Tech Junky

T-Mobile G1′s pre-order sales have been made quick, fast and in a hurry, and even the second allotment has been claimed in a flash. The total number of pre-sales come out to be around 1.5 million units. These orders do not include retail sales. In addition to that, another couple of million are all set to take the retail scene by storm later this month.

TrayEverything is small portable program that minimizes windows to the system tray even when the application lacks the support for being put in the tray. Besides simply minimizing, TrayEverything can add a button to the title bar of windows for easy minimizing to the tray. You can also assign hotkeys to minimize and also send a windows to the tray if it shows inactivity. In addition to this, TrayEverything can minimize a window without a visible icon in the tray and can even password protect it. This can be useful if you want to keep a program running but don’t want anyone to notice it.

TrayEverything is available as a free download only for the Windows platform.

One of the main things that concern power users are whether their PC components are running at appropriate temperatures or not. Since high temperatures can result in hardware failures or vice-versa, you need to keep a check. If you are running a Linux distro like Ubuntu , you can add CPU temperature displays to your Gnome desktop panel.

To do so, follow these steps:
1. Make sure you have the ‘universe’ repository enabled. To enable it, go to System > Administration > Software Sources and check the option for ‘universe’.

2. Install the lm-sensors and sensors-applet packages. You can either install them from the Synaptics Package Manager or through the terminal:
sudo apt-get install lm-sensors sensors-applet

3. Once you are over with the installation process, add the sensors applet to your desktop panel. To add it, right click on the panel and select ‘Add to Panel’. From the list, choose Hardware Sensors Monitor and click on ‘Add’.

If you do not see any temperatures being displayed, then it may be possible that lm-sensors does not support the sensors present in your machine. You can verify it by running the ‘sensors ‘ command in the terminal. It will tell you about the supported sensors available.

If you wish, you can download the source package from their site.

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Release Date : Dec 2, 2008
Platforms : PS3, XBox 360, PC

For a mid-range music phone with touch, though, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is pretty well equipped: 640×360 touchscreen with haptic response, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3G on the 850/1900 MHz band (works with AT&T here in the States), 3.2MP camera with Zeiss lens, and an 8GB microSD card for music in the box. But while the touchscreen is sharp and bright, it’s resistive rather than capacitive, which means instead of accurately picking up the light zap of electricity from your fingertips, it registers where two thin layers of the screen get pushed together under your finger.

The 5800 seems like a solid mid-level touch phone for music—especially if Comes With Music pans out as a cool service. But don’t plan on using this thing for heavy emailing or texting—you’ll probably be using T9 text entry with the touch dialpad or the stylus for most of your text entry unless you have the patience of a monk, which kind of defeats the point for an all-touch device these days. Look for it hitting before the end of the year for an as-yet-undisclosed price.

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