TSTT will launch iPhone 4 in Trinidad and Tobago on June 14 with a range of tariff plans tailored for iPhone customers.
iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple's stunning Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images and video, and FaceTime, which makes video calling a reality.
iPhone 4 is powered by Apple's A4 chip and features a five megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording and a beautiful glass and stainless steel design like no other mobile phone.
It comes with iOS 4, the world's most advanced mobile operating system.
The revolutionary App Store provides access to more than 425,000 apps including the iMovie app built just for iPhone 4.
"TSTT is extremely excited to make iPhone 4 available to our mobile customers in Trinidad and Tobago," said Lisa Agard, executive vice president, Mobile Services.
"We are confident our customers will make the most of iPhone 4 on the most advanced mobile communications network in the country."
iPhone 4 will be available at all bmobile retail stores and select dealers beginning June 14.
For pricing and availability, or to register interest please visit
WD Caviar Green 1.0TB Hard drive - $500 - SOLD! Just bought brand new yesterday. Still sealed in package. In building a new right for a cusotmer realized I spent too much on a hard drive (and customer did say he did not need a vast amount of storage). So take it at the price I paid for it with 1 Year Warranty.
D-Link 7dBi antenna - $120 Factory refurbished (a new one costs US$40). Will definitely improve the range of your WiFi signal. I use one and the boost is good.
Crucial 1GB MiniSD Memory Card - $40 New, still sealed in package Comes with SD Adapter
Battery for HP dv6000 laptop - $300 New, opened once for testing. 3rd party battery. Full laptop compatibility list here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030B7ZPY Selling for a friend.
Let's just say that I will have to seriously try to cease and desist from buying any PSU under $200 for customers after reading this:
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There is not much to say about the test results of this PSU. We again started out cautiously and were actually able to identify its efficiency levels at 25, 50, and 85 W loads, reaching a maximum efficiency value of 79% at 85 W. Further testing was not possible because, during a short test with a 300 W load, the PSU suddenly bode us farewell with several explosions and sparks flying everywhere. Once more, we didn’t even have our camera ready. We simply were unprepared for a unit to totally give up so far below its rated output ceiling.
that was for a LPK-225, rated at 420W....get this: the 420 was written on the box...
Being very pleased with the success of powder coating my 4-year-old Thermaltake Armor Jr case,
I decided to see if I can do some restoration of my Thermalright Ultra 120 heatsink as well.
It has taken a beating over the years, and is now showing obvious signs of corrosion. Even the protective surface layer is flaking off (especially after I cleaned it in a solution of Water, salt and vinegar)
It was to be sold a while back, but I couldn't find the AMD bracket. I have now decided to keep it and am in the process of importing a new bracket (along with some Articlean/Arctic Silver if you interested!)
SO after some research, I found one good solution:
However, for a DIY project this is no easy nor cheap process, mainly because I do not have a proper work area to follow all safety measures and I have no clue where to get proper anodizing dye in Trinidad (no, I not using no el cheapo cloth dye!).
I would have loved to convince my chemistry teacher co-workers to help me do this in the lab at school, but alas, I am on vacation for a few weeks yet.
So the next step is to ask my fellow GATTers if they have ever tried it, or can recommend a local company who willing to black-anodize my heatsink.
EDIT: If it turns out that I can't black-anodize my heatsink, then chrome-plating will have to do instead
Earlier this year, Nokia revealed that thanks to a collaboration with Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 would be the company’s primary smartphone OS. However, Nokia hasn’t forgotten about Symbian and the company today announced an update for the OS called Anna.
Leaked over the weekend, Symbian^3 Anna offers users a faster browsing experience along with a portrait-version of the onscreen QWERTY keyboard. The OS will also bring a refresh to the Ovi Maps experience that will improve search, text input and add homescreen scrolling.
The update comes at the same time as two new handsets, the X7 and the E6. Touted as an entertainment device, the X7 comes with a 4-inch OLED ClearBlack widescreen touch display, 256MB RAM, 1GB ROM memory, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, HD video recording, Flash 10, up to 32G of expandable memory, and access to Nokia’s Ovi store (if you’re into that kind of thing). The E6 is more of a business-orientated smartphone. It boasts a 2.46-inch TFT LCD display, 256MB RAM, 1GB ROM memory, up to 32GB via MicroSD, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 720p video capture, Flash 10, and that all-important physical QWERTY keypad.
