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Samsung C5010 Squash Full Specifications

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Samsung has recently announced a new entry level affordable 3G phone Samsung C5010 aka Samsung Squash. The candybar phone features 3G (UMTS), 2-inch display, music player, FM radio, Bluetooth v2.1, 1.3 MP camera, microSD support (up to 8GB) etc.

Samsung C5010 Squash Pictures:

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Samsung C5010 Squash Full Specifications:

Dimensions 115 x 46 x 12.8 mm
Weight 81 g
Display – 2” TFT 65K colors
– 128 x 160 pixels
Camera – 1.3 megapixels
– 1280 x 1024 pixels
– Video rec: QVGA @15fps
Memory – Internal: 42 MB
– External: Up to 8GB microSD
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 900 / 2100 (3G UMTS)
Connectivity – 3G up to 384 Kbps
– Bluetooth v2.1
– USB 2.0
Audio/Video Formats – MP3/AAC (Audio)
– MP4/H.264/H.263 (Video)
Extras – Stereo FM radio & FM recording
– Google Maps, Google Whether
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Battery Standard Li-Ion 800 mAh battery
Talk time – Up to 6 hrs (2G)
– Up to 3 hrs (3G)
Stand-by time – Up to 550 hrs (2G)
– Up to 400 hrs (3G)
Colors Black
Availability Expected release in Q3, 2010

Price And Availability:

Samsung C5010 Squash is expected to be priced around $125 (€ 102) or Rs. 5800 INR in India. Samsung Squash is expected to be released in the markets during Q3, 2010.

Cumulative Update For Windows Media Center For Windows 7 And Windows Vista

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Microsoft has released two important updates for Windows Media Center(WMC) running on Windows 7(KB981078) and Windows Vista (KB982480) operating systems on June 21, 2010.

Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows 7 KB981078 addresses the following issues:

1. A “Copy Prohibited” or a black screen is displayed when the Windows Media Center is used to play protected content with a revoked version of the PlayReady PC Runtime is installed don your computer.

2. Mcupdate.exe crashes when the guide database in WMC is corrupted.

3. Schedule data getting disappeared in regions that use in-band guide data.

4. WMC crashes if you use an invalid path for a recorded TV.

June 2010 Cumulative Update for Media Center for Windows Vista KB982480 fixes the following issue #2 (in addition to various “Hotfixes”) of the issues listed above.

Download:

Windows 7 (KB981078) 32-bit (4.8 MB) 64-bit (6 MB)
Windows Vista (KB982480) 32-bit (10 MB) 64-bit (10.7 MB)

Motorola ES400 (Motorola EDA) Full Specifications

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Motorola ES400 is the first device running Windows Embedded Handheld announced together with the platform release by the Microsoft. This is also called EDA in short (stands for Enterprise Digital Assistant). This is designed such a way that it will survive the most difficult conditions like rain, high and low temperatures, and even withstanding the drops on a vinyl covered concrete ES400 works on both GSM and CDMA making it a global phone that would work any where in the globe.

Motorola EDA (ES400) comes with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional OS, a 3-inch VGA resistive touchscreen, 600 MHz Qualcomm processor, 256MB RAM, 1GB of flash memory, 3G HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 3 MP camera with LED flash (can read barcodes), a standard 1540mAh Li-Ion battery and also an extended 3080mAh battery too (hence it is thicker).

Warranty: Motorola ES400 is coming with a 3-year warranty, so definitely a better ROI.

Motorola ES400 Pictures:

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Motorola ES400 Full Specifications:

Dimensions 129 x 60.4 x 16.4 mm
Weight 156 g
Display – 3” TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
– 640 x 480 pixels
– Full QWERTY keypad
Camera – 3.15 megapixels
– 2048×1536 pixels
– LED flash
– Auto focus
Memory – Internal: 1GB ROM, 256 MB RAM
– External: up to 32GB microSD
Processor 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM 7627 processor
Operating System MS Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 850 / 1900 / 2100 (3G HSDPA)
– 850/1900 (CDMA/EVDO Rev A)
Connectivity – 3G HSDPA
– Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
– Bluetooth v2.0
– A-GPS
– microUSB 2.0
Audio/Video formats – MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA (Audio)
– MP4/3gp/MWV/H.264 (Video)
Extras – Accelerometer sensor
– Motorola Enterprise UI
– IP42 certified – water proof
– MIL-STD 810G compliant
– Drop-to-concrete resistance from up to 0.91m
– Biometric fingerprint scanner
– Bar code scanner
Battery – Standard Li-Ion 1540 mAh battery
– Extended battery: Li-Ion 3080 mAh
Talk time – Up to 6 hrs
– Up to 12 hrs (extended battery)
Stand-by time – Up to 250 hrs
– Up to 500 hrs (extended battery)
Colors Black
Availability Expected in Q3 2010

Price And Availability:

The Motorola EDA or Motorola ES400 is expected to be released in the markets during Q3 2010. However the price of Motorola ES400 hasn’t been announced officially yet.

