Flip-Top Dell Inspiron Duo Makes a Terrible Tablet.....................!!!

Dell’s Inspiron Duo is ready to buy. You may remember the clever flip-top netbook from its long gestation period: it can be either a tablet or a laptop or – with an optional dock- a small media center.

The trick is in the lid of this otherwise humdrum machine. The multi-touch panel is suspended within the screen-bezel and spins on its horizontal axis, facing out or in depending on need. The specs are as you’d expect: 1.5GHz Atom N550, 320GB, 10-inch multitouch display, 1.3MP webcam and a pair of USB ports.
The netbook part surely works fine: Dell has gotten pretty good at that. But the tablet part is little more than a gimmick. It’ll work with the installed Windows 7 OS, but not well, unless you have sharp, mouse-pointer-shaped fingers. So Dell has included its Stage interface, which can be used for browsing music, movies and photos. If you want a nice, finger-friendly way to surf the web or send a mail then you’re out of luck.

The biggest problem is the price. As specced, you’ll need to pay $550, plus another $100 for the JBL speaker dock (which also adds ethernet and more USB ports). This computer seems little more than a cynical cash-in, a product trying to get in on the current tablet hotness without actually making a proper tablet.

Top 10 myths about job interviews.......................!!!

Here is his list of the top 10 job interview myths, and how to deal with them:

Myth #10: The interviewer is prepared.
"The person you're meeting with is probably overworked and stressed about having to hire someone," Couper says. "So make it easy for him or her. Answer that catchall request, 'Tell me about yourself", by talking about why you're a great fit for this job. If it's obvious they haven't read your resume, recap it briefly, and then tie it to the job you want." Tell them what they really need to know, so they don't have to come up with more questions.

Myth #9: Most interviewers have been trained to conduct thorough job interviews.
While human resources professionals do get extensive training in job interviewing techniques, the average line manager is winging it. "To make up for vague questions, be specific even if they don't ask," Couper suggests. "Be ready with two or three examples of particular skills and experiences that highlight why they should hire you."

Myth #8: It's only polite to accept an interviewer's offer of refreshment.
"They usually try to be courteous and offer you a drink, but they don't really want to bother with it," says Couper. "Unless the beverage in question is right there and won't take more than a second to get, just say, no, thank you."
Couper once interviewed a job candidate who said she would love a cup of tea, which, he recalls, "meant I spent half the allotted interview time looking for a tea bag, heating water, and so on. It was irritating."
Another good reason, Couper says, to decline caffeine is that "if the interview is a lengthy one, you don't want to need a restroom halfway through the conversation."

Myth #7: Interviewers expect you to hand over references' contact information right away.
Hold off until you're specifically asked, Couper advises, and even then, you can delay a bit by offering to send the information in an email in a day or two. There are at least two good reasons for not rushing it, Couper says. First, "you sometimes don't know until the end of the interview who would be the best references for this particular job," he notes. "If you get a sense that the interviewer cares most about, for instance, teamwork, you want to choose someone who can attest to your skills in that area. A reference who can only talk about some other aspect of your work is not going to help."
Second, and no less important, "you want a little time to prep your references, by gently coaching them on what you'd like them to say, before the employer calls them."

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Myth #6: There's a right answer to every question an interviewer asks.
"Sometimes how you approach your answer is far more important than the answer itself," Couper says. If you're presented with a hypothetical problem and asked how you would resolve it, try to think of a comparable situation from the past and tell what you did about it.
Talkback: Has anything surprised you during a job interview? Leave a comment at the bottom of this story.

Myth #5: You should always keep your answers short.
Here's where doing lots of research before an interview really pays off. "The more you've learned about the company and the job beforehand, the better able you are to tell why you are the right hire," Couper says.
Don't be afraid to talk at length about it, partly because it will spare the interviewer having to come up with another question for you (see Myth #1 above) and partly because "in a good interview, you should be talking about two-thirds of the time."

