History of SMS

Short Message Service

The First SMS was sent 20 years ago by software engineer Neil Papworth, to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis. With the evolution of the latest technologies like Smartphones and app-world the sheen of SMS hasn't lost yet.

Even in the today's tech savvy life SMS plays very significant role in our day to day life. Most usage of SMS is for alerts on banking transactions, online shopping, online bookings and last but not least for communication.

Simple way to get HTML color codes

HTML color codes

In the age of web world there are many new web developers who want to have their own websites but backing off due to the so called cumbersome HTML coding and process involved. If any young developer is interested in or started designing and coding the website, there may be a need to use HTML color codes for coloring background, text, buttons, images or anything else. Find here the HTML color codes,

How to change the file system from FAT32 to NTFS

Convert file system to NTFS from FAT32

Some times you may be faced with a peculiar problem, while you are trying to upgrade your computer with advanced windows version like Windows XP or Windows7. Your file system or Disk may not support these versions of OS. FAT32 will not support the advanced versions of windows like Windows7. In that case you need to change Disk from FAT to NTFS, then follow these steps.

There are three main File Systems  used in Windows:

FAT16: 16 Bit file system is used in ancient times, they are now used only in floppy disks (which are rarely used now).

FAT32: This type of file system is primarily used in Windows 95 and 98. It can handle data larger that 2GB.

NTFS: This is Windows NT file system. It is used in Windows NT, 2000, XP, 7. It is much more reliable that FAT32.

For some reason if you are using windows 98 and XP in your system then your file system could be FAT32.

Bada - Samsung Smartphone platform

Samsung's Bada is a smartphone platform (operating system) which is devised for a wide range of platforms. Bada is a Korean word which stands for Ocean. It has a vision of 'smart phone for everyone', to help grow Bada samsung is planing to make it an opensource by 2012.
Bada has been unvieled in 2010. First Bada based smart phone was Samsung Wave S8500, it was released in June 2010 and 1 million handsets were sold in first four weeks after its release. In May 2010 Samsung has released a Beta of the Bada called Software Development Kit to attract developers, later it released version 1.0.1 with minor enhancements for its european users. In Aug 2011 Samsung released version 2.0 of bada which has many additional featured than its predecessors.

Samsung Bada

Nokia Lumia 710 and Nokia Lumia 800

The new Windows based Gadgets from Nokia are out Lumia 710 and 800.
Nokia which is trying hard to regain its lost smart phone market to Samsung and Apple.
Nokia Lumia 800 which is look-alike N9 will measure 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm and weighs 147 grams. Its has a RAM of 512MB.
Nokia Lumia 710 will also pack a gig of RAM and measured 110 x 62.4 x 12.5 mm. Its Storage has been confirmed of 8GB.

Nokia Lumia

How to connect Android phone to printer to print files

Connect Android tablet to Printer

Common question by android users is that whether they can connect to the printer to print their files but there are no supported hardware drivers which can directly connect to printer to print files. But we have one way, you can print files easily if your printer has Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, there are lots of applications available in the android market, install the one which suites your need.

Mostly these applications are released by printer manufacturers it self such as HP, Samsung etc., 

Amazon's Kindle Fire

Amazon's kindle fire

Online retail giant Amazon has launched a new tablet computer Kindle Fire which costs $199, which is less than half the price of iPad from Apple. Kindle Fire has a 7 inch screen which is smaller than iPad's size (9 inch).
Kindle Fire is touted with a new web browser Amazon Silk.

How to find IP address of your iPhone.

When ever you try to create a media center remote or wireless file server there are number of computer applications that need your smartphone's IP address. Here is how you can find global/public or local IP address.

Select the Network

On your iPhone go to Settings > Wi-Fi networks (make sure Wi-Fi is turned on). Tap the blue arrow at the right hand side of the network. You will be able to find your IP address on the resulting screen.

Avoid unwanted SMS in your Android Phone.

Block Spam SMS

Are you fed-up with unwanted SMS flowing into your inbox? Get freedom from all unwanted SMS with world's most advanced anti spam and SMS filter App! This smsBlocker blocks spam SMS automatically.
Unlike any other SMS blockers you need not feed the number or text always to block the sms this App will take care of blocking if you just provide option to block the sms or allow.

Optimal Answer Sheets and Optimal Mark Recognition

OMR

Optimal Answer Sheets or OMR sheet is a special type of form used in multiple choice question examination.OMR sheets generally have a set of blank boxes or ovals that corresponds to each question, bar codes process the sheets for automatic processing. Each oval filled will return a certain value when read, with which ability of the student can be tested.
Optimal Mark Recognition will these detect these answers (marked ovals) Many traditional OMR devices will work with a dedicated scanner

Best Free Anti-Virus software

Ad-Aware Free Internet Security: Lavasoft's Ad-aware software tries to mitigate all possible threats. It functions as Anti virus and anti spyware and offers anti-malware protestion.

AVG Anti-Virus: It offers basic antivirus protection and scans the links while browsing to protect from phishing and malware threats. 

What is the significance of Internet Protocol address

IP address is an exclusive number all information technology devices such as printer, modem or routers use which identifies and allows them to communicate with each other.

User Agent String and Screen Resolution

User Agent

Your user agent tells every site you are visiting about what browser you are using. Not all sites have the UA detection in place. If you are visiting the site via mobile and if the site has the User Agent detection in place then you will be directed to the mobile content of that site so that site content fits according to your screen.

Error in Microsoft Outlook "the content cannot be displayed because the s/mime control is not available"

The S/MIME control is necessary to verify the signature of digitally signed message. If you receive a message that has been encrypted or digitally signed and have not installed the S/MIME control, Outlook will display a warning message in the header notifying that S/MIME control is not available. The message will direct you to the E-Mail Security Option where you can install this control.

Note: This control could not be installed in IE 6, better to use higher versions of IE.