Here’s a few tips on how to protect, maintain and secure your phone:

1. Charging the mobile phone battery - Always charge the battery in accordance with the instructions provided on the manual. Charging the battery when half-full will only make it empty earlier. Charge it only when it is almost empty.

2. Lock the mobile phone -Set phone auto lock ON.

3. Secure the cell phone - Secure the mobile phone using PIN on the SIM card.

4. Use the recommended battery - Always use the original battery or recommended battery from the dealer when you need replacement.

5. Clean the cell phone - Clean it regularly to keep it clean and shiny. Wipe it every day or whenever it is dirty.

6. Cover the mobile phone - Protect it from dust particles by providing a dust proof cover.

7. Screen protector phone - Use a screen protector to avoid scratch mark or line on your cell phone’s screen.

8. Placing the mobile phone - It is very important to place or keep the phone on a dry place.  Place the phone in room temperature.

Anti-virus softwares can provide a good layer of protection from malwares, trojans/worms, rootkits and viruses. Most scanner based anti-virus cannot keep up with the multitude of these “pests” because they come in great numbers daily. Daily updates is crucial for the detection of newly created viruses. Several commecial anti-virus scanners are brought down to their knees by these viruses rendering them ineffective, and even if they are updated, the program simply cannot identify the infecting agent since it has already been disarmed. So we resort to using two anti-virus programs at the same time but conflicts may arise, so choosing the best anti-virus program to use is a must.

(Screenshot of Avira Updating with the Advert on the background)

Read the rest of this entry »

The things that we do over the internet is not a secret anymore. Our current location can be traced and our internet habits can be monitored. The right to privacy is NOT respected online. The email that we send contain headers that can be analyzed, revealing the source and the recipient. The sites that we visit records our activities and this data can be used to trace us or can be used against us. The information transmitted over the net can be disclosed anytime by the power of a court order if so required.

Internet data packets have two parts: a data payload and a header used for routing. The data payload is whatever is being sent, an email message, a web page, or an audio or video file. Even if the data is encrypted, traffic analysis still reveals a lot of information because it focuses on the header, which discloses source, destination, size, timing, and many other information that you may not want others know about.

Read the rest of this entry »

Bought a disk defragmenter lately? Well try IObit Smart Defragmenter and see for yourself. It does so quickly leaving the others lagging behind. It is not a bloated software and it does its job as professionally as the best commercial defragmenter out there. With this new release, the performance got better and I am pretty sure there will be more improvements to be made with the future releases. On top of it all, it is totally FREE for life!

Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia 5800 ExpressMusic is finally out, it is dubbed as the Nokia Tube. This phone is a true Nokia through and through. Thinner than expected, will also be one of the first phones to support Nokia’s unlimited Comes with music service, allowing all-you-can-eat music downloads for the first year of ownership.

Read the rest of this entry »

Asus has already got the mini-laptop covered but Apple is preparing for the big launch of its mini-laptops.

Imagine a palm-sized MacBook Nano with a multi-touch trackpad and full Mac OS X. You’d get all the functions of a full-size computer without the weight, or size. Even the MacBook air is a bit large for some. We’re imagining a 10-inch laptop with all the heart of a Mac, but none of the bulk.

What about a console capable of being completely wireless?

Play your favorite games on your iPhone and through wi-fi, iPlay will allow you to play your game on a much bigger screen connected to an Apple T.V.

Is not that so much fun?

iPhone Pico

You can use your iPhone to browse the web, listen to your favorite music and also watch videos. How about watching your videos on a bigger space? Yes, the new iPhone Pico is equipped with a projector that will allow you to watch videos into a much wider space.The ability to blow the picture up to around the size of a small T.V. set would make movies on the iPhone so much more worthwhile.

Mac Tablet runs the current version of Mac OS X  on a 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It sports a new 13.3-inch Wacom pen enabled widescreen display set in a chrome-plated magnesium top shell, an integrated camera and CD/DVD combo drive. The Mac Tablet fratures Wacon Penabled hardware technology pen tablets and interactive pen displays. The technology requires no batteries and allows the Mac OS X cursor to be controlled in a mouse-like interface, even if the user’s hand is resting on the screen.

One of the new systems devised by Apple to deal with small buttons and selections is an automatic zoom. When a finger is held to a control box or button, it is enlarged so the correct choice can be made. The control then reduces to its original size.

This piece of art is rumored to have GPS capability. So if you are a professional  artist, a businessman, or a student and travel most of the time, the Apple Mac Tablet is the best option available out there. So watch out, a release date hasn’t been announced yet.

This MWg Atom Life mobile is packed with an extensive multimedia capabilities with a blazing fast 624 MHz processor, 1 GB storage space an a built-in support for HSPDA 3.5G, a new data transfer standard that boosts downloads to a staggering 3.6 Mbps. With this near broadband speed, video calls, multimedia streaming, web surfing and sending emails is piece of cake.

Read the rest of this entry »