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 Blackberry launched their application store last month, known as BlackBerry App World. It has 1,000 applications and is available as a free download from RIM's Web site - http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/appworld/?CPID=KNC-SEMD_BBAPP_US&HBX_PK=rimggl99100000021663s&HBX_OU=50.
There are many free applications! To purchase apps starting at $2.99, users will need an account with eBay Inc.'s PayPal payment service and a BlackBerry with a trackball or touch screen. RIM is trying to get wireless carriers to allow purchases to be made by customers, which can then be charged to their phone bill instead of using PayPal. Many Smartphone companies are working on similar online stores and it is just a matter of time before they are available on all mobile devices.
Here are just a few of the free apps available -
AOL Instant Messenger
Bloomberg - classic black terminal screen with detailed indices, graphs, and moving currency data
Trapster - let's you know about nearby speed traps, red light cameras, police with live radar guns
WorldMate Live: A Travel Maestro - check flight status, book hotels, currency converter
Pandora - create custom radio stations, will allow you to play music for free.
Viigo - RSS reader - instant access to news, weather updates, flight schedules, etc.
Weather Eye
WorldMate Live: A Travel Maestro - check flight status, book hotels, currency converter
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| Mobile DTV |
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 Free Mobile Television will be hitting the Washington DC Metro area later this year, but it is not clear what devices will be able to get the signal. What is Mobile DTV? Mobile DTV is a new free standard that will be broadcasting free television to mobile devices. Broadcasts using new Mobile DTV technology are expected to begin in late summer from five stations CBS, NBC, PBS and Ion and one independent station owned by Fox.
Mobile DTV will appear exactly as if you were at home, unfortunately including commercials. The real question is will it be coming to your cell phone. The cell phone industry seems to be turned off on the new Mobile DTV standard - one reason is because it is free; another, carriers already have their own subscription television services for cellular devices - AT&T, Verizon and Samsung. It is rumored that if the cell phone industry decides to allow this new Mobile DTV standard that they will generate revenue with services, such as DVR (digital video recording). Free Mobile DTV may be available in the upcoming months to laptops, cars, portable DVD players, cellphones, smartphones, and netbooks.
Dell has already incorporated a TV tuner that can utilize the Mobile DTV technology in their prototype Inspiron Mini 10 notebook. LG Electronics and Samsung are reportedly also developing cell phones for Mobile DTV technology. Audiovox Corp. has said it will make a receiver available sometime late Fall for existing in-car entertainment screens that would cost under $500. AT&T and RaySat Broadcasting Corp. are expected to begin selling their satellite TV system, CruiseCast, with the next few months. It will have 22 TV channels and 20 radio stations at a cost of about $28 month and will require an antenna with a current suggested retail price of $1,300.
The Open Mobile Video Coalition, leading the charge for free mobile TV expects to have 22 markets open and 35% of US households with over-the-air programming by the end of the year.
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| How to Create a Shortcut on your PC to Reboot in Remote Desktop Access |
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 In Remote Desktop Access, the PC can only be rebooted by giving command line instructions through the Command Prompt. This process requires the exact syntax of the command, which can be difficult to remember. To bypass this limitation of Remote Desktop Access, it is good practice to create a restart shortcut on the desktop.
The steps involved to do so are as follows -
1) Right click on the Desktop and then select "New" and then "Shortcut".
2) In the "Type the location of the item:" Enter %windir%\System32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 30 ( where -r parameter is used to restart the computer, -f Forces running applications to close without warning and -t xx is to Set timeout for restart to xx seconds which in this example is 30 Seconds.
3) Click the Next and then in the "Type a name for this shortcut:" type "Restart My Computer" and then click the "Finish" button. To Change the Icon - right click on the shortcut and go to Properties and then select Icon from the provided list.
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| VoIP Phones - How Much Bandwidth Do I Need? |
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 First of all, bandwidth is defined as the ability to transfer data (such as a VoIP telephone call) from one point to another in a fixed amount of time. The higher the bandwidth speed you have, the more data you can send over your Broadband Internet connection.
There are two types of bandwidth at your location: upload bandwidth and download bandwidth. The upload bandwidth is the amount of data you can send to the Internet and download bandwidth is the amount of data you can receive from the Internet. The more Internet bandwidth you have from your ISP the better.
In most cases, the normal VoIP telephone call will use up 90 Kbps. If you have a Broadband Internet service provider that doesn’t offer much bandwidth then most VoIP providers give you the option to lower the VoIP voice quality by lowering the bandwidth used for VoIP calls to 60 Kbps or, to really conserve your bandwidth, 30 Kbps. Most people can't tell the difference between the three settings. We suggest you use the high sound quality setting (90 Kpbs in most cases), if bandwidth is not an issue. High VoIP voice quality is generally the default setting, but if you are running into a situation where your bandwidth is limited, then you can adjust your VoIP bandwidth to one of the lower settings. Some consumers with 128 Kbps upload connections can receive less VoIP service quality due to a poor quality ISP. By selecting a lower quality VoIP bandwidth setting, this problem can be avoided.
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