Nokia N900 – The mobile computer

Nokia N900 – Price, Features of Nokia mobile computer – Smart mobile phone

The new Nokia N900 is a slider smart phone or Internet Tablet or a a mobile computer (as Nokia says it).It has a large 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display screen, HSPA and WiFi, 32GB of storage (expandable to 48GB via a microSD card), a 5 megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera with dual LED flash,Assisted GPS,fast ARM Cortex-A8 processor (also used in Palm Pre and iPhone 3GS).The Nokia N900 features a full Adobe Flash 9.4 support and runs on a Maemo Linux-based OS.

The Nokia N900 packs a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 processor, up to 1GB of application memory and OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration. The result is PC-like multitasking, allowing many applications to run simultaneously. Switching between applications is simple, as all running content is constantly available through the dashboard. The panoramic homescreen can be fully personalized with favorite shortcuts, widgets and applications.

To make web browsing more enjoyable, the Nokia N900 features a high-resolution WVGA touch screen and fast internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN. Thanks to the browser powered by Mozilla technology, websites look the way they would on any computer. Online videos and interactive applications are vivid with full Adobe Flash(TM) 9.4 support. Maemo software updates happen automatically over the internet.

Messaging on the N900 is easy and convenient thanks to the full physical slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Setting up email happens with only a few touches and the Nokia Messaging service mobilizes up to 10 personal email accounts. Text message or IM exchanges with friends are shown in one view and all conversations are organized as separate windows.

The Nokia N900 has 32GB of storage, which is expandable up to 48GB via a microSD card. For photography, the Maemo software and the N900 come with a new tag cloud user interface that will help users get the most out of the 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics.

The detailed specifications/Features of the new Nokia N900 smart mobile phone/mobile computer are:

• Network
  • GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
  • HSDPA 1700 / 2100 / 900
• Display
  • 3.5 inches TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors,800 x 480 pixels,
  • Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
  • Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
  • Full QWERTY keyboard
• Memory
  • Internal 32 GB storage, 256 MB RAM
  • Card slot microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB
• Data
  • 3G HSDPA, 10Mbps; HSUPA, 2Mbps
  • WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, DLNA
  • GPS with A-GPS support , Nokia Ovi Maps
  • Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
  • USB v2.0 microUSB
• Camera
  • Primary 5 megapixel, 2592×1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Dual LED flash, video light
  • Features Geo-tagging
  • Video WVGA(848 x 480)@25fps
  • Secondary VGA
• Music
  • Stereo FM radio; FM transmitter
  • MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+ music player
  • WMV/RealVideo/MP4/AVI/XviD video player
  • stereo speakers
  • 3.5 mm audio jack
• Other features/specs:
  • TV-out
  • Digital compass
  • OS Maemo 5
  • CPU ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics
  • Standard battery, Li-Ion 1320 mAh (BL-5J)

Nokia N900 Price

Nokia N900 Price in India: The new Nokia N900 mobile phone is available in India at price of Rs.25,000 (As of July 19, 2010).

Courtesy: Newtechnology.co.in

Why is the symbol @ used in email addresses?

An email address identifies a location to which email messages can be delivered. The first electronic mail delivery engaging two machines was done in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson, a programmer at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, an engineering company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He needed a way to separate, in the email address, the name of the user from the machine the user was on. He wanted a character that would not, under any conceivable circumstances, be found in the user’s name. He looked down at the keyboard and chose the @ sign among various punctuation marks available on his Model 33 teletype keyboard. He had no idea that he was creating an icon for the wired world. Today, email is the most used application on the internet. Each email account has a unique address. A general format for an email address is: username@computer_name . The part before the @ sign is the local part of the address, the user name of the recipient, and the part after the @ sign is the domain part which is a host computer name.

Firefox for Mobile Now Available on Nokia’s Maemo Platform

Firefox is now available for Nokia’s Maemo platform. Starting today, Nokia N900 owners can enjoy many of the same Firefox features they know and love on the desktop on their mobile device.

Bringing Firefox to mobile devices is the next step toward fulfilling Mozilla’s mission of providing one Web that everyone can access, regardless of device or location. Secure, powerful, and customizable, Firefox is the most modern mobile Web browser available and is optimized for a mobile experience. Key design principles are at the heart of the mobile browsing experience including minimal typing, seamless synchronization with desktop Firefox and the ability to take your Firefox with you, to name a few.

Firefox for mobile is packed with the favorite features, including:

• Awesome Bar – Go to your favorite sites in just a couple of keystrokes with intelligent and personalized searching
• Weave Sync – Sync your Firefox tabs, history, bookmarks and passwords between your desktop and mobile device for a seamless browsing experience
• Add-ons – Customize your Firefox by adding small pieces of functionality, like games and news readers, that help make the mobile Web browser your own
• Location-Aware Browsing – Get maps and information relevant to your location
• Tabbed browsing – View open tabs as thumbnails to easily identify and select the Web page you’d like to go to next
• Safe Browsing – Get an Instant Web Site ID and easily access and edit security settings
• Available in more than 30 languages and counting

Firefox is the first mobile Web browser to support add-ons. With add-ons, you can customize your Firefox by adding features that help make your browser your own. Add-ons like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar, language translators, and geo guides become especially handy when you’re out and about on your mobile device. You can both discover and install add-ons directly from your Nokia N900. There are currently more than 40 Firefox add-ons available for mobile and the number is growing every day.

Firefox strongly recommend that you install the YouTube Enabler add-on from within the Add-ons Manager.  Tap on the install button, restart Firefox, and you’re all set to watch YouTube videos.

