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Sony Vaio F and CW series recalled due to heat problem VPCCW26FG

digitalpbk — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:14:38 +0000

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Sony is to recall over half a million laptops of its CW and F series due to a potential overheat problem. This problem is due to a bug in the firmware of the Sony Vaio CW series and Sony Vaio F series laptops. Sony has released a new firmware update to fix this issue that results in overheating and deformation of the laptop casing.

Turn on Bluetooth/Wifi on Sony Vaio CW Series

digitalpbk — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:56:14 +0000

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Sony vaio comes preloaded with a utility called Vaio Smart Network, which controls the power status of the Wifi and Bluetooth radios. This is enabled only when the Wireless button on the laptop is turned on. So in order to turn on Bluetooth or Wireless, first slide the button on the front of the laptop towards the right hand side.

Now you can enable the Wireless or Bluetooth as shown in the screenshot below. The Wireless green icon is present in the task bar. (Right bottom of the screen) .

Installing Putty SSH Client on Nokia E63

digitalpbk — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:10:53 +0000

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This post is about installing an SSH client in Nokia E63 (E63 ssh) with a Symbian S60 OS (3rd edition).

Download the Putty client for Symbian S60 from SourceForge at this link, download it from your E63 mobile browser or transfer it to your Nokia E63 handset using bluetooth or usb connection.

Compare Nokia E71 vs E63 Smartphone

digitalpbk — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:30:22 +0000

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Nokia E63, E71, E72 etc are business type phones (or blackberry like) introduced by Nokia. Main features are full QWERTY keyboard and a long battery life. However there are some key differences in between Nokia E63 and the E71. These are

Feature	Nokia E63	Nokia E71
Size & Weight	Dimensions (WxHxD) : 113 x 59 x 13 mm Weight : 126 g

Select random rows from a table in MySQL

digitalpbk — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:02:33 +0000

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In order to select a random row from MySQL, we can order the rows by a random number and then pick the first row.

SELECT * FROM node ORDER BY rand() LIMIT 1;

The above query randomly selects a row from the table node.

Google search goes social with Social Search Results - The Facebook effect ?

digitalpbk — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:46:22 +0000

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The following is the screenshot of Google Search result page when searched for something my friend has blogged on.

Is google moving towards a social networking side ?
Google is slowly adding the "Social" aspect to all its products. After launching Buzz on Gmail, "Social Results" aspect in "Google Search" results too reveals this trend.

Perl Script to check Google pagerank

digitalpbk — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:12:37 +0000

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In order to find out a Google Pagerank of a webpage, we can use the WWW::Google::PageRank module in Perl.
Click WWW::Google::PageRank to download the Google Pagerank module. Here is a simple script that takes the Website URL as a command line argument and prints the Google PageRank.

#!/usr/bin/perl
 
$webpage = $ARGV[0];
 
use WWW::Google::PageRank;
my $pagerank = WWW::Google::PageRank->new;
print scalar($pagerank->get($webpage)), "\n";