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This may not be a gadgetry post however, with teh coldest winter since records began in the UK,  here are some helpful hints that could make your winters easier to deal with whilst driving…

Keep your headlights clear with car wax!
Just wipe ordinary car wax on your headlights. It contains special water repellents that will prevent that messy mixture from accumulating on your lights – lasts 6 weeks.

Squeak-proof your wipers with rubbing alcohol!
Wipe the wipers with a cloth saturated with rubbing alcohol or ammonia. This one trick can make badly streaking & squeaking wipers change to near perfect silence & clarity.

Ice-proof your windows with vinegar!
Frost on it’s way? Just fill a spray bottle with three parts vinegar to one part water & spritz it on all your windows at night. In the morning, they’ll be clear of icy mess. Vinegar contains acetic acid, which raises the melting point of water—preventing water from freezing!

Prevent car doors from freezing shut with cooking spray!
Spritz cooking oil on the rubber seals around car doors & rub it in with a paper towel. The cooking spray prevents water from melting into the rubber.

Fog-proof your windshield with shaving cream!
Spray some shaving cream on the inside of your windshield & wipe if off with paper towels. Shaving cream has many of the same ingredients found in commercial defoggers.

De-ice your lock in seconds with hand sanitizer!
Just put some hand sanitizer gel on the key & the lock & the problems solved!

Hope these hints help even just one time.

This information was provided by a friend to help our readers. We at justanothergadgetblog.com takes no responsibility for any adversities that may arise as a result.

We wish you a happy and safe drive during the winter months� )

Since the launch of Nokia’s Free Ovi Maps navigation software on 21 January 2010, it has had over 1.4million downloads according to Nokia.

The Ovi Map navigation covers 74 countries and 46 languages providing directions for drivers and walkers.

Pressure has been applied to the sat-nav industry as both Nokia and Google offer free downloadable navigation.

As much as I love Tom Tom, there’s nothing better than free usable software. Nokia has 39% of the global smart phone market and with free sat-nav it can only grow. However, if Apple and co come up with there own free alternative it would be an interesting battle.

Which is the next industry that will be hit with the advancement of smart phones?

Search engine giants Google are to phase out support for the aging Internet Explore (IE) 6. IE6 was at the centre of the cyber attacks on Google and as a result many governments advised their citizens not to use IE and instead use competitor browses such as Mozilla Firefox.

Microsoft has released a fix for IE6 but do recommend users to upgrade sooner rather than later. The issue is around 20% of web users still use the aging browser, including many corporate companies as well as UK government departments. with the red tape involved and elections looming, I don’t see this happening anytime soon.

Personally, I want to see the browser totally replaced as it causes many problems with web developments. It does not support modern web standards so I have to keep developing fixes for IE6 users. To be frank, it is a pain in the b’hind.

Microsoft has said it will support the browser till 2014. I would ask Microsoft WHY? Rather than have bug fixes, why not just replace the browser when a user downloads their REGULAR Microsoft Windows patches.

I’m not surprised that this publicity has allowed rivals such as Firefox to gain market share.

How to be the best version of your self? why not treat yourself as a computer. You can always improve a computer by doing certain processes. Roua says “Defreg your mind”, here is an improvise on what he said.

Roua extended his brain-as-computer metaphor a bit further, offering five steps to defragging your mind. It may sound a little silly, but a lot of it is actually pretty solid advice. For example, in step three Roua explains how to establish priorities:

If you ever witnessed a defragmentation, you saw that the most frequently accessed information is usually moved in the first sectors of your hard-disk. That would make it easier and faster to be accessed. And you’re going to do exactly that: make things easier to manage.

Identifying priorities is obviously closely related to the dominant setup. If you’re going to work more than usual, then one of your priorities would probably be to have your laptop charged as often as possible. If your main setup would be traveling related, maybe the tool which should be constantly charged is your mobile phone.

The easiest way to assess the priority is to use a scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the higher point of the scale. Take the previously gathered information and run it through this filter. Just start practicing and in time you’ll get better at it.

There you have it. Roua offers similarly good advice for each step in his mind-defrag process, follow the link for the full post. Comment on what you think?

If you love the iphone then at first glimpse the iPad is a prayer answered. It’s a bigger version of the iPhone, it has all the multitouch capabilities, and looks so user friendly.

It also has a convenient screen size which would replace netbooks. Is it a threat to the Netbook Market?

Comparing netbooks to the Apple iPad, notebook seems to work for me as it has the Open Source capabilities. At least if you don’t the standard operating system of Windows 7, you can install what ever operating system you want  including Google Croms OS.

Amasingly Apple are allowing flash to work on the iPad. I want to run Linux. I’ll just have to wait.  A few more Tablets may be rising from the horizon if you put on display at the CES Convention, but apple has released its first. Is the iPad just an ipod touch on steroids? (more…)

Internet Explorer has allot of problems which is creating groups of people going anti-ie. Webmasters also hate the browser for its backwards compatabilities. Google has joined this as they are going to stop Application support for the browser.  An email from GOOGLE.

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

What do you thick about this move by GOOGLE? pleese comment.

Everybody loves to spend at Ikea ‘affordable solutions for better living’. Try buying a server rack though, you don’t have a chance. Try going to you local highstreet computer shop, even there it’s quite hard to buy one, of the shelf.

Now, the creative guys at LackRack shows you how you can modify the Lack table into a server rack for only £4.99 and yes only available from Ikea. It can hold a lamp, cup of tea and now a rack server.

If you work in a commercial setting then, naturally, you’ll have commercial server racks. Commercial racks are both overkill in build and price for a home user or a small office with only a few rack devices, this clever hack is a great fit.

The Lack tables are just the right size for a Network switch or rack server to fit in between the legs. All you have to do is screw one on. Over at the wiki of eth0, they have a tutorial for converting your Lack table into a LackRack. Check out the link for more information and additional photos. LackRack – WikiEth0

This is a quite a great compilation. It tells you the basics of marketting, how to and not to… Watch Below.

Planning before helps in saving time. if you pan something it would take less time to actually do the work. Lets say without planning the job could take 30 minutes but if you plan it would take 10 minutes. Great, but why doesn’t everyone do it? People don’t know about it. They think planning would take longer.

From my life experiences, my teacher drags on about planning an essay in an exam, then writing. Teachers say allot of things and this tip works. Read this article by Harvard Business Review.

Tell us if you plan before you do a job in the comments section below

I never saw this day come when the PS3 would have been hacked. Just cant wait for the clever people to make some HomeBrew Applications for it. More power to the people. With its high specs, what endless capabilities are there.

As we have herd “geohot” has successfully hacked the PS3 to have full read and write access, bypassing the Hypervisor.

“Geohot” explains on his blog how he’s located a critical portion of the memory to attack. By allocating it, pointing a whole bunch of code at those addresses, then deallocating it he causes many calls to invalid addresses. At the same time as those invalid calls he “glitches” the memory bus using a button on his FPGA board to hold it low for 40ns. This trips up the hypervisor security and somehow allows read/write access to that section of memory.

A video showing all of this below. (more…)