computer age:take advantage and be your own boss

2011-12-19T05:51:00.000-08:00

How to make N500 per referral at 1kJobsOnline (Make N50,000 from 100 referrals)

How ?

All you just need to do is to refer your friends to register on the site. Once the referred friend registers on the site and activates a seller account, you earn N500 for been the referral.

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All you just need to do is to use your affiliate links and badges to spread the word about 1kJobsOnline and earn 500 Naira each time someone signs up using one of the referral links or badges and activates a seller account.

The person you referred must pay N1000 for a seller account before you can earn the N500 commission.

I have paid for a seller's account and I have referred 76 people to the site as at the time of publishing this post. Out of these 76 people, only one has activated a seller's account meaning I have only earned just N500 so far. If 50 out of this 76 people activate seller account in the long run, it means I would make N25, 000 doing no job on the site. So, if I have 100 referrals that activates a seller account each, I will make for myself, N50, 000.

Below is a snapshot from my account showing the details of my referrals.

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You can be sharing your link on facebook, twitter etc, telling your friends to regsiter and make N1000 from any job they can do.

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How to extend your smartphone’s battery life

No matter what type of smartphone you have, the device can serve as your MP3 player, digital camera, gaming system, and even your TV while you're out and about — as long as you have battery power. If it seems like smarter phones are getting less life out of their batteries... you're absolutely right. Smartphones can help you get a lot done while traveling, but if you're doing a lot on one in a day, you're apt to see your screen go dark long before the sun goes down.
Watching out for a few small things during your day, however, can help extend battery life on your trusty device and make sure you've got enough juice to make it all day and well into the night.
Mixed signals
It takes extra juice for your smartphone to search for a data connection. If you're somewhere where you won't get a signal, like an airplane or subway, putting your phone in airplane mode or turning it off altogether will prevent it from draining your battery. Turning your phone on does require a bit of extra power, so it's best to save shutting it off for times when you plan to leave it off for a while, rather than something like a 20-minute subway ride to work in the morning. Thinking of it as car mode or subway mode instead of airplane mode might just be the mental trick you need!
Likewise, turn off wifi when you don't need it. When it's active, your phone scans for available wifi connections constantly, which kills battery life. If you're using the wifi in a coffee shop or bookstore, remember to disable that connection when you're done to avoid draining your battery while you're on the road.

Your battery bleeds faster when you're inattentive

Focus on the task at hand
Sure, you can have your email open, search for directions to a local restaurant, watch a video on YouTube, and play Angry Birds at the same time — but chances are you're really only focused on one of those tasks. Everything you have open on your phone is using some amount of battery power. Try to focus on doing just one thing at a time on your phone, and close unnecessary applications to keep them from draining your battery. Things like your GPS and the bluetooth connection you use to connect to your hands-free device in the car gobble up a ton of battery power and are of no use to you unless you're doing a few specific tasks.

Bright future
Bright screens look great but are a huge drain on your phone's battery. To stretch your phone's life, go into the controls or settings and dim the backlight or brightness of your screen. While the dimmest setting might be difficult to read (especially if you're somewhere brightly lit), something toward the middle will extend your battery life without putting too much strain on your eyes. If your phone has an auto-brightness option, using that can be a one-step solution to balancing battery life and ease of reading.
Along those same lines, try to avoid using animated backgrounds on your phone. Remember, the less you ask of your phone, the less it draws on your battery.
Bad vibrations
It takes more battery power for your phone to vibrate than it does to ring. While you absolutely want to have your phone on vibrate (or turned off) when you're at a movie or in a meeting, keeping your ringer on at other times can help extend battery life.
Mandatory nap time
Just as you would with a toddler, the easiest way to make sure your smartphone's battery lasts all night is to give it a nap at some point during the day. If you're headed into a meeting for a few hours, turn off your phone and leave it in your desk. Likewise, if you're out to dinner with close friends or on a date, turn off your phone and focus on your companions. Not only will you look like a better employee and friend for focusing on the people around you in real life, you'll also save that much more juice for later.
Still having trouble?
If you still find yourself running out of battery life before the end of the day, plug into a charging bag or use an external battery pack such as Morphie's JuicePack to strap on some extra power for the road.

$1.7 Million Worth of BlackBerry PlayBooks stolen

2011-12-18T04:37:00.000-08:00

$1.7 Million Worth of BlackBerry PlayBooks Stolen

I used to always hear jokes about electronics “Falling” off the back of a truck but this is a bit crazy. Bla1ze @CrackBerry (Thanks Tashanna!) noticed a story about a semi-tractor full of BlackBerry PlayBooks being stolen this past Thursday.The driver coming out of Plainfield, Ontario was transporting 22 pallets of PlayBooks when he went to get something to eat and grab a shower.
Currently the police have no suspects but they have contacted the FBI. I wonder where 22 pallets of PlayBooks would wander off to… More details over at the Hearld Bulletin.

Electric-Powered Rolls-Royce Finishes World Tour ( Slideshow)

Rolls Royce Motor Cars said its 102EX model called the Phantom Experimental Electric, returned to its headquarters in West Sussex, England, this week after completing a globetrotting program of testing and test-marketing.
The world tour served as a shakedown cruise to check the car’s systems to see how they work in everyday driving. The trip was also an attempt to answer questions about the feasibility of electric power in the ultra-luxury car segment.
Early this year the car maker revealed the EE during the Geneva Motors Show and has since been trying to get a sense of potential interest from longtime customers as well as prospective new buyers.
Rolls-Royce, which is a unit of BMW AG, says information gathered during the tour will help it develop a strategy that could include alternative drive systems for its vehicles. Rolls said it will release results of its recent market-research in the first quarter of 2012.

Will Android Reach Its Sell-by Date In 2012?

Weight watchers will know how it feels: to cut the flab and get going with more energy, more buzz. Stephen Elop is now on that side. The Nokia president and CEO has got two new phones, Lumia 800 and 710, out of the lumbering giant in under nine months. They were launched in India three days ago.

For a moment, ignore Lumias' specifications (they don't read half bad). Don't compare them with other Windows Mango devices. Consider what it means for the company. From idea to the store shelf, the Lumia journey is a quick turnaround from handset industry standards. Benchmark it to the old Nokia, it looks like a sprint.

But the real mad dash was the slew of dual SIM phones. More than two years late into India and other emerging economies, the company has announced seven such phones since June. And though late, Nokia came good. It loaded the dual SIM phones with features: Ovi services and specific innovations. The result: it shipped over 18 million such phones since their launch.

Elop is already gushing. In a media interaction in September he claimed that the success of dual SIM phones had a "halo effect on our single-SIM phones. India has shown that brand plus team plus great execution can deliver strong results".