[How To] Configure Parental Controls In Windows 7

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Are you worried about your kids misusing your PC ? Want to impose some restrictions on how they use the computer, when they use it and what programs they use ?

Windows 7 has some excellent in-built parental controls under the control panel settings. Here is a tutorial on how to configure and use the parental controls in Windows 7 to the perfection to control your child’s activity on the computer. You must first set up another account (Type: Standard user) .

Steps:

1. Go to start menu and type “Parent’ in the search bar. Click on the first result under the “Control Panel” section.

Parental controls in start menu search result

2. Click on the account for which you want to setup parental controls. Please note that you can’t apply parental controls to an administrator account, so that’s why you need to create a new account of “standard user” type to perform this step.

Parental controls home screen

3. Select the first radio button (“On, enforce current settings”). Now you have enabled the parental accounts for the user account.

Enforce parental controls
Now you can configure the parental controls for various categories:

Setting Access Time Limits:

You can set the time of the day during which the user (your kid) can access the computer from “Tome limits” section. You can check or uncheck the time blocks (as hours) in the time grid under this section to allow or block the access during particular time of the day. Usually you may restrict the access to the PC during school hours and night times as shown in the screenshot below:

Time restrictions in parental controls windows 7

Game Controls:

You can either restrict the user account from playing all the games or you may also specify which games can be played using that account. Click on “Games” to set these controls. You can block games based on their rating (Early childhood, every one, everyone 10+, teen, mature etc.)

Game controls under parental controls windows 7

game restrictions in parental controls

Block Specific Programs:

Click on “Allow and block specific programs” to set which programs can be run by the user. You can select from the list of applications installed on the computer.

application restrictions under windows 7 parental controls

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Samsung B2710 Leaked Specifications

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Samsung’s upcoming mid-range mobile phone Samsung B2710 will soon hit the mobile markets. Mean while we have managed to get the primary specifications of the phone (see the table). We wait for the official release of the phone, but according to the unconfirmed reports,

Samsung B2710 will have all basic features that you expect like: 2-inch TFT screen, a 2 MP camera that can shoot QVGA video, 3G (not HSDPA) support, audio/video player, Bluetooth 2.0, and other features including digital compass, dust and water proof Urethane body, noise cancellation, social networking and IM apps, pedometer, altimeter etc. 3.5 mm audio jack is however missing in the phone.

Samsung B2710 Pictures:

Samsung B2710

Samsung B2710 Full Specifications*:

Dimensions 104.4 x 49.9 x 18.6 mm
Weight 115 g
Display – 2” TFT 256K colors
Camera – 2 megapixels
– 1600 x 1200 pixels
– Video rec: QVGA @ 15fps
Memory microSD support
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 900 / 2100 (3G UMTS)
Connectivity – 3G (384 kbps)
– Bluetooth v2.0
– microUSB 1.1
Audio/Video formats – MP4/H.263 (Video)
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/WMA (Audio)
Extras – IP67 certified – dust and water proof
– Noise cancellation
– Urethane body
– Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo & Gtalk apps
– Digital compass
– Pedometer
– Altimeter
– Flash light
Battery Standard Li-Ion 1000 mAh battery
Colors Black & Blue
Availability Expected release in July 2010

[*] Based on rumors, subject to change

Price And Availability:

The price of Samsung B2710 hasn’t been announced yet. It is expected to be announced officially on July 5, 2010. Watch this space for update on price.

Detect And Download Missing And Outdated Drivers Automatically With Driver Easy

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Back in April, we had posted about a software called “Device Doctor” which automatically searches your PC for outdated drivers and downloads them automatically. But it can’t find the missing drivers in your system automatically.

It is very essential to install all the drivers from the resource CD that you have got from your PC manufacturer to make your system run smoothly without problems. But in case you loose the CD, it’s going to be very difficult to search and find each and every driver from the “Device Manager” in Control panel and download the corresponding drivers. In such situations, here is the software called “DriverEasy” that comes to rescue for us.

Just download (yeah, it’s free) the DriverEasy software from the link given below this post, install and run it on your system. It then performs the driver search on your PC and shows you the number of outdated drivers and the number of missing drivers found.

Driver Easy scan summary

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You can now either choose to download each of the missing or outdated drivers or you may also download all the drivers at once click.

Download DriverEasy (1.20 MB)

Counter Strike Source For Mac Coming This Week

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The Mac OS X version of popular FPS Counter-Strike: Source is set to be available this week according to the developer Valve.