The X7 and the E6 will both ship with Anna but Nokia is also planning to roll out the new version of Symbian^3 to other customers. Espoo has confirmed that N8, E7, C7 and C6-01 users will also get the Anna update, but has yet to provide anything more specific than “the coming months” in terms of a release schedule.
Bought me a Crucial 128GB SSD after selling my hybrid SSD to Husk147
Ran away from work to pick it up after my mom collected it fromt eh fedex guy
I nearly had a nerd-gasm were it not for two things: - I was at work - I was at work in an all-boys school
Even made a co-worker bummy by literally tossing the drive at him for him to catch before installing it in my Asus UL30A His facial reaction was priceless. Good thing he happenes to be a physics teacher and quickly understood why I threw it
Windows 7 64-bit installed in 15 mins.... everything the wasn't being copied from CD finished near instantly.
so far in successive boots and using Soluto as the timer: my boot time is now 30 seconds (down from 67 seconds with the hybrid SSD)
Cost of this Glory? US$254, incl shipping. Ordered Monday morn... and would have gotten it yesterday
As you may or may not be aware, I am the owner of a Thermaltake Armor Jr. for about 4 years now.
It has served me very well being home to a variety of upgrades. Sadly, over time, it has begun to rust. While I have made attempts to stall the proces using spray paint, It get to a point where I eventualy abandoned the case in favour of an el-cheapo Thermaltake V3.
The V3 case is actually being used 'temporarilty' while I have sought to restore the Armor Jr. I even went so far as to buy primer and sand paper and do lots of online research to that end.
I actually saw it on Tuner a couple months ago and found the info very interesting. Sadly the thread was removed.
Pan Land (aka Trinidad Powder Coaters Ltd) use a power coating process on any metal surface to bring back the beauty of your object. They first sandblast the surface to remove rust and other impurities, then spray paint the power coat, then bake it at 400C. IT is very strongly advised that you remove ALL non-metal fitting from the object prior to the process lest they melt and ruin the finish.
They mainly do steeplans, but can do rims, furnishings, anything made of metal. Teh finish is at leaqst equal to that of spray painting, but last much longer, is scratch resistant and will not rust.
I thought to myself: "Can they do PC cases?"
After a few calls and missing the guy who does teh evaluating, I finally got to meet one Mr. Cooper at their office in Laventille. (It's the corner after the Unipet Gas Station when going eastbound)
Mr. Cooper apparently though it would have been a difficult task until he saw how easily I took apart teh side panels and other accessories. My estimate: TT$690 VAT inclusive. Given I already spent TT$1200 to import the case 4 years ago, why not bring it back?
The colours available range from matte to sparkly, glossy colours to even textured ones. ... I will going back with a matte black finish, though the fancier colours are indeed tempting.
Arcman could not believe the quality of the work in the pictures. Hopefuly he and I can do our rims sometime in the future...
This thread will do a pictoral of the process. Soon I will post pics of the Armor Jr. in its current rusty, filthy state. I will reference older threads will show you how it was in its glory days.
Stay tuned... the process begins the first week in April.
I am selling my Seagate Momentus XT laptop hard drive
-Purchased in December 2010 -Hybrid SSD -Reason for sale: going after pure SSD (128GB) and realized I won't utilise all of 500GB: my laptop is a business laptop
I need asap (as in literally by tomorrow 3pm) a copy of an acer OEM windows XP CD (Pro preferred, but home will work too) to do an install..
Laptop in question is a travelmate 5730 with vista, but is a yacht owner, so only xp with work with his equipment. Worse he had an Italian language version and he from England...
The sooner the better, please. I will provide the blanks as compensation.
Torrenting not getting results and i trying to avoid the classic bootleg windows and cracking activation nonsense..
