Nokia E90

Phone Preview: Nokia E90 Communicator

The E90 was announced way back when at the 3GSM conference, along with the E61i NokiaBerry and E65 slider. Even though it's tagged with the hip new Eseries model numbers, the E90 is still the same palm-top computer that it's always been, at least form-factor-wise. A phone on the outside, with a integrated keyboard and widescreen inside.

This newest Communicator has some pretty badass features though. Quad-band and 3G/WCDMA, WLAN/wi-fi, 3.2 megapixel camera, Symbian 9.2, HSDPA, integrated GPS, Bluetooth 2.0. Even that crappy FM radio is present. It's like Nokia just crammed in all their technologies from different phones into one handy little device.

The dual screens both support up to 16 million colors. While the outer phone screen is a standard 240x320 pixel display, the inner one has a 800x352 pixel resolution. Uh, a little wider than standard widescreen. Then again, I'm not exactly sure how well the E90 would fare with a Dvix/Xvid widescreen movie of that size. I have yet to find a phone that plays Xvid/Divx with a half decent amount of FPS.

Mr. E90's camera is indeed 3.2 megapixel, with flash and autofocus. Like many other higher-end models, there's a second crap camera for video calling.

There's also HSDPA on here, offering download speeds of up to 3.8 megabits per second. In the States, it looks like the ongoing battle between HSDPA and EV-DO will continue be ongoing.

The last notable feature of the E90 is the battery - the E90 uses a 1500 mAh BP-4L, which is not that impressive when you find out that it's good for only 5 hours of talk time.

The E90 is kind of smallish. It does have that annoying "brick" factor when used as a phone though.

Healthy Juices For Total Wellness

Recommend below are the secret recipe for healthy drinking.

Carrot + Ginger + Apple
Boost and cleanse our system.

Apple + Cucumber + Celery
Prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol, and improve stomach upset and headache.

Tomato + Carrot + Apple

Improve skin complexion and bad breath.

Bitter gourd + Apple + Milk
Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat.

Orange + Ginger + Cucumber
Improve skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.

Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon

To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney

Apple + Cucumber + Kiwi
To improves skin complexion.

Pear & Banana
To regulates sugar content.

Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango
Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreased blood pressure and Fight oxidization!

Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon + Milk
Rich in vitamin C + Vitamin B2 that increases cell

activity and Strengthen body immunity.

Papaya + Pineapple + Milk
Rich in vitamin C, E, Iron. Improve skin complexion and metabolism.

Banana + Pineapple + Milk
Rich in Vitamin with nutritious and prevent constipation

Windows Softwares for free

Some Free Softwares for Windows

Here are some of the best software programs and utilities for your Windows computer that are completely free and still extremely useful. With all these wonderful choices, why pay?
Audio Editing: For some basic audio recording, use Audacity - it can record, filter noise from audio and also mix multiple sound track. You can use Audacity to record live streaming music from Internet radio stations.
Video Editing: Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft is a good choice for video. It has all the basic video editing tools and a good collection of transitions and video effects. For advanced usage, get the powerful VirtualDub - it has a number of filters (like video rotation), can create videos from image sequences, split videos or even extract sound from video tracks.

