Thursday, March 26, 2009

Mysterious cell phone activity?

I have been going to bed late recently and I noticed that my cell phone lights up at the same time every night at 2:14 am! In addition, i caught that there was some activity on the screen going on last night but before i got a closer look the light went out, and tonight I caught it in the middle of its thing, and it was receiving something... then it just disconnected and the light went out like nothing happened. I have no record of any activity in the log. Something really strange is happening. Anyone experiance anything similar???



Do you have Verizon? If so you may have a program called Backup Assistant that nightly updates all your contacts on your phone. Mine does it at 12:44 every night.




Put your phone under your pillow. Or it could be a cell phone ghost a new phenomenon not know about yet. Or when your cell phone is charging maybe your charger has a short and the power goes off and on....make a journal and then go to your cell phone provider and tell them what has been happening. That is spooky!




Could very possibly be the alarm clock. That's what comes to mind when you said that it does it every night at the same time. You may have inadvertently set it.

Dish TV ...............?

The only good thing about Dish TV is, it is the first DTH which came to customers.





All the other things are bad, quality of picture, customer service, billing and renewal system etc.. If you dont want to fall in trouble and strain, then go for some other DTH service...Tata sky or Airtel TV. Airtel DTH is reasonable and also the customer service is good..





Cheers :)

Do you feel the new update has finally solved the storage issue?

Personally I thinks the best update yet.



For now, this update is great for all, who have storage problems.





But Nintendo implemented it in a not very forward looking way.





With this update, programs loaded from the SD card are first copied into the NAND memory of the Wii and then executed. After this, the copy is then deleted again.





The problem with this is: Flash based memory (like the NAND memory of the Wii) is %26quot;degrading%26quot; with each read/write process.





Of course, each flash storage media (like SD cards, Solid State Discs and the Wii%26#039;s NAND) have a mechanism, that tries to distribute write-operations to different memory areas.





But sooner or later, the Flash memory will fail.





So I see this update as a quick and dirty fix instead of a true solution of storage space.




It has certainly helped, yes. The use of the 32GB SD Cards will be excellent. However, I don%26#039;t think it has actually %26#039;solved%26#039; the problem as there will always be more problems in the future.





For the time being it has solved 90% of the storage problems.




i don%26#039;t get it, if Nintendo finally release an update that suppose to fix the storage issue, why didn%26#039;t they made it to fix the storage issue 100%?


that%26#039;s pissing me off...




no... now dont have a go at me i think it hasnt helped because as long as something exsits it has a problem. The nintendo wii being a perfect example: Cant even watch youtube vids anymore? still i guess it helps others




Its definitely a big help indeed.


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Dish TV vs. Airtel DTH ?

Story ......





2 years ago, Hutch was the largest service provider in bangalore/karnataka, however their customer service was very bad. Then Airtel started gaining popularity due to its good customer service. As a consequence Hutch lost its customer base in bangalore/karnataka to Airtel and now Airtel is the most popular largest network provider here, they value their customer above all and hence are most reliable and popular.





Moral: Customers first crave for Good and reliable service. If you are not providing good customer service you will end up like Hutch.





Likewise now Dish TV is having highest customer base, though their service is worst, as there were no other options before. but now Airtel DTH has come and it provides a good service. So I am afraid, Dish TV will end up like Hutch...if they dont consider the customer service seriously and take preventive actions....





Cheers :)

Does Anyone have a ITUNES GIFT CARD CODE?

if anyone has one ...


can you give it to me i wanted to buy a dollar app


if u give me a code via email i'll make u my BEST ANSWER



Yes




maybe i wont tell




lol yea i have one but its not free lol

I need help with my laser data storage project - Blu Ray and DVD specifically.?

i need some good material, enough for a 2-3 minute lesson. it's a project. i just need to explain how it works, it's uses, and "know more about it than my classmates".



Wikipedia under DVD and Blu-Ray has enough material for your presentation.

My ipod wont sync?? why?

