A model of the C-series of the Nokia mobiles, Nokia C5 is a good looking phone that has a 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPS, social networking, media player, Radio, and a good keyboard. It does not support Wi-Fi but is still an impressive phone.

Design

• The built of the phone is such that the body is mostly constructed of metal parts and it stands 112 mm tall, with the width of 46mm and 12.3mm thick. Weighing around 89 grams, even the weight is something that we appreciate. In addition to this, the phone supports a 2.2 inch of QVGA display that has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and supports over 15 million colors. Even though the image quality is almost average, just like most of mobile phones under this price range, one can say that this is what the price of the phone has to offer. The buttons of the phone are large and easily type-able and this is a plus point on the whole.

Camera

• Similar to the camera of 5630 XpressMusic, C5 has a 3.2 megapixel camera that has the features of focusing full and comes with a flash as well. It include a 4x zoom interface, a panorama mode, manual exposure, color tones, scene modes, photo and video editor, removing red eyes, white balance and light sensitivity modes as well. It has the capability of shooting 640×480 pixel video at 15fps. The image of the phone is pretty good as it is, bright and loaded with detail. However, the flash does not allow you to take good pictures in darkness. You can find a 50MB internal memory with an option of having a 16GB memory card. In this age of revolution, those mobile phones which are equipped with high tech and high resolution cameras are sold like hot cakes.

Multimedia Qualities

• You even have a music player in this phone that supports all types of video and audio formats and there is also a built in equalizer that gives a boost to the sound effects of the phone. In addition, you can easily access the FM radio and even the quality of sound in headphones as well as loudspeaker is clear and satisfactory.

• Other applications in the phone include a calendar, To-do list, timer, mobile search, note pad, currency converter, world clock, voice recorder, 1000 entry phonebook, flight book, MMS, SMS, voice command etc. You can even customize your wallpapers, widgets, alerts, screen savers etc. All of these options including a number of more are found in this C5 mobile phone.

Storage

• The Nokia C5 has a 600 MHz processor and 128 MB that is considered more than enough in a Smartphone that carries out all the required functions with ease. You can even make and receive calls with comfort as the quality is good and even though there may be a few issues with the sharpness of sound, it is a set that is considered average at the price that it comes.

• Therefore, to conclude, this phone is for those who believe in paying for the required services. The more you pay, the higher quality you get and vice versa. Therefore, this phone is a perfect package for the amount of money that it comes at

Other Specifications:

Below is the list of core specifications, which one might want to know before they get set to store to buy one. C5 comes with standard Li-Ion battery, which has become pretty much a standard for every other phone, even though the phone is small, yet it gives you a massive talk time of 12 hours on 2G handsets and approximately 5 hours on 3G sets. However, the standby time is ridiculously massive, you can keep it un charged for up to 630 hours on 2g sets and 670 hours on 3g networks.

This gadget, which comes with Symbian 9.3 S60 3.2 rel, allows you to have the ability to SMS/MMS/Email and IM, it shall also give you the liberty to view your documents in Word, Excel, Powerpoint and PDF which i believe is pretty nice for such a small phone, which doesn’t even cost too much.

Price and Final Words:

The phone is equipped with every possible thing, which an average to an expert user want in their phones. It has a sleek look to it, nice design and size and light weight. I would like to think that E5, which we covered here Nokia E5 Review is probably slightly more rich in functions, but C5 is certainly competitively usable and costs way less than E5. Nokia C5 can be purchased for about $150 to $170 USD. This price could vary depending which part of world you live in. Finally, i would like to urge you folks to let us know whether you find this phone good and will you recommend it to others? if not, then why not?

Get the latest updates, schedules and results of FIFA world cup 2010

The first and foremost authentic source of FIFA World cup 2010 updates is the official site of FIFA. The well crafted site of FIFA provides each and every details of  world cup 2010.

You can add Google football gadget to your iGoogle home page which gives the real time informations such as team standings, match schedules, venues and live news from FIFA world cup 2010 official site.

Click here to add the gadget to your iGoogle page

Apple iPhone users can buy the FIFA worldcup 2010 iPhone application of Fox soccer named “Ticket to South Africa” which is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later. The interactive iPhone application provides the complete details of the matches including country profiles, news, statistics, schedule, photo galleries, match results, group standings, live score, city guide/stadium overviews, share news through email/facebook, interesting facts/history, adding favorite nation to home screen etc.

The Indian football fans can get the free SMS updates on FIFA Worldcup 2010 by joining the Footbal247 group of  smsgupshup.com . Send   JOIN<space>Football247 to 567678 for getting the free alerts. Alternatively send JOIN FootballNews to +919223492234

See the Widget from FIFA to follow your team  by reading the latest news and seeing their fixtures and results.

Joke about the pen visualised in the movie  is actually taken from an old story on the space war between Russians and Americans. It is said that while the Americans were spending lot of money on inventing a pen that could write in space the Russians used pencils!. But of course this is a Joke. The truth is that the Russians and the Americans were using pencils for their space missions but these pencils turned out to be hazardous. The dust from the lead began clogging the electrical points of the spaceship and also was hazardous to the health of the Astronauts.