Features: - removable motherboard tray - front 90mm fan + 2 rear 60mm fans + a 230mm roof fan - takes MicroATX and mini ITX boards - 5.25" Drive Bay 2 - Ext. 3.5" Drive Bay 1 - Int. 3.5" Drive Bay 2 & 2 x 2.5" SSD / HDD - Expansion Slots 4 - takes any standard ATX PSU - takes FULL SIZED graphics cards! - take CPU coolers under 90mm tall (else it clashes with PSU)
I really like this. The reviewers did an excellent job of highlighting all the features of the case.
The main glitch for me is US$109 on Amazon, weighs 17lbs and has no built-in handle
Nonetheless, it looking good enough that I may have to wonder if I should just get this and build a next pc, versus buying a Shuttle PC barebones for US$220
These are a few used hard drives I have lying around that I am not using.
I am selling them because I could use the cash. All drives were subjected to a full diagnostic test, once they passed that, they were then zero- (low-level) formatted.
ALL drives have the SATA interface
Laptop Drives: (all on hold for Captain Awesone...)
in case you interested, I also have an imported Silverstone 3.5" to 2.5" bay converter. This allows you to mount up to 2 laptop drives in a single 3.5 bay in your desktop.
Here is our selection of technologies of the past 10 years that have made the biggest advances and changed our life. Feel free to jump in and add your favorites.
If you were to live in the year 2000 now, which technology you are used to today would you miss the most?
10. Digital Camera
In 2000, I was the proud owner of a $700, 2.2MP Kodak DC280 snapshot camera that came standard with a 20 MB Compact Flash memory card. The four AA batteries were good for about 30 pictures. For tradeshows I used the amazing $1000 Sony Mavica FD97 (2MP) with a 20x optical zoom, which stored 3 pictures on a standard floppy disk. True photo enthusiasts had to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a decent DSLR camera or relied on regular film cameras.
Ten years later, the film camera is dead, we are well past 10 MP, and our cameras record high definition video and store hundreds of high-resolution pictures on small Flash cards. The first digital camera in a cellphone was first released in 2000 and has become a standard feature in virtually every phone and is available as front- and backward-facing versions in high-end phones. While it is likely that the picture quality delivered by cellphone cameras will never reach that of snapshot cameras, the quality is now good enough for small prints - which has turned those phones effectively into our daily snapshot digital and video camera.
9. Netflix
Netflix was founded in 1997 as part of the dotcom boom and was largely invisible for the first few years of its existence. Back in 2000, we were still used to stop by a Blockbuster store, pick out movies from a shelf and pay huge fines if we forgot to bring that movie back in time.
Netflix revolutionized that idea with DVDs-via-mail delivery, that gave you as many movies as you wanted to watch for a flat fee, which caught its rivals, mainly Blockbuster sleeping and by surprise. Ten years later, Blockbuster is in bankruptcy and Netflix is the first company that has made video streaming successful. Netflix now offers a library of more than 100,000 titles and has more than 10 million subscribers. Over the past years, Netflix has become synonymous with video rentals and changed the way we acquire content for our TVs.
8. Microprocessor
The pace of processor evolution and the way we perceive the role of the processor has been truly breathtaking. Ten years ago, we were introduced to the gigahertz race between AMD and Intel, which AMD led initially with the demonstration of the first 1 GHz Athlon in late 1999 at ISSCC and the commercial introduction of a stable 1 GHz CPU in the first quarter of 2000. Intel struggled to keep the pace with its Pentium III initially, but accelerated the increase of the clock speed with the introduction of its Netburst architecture and Pentium 4 in late 2000. Intel's Pat Gelsinger predicted that we would be using 20 GHz processor in nuclear power plant-like environments by 2010. In 2005, however, the gigahertz died just before reaching 4 GHz because of current leakage and the enormous heat generation of the Pentium 4 processor.