Myth #4: If you've got great qualifications, your appearance doesn't matter.
Reams of research on this topic have proven that physical attractiveness plays a big part in hiring decisions. "Anyone who says otherwise is lying," Couper says. "People care about your looks, so make the absolute most of what you've got." Even if you're not drop-dead gorgeous, it's impossible to overestimate the importance of looking "healthy, energetic, and confident."

Myth #3: When asked where you see yourself in five years, you should show tremendous ambition.
The five-year question is a common one, and it's uncommonly tricky. "Interviewers want you to be a go-getter, but they also worry that you'll get restless if you don't move up fast enough. So you want to say something that covers all bases, like, 'I'd be happy to stay in this job as long as I'm still learning things and making a valuable contribution,'" says Couper.
You might also consider turning the question around and asking, "Where do you see me in five years?" Says Couper, "Sometimes the answer to that -- like, 'Well, we'd expect you to keep doing the same thing we hired you to do' -- is a good way to spot a dead-end job."

Myth #2: If the company invites you to an interview, that means the job is still open.
Alas, no. In fact, the job may never have existed in the first place: "Some companies use 'interviews' to do market research on the cheap. They ask you about your current or recent duties, your pay scale, and so on, to get information for comparison purposes." Another possibility, Couper says, is that "they may already have a strong internal candidate in mind for the job but just want to see if they come across someone better."
If you get an interview through a networking contact, he adds, "an employer may interview you simply as a courtesy to the person who referred you, if that is someone they don't want to disappoint."
Even if the job opening is phony, it's still worth going, he says: "Sometimes they discover you're a good fit for a different opening that really does exist. You never know where an interview might lead."

And the #1 myth about job interviewing: The most qualified person gets the job.
In at least one crucial respect, a job interview is like a date: Chemistry counts.
"A candidate who is less qualified, but has the right personality for the organization and hits it off with the interviewer, will almost always get hired over a candidate who merely looks good on paper," Couper says.
What can you do if you suspect you're not knocking an interviewer's socks off?
"At the end of the discussion, you'll probably be asked if you have any questions," Couper says. "If you sense the person has reservations about your style, ask what the ideal candidate for this job would be like." Then think fast. Can you talk a bit about how you fit that profile? "Addressing any concerns the interviewer might have, beyond your formal qualifications, is your chance to seal the deal," Couper says.

Adding Your Company's Exchange Server to Your Cellphone Enables Remote Wiping..........!!!

You had IT set up Microsoft Exchange Server on your personal phone so you could get corporate email and stay in touch. You also, likely unbeknownst to you, gave them the power to remotely control and wipe your phone.


If you've linked your personal smartphone to your company's network via their Microsoft Exchange Server you need to be extra diligent about backing up your data to your personal computer or syncing it to the cloud. In doing so you gave them the power to control your phone from afar, turn functions on and off, and nuke it from space. NPR reports:

The phone doesn't need to download any new software. All that's necessary is for the phone's user to configure it to receive e-mail from a Microsoft Exchange Server - the kind most big companies use.
Once that's been set up, an IT department has the capability to wipe the phone and turn off functions like Bluetooth, the Web browser and even the phone's camera.
"The reason why you see such a long list of various policies and controls is because different organizations want those controls," says Adam Glick, senior technical product manager for Microsoft Exchange.
He points to the peace of mind the system offers to people whose phones have been stolen, and who can rest assured that all the personal information contained inside can be erased from afar.
Glick says employers sometimes need remote control of other functions, like the camera, to prevent leaks. "If you're having an important meeting about the future finances of the organization and people put that up on a slide, and someone might take out their camera phone and take a picture. And then they might go and, say, post that to the Internet," Glick says.