Innovation and agility at both ends of the handset market: does this signal that Nokia is getting its act back together? Or do the achievements pale against the goings on in Apple, Samsung and local manufacturers in emerging economies?

ET on Sunday dissects the anatomy of the dual SIM success to find out whether it can be replicated across phone segments and questions whether Nokia's Lumia can win mind and market share in the iPhone era.

BEST LATE THAN NEVER

There are a lot of things that Nokia did right in the dual SIM segment. But the most important one is that it entered this market at all. Many consumers bought Indian brands because there was no Nokia option. As soon as they had one, the choice was Nokia.

"The brand enjoys high credibility, especially at the low-end. It did the right thing by launching handsets at competitive price points. A consumer did not have to spend more, if anything at all, to switch from an Indian brand to a Nokia dual SIM," says Kunal Bajaj , director India, Analysys Mason, a telecom consultant.
But Nokia did not rely on brand power alone. It included relevant value-additions and innovated for the consumer. Says D Shivakumar, managing director, Nokia India: "We refused to treat the dual SIM market the way the industry was treating it, as a vanilla commodity. We segmented the dual SIM user on parameters like form factors and usage patterns and addressed the pain points of owing multiple SIMs."

Americans losing addiction to 'CrackBerrys'

New York: To understand what ails BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd in the US market, just ask eBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe.
The world's biggest online auction site had about a hundred engineers developing new iterations of eBay's shopping app for Apple Inc's iPhone a few months ago, and another hundred engineers working on Google Inc's Android mobile platform.
EBay even had 50 people developing apps for Microsoft's Windows phones, but the e-commerce giant only had "one or two" working on RIM's BlackBerry, according to Donahoe.

"I still use the BlackBerry, but it's not the most developer-friendly platform," he told a group of chief technology officers at an event at Stanford University in June, when the subject of RIM came up.
By early November, it seemed Donahoe wasn't even using his BlackBerry much any more. When he met with reporters to talk about plans for the holiday shopping season, the CEO whipped out his iPhone to show how eBay's apps ran on the device. When Reuters asked Donahue about his BlackBerry, he said he still had it but didn't bother to bring it into the room.
Such stories are commonly found among RIM's once-loyal corporate and consumer customers, who are deserting the Canadian company after it has struggled to keep up with competitors' innovations.
RIM on Thursday posted a sharply lower quarterly profit, offered a dismal forecast for BlackBerry shipments this holiday season, and delayed the arrival of new phones using a make-or-break operating system in development, QNX.
"It's frustrating because I haven't heard anything good from them in a long time," said long-time BlackBerry user Kevin Nichols, the head of KLN Consulting Group, who was looking at Android and Windows phones at a Sprint Nextel Corp store in downtown San Francisco on Friday.
"They need to come out with new products soon, otherwise it looks like RIM may become the next Palm," he said, in reference to the collapse of the smartphone pioneer Palm Inc. Nichols ignored the latest BlackBerry Torch in a display case nearby, saying the device wasn't "new enough" for him to upgrade.
Even on Wall Street, where users once joked about their addiction to their "crackberries," loyalty is waning.
"The QNX delay is a concern," said Rob Romero, head of hedge fund firm Connective Capital. "Consumers like new products and vendors want something new to sell in their stores."
The chief technology officer of a Connecticut-based hedge fund said that when a top hedge fund manager wants to use an iPhone instead of a BlackBerry they can now switch, even though he prefers RIM security. "When they say I want an iPhone or an iPad configured, they get it," said the CTO, who declined to be identified.
RIM shares fell 11 per cent on Nasdaq on Friday and hit their lowest level in nearly eight years.
Security features
Research firm Strategy Analytics forecast RIM's share of the US smartphone market to fall to 12 per cent this year, a sharp drop from 2007, when RIM had a 44 percent share. By comparison, Apple, which just started selling smartphones in 2007, is expected to grab a 24 per cent US market share this year.
To be sure, BlackBerry still has its defenders. Robert Laikin, CEO of cellphone distributor Brightpoint, said that RIM represents between 5 per cent to 10 percent of the 110 million phones his company handles globally every year.
"I still have a BlackBerry. When I talk to my friends who are business professionals, most of them still have a BlackBerry. Some of them have bought an additional device too," he told Reuters.
"All manufacturers I've worked with in the last 25 years have product delays. What RIM is going through isn't different," he said. "I believe RIM will survive because their product is very sticky."
There are still many companies who prefer their employees use BlackBerrys because they feel that RIM offers the best security features to protect corporate data. But these enterprise customers are shrinking, analysts said.
Gary Curtis, chief technology strategist at global technology consulting giant Accenture, pointed to improvements in security from Apple and Google mobile software in recent years.
"Choice and leveling of the playing field is the fundamental enabling factor for companies being able to say to employees, use the device you like," he said. "It's not a headlong rush ... but they're opening the door to more devices and people make their own choices."
Interviews with other consumers at phone stores on Friday illustrated why the former bastion of corporate smart phones faces tough competition.
"I'm a BlackBerry user but my company makes me use it," said a shopper called John who was playing with a BlackBerry Torch at an AT&T store in San Francisco. He declined to give his last name.
"Anyone who is anyone at my company has an iPhone, but they make us use BlackBerry still," he added. "I think I might break mine and buy an iPhone. The touch screen on this Torch works pretty well, but the iPhone is just easier to use."
A Sprint store manager said BlackBerry phones would sell better if they had more apps. But some app developers aren't interested in the BlackBerry platform, partly because the technology is difficult to work with.
"Of the companies that pitch to us, I can't think of any that are starting out by developing an app for the BlackBerry," said Theresia Gouw Ranzetta of venture capital firm Accel Partners, which invests in mobile app developers.
Hotel Tonight, a start-up backed by Accel's Ranzetta, has developed apps for the iPhone, Android phones and an HTML5 version for its last-minute hotel booking service.
"Will they make a dedicated BlackBerry app? Not on the roadmap," she said.