Invention of the pen: Paul C. Fisher, a technical pioneer, scientist and philosopher vowed to develop the world’s most dependable writing instruments. in 1965, after countless experiments and a personal investment of over a million dollars in research, Fisher invented the pressurized cartridge which was approved by NASA for the Apollo program and is used on all manned space flights!

To develop this pen, Fisher perfected a refill using thixotropic ink, which remains semisolid until the shearing action of the rolling ball inside liquefies it. The cartridge was pressurized with nitrogen so that it didn’t rely on gravity to make it work. It was dependable in freezing cold and desert heat and could also write underwater and upside down. The trick was to have the ink flow when needed and not the rest of the time – a problem Fisher later solved.

Fisher Space Pen makes pens for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) for its space missions. The USP of the pen is Zero Gravity refills, the only pen that will write upside down because it is pressurized with nitrogen gas, Thixotrophic ink (cement like consistency) allows it to write 2 times more than normal refills and releases ink only when required, write on almost any surface like wood, under water, glossy paper, oily surface, wet surface, upside down etc, The tip is tungsten carbide (a hard metal which is break resistant), can write under the extreme temperature of –30 degree and +250 degree.

Success in space: The space race was on and the astronauts involved in the Mercury and Gemini missions had been using pencils to take notes in space since standard ball points did not work in zero gravity. The Fisher cartridge did work in the weightlessness of outer space and the astronauts, beginning with the October 1968 Apollo 7 mission, began using the ‘Fisher AG-7 Space Pen’ and cartridge developed in 1966. In July 1969, the Apollo 11 space mission used the Fisher Space Pen to fix an arming switch that was crucial to bringing back the astronauts safely back to earth – taking writing instruments and their use to a whole other level.

The journey thereafter: Designed to withstand the rigors of space travel, Fisher Pens have earned the reputation of a superior technical pen for all applications. The NASA Astronaut Pen is the most well known of the Fisher Product line, praised for its durability, dependability and design. The New York Museum of Modern Art has cited the Fisher Bullet Pen as an outstanding example of industrial art.

From where to purchase?

Let us come back to the heading. Where it is available in India?  William Penn- The World Pen store retails the pen exclusively in India. You can purchase the same pen featured in the film for Rs. 1750/- Other than the online purchase option you can get it from the outlets in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

International distributor list of Fisher Space Pen

“Avatar”, the costliest ever produced film written and directed by James Cameron has been released world wide.  As the title denotes it is a a “3-D representation of a real person in a virtualized world “. A number of reviews on this film are already  available on tabloids  blogs and movie review sites. Avatar has already termed as a must see movie. In this juncture it is interesting to go through the technology behind this great movie.

• The film is released in 2D, 3D and IMax 3D (Selected theaters only). 2D and 3D are familiar words but what is IMAx 3D? Imax means Image MAXimum which is  a production standard developed by Canada’s IMax Corporation. A standard IMAX screen is 22 meters (72 ft) wide and 16.1 meters (53 ft) high, but can vary.The world’s largest cinema screen and IMAX screen is the LG IMAX theater in Darling Harbor, Sydney. It is 29.42m (approximately 8 stories) high by 35.73m wide — covering an area of more than 1,015 square metres. Only a few hundred IMAX theaters are in world wide. About 50% of IMAX theaters are located in US. To know more about IMAX visit Official IMAX site.
• The old-fashioned 3D cinematography – the sort where your glasses had red and green coloured lenses – a pair of closely-aligned images with different tints gave the impression of depth by fooling the eyes. Avatar takes things a step further by using both computer generated 3D imagery and advanced stereoscopic filming methods to create the illusion of reality.
• The main technology used in this film is “Motion capture animation” technology which creates computerized images from real human action. Motion capture for computer character animation involves the mapping of human motion onto the motion of a computer character. The mapping can be direct, such as human arm motion controlling a character’s arm motion, or indirect, such as human hand and finger patterns controlling a character’s skin color or emotional state.
• For this Cameron, used a self developed advanced filming rig consists of a number of stereoscopic cameras that each use a pair of lenses built to mimic human eyes – positioned close together and able to move a little in order to focus on objects that are nearby or far away. That allows the cinematographer to capture two images simultaneously, which align perfectly with and provide the illusion of depth.
• The scenes were filmed using a “virtual” camera and a real time computer manipulated 3D views were recorded.
• The viewing part at theater is still traditional as in the case of  a typical 3D movie, which requires but nothing more to disappoint. It is a vast improvement on the sometimes headache-inducing techniques that relied on cardboard cutout glasses with red and green lenses and rose and fell in popularity in the 1950s.
• But instead of old fashioned coloured lenses, modern 3D films require audiences to wear polarised glasses – where each lens lets through a slightly different kind of light. This means that your left eye and right eye can see different images shown simultaneously on the screen – and not only are they less headache inducing than in the past,they look much more like ordinary specs too.

