Re: [AI] How to set in Nokia C5?

2011-05-07 Thread kailas amolik
Dear Ramesh,

I am feeling really sorry to inform you that i am right now in Mumbai and i did 
check-up with mr. Lahane a well-known eye-specialist and he reached on the 
conclusion that cornia being very small no any further improvements can be 
done. so visual prognosis is nill.

I am helpful to you all friends who had always been there to extend your help 
and support for me.





Thanking you 



Yours truly



Kailas





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> your help. How to set alarm in Nokia C5? When I change it from 09, the



> cursor isn't moving from there. If I press down arrow here, I get 2



> fields like description and alarm.



> How to use Nokia maps in the same?



> How to record our voice, video and take a picture using a camera in C5?



> All your help will be greatly appriciated.



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[AI] Hello all this is Phen I want the link to get the Bible installed into my mobile.

2011-05-07 Thread Phen Varghese
Hello all this is Phen.
I want to install a Bible in my Mobile.
The mobile that I am using is Nokia E 90 that is E communicator.
I hope that you can give me the link for that.

With regards,
Phen Varghese
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[AI] Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

2011-05-07 Thread Renuka Warriar
See,  now too, the assistance given to the disabled, in the view of
the authorities is, giving trycicles and artificial limps.
Renuka.



Date:07/05/2011 URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/2011/05/07/stories/2011050757491500.htm Back

National

Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Member of Parliament Local Area Development [MPLAD]
scheme is all set to become disabled-friendly.

The Centre has decided to expand the scope of the scheme to allow MPs
to provide assistance to the physically challenged in their
constituencies, up to Rs. 10 lakh a year from their MPLAD fund. The
change will come into effect from June 1.

Announcing this, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation, which is in charge of the scheme, said the assistance
would, however, be restricted to purchase of tricycles and artificial
limbs.

Applications for the assistance would be examined and approved by the
Chief Medical Officers of districts concerned. The district
authorities under the District Collectors/ Deputy Commissioners would
be fully involved in the selection of the eligible persons, a Ministry
release said.

A senior Ministry official noted that Minster M.S. Gill was working to
create a wider basket of eligible items under the scheme so that MPs
had a larger choice of projects that could be implemented through
their MPLAD funds.

The Centre recently raised the annual entitlement under the scheme
from Rs. 2 crore to Rs. 5 crore a year for every MP.

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Re: [AI] ovi maps

2011-05-07 Thread Viraj Kafle

Checked the Dashboard feature recently. It does not announce the remaining
distance. But it indeed tells us the distance covered, that of the
particular drive as well as the total.

- Original Message - 
From: "Viraj Kafle" 

To: 
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps


I think actual distance can be found on the Dashboard. press the key 9 
while driving. Since Talks keeps on announcing the rapidly refreshing 
distance status, mute Talks and access the information through Talks up 
errow.
- Original Message - 
From: "Asudani, Rajesh" 

To: 
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps



Dear mahendra
When it searches off line, it announces the distance, but it is aerial or 
map distance rather than actual distance by road...
I wish to know, when on the road, how much I have covered and how much is 
remaining.

what could be made to make this accessible?
I have found that by pressing it says names of intervening streets and 
distance, and then final distance of destination, is it reliable?



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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in 
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of mahendra

Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:53 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps

Dear Rajesh

when you surch offline, talks is counting and anounsing total distance.
by pressing 2, in walk mode, it will anounse name and number of the
street, that you are on.
by pressing 4, in drive mode it should say remaining distance.
don't know,, why pressing 4, in walk mode, it is not saying remaining 
distance.


At 05:57 AM 5/5/2011, you wrote:

Friends
I wish to know following things with respect to nokia c5 talks 5.2
and ovi maps 3.04:
1. how do we know total distance of the route and distance covered?
both route overview and arrow view seem inaccessible.
2. is the street name spoken by talks the name of street we are
on,  or it is the name of street we will be after distance spoken by 
talks?



And some other issues are also there which I seem to forget now.

Any cues are welcome
Rajesh
With thanks and regards



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Reserve Bank of India
Nagpur
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[AI] OVI maps and E51

2011-05-07 Thread Geetha Shamanna
Hi all,

Do OVI maps work with E51?

Thanks.
Geetha


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[AI] Children's Encyclopedia

2011-05-07 Thread yogesh dubey
microsoft inkarta is also vary accessible.

-- 
regards
yogesh
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
skipe yogesh-dubey
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[AI] About Oracle Business Intelligence.

2011-05-07 Thread Amiyo Biswas
Hello,

One of our members, Sudeshna, is now working in Kerala. She can't write to the 
list on account of some unavoidable circumstances. So I am pasting her queries 
below.

I am adviced to learn data warehousing concepts, E T L concepts , Informatica 
as a e t l tool, and O BI backend operations as
well. o b i  stands for oracle business intellegence. now I want to
know,
1. whether I can get Jaws scripts for informatica and other obi
operations if those are not already accessible on windows platform.
2. for unix platform, I want to know how much will the application be
accessible with orca? and if so, how to get and learn ORCA?

Please help. You can directly mail to her at
kathaamaa...@gmail.com

Best regards,
Amiyo Biswas
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[AI] Ten years to save the touchscreen

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay

  A wonder material makes your smartphone screen work. But with the
  world's stocks running out fast, the hunt is on for new stuff to
  keep us in touch

by James Mitchell Crow

A TAP and a flick, and a new world is at your fingertips. Email,
social networks, the digital version of New Scientist: surfing the
web has never been easier thanks to the touchscreen technology built
into the latest smart mobile devices. Proud owners need little excuse
to demonstrate their new darling's superior, sexy features. Touch is
fast, touch is fun - touch is the future.

Yet touch could soon be history, if we are not careful. Today's mobile
touchscreen gadgets, along with all liquid crystal displays, rely on
the unusual properties of a single material - a metallic crossbreed
whose sources could be exhausted within the decade. It is not just our
displays that are under threat. Solar cells and low-power LEDs, both
central planks of a low-carbon energy strategy, could feel the squeeze
too. No surprise, then, that companies and laboratories across the
world are scrambling to find a replacement.

If this is all news to you, chances are you have never heard of the
material causing all the fuss. A mixture of two metallic oxides called
indium tin oxide (ITO), it is the material electronic engineers love
to hate. Its principal component, indium, is a by-product of lead and
zinc mining; it is difficult to come by and expensive. Once through
the factory gates, ITO's brittleness and inflexibility make it a pain
to work with.

And yet it has qualities that make us forgive its defects.
Specifically, it is a rare example of a material that is both
electrically conducting and optically transparent, which means it does
not absorb photons of light.

Absorption occurs when a photon's energy matches that needed to knock
an electron into an excited state. In a metallic conductor, where
there is a free-flowing "sea" of electrons with many different energy
states, ths almost always happens. Accordingly, almost all metals are
highly absorbing - and entirely opaque.

Not so ITO. It is transparent like glass, but also conducts - not as
much as most metals, to be sure, but enough. That makes it ubiquitous
in modern electronic devices that manipulate light. In flatscreen
televisions, each display pixel is switched on and off by a pair of
transparent ITO electrodes. In thin-film solar cells, the
light-absorbing layer needs an electrode front and back to form a
circuit and so convert sunlight to electricity.

