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A nice post I came across while finding a resolution to error 4226 - limiting TCP/IP connections

For Vista
A simple entry in the registry that lets you disable the half-open Tcp connection limit
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Simply open regedit and go here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\

There, change the value of "EnableConnectionRateLimiting" to '0' to disable it. reboot after the change.

If anyone finds about a similar solution for XP then please let me know. I dont want to install any patch on my computer.

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Nokia has finally released its Maemo5 based smartphone – the N900. Maemo is Nokia’s next generation mobile OS. It is a Linux-based platform that seeks to take on such juggernauts as the iPhone OS and the Android.

The N900 has intrigued the tech community and people in general with its bevy of features ever since it was first announce. But when you look at it closely enough, it seems like it is too little, too late yet again. Reminds me of the N97 really.

On the surface, N900 is an attractive package. When it was first announced, the decent sized capacitive resistive touchscreen, the new interface, large internal storage, QWERTY keypad and TV out features made quite a splash.

From the images, it also seems like there are sensors in the front. So far I have not found out what they are meant to do but they are likely to be a front facing camera and related sensors for video conferencing.

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Maemo5’s interface looks good, I will tell you that. If you are looking for something that that really catches the eye and something that is different from everything you have seen so far – you have got to try this out. It supports gestures but in a few instances Nokia has gone too far in its bid to be different from the rest. Take the spiral gesture for zooming for example. I would say that the pinch-to-zoom is simple enough and if you are only mimicking a gesture, there should be no shame in it. After all, you are only making a phone like this because of the entire computer-in-touchscreen-mobile-phone craze that hit the market post the iPhone.

The way you switch between things makes me think of Exposé in the Mac OS. You get to see thumbnails of the of the things you have open and you can touch to switch to the one you desire.

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Feature-wise, N900 has everything you might want. Well, almost everything. You get a 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash that takes video. FM-tuner is built-in. The screen is 3.5inches with a resolution of 800×480, which is very nice. That should make watching movies a pleasure. Talking about watching movies, you get a kickstand too for propping it up when you want to. The TV via Nokia’s proprietary cable is the feature that may of use have wanted ever since our phones could carry multiple entire movies and play them back smoothly.

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It supports the full meme of a formats for both audio and video, including – AAC, eAAC, mpeg4 , etc. You get full data connectivity support via GPRS Class A, EDGE, multi-band WCDMA and HSPA, WLAN (802.11b/g). Network-wise it is a quadband GSM and tri-band WCDMA phone. Full specs at the website.

But my enthusiasm starts to wear off when I look deeper into the hardware specifications. It is powered by an ARM Cortex A8, which they clock at 600MHz. Application memory is a combination of 256MB RAM and 768MB of virtual memory. If you ask me, for a phone that is so very multimedia rich, 600MHz is going to be sluggish at multitasking. There’s a reason why the iPhone restricts full multi-tasking. N900 will allow you to multitask but it will definitely slow you down. And with 1GHz Snapdragon-toting phones already in the market, this is going to seem real slow real soon. Also, the new big screen is 4″ or more. But at least it has OpenGL ES 2.0 for graphics. I guess they will be pushing it for handheld gaming.

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Next is the OS that fails to excite me. It is good looking and sounds promising too but any new mobile OS that comes out now – after 2.5 years of the iPhone OS and about 2 years of the Android OS – is going to be dealt with a healthy bit of skepticism. Can Nokia’s toddling Maemo5 or Samsung’s newborn Bada match up to the raw numbers of Android and iPhone users? Then why should developers bet on them? I found 50 applications on the Maemo website. There’s obviously more but only 50 chosen applications? May be Nokia is betting too much on the openness of the OS.

Developers want to sell as much as possible, so they are going to look at the user numbers and the future growth potential. The two giants are already in top gear. So the late starters are likely to stay that way.

The Nokia N900 Maemo5 phone is now on preorder from the website for $649. Availability is at end of this month (November ’09). Comes only in Black.

Update: One of our readers has identified one of the sensors as a way to turn off the touchscreen when you are talking on the phone. So it’s basically a proximity sensor like the one on the HTC Touch Pro 2. Also, the touchscreen is not capacitive but resistive, I stand corrected. Thanks Daniel and Manojlds.

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What do you think about the N900. Would you choose it over a similar Android phone or the iPhone 3GS?

RIM has declared the hand of yet another type of its native BlackBerry Twitter app. This comes a few weeks after the prototypic beta version of the said was out. That variant, however, had less features than competing position organization apps.

Seesmic and Uber Twitter users weren't peculiarly impressed with the early versions because of the need of features similar Twitter trends and lists. Still, Twitter for BlackBerry advertising software was able to upload photos and sustain retweets, but that was righteous roughly it.

The stylish beta variation gets new features that permit adding notifications for new tweets and replies to the home screen. Users will also get a ping asking when they acquire a direct message. Users can also make, examine and delete Chirp lists. If that wasn't all, you can also update your profile correct from within the app.

Extra from these, there are quite a few under the hoodlum fixes for show enhancements as asymptomatic. Sadly, Twitter continues to a down fall only.

The app can be downloaded from the Test Center in the Blackberry App World app or by going to http://mobile.blackberry.com BlackBerry SmartPhones. But miserably, Twitter trends proceed to dumbfound users in this edition as well.

