Tips untuk Merawat Ponsel anda

Hari ini ponsel menjadi kebutuhan bagi setiap orang. Tua, muda, remaja atau anak-anak ingin memiliki ponsel sendiri. Gampangnya membeli ponsel saat ini, menjadi kebutuhan yang penting untuk merawatnya. Berikut ini tips pentinguntuk merawat ponsel agar mempunyai umur lebih lama :
1. Mengisi batere ponsel : Biasakan mengisi batere ponsel sesuai aturan yang benar. Jangan mengisi batere ponsel terlalu awal. Mengisi batere terlalu awal bisa menyebabkan batere cepat habis dayanya sebelum waktunya.
2. Mengunci ponsel : Biasakan ponsel dalam keadaan terkunci ketika tidak digunakan. Ponsel yang tidak terkunci bisa menyebabkan panggilan telepon yang tidak diketahui.
3. Gunakan batere yang aman : Biasakan menggunakan batere yang aman. Jangan membeli batere hanya karena alasan lebih murah. Disarankan selalu membeli batere dari dealer-dealer resmi (batere original).
4. Amankan ponsel : Selalu ingat untuk mengamankan ponsel dengan menggunakan PIN pada SIM Card. Anda perlu mengunci ponsel dan jangan digunakan oleh sembarang orang.
5. Bersihkan ponsel : Bersihkan ponsel anda secara teratur supaya tetap bersih dan mengkilat. Anda hanya perlu mengelap dengan cairan pembersih setiap hari.
6. Membungkus ponsel : Pembungkus atau sarung ponsel yang cocok adalah cara terbaik untuk melindungi ponsel dari debu dan goresan. Selalu menggunakan sarung ponsel yang mempunyai rongga udara di dalamnya.
7. Menyimpan ponsel : Sangat penting menyimpan ponsel di tempat yang kering. Jangan sampai kena air hujan, tempat yang lembab atau kena cairan yang lain. Disarankan untuk disimpan pada temperatur yang sedang.
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How to Choose the right camera for you

More people are able to afford digital cameras because their prices are falling but the number of characteristics is rising so it is important to be able to compare digital camera features.
The first step in being able to compare digital camera features is to decide what you want to get out of your camera. If you compare digital camera prices you will see that for shooting family snapshots you can get a good basic digital camera for under $400, while a professional model is over $1,000. When you compare digital camera features you need to know the extent of the use you are going to get out of it.
It is essential when you compare digital camera options to understand the issues of image resolution, which is measured in megapixels. Basically, the more megapixels, the higher the resolutions of the final image but you definitely need to compare digital camera images with your actual requirements. This is best done if you compare digital camera resolution with the size of the images that you want to print and you will find that a 1-mg camera can create a 3-by-5-inch (7.5 by 13 cm) photo-quality print; a 2-mg camera will make a 5-by-7-inch (13 by 18 cm) print; a 3-mg camera will make an 8-by-10-inch (20 by 25 cm) print, and a 6-mg camera will make a 9-by-13-inch (23 by 33 cm) print.
One of the other points to consider when you compare digital camera prices is to look at the complete package that is offered. Some included extras to look for when you compare digital camera packages are if the camera includes a cable for your computer and if it comes with image-editing software that works with your computer. If these are not included it is still possible for you to buy them separately but you need to allow for this when you compare digital camera prices. Another important point to consider when you compare digital camera options is to choose a camera with removable memory in addition to built-in memory.
All of the cameras that you are considering when you compare digital camera features should have an LCD screen for viewing pictures, a built-in flash, a timer, and a time/date stamp on even the most basic camera. You should also look to compare digital camera packages that have optical zoom, not digital, if you need a zoom capability and most midrange cameras should have high-quality optical zoom lenses but it is still worth checking to make sure.