AMD, which had trouble following Intel in the gigahertz race and had not been able to match Intel's marketing message, changed its strategy in 2003 to a different processor architecture with integrated memory controllers as well as more efficient processors. Intel saw the end of the gigahertz race as well and began developing power-efficient processors in 2003 with the mobile Banias chip. Intel decided to transition to dual-core processors in 2005 with the 90 nm Smithfield core (Pentium 4 D 800 series) and was brought down to its knees especially by performance capability of the AMD Athlon X2 processor series. Intel struck back in mid-2006 with Core 2 Duo (Conroe core), which was based on the Banias foundation and Intel's first desktop processor that focused on power efficiency and cut the power consumption of its direct predecessor from 130 watts to 65 watts. The price war that Intel triggered with the Pentium 4 D (dual-core) processors caused heavy losses for AMD. The Core 2 Duo generation helped Intel to regain its dominance and margins, while AMD was unable to recover and was later split into a chip design and a manufacturing company.
The processor may be somewhat boring today, the but the rivalry between AMD and Intel was amazing to witness over the past 10 years and brought an entirely different processor to our computers than what we use in 2000.
7. Facebook
Maintaining your own homepage isn't exactly a new concept. Some may remember Geocities, which gave people an opportunity to own their own website. MySpace or Facebook follows the same basic idea, to give people around the world a presence on the Internet.
However, Facebook was the among the first to recognize a need for simplicity, organization and communication. Founded in 2004, more than 550 million people now use the network to communicate with friends and colleagues, share images and videos and play games. Next to Google and Email, it has become the most important reason to be on the Internet for many people among us.
6. iPod
I did not think much of this white MP3 player Steve Jobs pulled out of his pocket pants in 2001 and predicted it would change the way we listen to music. It was just another music player, albeit a nice one, that was, however, rather expensive. Alright, so Apple had its own MP3 player. So what?
We know better today. Apple sold more than 260 million units so far and holds about 70% of the market. The iPod has become synonymous with the word 'MP3 player' and lives through the iTunes ecosystem that has changed the way we acquire music. You may have downloaded music illegally from Napster in 2000, but most of us may purchase their music now through iTunes.
5. PS2
If there was one game console that defined the way we are playing video games today, then it is Sony's PS2. The iconic device has sold almost 150 million units to date. Despite the arrival of the PS3 in late 2006, the PS2 remained a popular (and affordable) gaming console to date and is actually still in use in our household today.
4. Wi-Fi
If you were traveling in 2000, you were lucky to find a hotel with available Internet access, for which it charged nosebleed prices. You used a telephone cable you brought along and used 56K dial-up access, possibly AOL. In many cases you had to program the dial-in procedure of your modem in order to obtain optimal connectivity.
If you ask our kids today, they that wireless access for granted and you see strange faces when you are using Ethernet cables for Internet connectivity. We have come a long way, from Intel's first Wi-Fi kit the company sold in 2001 on a limited basis for a staggering $1300 (one router, two Wi-Fi cards). Wi-Fi is standard in virtually all computing devices today, it is included in many set-top boxes, in game consoles, and in TVs.
3. Notebooks
Wi-Fi, of course, brings up the notebook as the computer device of choice. Mobile Internet detached the computer and turned the notebook into a more popular computer than the traditional desktop PC. Today, notebooks deliver vastly more processing and graphics horsepower in relation to the desktop computer, offer a wide variety of screen sizes from 10 to 17 inches at prices that range from about $200 to more than $4000.
There are no signs that the traditional notebook form factor will fade away, even if we are now seeing tablets as complementing segment and evolutionary stage for the mainstream notebook.
2. Google
There is no other company that I was so wrong about than Google. I interviewed Sergey Brin in early 2000 in his messy office with empty soup bowls and an overstuffed trash bin. Back then, web portals were the way to go and Yahoo, Excite and Lycos showed the way. We believed banner advertising would be the only way to earn money on the web. Then Google pitched text-based contextual advertising. I had my doubts about Google's chances to stick around.
By 2003, we already knew that Google was the best search engine around, but the company was still in its infancy and companies such as Microsoft did not take Google serious. Today, Google is on its way to be the next Microsoft with search and advertising at its core, a mobile operating system that is leading the world market and a software services ecosystem that may be leading the way into cloud computing for the consumer.
