Solving sound problems in your computer

Sound system in our computer is very important and it needs to exist. Your computer will become useless if you have no speaker. Imagine watching a video on youtube without a sound? Oh that’s horrible. We need to connect with what we are watching by listening to the sound so that we can totally grasp the meaning or the moment what we are watching. Without sound effects, the one you are watching means no life at all. Some people complain why their speakers do not function well or the worst is, they have a speaker but it does not make a sound. This is a common problem to us especially you newly re-formatted your computer and you have lost the Sound driver installer of your computer.

Here’s a tip to relatively solve your problem:

1. Determine your mother board sound card and know its manufacturer. You can do it manually by looking it inside your CPU or running a diagnostic program such as Belarc or PC Wizard.

2. If it does not detect your sound hardware using the 1st step, go to “Start”, then click “Run” and a dialog box will appear where you can type a file name. Type “dxdiag” in the text field. A window box will appear containing the specifications of your computer (hardware and software). Click the “Sound” option. There you can view the details of your sound hardware.

3. Note the Audio manufacturer, sound system model and brand type.

4. Look it up in the internet and download the appropriate Audio driver.

5. And lastly, install it.

The maximum file size that can be sent through Yahoo Mail

Sending email and files are easy nowadays especially through the help of Yahoo Mail. Many have wondered if it is possible to send large file sizes using Yahoo mail. Indeed, you are right. We can send large file sizes using Yahoo mail but the question is, what is the maximum size?

As I was surfing through the internet, I found some answers there. The maximum file size you can send is 10Mb using ordinary Yahoo mail. But you can send up to 20Mb file size under Yahoo mail Plus. Yahoo mail Plus is a paid service but Yahoo mail is for free. So if you want to save money or you cannot afford to spend money on sending such files like this, you have to use the ordinary Yahoo mail. But if you really need to send a file size that exceeds 10Mb, you have no choice but to spend some cash using Yahoo mail plus. The two services are safe and reliable. You can be assured the mail you send will be delivered and if not, they will notify you if the message will bounce back to the sender.

Tips: If you want to minimize the file sizes you want to send, just break up the file in several parts or zip the file.

Easy Camping while Biking!

This is best suited for all bikers who wants to go camping outside after their long trip. This product is called Bikamper. It is a convenient mountain bike along with a portable tent that will enable you to carry two different hardware in one. This will make you camp easier. To think of it, you don’t have to bring your own car, spend gas for fuel, to carry the tent if ever you wanted to camp while travelling. This will make you save money and time.

The Bikamper is durable on windy and rainy conditions. It cannot be easily be blown away and it has durable poles holding it on place. Its canopy is waterproof coated with 45D ripstop nylon and has three mesh windows for ventilation. While the Bikamper fly is constructed of fully waterproofed 70D ripstop nylon which serves as an additional layer of protection.

The estimated product price is $143.94.

Wireless Internet connection without Router

Now there are many home users with always-on Internet connections such as DSL and cable modems. In another situation it could be like you’re in a hotel room with your MacBook and your roommate’s got a laptop PC and there’s only one Ethernet jack? If you have an iPhone or other Wi-Fi enabled device ?

What do you do? Get to sharing the internet love, that’s what you do !

Sharing internet connection wirelessly might seem like a much smarter alternative than using an expensive wireless router, but it does have a couple of disadvantages:

• If the computer connected to the Internet is shut down, all computers that are part of the ad hoc network lose their Internet access.
• To connect to the Internet, one computer always needs a wired network connection.

There is two options sharing the internet wirelessly either from Mac or Windows. Actually three options because I want to shared both from Windows Vista and XP.

To keep it short, here’s what you need to do …

From MacBook

1.In System Preferences, go to Sharing and on the Internet tab, click the source (Built-in Ethernet) and the way the other computer will connect (for wifi, AirPort). Then click the Start button.

This’ll set up a wireless connection between your Mac and the PC, and the PC will be able to surf on it via your wired Mac.

2. If you don’t want settings that might interfere with the sharing, just turns out that “Personal Web Sharing” has to be enabled as well on the Services tab.

3. If you don’t want everyone else in the hallway sucking down your bandwidth, click the “Airport Options” button to set a password on your ad-hoc network, before you hit the start button.

