Five years is a very long time to be holding on to a mobile phone. It’s way past the typical lifespan of a phone, which is two years, give and take a year, by which time it’s going to be threatened by aging hardware or just plain obsolete tech. I received this phone in 2005, and used it continuously until at the end of 2009. At one point, I was asked to donate either this or the XDA II Mini, because there’s just too many phones in my possession. In the end, I decided sticking to this phone. That’s how I much loved this phone.
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10 Unconventional Programs You Can Use for System Protection
Okay, I’m not going to the do the boring comparisons between several antiviruses. To be honest, I was never a big fan of antiviral and anti-malware software in general. The problem I have with these programs is that, they eat a lot of system resources and yet they couldn’t even deliver passable protection. Hell, your system specs and performance are essentially halved when you install them. And I particularly hated those greedy bastards for imposing charges on updates and definitions.
For security and protection, I only stand by one creed: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
RSS: Why It’s Important For You
RSS means Really Simple Syndication, referring to web feeds. They are used by sites that frequently updates their contents, such as news, blog and some social network sites to notify and show new content. Subscribing to RSS can save you time because you don’t need to constantly open the site from your browser to check for updates.
The feeds, or each individual unit of information, typically contains capsule version of the actual update in the site, but they may also include other form of media such as images, audio or video, or even download links to uploaded files. Sometimes, audio is used in place of text, and if that’s the case, the feed is called a podcast.
Most browsers will automatically search for feeds, and if they’re able to detect one, they will usually display the RSS icon, either on the actual page or on the browser’s address bar.
However, to view the actual feeds, you will need a RSS client. The good news is that a lot of programs has this feature built-in, such as web browsers, Outlook, widgets/gadgets, media players and even as a built-in feature in most mobile phones. However, if you want a dedicated program for RSS, you can always install some programs. The latest versions of Opera Mini have support of RSS. As for native clients, most Symbian users recommend MobiSpine (direct dload link). For Windows Mobile, the best one is BeyondPod. Both are freeware.
To subscribe to the RSS of a site, you must first determine the URI of the feed (kinda like a website’s URL). You can do so by clicking the RSS icon. Select the format (RSS or Atom, you can choose whichever format you like, most of the programs recognize both anyway, since both are based on the Internet standard format XML). Take note of the address in the address bar, that’s the feed’s URI. By default, all of the blogs created from Globe Circles have RSS feeds. The URI of each blog is as follows: http://hxwf5.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/rss.jpg[url_name]/feed, where you have to replace [url_name] with the appropriate term (for example, mine would be siegfried, for Mr. Mobile’s page, it’s mobile, and for Anime Nation Clan, it’s edgarluvitug)
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How to Extract Music From Video Files Using VLC 0.9
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Internet Explorer 8: Now Available
IE8 is now out of betas and RC so just in case you haven’t upgraded (particularly if you’re still using IE6, gawd, it utterly confounds me that many are still using an antiquated version. Come on, IE6 has been around since Windows 98 and that exists for something like 11 years ago? Anyway, to check your version of IE, if you’re not at ease with clicking Help > About, you can simply check the e icon and if it’s a dull blue color, no yellowish Saturn-like ring, then chances are, you’re using IE6). Now is the time to go to IE Main Page and download the installer.
I’ve been using IE8 since the first beta and it’s safe to say that Microsoft has put a lot of improvements in the web browser. IE8 has now passed Acid2 and it has also improved on its security. There has also been many original features included in the browser, such as web accelerators, web slices, visual search suggestions, inPrivate browsing and many more.
In fact, I’ve been testing IE8 on Windows7 and I think that IE8 was actually faster than FF, Chrome or Safari 4.