Instant Messenger: If your friends are spread across different services like Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN and others, get Pidgin and connect to all popular IM services using a single software. Pidgin provides a tabbed interface so the desktop won't look cluttered even if you are simultaneously chatting with multiple buddies.
Computer Security: Your computer needs a firewall program like ZoneAlarm or Comodo Pro to stop spyware programs from connecting to websites secretly and for blocking any Internet intruders. For removing viruses from infected systems, AVG Antivirus and Avast are very reliable and unlike other commercial software, they are not heavy on system resources.
Multimedia Players: VLC Media Player is light-weight and supports almost everything including DVDs and Flash Videos that you have downloaded from YouTube. Another option is GOM player.
Digital Photography: For organizing your vast picture collection, get Google Picasa or Windows Live Photo Gallery. With Picasa, you can create Screensavers and Picture Collages while Live Gallery has a wonderful photo stitching feature for making panoramas. Both let you transfer pictures from the desktop to Flickr. For advanced photo editing, use Paint.NET or GIMP.
Windows Enhancements: If you like using keyboard more than the mouse, get Launchy - it helps you start your favorite programs (and documents) without touching the Windows Start Menu. TweakUI is another desktop enhancement to help you control the appearance of Windows, change the location of default folders and so much more.
Spring Cleaning: WinDirStat gives you a visual overview of files and folders that are consuming the bulk of space on your hard drive so you know where to hit the delete key when the drive is full. CCleaner with automatically find and remove all the unnecessary temp files from your computer reclaiming valuable hard drive space. It also clears all the junk from Windows registry so your system runs faster. MyUninstaller will help you remove software that do show up in Windows Add Remove control panel.
Desktop Email: If you like checking and replying to your web email from the desktop, Windows Live Mail and ThunderBird are worth considering. They let you check multiple e-mail accounts in one place, apply filters to incoming email, add another layer of protection from junk email, built-in RSS reader and best of all, you can work offline.
DVD Tools: Use DVD Shrink for creating backup copies of your DVD video disks onto the hard drive. For extracting movie scenes and MP3 music from DVDs, HandBrake is a good choice. Use it to export your DVDs into portable players like the iPod.
Other Worthy ones: HTTrack helps you create a mirror copy of any website on the hard drive for offline reading. Orbit Downloader lets you save streaming music and videos from almost every website. Copernic Desktop is an excellent software for finding emails, documents, photos and other multimedia files on your computer. Microsoft SyncToy provides a visual interface for synchronizing file folders between computers and external drives.

Men Vs Women

Some subtle (and some not so subtle) differences

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Handwriting:

Men: To their credit, men do not decorate their penmanship. They just chicken-scratch.

Women: Women use scented, colored stationery and they dot the "i" with circles or hearts. Women use ridiculously large loops in the "p" and "g". It is a pain to read a note from a woman. Even when she's dumping you, she will put a smiley face at the end of the note.

Groceries:

Women: A woman makes a list of things she needs, then goes out to the store and buys those things.

Men: A man waits till the only items left in his fridge are half a lime and a beer. Then he goes grocery shopping. He buys everything that looks good. By the time a man reaches the checkout counter, his cart is packed tighter than the Clampett's car on Beverly Hillbillies. Of course, this will not stop him from going to the express lane.

Relationships:

Women: When a relationship ends, a woman will cry and pour her heart out to her girlfriends, and she will write a poem titled "All Men Are Idiots". Then she will get on with her life.

Men: A man has a little more trouble letting go. Six months after the break-up, at 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday night, he will call and say, "I just wanted to let you know you ruined my life, and I'll never forgive you, and I hate you, and you're a total floozy. But I want you to know that there's always a chance for us." This is known as the "I Hate You / I Love You" drunken phone call, that 99% of all men have made at least once. There are community colleges that offer courses to help men get over this need.

Sex:

Women: They prefer 30-40 minutes of foreplay.

Men: They prefer 30-40 seconds of foreplay. Men consider driving back to her place part of the foreplay.

Maturity:

Women: They mature much faster than men. Most 17-year old females can function as adults.

Men: Most 17-year old males are still trading baseball cards and giving each other wedgies after gym class. This is why high school romances rarely work out.

Magazines:

Men: Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked women. Men are turned on at the sight of a naked woman's body.

Women: Women's magazines also feature pictures of naked women. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is lumpy and hairy and should not be seen by the light of day. Most naked men elicit laughter from women.

Bathrooms:

Men: A man has six items in his bathroom -- a toothbrush, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the Holiday Inn.

Women: The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 437. A man cannot identify most of these items.

Shoes:

Women: When preparing for work, a woman will put on a wool suit, then slip on Reebok sneakers. She will carry her dress shoes in a plastic bag from Saks. When a woman gets to work, she will put on her dress shoes. Five minutes later, she will kick them off because her feet are under the desk.

