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Friday, September 28, 2007

How to revive a wet cellphone??????

Did you ever drop your cellphone in a puddle or even the toilet? I did. (Don’t ask how that happened…) It happens to be one of the most annoying things to happen to a cell freak like me. It usually means you have to replace you phone, which obviously sucks.

  • Remove The Battery:This is one of the most important steps. Don’t take time to think about it, electricity and water do not mix. Cutting power to your phone is a crucial first step in saving it.
  • Dry your phone: Obviously you need to remove as much of the water as soon as you can to prevent it from getting into the phone. Use a towel or a paper towel to remove as much of the water as possible.
  • Soak in Alcohol: Alcohol is hygroscopic (attracts water), it will dissolve all the water in the phone, which will then pour out of the phone with the alcohol. Any remaining alcohol will evaporate. Alcohol will not harm your phone but may mess up glue (from stickers and the like). Use 95% alcohol, not the regular 70% rubbing type. Do it outside!. If you use alcohol, do not follow the rest of the advice here, instead leave your phone outside for a day or two to dry.
  • Allow phone to dry: Since you do not want to ruin your phone or lose all the numbers in your phone book, you need to allow the phone to dry. Don’t try putting the battery back on to see if it works as this would risk damaging the phone with a short circuit. Leaving your phone in a bowl of dry rice will help to expedite moisture evaporation.
  • Heat your phone: Apply enough heat to your phone to cause the water to evaporate without waterlogging your digital screen. One of the best things you can do to save a cell phone is to set it on the back of your computer monitor or TV screen over the heat vents. This is usually the perfect amount of heat to fix your phone. The convection action of the heat vents will help carry away the moisture in your phone. Leave the phone on the heat for at least 2-3 days. Another option is to leave it overnight in the oven on warm (make sure to take off the battery first).
  • Test your phone: After you have waited 3 days, make sure everything is clean and dry looking and re-attach the battery to the phone and see if it works. If your phone does not work repeat step 4. If it still won’t work, try taking your cellphone to an authorized dealer. Sometimes they can fix it.

TIPS

  1. Don’t put the battery on for at least 3 days or longer if your digital screen is foggy.
  2. Place a piece of satin finish scotch tape over your water damage sticker before you drop your cell phone in the water to prevent the water damage sticker from voiding your warranty. This sticker can usually be found under your battery. It’s a small round white sticker, possibly with dots on it. If this sticker gets wet it changes color and your phone is marked for water damage.
  3. Remove the tape if you ever have to return your phone for repairs or warranty. (See the note in the ‘Warnings’ section about doing this!)
  4. The best way to dry out your phone is to place it in front of an air conditioner or air conditioning vent. Cold air won’t damage your phone (hot air can warp or in extreme cases even melt plastic), and air from an air conditioner is dry, and so will evaporate water faster than you might think (which is why a car air conditioner will de-mist the windshield so effectively, even if the engine hasn’t warmed up yet). Warm air from a reverse-cycle air conditioner works even better, of course. If you dry your phone in this way overnight it should be fine by the morning.
  5. Use a hairdryer set on warm; it won’t melt your head so your phone should be safe.
  6. Use a food dehydrator.
  7. Use the oven on the warm setting (make sure to take out the battery).

WARNINGS:

  1. Don’t heat the battery or it could leak acid. If you use an oven or hairdryer, make sure to remove the battery first.
  2. If you use alcohol make sure to do so outside, and do not apply heat in any form, not even the gentle heat of a monitor.Do not hook up the bettery till the alcohol smell dissipates.
  3. Do not apply heat to your phone other than mentioned above. You don’t want to melt or burn your phone.
  4. Warranty fraud is naughty! If you dropped your phone in the can with your other ‘droppings’–are you really going to send it in for a warranty tech to have to open? Yuck!
  5. FYI, Most modern phones have more than one liquid damage indicator on them, only one visible to you (and sales/technician agents), and chances are, if the sticker under the battery is triggered (or would be, with the scotch tape trick), then the odds are that the internal stickers you can’t access are tripped as well. This will still result in you paying a voided-warranty fee in the long run, and it may be best to just learn from your mistake (and not make it more financially severe!).
  6. Even if all these steps are followed, minerals dissolved in the water can precipitate on solder and component pins, causing corrosion or shorting. Components pins are packed so closely together in a modern cell phone that even a small encrustation can create a short, rendering the phone inoperable.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Giant Dogs !!!!!!!!!!!!!













Sunday, September 2, 2007

Money facts!!!!!!!