I plugged it to the comp with the usb cable and it doesnt even shows that its plugged into the comp. The ipod is on and not on hold. How do I make it work??



yes you need itunes





and if you do


reset it


unplug ipod and press menu and the center buttons at the same time until the apple appears




you definitely need itunes otherwise it won't work




You need itunes to use an ipod




you need itunes




yep

Will my iPod Touch work in Europe?

I have the newest version of the iPod Touch, 32 GB. I'm taking a trip to France, Belgium, and Normandy, and the hotels we're staying in all have free Wi-Fi. Will I be able to use my iPod there? Thanks!



of course. all ipods work anywhere in the world. as long as you aren't in like, a desert or someplace that doesn't have good local wi-fi connection.




Sure. As long as it is 802.11G.

Ive enter a sweepstakes about Winning a Wii and a ps3 how will gamestop contact me?

Will they call me or send me a message in the email i gave them



Either one, sometimes both. All companies work differently when contacting contest winners.




I've enter the sweepstakes for the same thing at gamestop monthly. No email and no call. So don't keep your hopes up for this.




they will either contact you by phone or by your email if you have one.

Can I return an ipod touch after a month has gone by.?

My ipod touch has not been damaged or anything but i want to know if apple will take it back. The ipod scratches so easily even inside a case


can anyone tell me if i can return it?



Yes and no





If you bought it from Toysrus or walmart than yes only if you get the unlimited return thingy & if not sorry just haft to keep it





But no if it is not damaged like mine and broke than No sorry




I doubt it if you bought it from apple then look on receipt for return policy




No

Which do you want/think is better DSi or PSP?

here is a list of pro's and cons for DSi because some people do not understand certain things about DSi


DSi


download games


play 3 different types of cartridges: DS, DSi enhanced, DSi exclusive


free 1000 download points for the first time on DSiware


Download music


take pictures


record noises


bigger screen than DS


thinner than PSP


SD card


have to rebuy gameboy and gameboy advanced games to play


only 2 colors


you can distort pictures


reinforced back


that is all I know if you have any other pros or cons on DSi please post with your answer.



DSI simply because the DS has better games to me, the PSP is filled with chopped down ports that where really designed to be played on the big screen, while with the DS most if its games actually feel as if they where developed for it, also 3rd parties have never really gave the PSP much notice as I said they just view it as a way to con people into re-buying PS2 games basically, but on a smaller screen and not as fun, multi media I couldn't care less about, all I care about is its games and with a new Zelda title coming this year, Dragon Quest 9 confirmed and a whole host of other RPG games, the game line up on DS/DSI continues to look promising, while PSP has pretty much been passed over by most 3rd parties.




I think it really comes down to your age and game preference








if your younger, then I think the ds will probably suit you more








the psp is more for the active older gamer





just my opinion




ive never played on a psp, but the dsi sounds awesome to me.











and im sure theyll get more colors next year




PSP! Because Sony is awesome.

Can system link occur with modded xbox 360 and one that is not?

Yes. Just make sure you're not going online with the modded console.

What does it mean to

Is this a good thing to do?


What is it all about?


Thanks! :)



Don't Jailbreak your iPod. It's a big risk. You have a good chance of ruining it, like it will constantly freeze or apps will always crash when you try to open them. And when this does happen after you install Jailbreak, Apple won't help you with it because you void the warrenty when you install Jailbreak. So unless you have the extra $229 to buy a new iPod touch if the one you have now breaks, don't use Jailbreak. It's not a smart choice.




by jailbreaking your ipod touch, you could buy third-party apps... that is thrz no need for u to buy apps from d apple store..





ya, itz a gud thing till d tym u do it rite..





but it will expire your warranty..





search on youtube to find some video tutorials..





hope this helps!

DVR question on recording..?

Have a new DVR and it won't record a movie from the AMC channel on cable. It says, "copy protected, cannot record". Either from a timer record or express. Is it the AMC channel who might have a block on this?...or my disc? I'm using the same discs I use to record Tv shows.



