Science and Technology

Charge your iPod with an onion and some Gatorade

Camaleonte — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:56:00 GMT

This is amazing... But also very useful in some places/cases!!
Check out how to charge your iPod with natural ingredients!!

Video Location
PS The video is in English!!

VoIP Buster So far the best!

Camaleonte — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:58:00 GMT

VoipBuster

Forget about all the other VoIP online (not the sip yet!!)

A friend of mine set me a link once. He said:"check this out, look better than Skype or Jajah... After having seen many online voip, I was a bit sceptic of the beauty of an other voip program.

2 days later I do look at it.
I got really surprised!!!

This VoipBuster, busted Skype and Jajah at once!

It put together the best of both and uses lower rates in all ways!!

Here is a brief description:

Go to the http://www.voipbuster.com/ and download the application. Its small and fast.
Once installed it, you have a quick and neat registration to make.

As soon as you did it, you get a nice confirmation messagge and you are up and running.

At this moment already, you are able to test the system.
You are able to call for free MANY countries in Europe and elsewere.
Only 5 minutes!!!

However, when you put a credit on it (I am trying with 10 Euro) you get 300 minutes a month of free calls to landlines (see the free countries available for the offer, US is free on mobile as well) for a period of 120 days (so I understood).

This makes 5 hours a month!! Should be enough!!

After the time is up, you still can use your credits to call at a lower rates than Skype does.

If you than add more credits, you re-gain the free calls capability.

All I wrote above is true using an application on your computer.
HOWEVER, they also have a service called Direct Call that will call your own home phone and connect you to your destination phone. And this for Euro 0.05 connection fee only!! than you call for free (as long as the country is in the free call list!!)

AND... they also have an access number that you can use via your mobile phone!
You call a local number at local rates, than you enter the desired phone number (internetional) and than VoipBuster connects you to your party!

And it cost the normal VoipBuster rates!!

So, I am glad to say that Skype has a good competitor!!

Here are the NORMAL rates from the Netherlands and in Euro. NOT THE FREE CALL. (check the links above for the free countries)

Destination	EUR/min	Incl.
Destination	EUR/min	VAT
andorra (Landline)	0.01	0.012
australia (Landline)	0.01	0.012
austria (Landline)	0.01	0.012
belgium (Landline)	0.01	0.012
canada (Landline & Mobile)	0.01	0.012
chile (Landline)	0.01	0.012
cyprus (Landline)	0.01	0.012
czech republic (Landline)	0.01	0.012
denmark (Landline)	0.01	0.012
estonia (Landline)	0.01	0.012
finland (Landline)	0.01	0.012
france (Landline)	0.01	0.012
guam (Landline & Mobile)	0.01	0.012
hong kong (Landline & Mobile)	0.01	0.012
hungary (Landline)	0.01	0.012
iceland (Landline)	0.01	0.012
ireland (Landline)	0.01	0.012
israel (Landline)	0.01	0.012
italy (Landline)	0.01	0.012
japan (Landline)	0.01	0.012
liechtenstein (Landline)	0.01	0.012
luxembourg (Landline)	0.01	0.012
malaysia (Landline)	0.01	0.012
monaco (Landline)	0.01	0.012
netherlands (Landline)	0.01	0.012
new zealand (Landline)	0.01	0.012
norway (Landline)	0.01	0.012
panama (Landline)	0.01	0.012
portugal (Landline)	0.01	0.012
puerto rico (Landline & Mobile)	0.01	0.012
singapore (Landline)	0.01	0.012
south korea (Landline)	0.01	0.012
spain (Landline)	0.01	0.012
switzerland (Landline)	0.01	0.012
taiwan (Landline)	0.01	0.012
united states (Landline & Mobile)	0.01	0.012
Rates are char

Did you ever had a HD crash?

Camaleonte — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:22:00 GMT

Did you ever had a HD crash?

Do you want to have a chance to get your HD back?

MBR or Partition Table got corrupted?
Windows itself cannot help you anymore.
The following link will take you to the Ultimate Boot CD.
There is a DOS version and a Windows version.
I think the Windows version is more likely a Beta but I am not sure.
Its for free, but they do accept a donation.
This is the place to visit: Ultimate Boot CD Many links to mirrors from here.
And here is the link for the Windows Version: ultimatebootcd4Win

Enjoy it!

This is what does it contains:

Hard Disk Installation
MaxBlast 4 (Maxtor) 4.0
DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate) 10.45.06
Disk Manager (Seagate) 9.56a
Disk Manager (Samsung) 10
Hard Disk Diagnosis
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.05
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09/4.22
SCSIMax (Maxtor) 2.1
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 4.15/5.04c
Data Lifeguard (Western Digital) 11.0
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02/3.02.03en
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.30
SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25
HUTIL (Samsung) 2.00
GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15
GWSCAN (Gateway) 5.09
Salvation HDD Scan and Repair 3.0
MHDD32 4.6
ExcelStor's ESTest 3.70
Hard Disk Device Management
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 2.00
AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00
MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1
UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003
SMARTUDM 2.00
ATA Password Tool 1.1
ATAINF 1.3m
ExcelStor's SATA Tool 1.10
Hard Disk Wiping
AutoClave (Discontinued) 0.3
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition 3.1
Darik's Boot and Nuke 1.0.6
PC INSPECTOR e-maxx 0.95 Build 775
Hard Disk Cloning
HDClone (Free Edition) 2.0
g4u 2.1
PC INSPECTOR clone maxx 0.95 Build 769
XXCOPY 2.92.6
Hard Disk Sector Editor
Disk Editor 3.0
DISKMAN4 4.01
PTS DiskEditor 1.04
Partition Tools
Ranish Partition Manager 2.40
XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3beta
SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03r
TestDisk 6.2
Partition Resizer 1.3.4
Partition Saving 3.01
Free FDISK 1.3.0
MBRtool 2.2.100
MBRWork 1.07b
FIPS 2.0
Active@ Partition Recovery 2.1.1
Boot Managers
Smart BootManager 3.7.1
Gujin 1.3
GAG 4.5d
XOSL 1.1.5
Super Grub Disk 0.9296
File Tools
DOS Navigator 4.9.0
File Maven 3.5a
Necromancer's DOS Navigator 2.15 Build 4000
Eraser for DOS 5.7
D-Browse 1.24
NTFS Tools
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
050303
Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.1
EditBINI 1.01.1
Boot Partition 2.50
NTFS4DOS n/a
System Burn-In Test
Lucifer 1.0
CPU Test
CPU Burn-in 1.00
Mersenne Prime Test 23.5.2
StressCPU 24-Oct-05
Memory Test
Memtest86 3.2
Memtest86+ 1.65
Windows Memory Diagnostic n/a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 1.45a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 2.1b
TestMem4 4
Peripherals Test
Parallel port detection and test utilities 1.45
ATAPI CDROM Identification 2.03
CHZ Monitor-Test 1.0
CPU Information
Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 7.2.20041115
x86test 0.10a
System Information
AIDA16 (Discontinued) 2.14
NSSI 0.58.6
PC-Config 9.33
ASTRA 5.11
PCISniffer 1.4
PCI
pcidevs.txt: 13 Feb 2006 1.1
CTIA 2.1
Benchmark Applications
System Speed Test 32 4.78
3D Benchmark VGA 1.0
CPU Benchmark n/a
CD Index 1.1
QwikTest n/a
BIOS Utilities
BIOS 1.35.1
UniFlash 1.40
WipeCMOS 1.2
CMOSPWD 4.8
!BIOS 3.20
DOS Boot Disks
FreeDOS Boot Disk 3.35
OpenDOS Boot Disk 3.35
NwDsk: NetWare Boot Disk 3.35
MSRRC: Bart's Network Boot Disk on FreeDOS 3.35
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only)
Virus definition: 9 Feb 2006 3.16b
McAfee Antivirus Scanner
Virus definition: 9 Feb 2006 4.32.0
Avast! V7.7 for DOS
Virus definition: 9 Feb 2006 7.7
AVG Free Edition
Virus definition: 9 Feb 2006 7.0
Network Tools
Freesco
Note: First you need to create a configuration floppy disk based on freesco/freesco.zip on the CD. Please refer to docs/freesco/fscodisk.txt on the CD for more information. 0.3.2
Arachne WWW Browser 1.87
QNX Demo Browser (network and modem version) 4.00
NetCopy 0.2
DOSRDP 2.0/XP
FileLink V3.01 (from Caldera OpenDOS V7.03) 3.01

Pleistocene Park The return of the Mammoth

Camaleonte — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:40:00 GMT

So we are arrived to the age of dreams... come true!
Some scientist are reconstructing the Mammoth DNA.
They are now at about 50% and they count having the remaining part in 1 year or 2.
Since the similitude with the today elephants, a femail will probably carry the mammoth clone inside.
Once they succeeded with he cloning, the mammoth will be free in a park called Pleistocene Park in Siberia, were the scientist Sergey Zimov will recreate similar conditions.
After all this look like the realization of a Jurassic Park dream!!

From Very Spacial (http://veryspatial.com):
quote:"[...] Already 20 square kilometers have been fenced off, and Yakutian horses, reindeer, and moose have been released into the park. Zimov hopes to import Canadian bison, musk oxen and eventually re-introduce the Siberian tiger once the large herbivore populations have been built up."

Is Google coming up with a PC with its own Operating System?

Camaleonte — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:53:00 GMT

It look like Google is about to come out with a new PC with its own Operating System.
Its logo will be replacing the one that most of us know under the name of Micro Soft.
Nothing is confirmed. For now look like just some gossiping and, obviously, Google keep this very secret and no news come from them (or certainly not to me).
If this happen, we will see a switch from a Search Engine.
Some will be happy to know that there will be an other alternative to Microsoft.
And some will be happy to see all the nice Google projects and tools in within an OS (Operating System).
Others will fear to see a new power coming up equal to Microsoft or even worst than Microsoft. A powerful company that can suck-up all internet and is aware of every move we make.
Well, so far is too early to speculate about what Google is or is not doing.
Could be that before the end of this week we will know more.
Stay Tuned!
Camaleonte