Video on the animation techniques used in Avatar

Click here for an interesting Review on Avatar

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Now the Google Wave is available for a limited preview through invitation only. I managed to get one account and can invite 16 people to Wave. If you want to be one among this please comment this post with your email id. Hurry ….

Google wave introduction video

For more details about Google wave visit: Google Wave

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My Documents

Changing the default location of My document is very easy. Right click on the my documents icon and change the Target to some other drive as per your choice.

Desktop

To change the desktop folder to some other drive some additional utilities / software is required. Download the Microsoft Tweak UI from here . It is a small program gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, task bar settings, and more. Do the following steps for changing the desktop folder to an alternate drive

Make a folder called desktop in desired drive as per your choice

Run the program after installation. A window will be shown like this

Go to My Computer > Special Folders in the left side of the window. Select Desktop from the drop down menu of special folders on right side. Click on ” Change location” button. A warning message will be displayed ignore it click “Yes”. Select the desktop folder of desired location and apply. Now your desktop has been changed to the new location and can save the data on desktop without the fear of OS crash.

Important:  This utility is for Windows XP only.

• Other than this you can configure many things with this utility such as
• Access control
• It also includes various tools to repair elements of the operating system
• Internet explorer
• Desktop icons
• Autoplay settings
• Location of system folders
• Mouse settings
• Takbar and start menu

For tweaking the settings of Windows Vista and Windows 7  go through this article.

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• Send free SMS to anyone at lightning speed.
• portable application software.
• Group SMS with No Character limit.
• No Extra advertisements
• Features to save contacts and load contacts to send bulk SMS
• Get your ip address a big benefit for online gamers.

Installation

The software is based on Java. If you don’t have Java , Download  from here

After installing Java, download the SMS software from here

Run the software and enter your way2sms user id(mob No) and password. If you don’t have an account at way2sms , Register .

The software is very much user friendly and portable. You can add contact and save the contacts in to the desired folder.

• Make an 18 x 18 sized twitter/tweetme button named tweet.png. Upload the same to the folder  wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable.
• Go to wp-content/themes/arthemia/single.php. insert the following code <a href=”http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” target=”_blank”><img src=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/sociable/tweet.png” title=”Tweet this!”></a>
  just after this code ……….title=”Add to Yahoo!”></a>
• Done ! Now go to the blog posts you can see the tweet me button along with other submit buttons.
• Similarly you can add  other famous social bookmarking site’s links also. For that just change the URL of the site and and add suitable buttons.
  

I used many English words as it is in Malayalam aslo for e.g. “Home” the Malayalam translation is “veedu” or “Gruham” , which is not looking nice for  web . Please take this as beta version. Your valuable successions and good translations are always welcome. Here I’ve translated only the core language files. If you want to get the translation of any other modules or components you can do the same by your self. Just open the language folder in Joomla root folder and copy the language file of the particular extension , copy the content and paste to Google indic transliteration page. Replace words  after “=” sign with the translated content. Rename the file en-GB……….ini to ml-IN……….ini and save in UTF-08 format. Copy the file to ml-IN folder. The demo site is under preparation.

]]> http://www.techlineinfo.com/joomla-1-5-malayalam-language-pack-beta/feed/ 10 http://www.techlineinfo.com/official-launch-of-windows-7-on-22-oct-09-upgradation-method-from-vista-and-xp/ http://www.techlineinfo.com/official-launch-of-windows-7-on-22-oct-09-upgradation-method-from-vista-and-xp/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:26:42 +0000 Sujith http://www.techlineinfo.com/?p=417 The prestigious operating system Windows 7 will be launched on 22 Oct 09. Microsoft has already terminated the free trial  download. Unlike Vista the new operating system is feature full and more user friendly.  Here some points on upgradation to Windows 7 from Vista and XP

• If you want to install Windows 7 but do not want to lose your personal settings in Vista, then you have to do direct in-line upgradation.
• From Windows XP, no direct inline upgradation to Windows 7. By using windows” easy file transfer ” utility XP users can migrate the personnel settings  like User accounts, Files and folders ,Program data files and settings ,E-mail messages, settings, and contacts,Photos, music, and videos,Windows settings Internet settings. Applications programs can not be transfered.  for Step by step upgradation method click here
• No direct in-line upgrade from a 32-bit Vista version to a 64-bit Windows 7 version. For doing the same a fresh clean installation is required.
• If you are using Vista Home Premium and purchased  the “upgrade copy for Windows 7 Professional” , then you have to go for a clean installation. Direct in-line upgradation is not possible.
• Inline upgradation will migrate the user’s data along with the  existing applications  to the new operating system.
• Minimum 16 GB free space is required for clean installation and 9 GB for inline upgradation
• Easy file transfer utility is available with Windows 7 DVD and can be downloaded from here

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