WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR WET MOBILE PHONES...

How to save a wet cell-phone?

After having a few terrible monsoons in India , (and floods and tsunamis and all sorts of crazy things) the question “How to save your wet cell phone?” is close to everyone’s heart!

Here we have given you a detailed guide that will tell you exactly what you can do to save your wet cell phone, and save 700 bucks in repairing cost, IF you act fast enough! .

So, lets begin….Okay, so basically, there are two ways in which water, or some liquid can destroy your phone!

First Way:

If the phone is powered with the battery when it is wet, the water can “short-circuit” the phone! So, to solve this problem, you got to remove the battery, cut the power, and get rid of all the water. How to do this? Well, the best way to do this is explained on the next page.

Second Way:

If, the liquid is not just pure water. If it is sea water or saline water or any water that contains salts and minerals. If the liquid is a cup of coffee or tea. Basically, if the liquid contains any salts, sugars or minerals that will stay behind after the liquid has dried. In this case, the salts/sugars/minerals etc. that stay behind will “corrode” and “short-circuit” the circuits even after the liquid has been removed. How to solve this problem is explained later!

Now, depending on what kind of liquid or water your phone has got wet in, you need to decide which method is for you. Let us start with the basic method (for water that does not contain salt or sugar or minerals) first….

Step 1: Get it out of the water as soon as possible.
The fact is that cell phones are designed to handle small amounts of water. So, if the cell phone is just slightly wet, nothing much will happen to it.

The problem comes when the cell phone falls into a pool of water completely and the water gets into the cell phones circuit board.

Then the cell phone gets “short-circuited” and it goes off! So, the point is, if you can avoid the cell phone from getting too wet, avoid it!

Step 2: Dismantle your phone
Remove the battery AS FAST AS POSSIBLE! Do not even waste time thinking about it! Just do it! It is very likely that your phones circuits have survived. But, if they are still powered by the battery, they will short-circuit when the moisture reaches them! So you have to cut the power. You must remove the battery.Remove the SIM card and the front panel and back panel and any other part of the phone that can be removed! Basically, as we said earlier, dismantle every piece of the phone that can be dismantled! .

Step 3: Dry everything that you can manually.

Use a tissue or a soft cloth to wipe every part of the phone you can wipe and remove all the water of the surface of all the pieces of the phone.

Step 4: Be patient and let the phone dry! .

(The hard part)Now it is VERY important that you DO NOT try to put in the battery and switch on the phone! Let all the parts be dismantled and let the phone dry. This is a hard thing to do. You will have a constant temptation to put the battery back in “just to see” if the phone is okay. But, DO NOT do this! Leave the phone in pieces and let all the pieces dry. Once of the best ways to dry your phone is to put your phone on the “heat vents” on the back of your computer of your TV! Just incase you are confused about what “heat vents” are, here is an image of heat vents behind the TV… Turns out, the amount of heat coming from the “heat vents” is just the perfect amount required to fix your phone! So place all the pieces of the phone carefully over the heat vents such that the wet insides of the phone are exposed to the heat.

Please Note:

Heat other parts of the phone on the “heat vents”, but do not heat the phone’s battery! If you heat the battery, it is likely that the battery will leak and get spoilt.How long should you leave it on the heat vents? For at least 2-3 days!

Step 5: Test your phone

After 3 days of patient waiting and letting your phone dry, now you could try to put in the battery and all other parts and test your phone. If it works, hurray! If it does not, switch it off quickly and let it dry for some more time. Give it a day or so…if you have the patients!.

However:

This way of saving your phone may not work if the phone got wet in a liquid containing salts, sugar or minerals etc. So, incase you dipped your phone in sea water, boring water, a cup of coffee or tea etc. you need to use the “alcohol” method… If you think the liquid in which your phone has fallen is saline, or containing salts or sugars or minerals (like sea water, coffee etc.), using only the previous method will not do. You will need to do a little bit extra to save your phone! .

How do you get rid of the salts, sugars and minerals?
After you dismantle the pieces of your wet phone and remove the battery, try to put the pieces as fast as possible in a bowl of “alcohol”! I know this seems a little scary. I know you are afraid of taking an already wet and damaged phone and putting it into alcohol, but trust us, it’s a good idea!Why alcohol?

Well, all the water/liquid in the phone (along with the salts, sugars and minerals) will dissolve in the alcohol. The alcohol is supposed to be “hygroscopic”. It means that the alcohol attracts water.
So now, once the phone is soaked in the alcohol, you should try to drain out as much alcohol as possible just by moving the phone around. Having done this, only little alcohol will remain on the insides of the phone. And this alcohol should dry up quite quickly, since alcohol evaporates at room temperature.

