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Woes of a Reliance WiMax user:

Standing advice for people who are thinking off to shift to Reliance WiMax Broadband Connection-”Dont”. WiMax Connection is thought to be handled by experts in telecommunications and this makes out to nothing but pain in the a** for most of the subscribers. An IP address wouldnt be provided for the system with a connection, the IP address would be changing every time you log into your system.(Well, this can be understood, No ISP provideds a Stati IP address unless you pay more). But, wait for more woes.It is a common experience that you will face multiple timeouts due to which you can login to any of the mail acounts or Orkut. Sometimes, you need to wait for 10-20 minutes in order to get an IP and log on.

It is a common notion that Reliance wiMax BroadBand Connection is still under the beta face, but released onto the public to play with their money and emotions. And add to this, the pathetic Customer Care, which would always say that your complaint had been resolved. Many a users have a common opinion. How would your problem be resolved without checking on the Customer’s Feedback? And once the call is resolved, it cannot
be reopened with the same complaint number and the caller would loose the advantage of emphasizing the complaint. So, opening another ticket would mean, starting over again. The Customer care professionals ask you to do basics of checking the IP Address and flushdns, ipconfig and thats it. Your connection is up and running or We will send professionals who would arrive after again reminding them.

Add to this, getting a duplicate bill. A friend of mine expressed his problems in a simple manner. “Using for the past 3 months, 2 Complaints per week, no duplicate bill even after calling 5 times”. Most of the times when the so-called technical people arrive at your doorstep, you begin by helping them out in letting them understand the basics of setting up an internet connection.

Most of the people suggest that Reliance should be awarded “Worst Ever ISP Award”.

LG KU990 Viewty

The LG Viewty (LG-KU990) has been launched in India. It was unveiled by Bollywood’s latest hearthrob, Deepika Padukone. Within five weeks of the handset’s launch in Europe this year, LG Viewty has already sold over 310,000 units globally.

The LG Viewty has a 5 megapixel camera with Schneider-Kreuznach lens and a Xenon flash. The ISO800 and SmartLight, and one-touch image stabilizer helps in clicking clear photos even in poor light or shaking conditions. The 3-inches LCD full-touch screen is enhanced with a touch signal to allow users confirm proper functioning of the touch-screen. Pictures once taken can be instantly viewed and edited on the LCD screen using the handwriting editing function.

The Viewty has a 120fps video recording function for shooting videos. The videos can be shared through single-click connection via HSDPA 3.6 high speed internet capability to YouTube.

The ‘ergonomic quotient’ of the handset is improved thanks to the jog wheel placed on the backside, which mainly makes for quick scrolling and searching, as also turning the volume up and down, fast-forwarding and rewinding, zooming- in and out, etc. In three steps, users can select modes, including camera, video, and album.

LG India Director (Sales and Marketing) V. Ramachandran added in a statement: “We want to consolidate our position in the Indian market and are targeting 8-10 per cent market share in a couple of years. We plan to launch around 20 more new handsets in the GSM segment where we have nine models. We want to be among the top three mobile handset vendors by next year. We will also focus on offering premium mobile phones in the GSM space.”

Specifications:
* Tri-band GSM/GPRS plus HSDPA support
* 5 megapixel autofocus camera with image stabilization
* Camera strobe flash and focus assist beam
* Secondary video camera for video calls
* 3″ 262K color TFT touchscreen display with 240×400 pixels resolution
* QVGA video recording at 120 fps
* VGA video recording at 30 fps
* TV-out support
* Original stylus dongle
* DivX video playback
* Haptic feedback when the screen is pressed

The LG Viewty is available at a price of Rs 21,900.

Record at awesome speeds: 120 fps

Pics Courtesy: GSMArena

Efficiency: The Foreword of Mac Book Pro

The new Macbook Pro is not much of a bump up from its predecessors, but it is a step in the right direction. The addition of Multi-Touch is a great new feature, even on a touchpad that’s smaller than the one on the Air. However, the Penryn-powered processor in this MBP is running at roughly the same speed as the last generation’s chips, GHz to GHz, and give no good reason to upgrade from machines that are less than a year old. The most interesting point here is the boost in efficiency the now-pervasive LED backlighting and 45nm Penryn chips bring to the MacBook Pro, which together give an hour extra battery life over older models with CCFL screens and 65nm CPU technology. That makes this the most efficient Macbook Pro yet. Here’s more on the 2.6GHz 4GB 15-inch MacBook we got to play with.

Multi-Touch Trackpad
After a month of getting used to the Multi-Touch touchpad on the MacBook Air, I have to say that the Pro’s touchpad is not quite as good in comparison. Comparatively, the Pro’s touchpad is slightly narrower in width and a whole half of an inch shorter in height. (It’s identical to the touchpad on the last Gen MBP’s pad.) My initial thoughts were that the smaller touchpad would make using Multi-Touch more difficult, but that wasn’t exactly the case.

Initially, in iPhoto, Multi-Touch on the smaller pad was more difficult, but after a few minutes we realized we were trying to use fingers in the same fashion as we did on the Air, where we had more room to gesture. For example, on the Air we skipped through photos with our fingers vertically but because of the Pro’s size it’s not comfortable to do this. So we placed our three fingers horizontally and it worked perfectly.

We came to the same conclusion with the rotate function. Instead of trying to move our rotate finger from the top of the touchpad to the bottom, we realized that by simply doing the rotate movement with more of a flick, iPhoto and Preview correctly rotated our photo to the next layout.

