REVIEW ON MICROMAX Q50

Bought this mobile more than 2 yr. An excellent mobile using now also. Battery life 4 days if not used. 1 day if used rigorously.

Advantage-
1. Long lasting battery and mobile.
2. Q- key pad.
3. Great symbian os. Not crash ever.

Disadvantage-
1. When message to a group of people something the mobile restarts. :(

Rating: (4/5)

Suggestions-
1. Buy it no need for further thinking.
2. The price also decreases to less than 3000/-.


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5 best features in Apples iOS 5

Earlier this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple finally offered up a look at iOS 5, the planned update to the companys mobile OS. Although it won’t be out until this fall - Apple isnt yet saying exactly when -iOS 5 promises to deliver much-needed changes to the OS, which is used on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Apple told WWDC attendees that the new OS will have some 200 new features, though only 10 of them were showcased during Mondays two-hour keynote, which also focused on iCloud and OS X 10.7 "Lion."

Here are the five iOS 5-based changes Im looking forward to most.

New notifications

Lets start with the crowd-pleaser: Apple has finally revamped the way iOS handles message notifications. This was long overdue.

Until now, whenever a notification arrived, it popped up on the screen, forcing you to either view the message or close the notification window. The new method doesnt force you to stop whatever youre doing; the notification literally rotates into view in the form of an unobtrusive banner beneath the menu bar. Within seconds, the banner -it displays the appropriate app icon and the message-gently flips back out of view. If the notification requires immediate attention, tapping it automatically switches you to the app so you can respond.

Dont worry if you liked the current style of modal notifications. They havent been cut completely. In iOS 5 theyll still be an option when you configure your apps under Settings->Notifications. And theyre still useful in certain situations. After all, not all notifications should be ignored-like a reminder to take medicine. But I suspect most users will opt for the less intrusive banner, which is selected by default.

If you want to retrieve any notifications youve ignored, you use Apples new Notification Center, a completely original idea that no one has ever thought of. (That sound, by the way, was hundreds of Android fans heads bursting.)

I kid, of course; The notification screen isnt particularly original or new to anyone except iOS users who havent modified their system software, but that doesnt make its inclusion any less welcome. Swiping your finger down from the top of the iPhone screen slides open the Notification Center, where all of your alerts are organized by app. (Apple also added in Stocks and Weather widgets.) You remove older notifications by hitting an X and then confirming that you want to make the app entries go away by tapping Clear.

Making the new system more useful, customizations are available on a per-app basis in the Notification Settings area. You can sort notifications manually or by time, and you can edit the display order of the apps. One thing to keep in mind if you cant pull yourself away from certain apps: You can set the apps to display banner notifications and on the Lock Screen. Thatll be handy, since you wont have to spend time unlocking the phone just to check notifications.

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Sports Basement Talk

I gave a talk about Independent Cycle Touring yesterday at the Sports Basement in Sunnyvale. It was raining and the talk was lightly attended, but everyone who attended got a sticker entitling them to 20% off store purchases. Despite that, people were enthusiastic and I had many a good question about touring. One big concern was not knowing Japanese, say, in Japan. While its always nice to know the language, I find that knowing even a few words go a long way. My Japanese wasnt that great, but it did improve during the trip.

The slides for the talk are posted online. I cant embed them like I usually do because its a photo-heavy talk, which meant that the power point presentation was 20MB in size!

The feedback on the book has been great, indicating that the biggest problem with the book is that I dont know how to market it!

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SAMSUNG SERIES 5 ULTRA NP 540U3C A01IN

A decent touchscreen at a great price

The Samsung Series 5 540U3C might be a budget Windows 8 ultrabook, but it doesnt feel like one! Sturdy, yet stylish, flipping the well finished silver lid exposes a similar coloured metal wrist rest. The 540U3C also claims to be one of the most elegantly designed ultrabooks. Impressively, Samsung has squeezed everything in a 13.3in touchscreen!

Though we are not too convinced with the utility of touchscreens in a laptop — long-term usage is a bit tiresome though its cool while searching for an app or zooming an image with a pinch — the touchscreen is responsive and smooth while the display sits properly in the bezel to make sure the edges dont catch your finger. The 1366 x 768 pixel screen is bright and soothing for the eyes but a richer texture would have been better. The viewing angle, though not bad, could do with some improvement.

The chiclet styled keyboard is comfortable enough to type on, with large keys and optimum space between each key and offers a decent balance between depth and flexibility. But again, the absence of backlight cannot be taken very lightly in such a premium laptop.  However, the small-sized touchpad was impressive throughout the test with no noticeable lag.

Weighing 1.69KG, the Series 5 Ultra NP 540U3C-A01IN is easy to carry around. The configuration will also find favour with most users. We were especially impressed with the 24GB Express Cache SSD which makes the laptop way faster than others during while starting up and and shutting down. The Intel Core i5 3317U processor, 8 GB RAM, 500GB of storage and Intel HD Graphics 4000 passed all our real life and benchmarking tests with flying colours! The audio quality doesnt disappoint either and neither do the six hours of battery life.