Note:

If you feel that there is a lot of sugar clogged in the phone (from tea/coffee or some other drink..) you should get your self a bottle of “distilled” water. Let your phone soak in it. The sugars will likely dissolve in the “distilled” water and drip out of the phone.

Where do you get a bottle of distilled water from?
Ask an electrician. Distilled water is generally used for your home inverter batteries, so a local electrician will probably know where to get it in your area.

Fianlly:

You could once again dry your phone in the “heat vents” of the computer or TV and wait for at least 2-3 days before you put in the battery and power up the phone.

In most cases, if you act fast enough, these methods will save your phone. But, if it does not, try taking it to your dealer. Sometimes they have a “quick fix”. As a last resort, go to the phone repair guys!

Panasonic SDRH200 Hard Disk Palmcorder

The Panasonic SDRH200 3CCD Hard Disk Drive/SD Palmcorder Camcorder

- is perfect for recording long events. It features extended recording for extended shooting fun. The internal 30 GB hard disk drive holds as much video data as about 22 8-cm DVD discs.

Average customer review:

Features
•Built-in 30 GB hard disk drive
•3-megapixel, 3CCD imaging system
•Capture video and 3.1 MP digital stills
•Large 2.7-inch widescreen LCD
•Included accessories: AC adapter, battery pack, multi cable, PC connection cable, editing software, 512 MB SD card, and IR remote control
Customer Reviews

Great picture, easy use

We bought the SDR-H200 for my church to use in our multimedia program and couldn’t be more pleased. The 3 CCD imaging system gives you an excellent picture–sharp and clear with vivid, true colors. Image stabilization keeps minor shakes and jitters from making it to the screen.

The files on the camera’s hard drive are easy to transfer, though the included software is nothing more than OK. It won’t tempt you to give up your current editing program, whatever it is.

We have a variety of folks using the camera. It’s easy enough to operate that our amateurs can pick it up and start shooting, but has enough extra bells and whistles that some of our more proficient volunteers are happy with it, too. All in all, the SDR-H200 has been a great investment.

My only complaints, both small, have to do with design. In order to access the USB port, you have to remove the battery and run the camera on AC power. And while the LED screen is large and bright, I’m just a relic and miss having an optical viewfinder to use.

Good Camera

This is our first camcorder and love it! The only bad thing is the video editing software - Pixela’s Image Mixer that comes with the box is bad.

It is not very user friendly and hangs (even after downloading the s/w patch).

You may want to to invest on buying some other video editing software

THROAT MICROPHONE

Sanwa new Throat Microphone

Used mainly by tactical assault groups and SWAT teams, throat microphones are something you rarely see on the street. This will change now with Sanwa's latest hands free system, a Japanese phone design based on a military throat microphone.It might not be used all the time, but if you work in a noisy environment it could greatly improve a phone conversation

NEW PIXON M8800 FROM SAMSUNG

FEATURES:

1.8-megapixel touch screen phone

2.It has 3.2 inch WQVGA large touchscreen

3.An auto-panorama mode, 16x zoom option

4.Advanced shake reduction system

5.GPS with GEO tagging

6.7.2 MBPS HSDPA

7.It has multi-format music player

8.3G capable Pixon has onscreen handwriting recognition

9. 3D surround sound10.TV-out, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, microUSB 2.0

Not only this,The Pixon also comes pre-embedded with different games including Brain Challenge, Diamond Twister, Millionaire-3 and Tumbling Dice game that can be played by shaking the handset.

With support for various video player formats including DivX, Xvid, MP4, the new Pixon M8800 has an advanced Music Player .

MICRO WAVE OVEN

Invention of Microwave Oven.

ACCIDENTAL USEFUL DISCOVERIES.

Like so many inventions, Microwaves were originally discovered accidentally. A scientist working with radio waves happen to place a piece of chocolate near the vacuum tube. When he observed the chocolate has completely melted, he realised that he had hit upon a revolutionary cooking technique totally unknown to mankind then. All this took place about five decades back around thirty years were spent in research before this discovery was used commercially for making microwave cooking ovens.

Microwave Oven.
With the popularity of Microwave Owens in the western world, food industries are going through a revolution. Entrepreneurs are busy designing new food products suitable for Microwave. Similarly, microwavable plastics, earthenware and stoneware kitchen utensils are coming in market. Certain food dishes would never have seen the light of day if microwave had not been discovered in the first place.