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Tip dan Trik Menghindari Virus Menyerang HandPhone Anda

Anda pengguna smartphone atau hp yang canggih dengan fitur lengkap, semisal handphone dengan fasilitas Os Java atau Symbian atau Windows mobile? Anda pernah mengalami handphone anda terkena virus yang menyebabkan hp anda error atau nge-hang atau data-data penting anda hilang! Berikut ini ada beberapa tips yang dapat anda terapkan untuk menghindari agar handphone anda terhindar dari serangan virus.
1. Pastikan Bluetooth dalam Kondisi Hidden Mode
Jika ponsel Anda dilengkapi Bluetooth, pastikan fitur ini berada dalam kondisi hidden mode atau invisible untuk mencegah perangkat Bluetooth orang lain mendeteksi perangkat Anda kecuali memang Anda menghendakinya. Selain itu, matikan Bluetooth jika tidak terpakai. Langkah ini akan cukup melindungi ponsel dari serangan virus yang menyebar melalui Bluetooth.
2. Hati-hati Saat Menerima Kiriman Asing
Ketika menerima aplikasi yang dikirim via Bluetooth atau membuka attachment MMS, berhati-hatilah dari kemungkinan adanya program jahat. Pastikan kiriman itu berasal dari sumber terpercaya. Bahkan jikalaupun kiriman itu berasal dari teman, lebih baik Anda tak membukanya dan menghapusnya jika terdapat konten yang tidak familiar.
3. Download dari Sumber Terpercaya
Pastikan juga selalu men-download konten dari sumber resmi yang terpercaya sehingga ancaman virus bisa tereliminir. Namun hati-hatilah karena bisa jadi kaum kriminal mampu mengkreasi sumber download yang kelihatan terpercaya meskipun sejatinya adalah gudang virus.
4. Pakai Anti Virus
Beberapa software khusus telah ditawarkan untuk menjaga ponsel Anda dari ancaman virus. Pakailah jika Anda merasa memerlukannya.
5. Hubungi Produsen Ponsel Anda
Jika Anda menduga ponsel Anda telah terinfeksi virus, segera kontak produsen ponsel Anda untuk mengambil langkah yang tepat dalam menghindari kerusakan.
sumber dari : detikinet.com

Recycling electronics not always a solution

Lots of TVs, computers still exported to places with lax environmental rules

SAN FRANCISCO - Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas.
While there are no precise figures, activists estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the 300,000 to 400,000 tons of electronics collected for recycling in the U.S. each year ends up overseas. Workers in countries such as China, India and Nigeria then use hammers, gas burners and their bare hands to extract metals, glass and other recyclables, exposing themselves and the environment to a cocktail of toxic chemicals.
"It is being recycled, but it's being recycled in the most horrific way you can imagine," said Jim Puckett of the Basel Action Network, the Seattle-based environmental group that tipped off Hong Kong authorities. "We're preserving our own environment, but contaminating the rest of the world."
The gear most likely to be shipped abroad is collected at free recycling drives, often held each April around Earth Day, recycling industry insiders say. The sponsors — chiefly companies, schools, cities and counties — often hire the cheapest firms and do not ask enough questions about what becomes of the discarded equipment, the insiders say.
Many so-called recyclers simply sell the working units and components, then give or sell the remaining scrap to export brokers.
"There are a lot of people getting away with exporting e-waste," said John Bekiaris, chief executive of San Francisco-based HMR USA Inc., which collects and disposes of unwanted IT equipment from Bay Area businesses. "Anyone who's disposing of their computer equipment really needs to do a thorough inspection of the vendors they use."
State bans could increase exportsThe problem could get worse. Most of the 2 million tons of old electronics discarded annually by Americans goes to U.S. landfills, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data. But a growing number of states are banning such waste from landfills, which could drive more waste into the recycling stream and fuel exports, activists say.
Many brokers claim they are simply exporting used equipment for reuse in poor countries. That's what happened in September, when customs officials in Hong Kong were tipped off by environmentalists and intercepted two freight containers. They cracked the containers open and found hundreds of old computer monitors and televisions discarded by Americans thousands of miles away.
China bans the import of electronic waste, so the containers were sent back to the U.S.
The company that shipped out the containers was Fortune Sky USA, a Cordova, Tenn.-based subsidiary of a Chinese company. General manager Vincent Yu said his company thought it was buying and shipping used computers, not old monitors and televisions, and is trying to get its money back.
Fortune Sky exports used computers and components to China, Malaysia, Vietnam and other Asian countries.
"There's a huge market over there for secondhand computers that we don't use anymore," Yu said. "I don't think it's going to cause any pollution. If the equipment can still be used, then that's good for everybody."
Yu refused to say where he bought the material, but Basel Action Network tracked it to a San Antonio, Texas, company that collects computers, printers and other electronics from schools and businesses.
Activists complain that most exporters don't test units to make sure they work before sending them overseas.
"Reuse is the new excuse. It's the new passport to export," said Puckett of Basel Action Network. "Other countries are facing this glut of exported used equipment under the pretext that it's all going to be reused."
At the other end at customs, the goods don't always get checked either.
"It is impossible to stop and check every single container imported into Hong Kong," said Kenneth Chan of Hong Kong's Environmental Protection Department. "Smugglers may also deliberately declare their ... waste as goods."
In the first nine months of this year, Hong Kong authorities returned 85 containers of electronic junk, including 20 from the U.S.
Exporting most electronic waste isn't illegal in the United States. The U.S. does bar the export of monitors and televisions with cathode-ray tubes without permission from the importing country, but federal authorities don't have the resources to check most containers.
Talk of certificationThe EPA recognizes the problem but doesn't believe that stopping exports is the solution, said Matt Hale, who heads the agency's office of solid waste. Since most electronics are manufactured abroad, it makes sense to recycle them abroad, Hale said.
"What we need to do is work internationally to upgrade the standards (for recycling) wherever it takes place," he said.
The EPA is working with environmental groups, recyclers and electronics manufacturers to develop a system to certify companies that recycle electronics responsibly. But so far the various players have not agreed on standards and enforcement.
Many activists believe the answer lies in requiring electronics makers to take back and recycle their own products. Such laws would encourage manufacturers to make products that are easier to recycle and contain fewer dangerous chemicals, they say.
Eight states, including five this year, have passed such laws, and companies such as Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Sony now take back their products at no charge. Some require consumers to mail in their old gear, while others have drop-off centers. HP says it also now designs its equipment with fewer toxic materials and has made it easier to recycle.