CELL PHONES IN CARS

Driving to distraction on information superhighway

"No call, no text, no update, is worth a human life," National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said in a statement explaining her panel's recommendation in favor of a complete ban on the use of personal electronic devices in cars. She's right on that score. No phone call or text is worth a life. Still, I think the NTSB went too far in recommending a nationwide ban against using personal electronic devices - including talking on a cell phone - while driving.
The unanimous recommendation followed an investigation into an Aug. 5, 2010, pileup involving a truck-tractor, a pickup and two school buses in Gray Summit, Mo., that left two people - the 19-year-old pickup driver and a 15-year-old student - dead. The cause of the accidents, like the cause of other fatal crashes investigated by the NTSB: driver distraction.
Here's what bothers me about this story. It turns out the 19-year-old pickup driver sent or received 11 text messages in the minutes before he was too slow to hit the brakes when road work caused traffic to slow. Thing is, the NTSB found other contributing factors to the pileup. The 19-year-old was sleep-deprived. The driver of the lead bus in the accident was distracted - not by a phone, but by a motor coach parked on the shoulder. The second bus was moving too close to the lead bus.
The kicker: Missouri already had a law that prohibited drivers under 21 from driving and texting.
Thirty-five states have anti-texting laws. They make sense. You cannot tap out text messages and keep your eye on the road. The two are mutually exclusive activities.
But you can talk and drive.
Since California required drivers to use hands-free cell phone devices in 2008, I've had a friendly back-and-forth with the law's author, state Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto.
I understand why Simitian feels that his legislation has saved lives and spared families heartache. In the years that we've disagreed, after all, I've seen a lot of boneheaded drivers come close to causing ugly accidents because, state law notwithstanding, their brains were glued to a phone.
Lately, I've even seen people driving while playing with an iPad.
"I think it's not fair to call it a nanny-state law," Simitian told me last week, "because there is a distinction between laws that protect us from ourselves - seat-belt and helmet laws - and laws that protect us from others."
It is not clear, however, that the hands-free law actually protects Californians from other drivers. In 2010 the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety released a study that found hands-free laws did not reduce the number of car crashes in California, New York, Washington, D.C., and Connecticut. The good news: Crashes were down everywhere.
Other studies show no real distinction in terms of distraction between drivers using hands-free and handheld phones. In fact, that's the NTSB argument for a complete ban. Distraction is distraction.
"They can't find the difference," Simitian countered. "The fact that they can't find it doesn't mean it isn't there."
Simitian and I agree that the NTSB folks are right to point out that a moment's distraction can spell the difference between a crash and a miss. In that sense, the NTSB recommendation is positive.
Over time, I've found that I am more careful and less likely to use my cell phone when I drive. There are too many bad drivers on the road.
And I understand that driving is not a right, but a privilege.
But I believe that most drivers exercise caution when they are on the phone and behind the wheel. I try to overcompensate for any distraction.
Besides, the state cannot outlaw all distractions. Witness the school bus driver - a professional - who hit the pickup.
Simitian also introduced legislation that banned texting while driving - which I applaud. But he does not support a ban that would include hands-free phones. He called the NTSB proposal "a nonstarter."
Twice I've interviewed Simitian on his hands-free law while he drove between Palo Alto and Sacramento. He always uses a hands-free device. He told me, "It's all hands on the wheel, all eyes on the road."
I opposed the hands-free law, but I obey it. In fact, technology has evolved so that complying is not much of an inconvenience. Still, I habitually see people driving while holding a phone to their heads. They don't care about the hands-free law. And chances are that I've noticed them because they are lousy drivers.
So when I read that the NTSB wants more laws that bad drivers will ignore, I don't see the point. I see another instance of the government imposing a law on people who are careful, when smarter laws don't stop reckless drivers from texting or trolling the Internet.

2011-12-16T03:26:00.000-08:00

How to Update Windows OS Without Internet Connection

Microsoft made security essentials for making better security of windows the updates of the Microsoft security essentials are released when the bugs are found if you don’t have the internet connection and want to update the New security patches there is software called as AUTOPATCHER.

It allows you to download all the new security packages for your Windows OS.
And finally gives you to update any computer without internet connection.
Steps to Update Windows OS Without Internet Connection:

Download Autopatcher from here-> Download here
Install and run it..
It will ask you for your current OS select it.
Select your OS 32 bit or 64bit.
List will be shown.
Select and download the updates and click on Download button.
After that copy to Pendrive or portable media and install in your PC.
Now insert this Pendrive into your system for which you have downloaded all these updates and install them.
Its easy to implement and is the best method to install the updates in Offline mode and secure your PC. This works for all windows OS (Window 7/Vista/XP).

The Car Dashboard That Wants to Be an iPad

Entertainment and navigation systems in automobiles have come a long way since the days of eight-track tape players and folding maps, but not when it comes to changing the radio station.

Entertainment and navigation systems in automobiles have come a long way but one-touch virtual buttons projected on the screens of new audio and navigation systems often seem to need two or three touches. Joe White explains on Lunch Break

One-touch virtual buttons projected on the screens of new audio and navigation systems often seem to need two or three touches. Where's that comedy channel on satellite radio? Buried below two or three busy screen menus that require far more time to decipher than is safe at 70 miles per hour.
Sure, there are voice-activated controls. But too often they seem to be programmed in a language other than the one I speak. I've had all these problems in new cars I've driven recently, and consumer surveys show I'm not alone.
Now, federal safety regulators are throwing up a yellow caution flag as auto makers push to install ever more sophisticated entertainment and navigation systems in cars.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to issue soon, likely by the end of the year, new guidelines for the design of in-car multimedia systems aimed at reducing their potential to tempt drivers' eyes away from the road.
The new guidelines could change the way multimedia systems are designed, and would come amid a push by the federal government to curb distractions in autos. The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said all states should ban cellphone use while driving, and called on phone makers to develop features that discourage use when people are behind the wheel.
Of equal or greater concern to the industry are the complaints from consumers. A recent survey of more than 18,000 vehicle owners by market-research firm J.D. Power and Associates found high levels of dissatisfaction with many factory-installed navigation systems.
In response, auto makers are hiring more engineers adept at designing so-called human-machine interfaces, and adapting some of the thinking that goes into products like Apple Inc.'s iPad to make systems that are rich in content, yet easy to use at highway speeds.
But the gap between the industry's goals for ease of use and the systems on sale today is uncomfortably large.
In J.D. Power's most recent study, released last month, respondents identified an average of 351 problems per 100 vehicles, up from 206.5 problems per 100 a year earlier. Most of the complaints were about the difficulty of using important functions, such as entering an address into the navigation system's route-mapping system, says Andy Bernhard, a director at J.D. Power.
The average index score for entering a destination was 6.4 on a scale of 10, Mr. Bernhard says. "That's failure," he says. "If you were to mark 6.4 for a cruise ship or a hotel, would you go back there?"

