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Ambient Weather WR-111B Emergency Solar Hand Crank Digital Radio

Product Description
* The ADVENTURER is a Digital AM/FM NOAA Weather Alert Radio and a powerful 3 LED flashlight, with smart phone charger, all in one portable package.

* Five way charger – charge from a USB device (computer), DC, AC or wall power (optional), hand crank, or solar panel.

* Sets itself apart from other crank chargers – you can fully charge the WR-111B through the USB/AC/DC adaptor with no cranking.

* High quality digital tuner provides assured access to news, weather information and illumination whenever and wherever you need it.

* This dependable radio, with integrated LED flashlight, offers a choice of self-charge, solar and external recharge power options.

Customer Reviews
*The price is great and the radio works extremely well.

* This is a great radio for an emergency preparedness kit but it would also be a very nice everyday solar powered compact radio.

* The buttons on the radio are straight forward and are easy to use. I was able to take the radio straight out of the box and make it work without looking at the manual. I did look at the manual to see how to set the clock which was also easy after reading the instructions.

* The radio display is back lighted and is very easy to read in a completely dark room. I especially like that the display back lighting goes dark after a few seconds of no buttons being pushed. This extends the battery life and reduces the amount of light emitted at night.

* Flashlight – A nice suprise! With the light on the side and the thin radio this unit can be held and used like an actual flashlight. The 3 LED’s are very bright as well.

* The unit includes cables & adapters for most any cell phone, enabling you to add a boost charge to your cell phone. Also, you can use the speaker in the Radio with your iPod / iPhone music player – it’s no Bose system, but the speaker is better than the ones in your phone. And, with the solar charger, you can do this all day without killing your phone battery!

It is important to plan before disaster strikes. Are you ready to help your family get prepared for the unexpected?
Get yours today!

In order to avoid red light tickets, a police radar detector must be able to detect speed traps, red light cameras, speed cameras, etc with high accuracy and sensitivity so that it will alert the user before entering enforcement zones. Based on the feedback from users, Escort Passport 9500ix Radar/Laser Detectors is the best police radar detectors for avoiding red light tickets. A red light camera is shown below.

Huge List of Speed Traps in United States

Quick Review of Escort Passport 9500ix Radar/Laser Detector for smart drivers

The Escort Passport 9500ix Radar/Laser Detector comes pre-loaded with thousands of safety camera locations, including red light and speed-based cameras throughout North America.

1. Blistering All-Band Protection
2. 360-Degree Radar and Laser Detection
3. New Variable-Speed Radar Performance
4. New AutoLearn Feature
5. New Safety Camera Database – (pre-loaded with thousands of safety camera locations, including red light and fixed position speed cameras, located throughout North America)
6. New Web Ready for Location Database updates
7. New GPS-Powered Truelock Filter
8. New Mark Location

For your reference, the Escort Passport 9500ix Radar/Laser Detectors are widely used in these cities throughout North America, United Kingdom, Australia, etc.

• Miami, FL, USA
• Houston, TX, USA
• Chicago, IL, USA
• Washington, DC, USA
• Atlanta, GA, USA
• Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Sydney, Australia
• New York, NY, USA
• Toronto, Canada
• Vancouver, Canada
• Reading, United Kingdom
• Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Bristol, United Kingdom
• Bletchley, United Kingdom
• Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
• Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Sheffield, United Kingdom
• Manchester, United Kingdom
• Brentford, United Kingdom
• London, United Kingdom
• Perth, Australia
• Adelaide, Australia
• Canberra, Australia
• Brisbane, Australia
• Melbourne, Australia
• Sydney, Australia

HTC Desire Android Smartphone has the highest number of fans from these countries or regions: Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden), United Kingdom, Germany, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. This is an interesting fans distibution of HTC Desire Android Smartphone. HTC Desire Android Smartphone is produced by HTC Corporation, which is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of smartphones based on the Android operating system.

Map of fans distibution of HTC Desire Android Smartphone in Europe: Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden), United Kingdom, Germany

Map of fans distibution of HTC Desire Android Smartphone in Asia: Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Besides that, there are also a growing number of fans of HTC Desire Android Smartphone in United States especially in New York and Los Angeles.

A banner of HTC Meetup in Los Angeles. Date: June 3rd 2010

Quick review of HTC Desire Android Smartphone

HTC Desire Android Smartphone brings intense brilliance, sharp contrast, and true colors on the expansive 3.7-inch Active-matrix OLED (AMOLED) display. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive.

Battery life of this HTC Desire Android Smartphone is quite similar to an iPhone smartphone. Therefore, if you listen to a lot of music maybe you should invest in a MP3 player. This Android Smartphone has all the apps any user could want.

