iPhone Rate Plans Revealed

Today Apple posted a page detailing the cost of the iPhone rate plans (US). And they aren’t as bad as most people had thought. All plans have unlimited data (nice!) - $60 for 450 minutes, $80 for 900 minutes and $100 for 1350 minutes. Existing AT&T customers can add unlimited data for $20 - $40 with a varying number of text messages.

• All iPhone service plans include Visual Voicemail and unlimited data — Internet and email — so you only have to decide how many minutes and SMS text messages you need. You’ll select your plan when you activate your iPhone using iTunes on your computer.
• If you’re already an AT&T customer and want to keep your current voice plan, you can just add an iPhone Data Plan with unlimited data (email and web) and Visual Voicemail for just $20 per month.

Restore XP setting on every reinstall

I have been using this function for a lenghty time for friend's computer and my own computer. When you install fresh copy of Windows XP your settings are all wiped out and you have to set all again. This will not be done now.

just open RUN
type MIGWIZ.EXE
[press enter]
click NEXT
Select OLD COMPUTER radio button
Click NEXT
Select "Other (for example a removeable drive or network drive)"
Click BROWSE and give it a path where you want to save all your current settings
Click NEXT
Now select "SETTINGS ONLY"
Click NEXT

let the machine save all your current settings only.

You have a peace of mind that your settings are saved...

[TO RESTORE ALL THE SAVED SETTING WHEN YOU HAVE REINSTALLED YOUR WINDOWS XP]

just open RUN
type MIGWIZ.EXE
[press enter]
click NEXT
select NEW COMPUTER radio button
click NEXT
Select "I dont need the wizard disk............" and
Click NEXT
select "Other (for example a removeable drive or network drive)"
click NEXT after selecting the path

SEE THE WINDOWS XP RESTORE YOUR DESKTOP, QUICKLAUNCH, AND OTHER SETTINGS SAME AS BEFORE YOU RESINSTALLED WINDOWS. NO NEED TO SET ALL THE SETTING YOURSELF.

Software Panchatantra

Once upon a time, there was a software engineer who used to develop
programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a
river. He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday
market.

One day, while he was working, his machine tumbled off the table and
fell in the river. Encouraged by the Panchatantra story of his childhood
(the woodcutter and the axe ),

He started praying to the River Goddess. The River Goddess wanted to
test him and so appeared only after one month of rigorous prayers. The
engineer told her that he had lost his computer in the river.


As usual, the Goddess wanted to test his honesty. She showed him a
match box and asked, " Is this your computer ?" Disappointed by the
Goddess' lack of computer awareness, the engineer replied, " No."

She next showed him a pocket-sized calculator and asked if that was
his.

Annoyed, the engineer said "No, not at all!!"


Finally, she came up with his own Pentium machine and asked if it was
his.

The engineer, left with no option, sighed and said " Yes."

The River Goddess was happy with his honesty. She was about to give

Him all three items, but before she could make the offer, the engineer

Asked her, "Don't you know that you're supposed to show me some better
computers before bringing up my own ?"

The River Goddess, angered at this, replied, "I know that, you stupid
donkey! The first two things I showed you were the Trillennium and the
Billennium, the latest computers from IBM !". So saying, she disappeared
with the Pentium!!

ism ism ismmmmm

INFOSYSism
You have a 1000 poor cows. You put them on a nice campus, & send them one at a time to the US for milking.

PATNIism
You have 10 cows. You make them work so that they give milk of 100 cows.

WIPROism
GE has a cow. You take 49% of the milk.

DELLism
Intel has a Goat. Samsung has a Camel. Buy milk from both & sell it as Cow's milk.

IBMism
You have old stubborn cows. You sell them as pet dogs to innocent small businessmen.

MICROSOFTism
You have a cow. Force the world to buy milk from you. Spend a million dollars to feed poorer cows.

SUNism
You have a bull. It doesn't give milk. You hate Microsoft.

ORACLEism
You have a cow. You don't know which side to milk, so you sell tools to help milk cows.

SAPism
You don't have a cow You sell milking solutions for cows implemented by milking consultants.

APPLEism
You have a cow. You sell iMilk.

SONYism
You have a cow. You spend $50 mn to develop the world's thinnest milk.

CITIBANKism
Welcome to Citibank. If you have a cow, press 1. If you have a bull, press 2...stay on line if you'd like our customer care to milk it for you.

HPism
You don't know if what you have is a cow. You sell complete milking solutions through authorised resellers only.

GEism
You have a donkey. People think you have a 100-year old cow. If someone finds out, that's his imagination at work.

RELIANCEism
You don't yet have a cow. You sell empty cans to people for Rs. 501, because Dhirubhai wanted everyone to have milk.

TATAism
You have a very old cow. You re-brand it as TATA Indicow.

Crack youtube and google videos.