Sexy touch
Touchscreens are just the latest innovation to depend on ITO. Some old
touchscreens do without it, for example using infrared LEDs ranged
around the screen to fire beams that are blocked by a touch. But this
bulky, power-hungry set-up is ill-suited to a small device. The first
mobile touchscreen gadgets came equipped with a stylus and two layers
of ITO separated by a slight gap. Tapping this "analogue resistive"
screen with the stylus brought the two layers into contact, allowing a
current to pass that the device detected.

The sexy new handset in your pocket exploits the fact that your finger
is conductive to do away even with the stylus. Touching the screen
changes its capacitance at that location, a change picked up by a
single layer of ITO. That innovation was the real breakthrough, says
Lawrence Gasman of analysts NanoMarkets in Glen Allen, Virginia.
"Multi-touch really changes the smartphone environment, almost like a
mouse did for computing," he says. "Without it to expand the text,
you'd probably go blind trying to read the web on such a small
screen."

But how much longer can we count on the material behind that wonder?
No one is quite sure how much or little indium there is left, says
Thomas Graedel of Yale University, who heads the United Nations
Environment Programme's working group on global metal flows. In
part, that is because it is only a mining by-product and not all mines
go to the trouble of recovering it. The US Geological Survey
estimates that known reserves of indium worldwide amount to some
16,000 tonnes, overwhelmingly in China. Dividing that by the rate at
which we are currently using the stuff suggests those reserves will be
exhausted by 2020.

New sources of indium are almost certain to be found, but they are
unlikely to satisfy the skyrocketing demand for ITO. This year,
according to Gasman's figures, the touchscreen market alone is worth
$1.47 billion, and will balloon to $2.5 billion by 2017. Even if the
exact extent of indium supplies is hazy, ITO is set to become
increasingly rare, and so increasingly expensive. This bald economic
fact - and the fact that China is already curbing exports - is
driving companies to search for alternative, indium-free touchscreen
technologies.

Barring a fundamental shift in technology (see "Inside job"), the
obvious place to start looking is among chemically similar materials.
One pretender is zinc oxide, which is readily available for a fraction
o

[AI] REVISITING THE DIGITAL DARK AGE

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay


Will your valuable data live on in 20 years' time? Lamont Wood investigates
the
computer industry's treadmill of planned obsolescence

The BBC Domesday Project was lauded as one of the digital success stories of
the
1980s. Completed in 1986 to mark the 900th anniversary of the Domesday Book,
a
land-use survey of 1086 England commissioned by William the Conqueror, the
project involved thousands of Britons contributing text, photos and video
that
were published on two custom laser discs.

But while the original Domesday Book, handwritten on sheepskin and stored in
the
National Archives, is still usable after nine centuries by anyone literate
in
Latin, it's already impossible to access the BBC discs without specialist
hardware and extensive software emulation.

Anyone with data stored on 5.25 inches floppy discs or text in WordStar
format
faces a similar problem and even the digital data we are generating today is
likely to become inaccessible within our lifetimes.

The PC industry's treadmill of planned obsolescence isn't entirely to blame.
Digital storage technology has inherent drawbacks that make paper look
immortal.

Data mortality

For example, a hard drive removed from a PC and left on a shelf will
eventually
become unusable because of daily temperature changes, according to data
storage
consultant Tom Coughlin. After 10 years or more of the drive sitting on the
shelf, the thermal energy fed into the media will gradually trigger
spontaneous
reversals of the magnetic particles that store the information.

Magnetic tapes have the same problem, but take decades to lose data to
thermal
erasure. This is because they have a lower bit-density than hard drives,
Coughlin said. But tapes suffer from another problem, too: delamination
occurs
when the magnetic media separates from the tape or is attacked by fungus. A
baking process that re-affixes the media can sometimes allow the contents to
be
accessed and transferred to another medium.

USB memory sticks are also subject to thermal erasure, and this storage
medium
faces added risk due to the cheap controllers used. "I wouldn't use a USB
memory
drive for archival purposes," said Coughlin. Continued use of USB memory
would
also require that USB ports still be in use decades from now.

The US Library of Congress has found enormous variations among CD and DVD
media
in its accelerated ageing tests, according to project manager Bill LeFurgy.
"Some will last a decade and others much less. Beyond five years, I would be
nervous about relying on a disc," he said.

Other experts complain that, at less than a quarter of tape throughput, the
throughput of DVDs is too slow for archival use. Plus, DVDs also have to be
changed every few gigabytes, and there remains the issue of how long DVD
readers
will be around.

Online storage isn't 100 percent reliable either. It can be corrupted
quickly,
and the long-term reliability necessary for archiving isn't on the horizon,
said
David Rosenthal, chief scientist for the 'Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe'
(Lockss) programme, a Stanford University Libraries initiative.

By analysing the maintenance data published by various storage farms, he
found
that reliability would need to be improved by a factor of 109 for a petabyte
of
data stored online to have a 50 percent chance of being usable after a
century.

But even if this level of improvement could be achieved, there is no way of
testing the system other than uploading the content and waiting 100 years,
Rosenthal said.

With the odds of data survival being so low, and with so much information
originating in digital form, "we could be facing a digital dark age 50 years
from now, and future scholars will not be able to understand our culture,"
said
Andy Maltz, director of the science and technology council of the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Keeping bits alive

The preservation of digital data is a big issue for businesses, and some
organisations are successfully dealing with the challenge.

At the US National Archives and Records Administration, which manages more
than
400 terabytes (TB) of data, three copies are kept of everything - with one
stored offsite - and tapes are recopied every 10 years, said Dyung Le,
director
of systems engineering.

Since there's no telling what computer applications will be in use decades
from
now, text-based material is typically converted to XML, which is based on
ASCII.
Various forms of metadata are preserved in the file, including descriptive
data
that could be used as a search aid.

However, there's no intermediate format like XML for non-text data, Le said.
Therefore, the best an organisation that wants to archive material can do is
note what format the material is in and plan to eventually migrate it to
whatever application format is dominant in the future - but it must do so at
a
time when systems for converting from the original format are still
available.

Trouble in Hollywood

The mortality of digital data came as a nasty shock f

[AI] 51 BRILLIANT WINDOWS TIPS TO MAKE YOUR PC WORK

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay
51 BRILLIANT WINDOWS TIPS TO MAKE YOUR PC WORK FASTER

Christopher Null shares the best Windows productivity tricks in his arsenal
to
help you get more work done with your PC in less time.

Contributors: David Allen, Tim Ferriss, Adam Pash

When Microsoft first launched Windows, it was a revelation. Not only did it
bring together the disparate parts of the operating system (OS) in a way
that
made it navigable, but it added basic tools for communication and
productivity
 for more on the first editions of the OS).

Over the years, Windows has been refined and extended - not always for the
better - while PC users have found themselves using third-party programs and
tools to supplement those found in Windows itself.

The result is that we now have multiple ways of achieving different tasks -
and
far too many means of communicating or being contacted.