You could do this to your Mac mini also.

From Windows Vista Laptop PC

This following setup in order to connect an iPhone wirelessly.
1. Make sure your laptop has built-in WIFI adapter or your USB/PCMCIA wireless network adapter is enabled.
2. Open the Networks and Sharing Center. Under Tasks (left), choose Manage Wireless Networks.

3. In the Manage Wireless Networks window, click Add.

4. Choose “Create an ad hoc network”. Press Next on the next page.

5. On the next page, enter a Network Name of your choice (as “iPhoneNetwork”). This is the network you’ll connect to from your iPhone. Choose WEP for Security Type (you can also choose “No Authentication (Open)”, but this way anyone in your ad hoc wireless network range can connect to your laptop.) Enter a Security Key as instructed, check “Save this network” and click Next.

6. You should get the “Your iPhoneNetwork is ready to use”. Before pressing Close, click on “Turn on Internet Connection sharing”.

7. Select your Local Area Network internet connection you usually use to connect to the internet and press Next. The next page should say “Internet connection sharing is enabled.” Press Close.

Now, your ad hoc network is ready.

The second step is connecting your iPhone to the “iPhoneNetwork” ad hoc wireless network.
1. From your iPhone, open Settings. Choose Wi-Fi.

2. Click on “iPhoneNetwork” and enter the password you defined earlier (Security Key), then press Join. It take you back to the previous screen but with the “iPhoneNetwork” checked.

3. On your notebook, you should see the “Set Network Location” screen. Choose Home or Work, no big deal.

You should open Safari browser and connect directly to the internet. Connect to Google or something to make sure that everything’s fine. And, yes, it’s a little buggy – you’ll sometimes have to do it over and over again!

Now you can access iTunes store or even download/update your iPhone applications directly without needing to do that on iTunes.

From Windows XP Laptop PC

1. Make sure your laptop has built-in WIFI adapter or your USB/PCMCIA wireless network adapter is enabled.
2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

3. Under Pick a category, click Network and Internet Connections.

4. Under or pick a Control Panel icon, click Network Connections.

5. Right-click your wireless network connection, and then click Properties.

6. In the Wireless Network Connection Properties dialog box, click the Wireless Networks tab.

7. On the Wireless Networks tab, under Preferred networks, click Add.

8. In the Wireless network properties dialog box, on the Association tab, type the name of your ad hoc wireless network in Network name (SSID) box (shown in step 10). For example, you could name your wireless network MyHomeNetwork.

9. Clear the The key is provided for me automatically check box and select the This is a computer-to-computer (ad hoc) network check box.

10. Create a 13-digit password and type it in both the Network key and Confirm network key boxes. For the best security, include letters, numbers, and punctuation. Then click OK.

11.Click OK again to save your changes.

Now, your ad hoc network is ready.The second step is to set up additional computers.

If the computer you want to add to your network does not have built-in wireless network support, install a wireless network adapter.

Windows XP automatically detects the new adapter and notifies you that it found a wireless network.

Now connect your computer to your wireless network

Note: These steps apply only if you’re using Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). If you haven’t installed SP2, visit Microsoft Update to install it before connecting to the ad hoc network.

1.Right-click the Wireless Network icon in the lower right corner of your screen, and then click View Available Wireless Networks.

Note: If you run into any problems, consult the documentation that came with your network adapter.

2.The Wireless Network Connection window appears and displays your wireless network listed with the SSID you chose. If you don’t see your network, click Refresh Network List in the upper left corner. Click your network, and then click Connect in the lower right corner.

3. Windows XP prompts you to enter a key. Type your encryption key in both the Network key and Confirm network key boxes, and then click Connect.

Windows XP shows its progress as it connects to your network. After you’re connected, you can close the Wireless Network Connection window.Repeat these three steps on each computer that you want to connect to your ad hoc wireless network.

Now you’re ready to browse the Web wirelessly, from any computer you add to your home network.

Source:
mr-gizmo

Parental Control in the Internet

Are you a parent who is concern on the harmful effects if your child will be left alone surfing the internet? Here’s a solution for you.

Today technology evolves and makes life easier especially for the parents who want to control their children from viewing harmful websites. They call it Live Parental Controls.