As we all know that none of the video sharing sites provide a link to download their videos. So we will have to do some tweaking and play around to download the videos. Here are some ways to download any video from the internet , they are based on the common hack (Right-click -> "Save Target As" OR copy the link into your download manager,but change the file extension to .flv)

Method 1:This is the simplest method.Download VDownloader . It will download Google, Youtube and Grinvi videos on your computer in avi or mpeg format (not flv) !This is the best method as it downloads videos in avi or mpeg format which can be played on your Pc(as opposed to other methods which download videos in flv format).

Run Vdownloader.exe and copy the url of the video you want to download. Click on Download button and enjoy.

Method 2: For Firefox Users - Install the VideoDownloader Extension from Mozilla Addons website - It downloads all embedded objects on a webpage including the video clips. This is very easy for beginners.

Method 3: One other easy way is to copy your video URL and paste it on KeepVid Lite. When you click submit, you will be provided with a link to save the video as an FLV file.

Using these tricks you can easily download videos from Youtube or Google Videos or Metacafe.

Now some more questions that arise are:

If you use method 2 or 3 you get your video in FLV format.Here sre some tips to manipulate this format:

How do I play FLV files on my computer - They dont open with windows media player or winamp or itunes or real player ?

You can download free FLV players to watch FLV files locally. A good FLV player has a simple and easy-to-remember name - FLV Player. Another nice alternative is the Riva FLV player .Try them out.

How do I split a large FLV file into smaller playable video clips?

This is the most common question among video enthusiasts - they want to split a large FLV video file into smaller chunks for editing or resharing only the interesting tidbits on the internet. To break an FLV file, get the free FLV Parser - a tiny command-line tool to split FLVs into pieces. Its intended use is to convert a large FLV into a series of shorter FLVs based on a series of millisecond-based timecodes. Using the -s switch will split the audio and video of the outputted files; the audio track will be extracted as a series of MP3 files, and the short FLVs produced will have no audio track at all.

How to convert FLV videos to Windows AVI or Quicktime MOV or 3GP formats ?

The free Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer software from Super can convert FLV files to practically any other video format including MP4, MOV H.264, AVI, ASF or Flash SWF animations. Super video convertor

How do I convert my AVI, MPEG, MOV, 3GP movie clips back to FLV format ?

Say you complete editing your movie in Windows Movie Maker or Avid and now left with an MOV file that you want to convert to FLV. Just get the free Riva FLV encoder and relax. The Riva encoder even lets you select parts of the video that you want to convert to FLV and crop the rest.

I have three small video clips that I download from Google Videos and now want to join them into one single video - How do I merge FLV files ?

There is no free software that lets you join FLV files other than the expensive Macromedia Flash Professional. However, here's a simple trick to join several flv video files - convert individual flv files to avi using Super [as mentioned above], then join the multiple Avi files into a single avi file using free VirtualDub and finally convert this avi back to FLV using Riva FLV encoder.Its done.

How do I watch Youtube Video on my iPod, PSP or Television ?

Again we'll make use of the Super Video Encoder mentioned above. Just convert the FLV file into a corresponding format (like Apple iPod or Sony PSP or MPG) and transfer it to your gadget.

Discuss your problems here.

Do GOD exist??????

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.

As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.


They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."


" Why do you say that?"asked the customer.


"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.



Tell me, if God exists,would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine loving a God who would allow all of these things."


The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.


The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and un-kept.


The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."


" How can you say that?"asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber.And I just worked on you!"


"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."


"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."


"Exactly !"- affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

iRiver X20 Widescreen Video Player Manhandled

CNet Asia has a pre-release sample of the iRiver X20, a widescreen portable media player that holds up the tradition of fine iRiver products. The screen on this baby is 2.2-inches and sharp as a rusty tack in your foot.

The scrollwheel, however, is a little small. But the microSD card (why not just SD?), MPEG4/WMV support, FM radio, and great sound quality make up for its shortcomings. Although it's too late to fix the scrollwheel for its February launch, everything else seems to be in order. It's no (theoretical) widescreen iPod, or even Creative Zen Vision W, since 4GB of memory won't be holding many videos.

Zune: How We've Lived With It For Three Months

After the iPod came out on top in our Zune v. iPod battle royale, we decided to keep on using the Zune so we could get a long term evaluation on how Microsoft's player stacked up. After nearly three months with the thing, we think we've got some new light to shed.

First off, we have to say that the subscription service is great. This is probably the main reason why many people wanted to make the switch to the Zune from the iPod. Being able to hop online and download as many songs as you want off their library is extremely freeing, in the same sense as walking in your underwear at your in-laws' house and letting one rip.

Hear a song in a movie and you want it? Well, you've already paid for a subscription so go ahead and download it for free. This pays off if you buy at least one CD a month, but comes with the restriction that you lose everything if you stop paying—or if the Zune store tanks.