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New Mitsubishi HDTV To Stream Blu-ray Movies Around The House

A month after Amimom established a consortium to promote its WHDI (wireless) codec that makes gadgets natively interoperable, Mitsubishi announced its first HDTV that takes full advantage of the tech: The Mitsubishi 'Living Fit' TV.
So what seems interesting about it? Start with the quirky fact that the system comes in two parts. One is a very thin LCD screen (expected to be 1.5 in. or so), and the other is a separate box that includes a Blu-ray optical drive and sends out the wireless signals to the TV.
This means that if all your other TVs are WHDI-enabled and are within 100 feet of the receiver box, uncompressed HD video will stream automatically, bypassing physical barriers like walls and furniture.
The second main feature is that the wireless gets rid of the mess of cables completely -- plug in your TiVo or another media player to the box, put them in the closet and let the feed take care itself.
While the 1920 x 1080p (full HD resolution) TV is expected to come out in Japan at first, expect to see it in the U.S. by next year.

Source: TechOn, Giz

Panasonic Launches First 'Micro Four Thirds' Camera

Back in August, Olympus and Panasonic announced a new camera standard called Micro Four Thirds. Today Panasonic has launched the first camera using this standard, and it looks very interesting, if flawed.
SLR cameras were designed for the film era. The "reflex" refers to the mirror inside, which redirects light to the viewfinder and then flips out of the way when the shutter is fired, letting the light fall onto the film. Because of the mirror, the body of an SLR is relatively large, and because the lenses are so far away from the film plane (or, these days, the sensor chip), they have to be big, too. Look at the size difference between a compact camera and an SLR for an instant example of this.
Micro Four Thirds does away with the mirror, making the camera much smaller. The gimmick is that you can still change lenses, just like an SLR. And because the sensor size is standard across Micro Four Thirds cameras, the confusion of focal length multipliers disappears (although if you do want to know the 35mm equivalent, just times multiply by two), and you you don't have to sell all your glass if you swap from one camera brand to another.
Panasonic's new Lumix DMC-G1 uses all these advantages to make a tiny, full featured camera which is somewhat misleadingly being called the "world's smallest digital SLR" -- remember, to be an SLR it needs a mirror.
Inside you'll find a 12MP N-MOS sensor, a 3" LCD screen, an ISO range of 100 to 3200 and an electronic viewfinder. This is the first problem. No matter how crisp and sharp the viewfinder, it will never be as good as looking through a lens at the real scene in front of you. The advantage is that you still get a TTL (through the lens) image like you would with a mirror. The alternative is a rangefinder, an optical viewfinder which sits close to the lens but shows a slightly different view.
The camera is indeed small (Reuters says that Panasonic is "targeting female users who want a high-performance machine that does not weigh too much" -- perhaps they could continue the patronization with a pink model). But into that body are packed some neat controls.

