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How to make a Wajanbolic, an Antenna made from Frying Pan

Posted on September 21, 2010, 7:48 am in Article, Network

Wajanbolic is a term which very popular in Indonesia. Wajanbolic named after Wajan and bolic.

Wajan : frying pan, kitchen tools for cooking
Bolic : parabolic
WajanBolic : a parabolic antenna-made from the pan

wajanbolic antenna MATERIALS

1. Pan, diameter 36 “(the bigger diameter is better )
2. Thin PVC pipe with diameter, 3 “1-meter
3. Doff 3 “(PVC pipe cap) 2 pieces
4. Aluminum foil
5. Nut bolt 12 or 14 size
6. N Female Connector
7. Rule 3 copper wire
8. Double tape duct tape

EQUIPMENT

1. Ruler
2. Knife / Cutter
3. Solder tin his
4. Hacksaw

ESTIMATED COST

Estimated cost incurred to buy the materials for WajanBolic is less than USD $10-. Compare when you have to buy24db Grid Antenna, the local homemade alone reached USD $50 to hundreds. Continue Reading

Windows Phone 7 is Finished, and soon to be on stores

Posted on September 5, 2010, 11:32 pm in Mobile

Microsoft Corporation finally finished their brand new mobile phone OS, called Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 was named Windows Phone 7 Series before, but later Microsoft decided to take off the “Series”.

It is uncertain when Windows Phone 7 powered deviced will be released. But now, Microsoft this week said that Windows Phone 7 has reached RTM (release to manufacturer) status and is now available to OEMs and service provider partners.

Sure Windows Phone 7 OS would be a serious rival of current major mobile OS, iPhone (iOS) and Android. I hope there are cheap Windows Phone 7 devices soon after release, so I can try it out. Continue Reading

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, The GF104-based?

Posted on July 5, 2010, 12:49 am in Video Card

Rumours says that NVIDIA is almost ready to release their latest GPU line. After the release of their Fermi cards, GeForce GTX 480, GTX 470, and GTX 465, now they are preparing to release Geforce GTX 460. This video card GPU reported to use GF104 chip.

As we know, GF104 is “lowered” version of GF100. Many reviews around state that GF100 is too much power consuming, and too hot as you can cook an egg on it. Although their latest GF100 card (GTX 465) with lowered SP, at peak only reach 87 degrees celcius.

What about GTX 460? Look at these pictures

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List of Symbian s60 Mobile Phones

Posted on June 26, 2010, 5:23 am in Mobile

Introduction

Symbian OS is the most popular mobile operating system, used by 46.9% of smartphone sales. Phones ranging from the early Nokia 7650 running S60 v0.9 on Symbian OS v6.1, to the latest Samsung i8910 Omnia HD running S60 v5.0 on Symbian OS v9.4.

Symbian is now an open source software platform project after acquired by Nokia. As an OS, Symbian OS originally does not provide a user interface (UI). This was implemented separately. Some of Symbian UIs are MOAP; Series 60; Series 80; Series 90 and UIQ. The new Symbian Foundation has announced its intention to unify different Symbian UIs into a single UI based on the S60 platform. (Announcements made in March 2009 indicated this would be the S60 5th edition with feature pack 1).

The table lists contains phone’s S60 edition as well as the Symbian OS version it is based on.

S60 edition	Images	Symbian OS version	Phone Devices
S60, version 0.9		6.1	Nokia 7650
S60 1st Edition		6.1	Nokia 3600 Nokia 3620 Nokia 3650 Nokia 3660 Nokia N-Gage Nokia N-Gage QD Sendo X Sendo X2 Siemens SX1
S60 2nd Edition		7.0s	Nokia 6600 Panasonic X700 Panasonic X800 Samsung SGH-D720 Samsung SGH-D728 Samsung SGH-D730 Samsung SGH-Z600
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1		7.0s	Nokia 3230 Nokia 6260 Nokia 6620 Nokia 6670 Nokia 7610
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2		8.0a	Lenovo P930 Nokia 6630 Nokia 6680 Nokia 6681 Nokia 6682
S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 3		8.1a	Nokia N70 Nokia N72 Nokia N90
S60 3rd Edition		9.1	Nokia 3250 Nokia 5500 Sport Nokia E50 Nokia E60 Nokia E61 Nokia E61i Nokia E62 Nokia E65 Nokia E70 Nokia N71 Nokia N73 Nokia N75 Nokia N77 Nokia N80 Nokia N91 Nokia N91 8GB Nokia N92 Nokia N93 Nokia N93i Samsung SGH-i570
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1	3.1	9.2	LG KS10 LG KT610 LG KT615 Nokia 5700 XpressMusic Nokia 6110 Navigator Nokia 6120 Classic Nokia 6121 Classic Nokia 6124 classic Nokia 6290 Nokia E51 Nokia E63 Nokia E66 Nokia E71 Nokia E90 Communicator Nokia N76 Nokia N81 Nokia N81 8GB Nokia N82 Nokia N95 Nokia N95 8GB Samsung SGH-G810 Samsung SGH-i400 Samsung SGH-i408 Samsung SGH-i450 Samsung SGH-i458 Samsung SGH-i520 Samsung SGH-i550 Samsung SGH-i550w Samsung SGH-i560 Samsung SGH-i568
S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2		9.3	Nokia 5320 XpressMusic Nokia 5630 XpressMusic Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Nokia 6210 Navigator Nokia 6220 Classic Nokia 6650 fold Nokia 6710 Navigator Nokia 6720 Classic Nokia 6730 Classic Nokia 6760 Slide Nokia 6790 Surge Nokia C5 Nokia E52 Nokia E55 Nokia E71x Nokia E72 Nokia E75 Nokia E5 Nokia N78 Nokia N79 Nokia N85 Nokia N86 8MP Nokia N96 Samsung GT-i8510 (INNOV8) Samsung GT-I7110 Samsung SGH-L870
S60 5th Edition		9.4	Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition Nokia 5530 XpressMusic Nokia 5230 Nokia 5233 Nokia N97 Nokia N97 mini Nokia X6 Nokia C6 Samsung i8910 Omnia HD^[7] Sony Ericsson Satio Sony Ericsson Vivaz Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro
Symbian^2	-	10.0	DoCoMo F-07B DoCoMo F-08B DoCoMo F-06B DoCoMo SH-07B
Symbian^3		11.0	Nokia N8 (12MP)