Archive for October, 2007
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
T Mobile introduced latest design mobile phone T Mobile Wing. First, the good stuff. The Wing comes packed with an impressive arsenal of smart phone features, including Exchange ActiveSync and Direct Push support for corporate servers. Others include Bluetooth, the mobile versions of Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer, a microSD memory expansion slot (conveniently located on the left spine of the phone), a two megapixel camera, and a quad-band GSM radio for placing calls on worldwide networks. There’s no built-in GPS navigation or 3G (T-Mobile has yet to roll out its own 3G network), but you can get high-speed data over the built-in Wi-Fi receiver nice for anyone with a wireless home or office network.
All well and good but unfortunately, my review unit of the T Mobile Wing was slow as molasses. Programs and menus screens often took a few seconds to refresh, and buttons took too long to respond; on some occasions, I kept pressing an on-screen button with the stylus thinking the phone had frozen, only to have menus pop up a few seconds later.
The T Mobile Wing is also one of the first smart phones in the U.S. to ship with Windows Mobile 6, the latest version of Microsoft’s mobile OS (the slim T-Mobile Dash just got a Windows Mobile 6 update of its own). That means more editing options in the mobile editions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, tight integration with Windows Live messaging, and finally full support for HTML-formatted e-mail messages, which worked like a dream in my tests. Tapping out messages was a piece of cake thanks for the Wing’s roomy, slide-out QWERTY keypad. The advances made in the new version of Windows Mobile can be best described as progressional and far from revolutionary. The system allows users to set up and receive email instantly from Windows Live Hotmail and also gives users are access to MSN Messenger.
Microsoft has also invested a significant amount of time upgrading their current security features to make the service more appealing to corporate users. Those who will purchase the T-Mobile Wing are also encouraged to use Vista, so that lost or stolen data can be retrieved by the user, and limit the reliance on an IT professional.
Representing T Mobile Wing in the website www.phoneandbeyond.com.
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Would you like to discover the real Italy? Well there is only one way to do it.
Chose a little known and little explored, yet stunningly beautiful region.
My two favorites are Piedmont and Le Marche.
The best though is Piedmont for a number of reasons :
1) The best food in Italy comes from Piedmont - nothing you have ever eaten can prepare you for the culinary paradise that awaits you in Piedmont. Some of the best restaurants at reasonable prices are to be found here. Visit the link at the bottom of this page for my personal selection.
2) Piedmont, despite offering the most beautiful scenery, is never overrun with tourists. You will often have the vineyard covered hills and ancient medieval villages and towns all to yourself - except for the locals of course. Piedmont is home to some of the highest mountains peaks in Europe, the most beautiful lake in Italy, Castles and Monasteries unequaled in Italy and much more.
3) When to go - I love the autumn/fall when the vineyards are russet coloured , the market stalls are weighed down with mushrooms and truffles and festivals abound. If not autumn then May or June are good times.
4) How to visit? Fly drive is ideal. Rent a holiday cottage or farmhouse in the heart of the wine route or on the magnificent lake shores and use it as a base to explore.
For some great books on Piedmont, the restaurant picks I mention above and where to stay check out my secret discoveries here -
http://www.my-italy-piedmont-marche-and-more.com/books-on-piedmont.htm
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Your PC can do everything… Play music, check your bank account, create videos, help organize a wedding. What a shame, then, that it can’t look after it’s own registry.
The Windows PC registry is the central nervous system of your PC. It stores all the information about software and hardware on your system.
When things start to go wrong with the registry, they really go wrong- in fact they just snowball.
When you purchased your PC it was fast, it did everything right and you thought you would never need another PC. This was it. Then little by little, day after day, it started to get slower and slower. It shouldn’t happen, but it does- to everyone.
The more you use your PC, the worse it becomes. As you install applications your Windows registry gets bigger. When you un-install applications your registry gets larger, as extra entries are written and old entries are not cleaned up. As you visit internet sites, and are bombarded with spyware and trojans, your registry is modified.
All these things lead to your Windows registry changing from a slick, finely-tuned repository of information to a bloated monster.
So what problems does this cause?
The biggest problem is slow operation of your PC. The bigger and crazier the registry becomes, the slower the PC operates as it struggles to sift through the registry.
As secondary issues, you will experience freezes and strange error messages.
So what can be done?
Easy!
Get a PC Registry Cleaner Download for free. Download a free PC Registry Cleaner scan and have it check for issues with your PC registry.
Many people are shocked at the speed improvements they receive after running a simple scan and repair.
After running the scan and repair it is important to run a regular scan to keep your PC operating it tip-top condition.
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