Cellphone Industry to go Greener

Cellphone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled on Thursday two handset models it said are more eco-friendly, and said it expects the new Naite model to be one of its key volume drivers in coming quarters. The world's largest consumer electronics sector by volume, the cellphone industry is looking increasingly at how to tap consumers' increasing interest in more environmentally friendly phones. The new Sony Ericsson models - the more advanced C901 GreenHeart and a mass-market model Naite - will be sold in smaller packages and have user manuals that are electronic. The devices use more recycled materials and consume less energy. The company said it aims to roll out similar features across its portfolio in 2010 and 2011. "We are not aiming at a niche segment. We are taking this to mainstream and to a bigger audience," Mats Pellback-Scharp, head of sustainability at Sony Ericsson told Reuters in an interview. "Naite is the lowest cost 3Gphone in Sony Ericsson's portfolio and we expect it to be one of the biggest volume drivers in end-2009 to early 2010," Pellback-Scharp said.

Money-losing Sony Ericsson, the world's fifth-biggest handset maker, is in need of new models to renew its offering since the appeal of the years-old Sony-branded Cybershot cameraphones and Walkman musicphones has faded. The role of greener products is increasing rapidly in the cellphone industry, with a recent ABI Research survey saying nearly half of U.S. consumers are likely to be influenced by suppliers' green credentials when purchasing devices. Sony Ericsson said on Thursday it targets a cut of 20 percent of its carbon dioxide emissions by 2015.

The handset industry is closely followed by environmental organisations around the world due to its large scale. More than 1 billion phones are sold globally each year, which requires the use of sales boxes, add-ons and tonnes of rare raw materials. Samsung Electronics and ZTE launched phone models in February which use solar power. The world's top cellphone maker, Nokia, started to renew its packaging in 2006, and has said it saved 100 million euros ($142.9 million) in less than a year. Sony Ericsson said its new models will use at least 50 percent recycled plastics - similar to Nokia's 3110 Evolve model, which the Finnish firm introduced last year. Last year Nokia's chief executive, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, showed a phone made fully of recycled materials at the Mobile World Congress trade show, but the research project has not made it into production. "It looks three to five years out to see how recycled materials themselves might be used to make devices. We hope that elements from this research project will be things we can take into production and deploy across our product range in the coming years," said a Nokia spokeswoman.

Return Your Junk Phone, Get a Tree Planted

Every time you return a junk mobile phone to a Nokia dealer, the firm will thank you by planting a tree, apart from recycling that phone in an eco-friendly manner.

Announcing the initiative on World Environment Day, Ambrish Bakaya, director of corporate affairs in Nokia India, said the firm had already tied up with two NGOs in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to plant 22,000 trees. The programme would soon be extended to the top 15 cities of the country, he added.

"We already have 1,300 bins at our main dealers' shops around the country where people can throw in their junk phones," Bakaya said. The mobile phone manufacturer with the largest market share in India has been getting a good response. "Now we have tied up with an NGO called Ahimsa in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu to plant 12,000 trees, and with Bangalore's Rotary Midtown to plant 10,000 trees in educational institutions around that city."

Nokia has also been working to strengthen the laws on recycling of e-waste, which threatens to become a major problem in India.Saying that the firm was working with the Manufacturers Association for Information Technology, the Ministry of Environment and Forests and the Department of Telecommunications to put together stronger guidelines on the subject, Bakaya added: "We welcome any step which helps strengthen e-waste management and creates awareness about the need to recycle e-waste in an eco-friendly manner".

File Extension QFX

A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents.In some operating systems (for example Unix) it is optional, while in some others (such as DOS) it is a requirement. Some operating systems limit the length of the extension (such as DOS and OS/2, to three characters) while others (such as Unix) do not. Some operating systems (for example RISC OS) do not use file extensions. Unix accepts the separator dot as a legal character but does not give it a special recognition on the OS level.

File extension QFX can be considered a type of metadata. They are commonly used to infer information about the way data might be stored in the file. The exact definition, giving the criteria for deciding what part of the file name is its extension, belongs to the rules of the specific filesystem used; usually the extension is the substring which follows the last occurrence, if any, of the dot character (e.g. txt is the extension of the filename readme.txt, html the extension of mysite.index.html).