If you're thinking that sounds like a far fetched scenario that wouldn't affect most people, consider how a simple toggle in the upgrade of a Lifehacker reader's corporate email server altered his phone. Reader Juan Smith shares his experience:

If your company has an up-to-date Exchange server, merely adding your Exchange-based work email to your iPhone also enables a remote wipe option.
I first discovered this when my boss (the network admin) upgraded Exchange and accidentally disabled all of our phones' camera features (since "disable camera" was the default for some reason). Exchange can also enforce passcode complexity and change frequency requirements, and/or force you to enable the feature that wipes your phone if someone repeatedly enters the wrong code.
There's also an option to remotely wipe all data from the phone at any time. If your company has the Outlook Web App configured, you can view which devices have access to your email and wipe any of them remotely yourself.

While these features exist for a reason (such as wiping a phone with sensitive corporate data when it is reported missing) that doesn't change the fact that an accidental activation could wipe your personal data. Back up your your contacts, photos, and other personal data on a regular basis to ensure such accidents don't deep six your data

How to Triple Boot Your Hackintosh with Windows and Linux..................!!!

We've walked through how to triple-boot your Mac with Windows and Linux, but if you're using a shiny new Hackintosh, the process is a bit more complicated. Here's how to get all three operating systems up an running on your new PC.
While the Chameleon bootloader (the default boot screen for your Hackintosh) is a great friend to Hackintosh builders, Windows and Linux try to muck everything up by attempting to take over your computer with their own bootloaders, resetting the active partition, and throwing your partition tables out of sync. There are two ways to triple boot your Hackintosh. The first is very straightforward and allows you a lot of flexibility, while the second is much more complicated but offers other advantages depending on how many hard drives you have. This guide assumes you've already installed Mac OS X as described in our most recent Hackintosh guide, and, if you're using the second method, that you still have the iBoot disc handy. You'll also obviously need the Windows 7 and Linux installation discs as well. If you've got everything ready, follow the instructions below to get Windows 7 and Linux living harmoniously on the same PC.

The Easy Method: Use Multiple Hard Drives

By far the easiest way to triple boot your Hackintosh is to install your other operating systems to separate hard drives. Chameleon can see operating systems on any hard drive in your computer, and one of the advantages of building a desktop is that you have tons of extra drive bays to fill up. Chances are you probably have some extra drives lying around anyways, so this wouldn't be too out of the way. This method doesn't even warrant a how-to—you just install your extra drives in your system, then install Windows and Linux on each one using the default settings. You can even stick them Linux and Windows on the same drive, if you want—it's only when all three get together that you start to have problems. Photo by Justin Ruckman.
If, for some reason, you want to keep them all on the same drive, roll up your sleeves and read on.

The Complicated Method: One Drive to Boot Them All

Putting all three OSes on one drive isn't difficult, but you do need to perform all the steps correctly and in the right order, or you'll be left with a confused mess on your machine. The only big advantage of this method is if you don't have any extra hard drives lying around, or if you have a large enough SSD and want to take advantage of its speed in all three OSes.

Step One: Partition Your Drive

Right now, you should have a drive with just one partition containing Snow Leopard (plus your 200MB EFI partition, which won't be visible in Disk Utility). Start up Disk Utility and click on the drive containing OS X in the left sidebar. Head over to the Partition tab, and click on your Mac OS X partition. Hit the plus sign at the bottom of the window twice, so you have a total of three partitions. Head to the upper right-hand corner of the window and name the second partition WINDOWS and the third one LINUX, formatting them both as FAT32 for now. If you need swap space for Linux, you can add a fourth partition, but nowadays this seems pretty unnecessary, so three partitions should be just fine. Hit the Apply button and let it work its magic.
When you're done, insert your Windows 7 installation disc and restart your computer.

Step Two: Install Windows 7

Boot from the Windows 7 disc and head into the Windows installation. Make sure you do a Custom install, and when you're given a list of hard drives, click on the partition named WINDOWS and hit "Drive Options (Advanced)". Click Format to format the drive as NTFS, and then hit Next to start the installation. Your computer will reboot a few times, but you won't have to mess with it at all, so go away and come back when it prompts you to name your computer.
As always, Windows is the biggest problem child in this debacle. When you reboot, you won't be able to boot into OS X, but that's fine—we'll deal with all that in a moment. First, we're going to get this Linux installation out of the way.