How Microwave works?
Microwaves are non-ionising waves that can be best described as “Electromagnetic Waves of about 10cm Wave-Length” resembling radio waves. However, these are entirely different from ionising gamma or x rays. The ionising rays disturb the molecules in food material by chopping away electrons while microwaves only make the molecules of water in the food to vibrate at a very high frequency i.e. 2450 million times per second. Microwaves are produced by the Magnetron which the most important part of his cooker and are showered on the food. This results in intermolecular friction that creates heat inside the material, cooking the food quickly. Since the heat is produced within the food, only food gets hot and not the surrounding air or utensils.

Safety First.
As soon as the door of the cooker is opened either intentionally or by your absent mindedness or by accident, the magnetron gets switched off automatically. Hence there is absolutely no way your body can get exposed to microwaves.

Power Saving Cooking Method without Any Doubt.
As compared to an electric oven, microwave works 20-25% level of energy consumption. When this cooker runs for a full one hour, it consumes three quarters of a unit of electricity.

Choice of Cooking Vessels.
Your regular metal utensils and melamines are no good for this modern cooking method. Instead, you can use wood or straw baskets, certain plastics, earthenware and stoneware, glass vessels, paper dishes, China clay mugs, saucers and plates. This is a small price you may pay for the great convenience you enjoy.

• Advantages:
• Being ‘Safer’ than electric and gas stoves, microwave cooker can easily be handled by school children, very old people and also by disabled.
• ‘Versatility’ is beyond comparison. It can thaw, heat, puff, boil, roast, steam and poach foods. It can simplify the precooking work by softening fats and butter, caramelizing sugar, dissolving jelly cubes, melting chocolates and reheating small quantities of liquids as when required. Reheating of food is a single greatest advantage. For families with irregular meal routine, it is a boon as the meals served on the plates can be quickly and efficiently reheated.
• Fuel Economy is great as microwave works at 20-25% energy level of electric ovens.
• Nutritious and thus healthier food is available to you when you adopt Microwave cooking.
• Vegetables can be cooked with less water and hence retain more of their nutrients, colour and flavour.
• ‘Time factor’ is in your favour with microwave. Most foods are cooked in container in which they are to be served. Secondly, food can be reheated on an eating plate thereby reducing the amount of washing up. With a well stocked freezer, a wide variety of meals can be prepared without much planning in advance.
• In Conventional Cooking practice, your kitchen heats up considerably; hence you require an exhaust fan. With microwave, hardly anything else but food gets heated up. Even the air in the cooker does not heat up, so naturally your kitchen remains clean, cool and without any smoke or smell.
• Mobility of cooking place is simply incomparable to any other cooking gadgets. Microwave Ovens are compact and mobile and can be positioned anywhere, like on a kitchen platform, dining table, working table in offices etc. Since you need only thirteen ampere plug and a socket outlet, they can be moved to other rooms other than the kitchen. In ‘star’ hotel rooms, this cooker can be kept along with the T.V and radio set as you can so easily warm up cookies, sandwiches, cutlets, pakodas and omelette served cold to you from distant hotel kitchens.
• Easy to clean and maintain since nothing much spills or splashes. Only a warm soapy cloth or sponge is good enough to make it look again from in and out.
• Disabled people, even the blind, find microwave cooking far easier and safer than conventional cooking.
  
• Disadvantages:
• Now, speaking about the drawbacks, it has only one i.e. you cannot carry out controlled heating of oil in microwave and hence should not try to make ‘tadka’ (or phodni) or fry purees, wadas and pakodas.
• Chappaties can be made but with some innovation. ‘Atta’ kneaded and kept in a refrigerator overnight is more suitable than freshly made one for Chappati baking in microwave oven. Stuffed brinjal or mushrooms, pulao, various halvas, bhartas can be cooked well.

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The Kindle 2 status area now shows the percentage read and the overall size of the book, as well as the currently viewed locations. The progress bar is now a continuous line, rather than dotted.

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THERE YOU CAN WATCH VODEO TOO..

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GENDER PROBLEM IN COMPUTERS...

Are computers male or female ?

As you are aware, ships have long been characterized as being female.

(e.g., “Steady as she goes” or “She’s listing to starboard, Captain!”)

Recently, a group of computer scientists (all males) announced that computers should also be referred to as being female. Their reasons for drawing this conclusion follow:
Five reasons to believe computers are female: -

1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. The message “Bad command or file name” is about as informative as, “If you don’t know why I’m mad at you, then I’m certainly not going to tell you.”
4. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

However, another group of computer scientists, (all female) think that computers should be referred to as if they were male.

Their reasons follow:
Five reasons to believe computers are male:
1. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
2. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
3. As soon as you commit to one you realize that, if you had waited a little longer, you could have obtained a better model.
4. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
5. Big power surges knock them out for the rest of the night