Track Your Lost Mobile On MTNL

Now MTNL going to serve its customers with the newest technology which would help them to track their lost mobiles. This is being done in association with Microtechnologies who have created the software ‘Lost Mobile Tracking System’ (LMTS)

A free software, LMTS is available for download from MTNL through GPRS, and can be installed on almost 250 models of mobile phones, the companies claim. This software, stores the IMEI number of the handset, the SIM card number being used by the customer, as well as an alternative phone number or email address where the alert can be sent in case of theft or loss.

In the event of theft, the software sends an SMS alert regarding the new mobile number that has been replaced by the original number, and the IMEI number along with the current location of the handset.

This service will be provided by MTNL to the interested customers on a monthly subscription basis of Rs 30 per month.

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10 worst gadgets ever invented

Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea to go ahead and do it. Just look at cloning, or the Mir Space Station. And now the latest -- the worst news in aviation since the Hindenburg exploded. Mobile phones will soon be allowed on planes.

The European Commission has set out rules governing the use of the ubiquitous cellular phone on flights, and within six months predictable cries of 'Hi! I'm in economy-class on the Skybus!' or 'We land at six, can you get dinner started?' will be heard across the firmament.

And this is but the latest in a long list of technological developments that seemed like a good idea to someone at one time, but have proven to be the opposite. Here are our 10 worst offenders, starting with ...

1Mobiles on planes: the boundless stratosphere used to be one of the few places in which one could escape the omnipresent mobile. Air rage is set to rocket (yes, pun intended) when grumpy fliers' rest is disturbed by the sound of bleeping ring tones, tinny MP3s and one half of a moronic, very loud conversation. This is without even mentioning the possibility of terrorists using mobile signals to remotely detonate bombs in the baggage hold, or the plane taking a nosedive because the cumulative effect of 200 eejits playing computer games has driven the navigation system bananas.

2 All-in-one phone-MP3 player-address book-internet-camera etc.: because if one breaks, they're all broken, which obviously doesn't happen when your gadgets are physically distinct objects. And who wants to watch TV on a screen the size of a Zippo lighter, anyway?

3 Windows Vista: it's better than XP in some ways but there's an awful lot of needless tampering with the classics, e.g. Microsoft Word, which is now about as navigable as the Hindu Kush during a particularly cold winter.

4 Wireless broadband: now people can be rude by checking their email, downloading illegal movies and playing poker with Bulgarian gangsters just about anywhere: pubs, cafés, at the dinner table, in bed, wherever.

5 Camera-phones and video-phones: wave bye-bye to the notion of privacy -- the next time you make an ass of yourself in company, it's likely to be uploaded to YouTube and emailed around the world in all its fuzzy, pixellated glory quicker than you can say, 'What was I drinking last night?'

6 Social networking sites: even worse than the real thing. Is this what being a social animal is all about: 'poking' other friendless dweebs halfway around the world, or sending pointless messages to people who already know and dislike you enough, without you interrupting their working day with your inanities? With friends like this, who needs enemies?

7 GPS systems: they make people over-confident while driving twisty back-roads, but these supposedly all-seeing electronic eyes haven't factored in the tractor lumbering around the next bend, potholes the size of Godzilla's footprint, or that idiot who's built a wall halfway out onto the road.

8 More electronics in cars: it's a simple fact that mechanical parts are more reliable than electronic/electrical parts, easier to fix when they do cause a problem, handier to get hold of, and don't require constant 'upgrade'. And you can buy mechanical parts second-hand, too.

9 DVD: it may have a better picture than its predecessor, the sound may be sharper and you may get all manner of gimmicky extras, but DVD is about as reliable as that rumour you heard in the pub the other night about Brian Cowen's plans to make Willie O'Dea the Minister for Moustaches. At least those much-maligned old VHS tapes didn't start skipping just because of a thumb-print. And they only cost half the price, too.

10 The way amazon.com and similar sites make personalised suggestions based on your previous purchases: it's just creepy when the computer tries to strike up a relationship with you on first-name terms, like being stuck on that spooky ship in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Will the computer get into a sulk if you ignore their recommendations and try to murder you by short-circuiting the electric supply? It's always a possibility ...

Google offers tools to find victims of child abuse

The US-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is adopting custom-made Google technology to combat the sexual abuse of children.