It's therefore more important than ever to have Windows set up the way that
works best for our particular needs and to be able to easily access the
tools we
need, when we need them.

With an ever-growing number of distractions that are fighting for your
attention
throughout the day, it's important to be as productive as possible. With
that in
mind, we've dug up the best Windows tricks and talked to several
productivity
experts to find 51 tips sure to help you get more work done with your PC in
less
time.

Although these tips apply primarily to Windows 7, most also work in Vista
and
many apply to XP as well.

1. Minimise all windows

When your desktop becomes so cluttered that you can't find anything, a good
way
to regain focus is to minimise all the windows except the one you're working
on.
Grab the title bar of the window you want to use and shake your mouse a
little.
All other windows will vanish into the Taskbar. Shake again to restore the
windows. Ctrl, Home also works.

2. Use folders in your email client

Letting email accumulate in your inbox makes it difficult to quickly find
important messages. It also increases the odds that you'll overlook a
message
that requires urgent attention. Right-click to delete the junk and file
non-actionable messages into clearly defined folders.

3. Be judicious with email folders

An email folder shouldn't be so narrow of purpose that it's never used, but
neither should it be so broad that it becomes overstuffed with messages -
unless
you use it for archiving. Use a descriptive name and keep it short enough
that
it doesn't require scrolling within the Mail Folders pane. Folders can
usually
be nested, too.

4. Use rules to route messages

When your personal involvement isn't necessary, email rules can save time.
For
example, do newsletters from the same company arrive 10 times a day? Put
them
into a folder for 'later review'. In Outlook, select Tools, Rules and
Alerts.
Other clients have a similar option.

5. Remap the Windows key

If you never use the Windows key or would rather swap its keyboard position
with
another button, download a keyboard remapper. Many cheap or free
applications
for this purpose are available, but Keyboard Remapper (tinyurl.com/38w8jk3;
$10,
about ukp6) works well.

Remap to your heart's content, but keep in mind that, since it bypasses
Windows,
there's no way to change or disable a laptop's Fn key. You can also use the
utility to check your computer's Bios for any potential tweakability.

6. Choose your own search engine

Your computer maker probably preset Internet Explorer's default search
engine to
whichever company paid it. Otherwise, it'll be set to Microsoft's liking:
Bing.
Either way, it may not be the best choice.

Change the search default engine by clicking the drop-down arrow in the
top-right corner of the Internet Explorer window (within the search box),
and
click Find More Providers. You won't find Google without a hunt, so type
Google
into the 'Find add-ons...' search box and select the first result, Google
Search
Suggestions. Click 'Add to Internet Explorer' and, at the pop-up, click
'Make
this my default search provider'.

7. Improve Windows Search

If Windows Search isn't finding everything that you know you've saved, check
the
Windows Indexing Options and the locations included in the search index.
Type
indexing options into the Start Menu search bar, then click Modify and
navigate
through the C drive to add more locations to index.

8. Rename files fast

If you need to rename several files in Windows Explorer, save time by
selecting
the first file in your list, pressing F2, and typing in the new name. When
finished, press Tab instead of Enter. Explorer will jump you to the next
file in
the list and automatically select the entire file name so you can rename it
without having to press the Backspace key. Continue pressing Tab, and you'll
zip
through the list one file at a time.

9. Drag-and-drop items in Outlook

Outlook lets you drag any item to any other area of the program, where it
will
create a new item that includes the dragged information. Drag an email to
the
Contacts butto

Re: [AI] ovi maps

2011-05-07 Thread shubham gupta

Hellow friends:
I want to know, how can we check dashboard features?

Kind regards

(Shubham Gupta)
- Original Message - 
From: "Viraj Kafle" 

To: 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps



Checked the Dashboard feature recently. It does not announce the remaining
distance. But it indeed tells us the distance covered, that of the
particular drive as well as the total.

- Original Message - 
From: "Viraj Kafle" 

To: 
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 8:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps


I think actual distance can be found on the Dashboard. press the key 9 
while driving. Since Talks keeps on announcing the rapidly refreshing 
distance status, mute Talks and access the information through Talks up 
errow.
- Original Message - 
From: "Asudani, Rajesh" 

To: 
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps



Dear mahendra
When it searches off line, it announces the distance, but it is aerial 
or map distance rather than actual distance by road...
I wish to know, when on the road, how much I have covered and how much 
is remaining.

what could be made to make this accessible?
I have found that by pressing it says names of intervening streets and 
distance, and then final distance of destination, is it reliable?



-Original Message-
From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in 
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of mahendra

Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 1:53 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] ovi maps

Dear Rajesh

when you surch offline, talks is counting and anounsing total distance.
by pressing 2, in walk mode, it will anounse name and number of the
street, that you are on.
by pressing 4, in drive mode it should say remaining distance.
don't know,, why pressing 4, in walk mode, it is not saying remaining 
distance.


At 05:57 AM 5/5/2011, you wrote:

Friends
I wish to know following things with respect to nokia c5 talks 5.2
and ovi maps 3.04:
1. how do we know total distance of the route and distance covered?
both route overview and arrow view seem inaccessible.
2. is the street name spoken by talks the name of street we are
on,  or it is the name of street we will be after distance spoken by 
talks?



And some other issues are also there which I seem to forget now.

Any cues are welcome
Rajesh
With thanks and regards



(Rajesh Asudani)
Assistant General Manager
Reserve Bank of India
Nagpur
Cell: 9420397185
o: +91 712 2806846
R: 2591349

"The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision
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[AI] My Permotion

2011-05-07 Thread B. R. Nautial
Hi Friends, 
With the full support of yours and computer I would happily tell you that I 
have been promoted from Clerical Cadre to Provisionary Officer. The success I 
have achieved is mainly due to the knowledge I have gained from the 
knowledgeable mails with the help of this group . So I dedicate my success to 
all of my friends and this group . 
Specially, I would  like to thanks Madam Kanchan Pamnani, who really gave me 
some important tips to face the interview in a proper way and these tips really 
helped me there.
With Regards
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Re: [AI] Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

2011-05-07 Thread Amiyo Biswas
Why is it just 2% of the fund? We form about 10% of the population according 
to a report of the WHO.


MP's at times sanctioned fund for building projects of NGO's. Will it be 
restricted to only artificial limbs and aids? Is the government not shirking 
its duty to maintain a separate budget for such aids?


The news was also given special coverage in a Bengali daily in Kolkata. I 
wonder, if the MP's will at all bother about these limbs when the decision 
solely rests on the government officers. He will be satisfied if he is 
invited to distribute the items to the disabled people of his constituency.


Best regards,
Amiyo Biswas
Cell: 91-9433464329


- Original Message - 
From: "Renuka Warriar" 

To: "accessindia" 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 3:24 PM
Subject: [AI] Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled



See,  now too, the assistance given to the disabled, in the view of
the authorities is, giving trycicles and artificial limps.
Renuka.



Date:07/05/2011 URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/2011/05/07/stories/2011050757491500.htm Back

National

Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Member of Parliament Local Area Development [MPLAD]
scheme is all set to become disabled-friendly.

