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Micro sim slot

wongpeter — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:35:53 +0800

Do all netbooks have a sim slot or only 3G enabled ones have it?
Thanks.

Toshiba Regza 24" LCD and LED TV's

wongpeter — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 09:30:02 +0800

Would appreciate if anyone who has seen either of these 2 models leave some comments. The pricing of RM699 for the LCD TV and RM999 for the LED TV seems rather attractive. The LED model supposedly comes with full HD.

Thanks

Android roars past iPhone in US

wongpeter — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:50:50 +0800

Android roars past iPhone in US
IANS, October 6, 2010, San Francisco

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Sales of smartphones powered by Google's Android operating system have overtaken Apple's iPhone in the US for the first time, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen.

The survey found that Android's share of the smartphone market in the six months ending in August, jumped from 14 percent to 32 percent, while the iPhone dropped from 32 percent to 25 percent. Sales of RIM's Blackberry dropped from 34 percent to 26 percent.

Android, which trailed the iPhone and Blackberry by several years in coming to the market, still has plenty of work to catch up. Its portion of overall market share jumped from eight percent to 19 percent in August. RIM retained first place, down from 36 percent to 31 percent, while the iPhone dropped one point to 28 percent.

The data reflected the increasing popularity of Android, which powers dozens of different smartphones made by Motorola, HTC, Samsung and LG, which are sold by all the major US carriers.

PC World analyst Tony Bradley said a continuation of the current trend would relegate the iPhone to niche status - similar to that of Apple's Mac computers. He cited Apple's tight control over hardware and software and the iPhone's exclusivity agreement with AT&T as the main reasons for its falling market share.

Guitarists' compulsory repertoire

wongpeter — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:35:08 +0800

[YOUTUBE]eg7i1-zPX68[/YOUTUBE]

Yamaha FG-360

wongpeter — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:46:27 +0800

I have a Yamaha FG-360. Does anyone know how much one of this is worth?

The paper label reads:
Yamaha
FG-360
Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd.
Made in Japan.

You can read some reviews here: Yamaha FG-360

QuickTime

wongpeter — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:18:23 +0800

Installed QuickTime. Opera browser hangs after awhile and win7 32-bit won't shut down. Same with Firefox browser. It will hang and most of win7 becomes unresponsive and won't shut down.
Anyone else having the same problem and any workarounds.
Thanks.

Price List

wongpeter — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:02:12 +0800

Is there a price list for current Edifier Speaker models on this forum?

Linux sifus

wongpeter — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:21:10 +0800

I am running on 32-bit win7. Is there such a thing as 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Linux? If there is I would like to know if I can install a 64-bit Linux on my 32-bit win7 PC for dual booting or must I stick with a 32-bit Linux on my 32-bit win7 PC?

Any recommendations for a Linux distro that is easy on beginners will be most helpful.

Thanks.

China's Got Talent

wongpeter — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:34:46 +0800

[YOUTUBE]X9DilOIZMu4[/YOUTUBE]

Help!

wongpeter — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:18:22 +0800

Broadband provider
ISP/package: Streamyx
Location: PJ
Have you called your ISP's helpline?: N/A

Personal equipment
Modem: TP-Link TD-8810
Router: TP-Link TL-WR740N
Firewall used: Comodo

Problem details
First occurence of problem: Today
Problem frequency: N/A
Problem description:

I used to access my modem config page @ 192.168.1.100 and the wireless router config page @ 192.168.2.1

I flashed the firmware of the wireless router from my laptop on the wi-fi connection (which is a huge NO-NO due to packet loss) and bricked it. To cut a long story short I managed to restore the original firmware and the wireless router is working again.

Problem is the wireless router's config page has changed to 192.168.1.1 but I can no longer login to the modems' config page. I have tried the following IP's to no avail:
192.168.1.100
192.168.1.10
192.168.2.1
192.168.0.1

Does this help? In my router it says:
DHCP Server: Enable
Start IP Address: 192.168.1.100
End IP Address: 192.168.1.199

Is there anyway of finding out what the IP for the modem's config page is now?

Thanks.

Acer Android Phones

wongpeter — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:04:55 +0800

Seems the new range of Acer phones on the Android platform are very reasonably priced. New Acer Android phone owners can share their experiences here.

Thanks.

Digi Network - Beeping calls problem

wongpeter — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:31:59 +0800

Anyone having the beeping calls (aka Flashing) problem on the Digi network. Anyone else keep getting incoming calls from these numbers:

+1724023580
+001724023580
+8801724023580

I checked and it seems the country code is Russia, Bangladesh etc

It will ring once and then hang up. I think the scammers hope you will return call and then there will be an exorbitant charge.

Beeping calls aka Flashing <----