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From PC World: “Here’s a free–and very accomplished–Vista tweaker. Use it to accelerate performance, juice your browsing speed, clean up your hard disk, clear out bandwidth-wasting startup programs, and even fine-tune Windows Media Player and Explorer. Many of the settings here are exceedingly fine-grained. Want to change the speed at which the Start menu search displays? With Mz Vista Force, you can. The program is free–and considering how many tools it brings to the party, it’s an irresistible download.”

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Sorry to steal a bit of Andrew’s thunder on today’s iPhone software story, but yesterday afternoon Apple released iPhone update 1.1.1.

Apple did issue a warning with the upadate, “IF YOU HAVE MODIFIED YOUR IPHONE’S SOFTWARE, APPLYING THIS SOFTWARE UPDATE MAY RESULT IN YOUR IPHONE BECOMING PERMANENTLY INOPERABLE.”

Everyone with third party software on their newly updated iPhones suddenly found it had vanished.
Anyone with their own ringtones found them to be muted.
Custom themes are a thing of the past.
Apple is not messing around. Hackers and software developers are going to have to work overtime to get their customizations back.
Some people who unlocked their iPhones now have bricks.
I haven’t finished reading all the reports, so stay tuned to your favorite iPhone websites for the latest information.

So if you have software on your iPhone you don’t want to lose keep the update away from your phone.

When your system asks if you want to upgrade, think long and hard before you say yes. I had no problems with the update other than my software and ringtones disappearing. I can live with that.

For a list of new features included in the update keep reading…

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Some of the programs I mention in today’s review are pretty hard to find, so I’ve added links here for Skype, Books and the NES simulator.

But before you download anything, you’re going to need a “jailbreak” program to unlock your phone. (Note: this is not the same as unlocking the phone from AT&T and risking Apple’s wrath.)

Folks who run their iPhones through Macs should head to AppTapp Installer for their jailbreak program. This is the program I used, and it works great. AppTapp also has a program for PCs at the same address but some bloggers prefer another program for PCs, iBrickr. Both sites have explanations for program usage.

After you’ve installed your jailbreak program and checked out my favorites, you can find dozens more programs at places like Conceited Software and Ste Packaging.

Ready for the best news? Most of this stuff is absolutely free.

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Some very big bets are being placed on finding the next online media conglomerates. One thing these companies have in common: they don’t spend too much money on content, but have models designed to aggregate large audiences on the Web.

Glam Media, which claims to have the largest reach of any Website aimed at women, is understood to be looking to raise $250m from private investors. Glam likes to think of itself as a US-style TV network for the Web. It creates a small amount of content, a brand and advertising: other websites with relevant content that want to sign on to the network have to commit to an exclusive relationship, making them the equivalent of the “owned and operated” stations of the TV networks (though Glam doesn’t go actually buy them outright.) This aggregated audience has now reached 25m unique visitors.

Glam took its latest step this week with a distributed media platform that lets it place widgets containing its search box and ads on partner sites. The company won’t comment on the capital raising plans, but it is understood to be shooting for revenues of more than $100m next year.

Meanwhile, Demand Media has just raised another $100m, reportedly valuing it at $1bn. As we reported back in April, this is another content-lite media company. Former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt has built broad internet reach by buying up a portfolio of domain names: many of those sites do nothing except carry ads from Google. Turning this into a “real” media business, with the brands and content that create real user “stickiness” without breaking the bank, will be Rosenblatt’s next challenge.

Both of these companies have decided to stay in the private markets for their next leg of growth. If all goes to plan, expect them to make waves in the public stock market by the second half of next year.

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Its a good thing Palm has not forgotten the other people who can’t afford expensive gadgets. I am sure the Palm Centro Smartphone will sell out in India and other third world countries if it was sold there. Who would not want a sub $100 smartphone running WM6 to handle your life’s schedule. The big release is coming out in 2 weeks time.

  “Life starts after five o’clock. That’s why there’s the Palm® Centro™ smartphone. Palm Centro gives you voice, text, IM, email and web,1 all in a phone that’s a lot smaller than you think. It even has a touchscreen and a full keyboard, so you can say L8R to those tricky keys on your cell phone. Carry names and numbers, shoot photos and video, and meet up with friends. Centro. Let’s go.

Order your Centro today with Sprint service for only $99.2″

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I’m probably the last person to discover this, but Google Maps has added a new tool that lets you reset your travel route by just dragging on the blue line that shows your path.

Very helpful if you want to avoid toll roads or streets you know are clogged from construction or traffic.

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Microsoft has announced major improvements to its Live Search page, including better integration among its various search engines and more relevant results.

You probably don’t use Live Search, but you should still celebrate Microsoft’s efforts. The more it invests in search, the more it forces Google and Yahoo to keep improving their products, and search really does need to improve. All search engines still return far too many meaningless results to any complex request.

