julia and tania online
20 September 2011
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27 July 2011
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Blog Post: “WiFi HotSpot On Demand”
“WiFi HotSpot On Demand”
Many months back we were looking for a MiFi device (for those not familiar with such a device, it is a small wireless router that connects to the Internet using the 3G connection made available via a cellphone’s SIM card). They were available here, but they were locked to networks. We’re sure we could get them unlocked if we paid the fee, but we didn’t want to pay the $200 – $300 for the MiFi and add on an unlocking fee. Australia being a larger country, we wondered if they had ones that were already unlocked and looked there. We asked around and no such luck finding an unlocked one. Then, on the last day of our trip across the Tasman (Sea), a helpful customer service rep., at this mobile place, explained to us that we didn’t need a MiFi. If we had an Android phone, we could install an Android App that could turn our phones into wireless modems much like a MiFi.
Heading out of there, we pondered and digested this new information. We later realised that this is probably what ‘tethering’ must be. We had seen this term come up in our search for a MiFi device online multiple times, but we never investigated this procedure further because they related to an iPhone. We don’t own iPhones.
But then neither did we own Android phones. What we do own are Nokia phones—but then, if they had tethering apps for Android phones and iPhones, maybe they had tethering apps for Nokia (Nokia were one of the most popular phones on the market before iPhones and Androids came into the scene). We did a search, and lo and behold! there was. JoikuSpot was the name of the app. Its developer, JoikuSoft Oy.
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Blog Post: “English Grammar: Which is it, I or me?”
“English Grammar: Which is it, I or me?”
We were reading some stories online the other day and a line in there made us think, “It should be ‘me’ here, not ‘I’”, but then wondered if we were correct. We’d say we are not too shabby with grammar, but there are still times we have question marks, especially sentences with ‘You and I’ or ‘You and me’. So, when is it that it’s correct to say “you and I” and “you and me”?
We consulted our trusted grammar book, “Grammar for Dummies” that’s been sitting in the bookshelves gathering dust (no, not really, it was dust-free, but we haven’t opened it up in a while) and looked up all the pages that talk about ‘me’. It told us:
ME is defined as an object pronoun.
An object pronoun is a noun that act as objects: me, him, her, you, them, us, it. Object pronouns receive actions.
I is a subject pronoun.
A subject pronoun is a noun that stands in for/refers to a subject: I, he, she, you, they, we, it. Subject pronouns performs actions.
In other words, subjects does things to/with objects…
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Blog Post: “Simple Video Converter For Your Simple Video Converting Needs”
“Simple Video Converter For Your Simple Video Converting Needs”
Over the years, we’ve amassed quite a number of freeware video converters; and over the years, there is one that we kept installed on the computer and use whenever there’s a need to convert video. Any Video Converter is that program.
We love this program. It’s simple to use and supports a great number of video formats. The supported input formats include, AVI, WMV, MOV, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, FLV, MKV, MPG, VOB, DIVX, AMV. This is just a short list. The program supports many other formats, and ones that we, and most probably, many have never even heard of.
In terms of the output formats, this is a list of what the program supports: MP4, FLV, SWF, MPG, AVI, WMV, ASF, MKV, M2TS, and MPG. The list isn’t as extensive, but it does support many common formats supported in popular media players and portable devices[*]. As well, if you’re trying to convert your source file so that it is supported by your video editing program, the ones Any Video Converter offer is more than sufficient—since at least one in the list is accepted by most video editing software/freeware.
Another great feature about this video converter is it has the ability to take your video file and output sound too.
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