Step Three: Install Linux

For the purposes of this guide, we're going to install Ubuntu 10.04, but you can use another version of Ubuntu if you want, or another distro altogether (like the super awesome Arch Linux). Just make sure you install Linux to the correct partition and make extra sure that you install Grub to the same partition to which you installed Linux, as described below.

Boot up from your Ubuntu CD and head into the installation. The first few steps are pretty self-explanatory, it's when you get to the partition window that you want to pay attention. Hit "Specify Partitions Manually" and click Next. Double click your Linux partition's entry in the table (at this point, it should be the only FAT32 formatted partition on your drive). Under "Use As", choose your desired filesystem (If you aren't sure, use Ext4, which seems to be the new standard). Check the "Format the Partition" box and choose / as the Mount Point. Hit OK. Before moving on, note the name of your Linux partition—the name will be something like /dev/sda4—and hit the Forward button to continue.

In the last window, where it says "Ready to Install", hit the Advanced button. Under "Device for boot loader installation", it should say something like /dev/sda. Change this to /dev/sda4, or whatever the name of your Linux partition is. Ordinarily, Grub will install itself to the Master Boot Record of the drive, because it wants to be your primary bootloader. In this case, we're already using Chameleon, so we're just going to stick this on Linux's partition, since we won't be using it to get into Windows or OS X. When you're ready, hit the Install button and let Ubuntu do its thing. When you're done, restart your computer.

Step Four: Fix the Windows Bootloader You Just Broke

You'd think keeping Grub away from Windows would leave Windows' bootloader untouched, but these operating systems just don't like to play nicely together. Unfortunately, when you first installed Mac OS X, you set your hard drive to use a GUID partition table (GPT), which is not fully compatible with Windows (Windows and Grub really prefer an MBR partition table). Now that you've installed Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux side-by-side, your drive is a GPT/MBR hybrid, and your partition tables are "out of sync". To make the GPT and MBR tables play nicely with one another on the same drive, you need to sync them with a program called gptsync in Linux.

So, grab your iBoot CD and use it to boot into your new Linux partition (since Chameleon is strangely missing—we'll get to that in a second). Download gptsync from your distro's repositories (though Ubuntu users may want to use the .deb files available here instead of the older versions still in the repositories). Once it's installed, pull up a Terminal window and type:

gptsync /dev/sda

where /dev/sda is the drive containing all your partitions. If you aren't sure which one is the one you're using, type in fdisk -l to see a list. Note that you aren't using it on just one of the partitions (e.g. /dev/sda1), you're using it on the entire drive. Once you're done, your computer should successfully boot into Windows whenever you reboot.

Step Five: Set The OS X Partition as Active

When Windows installs, it makes itself the active partition on your computer, which means when you restart, your computer will just boot you into Windows as if OS X and Linux weren't even there. We want the active partition to be our OS X partition, since it contains Chameleon, which lets us choose between the OSes when we start off. To pry Windows' greedy hands off your hard drive, you'll have to boot up from the iBoot CD into OS X and open up Terminal.
Type diskutil list and hit enter to see a list of your drives and their partitions. Note the identifier of your OS X partition (which will be labeled as Apple_HFS Snow Leopard). This should be something like disk0s2. Type sudo -s and enter your password to gain root permissions.

Next, type in fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0 and hit enter, where rdisk0 corresponds to the first number in your OS X partition's identifier (for example, if its identifier were disk1s2 instead of disk0s2, you would type /dev/rdisk1 instead of rdisk0). Hit y to continue.
Then, type in frisk -e /dev/rdisk0, where once again, rdisk0 corresponds to the correct partition. Type in p and hit enter, then type f 2, where 2 corresponds to the second number in your partition's identifier (e.g. disk0s2). Hit enter. Enter w at the next prompt, then y to complete the process. Close the Terminal and reboot your computer.