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Consumers accustomed to having a rich array of music, social media and Web access at their fingertips through smartphones and tablet devices such as the iPad, want access to their digital lives behind the wheel. But even the iPad, praised for its ease of use, is unsafe to operate with one hand on a steering wheel and a foot on the gas.
Even before NHTSA officials began talking about formal guidelines, car makers had adopted their own standards for designing safe infotainment systems, including a requirement that no task should require a driver to look away from the road for more than 15 seconds. Car makers aim for much shorter look-away times, and are using displays projected onto the windshield and voice controls to cut the time a driver's eyes leave the highway.
A common complaint with systems that use virtual buttons on a touch screen is that poking them often doesn't appear to produce any result.
Customers do a "double take," punching buttons repeatedly, says Marios Zenios, vice president for Chrysler Group LLC's Uconnect systems and services. "That's a huge item we focus on," he says.
The solution: More computational horsepower to speed up response times, and features designed to reassure the driver that the system knows a button was pushed. Ford Motor Co., for example, uses a tone so customers "know something is happening," says Jennifer Brace, a user interface design engineer, who led an overhaul of the look and feel of Ford's MyFord Touch infotainment system that will be offered on both new models and to customers who already own cars equipped with the system. Complaints about MyFord Touch dragged down the No. 2 U.S. auto maker's quality scores in recent surveys by Consumer Reports and J.D. Power.
Ms. Brace says Ford is also simplifying many of the MyFord Touch system's screens. On the new system's radio screens there will be six buttons or less, she says, and the look of the lettering will be streamlined. "On the previous system, there were five different font sizes on the radio system. On the new system there will be two," Ms. Brace says.
Some auto makers are looking to make their systems look less new, embracing what customers may be comfortable with already. Chrysler's Dodge Charger navigation system was the top scorer among the systems J.D. Power rated. The system is built by Garmin and uses the look and feel of that company's popular hand-held navigation devices.
The ultimate solution to difficult-to-use touch-screen infotainment and navigation systems could be technology that renders jabbing virtual buttons on a screen unnecessary.
"We are moving to natural voice recognition" that would allow consumers to instruct their cars to plot a route or tune in to a channel on Sirius XM by giving a straightforward command, says Wayne Powell, general manager of electrical systems at the Toyota Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. Toyota's recently launched Entune system is a step in that direction, he says.
Mr. Powell and other industry executives caution that voice-recognition technology still needs a lot of improvement. But they point to products such as Siri, the conversational concierge embedded in Apple's latest iPhone, as a sign that voice recognition is headed into the mainstream.
"A short time ago, voice-recognition systems were an annoyance," he says. Now, as more consumers experience the technology, Mr. Powell says they'll ask, "What do you mean, I can't talk to my car?"

Google Plans Online Music Store to Challenge Apple, Amazon

Google Inc. is creating an online music store to compete with Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., though the company may open the service without the rights to sell songs from many of the biggest record labels, according to people familiar with the matter.
According to these people, all four of the major music companies have held talks to license their catalogs to Google for the new online store. But only the smallest, Citigroup Inc.'s EMI Group, is close to a deal, they said. EMI's artists include Katy Perry, Gorillaz and Pink Floyd.
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A Device for When You're Hurt, Lost or Feeling Scared

Two weeks ago, alone in a hotel room 3,000 miles from home, I suddenly felt an intense pain in my head, stronger than any headache I've ever experienced. Light was unbearable, I felt too dizzy to stand and the nausea was overwhelming. I called my husband in Washington, D.C., and whispered my symptoms, which I now know were most likely the signs of a migraine.

The 5Star Responder from GreatCall Inc. is a small, 1.8-ounce gadget that allows users instant access in the case of a medical or personal emergency. WSJ's Katherine Boehret says many people will find it handy but the activation and monthly fees could add up.

This week, I tested a product I could have used during that scare: the 5Star Responder from GreatCall Inc., a sort of portable OnStar. It's a 1.8-ounce gadget with a speaker and microphone that clips onto a keychain or shirt. One large center button calls an always on-duty concierge, who knows information about each caller—like medications, preferred hospitals, emergency contacts and the caller's location (using built-in GPS). Once the situation is assessed, a nurse can speak with the caller, emergency services can be dispatched or, in less urgent scenarios, the agent can stay on the line with the caller.
GreatCall's 5Star Responder is one of the first truly portable emergency-call devices. It runs on Verizon's network, giving it coverage anywhere a Verizon phone works. Other emergency-call devices like Medical Alert by LifeStation work in the home and are geared toward seniors who rarely go out.

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GreatCall

The 5Star Responder has a speaker, microphone and a button that calls an agent or 911.

The 5Star Responder will be available Wednesday from GreatCall.com and in stores like Wal-Mart and Sears on Oct. 23. It's $50, plus a $35 activation fee—or $25 if you sign up online. A $15 monthly service fee is applied, with additional family members paying $9 monthly. Also on Wednesday, 5Star Urgent Response will become available as a $15 iPhone app in Apple's App Store, though the monthly service fees still apply. The website, MyGreatCall.com, where users set up their personal data, also launches.

When It's Handy

Still, the 5Star Responder is yet another thing people will need to remember to plug in and charge (one charge lasts roughly three days in standby, the company estimates). It also felt noticeably heavy on my keychain. Yet 5Star Responder could really make a difference in situations where people don't call 911 because they don't believe they have an emergency, like not taking the symptoms of a heart attack seriously.
The device isn't just for seniors with health problems. Take a child who is too young to have a cellphone and gets separated from his family at a festival. When he presses the 5Star button, an agent determines his location and gets parents on a conference call with the child via the device's speaker.

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Pourio Lee

The 1.8 ounce device can fit in a small purse or clip onto a keychain.

The device also could be good for a runner who doesn't want to carry a heavy smartphone and collapses in pain during a run. Or a person walking in a sketchy neighborhood who wants the agent to talk to him until he gets to his car.
The device will call 911 directly if you hold down the call button for five seconds. If the Responder's center button is pressed and a caller can't respond, the agent will try to call the device back and an alternative phone number, such as an emergency contact, before finally dispatching emergency personnel.

Like the Real Deal

To test the 5Star Responder and a prereleased version of the iPhone app, I "suffered" through a variety of pretend scenarios. These included revisiting my above-described migraine, walking alone at night in an unsafe neighborhood, heart-attack-like symptoms and reporting a break-in at my house in the middle of the night.
I informed the agent on each call that this was a test case. They still acted like it was a real call, doing things like asking me to hold while they contacted paramedics, simulating the time it would take to dispatch emergency personnel.

Walking Alone

In one test, I told the call agent that I was walking in a neighborhood that didn't feel safe, and he offered to call the police to come to my location. I told him I wanted to stay on the line with someone as I walked and he spoke with me for another five minutes until I got to my destination.
Once, I pressed the call button but hung up in the middle of the first ring.
Seconds later, the 5Star Responder device rang, and when I pressed the center button to answer, an agent told me he was calling back to make sure everything was safe and secure.
When I called to report someone in my house, the agent asked me to hold while she sent police. When she got back on the line, I asked her to connect me with my emergency-contact person, and she initiated a call to my husband.
When I called and described my migraine experience as if it was really happening, the agent suggested sending emergency-medical personnel, but I asked if I could speak to a nurse.
My agent transferred me to GreatCall's LiveNurse service, which took about 40 seconds before that service's operator transferred my call to an actual nurse. Before talking with me about my situation, the nurse asked me to spell my name and give my birth date.
This relatively lengthy process could be problematic in some scenarios. When I was suffering from my migraine, I could barely say a sentence on the phone with my husband because even the sound of his voice in my ear was excruciating.
In the end, the nurse suggested sending paramedics because I reported shallow breathing and an irregularly fast heartbeat.