On file systems of mainframe systems such as MVS, VMS, and PC systems such as CP/M and derivative systems such as MS-DOS, the File Extension QFX is a separate namespace from the filename. Under Microsoft's DOS and Windows, some extensions, including EXE, COM, BAT, and CMD, indicate that a file is an executable program. This is different from Unix-like operating systems, where a suffix is not a separate namespace, and where even having a suffix is voluntary, as file system permissions are used to decide whether a file is executable.

With the advent of graphical user interfaces, the issue of file management and interface behavior arose. Microsoft Windows allowed multiple applications to be associated with a given extension, and different actions were available for selecting the required application, such as a context menu offering a choice between viewing, editing or printing the file.

Pre-OS X versions of the Mac OS disposed of filename extensions entirely, instead using a file type code to identify the file format. Additionally, a creator code was specified to determine which application would be launched when the file's icon was double-clicked. Mac OS X, however, uses filename suffixes, as well as type and creator codes, as a consequence of being derived from the Unix-like NEXTSTEP operating system, which did not have type or creator code support in its file system.

File extensions problems are a very normal thing that one faces while operating a computer are due to the registry which undergo changes as soon as a new software or game or any other thing is installed or uninstalled. A software generally when installed becomes the default software for that kind of file and when another similar software is installed then again the default software changes.This brings about changes in the registry and brings about registry errors and honce File Extension problems. This is why it is very necessary to know about all this and have a registry cleaner whoch cleans all the registry errors.Some common file extensions are PDF,DAT,PPS,DLL,XLS,3GP,FLV,DMG,MP4,BIN,RAR.

Colon Cleanser

Unlike other detox processes, fad diets, and "out of the ordinary" nutritional programs, colon cleansing is a bodily strategy which actually works. For people who have put themselves through a colon cleanse with use of a good colon cleanser-the benefits will be obvious. For those who are yet to do so, or who are unsure of what to expect - here is a list of scientifically proven health benefits of a full colon cleanse:

• Removal of excess toxins and unprocessed foods
• Weight loss of 10 - 20 pounds, as a result of this elimination
• Prevention of constipation, bloating, and flatulence
• Killing of nasty parasites, which can lead to very dangerous medical conditions
• Prevention of painful indigestion symptoms

Each of the things above presents a significant risk to your long term health. Obesity is known to cause a multitude of issues with the human body - hence losing 10 to 20 pounds is something which we should all be set on achieving. Additionally, constipation, bloating and flatulence are all part and parcel or the obesity problem - meaning that at the end of the day - it's best to tackle all of these issues in a timely fashion.

Finally, it should be noted that these health effects are real. This is not just a hearsay wish list of the things we would "like" to see in a colon cleansing system. Instead, it is a list of scientific fact, based upon real evidence and real results. The only way you could really stand a chance of seeing whether these are true or not is by doing a colon cleanse yourself.

There is no wonder why over the past year, a dramatic increase has been experienced with the number of people putting themselves through the colon cleansing process. So it very necessary to know about the colon cleansing process and what are its advantages before you go for one and it is also very useful to know about all the best colon cleansers availlable in the market.

Make a Shutdown Prank

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a scary shutdown joke to your friends and shut down their computer. Replace one of their used icons on the desktop with a fake one. And when they try to open it, their computer will close.

1. Right click on the desktop and go to New -> Create Shortcut.

2. Type in the windows that appears: shutdown -s -t 60 -c "Virus Detection. Computer is shutting down." Instead of 60 you can put what value you want. It represents the time in seconds. And also between quotes you can put what message you desire.

3. Click Next and type Internet Explorer. You can write whatever you want

4. You will have a program like this on your desktop.

5. We need to change its icon to look like Internet Explorer. Right click on it and choose Properties.

6. Go to Shortcut ->Change Icon.

7. You can find the icon in the ones available or go to C:/Program Files/ Internet Explorer and select the icon from there.

8. The 'icon' will look like Internet Explorer.

9. And when you open it the computer will be closed in 60 seconds or whatever value you chosed.

10. The only way to stop the computer from shutting down is to go to Start->Run and type shutdown -a, and press Enter

Remember that this is just for educational purposes only and you should not harm computers and their functionality. Please do tell me whether you liked this post or not, so that I can bring in to you more such tricks.