In my instruction book it says:


Copy restriction set by copyright owners, etc. These signals are included in some software or TV programs and restrict recording on this recorder"


Guess there's a block on your dvr.


This happened to me a long time ago so I just bought the dvd I wanted from amazon. Has nothing to do with HDTV.




This usually happens when you have an HDTV or using an HDMI cable. Usually the cable box has the software that does this, to prevent people from copying new movies that they can reproduce.




some dvr's won't let you record EVERYTHING.

Why does my xbox keep freezing?

If your xbox keeps freezing there is a loose part in it that needs to be fixed I had the same problem and I sent my xbox back but you have rather two options you can do





You. An send it back or


Take it apart and fix yourself





I'd send it in but that's just me best answer!!!!




it has a faulty chip, call MS 1800.4MY.XBOX




sell it on ebay

Jail break ipod touch what does this meam?

I have seen people talking about jailbreaking an ipod touch what does jailbreak mean



its HACKING and altering the software on it so it can do unauthorised things BUT on jailbreaking WHY?





Cydia,QuikPwn (and other jailbreaks) have cause more problems for people than its worth.. (I never jailbreak but buy apps like Air sharing to enable limited disk use) as the only other extra is unapproved apps and background wallpapers (which are distracting).





NEVER JAILBREAK! It causes so many problems and yet adds nearly nothing! here is only 25% chance of sucess with 50% chance of killing it. and any attempt voids any warranty you have!





the 2.2 software from apple is stable and works well and lets you add hundreds of apps (many free) from the itunes App Store, many with features available in jailbroken items.





Jail breaking became redundant when the 2.0 software was released as it add almost nothing to the ipods abilities (other than the ability to browse its file structure which also makes it less secure).





Jail breaking also voids the warranty and does cause many issues form files vanishing, memory leaks and loss, rebooting and even failing to boot.





Jailbroken ipods cause so many problems (just search on here for them). It alters the boot code so its not really an ipod at all.




It means you free your system from working directly with apple, so u can add such things like games without adding any money to steve jobs(apple CEO) pocket :-)


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How do I get pictures from my SD card to my computer?

I put my SD card into the appropriate slot in my computer, The light next to it turns green but the computer does nothing.what do I do? PS- I don't have my USB cable....



In many cases the computer won't do anything. If you have windows use file explorer, to find the drive,. For example, your computer might show C: for your main drive then D: for the CD/DVD drive, E: and F: for other drives. Usually, the highest letter will be the SD Card Drive. (Mine is J:) Then you can copy the pictures to your hard drive.




check to see if your SD card reader shows up as a drive on your computer. If it doesn't then you need to fix your device driver for your reader.




refer to the instructions that came with the computer


help section

Does anyone have ARES, i paid for the music then i downloaded some songs now how do i burn it to a cd?

No I don't know what that is. But you probably have to use the window Media player to burn it.

I can

I think it's one of those MP4's from China.



I dont know anything about MP4 Players. I didnt even know they existed. Google it you'll get a lot of answers. Or go to an MP4 FAQ but not yahoo answers because seriously a LOT of people here have no idea what MP4 players are (including me)

Is it truly bad for cell phones and batteries?

To keep the phone on a charger even if the phone is not at its last dying bar warning you that it will die, I charge my phone every night. I sometimes have 3 bars, sometimes 2, sometimes none and a red warning light, Help me out!



Its ok to charge it anytime even if its not low. That was true for the old batteries but the new chargers and batteries are not like that. They will not keep charging when the charge is full and do not need to be fully drained and recharged like the old batteries.




Keeping your phone on the charger when it doesn't need to be will wear down the life of your battery. You can charge your phone no matter how dead it is or not but just keep in mind if the battery is full and it sits on the charger for hours it would have an effect on your battery. Also its good for the life of your battery if you let it completely die every now and again. . .




I've heard both, that it's a problem of the past, and newer don't have that problem, and I've heard that it still diminishes the life expectancy of the battery. I don't care. I charge my cellphone everyday, with one exception- my palm treo smartphone- that battery lasts me about a week, so I charge every other day. I'd rather have to change battery every year, (and so far that isn't happening) that being left without a cellphone.