The Centre has decided to expand the scope of the scheme to allow MPs
to provide assistance to the physically challenged in their
constituencies, up to Rs. 10 lakh a year from their MPLAD fund. The
change will come into effect from June 1.

Announcing this, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation, which is in charge of the scheme, said the assistance
would, however, be restricted to purchase of tricycles and artificial
limbs.

Applications for the assistance would be examined and approved by the
Chief Medical Officers of districts concerned. The district
authorities under the District Collectors/ Deputy Commissioners would
be fully involved in the selection of the eligible persons, a Ministry
release said.

A senior Ministry official noted that Minster M.S. Gill was working to
create a wider basket of eligible items under the scheme so that MPs
had a larger choice of projects that could be implemented through
their MPLAD funds.

The Centre recently raised the annual entitlement under the scheme
from Rs. 2 crore to Rs. 5 crore a year for every MP.

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Re: [AI] Now, a revolutionary PaperPhone

2011-05-07 Thread Anuj Verma
Hi,  we should aprotch for built a screen reader or 
compatible with any screenreader because it is develaping stage this time, so 
this can be useful for VI world.
Dr. Verma  

--- On Fri, 6/5/11, Vikas Kapoor  wrote:


From: Vikas Kapoor 
Subject: [AI] Now, a revolutionary PaperPhone
To: "Access India" 
Date: Friday, 6 May, 2011, 5:14 PM


Now, a revolutionary PaperPhone
PTI 

Canadian scientists have developed what they say is the world's first 
interactive paper phone, as thin and flexible as a credit card, which is set to 
herald a new generation of computers. 

Extremely lightweight and made of a thin-film, the prototype device can do 
everything a smartphone currently does - from making calls to playing music to 
sharing books. 

And most impressively, the PaperPhone uses no power when nobody is interacting 
with it, the Daily Mail reported. 

"This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five 
years," said its inventor, Roel Vertegaal, Director of Queen's University Human 
Media Lab in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 

"This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive 
paper. 

"You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to 
turn pages, or writing on it with a pen." 

The phone's display consists of a 9.5cm diagonal, thin-film, flexible E Ink 
display which, according to the researcher, makes it much more portable that 
any current mobile computer. 

Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these 
light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or 
printers, said Dr. Vertegaal. 

"The paperless office is here. Everything can be stored digitally and you can 
place these computers on top of each other just like a stack of paper, or throw 
them around the desk." 

The new device will be unveiled at the Association of Computing Machinery's 
Computer Human Interaction conference next week in Vancouver. 

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/article1996957.ece

Vikas Kapoor,
MSN Id: dl_vi...@hotmail.com, Yahoo&Skype Id: dl_vikas,
Mobile: (+91) 9891098137.
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Re: [AI] OVI maps and E51

2011-05-07 Thread Pranav Lal
Hi Geetha,

I am a former owner of a Nokia E51. Ovi maps do not work with that phone.
The older version may work but that is not as accessible as version 3.4.

Pranav

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[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:23 PM
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Subject: [AI] OVI maps and E51

Hi all,

Do OVI maps work with E51?

Thanks.
Geetha


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Re: [AI] OVI maps and E51

2011-05-07 Thread Chetan Soni

Hi,
E 51 doesn't have an internal GPS reciever. Therefore you must buy an 
external GPS or you must change your hand set to use navigation softwares 
such as loadstone or OV maps.
- Original Message - 
From: "Geetha Shamanna" 

To: 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:22 PM
Subject: [AI] OVI maps and E51



Hi all,

Do OVI maps work with E51?

Thanks.
Geetha


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Re: [AI] OVI maps and E51

2011-05-07 Thread Geetha Shamanna
Hi Pranav and all,

Thanks for that clarification.

I intend to buy an iPhone once iPhone 5 is out. Meanwhile, I would like to
buy a Nokia phone in order to use Nokia maps, and would appreciate some
recommendations as I am completely out of touch with what is available in
the Nokia market.
I prefer a normal keypad to a qwerty keypad. The phone should ideally be as
sleak as E51 and have 3G and wi-fi connectivity. Any recommendations?

Many thanks.
Geetha


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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: 07 May 2011 18:02
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] OVI maps and E51

Hi Geetha,

I am a former owner of a Nokia E51. Ovi maps do not work with that phone.
The older version may work but that is not as accessible as version 3.4.

Pranav

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[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 5:23 PM
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Subject: [AI] OVI maps and E51

Hi all,

Do OVI maps work with E51?

Thanks.
Geetha


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Re: [AI] My Permotion

2011-05-07 Thread Sohan
hello, nautial sahab, i wish u manny manny heartiest congratulations from my 
side for this achievement. keep it up.

  thanks,
- Original Message - 
From: "B. R. Nautial" 

To: "Access India" 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:47 PM
Subject: [AI] My Permotion



Hi Friends,
With the full support of yours and computer I would happily tell you that 
I have been promoted from Clerical Cadre to Provisionary Officer. The 
success I have achieved is mainly due to the knowledge I have gained from 
the knowledgeable mails with the help of this group . So I dedicate my 
success to all of my friends and this group .
Specially, I would  like to thanks Madam Kanchan Pamnani, who really gave 
me some important tips to face the interview in a proper way and these 
tips really helped me there.

With Regards
B. R. Nautial
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Re: [AI] My Permotion

2011-05-07 Thread firoz

nautial  good

congratulation yaaar

firoz

On 5/7/2011 10:48 AM, Sohan wrote:
hello, nautial sahab, i wish u manny manny heartiest congratulations 
from my side for this achievement. keep it up.

  thanks,
- Original Message - From: "B. R. Nautial" 
To: "Access India" 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:47 PM
Subject: [AI] My Permotion



Hi Friends,
With the full support of yours and computer I would happily tell you 
that I have been promoted from Clerical Cadre to Provisionary 
Officer. The success I have achieved is mainly due to the knowledge I 
have gained from the knowledgeable mails with the help of this group 
. So I dedicate my success to all of my friends and this group .
Specially, I would  like to thanks Madam Kanchan Pamnani, who really 
gave me some important tips to face the interview in a proper way and 
these tips really helped me there.

With Regards
B. R. Nautial
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Re: [AI] (no subject)

2011-05-07 Thread Srikanth Bolla
Again no subject emails? can't people listen please? Regards,

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[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Vinod benjamin
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 6:47 AM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] (no subject)

Dear friends,

do we able to read the pasted content through jaws ?

Regards,

Vinod benjamin

sent from mobile device-Original message-
From: Saurabh Gupta
Sent:  04/05/2011, 6:02  pm
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] (no subject)


Aternatively you can install Gimp and take selective screenshots too.
Here is the download link for Gimp. http://www.gimp.org/windows/ SaGu

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Vamshi. G  wrote:

> Hi Surinder,
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> If it is print screen you are talking about, then press the key to the 
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Re: [AI] (no subject)

2011-05-07 Thread Srikanth Bolla
Dear sir,
  Your question is very important but with no subject, people might miss this. 
please try to include subject lines. Regards,

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[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of YADAV, D. N
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Listers,

Is there a way out?  It was mere a line’s message from me concerning topic 
below whereas it took almost a para giving my office profile as ‘disclaimer’.  
I find it very unnecessary.  Is there a way out to curb auto-sent of this 
disclaimer?