The Mac version of the Counter Strike should be identical to the Windows version. Like Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike will also allow Mac and Windows users to play on the same servers.

The company has missed out a new Mac game release last week due to their representation at E3, otherwise the company has committed to a new Mac game release each week.

Tip: Install the Steam for Mac client and head over to the Mac Beta page to start playing the game right away even if you don’t have access to the closed beta.

Samsung i897 Captivate Announced On AT&T

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Samsung Galaxy S has been officially announced on AT&T as Samsung i897 Captivate. AT&T is the first US carrier to offer Samsung Galaxy for its customers.

Samsung i897 Captivate packs a big 4-inch super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, Android OS v2.1 Eclair, 3G HSDPA connectivity, 1GHz processor, 5 megapixels camera capable of 720p HD video recording, Bluetooth v3.0, Wi-Fi, 16GB of on-board storage (expandable up to 32GB using microSd card).

Samsung i897 Captivate Pictures:

Samsung i897 Captivate Full Specifications:

Display – 4” super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
– 480 x 800 pixels
– Multi-touch input
– Swype text input
Camera – 5 megapixels
– 2592 x 1944 pixels
– Autofocus, touch focus, face and smile detection
– Video rec: 720p HD @ 30fps
– Sec. camera: VGA
Memory – Internal: 16GB, 512 MB RAM
– External: Up to 32GB microSD
Processor 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor
Operating System Android OS v2.1 Eclair
Network – 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 (2G)
– 850 / 1900 / 2100 (3G HSDPA)
Connectivity – 3G (HSDOA 7.2 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps)
– Bluetooth v3.0
– Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
– microUSB 2.0
– A-GPS
– 3.5 mm audio jack
Audio/Video formats – MP4/DivX/WMV/H.264/H.263 (Video)
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC (Audio)
Extras – TouchWiz 3.0 UI
– Accelerometer sensor
– Proximity sensor
– Stereo FM with RDS
– Social networking apps
– Digital compass
– Doc editor
– Preloaded Google products
– Flash Lite v3.1
Battery Standard Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery
Talk time – Up to 13 hrs 30 mins (2G)
– Up to 6 hrs 30 mins (3G)
Stand-by time – Up to 750 hrs (2G)
– Up to 576 hrs (3G)
Colors Black, Grey
Availability Expected release in Q3 2010

Price And Availability:

The Samsung i897 Captivate has been officially announced, but the exact launch date or the price of Samsung i897 Captivate have not been announced by AT&T.

WordPress 3.0 Available For Free Download

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WordPress developers has today officially released the latest version of their popular Blogging and CMS(Content Management System) platform WordPress 3.0 (code name ‘Thelonious’).

WordPress 3.0 is the thirteenth major release of WordPress software and and is also the first major release of WordPress since the version 2.9.

The following are the major updates in WordPress 3.0.

1. Admin Username during the installation:

WordPress 3.0 allows you to give your own Username instead of default “admin” during the installation of WordPress.

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2. New look:

The Dashboard has been made a little lighter in color for better appearance.

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3. Bulk Updates:

You can now upgrade multiple WordPress plugins simultaneously.

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4. Twenty Ten Theme:

A new sexy Twenty Ten theme replaces the classical Kubric theme which WordPress had for years

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5. Custom Backgrounds:

change background in WordPress 3.0

Change the background color or upload a new image for background
6. Custom Headers:

You  customize the header by uploading your own images
7. Custom Menus:

You can now add menus to your blog..as easy as 1 2 3..You can choose the order/hierarchy in which they should appear. This is very good for SEO prospective.

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8. Custom Post Types:

You can now choose custom post types for your blog like if you manage a big organization, you can have custom post types like “Products”, “Contacts”, “Employees”, “Newsletters” etc.

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9. Shortlink Support (Built-in):

WordPress now supports a default in-built URL shortener (shortlink generator) right from the post editor itself.

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10. MU + WP = 3.0:

Now you can run a millions (virtually !) of blogs with a single WordPress installation.

Installing WordPress 3.0 In Your Blog:

You can either download WordPress 3.0 Zip file or you can use the Upgrade from your dashboard to upgrade the WordPress automatically to  WordPress 3.0.

Try The New YouTube Online Video Editor

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YouTube has launched a new free online video editor for those videos that you upload to the YouTube.

This is on-par with the most of the offline video editor softwares like Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. This online video editor tool allows you to do various action on the videos like combine multiple videos, trimming the beginning or ending of the video, adding soundtracks from AudioSwap library, you can even created new videos directly in the YouTube without worrying about the file formats or uploading problems.

This feature has been launched under TestTube, where YouTube tests whole lot of new upcoming features (like Real-Time comments search etc.).

Watch the funny video below to know more about it:

Link: Access YouTube online video editor