Checking e-mail before your morning coffee? You're not alone

Nice, the world already(/are) changing. For me(as a Network Support Team), that normal situation even while driving, in the toilet, & etc. But I hate most, is people replying emails in weekend; ...Come on guys, give me a break.

P/S : For Muslim, make sure Subuh Prayer first...

 

 

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Checking e-mail before your morning coffee? You're not alone

via Ars Technica by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) on 8/12/09

Before I worked for Ars, I had a pretty traditional office job. As part of my daily routine, I got up at 6:30 am, took a shower, made breakfast, and sat down in front of the computer to eat and respond to e-mail before hopping in the car to sit in traffic. It's the "sat down in front of the computer" part that used to take some of my friends by surprise (who responded to personal e-mail before 7 am five years ago?), but that behavior seems to be increasing, with more and more people checking e-mails, text messages, and news online before their first cup of coffee.

The New York Times recently highlighted the dramatic change in many families' mornings, noting that kids are hopping on Facebook while Mom and Dad are checking up on e-mail and Twitter the minute they wake up. 

"Things that I thought were unacceptable a few years ago are now commonplace in my house," one mother, Dorsey Gude, told the Times, "like all four of us starting the day on four computers in four separate rooms." One father said that he sends his son text messages to wake him up in the morning.

 

 

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Microsoft and Nokia bringing Office to Symbian next year

 

 

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Microsoft and Nokia bringing Office to Symbian next year

via Ars Technica by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski) on 8/12/09

The world's largest software maker and the world's largest smartphone manufacturer are going to join forces in an attempt to bring some desktop productivity applications to the mobile space. As expected, and despite their long-standing competition, Microsoft and Nokia have agreed to an alliance that will bring Microsoft Office and related software on the Symbian mobile operating system.

Up until today's announcement, native versions of mobile Office have been limited to Windows Mobile, making this is the first time that Microsoft is developing Office software for another company's platform for handheld devices. Microsoft Business Division President Stephen Elop and Nokia's Executive Vice President for Devices Kai Öistämö made the announcement via a teleconference call in which they emphasized that both companies are still looking into more ways to collaborate.

 

 

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Orange Blog finds GSM remote control

Nice application added for GSM.

 

 

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UK: Orange Blog finds GSM remote control

via IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis by Ben Robinson on 8/13/09

Orange UKs Blog (called 'The Feed') often finds interesting stuff - and this time is no exception. They report on a GSM remote switch, which simply enough you can call or send a text to - and the switch then does it's business and switches whatever it is connected to ON or OFF!

I checked out the source vendor, Quantek.co.uk, and they had this to say:

The GSM-AUTO is a wireless GSM mobile phone remote control switch that connects to the GSM mobile phone network.

It is activated by calling its mobile telephone number, it will reject the call without answering and switch on or off the device connected to it

It has 2 independent relay switches with normally open and normally closed relay contacts, these can be programmed to switch on for a pre-determined length of time whenever the GSM-AUTO is called, alternatively the switches can be permanently switched on or off by sending the GSM-AUTO a sms text message

Applications include remotely controlling heating, lighting, engine pre-heaters, aviation engine pre-heaters, irrigation systems, water well pumps, pumping stations, remote access control of gates , re-setting of remote servers, control of remote scientific instruments

Personally I love the idea of this - I've got stuff at home that I'd like to boot up or bring off standby on the way home, and the thought of sending a text to do it is just kewl

It's for sale at £139 at the Quantek shop, which ain't the cheapest ever - but then again you can't put a price on leading the mobile convergence revolution, now can you…?

[Via: Orange via: Quantek.co.uk]

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Petition: Nikon D90 owners request MANUAL CONTROL

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Bypass throttle for bittorrent

What is Xunlei / Thunder?

Xunlei / Thunder is a feature packed download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, BT, and EMULE. It has multiple resources for Hyper-Threading technology which significantly improve the download speed. Besides, it’s Intelligent Disk Cache technology effectively prolong your Hard Disk’s lifespan from crashing due to the high speed download. Xunlei / Thunder is well known for it’s fake header for HTTP to download torrents via port 80. Therefore, it bypass ISP throttle and maximize the download speed.

The last sentence saying you can cheat ISP, but I dont know whether you can cheat 'Proxy'. Happy trying.

P/s: I cannot try since I'm using Mac. 

my HP Mini 2140 with Moblin, OSX, Win 7

I bought HP mini 2140 3 months ago, its damn good machine. I already try this machine with OSX Leopard (hack version), free Windows 7 & Moblin OS. My personal mark for 3 different OS are;
- OSX Leopard:

- Windows 7: 

- Moblin:

I'll put some reference here;
- Myhpmini.com ; they have good howto, you need to search inside there
- For Moblin, and need extra config on Wlan; find it here.


My personal choice is Moblin, I like very much the Home Screen, like everything can access from there. OSX produce lagging interface, maybe because of GPU and small CPU(just maybe?). Windows 7 also very good, it seem this OS design for this netbook.

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