Social Networking functions of HTC Desire Android Smartphone:

• Facebook integration
• Friend Stream
• Photo sharing on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter
• Video sharing on YouTube
• HTC Peep for twittering

Some of the social networking functions of HTC Desire Android Smartphone are shown below. The Chinese Characters are in Traditional Chinese which is used in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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Just out of curiosity, anyone knows the fans distribution of apple iPhone smartphone?

Apple fourth generation 4G iphone smartphone (also known as iphone 4 smartphone) is predicted to sell well especially in United States and Europe although fourth generation 4G networks are still immature in many countries.

Those staying in Malaysia may like to find out whether iPhone 4G smartphone will replace iPhone 3GS smartphone in Malaysia in my previous article. This article also recorded the 3G coverage in major cities in Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang, Johor Bahru, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Kuantan and hot tourist spots such as Langkawi and Genting Highlands.

The retail prices of iPhone 3GS 32GB and 16GB smartphones in Malaysia are about RM2990 and RM2490 respectively. Using the conversion rate given by The World’s Favorite Currency and Foreign Exchange Site which is approximately 1USD = RM3.3, the retail prices of iPhone 3GS 32GB and 16GB smartphones in Malaysia are about USD906 and USD755 respectively.

The price of apple iPhone 4 smartphone will be higher than apple iPhone 3GS smartphone. Therefore, consumers will buy iphone 4 smartphone if only telcos in Malaysia such as Maxis, Digi and Celcom start to reduce the selling price of iPhone 4 smartphone and iPhone 3GS smartphone to acceptable levels. This action also applies to other telcos as well especially in Asia region. Smart shoppers and consumers will continue to monitor the changes of  the prices of iPhone 4 smartphones in their countries.  The selling prices will eventually drop to acceptable levels for most smart shoppers and consumers.

apple iPhone 4 smartphone

For your info, the selling prices of iPhone 4 smartphones 32GB and 16GB in United States are about USD299 and USD199 which requires new two-year AT&T rate plan. Pre-order of iPhone 4 smartphone in United States will start in this June 15 2010. The stock will be available in this June 24 2010.

For future reference of my readers, I’d like to conduct a research of the selling prices of apple iPhone 4 32GB and 16GB smartphones as well as apple iPhone 3GS 32GB and 16GB smartphones in your country and how much you are willing to pay for them. My readers and I will be happy to know the results.

If possible, please use this format:

• Your Country:
• Name of Telco:
• Selling price of apple iPhone 4 32GB:
• Selling price of apple iPhone 4 16GB:
• Selling price of apple iPhone 3GS 32GB:
• Selling price of apple iPhone 3GS 16GB:
• How much you are willing to pay for apple iPhone 4 32GB:
• How much you are willing to pay for apple iPhone 4 16GB:
• How much you are willing to pay for apple iPhone 3GS 32GB:
• How much you are willing to pay for apple iPhone 3GS 16GB:

Please leave blank for any field above if not applicable.

Thanks.

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For kindle wireless electronic book reader’s coverage, 10 cities in United States have been selected and studied.

1. Reston, VA, USA
2. Seattle, WA, USA
3. New York, NY, USA
4. Richardson, TX, USA
5. Washington, DC, USA
6. San Francisco, CA, USA
7. St Louis, MO, USA
8. Los Angeles, CA, USA
9. Boston, MA, USA
10. Dallas, TX, USA

Kindle wireless coverage for Reston includes Lake Anne Coffee House, La Kasbah, Cafe Montmartre, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for Seattle includes Downtown Seattle YMCA, La Bou Salon & Spa, Consulate General of Britian, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for New York includes Blue Spoon Coffee, Greenmarket, VIP Nail Salon, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for Richardson includes SmartLooks Window & Wall Decor, BAM Graphics, Mimi Salon, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for Washington, DC includes The White House, Washington Monument, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for San Francisco includes San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Fox Plaza Shopping Center, City Dance Studio, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for St Louis includes Gateway Arch, Missouri Botanical Garden, Laumeier Sculpture Park, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for Los Angeles includes Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens, etc

Kindle wireless coverage for Boston includes Irish Famine Memorial, The Boston Public Garden, The Boston Museum of Science, etc.

Kindle wireless coverage for Dallas includes Zero Gravity Thrill Amusement Park, Old Red Courthouse, Pioneer Plaza, etc.

Some reasons for getting the Kindle Wireless Ebook Reader:

1. Save money in the longrun.
2. Environment friendly and save paper used to produce books.
3. Never run out of shelf space to store physical books.
4. Very convenience to have books stored in the Kindle to take along instead of having to pack an extra bag just for the books.

Kindle Wireless Reading Device is a slim, slightweight, Third Generation (3G) wireless ebook reader. There is nothing to be compared of this most valuable gift that you can offer to your family.