Actually listening to songs on the Zune has been fine as well. The larger-than-iPod size is negligible (for us). The battery life is pretty great, seeing as we only listen to music in the car and only occasionally on foot. Even compared to the iPod at three months, the Zune keeps charge longer when not in use.

When we left our iPods in the car for a couple days, when we picked it up again there would be just enough power left for it to tell us that there was no power. With the Zune, we got at least a quarter—if not half—of battery life left. That's very cool.

Despite being "scratch resistant", the Zune seems to have scratched up after being taken all around Vegas during CES. It's only one large scratch instead of millions of tiny scratches like on the iPod, so we'll say that the Zune really is a bit more sturdy.

On the software side, we still don't like the Zune suite as much as iTunes, but it does most of what iTunes does, albeit in a clumsier way. The music playback does still sound better to us, even if Cooder used iTunes to master his album. The Zune store's been fine for the most part, giving us snippets of text and reviews gleaned from allmusic.com and other sites, but still suffers from the occasional untimely outage (like as we were writing this).

So would we change our recommendation of the iPod over the Zune? No. All the reasons we had to pick one or the other still stands. If you want movies, TV, a larger music library, a touch sensitive scroll wheel and more accessories, you should still go with the iPod. If you want an FM tuner, music rentals, and a larger screen, there's the Zune.

However, the fact that the iPhone is due out in a few months may change the picture again. Instead of just iPod vs. Zune, there's iPhone vs. iPod vs. Zune, which means Microsoft better come out with a Zune Phone quick.

Why ESET's NOD32?

Technology, not brand names, stops malware.

Compare

NOD 32 Compare the data against Symantec, McAfee, Kaspersky and Trend. Find out why NOD32 is the Safest, Fastest, Smallest solution.
Best Detection of Known and Evolving Threats

* Approximately 88% of threats are proactively detected using ThreatSense heuristics. For example, all variants of MyDoom, Netsky, Bagle and Mytob were detected heuristically - before most other vendors even had a signature. Compare to Symantec, McAfee, Trend, and Kaspersky.
* NOD32 receives the highest awards (ADVANCED+) in retrospective testing, due to its high proactive on-demand detection rate and low rate of false positives. NOD32 includes one of the fastest scanners in the industry, earning the status of Overall Anti-Virus product winner of 2006.
* In-the-Wild Virus Detection - ESET is the record holder of 41 VB100% awards collected over the last 7 years. These tests validate the products ability to detect known malware.
NOD32 has missed fewer In-the-Wild viruses than any other vendor in VirusBulletin testing, as shown below.

Fastest Performance

With NOD32, it's not necessary to sacrifice speed for detection. Scanning and update processes happen behind the scenes without a perceptible decrease in performance.

* 19MB/sec scanning rate under Windows 2003
* Three to 34 times faster than the leading brands under Windows XP
* Keep employees productive by minimizing the impact on their systems

Minimal Resource Utilization

NOD32 conserves resources on disk and in memory, leaving more room for critical applications. It is compact enough to run on modest systems, saving valuable memory without compromising performance or functionality, yet powerful enough to slam the door on malware intrusions.

* Utilizes approximately 22MB of RAM, one of the smallest packages in the industry
* Low RAM usage and intelligent caching reduces disk access and memory paging
* Low 4% performance overhead

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Samsung SGH-i760: Smartphone Has Brains, Beauty

Samsung takes another potshot at the Motorola Q with its upcoming SGH-i760, a Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC Smartphone with an Intel 520MHz CPU inside. This one looks like it has it all, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0, a 240x320 touchscreen, WiFi, and even has a forward-facing video calling camera. On the other side there's a 2-megapixel camera, too. Plus, the thing is exceedingly light, weighing in at just 119g (that's just over 4 ounces for us metrically-challenged).

Our interest is piqued. It won't take much to slam-dunk that Motorola Q, and this might just be the ticket. Full spec list and ten gorgeous pics (courtesy mobile mania.sk), after the jump.

Gun Hidden in a Knife: It's Two, Two, Two Kills In One

Just what we need: more weapons and even better, increasingly innovative ways to murder and maim each other. With this G.R.A.D. $699 .22-caliber gun disguised as a knife, you can pull the trigger on the handle, filling someone with five holes and then cut them up into little pieces, or vice-versa.
Now all we need to do is combine this with the cellphone gun for the ultimate convergence device. Anyway, this thing looks cheap, as if it could easily blow up in your hand.–

USBCell Rechargeable Batteries

Rechargeable batteries that charge via USB? Sure, why not? The USBCELL batteries can be charged using a regular charging station as well as the USB port in your PC, laptop, Xbox 360, or USB car charger. At this point, a USB port is so readily found in your home or office it may be easier to charge it using that instead of lugging around a charger.The USBCell USB-rechargeable AA batteries have landed at ThinkGeek for $20 per pair. They could be an excellent addition if you use a wireless mouse without included-rechargeable batteries, or hell, I'm thinking about picking up a couple for my Xbox 360 controllers.