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A handful of technology writers were on the Chicago River Monday night to participate in a live demonstration of Sprint Nextel’s WiMax network.

In theory, this next-generation wireless technology can transmit data over vast areas as quickly as your cable modem can shoot it over a wire. But no one had ever tried to build a big WiMax network until this year, when Sprint announced that it would install WiMax in many of the nation’s largest cities.

None of those networks are open to the public yet, but reporters generally praised what they saw Monday night. Here’s an excerpt from the review at Ars Technica:

We also watched some talking heads on CNN.com. In both windowed and full-screen modes, the video quality was very good: no dropped frames or hiccups of any kind. It was similar to what I get at home with my 8Mbps/1Mbps cable service from Comcast….

Both the performance and experience were far superior to Verizon’s EV-DO service….Speed aside, the browsing experience was much different than any other mobile broadband I’ve used. Unlike other wireless services, which feel “laggy” and offer a markedly different experience than a wired connection, the WiMAX demo was more akin to DSL and cable.

The first two cities — Washington and Chicago — were to have come online late this year, but Sprint has pushed that back to March or April. Dallas is slated for launch later next year. Sprint has suffered some hard times of late, but if this roll-out goes smoothly, it’s going to be a real game changer both for the company and for wireless devices.

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Phew. I finally sat down and took some pictures of the Nokia N95, provided to my by the Nokia PR in Malaysia. Instead of
boring you on the specs for the phone as there are thousands of sites out there that have it, here’s my review on the phone
after using it for more than a week.

Using the GPS in Singapore

I also recently took the phone down to Singapore last week but alas, I could not get the GPS working. Somehow the GPS
satellite status was somewhat unstable and the Navfone software on this S60 phone did not get a lock on a GPS satellite. I’m just wondering if its due to the fact that it won’t detect the embedded GPS chip (unlikely) or whether coz the software was ademo version. I also did not manage to load a Malaysia map on it since it said it was a demo version and I had to visit themain site to buy it. Well, that sure made a big blunder on things. The only good thing I had going for it was been able to
bookmark certain sites on the map using Navfone under the Favourites option and the 2D/3D look was quite cool.

Using Nokia Maps

Nokia Maps is the default GPS software on the Nokia N95. I could detect the satellites on certain occasions but kept on
wondering why it had to search the internet to get routes to certain places (bug?). So I scoured the internet and found out
that you had to load maps on the phone in order to kill that bug. The phone does not have all the data of the maps for
say..Singapore and it connects to the internet to calculate its routes. So common sense was to load maps of countries you
wanted on the phone and voila, it won’t connect to the internet. Darn. I wish Nokia would have thought of this. Its not like
the whole of Singapore has free wifi everywhere as even with its free 5000 hotspots, I could not get an internet connection
going. I guess everyone was using it and that caused a jam.

Taking Photos on the Nokia N95.

Sure the N95 has a Carl Zeiss 5 megapixel but I think it won’t beat a 2 megapixel camera on a Sony Ericsson phone anytime.I’ve compared it to my wife’s Sony Ericsson W880 and it pales a bit in colour and lighting. Taking pictures in the dark won’t be a goodthing as the flash is not strong enough. However, it looks better when taken in the daytime and here’s some shots I tookwhile in Singapore to prove things. The phone takes sometime to load when taking pictures.I had about 50 pictures on thephone in 2 megapixel resolution and on certain occasions during my stay in Singapore, it took about 7 seconds to load up before I could shoot a picture.

Conclusion:

Sure the Nokia N95 still turns head wherever it goes. I took it to office and a lot of people are still awed by it. In fact,
a lot of guys took a good look at it and tried out the functions. Taking a call in a crowded place is easy as the sound is
clear. All in all, this phone is still a good phone to have if you don’t mind the spotty GPS function and so so picture
quality.

Likes : Media player plays MP3s at decent quality, the phone call quality is good. Speakerphone functions well. Wifi
connectivity is stable and connects easily.

Dislikes: The keypad is a tad too small; taking pictures on the phone requires a slide on the backside and it can be slow
sometimes. Need to add headset to phone to hear radio on speakers

Below : Nokia N95 left side. Slides in a MicroSD at the bottom compartment.

Below : The MicroSD comes with SD adapter

Below : Connect your N95 to the TV with this composite video and audio cable.

Below : The N95 box

Below : Navfone Pro screen showing the Singapore Map

Below : Adding your fav spot on the Navfone Pro

Below : Some of the spots I found on the Singapore Map

Below : Main screen for the Nokia N95

Below : Found Northumbria University at Subang Jaya on the Malaysian Map

Below : Backside for the Nokia N95

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