharp fabrication techniques for thin LCDs, in particular, glass substrate and backlight technologies. This new Mobile Advanced Super View LCD delivers superior image quality approaching that of an LCD TV thanks to a high contrast ratio of 2000:1, wide viewing angle of 176 degrees, and fast response speed of 8 ms, which are among the highest levels in the industry.

Specifications:

• Screen size: 2.2-inches
• Pixel count 240 x 320 px (QVGA)
• Module thickness 0.68 mm
• Contrast: 2000:1
• Viewing angle: Vertical, horizontal, and diagonal: 176 degrees
• Response speed: 8 ms (black white display)

People of Massachusetts to be Having Sex With Robots by 2012

MSNBC is running a report on the impending likelihood of legalized marital relations with robots. They have word from a leading researcher at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, Dr. Levy, who seems to think peeps will be getting freaky with their robots by 2012, with marriage following by 2050. One thing is for sure; Gizmodo shall be supporting the revolution all the way! Dr. Levy said:

"Once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon."

We are thinking you could probably drop the phrase "with a robot," as well as the blurb after the exclamation mark, and still have us convinced. Dr. Levy goes on to suggest that Massachusetts will be the first state to contain a robot-human sexing population. He justifies his theory by stating:

"Massachusetts is more liberal than most other jurisdictions in the United States and has been at the forefront of same-sex marriage."

Though we aren't too sure the reasoning is sound, we have already seen Roomba owners gaining an emotional attachment to their machines. Whether they will be putting their winkles in the Roomba's dinkle and allowing it to have a tinkle, we very much doubt. However, if sexbots get this real (NSFW), well, perhaps the ethics of robosexuals is a serious debate, after all.

Source

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Top 7 Most Annoying Mac “Features”

The Mac platform is certainly the best in the world, but that doesn’t mean it’s not without some flaws. What follows are 7 things I think are the most annoying “Features” of Macs. Why 7? Well, there just aren’t enough fundamental problems with OS X to name much more.

In no particular order:

Drag to Trash To Eject or Disconnect - This has certainly improved over the years, but the least intuitive thing to do on the Mac is to drag a CD/DVD/Flash or Network Drive into the trash to eject it. Sure the icon now changes and there’s a dedicated keyboard key, but it’s still not intuitive.

One-button Trackpad - Sure there’s the new Mighty Mouse that can be configured for right and left clicks, but the MacBook and MacBook Pros are still still stuck with a single-button trackpad. It’s time Apple gives up the single button and acknowledges two buttons are just better. You are 90% of the way there, Apple. Just…just DO IT!

(yes, I know you can change prefs to have a two-fingered tap. It’s not the same.)

The inability to rename, delete or move files/folders from open or save dialog boxes - I have to admit - I really love this feature in Windows. When you’re saving/opening a file and you decide to rename or delete a folder or file, it’s super convenient to do it while you’re thinking of it right there in the save/open file dialog box.

Delete Key - Apple’s delete key only goes backwards and if you want it to be a forward delete you need to hit the function key, at least on a MacBook/MacBook Pro. And that cool new wireless keyboard.

Browser Windows - This always seems to throw Windows switchers for a loop. In Windows, you can open up a multitude of Internet Explorer windows and each show up in the tool bar making it very easy to switch from one to another. However, in Safari, each Window is treated (properly I might add) as an application window, forcing a different window control.

Window Size Control - Here’s another area were I think that other operating system excels. In Mac OS, you are limited as to where you can grab windows and if you want to resize them, you have to grab the triangle in the lower-right corner. In that other system, you can grab and/or resize from practically anywhere. There’s really not a good reason for this.

Hardware Obsolescence - There’s always something better around the corner. The drawback with a company that makes really bitchin' stuff is that they keep doing it. Does it really seem as if Apple senses when you (personally) buy something and then releases a new & improved version within a couple of weeks.

Open for debate... :-)

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24-carat gold-plated MacBook Pro

Money no object? Then how about a 24-carat gold-plated MacBook Pro for your next laptop computer? US Mac dealer Powermax has begun offering just that.

The machine is Apple's 15.4in model with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, which would customarily set you back $2499 - less than half what Powermax is asking to disassemble it, plate the aluminium surfaces with gold, suitably colourise the keyboard then put it all back together again.
The exterior is buffed up to a shine, while the interior is left with a more matt-like "satin" finish. Powermax reckons the process will take a little while to complete - it warns that orders will take 4-5 weeks to fulfil.


The machine's lid of course retains the familiar light-up Apple logo. For an extra $3000, you have have Powermax pack the stencil with two carats worth of diamonds - "H/I in color and SI1-2 in clarity", the company said.

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~Hitachi plans 4 TB drives in 2009~

Hitachi Ltd. announced that its hard drive division is going to push way past today’s storage limits to 4 terabytes for desktop computers and 1 terabyte on laptops in 2009, with first products available in 2011. Researchers at the company created the world’s smallest disk drive heads in the 30-nanometer to 50-nanometer range, or about 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair. In fact, the entire industry is reverting back to the giant magnetoresistance, or GMR hard drive head technology it used about ten years ago. The initial application of this physical effect maxed out and the industry had to replace it with tunnel magnetoresistance read heads, or TMR. “We changed the direction of the current and adjusted the materials to get good properties,” said John Best, chief technologist for Hitachi’s data-storage unit.

The company, which bought IBM’s hard drive division recently, will report at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo that it has made heads 30nm and 50nm wide that had signal-to-noise ratios of 30-40 dB. The technology builds on GMR (giant magnetoresistance), a physical effect that manipulates the charge and spin of electrons, allowing an increase in density and storage on hard drives. The GMR effect won two European scientists, Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg, a Nobel Prize in physics this month.GMR was discovered in 1988 and commercialized by vendors such as IBM, which used the technology to increase the capacity of its drives every year. Now that’s what I call a fine storage capacity!

iPod catches fire in user's pocket!

An American airport worker described himself as "freaked out" when his iPod Nano caught fire in his pocket.

Danny Williams, of Douglasville in Georgia, was carrying his iPod in his trousers when he noticed a burning sensation and looked down to see flames shooting out of his pocket.

The Nano had caught fire, he said, and the results could have been a lot worse given his job at an airport.

"I am still kind of freaked out that after only a year and a half my iPod caught fire in my pocket," Williams told WSBTV.

"So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest. If [the US Transportation Security Administration] had come by and seen me smoking, they could have thought I was a terrorist."

The cause of the fire is not yet known, but Apple has requested the unit back and has promised to replace it.

The Nano range uses lithium ion batteries that have been the subject of overheating problems in mobile phones, digital cameras and laptops.

Problems occur if the battery is contaminated with metal fragments that cause short circuits and ignite the battery's flammable fluids.

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