Nokia 2626 : A brief review!

Nikhil    Home, Mobile     Nokia, Nokia 2626, Nokia 2626 review

Nokia 2626 is an ordinary color phone from the house of Nokia designed for those who need a stylish, colorful, trendy, well priced phone. Nokia has included a FM radio for those who need music on the go. Starts with the design, the phone has no control buttons on its sides, except from the two loud speakers located at the top and right hand sides of the phone. And at the bottom side the charger input jack and the 2.5mm audio jack are placed along with the slot.

Nokia 2626 has a 27×27 mm display with a screen resolution of 128×128 pixels, having 65K colors. The picture quality is good in normal conditions but it gets washed out in the sun light. The keypad of this phone is pretty good and comfortable as well. The buttons are large enough to prevent wrong dialing of numbers. Nokia has placed shortcuts for activating silent mode and radio. One can simply start the radio by pressing longer the key “*”, by pressing the “#”key longer can activate the silent mode, and you can open the homepage by pressing and holding the zero key. It has a four way navigation key system, which is not so impressive; a person with large thumbs will face some difficulties with the not so easy navigation keys. The phone has two functional keys as well, while the left one is dedicated for menu, but you can even customize the right button function to lock the phone! The bright white keys are very good, making it easy to read the key captions.

This 91 g. phone has a quite powerful Li-Iron battery at 970 mAh. Offering a decent 300 hours of stand by and 3 hours of call time. If you use the phone for gaming, the battery can sustain up to 2hours! As per Nokia the battery can keep the phone up and running up to 3 hours in call mode and up to 300 hours in stand by mode. As a regular user of this phone I would say battery is the best part of this colorful phone, while on normal usage it can stay uncharged for 5 days! Bad news for gamers, the phone can only last for 2 hours if you play games on it. I felt that sending SMS can also bring the battery down, if you are a text addictive, the phone will turn you off. Nokia 2626 need around 2 hours to charge from empty to full.

It has a 300 entry phone book and can access the SIM card memory as well. User has the option to switch between the phone and SIM card memory. And like every normal phone this device also allows you to send the SMS and MMS in the conventional way. Like every other Nokia phones available on the Indian market this too a dual band phone. Can work under GSM 900/1800 MHz bandwidths. When it comes to memory this phone lacks so many things that an average user will look for, a very small 2 MB internal memory can do nothing and no option to expand the memory as well. It has a built in clock. This phone comes out with some preloaded games, ring tones, wallpapers themes etc…

The GPRS capability will make the high speed data transfer possible; you can browse the internet on the phone, but certainly can’t use the phone as a modem! You can’t connect the phone to your PC for browsing. The phone does not have any camera, it can support various picture formats like JPEG, PNG, BMP etc…

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OpenVZ : Not able to SSH or enter into a VPS

Faheem    Home, Linux     openvz, openVZ not able to login, Unable to open pty

While trying to SSH or enter into a VPS from the node, you may get the following error :

Unable to open pty: No such file or directory

or

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List of keyboard shortcuts for windows.

Nikhil    Home, Tips & Tricks, Windows     keyboard shortcuts, keyboard tips, keyboard tricks, shortcuts, windows shortcuts

When speed counts, the keyboard is still king. Almost all the actions and commands you can perform with a mouse you can perform faster using combination’s of keys on your keyboard. These simple keyboard shortcuts can get you where you want to go faster than several clicks of a mouse. You’ll work faster on spreadsheets and similar documents, too, because you won’t lose your place switching back and forth between mouse and keys. Here are some of the most useful keyboard shortcuts:

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS YOU CAN USE WITH MS WORD

Ctrl+Shift+> -Increase selected text in increments like the drop down font menu Ctrl+Shift+< -Decrease selected text in increments like the drop down font menu

Ctrl+] -Increase selected text one point

Ctrl+[ -Decrease selected text one point

Sift + F3 -Change case of the letters

Ctrl+Shift+W -Underline words but not spaces

Ctrl+Shift+D -Double underline text

Ctrl+E -Center a paragraph

Ctrl+J -Justify a paragraph

Ctrl+L -Left align a paragraph

Ctrl+M -Indent a paragraph

From the left Ctrl+T -Create a hanging indent

GENERAL KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

Copy -CTRL+C

Cut -CTRL+X

Paste -CTRL+V

Undo -CTRL+Z

Delete -DELETE

Delete selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin -SHIFT+DELETE

Copy selected item -CTRL while dragging an item

Create shortcut to selected item -CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word -CTRL+RIGHT ARROW

