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Have you got GPS on your phone but haven’t been able to use it….

Well GPS – Global Positioning System helps to determine the current location of the user. It makes use of the positioning satellites in the Earth’s orbit. And, it is really fun to use……

So lets get started on how to configure your phone for GPS use.

Press Start —> Settings and Click on External GPS….

Now on the first screen set the GPS Program Port as COM7. (or ANY other port you like)

Then click on the Hardware Tab and then SET the GPS Hardware Port as COM9. (or ANY other port you like ) AND set the BAUD RATE as 4800

Then click OK on the top right corner of the screen and you are done with the settings.

Now fire up Google Maps and go to Menu —> Options —> GPS Settings and click on Managed By Windows.

Now you are ready to use GPS on your mobile phone….

Stay tuned for more articles on Windows Mobile Phones……Till then Happy Windows Mobility……..
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About DNS :

It can happen that you have a good connection but the websites don’t open as quickly as you had expected. This can happen due to slow DNS ( Domain Name Service ) which has to “convert / translate” the names of the website to the numerical address of the server which is something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and connect to the server.

If the server responds with good speeds then probably you can get a lot faster browsing experience……I stress on “browsing” because download speeds are not affected by changing your DNS servers….

OpenDNS claims they have the fastest DNS servers (and free!!!) which are spread in many locations in the world to speed up your browsing. They also provide many other services like content filtering and ip / website banning. This can be helpful if you want to ban a specific category of sites like adult or nudity etc. The filter works great and the speeds are also good. You can even change the error message whenever  it notifies the users that the site is blog. You can even implement the filtering and use OpenDNS service for more than one IP’s.

If you are on dial-up or do not have a static IP, then you can download a small utility called OpenDNS Updater, which updates your current dynamic IP to the openDNS servers to effectively implement your filtering rules and for a better browsing experience.

So….if you need to change your DNS servers then foloow this simple procedure.

1. Go to Control Panel —> Network Connections.

2. Then select the connection which you use to connect to the internet and right click it and then click on Properties.

3. Then select the Networking tab…

4. Select Internet Protocol and Click on Properties.

5. Then Change the DNS servers. Primary DNS : 208.67.222.222
Secondary DNS : 208.67.220.220

6. Click on Ok and close all the tabs. The changes will not take place until you reconnect to the Internet.

For more information go to :
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www.opendns.com
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If you have bought an USB flash / thumb drive, then a word of Caution…..because many sellers on popular sites on eBay are offering its users Fake / Counterfeit drives in disguise of Good Brands like Sony, Corsair, Kingston etc.

Many drives are coming out of china which look just like the Originals but are unreliable, sometimes contain spyware / keyloggers or show incorrect memory capacity.

If you have a drive which shows incorrect capacity, opt for an replacement right away and do not store any confidential or private data on the flash drive.

If you are looking for a new USB Flash drive / Memory Card etc. then you *must* buy from an authorised seller. Generally a list of authorised sellers is available on the manufacturers website.

If you have purchased from eBay or other third-party client, then it makes sense to test your newly purchased drive for genuineness.

H2testw is a software which checks your drive for genuineness and generates a report. It has been awarded Gold Standard for its detection capabilities.

The software is small, easy to use and no need to install. It has English / German language options.

DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE HERE:

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http://www.mediafire.com/?24xzjnqmdbg

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The Program screenshot by the author of this site:

The program generates an output text which can be copied to clipboard. You can test your Drive for genuineness and paste your drive report output here on this site in your comments….

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Sample Output For A Fake 64 GB Drive

The media is likely to be defective.
3.8 GByte OK (8084847 sectors)
58.6 GByte DATA LOST (122921617 sectors)
Details:710.5 KByte overwritten (1421 sectors)
7.6 MByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 15630 sectors)
58.6 byte corrupted (122904566 sectors)
710.5 KByte aliased memory (1421 sectors)
First error at offset: 0×000000003cef8470
Expected: 0xeb7ac43a237c5170
Found: 0xeb7a843a237c5170
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 9.24 MByte/s
Reading speed: 10.8 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

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Here is a sample output for a Genuine Drive (Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB USB Flash drive):

Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 5.04 MByte/s
Reading speed: 24.9 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

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Here’s how you can improve the file-system on your computer so that your computer runs faster and speeds up the loading of all the applications.
You may know that when you buy a new PC…..The speed at which it runs is ‘lost’ after some days and your computer becomes slower than before…..

It is all because many files on your Hard Disk Drive get “Fragmented” i.e. A file is stored by the OS (Operating System) in many small parts and hence the time taken to access the file increases and hence the processor has to wait for a long time until the file has been completely accessed….

There are many tools available on the Internet to ‘defragment’ the files on your PC, which ultimately results in better performance……

Download Defraggler (An application developed by Piriform). It is a free tool which is very fast as compared to the Built-In Defragmenter in Microsoft Windows.(Yeah….I mean its really fast)……

To Download Defraggler —>CLICK HERE<—

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