Nokia Asha 501 Review/Spec

Nokia Asha 501 Dual Sim |image source: http://www.nokia.com.ph Nokia Asha 501 (Dual SIM) Here is an inexpensive Nokia phone that would be new phone owner want to buy. At first glance this phone may look like a Lumia only smaller. Apparently the Asha 501 tries to go against the current norm and went smaller instead of bigger. The Asha 501 is small at 99.2x58mm (h x w) compared to what we are normally sold in the market these days. There was a time back in the early days of cellular phones where smaller is better, this phone is trying to...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 2 7.0 Review/Specs

Samsung Galaxy TM Tab2 7.0 front view | source: http://samsung.com Samsung Galaxy Tab™ 2 7.0 (Wi-Fi) 8GB Last April 22, 2012, Samsung has released another tablet from their 7-inch series. The Samsung Galaxy TabTM 2 7.0 seems a rehash of the earlier released Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus. To be honest, because many loved the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus but had reservations in buying due to its price, they have this released. Looking from a distance the it looked like the Tab 7.0 Plus. Only at closer inspection will you see the difference in...

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Samsung XE700T1C Review/Specs

Samsung XE700T1C overview | source: http://www.samsung.com Samsung ATIV SmartPC Pro XE700T1C-A01US The XE700T1C is one of Samsung's latest in tablet PCs. Although they were not the first to have thought it, it has revolutionized user's computing experience by combining the power of a notebook (or in the case a desktop) and the convinience of a tablet. It is comparable to a notebook because it comes with a full-sized keyboard out of the box which you can mount if needed. It is like a desktop PC because it uses an Intel® Core™...

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Speed up internet browsing by skipping server side DNS lookup and blocking unwanted ads

Use Hosts file to speed up browsing The title says it all. Page load speed can be increased if only host name resolution can be done within your computer and you don't have to wait for all the ads in a site to load. In a previous post, I mentioned that you can increase browsing speed (page load speed) by using other DNS servers like Google Public DNS and OpenDNS instead of using your ISP's DNS service. This is because your ISP may be over saturated that it is having difficulty coping up with all the requests. But using Google Public DNS or OpenDNS...

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Use custom CSS fonts to enrich your page

How to add stylish and curvy fonts to your blog post/page using CSS? You may have observed while visiting other sites that they have very nice looking fonts specially with their qoutes. But however you hard you try to find what font they used, you can not duplicate it. How was that possible? It is by using custom CSS fonts. Today many are already offering such fonts like fonts.com and face-fonts. But most of these needed that you upload them to your server and access it from there. There is one alternative though that does not require uploading...

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Smart Bro DNS vs. Google Public DNS

Here is a study comparing the DNS server from Smart Bro performance against that of Google Public DNS. It has been thought that because Google has a large database that using their public DNS server would increase internet speed. So how true is it? To begin, let me illustrate what happens when we browse the internet. At least as I understood it. It starts from our computer. When we open our browser and type in a URL in the address bar called host name (like www.google.com), our computer sends out this information to the internet. But every machine,...

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How to check your DNS server speed

Manually check your DNS performance or speed or compare your ISP DNS speed to other DNS server I have looked around on ways on how to compare my ISP's DNS speed with that of Google Public DNS but the results I get are sketchy at best. To check for a DNS speed one has to look not only on the ping test but the rate at which a DNS server resolves host names. Here is an excerpt from Google: "In addition to the ping time, you also need to consider the average time to resolve a name. For example, if your ISP has a ping time of 20 ms, but a mean...

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Smart Bro internet speed is very slow. How to make it faster?

Improve your internet connection speed with Google Public DNS or OpenDNS If you feel that your Smart Bro internet connection is very slow and you would like to improve it, here is how. Change the DNS settings from Smart Bro, or whichever your ISP is, into Google's Public DNS or OpenDNS. For Google: Primary/Main DNS: 8.8.8.8 and Secondary/Alternate DNS: 8.8.4.4 the two can be interchanged. For OpenDNS: Primary/Main DNS:208.67.222.222 and Secondary/Alternate DNS: 208.67.220.220 To configure your DNS refer to the post How to...

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How to change your Smart Bro DNS server to Google Public DNS or OpenDNS

Smart Telecom's MF180 USB modem is bundled with an interface which has a limited options on it Settings page. Not even a away to edit its network configuration settings through the User Interface (UI). So how to change the DNS setting? By editing the NetConfig file. In windows explorer, go to C:/Program Files/SMART BRO. In the SMART BRO folder look for the NetConfig file. This is what you must edit. note: Before you do anything with the file, you must create a back-up just in case you mess up while editing, you have a back-up file to...

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Meta tag generator

Here is a free meta tag generator/builder for blogger users and non-blogger users that include facebook and twitter meta tags. Simply input the page title, description and keywords (if you wish not to include it leave it blank) and the post URL and click the Generate Meta tags button. To include facebook and twitter meta tags, just click on the option list that you wish included. Copy the code (that appears after the button) applicable for you and paste it on your page. It is important to copy including all leading spaces so it will align properly...

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