NETGEAR have developed a software that suites the concern of most parents regarding with the internet security among their children. They had then announced to release the Live Parental Control, in collaboration with OpenDNS that makes the Internet faster, safer and more reliable. It also opens the community to integrate its technology into selecting wireless router and gateway products.

Live Parental Control is capable of filtering unsafe and inappropriate websites on the internet which connects router for more than 50 categories of content or sites. The user can set rules on the router and on the filter software. It does not just protect your personal computer from harmful intruders; it also protects wireless mobile devices such as PSP, iPod Touch and other gaming consoles.

James Bond's wristwatch!

Have you dreamed of becoming James Bond someday? Well you can start being like him if you have this gadget, the Wristwatch Camcorder. It is an analog watch with an undetectable camcorder that provides hands-free video recording or surveillance.

This wristwatch has a camera’s lens which has an approximate size of a pinhole and is located at the two-o’clock position, yet the watch’s hands never obscure the lens.

The watch’s 1.3 Megapixel camera records video capturing at a 352 x 288 resolution. It stores up to 12 hours of AVI-formatted video onto its built-in 2GB flash memory. The microphone is located on the outer case of the watch. The Quartz movement provides reliable timekeeping.

Also, one thing that fascinates me is, it has a rechargeable battery. The camera’s rechargeable battery provides up to 2 hours of use from a 4-hour charging using the included USB AC adapter (which also allows you to copy your videos to a PC running Windows). It includes also a stainless case and band. The watchface is 1/2″ H x 1 1/2″ Diam. (1 1/2 oz.).

Toys for the big boys!

Introducing Rovio Robot with Northstar System. It’s the coolest gadget/toy perfect for holiday gifts. It is perfect to spy around the house. Rovio got robot streams audio and high-resolution (640 x 480px) video in MPEG4 format and it can capture pictures and e-mail them to you. Rovio has a two-way microphone and speaker that enables real-time interaction with subjects – like your cat.

The Rovio robot is also the first to feature the NorthStar smart navigation and positioning system. This represents a major breakthrough in robotics and technology nowadays. Working like a micro-GPS system, the NorthStar system enables the Rovio robot to know where it is, locate the position of other objects, and navigate from place to place with pinpoint accuracy, entirely under its own control. That’s how cool Rovio is.

Other added features of Rovio are: Direct ROVIOs movements, neck mounted camera and audio from your own house or anywhere in the world, via the Internet, using any web accessible device such as a webcam, cell phone, video game console or PC. You can use the menu to set and select way points. In just one click you can tell ROVIO to navigate itself to the chosen point or path, without having to control each step. It has built in LED lights to help you guide ROVIO through dark hallways.

System requirements are:

Personal Computer with a minimum of Pentium 4 processor , OS compatible with Windows XP/ Windows Vista, 256 MB of RAM, DirectX 9.0 or higher, Video card equipped with OpenGL compliancy, Universal Serial Bus(USB) connectivity, Wireless access point device connected to your PC (ex: router), High-speed internet connection, Internet Explorer 6 or higher.

check out the new eVGA InterView Dual Display

Working or using on dual displays can improve your productivity, particularly if you need to have multiple open windows. This is best for you, introducing the eVGA Interview Dual Display.

EVGA's InterView Dual Display LCD Monitor includes two 17-inch displays on a single device; and the monitors are attached to a single arm in such a way that you can rotate each of them 180 degrees. Best example of this is, like when you wanted to share your work with someone sitting opposite with you. The approximate price is $650.

It has a built-in 1.3-megapixel Webcam and display support for DVI-I, DVI-D, and VGA ports. The other features: has USB interface connection and a USB hub.

Drawer Nowhere

Having problems with utilizing your space in your house? Here’s a solution for you, a stairs-drawer made of wood. Sure thing this will save your spaces in your house because of its unique design. This innovation is one of a kind. Even thieves will not notice if you have placed valuables in this drawer. So, it’s a hint on those people concern of hiding your jewelries in your house. Try to make this one!