Sony Looks for Vitality in Dying Breed

TOKYO—Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Vita, the company's first new handheld videogame system in seven years, will be launched Saturday, offering an important litmus test for whether consumers still want a dedicated portable game machine in a world where inexpensive and, sometimes free, games played on smartphones are all the rage.
Vita will make its debut in Japan, where Sony said preorders for the device sold out quickly. The device will become available in the U.S. and Europe in February. It is packed with cutting-edge technology including a 5-inch, touchscreen next-generation display, front and rear cameras, and a bevy of motion sensors.

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2011-12-12T15:09:00.000-08:00

Secure Your Blackberry data With Blackberry Protect

RIM over the past months have been working on a free app that would help to protect all BlackBerry devices. This app has finally been released with name BlackBerry Protect.
I was kinda eager to download it as my SmrtGuard Mobile Security trial version had expired. A few minutes later after downloading, installing and configuring the app, I was left a bit disappointed as BlackBerry Protect lacks an antivirus and antispyware.
If Microsoft could finally come up with their own antivirus solution for genuine Microsoft operating systems, the same is not far expected of the guys at Research In Motion (RIM).
Anyway, I’m sticking with the app ’cause despite its shortcoming, it has great features as listed below.

Features Of BlackBerry Protect

Backup Your BlackBerry Data: the app enables you to backup your contacts, text messages, calendar and bookmarks using your BlackBerry data plan. This backup can be done automatically, and as often as you choose (daily, weekly or monthly).
Secure Your BlackBerry Phone: In the eventuality that you should lose your phone, you can log into the BlackBerry Protect website and either lock your device or completely your phone and microSD card.
Locate Your Missing BlackBerry Device: if you aren’t sure of where you left your phone, you can simply log into the BB Protect site and force your smartphone to ring at a high volume. Via the site, you can also display a message on the home screen of your device for whosoever finds it so that they can return it back to you.
Restore Your BB data to a new BlackBerry Device: restoring your contacts and settings to a new device is pretty easy using the backups that have been created in the past.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD BLACKBERRY PROTECT

Download ESET Smart Security Antivirus for Free

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ESET Smart antivirus is the most powerful antivirus tool for personal use. But the original version requires money. But don't worry here also dailyhacks going to excite you by presenting the exclusive way to activate the software for life tie.
Click here to download the eset smart security antivirus

Install it.
Then follow the steps

create a bulk mail account. You can get lots of bulk mail services from the web.
After creation, go to this link and apply for a licence code.
Give the created mail id there
open your mail inbox. You can see a trial code send by them
Open the attached file in the mail
Select the product activation then choose the option "ACTIVATE USING A USERNAME AND PASSWORD
It will ask for username and password. Type the ids that we got in our mail inbox
You will get 1 month trial period

Done. Whenever the activation period finishes,repeat the same steps again.
That's all
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Post Status Or Comment In Blue Text On Facebook..!!

BLUETEXT FOR STATUS POST & COMMENTS IN FACEBOOK

Hello Friends how are you all..? Iam back again after my previous post on "How to send birthday wishes automatically in Facebook?" Today i'll teach you another latest and the coolest trick to post status or comment on facebook in blue colour popularly known as "facebook' blue text Trick"

So whats so cool about this blue text trick? whats so special about it? so the simple answer that i found to this question is that Most of the facebook users get excited when they see something new and this is something different as the default colour of the text on facebook is Black....and yes according to my research these blue texts get more likes and comments then that ordinary black satuses . And i think you too must have observed that some normal Blue statuses like Good Morning and they get hundreds of comments saying how you did this ,its so cool ,awesome and all that and makes you feel special...So i will strongly recommend you to try this trick and be an point of attraction between your friends.....and yeah the special thing about this trick is that it is as easy as 123.....so lets take a look.....!!!

Steps to write blue text on facebook:-
1). Login To Facebook if you haven't already logged in.
2). Now click on Update Status.
3). Now here comes the main thing..... paste the below code in your status update text space

@@[0:[162771150475948:0: YOUR TEXT ]]

4). Now Replace YOUR TEXT with the your status for Example:-

@@[0:[162771150475948:0: Hello Friends How r u??? isn'this blue text cool!! ]]

5). Then Click On the post button, here's a preview of the text you must have entered in the status update text box,

And your status will look like this,

you can also try some ASCII ART's like this,

Just copy the Code Below,

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

╔══╗╔╗──╔╗─╔╦═══╦════╦═══╦═╗╔═╦════╗

║╔╗║║║──║║─║║╔══╣╔╗╔╗║╔══╩╗╚╝╔╣╔╗╔╗║

║╚╝╚╣║──║║─║║╚══╬╝║║╚╣╚══╗╚╗╔╝╚╝║║╚╝

║╔═╗║║─╔╣║─║║╔══╝─║║─║╔══╝╔╝╚╗──║║

║╚═╝║╚═╝║╚═╝║╚══╗─║║─║╚══╦╝╔╗╚╗─║║

╚═══╩═══╩═══╩═══╝─╚╝─╚═══╩═╝╚═╝─╚╝ ]]

And it will look like below,

some more ASCII texts you can try,

just copy and paste them,

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

──────▄▌▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▌...

───▄▄██▌█ ░♥░░ WRITE YOUR TEXT HERE░♥.......... .

▄▄▄▌▐██▌█ ░░░ WRITE YOUR STATUS HERE ░░.. .. ... ███████▌█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▌...