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Re: [AI] Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

2011-05-07 Thread amruthreddy kasarla


As per the provisions contained in the PwD Act 1995, there shall be 3% of funds 
to be earmarked for the persons with disabilities as a sub plan fund. According 
to which each MP should provide assistance to persons with disabilities up to 
Rs. 15 lakhs from the LOCAL AREA DEVELOPMENT (MPLAD) SCHEME.
Yet another discrimination though there is a mandate as per the provisions of 
the act.
All the members are requested to take up the issue to an appropriate forum.
Amruth Reddy
Chairman 
Differently Abled Employees Action Committee, AP Hyd.
&
President 
Differently Abled Employees Welfare Association, AP, Hyd.



From: Renuka Warriar 
To: accessindia 
Sent: Sat, 7 May, 2011 3:24:06 PM
Subject: [AI] Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

See,  now too, the assistance given to the disabled, in the view of
the authorities is, giving trycicles and artificial limps.
Renuka.



Date:07/05/2011 URL:
http://www.thehindu.com/2011/05/07/stories/2011050757491500.htm Back

National

Now, MPLAD scheme to cover disabled

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: The Member of Parliament Local Area Development [MPLAD]
scheme is all set to become disabled-friendly.

The Centre has decided to expand the scope of the scheme to allow MPs
to provide assistance to the physically challenged in their
constituencies, up to Rs. 10 lakh a year from their MPLAD fund. The
change will come into effect from June 1.

Announcing this, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme
Implementation, which is in charge of the scheme, said the assistance
would, however, be restricted to purchase of tricycles and artificial
limbs.

Applications for the assistance would be examined and approved by the
Chief Medical Officers of districts concerned. The district
authorities under the District Collectors/ Deputy Commissioners would
be fully involved in the selection of the eligible persons, a Ministry
release said.

A senior Ministry official noted that Minster M.S. Gill was working to
create a wider basket of eligible items under the scheme so that MPs
had a larger choice of projects that could be implemented through
their MPLAD funds.

The Centre recently raised the annual entitlement under the scheme
from Rs. 2 crore to Rs. 5 crore a year for every MP.

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Re: [AI] My Permotion

2011-05-07 Thread BHAWANI SHANKAR VERMA

congratulations to achieve milestone.

- Original Message - 
From: "B. R. Nautial" 

To: "Access India" 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:47 PM
Subject: [AI] My Permotion



Hi Friends,
With the full support of yours and computer I would happily tell you that 
I have been promoted from Clerical Cadre to Provisionary Officer. The 
success I have achieved is mainly due to the knowledge I have gained from 
the knowledgeable mails with the help of this group . So I dedicate my 
success to all of my friends and this group .
Specially, I would  like to thanks Madam Kanchan Pamnani, who really gave 
me some important tips to face the interview in a proper way and these 
tips really helped me there.

With Regards
B. R. Nautial
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[AI] retina India Hyderabad to meet today:

2011-05-07 Thread Srikanth Kanuri
Dear all, Retina India Hyderabad is going to meet today at Destino coffee house
landmark the side lane of Vijaya diagnostic center, Dilsukhnagar between
2:30 and
5:00.


Agenda for the meeting is as follows.

2:30 to 3:00- Pooling up the members
3:00- 3:15 - Introduction to Retina India
3:15 to 3:45- Guest from Dr. Reddys Foundation addressing the group
about the training course and employment opportunities to Visually
Impaired in Hyderabad.
- Vishnu Murphy .A
3:45 to 4:15- Tech knowledge Share on pen friend labeling devise,
Talking B.P apparatus and various talking devises by Srikanth Kanuri
4:15- 4:45 - Information share about RI new initiatives and programmes
in coming meetings followed by question and answers by Rakesh
Paladugula
4:45 to 5:00- Word of Thanks by Govind Reddy

all the participants are requested to contact anyone of the following
persons and notify please.

Suman 9642578678
Srikanth 903105
Rakesh 8886811447
Govind 9030915271

please note these meets are for us and exploring our opportunities in
various fields so voluntary co-operation and attending is requested.
your presence will enable us to bring more and more speakers for you
so friends please come forward to make it a grand success and See you
all there.




-- 

"From Darkness Unto Light"

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(Srikanth Kanuri)

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Joint City Coordinator

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Retina India Hyderabad Chapter

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[AI] Moderator: Some issues

2011-05-07 Thread Harish Kotian
Hello All

I would like to bring to attention of some issues which has again thrown up  
and seek members cooperation.

1 Take a moment to think of a Appropriate subject line

2 Change the subject line, if the issue is moving to a new territory.

3 Please don't respond to congratulatory messages on the list, instead drop a 
private mail to the person concerned.

4 Please don't malign anyone on the list.it is certainly not funny for the 
person to endure it needlessly.

5 A big no, no for any illegal file sharing.

6 It is worthwhile investing some time in doing research before putting the 
query to the list.

We are too happy to help you, however, the offer of help should not be taken 
for granted. 

I am so happy friends, to see that all the members of this family conduct 
themselves  on the list with  maturity and understanding.

Small little actions from us, I am sure, would make it a better stay out here. 
Then, why not?


Warmly
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Moderator.




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[AI] Blind law-school graduate student wins right to use assistive technology in bar exams

2011-05-07 Thread Sathiyaprakash Ramdoss
 Hello Access Indians,

  This is 4-month old news. Still it may be helpful for some of us.
Blind Law-School Grad Wins Right to Use Assistive Technology on Bar Exam
January 4, 2011, 3:23 pm

By Marc Parry

A blind law-school graduate won a legal victory today in her fight to
take two legal exams with help from assistive software. It’s the
latest in a series of court battles over issues of technology
accessibility.

Stephanie Enyart, who graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2009, tried
to take the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam and the
Multistate Bar Exam using a computer equipped with read-aloud
software. But the National Conference of Bar Examiners refused to
approve the accommodation. She sued, and a district court ruled that
the conference must let her take the exams with the assistive
software. Today’s decision, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit, upheld the lower court’s rulings.

This entry was posted in Legal Troubles.
This news  was taken from
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/blind-law-school-grad-wins-right-to-use-assistive-tech-on-bar-exam/28776

Thank You All.

Your's Sathiyaprakash

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Re: [AI] My Permotion

2011-05-07 Thread B. R. Nautial

Thank you very much Sir!
With Regards
B. R. Nautial
- Original Message - 
From: "firoz" 

To: "Sohan" ; 
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] My Permotion



nautial  good

congratulation yaaar

firoz

On 5/7/2011 10:48 AM, Sohan wrote:
hello, nautial sahab, i wish u manny manny heartiest congratulations from 
my side for this achievement. keep it up.

  thanks,
- Original Message - From: "B. R. Nautial" 
To: "Access India" 
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:47 PM
Subject: [AI] My Permotion



Hi Friends,
With the full support of yours and computer I would happily tell you 
that I have been promoted from Clerical Cadre to Provisionary Officer. 
The success I have achieved is mainly due to the knowledge I have gained 
from the knowledgeable mails with the help of this group . So I dedicate 
my success to all of my friends and this group .
Specially, I would  like to thanks Madam Kanchan Pamnani, who really 
gave me some important tips to face the interview in a proper way and 
these tips really helped me there.