Charge away mate!!!




With teachings by my father, it is best to try and let the cellular phone lithium-ion battery to go very low before charging it...charging it when it does not need it can result in a falling battery life


To deal with this back-set, my father had 2 batteries for all of his phones

Xbox Visuals not working?

My Xbox 360 is in fine working order (Except that we bought it used :P) I got it last Christmas, and it recently has been doing this:





The Xbox itself turns on and does it's thing. But when I unplug it from the wall, or a surge protector, and plug it into a different one it will turn on, like I said, but the TV will remain static.





Yes, The Av cables are plugged in properly.


Yes, everything plugged into the Xbox, including the Hard Drive is plugged in properly.


Yes, it's on the right channel.


Give me anything else to look for and I'll gladly look for it.



If you plug it back into the previously working plug, does the console work again?





If yes, then you have a faulty cabling in that other power plug.





It is possible that your console doesn't get enough power to function correctly




Sometimes things get screwy with the A/V cables so you could try plugging the yellow plug into all three seperatly and wait for video to pop up.





If that doesn't work you might have the HDTV slider switched to HD its on the connector that plugs into your Xbox.





If that doesn't work, go buy an another A/V cable or try another TV. If all those fail your outta luck. Your GPU (graphics processing unit) could be dead.




Sorry bad news, it's your GPU. You gotta get a new 360 or get it repaired. The same thing happend to my brother's. You can look on your local Craigslist (www.craigslist.com) there's usually people on there who can repair it for cheaper than usual. Thats where my brother found his repair man.




try readgusting the av cables

I want to unlock my cell-phone, can I?

I am not happy with the packages AT&T has so I want to switch my SONY ERICSSON Z750a to a different service company. Is there a website that can do this for me?





Also, what company would you recommend for a texter and little talking? I buy prepaid. No contract.





Will any of my files on the phone get erased?



No idea how you would go about switching the phone to a different service.


But I love Verizon. If your friends have verizon then it's perfect because of free IN calling and you can pay i think 5 or 10 dollars a month for unlimited texting to verizon (could be free actually.)





Or look into Alltell. My cousin had them about 5 years back and she was always on the phone to Arizona, while in NY.. so I feel they are good.





no your files shouldnt get erased because they are on your phone not the service satellite.

When you buy a phone from best buy is that the final price no rebrates?

Most BestBuy cells don't have rebates in the price. But sometimes the manufacturer will add a rebate on select models.




I guess if not stated by the manufacturer.




Yes it is.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Should i get an iphone or an ipod touch? tell me what you think is best. thankss :)?

If you are at all interested in using it for listening to music or the games and applications, then I would suggest an iPod Touch over the iPhone. The iPhone is not well known for its battery power, and if you are constantly playing games then you will not have a phone when the battery dies and you are on the go. If you are ok with just having the phone capabilities, then the iPhone would be alright. I would suggest getting a basic cheaper phone and then an iPod touch in addition.




That depends do u have At&t. If u can afford the bills then get one.


The iphone can download apps stright from their 3G service. for the itouch you need to connect with itunes.


The itouch has better battey life.


The iphone is a phone with internet where ever you go.




i phone bc its just eisier then like carying around the touch bc it coem with a camera so if you boght the touch you waould have to carry a camera and an extra pjoen around but with the i pohne its all one

Detachable Hard Drive XBOX?

I need to send in my 360 for repair but I have to detach my hard drive. How would I do this?



Very Easy.





The HDD is on top of the Xbox, there is a small gray button on top of the Xbox where the drive is. Push it down and while holding it, gently pull the little hard drive out. its tricky sometimes but is not hard to do. It clips in and out.





Your Xbox is basically a rectangular prism (or box) except for the hard drive on top, it makes the Xbox have a lump on top. You will see the lump, thus being the hard drive, then the button is right at the bottom of the drive, facing the disk drive part of the Xbox, cant miss it.




