Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Toshiba are recalling 100k Sony-made batteries due to posibilities of overheat or catch fire. The recall decision made after 40 instances of overheating including four cases where users had minor burns reported by Sony.
This will affect roughly 74,000 HP laptops, 14,400 Toshiba laptops and small numbers of batteries made for Acer, Dell and Lenovo due to batteries made by a production line problem between October 2004 and June 2005. A total of 35,000 batteries will be recalled in the US and 65,000 batteries will be from other parts of the world.
As you can recall, Sony did announced a recall of 440k of its Vaio laptops worldwide due to concerns about overheating. Again, are you one of the victim of this issue? Please check with your local vendor regarding this issue.
TinEye, the image search engine website claims that they does for images whereas Google does for text. With TinEye, you can simply upload a image or give a link to an image and you can start searching for the targeted image all over the Internet by using Idee’s image identification technology. The results will show you the closest image match. Also, you can find out how many times your image has been appearing in the Internet or even if it has been cropped or photoshoped. However, you have another option to search images using the TinEye Firefox plugin.
In a nutshell, you can tell whether your image has it been hotlinked in TinEye. This really useful to bloggers, photographers and webmasters to find out if their images have been copyright breached. So, sign up now to begin search the Internet for images using an image.
Are you tired of every time switching to Incognito mode after each time you run Google Chrome web browser. There is a simple solution to this by adding a simple command line switch to the Google Chrome shortcut. I had successfully tried this in version 0.3.154.0, 0.3.154.6 and 0.3.154.9 but can’t get it working in version version 0.2.149.30.
Right click on the Google Chrome shortcut and select Properties. In Google Chrome Properties and select Shortcut menu. In the Target text box, insert “–incognito” with a space at the end as show below: -
Click OK button to apply the setting. Finally, you have enable your Google Chrome to start in Incognito mode. And, don’t forget to download the latest beta release 0.3.154.9 offline installer released on Oct 29, 2008.
Dell Inspiron Mini 12, the larger version of Mini 9 is available in Dell Japan website. Whereas the author of APC, David Flynn has the opportunity to review the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 handed to him by Michael Dell in Shanghai while attending a regional Dell event. You can read and view more in APCmag.com website. The specification is quite similar to the earlier post on Dell Inspiron Z530 in my blog. Would you go for a Mini 9 or Mini 12?
An official Dell Inspiron Mini 9 commercial in Youtube.
Notepad++ is my favorite free text editor that I use daily. The current latest version is 5.1 and it supports various languages. It is currently available in the Windows platform and it is licensed under GPL.
I would like to introduce one useful plugin comes with Notepad++ is MIME Tools. This is a very useful plugin for me to perform troubleshooting on SMTP AUTH using telnet because we need to enter the full email address and the password encoded in Base64. Let’s do a simple test.
Run the Notepad++. Open a new normal text file. Key in “password” and highlight it in the text file as below.
Next, go to Plugins menu, then MIME Tools and select Base64 Encode as below.
And, you get the output of the Base64 Encode as below.
To reverse the encoded Base64, we need to decode it by going to Plugins menu, then MIME Tools and select Base64 Decode as below.
Is that simple? Give it a try and you will begin to love Notepad++ inside out.
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