With Regards
B. R. Nautial
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Re: [AI] Accessibility of OBI,

2011-05-07 Thread SatyaNarayana Murthy Tanikella
Hi Amiyo & Other members of accessibility members.
I am pasting answers with ANS: as symbol.

1. whether I can get Jaws scripts for informatica and other obi
operations if those are not already accessible on windows platform.
ANS: I am not sure how informatica is accessible & no idea about
availability of Jaws scripts.
But I can give surity that OBI is accessible as it is a web based
tools using internet explorer.
PPL can try as Those tools can be downloaded from Oracle's website.

2. for unix platform, I want to know how much will the application be
accessible with orca? and if so, how to get and learn ORCA?

ANS: on Unix nobody ask you to access using GUI if he asks PPL have to
make lot of configurations.
Technically speaking PPL have to configure GNOME desktop & it is not
possible. generally ppl use command line interface on unix remotely
using windows box.
Coming to ORCA it is matured only UBUNTU destribution only & not other
flawers of Linux like redhat & so on.
But learning ORCA is not difficult.

Please don't hasitate to contact me on my Land line no: 040-27126307.
Best regards.
Satyam.

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Re: [AI] problem in skype.

2011-05-07 Thread Siddhant Chothe
Guys,
   On the skype scripts home page, saw a link to something called
"Skype Talking". I find it much better than JAWS scripts. Might not be
as easy to use may be for newbies. But, I have given up on jaws
scripts and started using skype talking instead.
   Skype talking is a addin kind of tool that you need to install
other than skype. What it does is that provides a set of keystrokes
that provide information to any screen reading software. What this
means that I need to use keystrokes of skype talking, doesn't matter
whether I'm using JAWS, NVDA or any other screen reader.
   The better part of this tool is that it responds to any skype event
even if you people are using any other application. That is if I'm
using browser, then Mr. X comes online, then screen reader I am using
will speak that out notifying me of the same.

Try it out. Works with latest version of skype (5.3.111).

HTH
Siddhant Chothe

On 4/28/11, mahendra  wrote:
> i dont think he is wrong, because i also face the same problem.
> At 06:10 PM 4/27/2011, you wrote:
>>U r wrong. The skripts of skype 3.8 r working wel with j11 on my machine.
>>
>>
>>With best regards,
>>bhavesh.
>>Email produced on nokia c5-00 using a symbian based screen reader.
>>Gsm:
>>+919594597588
>>alternative gsm:
>>+919029059211
>>skype:
>>bhavesh.patel499
>>windows live:
>>bha...@live.com
>>fring:
>>bhau13
>>
>>-original message-
>>Subject: Re: [AI] problem in skype.
>>From: sunil 
>>Date: 27/04/2011 9:58 pm
>>
>>no, it doesent mean so, its mean that the scripts for skype 3.8 are
>>not fully compattible with j11.
>>do one thing if it works that do not compile the scripts after
>> installation.
>>
>>On 4/27/11, Yusuf Vohra  wrote:
>> > hellow list members,
>> > after upgrading my jaws to 11.147, I am facing one problem in skype. I
>> > have
>> > instaulled jaws skripts for skype 3.8, and now, when I am in
>> skype, and when
>> > I press arrow keys in my contact list, jaws speaks such a nonsense like,
>> > unknow function call to, xlhashsititem.
>> > I also reinstaulled skripts, but the problem is still same.
>> > so, what does this means, and how to solve this problem?
>> > please help me about this, because it gives lot of problem to me.
>> > with warm regards,
>> > Yusuf vohra
>> > bazar road
>> > chhotaudepur,
>> > district vadodra
>> > pin: 391165
>> > mobile:
>> > +919879409087
>> > e-male id:
>> > dr.yusu...@gmail.com
>> > dr.yusufvo...@yahoo.in
>> > skype:
>> > yusuf.vohra
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[AI] Back up valuable data

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay



Windows 7 does its best to make backing up your files easy. simon williams
reckons there's no excuse for not organising and protecting all your
valuable
data.

No hard disk lasts forever. Even if you've never had a drive fail on you,
your
first experience could be just minutes away. Back up your data now, and
avoid
the possibility of losing all your important files.

A typical backup creates a copy of all the files that matter to you, and
retains
the original folder structure - when you restore from a backup you can
expect to
find your files in their normal places. Backups usually exclude program
files,
which take up a lot of space and are easily reinstalled from their
installation
discs.

Backups can either be direct copies of each file, or an entire folder
structure
compressed into one huge file, with or without encryption. Windows 7 adopts
the
latter approach, but it's still possible to restore individual files and
folders
if necessary.

By default, Windows 7 adds a system image to the backup - if your hard drive
is
beyond repair you'll be able to restore the entire system, including the
operating system and program files, to a new drive. Turn off this feature if
you
need to save drive space.

There's little point in backing up your files to the same drive that they
usually reside on; if that drive fails, you'll lose both copies. We
recommend
using a second internal drive or an external USB drive.  

If you don't have a large media library, you may even be able to use a
series of
DVDs.

The first backup can take a few hours to complete, but Windows 7 will then
schedule regular backups that record only the amendments to your documents,
thus
making backups much faster. By default, this is done once a week; you can
change
the schedule to suit your needs. We demonstrate how to schedule regular
backups
that need very little maintenance in our first workshop.

It's a good idea to have more than one partition on your hard drive, too.
This
is a virtual division that Windows regards as a separate drive, and can even
be
reformatted without affecting the remainder of the drive. We show you how to
set
up drive partitions using Acronis Disk Director later in this article.

Create and restore from a baCkup in WindoWs 7

START

Click the Windows button, enter 'backup' in the search bar, then choose
'backup
and restore' to access Windows 7's built-in backup utility. now click 'set
up
backup' and browse to the drive on which you want to store the backup. it's
best
to use a usb or networked hard drive. Click next.

2

if you allow Windows to choose the files to back up, it will include
everything
in your default folders and on the desktop, plus a system image, from which
you
can restore the entire drive if necessary. select 'Let me choose' if drive
space
is an issue or you'd prefer to select only your most important files. Click
next.

3

You can now review your settings and schedule incremental backups. select
'Change schedule' to alter the Windows 7 default plan, then change the date,
time and frequency to suit your needs. note that your pC needs to be
switched on
for a backup to be processed. Click ok, then choose 'save settings and
backup'.

4

the first backup may take a few hours to complete, particularly if you've
selected large documents and a system image. However, the process runs in
the
background, allowing you to get on with other tasks. When the backup is
complete, you'll see the same screen that appears when you choose to restore
a
backup.

5

Click 'restore my files'. browse for specific files or folders to restore by
clicking on the corresponding button on the right. You can choose several
individual files or sets of files from different parts of the backup for one
restore. select the files or folders you need, then click 'add files', next.

