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Monday, February 16th, 2009


This 3G technology device comes in 91 grams of weight, which gives a comfortable feel to the users. The light weight handset measures 95.9 x 55 x 11.8 mm in dimensions. It has 2.8 inches of screen size, which gives a clear crystal display to the users. The TFT screen is filled with 262K colour. This touchscreen is empowered with 240 x 320 pixels resolution. Its high resolution screen gives an amazing viewing experience to the users. The handset supports 64 channels polyphonic and MP3 ringtones, which allows you to set the ringtones according to your style. Its phone book has 1000 contacts entries with photocall feature. It gives you the record of 30 dialled, 30 received and 30 missed calls. The stylish looking handset has 232 megabytes of internal memory, which is sufficient to save your data. Its expandable memory includes microSD and transflash memory card with up to 8GB, where the users can save their more massages, pictures, videos and other data. Its full rechargeable battery gives 3 hours of talktime with up to 250 hours of standby. This slim and sleek handset comes in black colour casing.

The connectivity features are enabled with 3G HSDPA, Bluetooth with A2DP, USB, EDGE and GPRS. The Bluetooth technology is compatible with A2DP, which allows you to enjoy the wireless connection between two devices. This technology also helps in downloading and transferring the data from other devices. Its built-in EDGE technology gives almost super speed data transferring facility. Whereas, the 3G HSDPA feature allows you to enjoy the 3G video calling, high speed Internet and transfer rates. Its GPRS option helps you in navigation, where users can navigate from any place. The USB connection helps you connect with other devices without using cables. The Internet browser is enabled with WAP 2.0, XHTML and HTML browser. This beautiful touchscreen is embedded with embedded games and downloadable games.

The Samsung F480 Tocco messaging features come with SMS or text messaging, EMS or enhanced messaging, MMS or multimedia messaging, instant messaging, Email and predictive text. The MMS or multimedia messaging feature allows you to send messages in the audio or video format including text. The interactive instant messaging option allows you to chat through messages, where users can receive direct message without waiting for delivery report.

The Samsung F480 Tocco is merged with 5 mega pixels camera. This high resolution auto-focus camera has flash, camera settings and picture stabiliser. Its flash option allows you to capture the photo even in the dim light. The stunning video camera phone is also surrounded with video recorder, video stabiliser, video editor, video player and 3G Video Call. The video player supports H264, H263 and MPEG4 formats. Its picture stabiliser option allows you to capture the perfect picture even in the unsteady mode. The video stabiliser allows you to record video footage without affecting the hand movements. This camera is also incorporated with beautiful wallpapers and screensavers.

Its music player supports MP3, AAC and AAC+ formats. Users can easily switch over to the FM Radio RDS option, where they can enjoy the latest coming movies’ songs. Its music player also supports polyphonic ringtones and MP3 ringtones. You can also download the songs from connectivity options. Its organisers features include phonebook, calendar, To Do List, clock, alarm, converter, calculator, speaker phone and document viewer. The speaker phone allows you to listen music or talk on phone without holding the device.

By: Raina Kelsey

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As a greater portion of computer users are realizing the digital freedom that is available with Wi-Fi hot spots and go-anywhere internet, there has been an increasing trend toward mobile computing. As is always the case for serious users though, there is the question: desktop or laptop? It has long been true that the desktop machine market has had quite a lead on the mobile world as far as performance goes.

The ever present struggle was whether or not you could sacrifice the performance you want for the mobility you need. In the last few years though, chip manufacturers have progressed leaps and bounds in creating faster, smaller, cooler running and more power efficient chips; all at a fraction of the cost. Today’s laptops are now able to achieve performance that is comparable to or even equal to many desktops. These desktop replacements allow their users to handle whatever their computing needs are, on the fly no less.

Here are some of the best desktop replacement solutions available currently:

HP Pavilion HDX

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100
o Display Size (inches): 20.1
o Wide Screen: Yes
o Total HD Size (GB): 240
o Min. Weight (lbs.): 15.5
o Price (at time of review): $3000

This desktop replacement is a real heavy hitter. The 20.1″ screen allows you to stay productive without sacrificing mobility. Weighing in at 15.5 pounds, this monster belongs more on a desk than on your lap but it is still light enough to carry with you. This model also offers attractive extras such as a Blu-ray DVD player and full 1080p HD display.

Dell XPS M1730

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300
o Display Size (inches): 17
o Wide Screen: Yes
o Total HD Size (GB): 160
o Min. Weight (lbs.): 10.6
o Price (at time of review): $2500

A little more on the medium range, the M1730 is well equipped for its price range, but not as big as the full blown Desktop replacements. This model also comes with the option of the NVIDIA Geforce 8800M SLI graphics card, which makes this a real contender in the gaming and video processing market.