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If everything goes well, you should be greeted once again by the familiar Chameleon bootloader, which will now list Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux as available boot options. Double check and make sure each of them boots correctly. If they do, you're finished! Enjoy your new triple-booting PC. If not, you may have done something wrong in the above steps. You can try googling any error codes you get and fixing it that way, or re-syncing the partition tables and trying again, but because of the complications in Windows and the GUID partition table, it might be simplest to just start from scratch. Back up your data in your OS X partition, reformat the entire drive, and start over. It's a pain, but like we said before—these three OSes really, really don't like to get along with one another when you try to put them all on the same drive.
If the pain of starting from scratch is too much to bear, reconsider the multiple-drive option—it won't give you the speed boosts of an SSD (unless you buy three), and it might cost a bit more if you don't already have drives lying around, but on the occasion that you need to reinstall one of the OSes or reformat part of your drive, it will be completely hassle-free, unlike the above method which has me pulling my hair out after just one day.

Funny............!!!

Wife - who was there with you in the car this morning?
Husband - system unstable press ctrl, alt, del to Reboot.

Wife - what is the relation between you & your Receptionist?
Husband - the only user with write permission.

Wife - what is my value in your life?
Husband - unknown virus detected.

Wife - do you love me or your computer?
Husband - Too many parameters..

Wife - I will go to my dad's house.
Husband - program performed illegal operation, it will Close.

Wife - I will leave you forever.
Husband - close all programs and log out for another User.

Wife - it is worthless talking to you.
Husband - shut down the computer.

Wife - I am going
Husband - Its now safe to turn off your computer

Nokia launches its messaging & entertainment phone, Nokia X5, for Rs. 10,499 in India..............!!!

Nokia has released its famous square form factor vertical sliding QWERTY phone in India, the Nokia X5, at an MRP of Rs. 10,499. Certainly novel looking, the Nokia X5 is sure to turn heads in the wild, and apart from being a capable messaging (SMS, email, IM) and social networking device with its QWERTY keyboard and native social networking and mail applications, the phone is supposedly an entertainment device, and indeed, is nicknamed the Nokia “Jukebox” X5 by the Finnish mobile giant.

Some of the Nokia X5’s entertainment features include: dedicated music keys; stereo FM radio with RDS; internet radio support; Nokia 3.5 mm AV connector (audio only); ‘Surprise me!’ – allows users to switch tracks by spinning their phones; ’Playlist DJ’ – allows users to create their own playlists; and ‘Shazam’ – which allows users to identify songs that they don’t recognize.

The Nokia X5 with its Nokia Messaging features will also appeal to the youth with its five trendy colours and reflective finish, as well as with its 5MP camera with 4x digital zoom, and a LED flash that can also be used as a flashlight. It comes bundled with a 2GB microSD card. Check out the full specifications of the Nokia X5 below:

2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
	HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100
Dimensions	74.3 x 66.4 x 16.9 mm, 76 cc
Weight	129 g
Display	2.36 inches, 320x240 pixels, 256K colours
Camera	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, LED flash, video at VGA@15fps
CPU	ARM 11 600 MHz processor
OS	Symbian OS 9.3, Series 60 v3.2 UI
Connectivity	Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, microUSB v2.0
Storage	200MB (internal), expandable up to 32GB with microSD (2GB card included)
GPS	No
Java	Yes, MIDP 2.0
Audio support	3.5mm audio jack, speaker phone, stereo FM radio with RDS, MP3/WMA/WAV/eAAC+/DAC33 formats
Video support	MP4/H.264/H.263 formats
GPRS	Class 32, 100 Kbps
EDGE	Class 32, 296 Kbps
3G	HSDPA 10.2Mbps, HSUPA 2Mbps
Colors	Pink, Azure, Graphite Black, Yellow Green, Purple
Battery	Standard battery, Li-Ion 950 mAh (BL-5F)
Stand-by	Up to 384 h (2G) / Up to 384 h (3G)
Talk time	Up to 5 h (2G) / Up to 3 h 30 min (3G)
Music play	Up to 24 h