Get a new skin for Windows Media Player

TechAdGetsdotcom | Uncategorized | Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Old provider with your skin chooser.

Menu > View > Skin Chooser

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Compact

Corporate

WMP corporate skin

Quick Silver

WMP Quick Silver skin

Revert

Update now with new skin here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/skins.aspx

and more





BlackBerry 8800 Only $250 at T-Mobile

TechAdGetsdotcom | BlackBerry | Saturday, March 8th, 2008

BlackBerry 8800

The new BlackBerry 8800 is rich in style, and comes complete with the powerful BlackBerry features you need.

Basics
Size: 4.5 x 2.6 x 0.6
Weight: 4.7 ounces
Included battery: Lithium ion
Talk time: up to 5 hours
Standby time: up to 22 days
Band (frequency): 850 MHz;900 MHz;1800 MHz;1900 MHz

Top Phone Features

Messaging
  • Instant messaging: AOL®, Yahoo!® and ICQ®*
  • Text messaging*

Fun
  • Music player
  • Video playback

Communication
  • Internet and corporate e-mail*
  • Built-in QWERTY Keypad
  • Bluetooth® wireless technology
  • Quad-band world phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)

Information
  • HTML web browser
  • Micro SD memory slot

Assistants
  • Wireless calendar synchronization with Outlook
  • Speed dial
  • Calendar
  • Calculator

Feature Description
Built-in QWERTY Keypad With the built-in keypad, you can type messages easily.
HTML web browser Surf the Web with this convenient HTML browser.
Instant messaging: AOL®, Yahoo!® and ICQ®* Send and receive instant messages with AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo!, or ICQ.
Bluetooth® wireless technology Lose the wires and keep your hands free for more important things – Bluetooth lets you connect your phone to your headset or computer wirelessly.
Quad-band world phone (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) Use this phone in any of the countries where T-Mobile provides GPRS service.
Micro SD memory slot Add more memory for multimedia files, data, and more.
Color display Full-color display makes games, wallpaper, and everything else more fun.
Speaker phone Put down the phone and keep talking with a convenient speakerphone.
myFaves capable* Get unlimited any-network calling to any 5 people with a myFaves plan.
Wireless calendar synchronization with Outlook Wirelessly synchronize the calendar on your phone with the one in Outlook on your desktop.
Music player MP3 and AAC
Speed dial Call numbers in your phone book with the touch of a button.
Video playback Play back video clips right from your phone.
Calendar Keep track of appointments and even set reminders to make sure you’re on time.
Calculator A handy way to check your figures.
Conference calling Talk to two people at the same time.
Text messaging* The quick, quiet way to stay connected.
Alarm clock Set an alarm to wake up, leave for an appointment, or take a break.

 

Included services

Call Waiting

Caller ID

Conference Calling

Customer Care

Optional Services

(Note: You can add these after you have a phone and plan in your cart.)

BlackBerry Unlimited Add-on

Add unlimited e-mail and Internet access with the BlackBerry Unlimited Add-on. To access your work e-mail using your company’s BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) software, choose the BlackBerry Unlimited w/Enterprise E-mail Add-on.
BlackBerry Unlimited International E-mail

Make the world a little smaller. Send and receive unlimited e-mail worldwide for one low monthly fee. You must be using a carrier that provides GPRS Internet service to send or receive e-mail.

Equipment Protection

Equipment Protection guards against loss, theft, or damage. Note: signup available only within 14 days of new service activation.

WorldClass International Service

Low rates when calling from outside the US, with no monthly fee. Dual- or tri-band phones required, unless calling from Mexico.





iPhone Vs BlackBerry

TechAdGetsdotcom | Apple | Saturday, March 8th, 2008

The iPhone is a monster. Apple will likely sell more than 10 million of the pricey gadgets this year, which combines a wireless phone, iPod and a mobile Web browser. Now, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker is hoping many of those sales will come from businesses as it starts to pack business-friendly features into an update of the iPhone software due this June.

While Apple  (nasdaq: AAPL -  news  -  people ) has blazed through the consumer market, however, analysts say Chief Executive Steve Jobs will have a lot of work to do to wrest the corporate market away from Research In Motion  (nasdaq: RIMM -  news  -  people ), which dominates the market for high-end business phones.

While RIM won’t comment–despite a very public slap by Jobs Thursday (see: ” The iPhone Goes Corporate”)–analysts say Apple’s pricey handsets still lack the kind of tight integration with applications such as Lotus Notes that RIM has mastered.

In-Stat Group principal analyst Bill Hughes says Apple’s effort to roll business-friendly applications onto the iPhone might work someday, but right now “there are three or four devices out there today that could work with those applications today that are less expensive.”

Applications are the biggest reason why Apple won’t be able to tear away a big chunk of the corporate market quickly. While businesses using Microsoft’s (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Exchange will be able to pour calendar information and e-mail directly into iPhones, companies built around Lotus Notes or Novell Groupware systems are out of luck.

The iPhone’s form factor is another problem. Its sleek wide-screen display–uncluttered by an ugly chiclet-style keyboard–is ideal for surfing the Web or watching videos. But while the keyboards sported by RIM’s BlackBerry and Palm’s  (nasdaq: PALM -  news  -  people ) Treo are ugly, they’re ideal for users addicted to e-mail, rather than the latest installment of Desperate Housewives. “The iPhone touch-screen interface is not as optimal as the BlackBerry interface for e-mail,” said Shahid Khan, a partner at IBB Consulting Group.

Another problem? Cost. Apple’s iPhone costs between $400 and $500. “If I’m I
BM, and I want to roll out 20,000 e-mail devices, I’m not going to go for a $500 device,” Khan said.

Finally, Apple would need to partner with other mobile carriers besides AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) to gain access to more business customers. While AT&T, Apple’s exclusive wireless carrier in the Untied States, has a healthy roster of business accounts, companies that do business with T-Mobile or Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) won’t tear up multimillion-dollar contracts just so they can use iPhones.

None of this, however, will stop Apple from picking up sales from business users. But it will be a long time before Apple will be able to knock off RIM–if ever.





Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 New and exciting features

TechAdGetsdotcom | Internet, Microsoft | Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

New and exciting features

Here are some end-user features you can expect to see in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.

Activities

Screen

Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: “look up” information within a webpage or “send” web content to a web application. For example, a user is interested in a restaurant and wants to see the location of it. This is the form of a “look up” Activity where the user selects the address and views an in-place view of the map using his favorite map service.

WebSlices

WebSlices is a new feature for websites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a webpage. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.

Favorites Bar

In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Automatic Crash Recovery

Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.

Improved Phishing Filter

Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter.”

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