6

the following screen enables you to restore the files to their original
location
or a folder that you specify. the latter option is useful if you want to
look at
older versions of a file without overwriting more recent copies. browse to a
folder and click ok, restore. Windows will then copy the files across.

Create a disk partition in aCronis disk direCtor 11.0 Home

START

it makes sense to create separate partitions if you're using a single hard
drive
for storage, allowing you to deal with storage areas separately. You'll need
third-party software to do so if the disk already contains data, however;
we've
used acronis disk director 11.0 Home. Launch acronis and click your drive
icon.

2

Click 'split volume'. a pop-up will suggest a possible partition size;
accept
this or use the arrows to enter your preferred partition sizes. Click ok and
acronis will display how the drive will appear following the partition, with
two
icons. it will complete the partition only when you click 'Commit pending
operations'.

3

a pending operations dialog box will offer you a final chance to cancel the
partition. Click Continue if you wish to go ahead and create the new
partitio

[AI] Windows at 25

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay


>From laughing stock to world domination

More than nine out of 10 PCs run Windows. But no one could have predicted
that
would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical
front
end for MS-DOS, writes Jon Brodkin

When Microsoft released the first version of Windows 25 years ago, on 20
November 1985, it was late to the game and little used. Apple had brought
graphical user interfaces to computers with Macintosh more than a year
earlier,
while DOS systems dominated the market for IBM and IBM-compatible PCs.

Windows 1.0 was a graphical front end for MS-DOS (Microsoft's version of
DOS),
but in some respects it was out of date even by the standards of 1985.
Windows
1.0, for example, didn't allow overlapping windows, a feature offered with
Macintosh.

No one who used this first version of the operating system (OS) was likely
to
have predicted that Windows would completely dominate the PC market 25 years
later.

Shortly after Windows 1.0 was released, Nathaniel Borenstein was working at
the
Carnegie Mellon University IT centre when Microsoft representatives visited
him
to demonstrate their new OS.

"What's interesting in retrospect was that we laughed," said Borenstein. "We
had
a vastly superior window manager of our own, and these guys came in with
this
pathetic and naive system. We just knew they were never going to accomplish
anything."

But even the most accomplished technology experts can be wrong. "Never
underestimate the value of persistence," Borenstein said.

Eventual success

Today, 25 years later, more than nine out of 10 desktop PCs run some version
of
Windows. Windows XP, released nearly a decade ago, is still the most widely
used. But XP is starting to give way to Windows 7, which has sold a whopping
240
million licences in its first year of availability.

Although Borenstein remembers 1.0, Bill Gates' unstoppable moneyspinner
didn't
really take off until version 3.0 and Windows 95. Those who tried out the
second
and third versions were intrigued, but not blown away.

In Windows 2.0, you knew you were in DOS because you still had to deal with
command prompts, said Chris Hewitt, a developer at Readify, an Australian
consulting company. "Really, Microsoft should have called Windows 3.0
'Windows
1.0'. Windows 3.0 was the first Microsoft platform to take over all of the
machine and be an operating system," he said.

Hewitt remembers there being major excitement over the Windows 3.0 graphical
user interface, and said the company he worked for bought 30,000 licences.

Julian Easterling, a Marriott International software developer, also
remembers
using Windows 2.0. "Windows 2.0 was, I believe, still in DOS," Easterling
said.
"Windows 3.0 was the first graphical user interface OS that I remember
seeing."

Windows 2.0 was released in 1988 and Windows 3.0 in 1990, but at that time
Easterling was a bigger fan of IBM's OS/2. "I preferred OS/2 back then.
Although
it didn't have a nice graphical user interface, from a programming
standpoint it
was a lot better," he said. "Of course, Microsoft had marketing behind it
and
really took over."

Unforgettable Windows

We asked several Microsoft executives at the recent Professional Developers
Conference whether they could recall their first impressions of Windows.
Paul
Bryan, who has been with the firm for 12 years and now works as a Windows
Phone
product manager, said: "Probably, but I don't know whether I want to."

Windows 3.1 provided Bryan's first Windows experience while he was studying
as
an undergraduate in computer engineering. Bryan had previously used
mainframes
and workstations, but Windows provided a new type of usability.

"The whole graphical user interface was a very different experience," Bryan
said. "It was the first one I had used.

I hadn't used Macs, but I had used other text-input interfaces."

Guy Gilbert, a Microsoft group product manager, first encountered Windows in
the
early 1990s, and used it to run Excel and some presentation software.
Switching
between Windows and more rudimentary systems was frustrating, he said.

"It was still a world where you did part of your work in Windows and a good
chunk of it on the mainframe," he said. "I was an analyst at Exxon Mobil in
the
early 90s and spent a lot of time with Excel, which was great - and then you
had
to go back to the proprietary email system, which was on a mainframe. Things
like attaching a document were so horrible compared to the graphical user
interface of Windows."

Despite joking about his first encounter with Windows, Bryan was impressed.
"I
was impressed because I'd been using text-only interfaces. It's a pretty big
change to go from having to type everything in to point and click," he said.
"Windows offered the ability to interact with computers in a very different
way."

Increased usability

Windows was particularly helpful to those who might be called
computer-illiterate.

"It made computing accessible to a lot more people," Bryan said. "I remember
buying 

[AI] YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay



Expert computing advice

Chris Byers tackles readers' hardware and software conundrums

DiD Microsoft really call?

Q

i received a phone call from someone purporting to be from Microsoft. He
stated
that the monitoring system had discovered a malware infection on my Windows
7
Pc. He told me to switch on my Pc and he would show me where the files were.
i
didn't believe him, but what does this scam hope to achieve? Gordon Wells

You're absolutely correct, Gordon: this is a scam. Unless you asked
Microsoft to
phone you - by logging a support call, for instance - it will not directly
contact you.

The scam runs something like this: you receive a call from someone
purporting to
be from Microsoft about a 'security' issue with your computer. They guide
you to
a rogue website or instruct you to download a piece of software. You should
ignore the security warnings, they say, and run the program. It's possible
that
they will also ask you to pay a fee for the service.

As you can guess, the software installed does some rather nefarious things,
not
least scanning for passwords and bank details. If you ever get a call like
this,
hang up.

ViDeo Won't DoWnloaD

Q

i'm no longer able to download video clips to my hard drive, even though a
'Download to disc' button is displayed. i'm using internet explorer on a
Windows
Vista machine. Dil Williams

You don't make it clear whether you're using a particular program to assist.
Programs such as RealPlayer offer a video-download feature that indicates
when a
clip can be downloaded. Whichever method you're using, it's often Internet
Explorer that prevents you saving it to disk.

Launch Internet Explorer and go to Tools, Internet Options. Select the
Content
tab and scroll down to Content Advisor. Click Disable. Be warned that this
will
leave you vulnerable to malware when the video source is unclear.