Best Camera for Outdoors

The new Olympus 8000, named as a toughest Digital Camera that would take a real beating and endurance, is considered as a sturdy type of machinery and go easily on all-weather conditions. It's waterproof, shockproof, crushproof, dustproof and freezeproof. This camera suites best when you are going out for an adventure. It is very solid to hold and you are confident that once you drop it, you won’t worry anything. The name says it all. Here are some Tech Specs for Olympus 8000:

• Shooting in toughest situations – shockproof to 2m, waterproof to 10m, crush proof to 100kg and freeze proof to -10°C

• High-precision 3.6x wide optical zoom (28-102mm) to capture great scenes through to stunning close-ups even in extreme conditions

• Avoids blur thanks to Dual Image Stabilization

• TAP Control Menu for great convenience

• 12 Megapixels to make poster-size prints

• 6.9cm/2.7″ HyperCrystal III LCD for best ever preview even in brilliant sunlight and at extreme angles (230,000 dots)

• Face Detection for perfectly focused and exposed faces plus correct exposure of other image areas

• The easy way to perfect images – Intelligent Auto Mode detects the five most commonly used scenes and adjusts settings, focus and exposure automatically

• Manometer for easy air and water pressure checking

• LED illuminator to lighten up underwater or macro sceneries

• Liven up your memories with movie recording with sound

• xD-Picture Card and microSD Card compatible

Nikon D3000

In 1959, Nikon launched its first SLR F-Series. Nikon announced to release a new model of its DSLR cameras this year, the new Nikon D3000. The Nikon D3000 is most favorable for students who studied hard and taken photography as a hobby. It has a “Guide Mode” feature which enables starters to get great shots in all situations or conditions. Furthermore, it has 10.2 Mega pixel sensor and the 11 point autofocus system. You can also edit images right on the camera itself.

Features:

• 10.2 effective megapixel DX-format CCD sensor (total pixels: 10.7 million)
• 3.0" LCD monitor (230,000 dots)
• Image sensor cleaning (sensor shake)
• 11 AF points (with 3D tracking)
• IS0 100-1600 range (3200 expanded)
• 3 frames per second continuous shooting (buffer: 7 RAW, 25 JPEG fine, 100 JPEG Normal)
• Expeed image processing
• Picture Styles - image parameters consistent with all current Nikon DSLRs
• 'Miniature effect' mock-tilt/shift effect as retouch option
• Higher capacity battery from D5000
• 72 thumbnail and calendar view in playback
• Guide mode
• 11 AF points (MultiCAM 1000 autofocus system)
• 3D AF tracking
• 3.0 inch LCD (vs 2.7inch LCD in D60 - both 230,000 dots)

Digi Cam for Students!!!!

Introducing the Canon Powershot SD1200 IS with its advance features for picture quality has been considered as the most popular camera on the market nowadays. Replacing the SD1100 IS, this new model has more functionality, form and most of all an affordable price. This camera has been consistently ranked as one of the best ultra-compact cameras since release in April. This 10 megapixels and 3x optical zoom camera is simple and reliable to use which suites perfectly for students to fit in a pocket or purse, bring along for a day at occasions, events, parties and post the result to Facebook in minutes.

Specifications:

Smart Auto mode

Optical Image Stabilizer

DIGC 4 Processor

Max Resolution: 3648 x 2736

Auto Focus: AiAF TTL 9-point (with face detection)

Flash range: 3.5m

Flash modes: Auto, Fill-in, Red-Eye reduction, Slow Sync, Off

Movie Clips: 640 x 480, 320 x 240 @ 30 fps

Self-timer: 2, 10, Custom, Face

Storage types: SD/SDHC/MMC/MMCplus/HD MMCplus

LCD: 2.5 "

USB: USB 2.0 (480Mbit/sec)

Battery: Lithium-Ion NB-6L battery & charger

Weight (inc. batteries): 120 g

Dimensions: 86 x 55 x 22 mm (3.4 x 2.2 x 0.9 in)

Price: $149.00

Futuristic Laptop---Rolltop

Have you realized that laptops can be rolled? This new concept of laptop design was developed by scientists to aid the portability and convenience of laptop users. They call it Rolltop. The new laptop design will be using OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display on both the panel and keyboard. The virtual keyboard will replace the conventional physical keyboard which will make the 13-inch laptop easily transforms into the graphics tablet, a 17-inch flat screen. This flat screen can also be use in more functionalities like primary monitor, Tv panel, video game monitor, etc.
The designer of this rollable laptop has effectively integrated the bulkiness of power supply and hard drives of a conventional laptop.