Men: A man will wear the same pair of shoes all day. Let's not talk about how many days he'll wear the same socks.

Cats:

Women: Women love cats.

Men: Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick cats.

Children:

Women: A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.

Men: A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.

Dressing Up:

Women: A woman will dress up to: go shopping, water the plants, empty the garbage, answer the phone, read a book, get the mail.

Men: A man will dress up for: weddings, funerals.

Laundry:

Women: Women do laundry every couple of days.

Men: A man will wear every article of clothing he owns, including his surgical pants (the ones that were hip about eight years ago) before he will do his laundry. When he is finally out of clothes, he will wear a dirty sweatshirt inside out, rent a U-Haul and take his mountain of clothes to the Laundromat. Men always expect to meet beautiful women at the Laundromat. This is a myth perpetuated by reruns of old episodes of "Love American Style."

Phone talks

Recently, in the course of a very hectic, demanding day at work, I received a phone call.

The voice at the other end enquired meekly, "Who are you?"

"Who are you?" I shot back, loudly, and irritably.

This voice seemed to lack confidence and there was a lot of fumbling and stuttering before this person could find the right words to express himself. Post a sixty second bout of extreme irritation, I felt sorry for the chap. So, instead of slamming the phone (like most folks in the real world), I asked him three questions:

"Where are you calling from?"

"Who would you like to speak to?"

"What is the purpose of your call?"

He gave me the answers and I directed him to the right departement and person, so he could get his work done. Now, if only he had the good sense to plan what he was going to say, he would have felt more confident. And he could have saved himself the embarrassment, and me the time. If it was a sales call, I am sure that his stuttering would not translate to selling anything except maybe, his own inadequacy.

Phone etiquette seems to be the need of the hour for working professionals today. And I don't mean whose job profile primarily comprises tele-marketing be it selling credit cars, home loans, etc. I'm referring to situations, where you need to network, or get information or cultivate a brand new contact. Now, telephone etiquette isn't rocket science. However, being clumsy about it, could make you come across as unprofessional. Here's how to prepare, before dialling those digits.

~ Initiating a phone call

Identify yourself correctly. This means: mention your full name, company and your job profile. But, no soliliquays, please. Keep it short. Next, ask if this is a good time to speak to the person or if they would prefer to call you later. If so, what is a good time? If the person asks you to call back later, make sure you return the call at the right time. Punctuality is a mark of professionalism. If the person does have time for you first-time round, quickly explain your purpose and how you would like to take things forward. In other words, be ready with a plan of action.

~ Cold calls

Sometimes, you may not know the name of the person you need to speak too. In this case, ascertain which department you wish to be connected to once you reach the operator/receptionist. Also, prepare for phones being slammed in your face, even if your mission is not to hard-sell a product. When you're put through, quickly introduce yourself to whoever picks up the phone and ask who is in charge of so-and-so. If the person is not in, find out what is a good time to call and ask for the extension number. Other members of the department are not likely to entertain you for long spells (sometimes even short spells), especially if it's a big company.

~ Calling for a specific person?

Is this person very busy or very important? Accordingly choose the time. Later in evening post 4 pm is when most people have completely most of their tasks for the day.

~ Pen and paper

Keep these at hand. Or at least a Word document open, in which you can type out any info. Last week a Public Relations executive called me and asked me for my e-mail id because she wanted to update her database. I was about to spell it out, when she said, " Hold on, just a sec," (as if I was her best friend waiting to chat), while she fished (wasted 60 seconds of my life) looking for a pen and paper. "What an airhead!" I fumed, silently.

~ Phone calls make you nervous?

They still make me nervous!

I feel very conscious that people might be listening in, when I initiate a call to a new contact for the first time. One way to make it easier is to write down on a piece of paper, what you need to speak about -- word for word -- if it makes it easier. Having all the information written down, neatly, before you, helps. Sometimes to build confidence I initiate a call to someone I already know, and then tackle a call to a new person. The former helps to dissipate some of that nervous energy.