On top of your Xbox is your hardrive. There's a button you press on it, and it comes right off.




unsnap it from the top of the console....just like you put it on.....

How do you get high definition through an antenna?

i thought coax could only do 480i?



>i thought coax could only do 480i?





No. HD broadcasts have a 6 MHz bandwidth. Since a run of the mill coax cable can handle 1000 MHz , a common coax can transmit at least 150 channels of good quality HD.





As a practical matter, there are a lot fewer broadcast channels at any particular location.





The coax outputs of HD tuners only output 480i because of cost and copyright issues. It's not a limitation of the coax itself. It's likely that the "coax could only do 480i" story was started by people who didn't understand this.





As far as the antenna itself, it treats analog and digital broadcasts in an identical fashion. That's because the way that the signals are sent from the TV transmitting antenna to your personal TV antenna is identical. The difference between analog and digital is in how the picture information is encoded in the signal.




Coax can handle the encoded digital signal and send it to a digital tuner which then decodes it. It can't take a decoded signal because the bandwidth isn't high enough.




you can't, you cant even get a digital signal.

Is there a way to hook my computer up to my TV? My work has it, and there TV

"so instead of a computer screen, I just use my television screen."



It depends on your computer and TV.





If your computer has DSUB/VGA out, you need:


* VGA/DSUB in on the TV


* a signal converter to convert dsub to component or HDMI





If your computer has HDMI/DVI out:


* the above two, if you use a DVI --> VGA adapter


* direct to HDMI/DVI





You can also use inferior technologies that limit the resolution to the TV. This isn't a problem if you don't have an HDTV, however.





S-Video and RCA will carry up to 800x600.





The most versatile option is the converter, but it's also the most expensive. unfortunately, it's required for older TVs that don't have HDMI or VGA.





If you have a desktop computer, upgrading the video card is a good option. Try to pick up a fairly inexpensive (~60 USD) nVidia card that supports CUDA. This means that the video card will help out with processing video streams. CoreAVC is a software based option if you're in need of some better performance on a low powered machine (like a netbook) for h.264 decoding (like watching Hulu at high resolutions, or most .mkv files).

Is this how you get high def with a antenna on a hdtv?

the coax plugs into the tuner then the tuner decodes the signal and turns it into high def?



Usually, you plug the antenna into the tv. And if the tv has an internal tuner, you run it's scan for over the air channels, instructions are in your owners manual. Then it will pick up all the OTA signals it can and the ones which are HD will be HD, the others will be SD.




You need to be tuned into a hi def channel, normally on satellite but there are a few on digital terrestrial.

Haze is 20 bucks at best buy and so is army of 2, and fracture so which one should i get?

im asking an opinion from you and i really only want to buy one so that would be alot of help



All three of them are terrible. I've had the displeasure of completing them all for a student paper review.





It sounds like you like shooting things so, if you havent already, why not try some of these; Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, Orange box (5 awesome fps games), Bioshock, any recent Call of Duty game, Far Cry 2, MGS 4, F.E.A.R., Resistance: Fall of Man.





All these games can be picked up pretty cheap and all of them are MUCH MUCH better than Haze, Fracture or Army of Poo. Also if you should become tempted to branch out into stabbing as opposed to shooting people Devil May Cry and Heavenly Sword are also excellent.





One last thing. If you for some reason cannot be persuaded out of spending cash on one of your choices, under no circumstances should you buy Haze. It is the most opposite of good and a classic example of Ubisoft rushing out a game for a quick buck.




Well, Haze is not very good as it is just a flying game, you cannot get out of the air. Army of Two is horrendous as it claims to be CODs rival, but it is truly awful, unfulfilled story and avearage online play. Fracturre is the best of the 3 as it gives you freedonm and it has a pretty good story mode. If i were you, i would get Fracture.




I don't know about the other 2, but Haze absolutely sucked. The graphics are OK, but the story sucked to the core. No sort of a plot, no explanation why you fight for one team and change to another... nothing. The voice acting was so horrible that I literally had to mute the TV and play the game. In fact I had more fun playing with the bots in the game rather than the campaign... lol.