▀(@)▀▀▀▀▀▀▀(@)(@)▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀(@)▀▘ ♥ ♥ ♥]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

┈╱╱▏┈┈╱╱╱╱▏╱╱▏┈┈┈

┈▇╱▏┈┈▇▇▇╱▏▇╱▏┈┈┈

┈▇╱▏▁┈▇╱▇╱▏▇╱▏▁┈┈

┈▇╱╱╱▏▇╱▇╱▏▇╱╱╱▏┈

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@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

I <3 Music:

╔═══╗ ♪

║███║ ♫

║ (●) ♫

╚═══╝♪♪]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

(¸¸.♥➷♥•*¨)¸.•´¸.•*¨) ¸.•*¨)

(¸.•´(¸. ¸.•´¸.•*¨) ¸.♥➷•*¨)

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──██─███─███─██─██─██▄█──ｃｏｎｑｕｅｒｓ

──██─▀██▄██▀─▀█▄█▀─██▀█──ａｌｌ ♥➷♥

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@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

╔♫╗────────╔═╦╗─♫╗╔╗─╔╗─♥──

║╩╠═╦═╦═╦╦╗║╚╠╬╦╣╚╣╚╦╝╠═╦╦╗
║╦║╬║╬║╬║║║║╔║║╔╣╔╣║║╬║╬║║║
╚╩╩╩╣╔╣╔╬╗║♫═╩╩╝╚═╩╩╩═╩╩╬╗║
────♫╝╚╝╚═╝─────────────╚═♥
ஜ۩۞۩ஜ YOUR NAME HERE ஜ۩۞۩ஜ]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

monkey with my message

............(0 0)

.---oOO-- (_)-----.

╔═════════════════╗

║ Type your message .... ║

╚═════════════════╝

'----------------------oOO

........|__|__|

.......... || ||

....... ooO Ooo]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

Gun Design 1

.....____________________ , ,__

....../ `---___________----_____] - - - - - - - - ░ ▒▓▓█D

...../_==o;;;;;;;;_______.:/

.....), ---.(_(__) /

....// (..) ), ----"

...//___//

..//___//

.//___//]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

Gun Design 2

....._\____________________,,__

..../ `--│││││││││----------------------_]

.../_==o ____________________

.....),---.(_(__) /

....// (\) ),------

...//___//

../`----' / ...

./____ / ... .]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

• Bunch of flowers for you

....*☆.¸.☆*'

....*☆.@@ ☆*'

.*☆.@@@@☆*'

....@@@@@@

...☆*@@@@`*☆.¸¸

.......\\\||///.

........\\||//.

.........ƸӜƷ.

..........\|/..♥

...........V....]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

╔♫═╗╔╗ ♥

╚╗╔╝║║♫═╦╦╦╔╗

╔╝╚╗♫╚╣║║║║╔╣

╚═♫╝╚═╩═╩♫╩═╝

ஜ۩۞۩ஜ YOU ஜ۩۞۩ஜ]]

Special Like buttons,

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...../ )

.....' /

---' (_____

......... ((__)

..... _ ((___)

....... -'((__)

--.___((_)]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

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██████▀░░░░▀▀██████▀]]

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱

╱╱┏╮╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱

╱╱┃┃╱╱╱┳╱┓┳╭┫┳┓╱

▉━╯┗━╮╱┃╱┃┣┻╮┣╱╱

▉┈┈┈┈┃╱┻┛┛┻╱┻┻┛╱

▉╮┈┈┈┃╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱

╱╰━━━╯╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱╱]]

Halloween facebook symbols:

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

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░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░

░╔╗╔╗╔══╗╔══╗╔══╗╔╗╔╗░

░║╚╝║║╔╗║║╔╗║║╔╗║║╚╝║░

░║╔╗║║╔╗║║╔═╝║╔═╝╚═╗║░

░╠╩╩╩╩╩╩╩╩╩══╩╩════╝║░

░╚══════════════════╝░

░░░║║╔╗║║╔╗║║║╔╔╔╗░░░░

░░░╠╣╠╣║║║║║║║╠╠║║░░░░

░░░║║║║╚╚╚╝╚╩╝╚╚║║░░░░

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• Father's day facebook symbols

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

╔╗╔╗─────────────╔═╦═╦═╗

║║║╠═╦╦╦═╗╔╦╦═╦╦╗║║║╬║║║▄██▄██▄

║║║║╬║║║╩╣║║║╬║║║║║║║║║║▀█████▀

╚╝╚╩═╩═╩═╝╠╗╠═╩═╝╚═╩╩╩═╝──▀█▀

──────────╚═╝ ]]

• Mother's day facebook symbols

@@[0:[162771150475948:0:

╔══════════════════╗

║.(¯`♥´¯)´´¯`•°*”˜˜”*°•. ƸӜƷ

║.`*.¸.*.•°*”˜˜”*°•.ƸӜƷ

║.•°*”˜˜”*°•.ƸӜƷ ✶* ¸ .✫ ♥

║✿ нαppy мoтнer´ѕ dαy ✿

╚══════════════════╝]]

More Facebook art's

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For More Special Symbols You Can Request me Here

Alternate Trick,

For those who are still having problem here's the whole trick in short,

@@[0:[162771150475948:0: WRITE YOUR TEXT HERE ]]

Type or copy & paste this code: @@[0:[162771150475948:0: then type your post or

comment, then type 2 ending brackets at the end.

share this amazing blue text Trick with your friends......if you are still having any problem

just comment below and i have a lott of alternatives and suggestions for you...

L8TEST MOBILE AND PC TUTORIALS

2011-12-11T07:15:00.001-08:00

FEEL THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON WITH A CHRISTMAS LOVELY SKIN ON YOUR PC + ALSO SKIN TO CONVERT YOUR WINDOW 7 TO 8
You can never feel this Excitement in me, Am a Fan of Window Skin... The Traditional or Default Windows Skin suck, Am very Sure most of the PC Users on NL will surely love this New and Cool Skin for Window 7 and the Great Christmas Skin for your PC to make your Friends go Gaga this December Period.

Don't wanna talk much today because tomorrow is my Birthday {10-12-2011} So, Lets kick start, I will be Showing you Guys the Screenshot of the Skins + the Download Link.... No need for any Steps on How to Install them on You PC, Just Download the Skin Installer with the Correct Link and Install on your PC, You will be Prompt to Reboot your PC after Installation, Just Follow the Steps and Start enjoying a newer PC Experience.
Feel this Christmas Skins, Apply it to your PC and Feel the Impact of this Christmas Season on this Pc's and also with lovely sound...

::.. Download this Christmas Skin Here {51.6MB} .:::
Check out other Lovely Selected Skins for Your PC Here.

:::. Download this Mango Skin Here {37.3MB} .:::
Use this Skin to Convert your Window 7 to Window 8 OS.. You will love it.

:::. Download this Window 7 to Window 8 Skin Here {27.6MB} .:::

FEEL THE LATEST UCWEB BROWSER 8.0.. ITS HOT
The New UcWeb in town is Hot and Loaded with Great Features you will love!... Ucweb 8.0.6 comes with a Dynamic Themes, Easy to Use and aid Flexible Browsing on Mobile.

