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A mish-mash of technology, life, and everything in this lady’s world.

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  • The New Internet Domain Names on Oct 31, 2009 in Tech Web

    What do you think of the idea of having internet domain names written in other non-ASCII character sets such as Chinese, Russian, Arabic, etc? It would definitely make the World Wide Web made for the world now instead of just made for the English-spe...

  • iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 3G on Sep 30, 2009 in Gadgets Tech Wireless Phones

    As far as I can recall, a couple of people have asked me what’s the difference between the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. My answer? The iPhone 3GS is faster (S is for speed!). And it also has the Compass feature. Okay, not such a good answer, eh? I...

  • The GSM Network on Aug 7, 2009 in Tech Wireless

    GSM (Global System for Mobile communications: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. Its promoter, the GSM Association, estimates that 80% of the global mobile market uses the standard. GS...

  • SFN and OFDM on Aug 6, 2009 in School Tech Wireless

    July 28th, 2008 questions and answers in my Advanced RF/Wireless Techniques class. 1. What is SFN? SFN, or Single Frequency Network, is a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel...

  • Antenna Selection on Aug 5, 2009 in Tech Wireless WiFi

    In choosing an antenna you want to use for transmission or extending a wireless network range, there are several things you need to determine. I found this list of questions somewhere on the internet (which I copied down when I was trying to decide o...

  • Custom Building a PC on Aug 4, 2009 in Gadgets Tech

    When you want a powerful PC, one that is able to do multiple heavy tasks, it is probably a good  idea if you custom build your own, since you could make it more powerful and at the same time cheaper than those ready-to-use PCs. Okay, I understand th...

  • Pomegranate Phone on Aug 3, 2009 in Gadgets Tech

    Phones these days include features such as email, internet browsing, camera, video, music player, and GPS among others. Have you ever thought of the possibility of the phone having other features such as the following: Projector Global Voice Transla...