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Windows 7 might actually sleep !

win7energyreport1Anyone whos tried to get windows Vista to sleep knows its almost an impossible task, not only do the devices within your computer have the ability to wake it up, but also the hundreds of wonderful scheduled tasks which are generated automatically upon install (YAY)… well, despite much of my tweaking im yet to come up with a way of stopping my Media Center from waking up every single day at 5PM (even after removing half a dozen scheduled tasks from the media center management console)….

Windows 7 might have a solution for this though, The Windows Help blog points out a hidden command-line switch that generates a report with loads of helpful troubleshooting information. The report lists all of the devices that are causing problems with sleep mode, explains the different power saving modes your computer supports, and even gives you detailed information on your battery—invaluable information when your system takes forever to go in and out of sleep mode. Generating the report is easy enough—just open up a command prompt in administrator mode using the context menu -> Run as Administrator option, and then type in the following:

powercfg -ENERGY

The utility will take a while to generate the report, sometimes more than the 60 seconds it quotes you—but when it finishes you can open up the generated file in your favorite web browser. Once you’ve examined the report, you can attempt to use it to figure out exactly what is waking your PC from its slumber !

Google results – Date Filtered

google_date_croppedGoogle can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string—&as_qdr=d—to the address bar and hit enter. You’ll get a custom drop-down box that lets you re-order results based on date. It’s great for getting past the same top results you’ve already looked through, as well as grabbing only the newest links related to gadgets, software, or whatever else you’re searching. Sadly it doesn’t work on Google Images, but let us know in the comments if it does work on other Google searches.

iPhone on Orange UK

Just come across a wonderful rumour which made my ears prick up slightly, Orange may have a shot at the iPhone hehe (yea yea, i know.. iv heard this rumour before too, but there is nothing wrong with having hope, and cash standing by lol)

Back in July 2008, there were rumours about a potential deal between Orange and Apple, stating that Orange was trying to persuade Apple it would be able to do a much better job at selling the iPhones than O2 could (not sure about that arguement, but it might be nice to have a choice).

Orange currently is the market leader of iPhone sales in over 27 other countries around the world, including France, it still escapes me, even to this day why O2 managed to sneak their fat noses into this exclusive (extortionate) contract…

Orange is at current on the verge of seeing its arch-rival Bouygues Telecom start selling the iPhone in France (yay, competition) and a UK deal over the iPhone with Apple could potentially alleviate the loss revenues in France and inject a little more interest around the iPhone, with people who would rather not sign up with the overlords of crappy signal (least around my area hehe), O2.

It could also be worth noting that some form of agreement, at least in theory could already of been reached between Orange and Apple, due to O2′s recent decision to start selling off the Palm Pre smartphone, one of the iPhones most credible revals, but this is a flakey analysis at the best of times, due to O2 and most networks ability to just choose their availiable handsets based on which one the untrained monkey in the Consumer Relations team goes to when called…

Well, ill wait and see… its not like its gonna help me anytime soon anyway, due to HTC dissapointing me once again with their HTC Touch Diamond, which had the battery life of a stone and the usability (based on its crawling speed and constant crashing) of a said stone being thrown at your head. Im currently stuck with an 18 month contact, which im hardly into, and still using my old Sony Ericsson K800i, which aint missed a beat in 3 years ! Highly reccomended for people who just wanna call, text and not run up massive Data bills ;)

But for those of you that cant wait that long, check out Play.com, and their ability to somehow be selling Apple approved 3G unlocked iPhones… more news on how this is possible later, though im sure the insane price has something to do with it !

History of the Internet

Its probably one of the most impressive things in the history of the human race, and we all take it for granted every day, as we sit infront of our every increasing sized monitors and use social networking to communicate more and more without the need for human interaction, which is ironically one of the key concepts behind its design… Ladies and Gentlemen (and people inbetween), I give you the History of the Internet in 8 Min’s…

P.S Im pretty sure that the excessive amount of Pirate movies, music and hardcore pornography was never in the DARPA Project Initiation Document, or maybe it was, lets face it, even the military like porn !

Hmm, this internet thing looks promising…

1981 primitive Internet report on KRON

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