The New UcBrowser comes with a Fully Loaded File Manager that will blow your Mind, The Download Speed now Rocks even more than that of any other Version of UcBrowser.
FEATURES OF THE NEW UCBROWSER 8.0
1. A Dedicated File Manager to help you Manage your Files.
2. Unbeatable Download & Upload Speed.
3. Ability to Change the Themes of your Browser.
4. You can now Share Page to Facebook, Twitter with the Inbuilt Share Page Tools available under the Tools tab.
=> Many other Old but Upgraded Features now available in the Ucweb Browser... Its Really worth it... Step up your Mobile Browsing Experience with the New Ucweb Browser.DOWNLOAD IT NOW FOR ANY DEVICE
HERE


HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP SHORTCUT TO SAFELY REMOVE ALL USB REMOVEABLE DEVICE
Most time when we Insert any Removable Device through the USB Port of our PC, it is adviceable to Remove it using the System Tools or Option on the Taskbar before Removing it from the USB Port, Most people dont see this Step as something important or they Forget to do so, thats why most USB Device get Corrupts.

You can create shortcut to safely remove hardware device on you Desktop which is more visible and can be easily used to remove the hardware devices plugged to your PC.
HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP SHORTCUT TO SAFELY REMOVE PLUGGED IN HARDWARES
1. Right click on your Desktop and Click on New.
2. Now click on Shortcut option from the list.
3. In the browse location just Paste in the below code and click on Next button.
4. Now it will ask you to Name the shortcut. Name it something like Safety Remove USB and then click on the Finish button
5. There should be a shortcut icon on your Desktop just double click on it and your external media will be Removed Safely.

Tips:- This Tutorial works well on Window XP, Vista and other Version of Windows OS!

      Opera Mini For BlackBerry 6.5 Updated To Fix BIS Issues

close to a month ago, Opera Mini 6.5 was released for most major mobile platforms, with the Blackberry OS not excluded. Unfortunately some blackberry subscribers had issues installing the application on their devices and on further investigation, it was revealed that Opera Mini was also consuming our call credit instead of using the BlackBerry Internet Service subscription.
Considering the fact that I had used Opera Mini for Blackberry flawlessly while on Globacom Nigeria’s BlackBerry Plan, I made the conclusion (backed by reports from Etisalat customer care reps) that Opera Mini just wasn’t compatible with the Etisalat Nigeria’s BlackBerry Plans thus I wrote the post Beware Of Etisalat BlackBerry Plan: Opera Mini Not Supported.
Like others before me, I had filed a complain via the Opera Forums and the Opera team got together to create a fix which they’ve now released today. Apparently some modifications they made to the app made it somewhat incompatible with BlackBerry 6.
Thus Opera Mini for BlackBerry moves from version 6.5.27025 to version 6.5.27548.
With this new release, Opera has fixed the issue of Opera Mini not installing on some BlackBerry devices running OS 6.0.
I’ve tested it now and my call credit has remained intact thus proving it now works with BIS.
To upgrade to the new version of Opera Mini 6.5, simply point your Blackberry default browser at http://m.opera.com and install over the previous version.

HOW TO USE BLACKBERRY AS A MODEM ON PC
Just like most internet enabled mobile phones in the market today, every BlackBerry device in cases of emergency can serve as a modem to connect to the internet.
This tutorial will guide you through the quick steps needed to configure your BlackBerry Desktop Manager’s mobile internet settings and thus get you connected to the web. Please note that you’ll need to have another data plan with your network provider as you cannot use your BlackBerry data plan to surf the internet on your desktop/laptop.
If you’re a Nigerian, here are the internet data settings and subscription plans for the major GSM companies in the country: Airtel-Zain Internet Plans, Glo Internet Plans, Etisalat Internet Plans and MTN Internet Plans.
After subscribing to your plan of choice, please take note of the Internet Settings of that particular network as you’d be needing it now.
Lets begin

Step 1
Download and Install the BlackBerry Desktop Manager.

Step 2
Launch your BlackBerry Desktop Manager and go to Tools in the menu bar section. Select Mobile Internet Settings from the drop down menu as shown below.

Depending on your country of origin, you can readily choose your settings from the preconfigured list. Nigerian networks aren’t on the list thus I’ll be creating a custom profile by clicking on the Add custom profile button circled in red below.
A small window pops up and you simply fill in your network’s internet settings. Leave the Additional commands field clear!

Once you are done, hit the OK button to exit the small popup screen then OK again to exit the Mobile Internet Settings configuration dialog.

Go back to Menu >> Tools and click on Start Mobile Internet

Ignore the warning below as you’ve already subscribed to a suitable data plan for your desktop/laptop browsing. Click on Connect

If your network provider’s internet service is working, at the bottom left of the BlackBerry Desktop Manager, you should see something that looks like the capture below ( Time Connected and Data Used ). It means you are now connected.

Once you’re done surfing the internet, just go back to the menu bar >> Tools >> Disconnect Mobile Internet.

And that’s all there is to it. Hope you like and do please share it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook etc.
Cheers .


How To Find The Titles Of Unknown Music On Your BlackBerry

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Ever heard a lovely movie soundtrack or heard a song in the mall and wondered who sang the song and how you can order for it stat? Well we all have and so have the guys at Shazam Entertainment Limited who in collaboration with 7Digital music offer BlackBerry users the ability to detect the artist and song title of just about any track in world.
Shazam Encore makes up 9 premium apps which Research In Motion is offering all BlackBerry subscribers worldwide in compensation for the not too recent 3 day lapse in service.
Its function is pretty simple: You launch the application, get close to any music source and Click to Shazam. Wait a few seconds for the app to grab a snippet of the music which it then sends to the server then returns the result: Name of Song, Artiste and Record Company.
Shazam further offers you options to share the track via the social media networks and also options to watch music videos of the song on YouTube if available and to listen/buy the track via 7Digital if also available.
I tested the app with Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Barenaked, Diana King’s Lies, Amel Larrieux All I Got, David Jordan’s Place In My Heart and En Vogue’s Riddle as well as VV Brown’s Shark In The Water and it all detected them all. No word on how far back Shazam’s database of music goes but I must say I’m impressed.
It doesn’t work on Nigerian music though. I tried with Tiwa Savage’s Love me Love me but no luck .
The app has a tiny bug though that leaves the entire screen blue without an option to shut it down unless a battery pull is done. I really wouldn’t know if this bug is exclusive to the BlackBerry Curve 3G.
You can download Shazam Encore app for BlackBerry for free via the BlackBerry Appworld until December 31, 2011 when RIM’s compensatory offer closes.