USB Galore!

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. It is used to establish communication between two end devices. USB can connect devices such as mouse, keyboard, printers, digital cameras, etc. It is used nowadays as a standard method to connect external devices to its host. There are many examples of USB devices and here are some of it.

A bread's worth!

Many people thinking on how and where they are going to hide their valuable things inside their house. Try to see this one. You cannot even imagine or thought of having bread as your hiding container and thieves will never bother looking in this BREAD for valuables.

Place this BREAD on your table with your most valuable items for safe keeping. This will surely not be lost.

Research shows that a buglar spends an average of 8 minutes in a victim’s house and they don’t even bother checking the BREAD you placed in your kitchen except they are starving and wants to eat the bread. Your valuables will be surely caught.

This is a safe way to keep your valuables unharmed. Try this one and contact me what happens

Samsung Releases 2 New Phones for Women

Keeping its tradition on surprise, Samsung has yet again become successful in releasing 2 new surprises for the audiences, specifically the female population of mobile phone lovers. The two surprises come in the form of Samsung S7070 and Samsung S5150, both targeted the women buyers specifically. Both the Samsung handsets are mid-range devices and to be released in the first few months of the year 2010. So, better start saving now girls so you won’t miss this.

Samsung S7070 is a touch screen device, which features including a 5 MP camera with auto focus and the TouchWiz user interface. The screen is a 3 inch resistive display with WQVGA resolution and it also has FM radio, micro SD card slot, micro USB connector and Bluetooth connectivity.

Specifications – Samsung S7070
Brand	Samsung
Type	S7070
Form Factor	Candybar
Color	White
Phone Network	3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, HSCSD, TBC
Service	900, 1800, 1900
Bluetooth	v2.1 with A2DP
USB	MicroUSB v2.0
Fax / Data	Yes
Main display	Color TFT resistive touchscreen
Color display	256.000 colors
Dimensions	3 in.
Resolution	240 x 400 pixels
Storage types	MicroSD, MicroSDHC
Battery	Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh
Ringtones	MP3
Megapixels	5 megapixels
Maximum photo resolution	2592x1944 pixels
Audio player	eAAC, MP3
Video player	H263, H264, MP4
Organiser	Organiser, Voice memo
Other features	TouchWiz UI, Speakerphone, Downloadable games

The second device is Samsung S5150, which has been codenamed as Olivia. Some of the features known for the clamshell device include a 2.2 inch QVGA resolution screen and a 3 MP camera. Click this link to learn more.

Samsung S5150 for Women

Photo taken from www.letsgomobile.org

The Samsung S5150 clamshell mobile phone is equipped with a 2.2-inch display. It has a 240x320 pixel resolution and if you want to capture your favorite moments and pictures, you can do so with this 3 Megapixel camera phone. It delivers digital photos with a 2048x1536 pixel resolution, which is enough to print high quality colored photos. The standard internal memory of the Samsung S5150 Olivia handset is not enough to save all the multimedia craziness downloaded from the internet but the phone memory can be extended with a microSDHC memory card, so that 32GB of extra storage is possible.

Specifications – Samsung S5150
Brand	Samsung
Type	S5150 (also known as Samsung Olivia)
Form Factor	Clamshell
Color	Black
Phone Network	3G, EDGE, GPRS, GSM, HSCSD
Service	900, 1800, 1900
Bluetooth	v2.0 with A2DP
USB	MicroUSB v2.0
Fax / Data	Yes
Main display	Color TFT
Color display	65.000 colors
Dimensions	2.2 in.
Resolution	240 x 320 pixels
Storage types	MicroSD, MicroSDHC
Battery	Standard battery, Li-Ion 960 mAh
Ringtones	MP3
Megapixels	3.15 megapixels
Maximum photo resolution	2048x1536 pixels
Audio player	eAAC, MP3
Video player	H263, H264, MP4
Organiser	Organiser, Voice memo
Other features	Second external, hidden display, Speakerphone, Downloadable games