Gateway P-172X FX

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300
o Display Size (inches): 17
o Wide Screen: Yes
o Total HD Size (GB): 320
o Min. Weight (lbs.): 9.6
o Price (at time of review): $2000

Even though this is the cheapest and lightest desktop replacement of the bunch, it packs the meanest over-all punch. With 4 GB of RAM and the powerful Core 2 Duo chip (impressive 3MB L2 cache), this is one of the most well suited laptops for unplugging and taking on the road without losing your performance edge.

With so many choices to look at, desktop replacement shoppers will want to keep a few key things in mind before they head out to the store (or to their favorite internet dealer). Try to get an idea of the most weight you would be willing to carry around with you. A good bench mark is to realize that a gallon of water weighs 8.33 lbs so ask yourself if you will be willing to carry that much weight or more. Also remember that though these laptops come close to performing on par with many desktop models, they will not out perform most high end desktops, so think about the most demanding things you want to do with your desktop replacement and take into consideration whether it will be able to perform your required tasks.

Paying for power is never cheap but the benefits of mobility can be invaluable. Who knows what the near future holds for desktop replacements but for now, be assured that the technology you require is more than available and very affordable.

By: Christophe Catesson

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Saturday, February 7th, 2009


Watching satellite television programs on your laptop is convenient and cheap, but the main challenge is finding a genuine service which is not a scam. Today, there are many scam programs that pretend to offer TV on PC services, but their services are dodgy and of poor quality.

Our team of dedicated television watchers went on a mission to research for the best, genuine, and reliable programs. Our team tested and reviewed dozens of programs that are on the internet, in an effort to find the best programs that also provided value for money.

The features and characteristics which we used in our research and review to find the best satellite television for personal computer programs were based on the following criteria:

- Unrestricted access a large number of cable or satellite television channels

- A small one-time fee, and no monthly subscriptions

- Access to a large number of channels and ability to watch these on your computer anywhere and anytime

- High sound quality on all the channels offered

- High picture definition and quality on all the television channels offered

- High safety and security to the user’s PC or Laptop, and no irritating adware or spyware

- Outstanding customer support and free access to future updates

During our research, we established the best cable satellite television to PC programs that passed our testing criteria above. These are the programs we highly recommend that you use.

Sadly, during our research, we also came across some programs which were complete scams. The most common problems we encountered with the majority of these sub-standard programs include having a very small number of channels on offer, very slow speed in loading the channels and poor picture quality and resolution. Some of the sub-standard programs had poor sound quality that will make listening to the television channels torture.

Some had poor quality software that will affect your ability to watch the television programs. Some of the sub-standard programs have high monthly subscriptions and they also introduced irritating spy-ware and ad-ware that cause pop-ups and errors which caused our PCs to crash. These second-rate programs did not have good customer support. Due to the large number of scam programs that are on the internet, we highly recommend that you use only the programs that we have handpicked and we recommend on our website.

Key features of the best programs that are highly recommended are that they can work with any version of Windows, they are perfectly legal and they will work anywhere in the world, at anytime. We have hand-picked the best programs that do not have monthly subscription fees or recurring charges, and all you need to do is to pay only a small one-time fee.

Ease of installation and use is also an important feature of a good quality programs that we have selected. One should not need any extra hardware or TV card, and all you would need to do is to download the software and start enjoying thousands of high quality channels from the world over.

Based on our team’s stringent criteria, our hand-picked, and reputable and highly recommend watch TV on online program is Stasoft’s Titanium and Elite Edition. This program passed our thorough test and pleased our discerning and thorough Satellite TV for PC programs research team.

If you want to watch TV shows online, all you need to do is to download some reputable program’ software today and start enjoying hundreds of programs from your favourite Satellite channels.

By: Nikki Montgomery

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More research and development is put into military technology and innovation then any other industry or field. The evolution of the battlefield has occurred right in front of us, yet many people are unaware of how advanced the weaponry of the United States army and its allies has become. The battlefields our troops currently fight on are occupied by drones known as MQ-9 reapers and Predators, as well as a variety of unmanned land vehicles such as the SWORDS weapon system. Also we can’t forget about the advances in Fighter technology with the F-22 Raptor being on the forefront of aviation innovation.

The evolution of military technology has allowed the US military to move many of its troops out of harms way by implementing precision weaponry coupled with unmanned technologies. In the near future our battlefields could look like something from the movie Terminator with robots fighting each other and actually operating on artificial intelligence. The machines deployed in unfriendly territory will actually be linked to each other and communicate with soldiers and commanders to warn them of enemy positions or suspicious activities. Also systems like the YAL-1A airborne laser that the United States air-force has developed will keep our skies clear of ballistic missile threats.

Not only have the ground and air reconnaissances and attack vehicles been converted to unmanned applications, rifle and gun technology has developed at an incredible pace with applications such as the as50 British accuracy Sniper Rifle or the objective individual combat weapon. The Military technology that the soldier will be working with in the future will include upgraded ammunition and assault rifles as well as better and lighter armor such as the Dragon Skin system. There are many more new weapons system applications that seem lifetimes away but are being developed as we speak.

By: Jon Burton

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