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The unique slider phone SMT5800

The unique slider phone SMT5800

A worthy contestant to the Pantech duo, the Verizon Wireless SMT5800 is a side descending windows mobile phone 6 tool that sports a packed in candy bar design that veils a slide-out keyboard QWERTY for e-mailing on the go. They’re some amenities lacks, such as immediate messaging apps and video streaming, but this machine is worth considering for persons who would rather not take a wide slab of an elegant phone. At first looks the SMT5800 quite attractive, and repeats a lot of the Pantech duo.

The phone is small and without difficulty fits into your palm. Its dimension also makes it ideal for pockets, but this gadget feels more like an encircling stone than a plane wallet, its thickness only 0.7 inches. The façade is shiny-brushed aluminum looking more beautiful, and 2.4” screen comparatively large compared to the 2.2” screen on the duo. The left side of handset is a power button and a change volume slider key. The keypad is also nice front keys are small: Dialing and texting numbers was more tighter than on the double slider duo, and the end & send keys are tiny.

Portable Document Format (PDF)
Adobe and Microsoft are currently at odds with one another in a dispute over whether Microsoft can include a new feature in its upcoming Office 2007 productivity suite — the ability to save your work as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

South Korea
In South Korea, the nation that experts describe as home to the world’s most extreme gamer culture, authorities are alarmed by what many here are calling an epidemic of electronic game addiction. Last month, the government — which opened a treatment center in 2002 — launched a game addiction hotline. Hundreds of private hospitals and psychiatric clinics have opened units to treat the problem.

MICROSOFT- the largest producer of computer software for the personal computer.

NIBBLE- name is given to half of a Byte (4 bits).

The real name of “the” Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III). By converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-values and adding his (III), you get the following:
B 66
I 73
L 76
L 76
G 71
A 65
T 84
E 69
S 83
I 1
I 1
I 1
————–
666 !
More Microsoft ASCII conversion conspiracy theories…
M S – D O S 6 . 3 1 77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666
W I N D O W S 9 5 87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666
A byte, in computer terms, means 8 bits. A nibble is half that: 4 bits. (Two nibbles make a byte!)
The first hard drive available for the Apple had a capacity of 5 megabytes.
Back in the mid to late 80’s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
The “save” icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox
There are 6,000 new computer virus’s released every month.
BELLE, built by Ken Thompson In 1977, was the first computer to use custom design chips to increase its playing strength from 200 positions per second to 160,000 positions per second. The chess computer, which used over 1,700 integrated ciruits, costed $20,000 and was used to solve endgame problems.
Screensavers were originally designed to protect computer monitors from phosphor burn-in. Early CRT monitors had problems with the same image being displayed for a long time. The phosphors used to make the pixels in the display would discolor the glass surface of the CRT when they would glow at a constant rate for a long period of time. This discoloration would then be visible as a faint image overlaying whatever else was displayed on the monitor.

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