tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83931885905805258942012-02-16T01:21:57.542-06:00Hi! Welcome to Sam's Ideas. Here you will find information about a lot of things that might be interesting to you. I have decided to write on softwares (freewares, ofcourse!), electronic gadgets, personal finance and money management, books (I love them), breaking news, and some more tidbits of day-to-day life (and some free stuffs, too, yay!!). Hope you will enjoy my blog. Feel free to leave a message with your comments and suggestions.Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270628418333974412noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393188590580525894.post-31868743679453380792007-03-11T19:14:00.000-06:002007-03-11T23:18:20.194-06:00

For the starters: TiVo (pronounced as tee-voh) is a popular brand of digital video recorder (DVR). It is a consumer video device which allows users to capture television programs to internal hard disk storage for later viewing.Features:Digital Recording: It gets you every episode of all your favorite shows (minus the repeats) even when you are watching the show. TiVo automatically finds it and

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We started counting 1, 2, 3, etc very early in our childhood. But do you know the significance of those symbols, i.e. why one is written as 1, two 2, and so on?The symbolic representation of Roman numerals is pretty straightforward, e.g. symbol for one is I (one finger), two is II (two fingers) and three is III (three fingers). And when you raise all your five fingers with all but the thumb

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In case you don't know about it: the day-light saving time (DST) is going to begin at 2AM on Sunday, March 11, 2007 (instead of April 1) and end at 2AM on Sunday, November 4, 2007 (in the past it used to start in April and end in October). FYI: The sole idea of day-light saving time is to save energy by using more of the solar energy that we get for free. The Energy Policy Act 2005 contains an

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Wanna eavesdrop a mobile phone conversation or intercept a text message? That is so "super" illegal. And I am not here to teach you how to do it (believe me, I have never tried it). It happened recently in Wal Mart where a technician was caught red handed! And based on that incidence Christopher Beam of Slate described how one can achieve such a feat.There are a few ways to do this. One method,

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I have been using Firefox for quite sometime and as everyone else I was just amazed to see how well it can be tweaked to do the things that I want to get done. The best feature of this browser is the incorporation of loads of extensions which help you do all sort of things from news reading to blogging. Here are 13 of them which I like most (well, I have a lot more than that installed, but I

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I received this message several times regarding the hidden cell phone functions, for example, using it to unlock your car when you are locked out, disabling a stolen cell phone, using the phone when there is no network, etc. All of these sound too good to be true! Here' s what Snoops.com has to say:1. Situation: You have a phone with the keypad locked or you are in a remote place where there is

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I am going to start a new column today: Tech Tomorrow. In this column you'll find the most exciting things happening in the scientific and the technological world. Here's the first issue: Publishers will allow the readers browse books onlineRandom House, HarperCollins to allow online book searches Users can add book material to pages on social networks Amazon, Google allow customers to look at

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Do you have a hard time making the ends meet? Do you swipe that damn credit card into that 'money-making' machine to pay the minimum balances for another card? Do you have a hard time sleeping at night? If so, you are in trouble! A BIG trouble! There are a few things that money can't buy but for everything else there is your credit card! Hope you can remember the popular ad which sounds

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Write down your passwords on a piece of paper? Are you kidding? Aren't those supposed to be committed to memory and never to be left a trace on paper?That's what the mandatory information security courses teach us (I had to take one last month). Well, let's consider the downside of what we have been taught: what if you forget your password of your router? You might say, "No problem! there is

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