Just as Firefox does for the desktop, Firefox for mobile provides a platform for developers to create rich applications. Developers can use the latest Web technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to improve, modify and customize the browser. Visit the Develop for mobile page to learn more.

Firefox is currently supported on Nokia’s Maemo5 platform and is available for download on the Nokia N900. Users can download and learn more by visiting Firefox.com/mobile. Visit the FAQ for more information.

This is an exciting entrance into the mobile ecosystem and Firefox for Maemo5 is just the beginning – look out for lots more to come from Firefox for mobile this year.

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Sony Ericsson New Mobile Phone ( Xperia X2 officially announced )

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 officially announced

Sony Ericsson today officially introduced the long-awaited communicator Xperia X2, running Windows Mobile. X2 is the successor of the line Xperia, the first smartphone from which went on sale late last year. Like its predecessor, Xperia X1, X2 will use interactive panels for work, entertainment, Internet surfing, travel and much more. Results are pre-14 panels and 16 more are available for download. The main differences Xperia X2 from X1: X2 is running the operating system Windows Mobile 6.5 (in X1 was used by version 6.1) Display X2 has a diagonal of 3.2 inch (diagonal display in the X1 was 3 inches) Permission integrated camera X2 – 8-megapixel (in X1 – 3.2-megapixel) X2 has a built-in accelerometer and TV-out (in X1 these opportunities did not exist) In X2 loud stereo speakers built-in 2 (in X1 speaker was only one) The new user interface, 3D-panel, GPS-navigator. The device will come with operating system Windows Mobile 6.5. I recommend to continue to see 2 videos + live photos.

Main specifications Sony Ericsson Xperia X2:

• Touch-sensitive TFT-LCD 3.2″ with a resolution of 480×800 pixels
• 8.1-megapixel camera with auto and manual focus, 16-fold magnification, image stabilizer and flash
• QWERTY-keyboard
• A-GPS – WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
• USB 2.0
• TV-out
• 3D-Games
• Built-in 110 MB of physical memory
• Support memory cards format microSD (up to 16 GB)
• Dimensions 110 x 54 x 16 mm
• Weight: 115 grams

The device will be available in 2 colors – black or silver. Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 will go on sale this autumn.

Oracle buys Sun, becomes hardware company

Oracle announced Wednesday it completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in a deal valued at more than $7 billion, a move that transforms the database and business-software giant into a hardware company as well.

Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle has acquired several large companies in its drive to out-consolidate rivals in the business computing technology market, sometimes launching hostile takeovers and sometimes prevailing over regulatory objections. This time, the difficulty was persuading European antitrust regulators who were concerned about the fate under Oracle of the open-source MySQL database software business that was part of Sun.

For more info, DIGG HERE .

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Google Chrome 4.0 Released, Download Available

Today Google has introduced the next major release of its web browser ‘Chrome’. The stable channel of Google Chrome has been updated with v4.0.249.78 for Windows.

Chrome v4.0 comes with significant changes, new features like Extensions and Bookmark Sync.

Extensions provides a great way to add more features and functionality to Chrome web browser and let you customize with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don’t use. Now Chrome users on PCs can access over 1,500 new features, through our new extension system. Here are the different types of extensions that you can find in the extensions gallery.

With Bookmark Sync feature, you can keep your bookmarks synchronized on multiple computers, using your Google Account. This can be handy if you often need to use the same websites on different computers. To know more on bookmark sync, check out this handy guide.

Baum says-
Lastly but certainly not the least, we’ve improved performance (as measured by Mozilla’s Dromaeo DOM Core Tests) by 42% over our last stable release and 400% since our first stable release last year.

If you are Linux, go for latest beta channel available for Linux. And for those using Google Chrome for Mac, hang tight Google is working on bringing extensions, bookmark sync and more to the beta soon.

You can download the most stable version for Windows 7/Vista/Windows XP: [Web Setup] | [Offline Setup]

How to turn on the Drupal site from maintenance?

If you encounter ‘site off-line’ message while accessing a Drupal driven website, you can turn it on by running the following query in the database:

UPDATE variable SET value = 's:1:"0";' WHERE name= 'site_offline';
DELETE FROM cache WHERE cid = 'variables';

The orthodox way to turn it on via Admin panel is:

Go to administer » settings (admin/settings)
Then, Administer » Site configuration » Site maintenance (admin/settings/site-maintenance).

On the page, set Site status to Online.

Source: http://drupal.org/node/56995 .

How to prevent restore & recovery of deleted data ?

Just deleted a file and it went to ‘recycle bin’. Then emptied ‘recycle bin’ and that file is deleted forever, is it? Well, that ’so-called’ deleted file can still be recovered using specialized recovery software.

So, how to prevent restore and recovery of deleted data? How to make sure deleted files are ‘deleted’ in real without any possibility of recovery? ‘Prevent restore’ is an easy to use free application that is answer to above questions.

This application will overwrite all free space on your hard disk(s) that can contain fragments of deleted files with the random data to avoid any possibility of recovery. While writing “Prevent Restore” fills out information to the end of each cluster, leaving no chance to restore.

After the install, run this program for prevent restore wizard. Select one or all drives for ‘prevent restore’ procedure. Then select type of procedure to replacedeleted files among: replace with random characters or with spaces or with random digits.

This application will work on hard drive data and overwrite ’so-called’ deleted data to prevent it from any future recovery. More data and bigger hard drive size will take more time for the process to complete. Download ‘prevent restore’ [2.2MB – Windows, XP] and avoid anyone to lay hands on your deleted data!