  • The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 novel Vivian Grey.
    If you stack one million US$1 bills, it would be 110m (361 ft) high and weight exactly 1 ton.
  • A million dollars' worth of $100 bills weighs only 10 kg (22 lb).
  • One million dollars' worth of once-cent coins (100 million coins) weigh 246 tons.
  • TIP is the acronym for "To Insure Promptness."
  • The term "Blue Chip" comes from the colour of the poker chip with the highest value, blue.
  • Nessie, the Loch Ness monster is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Acts of Scotland. With good reason - Nessie is worth $40 million annually to Scottish tourism.
  • Of the more than $50 billion worth of diet products sold every year, almost $20 billion are spent on imitation fats and sugar substitutes.
  • Annual global spending on education is $80 billion.
  • US and European expenditure on pet food is $17 billion per year.
  • The global expenditure on healthcare and nutrition is $13 billion.
  • Money notes are not made from paper, it is made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
  • In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for a brief period. The wood notes came in $1, $5 and $10 values.
  • The world's largest coins, in size and standard value, were copper plates used in Alaska around 1850. They were about a metre (3 ft) long, half-a-metre (about 2 ft) wide, weighed 40 kg (90 lb), and were worth $2,500.
  • The first credit card was issued by American Express in 1951.
  • About 30% of consumers use their credit card as their main means of buying Christmas goodies, 70% do not save to buy Christmas gifts and 86% of consumers do their Christmas shopping during December.
  • Excessive use of credit is cited as a major cause of non-business , second only to unemployment.
  • Statistics show that people with high, medium and low income groups spend about the same amount on Christmas gifts.
  • In the 1400s, global income rose only 0,1% per year; today it often tops 5%.
  • The average age of Forbes's 400 wealthiest individuals is 63.
  • In 1955 the richest woman in the world was Mrs Hetty Green Wilks, who left an estate of $95 million in a will that was found in a tin box with four pieces of soap.
  • In 2001 the richest woman was Liliane Bettencourt, the daughter of L'Oreal's founder. She has a net worth of $14 billion (depending on how the stock market did today).
  • In 2000, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands is the second wealthiest woman, with $5,2 billion.
  • Queen Elizabeth II is one of the 10th wealthiest women in the world.
  • The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock.
  • The term "smart money" refers to who have inside information or have arranged a fix, the term for insuring the outcome of an event by illegal methods.
  • Small-time who place small bet in order to prolong the excitement of a game are called "dead fish" by game operators because the longer the playing time, the greater the chances of losing.
  • In language, for a house a "sure-thing" is a wager that a player has little chance of winning; "easy money" is their profit from an inexperienced bettor, an unlucky player is called a "stiff."
  • Australians are the heaviest in the world; an estimated 82% of Australians bet. That is twice as much per capita as Europeans or Americans. Yet, Australia, with less than 1% of the world population, has 20% of the world's poker machines.
  • There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world.
  • 80% of millionaires drive second-hand cars.
  • In 1900, the price of gold was less than $40 per ounce. It reached $600 in 1930, now struggling to reach $400 per ounce.
  • If Los Angeles County was a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world.
  • If California was a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world.
  • Tobacc0 is a $200 billion industry, producing six trillion a year - about 1,000 for each person on earth.
  • In 1965, CEOs earned on average 44 times more than factory workers. In 1998, CEOs earned on average 326 times more than factory workers and in 1999, they earned 419 times more than factory workers.
  • The income gap between the richest fifth of the world's people and the poorest measured by average national income per head increased from 30 to one in 1960, to 74 to one in 1998.
  • A third of the world's people live on less than $2 a day, with 1,2 billion people living on less than $1 a day.
  • In the 17th century, wool fabrics accounted for about two-thirds of England's foreign trade. Today, the leading wool producers are Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and China.
  • The NASDAQ stock exchange was totally disabled in on day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.
  • In 1990, the word "recession" appeared in 1,583 articles in The Wall Street Journal.
  • Global sales of pre-recorded music total more than $40 billion.
  • Tourism is the world's biggest industry, affecting 240 million jobs.
  • In 1865, Frederik Idestam founded a wood-pulp mill in southern Finland, naming it Nokia. It rapidly gained worldwide recognition, attracting a large number of workforce and the town Nokia was born. In 1898, the Finnish Rubber Works company opened in Nokia, taking on the town name in the 1920s. After WWII, the rubber company took a majority shareholding in the Finnish Cable Work. In 1967, the companies consolidated to become the Nokia Group. The recession of the 1990s led the group to focus on the mobile phone market.

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