From the top you can see that a lot of functions normally hidden in menus have their own switches. On the left, there is a dial to select the focus mode (single, continuous or manual) and on the right, a lever around the main dial selects the shooting mode: single, continuous, bracket or self-timer.

The rear view reveals a big, flip-out LCD (3") which might go some way to mitigating the optical 'finder. There are also direct access buttons for ISO and white balance. If only Panasonic had managed to put an aperture ring on the lens and a real shutter speed dial on the top plate, this configuration could be perfect. And for those of you asking the obvious question: Yes, it does shoot RAW.
Two lenses will be available at launch. The Lumix G Vario ƒ3.5-5.6 14-45mm (28-90mm equivalent -- multiply by two, remember?) and the Lumix G Vario ƒ4-5.6 45-200mm (you can the math on this one). Given Panasonic's "special relationship" with Leica, we should probably expect some Micro Four Thirds lenses from the Wetzlar (or Solms) company.
In fact, given the troubles with Leica's M8, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see it abandon bodies altogether and concentrate on lenses, much as Sega dropped the hardware side of its business and stuck to what it knew best -- games.
For a first stab at this new format, The G1 is a good effort. If it takes a good picture, it could be a huge success. And even the problems can be ironed out: The Micro Four Thirds system means that all kinds of body shapes can be built around the base specification and share the same lenses.
The G1 will ship on October 31st in Japan, crossing the seas soon after. Kit price ¥90,000 ($840).
sources : http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/panasonic-launc.html

Hands-on: Garmin Forerunner 405

This is the Garmin Forerunner 405 and it will give you a range of data at your fingertips, Forerunner means business and they deliver on features, but at a price.
The compact design of the Forerunner 405 is ideal, although the reliably of this fitness gadget hangs on to HRM signals and GPS. The Forerunner 405 may still seem a little chunky, but the new form factor doesn’t make you feel like there is a massive lump on your arm like Garmin’s previous designs.
Pocket Lint have given the Garmin Forerunner 405 a full hands-on review and in their verdict they said “For those serious about their training the Forerunner 405 delivers on its promises”.
Thanks to fitness add-ons appearing for many devices like phones, the 405 is much better than the competition. The price of £220 shows that this device is aimed at those that are serious, and some users will not want to pay this much, especially since there is no software provided in the box.

sources : http://www.product-reviews.net/category/other-tech-gadget/

Sony BRAVIA XDV-W600: ultimate portable TV

Whenever Sony launches a new BRAVIA TV, product review sites always like to do a big review on the product. Well it seems as if one new model has slipped through the cracks, the XDV-W600.
The Sony XDV-W600 is not your normal BRAVIA TV though, so do not expect something like 20,000:1 contrast ratio and dynamic sound. This new TV comes with a 4 Inch LCD Panel, so yes it is one of those portable TV’s
The battery gives you 23 hours of life. Some of the features include FM tuner, IPX7 and 1Seg TV. Oh did I forget to mention that the thing is also waterproof, so you can take the Sony XDV-W600 in the bath with you.

sources : http://www.product-reviews.net/category/other-tech-gadget/

Everex CloudBook with Bluetooth and touchscreen

Everex CloudBook which is FIC manufactured has made its way to Japan which may be exciting to some but the most interesting part of this news is that the ultra-portable 7-inch Everex CloudBook has Bluetooth and touchscreen.
Other features include 802.11a to augment the existing b/g WiFi, the other specs basically remain the same for example 1.2GHz VIA C7-M proc and 30GB hard disk.
The question is, is the price right? A tax-inclusive price of ¥59,800 which is around $600 which is a lot more than the normal one without touchscreen for $399.
The release in Japan is supposedly March 22nd.
Source - Impress