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Review The Last Lecture

I first saw The Last Lecture 4 years ago, and it touched and moved me in a way that no TedTalk ever did. Its nice to know that in an age of short-attention spans, the traditional lecture is still an art form that can be appreciated by many. If you havent seen the video, you should do so now (this blog post can wait). Its highly recommended and well worth an hour of your time.
I didnt read the book The Last Lecture because I felt that the lecture had already been done so well that the book might not have anything to add. Yesterday (and it seems today), Amazon had a sale on the book at $1.99, so I picked it up hoping that 4 years would be enough distance that I could read the book and not find it to be a repeated experience.

To my delight, the books not really a reprise of the lecture. The lectures got some of the same information, but the book takes us through Professor Pauschs life, including his courtship with his wife, which he (quite rightly) left out of the lecture. What does come through is Pauschs love of life and willingness to grasp it for all that its worth:

I dont know how not to have fun. Im dying and Im having fun. And Im going to keep having fun every day I have left. Because theres no other way to play it.

Too often in our lives we have people telling us that we should buckle down to do serious work, or that the things that we really want to do is not as important as the things people are willing to pay us money to do. With his authority as a man dying of cancer and a professor of computer science at a preeminent university, Professor Pausch gives us (and just as importantly, his children) this precious gift.

There are no empty words in this book, and very little repetition. It can be finished in a couple of hours, and was very much worth my time reading. Highly Recommended.

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Zumba Workout DVD Set – DVDRip Tutorial

TIRED OF LOGGING HOURS AT THE GYM AND NOT GETTING RESULTS? WANT TO EAT DELICIOUS FOODS AND STILL LOSE WEIGHT? SHAKE THINGS UP AND SLIM DOWN WITH THE WEIGHT LOSS PHENOMENON THAT’S TAKING THE COUNTRY BY STORM…ZUMBA!

Created by celebrity fitness trainer Beto Perez, Zumba combines fun, easy-to-follow dance steps with hot Latin beats to help you shed pounds and inches fast. Now the DVD and classes that have hooked millions are available in book format, with a complete workout program, fat-burning diet, and an exclusive instructional DVD with 60 minutes worth of music to help you Zumba your way to the perfect body.

Using the principles of interval and resistance training, the simple dance and sculpting moves (inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba, and merengue) tone and shape your body. And because it burns 600 to 1,000 calories per hour, you don’t have to restrict your meals to boring or bland-tasting diet foods. The Zumba diet begins with a 5-Day Express Diet to jump start weight loss (lose up to 9 lbs in 5 days) and then offers 14-day meal plans and recipes that target weight loss in the stomach and thighs.

Celebrity fitness trainer Alberto “Beto” Perez is orginally from Cali, Colombia. Before creating and launching Zumba in the U.S. in the late ’90s, Perez attended the Maria Sanford Brazilian Dance Academy, became an instructor and choreographed dance routines for high profile performers, including platinum album selling artist Shakira. He now resides in Miami, FL.

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The Great Sandal Hunt of 2012

I dont buy shoes until Ive completely worn out previous pairs. Some people think "wearing out shoes" means that they start to look worn. Not me. I prefer to wear them out until the soles are absolutely gone. Ive had a pair of boots where I wore out the outer sole and the steel shank fell out while walking in the office.

With that in mind, my shoes from the 2006 Coast to Coast walk completely fell apart, leaving me with no shoes. The running shoe replacement was fairly easy: walk into a New Balance store and I left with the M730. Theyre light and fit really well, no problems.

Sandals are a bigger problem. Teva sandals were ruled out. They leave the toes exposed, but mostly have quality control issues: youll never wear out the sole of a Teva because the velcro straps die first. I also had a pair of Tevas where the sole separated completely from the bottom of the shoe. They definitely didnt get so much wear that I felt that sort of failure mode was justified.

My wife loved her Keens, so I first tried a pair of Keen Turia Sandals. Ouch. I found out why they were on closeout: the heel strap on the Turia are so high that they cut into my Talus. These were the most painful shoes Id ever experienced so I immediately returned them.

REI had a pair of Teva Churniums on closeout, and they looked a lot like the Keens, but but they were narrower. One size was too narrow, but the next half-size up was too loose lengthwise. So that was a disappointment. I finally gave up but my wife reminded me that her Keens were really good. I looked at her Keen Venice H2s, and discovered that unlike the Turias, the heel strap was low enough not to cut into the Talus.

I found a pair of Keen Newport H2s, and indeed, they fit perfectly. Im always annoyed at how hard it is to find shoes. These arent perfect. They work great without socks but feel just a bit cramped with socks. I cant seem to find them half a size larger, so I can only speculate what itll be like if they were half a size bigger. In the mean time, however, these work very well, and in California, it never gets so cold that I need socks with these anyway. Recommended.

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