VC’s Techie CockTail

As the 2007 World cup cricket is only days away , I found some funny clips on the net. Here is a bit for all you cricket crazy fans to enjoy

• LAXMAN: available@home-only.com
• KUMBLE: only@test_match.com
• SACHIN: admitted@hospital.com
• KAIF: good@for_nothing.com
• SEHWAG: consistently@out_of_form.com
• DRAVID: stick@crease_like_fevicol.com
• PATHAN: takewickets @only_with_kenya.com
• GREG CHAPPELL: only_experiment@noresult.com
• MUNAF PATEL: only_line&length@nospeed.com
• HARBHAJAN SINGH: no_spinpitch@nowicket.com
• SURESH RAINA: why_i_am_there@god_knows.com

written by Vignesh

This is that time of the year when many of you will clean your rooms / houses as a part of our lifetime routine called “Spring Cleaning”. So have you ever thought of cleaning up your PC / Laptop ( Oops sorry no Macs !! ) and most importantly not with a broomstick / vaccum cleaner / cloth. Windows computers and the softwares we use on our daily usage generates lots of junk which clogs up our system and slows it down, so it is a worthwhile to clean your complete atleast once in a month.

I use a free software called CCleaner which I have found safe, easy and non-obtrusive to use. Some of its features I use and like are,

• It can be used to delete all the browsing history(cookies, auto-complete,temporary files) stored in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera
• It can clean out all the temporary installation files left out by installers of various softwares and junk files left out by many 3rd party softwares like OpenOffice, ZoneAlarm, Office,Acrobat Reader,Windows Media Player, winZip, Nero etc……
• Safely removes junk and obsolete entries in Registry
• Has a uninstaller and start-up list remover to see and delete any unwanted programs.

I’ve used it for the last 1 year and found it to be very useful in keeping my laptop fast and efficient. Its FREE and so hopefully you will start SPRING CLEANING your computers from today…..

Visitors who had used other similar software and will like to recommend to others ..please leave a comment here…THANKS !!!

written by Vignesh

Looking for a phone for my mom, which has to be a PHONE not anything else (like what it was actually meant to do) I narrowed down to Nokia 1100 / 1110,Motorola C118 and Sony Ericsson J100i. Nokia 1100 was the actual choice because of its one button answer functionality, as there was already a 1100 in the home, I decided to go for J100i. For my budget of 2,000/- Rs (45 US $).

At 79g, with a 96 x 64 pixels 65K color screen with blue backlight it looks cool & cute. Here are some of the pros & cons of this phone.

PROS

• Bright screen with bigger font which makes the no’s and text more visible.
• Ringtones are nice and loud.
• Compact & Robust ( Dropped it a few times with no side effects)
• Nice extras like Alarm Clock, Games, Stopwatch, wallpapers
• Green call key brings up Answered / Dialled / Missed calls without needing to go through all the menus
• Good standby and talk times of 3 1/2 days & 3 1/2 hours respectively

CONS

• Screen is not visible in sunlight
• Picture SMS & Mono - tones cant be received & sent like Nokia
• No speed dialling ( But pressing a no. key will take u to the corresponding starting letter in the address book)
• Keypad is like rubber and somewhat stiff.

And these are some of the points which can be pros for some and cons for some.

1. Phonebook capacity dependent on SIM ( SIM capacity is usually 250 nowadays)
2. SMS capacity - 30
3. Havent yet used the speaker phone facility so cant comment about it.

So people looking out for a Color phone to gift this HOLI here is the perfect gift for your near & dear ones……HAPPY HOLI !!!!!

written by Vignesh \\ tags: Sony Ericsson