UPGraDinG to UsB 3.0

Q

i'd like to use my three-year-old toshiba satellite laptop with a WD My Book
UsB
3.0 drive. Where can i get a UsB 3.0 adaptor? Gabriel Mensah

This won't be possible, Gabriel. Your laptop has a single Type II PC card
slot,
but USB 3.0 requires an ExpressCard slot. The new standard can run at up to
4.7
gigabits per second (Gbps), but you'll be restricted by the maximum speed
allowed by your existing USB 2.0 ports: 480Mbps. Only the latest PCs with
the
correct expansion ports can run USB 3.0 hardware interfaces.

riBBon VieW Doesn't sHoW UP

Q

the biggest change in Windows live Mail
is the introduction of the ribbon interface. Why can't i see
this?

Douglas Shewan

To see the ribbon interface you need to upgrade to the latest version of
Windows
Live Mail 2011 (tinyurl.com/39mcgac). Your current Live Essentials suite
will be
upgraded during the installation.

JaVascriPt errors

Q

When trying to access certain websites on my Windows 7 Pc, i'm told i have
Javascript turned off. How can i correct this? Terry Gibbon

Head to java.com and follow the instructions to download and install the
software. This should set up Java correctly and enable it to run in the
background. If it isn't working, go to Start, Control Panel, Java. Click the
Java tab and, under 'Java runtime variable settings', click View. Ensure the
'Enabled' box is selected.

Boot ManaGer BaffleMent

Q

My laptop fails to boot up following the installation of lavasoft registry
tuner. Windows Boot Manager advises me to insert the installation disc and
restart. Windows partially restarts, then the same message appears. D Hubble

You need to instruct your computer to boot from disc in the Bios or using a
prompt on the Bios screen. Look for a message such as 'Press Esc to choose
boot
options.' Select the CD or DVD drive and reboot the PC. Look out for the
'Press
any key to boot from CD/DVD' prompt and press a key to kickstart the
process.

Follow the instructions until you reach the 'Repair your computer' option.
Click
this, then choose Startup Repair. If Windows can't fix the problem this way,
you'll need to roll back your machine to an earlier time using System
Restore.

easy transfer oPtions

Q

i understand that it's possible to connect two Pcs and transfer the entire
contents of one to the other, including the operating system. can you tell
me
more? Philip Kershaw

I think you're referring to Windows Easy Transfer, Philip. This requires you
to
connect the two PCs using a special cable, and then lets you easily copy
across
files, folders, email and settings. Belkin's Easy Transfer Cable costs
around
ukp20, but many other manufacturers produce them too.

Note that Windows Easy Transfer will not copy across the operating system.
Try a
product such as Norton Ghost (around ukp40) to copy a disk and all its
contents
via USB (cable not provided). You can also use ethernet, for which you would
need to purchase cables and, possibly, a small switch.

To image a disk on the cheap consider Clonezilla (clonezilla.org). This lets
you
create an image on DVD or an external hard drive. You can also place the old
d

[AI] Boost laptop performance

2011-05-07 Thread sanjay



Laptops are incredibly useful - until they run out of steam. Rick Broida
looks
at ways to boost the battery life and performance of your trusty road
warrior.

Although desktop computers are what most of us use for work, at home and on
the
road it's a laptop that allows us to get online, read our email and finish
off
that overdue report. But while their slimline profiles and lack of heft make
laptops attractive and relatively portable, the compromise is their often
limited specification.

The good news is that you don't necessarily have to stick to your original
hardware list. It's a fairly simple process to add memory to a laptop, swap
the
existing hard drive for a more capacious one and tweak the power settings so
you
get more use from it before needing to recharge its battery. We'll even show
you
how to use the old laptop hard disk as an external drive.

Add RAM to a laptop

Our laptop was taking forever to boot. We inspected it for spyware,
excessive
startup programs and the other usual suspects, but everything appeared fine.
However, it was about three years old and wasn't a powerhouse to begin with.
In
fact, it was a Windows Vista model that was running off a mere 1GB of RAM.
Vista
needs at least 2GB of memory to run smoothly (as does Windows 7, in theory,
although we've seen it run adequately on less).

A RAM upgrade is perhaps the simplest and most effective update you can
make.
Upgrading a laptop's RAM may sound daunting, but it's a very easy task.
First,
though, you need to determine how many RAM modules your system currently has
and
what kind they are.

Turn off your system, unplug it, remove the battery and flip it over. You
should
see at least one panel that a small screwdriver can remove. Consult your
manual
if you can't find the one covering the RAM sockets.

Most laptops have two sockets. If only one of your laptop's sockets is
occupied,
buy and insert a module that exactly matches the existing one. Doing so will
effectively double your system's RAM.

If both sockets are filled, you'll have to replace both modules. Our laptop
had
a pair of 512MB modules for a total of 1GB of RAM. We replaced them with a
pair
of 1GB modules to make a total of 2GB. If you're not sure what kind of
memory
your laptop takes, browse to a site such as crucial.com, which can identify
nearly every make and model of memory. Once you know what you need, you can
shop
around to find the best price.

Reuse an old laptop hard drive

Inexpensive hard drive enclosures are ideal for giving old laptop drives new
responsibilities. An enclosure is an external case that lends an internal
drive
a USB interface, so it can act as a compact USB hard drive for backups,
storage,
transporting files and so on.

An enclosure lets you easily drag-and-drop data to the new drive. You can
then
wipe the old drive or keep it as a backup.

Make sure you choose an enclosure that offers the correct type of interface
for
your old drive. If it's more than a few years old, it's probably IDE. A
newer
drive is more likely to have a SATA interface. Either way, you can find an
enclosure for just ukp20 or so at sites such as maplin.co.uk and dabs.com.

Rouse a laptop from Sleep mode

As well as hardware limitations, most of us struggle with how to keep our
laptops powered up and alert. For example, if you shut the lid on some
laptop
models the PC will enter Sleep mode - even if you return just a couple of
minutes later.

The default lid-closing action for most laptops is to put the system into
Sleep
mode, and Windows is notoriously bad at waking up properly. Instead, you
should
set your laptop to Hibernate mode. This lets the laptop wake up much more
reliably.

Sleep (also known as Standby) mode puts your system into a low-power state,
so
you can pick up where you left off after just a few seconds (in theory). But
a
PC in Sleep mode continues to consume battery power, so it's not uncommon to
return to a 'sleeping' laptop to find that it's out of power or plain
unresponsive.

Hibernate mode, on the other hand, saves your machine's current state to a
temporary hard drive file, then shuts down completely (much like Off). When
you
start the laptop up again, it returns you to where you left off with no
booting
up required.

Hibernate mode takes longer than Sleep mode to enter or leave (usually 10 to
20
seconds), but you avoid the issues that can arise when Windows suddenly
loses
power.

As noted, Sleep mode is, by contrast, flaky. And if your system refuses to
wake
up properly, you'll end up losing any documents and/or web pages you had
open.

Blinking but not powering down

Powering down your laptop using the power button doesn't always have the
desired
effect. Sometimes it puts it into Standby mode instead - indicated by the
fact
that the Power button light stays on and blinks.

To change this you can click the Start button, hold the cursor over the
arrow at
the bottom-right corner of the Start menu and click Shut Down. Assuming
you're
not using Vista wit