Whatever you do, please don't buy Haze.




Haze is not a half bad game. If you like Halo then this is a good cheap rip off of it.




Lol none of them, but if i had to get one it would be fracture.

Why doesn the True HD logo appear on my receiver? when playing b/ray through hdmi cable SONY STR-DG820?

Are you asking why the "TrueHD" indicator light doesn't come on when you're playing a TrueHD soundtrack?





A receiver won't decode TrueHD unless the Blu-ray player sends the TrueHD soundtrack bitstream via an HDMI cable. So make sure your player isnt' doing the decoding. If so it will be sent to the receiver as uncompressed multi-channel PCM. If the display says "Multi-channel PCM" then that's probably what's taking place, so tell your player to send audio bitstream and the Sony will handle the decoding....





Unless you have a PS3. PS3s can't send HD audio bitstream. The decoding takes place in the PS3 and is sent out as MPCM, which is exactly what decoded HD audio is.




It depends on your player. The light on the receiver should only show TrueHD when [a] you're playing actual TrueHD material, and [b] the player is sending over as an untouched TrueHD bitstream.





So it depends on your Blu-Ray player. For example, I have a PS3. The PS3 will play TrueHD just dandy, but it does the decoding itself, and sends over an uncompressed 8-channel PCM bitstream to the receiver. In fact, it does that for every format, so you never get any of those feature lights on the receiver. But you don't need to worry about the formats your receiver accepts. That's why I have a STR-DG720... no use for TrueHD in the receiver if it's being handled by the player. It's all digital to digital.. the sound is identical, either way.

MY SIMS KINGOM HELP NOW!!!! PLZ!!! (WII)?

i dont get it, im making mr.prissykin's house right now & the girl never says im finished! does it have 2 be a certain way? do i have to do something else too? thanks in advance!


-Katy



You have to make sure that it's in the right place. There should be an area on the island with red zones showing you exactly where everything goes to make the castle. If it's still not working, double check to make sure that everything's rotated the right way and that you didn't miss any red zones.

Whats the longest time you owned a cellphone before something happened to it of you upgraded?

6 years... My Motorola V400 lasted from 2002 until it died in January of 2009.





I also had a work-phone, Motorola-Nextel that lasted from 1998 to 2002.





In 1989, we had a Motorola DynaTAC 8900x for our sailboat... we owned it and used it until 1992. We replaced it with a Motorola Bag Phone and used THAT until 2002.





I also had a Motorola




2 years and I upgraded.




,,, prob about 2 years.




i think it was about 2 or 3 years.




hmm...7 months maybe?

How can I fix my TI-84 graphing calculator keys from sticking?

I just recently bought a graphing calculator for class and it has been working fine. Out of nowhere in class it starts to stick. Like I would press a number and it wouldn't show I would have to hold it down for a few seconds for it to even show up. So I changed the batteries and it is still doing the same thing.



Have you spilled something on it recently? If so, I'd suggest cleaning it. Google should provide more information about that.





If not, then it could be a hardware issue. It would seem like the button interrupts are being delayed for some reason, possibly a malfunction. If this persists, then I'd recommend alerting Texas Instruments about this issue and possibly send in your calculator for repair.




Quit beatin' the meat while you're doing math homework.




Mp's right.

What generation is the newest ipod nano?

Thz



4th Generation - Nano Chromatic.




the 4th generation Nano Chromatic. I have the pink one




Nano Chromatic

What is a better cable company Charter or Direct TV?

I have Charter and they constantly have that "this channel is not available" BS because they are always playing around with it. And whenever it lightly rains your Direct TV freezes up. They both are kinda bad.




Had Direc Tv now Im with dish network they are cheaper and just as good as far a signal loss it takes a very heavy rain to interrupt my signal.




Direct TV, that's what I have and it's great!

What does the ipod nano 4th generation come with?

Does it come with the usb cable? Please only people who own it.



earphones and usb cable