1. Cell phone
If we are honest, the cell phone of 2000 was a very rough device that was trying to find its direction. It was a voice device and, here in the U.S. we did not even use SMS as a communication service. Back then, I remember that I subscribed to a Sprint WAP data service with traffic reports for $50 per month.
It took us some time to catch up with the data usage models that came out of Europe and Asia, but we eventually got the message and now quickly adopt a new generation of smartphones that are predicted to replace entry-level notebooks in many scenarios. Many of us may already be using a phone as their main email and communication device as well as the basic Internet and entertainment device on the road. I often have to think back to an interview with a Sun executive in 2000, when I was told that the cell phone would assume many more function and not just the feature of a traveller's alarm clock. He was right: It is now our MP3 player, a mobile video player, a digital camera, a video camera, a mobile game console, an Internet device, as well as a universal communication device.
I may have been able to live without my cell phone in 2000 for a few days, but it has become essential to my communication needs today. It is the one device I would not want to miss anymore.
Skywatchers around the world are gearing up to observe a rare total lunar eclipse.
The best viewing conditions for the eclipse are from North and Central America, parts of northern Europe and East Asia.
Astronomers say the Moon could turn a pink or blood red hue during the eclipse, which begins early on Tuesday morning GMT.
It will be the first total lunar eclipse in three years.
The Moon is normally illuminated by the Sun. During a total lunar eclipse, the full Moon passes through the shadow created by the Earth blocking the Sun's light.
Some indirect sunlight will still manage to pierce through and give the Moon a ghostly colour.
The west coast of America will see the eclipse start on Monday night; observers in North and Central America will be able to view the whole event.
Total eclipse begins at 0741 GMT on Tuesday (0241 EST on Tuesday; 11:41 PST on Monday).
Western Europe will only see the start of the spectacle while western Asia will catch the tail end.
The totality phase - when the moon is entirely inside Earth's shadow - will last a little over an hour.
"It's perfectly placed so that all of North America can see it," said eclipse expert Fred Espenak of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center.
It works by automatically adjusting the the brightness and contrast of your monitor as the day progress. Just input your location (latitude/longitude) and the type of lighting you have.
Thus your screen is its usual bluish bright self (like the sun, they say) during the day and it takes on a reddish hue at night. You will love it best when you get up sometime in the middle of the night to use the computer.
In the case of my laptop, the screen colour temp is 6500K by day and 3400K by night. It is customizable.
Your monitor is a lot easier to look at at night and it works seamlessly no matter what program you're using. (You'd want to take it off if you're into professional colour work though.)
And corporations are interested in all your public Facebook data.
Zoom
Earlier this week, roughly 100 million Facebook accounts were bundled together in a 2.8GB package and put on the torrents for anyone to download. Mind you, the information contained in the package was just a result of a programmed spider crawling on open Facebook profiles mining anything that was public information.
Clint, a Gizmodo reader, used Peer Block to checked out who else was downloading the torrent file and matched the IP addresses to corporations. Turns out that businesses (or at least those who are working for those business and using BitTorrent at work) are quite interested in the information of 100 million Facebook users.
The list includes:
A.C. Nielsen Agilent Technologies Apple AT&T - Possible Macrovision Baker & McKenzie BBC Bertelsmann Media Boeing Church of Scientology Cisco Systems Cox Enterprises Davis Polk & Wardwell Deutsche Telekom Disney Duracell Ernst & Young Fujitsu Goldman Sachs Halliburton HBO & Company Hilton Hospitality Hitachi HP IBM Intel Intuit Levi Strauss & Co. Lockheed-Martin Corp Lucasfilm Lucent Lucent Technologies Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Mcafee MetLife Mitsubishi Motorola Northrop Grumman Novell Nvidia O'Melveny & Myers Oracle Corp Pepsi Cola Procter and Gamble Random House Raytheon Road Runner RRWE Seagate Sega Siemens AG SONY CORPORATION Sprint Sun Microsystems Symantec The Hague Time Warner Telecom Turner Broadcasting system Ubisoft Entertainment Unisys United Nations Univision USPS Viacom Vodafone Wells Fargo Xerox PARC
The bigger question is, what will these companies do with the data?
And people wonder why I don't have an FB account...