Motorola’s ‘slim’ brigade

Finally, Motorola’s ‘slim’ brigade is under attack, and this time from i-mate. The Dubai-based i-mate, famous for its large-sized handhelds, has tried to marry a slim handset to a business tool. The result is the slinky SPL, which runs on the Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphone platform.

Integrated i-mate;

The most versatile feature of the SPL is the backward integration into the i-mate suite of offerings like the I-view, Backup and Control options. Via the I-view, a user can have the benefit of securely accessing his entire data and files at any point during the day or night, irrespective of the location. And if you feel that the expandable memory storage on the phone is still short for your requirements, then additional data can also be stored on the I-view suite, thereby enhancing your phone’s efficiency.

Similarly, the Backup function allows you to have an automatic copy of your of your entire data in a separate location other than the handset. So, in an unfortunate scenario where you lose the phone, a data replica already exists that can be seamlessly transferred to a new handset.

Remote troubleshooting is easily done through the Control functionality. This feature has the capability to remotely wipe out sensitive data on the phone and the storage card in ase the handset falls into the wrong hands. Well, all this sure makes me greedy and I wish it also had Wi-Fi.

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Search box in Internet Explorer 8

We’ve improved the Search box in Internet Explorer 8 so that search providers can deliver rich, contextual search suggestions in real time. As you type a search term, you’ll see relevant suggestions that can be categorized and may even include images. For instance, you might find images of products from your favorite store as you search, or stock charts from your online brokerage account in the Search Box drop-down list. Internet Explorer 8 provides the technology, but the choice of what to show is made by the search provider.

Popular sites such as Bing, Wikipedia, Amazon.com, The New York Times online, Yahoo!, eBay, OneRiot, ESPN, Photobucket, and TinyPic are all taking advantage of the new search capabilities in Internet Explorer 8. In addition, because people often use Search to get back to sites that they’ve visited before, Internet Explorer 8 includes matches from your Favorites and History in the bottom of the Search Box drop-down list.

The enhanced Instant Search box in Internet Explorer 8 is more helpful than before, making it easier to find interesting content and returning more relevant search results. As you type a search term, you’ll see real-time search suggestions—including images and rich text—from the search provider you’ve chosen. The Instant Search box will even display results from your Favorites and browsing history. A quick pick menu at the bottom of the Instant Search box lets you switch back and forth between your favorite Web sites and search provider’s search suggestions with a click of the mouse.

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accessing folders can be made easier

If you often work with shared folders on a networked machine, then accessing folders can be made easier .

Goto network folders in Windows Explorer, by typing \\machine_name\share_folder . In the left pane of the window , you will find the folder name . Right clickon the folder and select Map Network Drive . Select ‘ Reconnect at Logon ‘ if you wish to automatically get connected to the network drive as soon as windows starts . From now onwards , you can access the network folder as if it were a local drive on your machine .

Understand Your Machine better :

To get information about your machine , go to

Start – > programs – > Accessories – > System tool – > System Information . This tool will provide you with information about the resources on your motherboard , the hardware components and drivers , and also about the software applications running on your machine .

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XGPS300 GPS Cradle

If you have own one iPod Touch and wanna make it a little cleverer by adding GPS functionality on the device, granted! Dual Electronics XGPS300 GPS Cradle will help you get that feature just by docking your iPod Touch onto the cradle.

The Dual Electronics XGPS300 GPS device is virtually turning your iPod touch into an iPhone with some limitation to bear in mind (such as some apps won’t work well without the cradle). The XGPS300 GPS cradle has including NavAtlas turn-by-tun navigation app, rechargeable battery, built-in speaker, audio out port mini USB port and a windshield cradle.

Dual Electronics XGPS300 GPS Cradle will cost you about $180 to get one.

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turn your PC into a TV

Everyone talks about it, but how many of us can afford it? The convergence of the personal computer and television is the subject of weighty discussion, and most of the solutions that are on offer seem tailored to those with weighty purses. But if you already own a reasonably configured home PC, it may be possible to add some neat pieces of hardware and software that can transform your machine into a TV and also allow you to control all your entertainment viewing and hearing — films on CD or DVD, TV content, music from CDs or MP3 folders — through a remote.

One device that makes this possible is the Pinnacle MediaCenter made by a U.S.-based digital entertainment outfit co-founded in 1986 by a BITS Pilani graduate, Ajay Chopra. He is the Chief Operating Officer today.

What you get for just under Rs. 3,000 is a programme CD and a chunky remote, together with the infrared eye that you can attach to the PC’s serial port. The software takes a good hour to install — mainly because they throw in Microsoft’s .Net framework and SQL Server, two bulky utilities that are apparently the backbone for Pinnacle’s own application.

Once installed, you can use the remote to click through an on-screen menu that allows you to operate your PC’s CD or DVD drive, to play music or video; search through your hard disk to find the music, pictures or video that you may have stored and generally access all the entertainment playable on your PCs from TV-viewing distance.

If you want to see TV on the same PC monitor, you have to install an additional PC-TV card that costs the same again, as the basic MediaCenter. This will allow you to receive TV signals from a cable TV or antenna plug and also provide some basic recording functions.

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spam mail from real mail

It’s estimated that over 97 per cent of all mail sent on the Internet is spam. The reason why you don’t see all of them is because email service providers are doing a pretty good job of filtering them out. Unlike spam filters from a decade ago, today’s anti-spam engines identify spam using multiple algorithms. For example once a spam sender’s computer is identified, it’s very easy for anti-spam engines to mark all mails originating from that computer to be spam. In some cases, the anti-spam engines identify the language spoken by a user and automatically mark emails in other languages as spam

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