Analysts from NCMEC's Child Victim Identification Program (CVIP) have reviewed more than 13m child abuse images and videos as part of their mission to identify and rescue children. To help automate and streamline this process, a team of Google engineers led by Dr. Shumeet Baluja created software tools to help NCMEC track down child predators and victims of child exploitation through video and image search.

The Google technology will enable NCMEC analysts to more quickly and easily search NCMEC's systems, in order to sort and identify files that contain images of child pornography victims. New video tools from Google will streamline analysts' review of video snippets from files seized in child pornography cases.

In addition to developing the custom-made software, Google has also donated a Google Search Appliance, Google Earth Enterprise, and in-kind advertising through Google Grants to further support NCMEC's work. NCMEC is a non-profit organisation which runs a reporting mechanism for child sexual exploitation, called CyberTipline. Since it was established in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 140,900 missing child cases, resulting in the removal from harm of more than 124,500 children.

Google's Baluja explained: "The keys here were organization, scalability, and search. In particular, the tools we provided will aid in organizing and indexing NCMEC's information so that analysts can both deal with new images and videos more efficiently and also reference historical material more effectively. We hope the tools we've built for NCMEC will help its analysts make the important and often time-sensitive work of investigating child predators faster and more efficient."

Ernie Allen, president and chief exec of NCMEC, added: "Criminals are using cutting-edge technology to commit their crimes of child sexual exploitation, and in fighting to solve those crimes and keep children safe, we must do the same."

Last week Google announced a plan to allow Brazilian police to access 3,261 private photo albums on Google-owned social networking website Orkut, suspected of containing images of child abuse. ®

Reduce your PC’s power consumption with a Power Regimen.

The only place you used to have to worry about your computer using too much power was in midflight at 35,000 feet. These days load shedding, blackouts, brownouts and the coming increase in electricity rates have brought these concerns back down on the agenda. Managing your computers appetite for energy can save you money, increase its life and prevent data loss.

The flow of electricity is measured in Watts. In your average computer, the hard drive will use between 5 and 25 watts, your CPU will use between 50 and 95 watts and your flat screen monitor between 40 and 60 watts. A well furbished computer running full ball will burn anything from 300 to 500 watts – and sometimes more.

Eskom charges you based on how many kilowatt-hours you use. My last known electricity bill was 32 cents per unit of electricity (kilowatt hour). If my computer uses 500 Watts at full ball, that’s almost 16 cents per hour.

Sound like nothing? If you’re like me and your PC is turned on for 40 hours a week, your electricity bill could range in the hundreds every year. If you keep your PC on for three years, the amount of power youre using could represent a sizable portion of your computer’s original price.

Most PCs now support either Advanced Power Management (APM) or the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI). To check your PC, select Start, Settings, Control Panel, System, click the Device Manager tab, open the System devices listing, and look for entries with either 'APM' or 'ACPI' in the name. If you don't find either, power management may be disabled or not installed on your PC--and enabling it can be tricky.

APM, the older and less flexible standard, has five settings, ranging from full on to APM off (see Figure 1). Adjust the settings in either the CMOS setup program or Control Panel's Power Management utility. The settings can conflict, however, so you may have to experiment.

Open your system's CMOS setup program--typically by pressing Delete or F1 as the PC boots up--and go to the Power Management menu. If there's no menu specifically for power, look through the other menus; you're certain to find something. When you do, choose the option that enables APM.

If this causes problems, force your PC to use the earlier--and potentially more compatible--APM version 1. Go back to Device Manager and choose Advanced Power Management support under 'System devices.' Choose the Settings tab and then check Force APM 1.0 mode (see Figure 2).

If your PC is fairly recent, it may support the newer ACPI specification, which is part of the OnNow effort by Microsoft and others to make PCs easier to use and to let them boot up and shut down faster.

ACPI's Standby mode makes restarts easy, and it allows a PC to "wake up" automatically to process e-mail, modem calls, prescheduled tasks, and other external input. It improves on APM by letting you control the power consumption of individual components. At the very least, Control Panel's Power Management utility should offer power control over the hard disk and the monitor.

You'll conserve the most power by setting your monitor to power down. Some 19-inch monitors devour up to 150 watts. Powering down is much better than running a screen-saver program. You'll extend your monitor's life while suppressing its voracious appetite.

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JRuby 1.1 released

JRuby 1.1 has been released. This release focuses on performance; the release notes talk about reports of beating CRuby 1.8.6 and CRuby 1.9 in some cases. Also included: compilation to Java bytecode, many fixes for compatibility, a refactored IO implementation, and improved memory consumption.