Useful tool to check Kindle wireless electronic book reader’s coverage.

Pat Metheny has won extraordinary 17 Grammy Awards and has been nominated 33 times in 12 different categories, which is more than any other performers’ winnings in Grammy history.

An Orchestrion is a musical device invented to create sound. Its roots could be traced back to the mid-19th century and it reached its peak in the early 20th century. It is a machine that utilize paper rolls, cylinders, and gravity to create an orchestral sound. Just think of an old player piano and let your mind expand on the image. Now combine it all with the technology of today.

Date: June 2- June 5 2010

Venue:LG Arts

Country: Seoul, South Korea

Region:Asia

Buy Tickets for Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion tour in Seoul, South Korea

More info of Pat Metheny’s Orchestrion could be found at his Orchestrion website at http://www.patmetheny.com/orchestrioninfo/

Fourth generation (4G) is a successor to 3G and 2G families of standards. The iPhone 4G is a nickname for the next version of the smartphone. Apple usually releases new iPhones in yearly increments.

A few features of iPhone 4G:

1. Unified Mailbox (all email accounts in one area).
2. Application folders.
3. New wallpaper/background options.
4. A new, sleeker body design.
5. OLED screen.
6. Multi-Tasking. (use multiple functions at once without going in and out of apps).
7. iChat camera (on the front so you can have video chat!!!).
8. 32G (basic) and 64G of memory. You’re sure to never run out.
9. Removable Battery.
10. Hi Definition Camera.
11. Hi Definition Camcorder.
12. Hi Definition audio.
13. Messaging light.
14. True GPS built in.

For your info, 3G coverage could be found in major cities in Malaysia such as Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang, Johor Bahru, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Kuantan and hot tourist spots such as Langkawi and Genting Highlands.

However, the new 4G systems are still immature and not available in most Malaysia cities. Malaysia 4G coverage may not be significant for another three to four years.

Currently, Digi and Maxis are still offering iPhone 3GS smartphone subscription plans as shown below:

iPhone 3GS smartphone subscription plans from Digi

iPhone 3GS smartphone subscription plans from Maxis

3G coverage in Malaysia

3G coverage in Kuala Lumpur

3G coverage in Pulau Pinang

3G coverage in Langkawi

3G coverage in Johor Bahru

3G coverage in Kuching

3G coverage in Kota Kinabalu

Ubuntu linux latest version in January 2009 is ubuntu 8.10. Ubuntu linux with earlier version may work too. This is a simple faq written regarding how to transfer files between Nokia 5300 series including Nokia Express Music 5310/5320 and ubuntu linux. First, we need to have the connectivity cable. Micro USB cable CA-101 supplied by nokia provides high-speed USB 2.0 data transfer rates, and enables charging your compatible device or enhancement from a laptop or PC USB port.

Simple steps involved to transfer files between Nokia Express Music 5310/5320 and ubuntu linux:

1. First, connect the Nokia Connectivity Cable CA-101 to your Nokia 5310/5320. Then, plug into your laptop/ PC.
2. From Nokia Express 5310/5320 menu, select Mass Storage.
3. In few seconds, it will be detected as an USB storage. You can create any directory that you want.
4. In the directory, select the files you want to copy and move.
5. In your Nokia, select the directory and paste the files.

Tips:
From the menu, always click “Unmount Volume” from Nokia 5310/5320 icon before you unplug the CA-101 cable.

Troubleshooting the transfer problems:
If you are having problems with the transfer, please check the phone’s USB connection. It should be in “Data storage” mode, so that it functions as a USB Mass Storage device.

From the standby screen, kindly
Press “Menu”
Select “Settings”
Select “Connectivity”
Select “USB data cable”
Select either “Data storage” or “Ask on conn.”

Let’s say you choose “Ask on conn.“, then everytime you connect the device via USB you will be prompted on the phone to select either “PC Suite” (for use with Nokia PC Suite), “Printing & media” (emulate a digital camera), or “Data storage” (USB Mass Storage mode).

Kindly leave your valuable comments regarding how to transfer files between linux (mandriva, ubuntu, other linux distros) and other phones such as Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, etc. We’d be glad to hear from you so that we could learn together and help beginners to solve their problems.

Thanks!

Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need – a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. Its latest version in January 2009 is ubuntu 8.10.

What’s new in this version?
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition delivers the features you need for an increasingly mobile digital life, including 3G wireless support and guest sessions that lets users temporarily share computers without compromising security. Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition consolidates its support for virtualization with an integrated Virtual Machine builder, and brings with it a fully-supported Java stack and support for per-user directory encryption.

If you don’t know what is linux, you might want to read linux basic faqs for beginners.