For testing zoom, we did a side-by-side comparison with the Air and found that the Pro’s smaller touchpad actually zoomed into the same position as it did using the Air.

Screen
One thing to note though is that the LED matte screen on the version we got was less bright than the glossy screen on the MacBook Air. This might be the matte vs. glossy difference, or it might be that the MacBook Air’s screen is just brighter.

Keyboard
The updated keyboard now has the F-key functions, same as the MacBook Air, and we think the additional Dashboard and Expose buttons use the F-keys nicely. We might not actually use buttons for these features but we think it’s cool that the buttons are now clearly labeled.

Benchmark
The Penryn MacBook Pro has already been benched and compared to the previous generation MBP, and its clear it’s about the same performance, per GHz. With that in mind we tested the new Penryn MBP agaisnt a year old Merom MBP and found a slight increase in speed. Also not surprising.

In a video encoding test, the Penryn MBP exported a 2.5min HD trailer in 11 minutes, where as the older Merom MBP took 13 min. (The basic config on the older machine included a 2.33GHz processor and 2GB of RAM; the Penryn had a 2.6GHz processor and 4GB of RAM, so this test is just a rough guide.) As noted in the temperature section, the Penryn did use much more of its power to accomplish the encoding which produced more heat. If you would like to see the Xbench results and compare it to your own machine you can check them out here.

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To be frank, this version is mainly the same to previous ones except “Aero Glass without WindowBlinds” and “WinFlip” featured with overall improvements such as:

-Fixed hotfix issue, no more workaround trick required to avoid that
-Ability to save transforming information for later uses and unattended transformation
-Ability to detect the targeted machine and give suggested setup configuration
-Some transformation procedures refinements you should look at like pre-configure on first run, removed obsolete dialogs and msn skin, etc.
-New 3rd-party apps and new version of existing apps

And yes, it’s free still without paying few hundreds for some certain stuff you like in Vista.

For detailed changes and download , please a look below

Changes in Version 8.0.1
-Fixed pre-configuration specifications to improve performance (Removed unstable applications from list)
-Fixed TrueTransparency’s stability (some settings in skin causing input hook problems)
-Fixed Visualtooltip configuration when user accidently deletes the configuration files in there
-Removed backup files‘ status and put CPU model instead (obsolete checking)
-Updated system files’ status report to “Out of sync” and repairing system files information
-Updated user account configuration system for more subtle performance

Changes in Version 8.0
-Added CPU Speed information in Welcome Center
-Added saving setup information file to save setup configuration for later uses with unattended transformation support
-Added installation background
-Added “System optimized” in Setup Configuration to configure the user account corresponding to machine’s spec
-Added TrueTransparency 0.8.5 (Glass border with ported AeroStyle skin)
-Added WinFlip 0.42 (Vista 3DFlip)
-Fixed KB925902 hotfix issues with file processing animation
-Fixed Media Center program execution error
-Fixed rebuilding icon cache bug on non-current users during the processes
-Fixed Styler’s installation checking bug (always set toolbar to styler mode when possible)
-Fixed failing to apply Vista screensaver
-Fixed program name in Add/Remove Programs
-Fixed subscribing Windows X’s shrine to be default homepage bug in Welcome Center
-Fixed visualtooltip’s advanced configuration bug
-Fixed WindowBlinds 6 skin installation compatibility
-Moved hotfix warning to user guide file to prevent confusion
-Re-arranged welcome dialog for richer information
-Replaced Extras in Welcome Center with Community link to forum
-Removed configuring user account’s status report
-Removed obsolete dialogs (WindowBlinds warning, Before transformation, Donation, FAQ and Q&A)
-Removed Vista Live Messenger 8.1 skin
-Updated Setup Configuration in Welcome Center to cover on everything
-Updated setup transformation to pre-configure current user account before finishing the transformation
-Updated theming engine configuration
-Updated Vista Sidebar to version 2.3 Lite
-Updated Vista Sidebar user account configuration in Welcome Center
-Updated ViStart to build 2661
-Updated ViOrb to version 2.0
-Updated VisualTooltip to version 2.2
-Updated Welcome Center to pre-configure user account with system optimized option on the first run in that user account

Download Vista Transformation Pack 8.0.1

Main Mirror
- Rapidshare.com

Alternative Mirrors
- GetVTP
- Wiki Upload
- SaveFile

MD5 Hash (of RAR): 83901B0AD64E783F4FE7A8FFC335B52E
MD5 Hash (of EXE): E1D58F098C87D826253187830FEC04B6

Download Vista Transformation Pack 8.0 to 8.0.1 Patch

Main Mirror
- Rapidshare.com

Alternative Mirrors
- GetVTP
- Wiki Upload
- SaveFile

MD5 Hash (of RAR): B8F49A08DB3DFA0491C5C569B9E623D8
MD5 Hash (of EXE): 9E35BA09F670A21023EDB9F1E5DB738C

If it doesn’t match with your downloaded file, it might an version that contains bugs or it may be infected with malware.

It’s highly recommended to read Vista Transformation Pack 8 - User Guide before using Vista Transformation Pack 8.

DIGG IT: http://digg.com/software/Vista_Transformat…Pack_8_Released

Introduction

This utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-starting locations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Autoruns’ Hide Signed Microsoft Entries option helps you to zoom in on third-party auto-starting images that have been added to your system and it has support for looking at the auto-starting images configured for other accounts configured on a system. Also included in the download package is a command-line equivalent that can output in CSV format, Autorunsc.

You’ll probably be surprised at how many executables are launched automatically!

Autoruns works on all versions of Windows including 64-bit versions.

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