Nokia Warns About 46 mln Matsushita Batteries

The world's top cellphone maker Nokia said on Tuesday 46 million batteries used in its phones could overheat and the company would replace them for no cost to consumers.

Nokia said the Nokia-branded "BL-5C" batteries were made by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. between December 2005 and November 2006.




"(The batteries) could potentially experience overheating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge," Nokia said in a statement.

Nokia said 100 overheating cases of batteries in question have been reported globally, but no serious injuries were reported.

The "BL-5C" is Nokia's most widely used battery and several suppliers have made more than 300 million of them for Nokia.



Consumers should visit the website www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement or contact their local Nokia call center.

Screen shot of my upcoming site..!!

PHOTOSHOP easy TUTORIAL : Web2.0 icon

Web 2.0 is an interesting topic and with web 2.0 applications currently being developed for the iPhone, I thought now would be the best time to re-introduce you all to the art of 2.0

The Shape

To start of with we use the custom shape tool and select a shape that is not to complex (usually a star or a circle).
For mine, I choose a heart to make it a bit different, create the shape on a new layer from the background and also hold shift while creating it to make sure it's proportional to the original image.



Now to make it more interesting we apply some blending options.
Below is the blending options ticked and what settings have been changed:

Outer Glow
Overlay: Normal
Colour: Darker than desired gradient colors..i used yellow here..

Inner Glow
Didn't change any options

Gradient Overlay
Opacity: 90%
Gradient: Used a default 3 color orange toned one and
Angle: 122'

Pattern Overlay
Pattern: A 3x3 pattern i created of 3 white pixels diagonally on a transparent background

And this produced the following result


And like all web 2.0 logos it must have a highlight and due to my interesting shape, I simply pressed ctrl + J to duplicate, removed all the blending styles and changed the layer to overlay and reduced the opacity and finally moved the layer slightly left and up


Important aspect of Web2.0 is the text,the texts should not be filled with styles it should simple and attractive.Intelligent way to grab attention is using a larger text below an smaller text,u can see it below..!


And now to just finish it off to your liking, i played with some patterns and few satin brushes..and this the final product..!!



I hope you liked this tutorial,do send in me ur comments...!

Screensaver helps in solving crime

The police in Genk forced a breakthrough in twelve unsolved cases last year by use of screensavers.

“The traditional wanted notices on the bulletin board now display regularly on the computer screens of our officers,” says Frank Mulleners, chief of the GAOZ police district.

The system has caught on from the Netherlands. The Genk police force was the first in Belgium to adopt the system. Other forces have reportedly already expressed an interest in using this method to imprint the image of wanted criminals on police officers’ memories.

Protect your email against spam

If your a webmaster you will know how annoying it is to find you have about 200 e-mails in your inbox about “free prize” and “you have won £1,000,000″ and all sorts of random stuff like that, this can happen for many reasons but one is spam bots, which do the same as search engine spiders and search the web but for e-mail addresses, save them to bring them back to the owner so you can be spammed to high heaven, there are ways to prevent this or cut down the chance.

Here are the most common used examples.

1.) Display an image with your e-mail address on it, this is the only 100% foolproof way but it can annoy customers/visitors because they cant copy and paste it.

2.) Display your e-mail address like:

email[at]gmail[dot]com

3.) Use code tags for your @ symbol. Put the symbols between the opening and closing HTML code tags tags.
email @gmail.com

4.) If you are using contact forms then the way to stop spam with forms will be using CAPTCHA which requires the user to enter a code from a dynamic image displayed to prove they are human.

iPod user struck by lightning

Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.

A Canadian jogger suffered wishbone-shaped chest and neck burns, ruptured eardrums and a broken jaw when lightning traveled through his music player’s wires.

Last summer, a Colorado teen ended up with similar injuries when lightning struck nearby as he was listening to his iPod while mowing the lawn.



Contrary to some urban legends and media reports, electronic devices don’t attract lightning the way a tall tree or a lightning rod does.

“It’s going to hit where it’s going to hit, but once it contacts metal, the metal conducts the electricity,” said Dr. Mary Ann Cooper of the American College of Emergency Physicians and an ER doctor at University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago.

When lightning jumps from a nearby object to a person, it often flashes over the skin. But metal in electronic devices - or metal jewelry or coins in a pocket - can cause contact burns and exacerbate the damage.

A spokeswoman for Apple, the maker of iPods, declined to comment. Packaging for iPods and some other music players do include warnings against using them in the rain.

Lightning strikes can occur even if a storm is many miles away, so lightning safety experts have been pushing the slogan “When thunder roars, go indoors,” said Cooper.

K750i - Tips & Tricks

Here's your one-stop thread on everything to do with your k750i phone:

--------------------------------------------------
Advanced camera usage
--------------------------------------------------
1 = Opens menu with "picture size" ready to select
4 = Toggles Macro mode (for close up photos)
7 = Toggles Night mode
* = Toggles Light (I also find this is the fastest way to use the light as a torch in the dark)
0 = While in video mode toggles length of recording.

Mute camera sounds; Before opening the lens cover hold # to toggle between silent mode easily.

Change brightness = <>

--------------------------------------------------
Light up clock in standby mode
--------------------------------------------------
Press the volume button

--------------------------------------------------
Mute a phone call without rejecting it
--------------------------------------------------
Press the volume button

--------------------------------------------------
Hidden Smiley
--------------------------------------------------
:-]
:-[
[:]



hope all these tricks were useful...!!

cheers..!