Here is one more interesting use of your mobile phone. Airtel digital TV- the DTH service announced the launch of ‘Airtel digital TV Recorder’ to record live television, anytime, anywhere.

A first of its kind to record your favourite shows using your mobile phones from anywhere in the world.

Airtel digital TV Recorder will be available at Rs 6990/- to all new customers and at Rs 5990/- to all existing Airtel digital TV customers going in for an upgrade.

To avail the service, you can buy the digital TV Recorder from a near-by retailer and call customer care at 18001028080 for activation. You need to send an sms from the registered mobile number linked to the Airteldigital TV account with ‘mguide’ to 54325 and download the mobile recording application.

Using your customer ID and password you can log on and record shows from any mobile Java and GPRS enabled handset.

DirecTV, a DTH service provider in USA is also offering such service for its customers. So be prepared for Tata Sky, Reliance Big TV to come up with similar mobile tv recording applications soon.

Living true to its swear of over and over again redefining the telecom experience for its subscribers, TATA DOCOMO, the GSM Mobile Service brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, has launched an Value-Added Service 'MY SONG' for all post-paid and pre-paid motile subscribers across India.

Tata Docomo claims that unique My Song service, introduced for the first time in the region, is a backward ring-backtone facility; wherein the caller gets to center hear the tune that he sets for himself, instead of listening to the conventional tring-tring, or caller tunes set by the called party.

For subscribing to MySong service, customers can dial 543217 and alter songs of their choice of varied genres specified as Bollywood Hits, Regional, International, Classical and Funny Tunes. As an additional benefit,subscribers can set a peak of up to 3 different songs for line varied grouping. To access this accommodation, subscribers give be charged 2 paisa per second and the subscription charges give be Rs 15 for a period of 30 days for Rs 10 per song download for both post-paid and pre-paid subscribers.

Once the MySong service is activated, a user can keep a tab of all details of the assistance on the fly. Songs downloaded will be subscriber's personal selection and will be played as a shuffle. Announcing the get of new service, Mr. GurinderSingh Sandhu, Head Marketing, Tata DOCOMO said "With MySong , we have introduced another unique service which offers a refreshingly various telecom participate to Tata DOCOMO customers. When you make a call , you usually have to listen to someone’s caller tune which might not be your taste..

We believe My Song is an extremely relevant & innovative offering that is in line with our aim of being THE refreshingly different brand in the telecom clutter."

Facebook is good for keeping in touch with friends and family and all that but what annoys me most is the friend's status updates. Specially those family/friends who keep adding those stupidestapplication into their facebook pages and we have to suffer from their status updates.

A recent study categorized 40 percent of Twitter tweets as "pointless babble," and it wouldn't be surprising if updates on Facebook, still a fast-growing social network, break down in a similar way.

So if you are a victim of such annoying updates, here is how you can disable those friend's annoying application statuses

First identify the friend's application status that you would like to hide or disable. Check out the screenshots below. I am taking one application for e.g. "Anita Predictions.. the online Phychic". These application statuses annoys me like anything and you can't say anything to your friends or family so. First select the status that you want to hide..

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Now on the top right corner, you will find a "Hide" button, click on the "Hide" button and you will see the following three options.

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Click on the "Hide Anita Predictions" button and you will never see "Anita Predictions" for any of your friends forever.

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You can do the same thing for all those annoying facebook applications that you don't want to see in your news feeds. Happy facebooking..

So the world and millions of iPhone/iPod/iPad fans are eagerly waiting for the Apple's iPhone OS 4.0. On Thursday, the company will be presenting a sneak peak at the next iPhone OS as well as a rumored new iPhone model. Would that be iPhone 4G? We don't know that yet.

There is a desparation in Apple enthusiast to know what's coming into iPhone OS 4.0? Does Apple iPhone OS 4.0 have multitasking? Voice to text functions? Screen rotation lock? Unified Inbox and Home screen? Or may be the newer iPhone 4G models will have front facing cameras?

To get these answers, we all will have to wait till tomorrow. But here are some predictions and facts about what's coming into iPhone 4.0 OS

According to Tuaw.com, Support notes for iPad's Pages, Keynote, and Numbers apps all suggest that printing functionality may be coming to the device. Your iPhone or iPad would connect to a printer via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.

Some other possibilities according to Ross Rubin

--Revamping the home screens. It is difficult to remember where icons are and keep them organized.

--Better support for subscription service billing such as Rhapsody.

--Real widgets that could run on a home or lock screen or via a gesture invoking something like Dashboard.

--Seamless voice/data handoff between 3G and WiFi.

--WiFi media sync

--Mobile hotspot

--Support for alternative soft keyboards, e.g., Swype

--iBooks reader

--"Check in" manager for apps such as Fourssquare, Yelp, etc.

--More gesture support

--A Palm Synergy-like architecture for integrating social media.

--Universal inbox

--WiFi Direct

--More HD video support (HD video capture, HDMI out)

--Access to music locker via Lala technology

--Flash support would certainly be a shocker given Apple's pro-HTML5 rhetoric and Adobe's recent touting of a wrapper to create AIR apps on the iPhone.