Download BlackBerry Desktop Software 7.0 BETA

I’ve been having a quite a hard time downloading the latest official version of BlackBerry’s Desktop Software which amongst other functions, helps you to backup and restore your BlackBerry data as well as connect to the internet using your BlackBerry as a modem.
Just like when I downloaded BlackBerry OS 6 and upgraded my Curve 3G, the download speed is incredibly slow and just doesn’t support resume download.
Luckily for me, OpenSourceBB just released the beta version of BlackBerry Desktop Software 7 and they were kind enough as to host the file on their servers
The download using UC Browser / Download Manager for BlackBerry was pretty fast and so far so good after installation, the only interesting feature that’s back is the ability to download / transfer your files from your media card and device memory to your desktop or laptop computer and vice versa. It’s all drag and drop all the way .
So far so good, the beta version of the BlackBerry Desktop Software 7 seems to be working just fine on my 32-bit Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic with my BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 which is running BlackBerry OS 6.0.0.546

TIPS AND TRICKS 4 MOBILE PHONES

2011-12-10T02:31:00.001-08:00

Download Screen Muncher for Blackberry: Capture BB Screen With Ease

If you are a blackberry user and would like to have an app with which you can be capturing your BB screen to share through BBM, email, or save for later, then the "Screen Muncher" is for you. You can capture anything you see on your BlackBerry® screen with the "Screen Muncher" app.
The Screen Muncher app includes the classic "MUNCH" sound effect, animation and vibrate every time you Munch a screen!

This useful app lets you:
-Munch messages to save or share with friends
-Munch your favorite Facebook, Twitter, or other social network post, status or pic
-Munch your theme and show it off
-Munch a BBM conversation
-Munch a game level you've achieved or scoreboard you reached

The app requires OS 4.6 and above.

How To Use Screen Muncher:
On any screen other than your home screen, just push the BlackBerry icon key. Choose "Munch Screen" from the menu and select the "Email", "Save" or "Options" button. It's that simple!

How To Download Screen Muncher for BB

Just go to : http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/11854

NOTE: The free version of Screen Muncher watermarks your images, but a full-version (that is watermark-free) is also available at the Blackberry AppWorld.

Cheers!

How to Check if your MTN SIM card has

been Registered

Due to the directive given to the various GSM networks in Nigeria by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC); MTN, Glo, Airtel, Etisalat and others are currently embarking on SIM registration exercise.
SIM registration is meant to help the GSM companies and the Government keep a record of subscribers in the country. More so,it will make the recovery of lost SIM cards to be easier and also assist law enforcement agencies in tracking down criminals."

So, How Do I Know If I have been Registered?

Well, just because you have been to the regsitration centre to register your SIM, does not mean you have been regsitered. There are some instances where registrations are invalid.Now if you have already done your registration but still want ot be sure that you have been registered, here is what you can do:

- Send a text to 789 with the word "reg" without the quotes
After sending the text to 789 with your MTN SIM card, you should get a replyconfirming or denying that you have been registered.

If you have been registered, you will get a reply saying "Your number has been registered. Thank you!"
This works for MTN numbers.
Cheers!

3.

FREE BROWSING ON AIRTEL

NIGERIA NJOI WHILE IT LASTS...

NJOI THE LATEST FREE BROWSING IN TOWN NOW FROM OUR BELOVED INDIAN BROTHERS AIRTEL NIGERIA.

TO NJOI FREE BROWSING ON YOUR AIRTEL LINE NEW OR OLD. FOLLOW THE STEPS BELOW:

SEND A TXT MESSAGE LIKE THIS "101" WITHOUT QUOTES TO 141. YOU WOULD BE CHARGED 50NGN,AND YOU WOULD BE GIVEN 3079MB OF DATA FOR 1 MONTH.REPEAT AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LYK.

4.

DOWNLOAD FREE NIGERIAN

SONGS FROM TIMMYNIJA TUNES

You can now download Nigerian Songs, also called 9ja songs for FREE at TimmyNaijaTunes. Most of the music files are hosted on 4shared free hosting server.
At the TimmyNaijaTunes forum, you will see loads of threads of different musics. Just choose the one you want and click on the download link of the music. The link will take you to the download page. Click on "download". Once it downloaded successfully, you can start listening to it.

Download Nigeria MP3s here: http://www.timmynaija.com/community/forum/free-mp3-download-33/

Click Here to Download Nigerian Music Now!

SEND MONEY TO BANK ACCOUNT WITHOUT GOING TO THE BANK BY IMOBILE

one are the days I use to go to the bank, wait for hours before I could even send just N1000 to another bank account in Nigeria, thanks to imobile powered by eTranzact mCommerce solution. With imobile, you can conduct banking transactions via your GPRS-enabled phone.

With my internet-ready mobile phone, whenever I want to send money to anyone, all I need to do, is to enter the details in the imobile software, together with my secret pin and the money will be sent asap, with the receiver even getting sms alert apart from the normal credit alert the receiver's bank might send to him/her.

The mCommerce solution is the first truly operational mobile banking application that works on all the GSM networks and PTO's platform extending the capability of the user's mobile into a highly interactive feature-rich payment device. eTranzact mCommerce is in line with international standards and all transactions are secured using an encryption technology.

So, How Do I Get Started?

I set up my imobile at INTERCONTINENTAL BANK because imobile is Intercontinental bank's mobile banking platform. So, if you already have an account with them and have at least, a GPRS-enabled phone, you are good to go. Just follow the steps below.

1. Go to Intercontinental bank and request for imobile form.

2. Fill the form with ur IBPLC account number, name, address, phone number and email address. You will not be asked for any document as at the time of posting this article.

3. After filling the form, wait for your etranzact details that will be printed on a paper for you, containing your card number, card expiration, registration code and email address.

4. You will also have to wait for your default pin to be issued to you. (Very important)

5. Using your GPRS-enabled phone, you will be told to text "D ICB" to 4045.

6. You will instantly get a reply on your phone, with the download link for the imobile software.

7. Just click on the link in the text and the download will start. Ensure you have enough credit for the download. The size is small. If you want to use free browsing code for it, may God help you... lol

8. Once the download completes, run the software and fill in your details in the printed paper obtained in Step 3, together with your default pin I talked about in Step 4.

9. If you fill in the correct details, you will get a text message that your card has been activated successfully.

10. Thereafter, launch the software again, go to "security", "change pin". Enter the default pin and your new pin. ( Very Important. Make sure you change your pin).

11. Once your PIN change is successful, you can start transacting via the imobile software.

12. To verify this, launch the software, go to "Banking", then choose "check balance". If everything is ok, you should get a text message on your phone with your bank account balance.

13. To send money to other bank accounts, go to "Banking", click on "Funds Transfer". Fill in the details needed appropriately, enter your secret pin and the money will be transferred asap.

Note: As at the time of publishing this, I am always charged N30 for every transaction's text message while N200 is been charged for every transfer to any other bank account apart from Intercontinental bank. Transfer to Intercontinental bank accounts is FREE.

You can also pay your DSTV/HiTV bills, PHCN bills etc. Just give it a try and you will love it.

That's all.