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word -CTRL+LEFT ARROW

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph -CTRL+DOWN ARROW

Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph -CTRL+UP ARROW

Highlight a block of text -CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys

Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text within a document -SHIFT with any of the arrow keys

Select all -CTRL+A

View properties for the selected item -ALT+ENTER

Close the active item, or quit the active program -ALT+F4

Opens the shortcut menu for the active window -ALT+SPACEBAR

Close the active document in programs that allow you to have multiple documents open simultaneously -CTRL+F4

Switch between open items -ALT+TAB

Cycle through items in the order they were opened -ALT+ESC

Display the shortcut menu for the selected item -SHIFT+F10

Display the System menu for the active window -ALT+SPACEBAR

Display the Start menu -CTRL+ESC

Display the corresponding menu -ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name carry out the corresponding command

Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu -RIGHT ARROW

Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu -LEFT ARROW

View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer – BACKSPACE

Cancel the current task – ESC

To prevent the auto play -SHIFT

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Google Chrome for Linux : Download it now!

Faheem    Linux     chrome for linux, google browser, google chrom linux download, google chrome for linux, google linux browser

“Google Chrome browser for linux“, I am using it!

The google chrome browser, the light weight browser i have ever seen is now available for linux. But they have released only a in-progress build of Google Chrome for Linux.  Google Chrome for Linux is released by Google for testing. I downloaded it and its my default browser now Luckily., it didnt crashed yet.

Google Chrome for Linux has the same look and feel as that was for the Windows. But the following significant chunks of functionality are known to be missing:

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Speed Up your XP : # 1

faris    Tips & Tricks, Windows    

Extra or unwanted items in the startup list

will definitely increase your startup time in Windows XP,perhaps
by several minutes.

Here is a simple trick to speed up your pc

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How to switch into ‘root’ user on an Ubuntu desktop

Faheem    Linux     sudo su -, switch to root, ubuntu root

Just an another simple tip for the Ubuntu desktop users.

Ubuntu wont allow you to login as root due to some security reasons. But we need the root privilage for ‘apt-get’, process restart etc. Most of the users use ’sudo’ to execute these tasks, which will run the command with ‘root’ privilages. But you can simply switch into the root user by using the following command:

sudo su -

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Content management systems : All you need to make an impressive online presense

Faheem    Internet, Linux     content management, online publishing tools

A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.

CMS’ are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators’ manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. These concepts represent integrated and interdependent layers. There are various nomenclatures known in this area: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management and so on. The bottom line for these systems is managing content and publishing, with a workflow if required.

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Increase Your Internet Speed : A hidden trick!

faris    Internet, Tips & Tricks, Windows     increase internet speed, speed-up internet, XP internet speed

About 20% of your available bandwidth is reserved by MICROSOFT for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc To get it back:

Click Start > Run and type “gpedit.msc” without quotes.

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Complete installation steps for ‘OpenFire’

Faheem    Linux     openfire error, openfire installation, openfire JRE error, openfire linux

“Openfire is a real time collaboration (RTC) server licensed under the Open Source GPL. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). Openfire is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.”

Installation of openfire is easy enough if you haven’t come across with any errors . When I was asked to install openfire for the first time, I tried it by using the tar ball, but failed! Then I successfully installed it using the RPM. But after installation, when you try to start openfire, you may get an error related to JRE(Java Runtime Enviornment). The fix for the JRE error is provided at the end of this post. Lets begin  with the installation.

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Speed Up your Torrent Downloads !!!

faris    Internet, Tips & Tricks     10 tips for torent, speed-up torrent dwnloads

P2P file sharing is one of the widely used applications now days. The Torrent search engine is the utility which is excessively used in this context. As the young generation says “impatience is the new world”, means the generation can’t afford anything too slow, same is the case with torrent download. But there are some tips which can really help to improve your download speed. Let’s have a quick glance at these tips.

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