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Giveaway: Premium Membership for MyGreenPC

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MyGreenPC is a unique service that builds upon Windows integrated technology to provide a remote desktop solution that is easy to setup, far more secure, saves energy, and available anywhere in the world.

MyGreenPC is a easy to setup remote desktop access program which uses US government approved AES encrypted remote access sessions. This program enables you to easily access ‘client’ computers anywhere around the globe within few mouse clicks and in a more secure way. If you are a techie willing to fix someone else’s computer or just want to access your own computer located in some other country, remote access programs like these do the job.

It has two membership options – basic(free) and premium. The good news is that MyGreenPC is giving away it’s premium membership for free. If you are into remote desktop work, you should not miss this.

Difference between basic and premium membership:

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Plan table

A very unique feature of this program is that you can actually start a power-off computer with it. How? The FAQ section on the website says:

We do get this question asked a lot and surprisingly not even a lot of Computer professionals are aware of this feature. Most PCs support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and one of the features supported by this standard is allowing devices to Power-on the PC even from complete shutdown. The device in our case is the Network Adapter (network/lan card) that supports Wake-On Lan (WOL) functionality and luckily most of the computers these days have built-in support for ACPI and WOL. When you send a request to power-on your PC through our Client software, our servers instantly send a special packet called magic packet to the network card which signals the PC to power-on. And as soon as your PC boots our software will display your windows logon screen just as if you were sitting in front of it.

Follow these visual illustrations to obtain premium membership for MyGreenPC:

  • Sign up for the premium membership:
Sign-up
  • Once signed-up, you will be redirected to a page saying:
And you’re done!
  • Now, activate your MyGreenPC account from the confirmation email you receive in your email  inbox
  • That is it. You now have a MyGreenPC premium account!
  • You will need to follow the quick guide mentioned on (Click here) to setup and get started with a much secure and more flexible remote access session.

Visit: MyGreenPC

We do get this question asked a lot and surprisingly not even a lot of Computer professionals are aware of this feature. Most PCs support ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) and one of the features supported by this standard is allowing devices to Power-on the PC even from complete shutdown. The device in our case is the Network Adapter (network/lan card) that supports Wake-On Lan (WOL) functionality and luckily most of the computers these days have built-in support for ACPI and WOL. When you send a request to power-on your PC through our Client software, our servers instantly send a special packet called magic packet to the network card which signals the PC to power-on. And as soon as your PC boots our software will display your windows logon screen just as if you were sitting in front of it.

Steve Jobs On iPhone 4 Blunder: Cover Up Fail

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Many iPhone 4 users are complaining about numerous issues especially about the problem with the signal reception when the phone is held in the most obvious manner. Well, Steve Jobs has an apt answer, suggests users to not hold phones that way. Duh!

iPhone 4 was launched On June 24, the day when millions of desperate users finally got their hands on the new iPhone, but has left many of them disappointed.

  • The new iPhone screen is reported to have ugly white and yellow patches which is said to get fixed automatically with few days of usage.
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The Patch

Somebody on AppleInsider forum said:

Apple is using a bonding agent called Organofunctional Silane Z-6011 to bond the layers of glass. Apparently, Apple (or more likely Foxconn) is shipping these products so quickly that the evaporation process is not complete. However, after one or two days of use, especially with the screen on, will complete the evaporation process and the yellow “blotches” will disappear. How do I know? I was involved in pitching Z-6011 to Apple.

Apple claims that the phone is highly durable , but it miserably failed the drop test leaving the phone’s glass screen shattered.

The Retina display glass is chemically strengthened to be harder, more scratch resistant, and more durable than ever.

There is another issue has been reported and is all over the blog-sphere that the phone loses it’s signal strength when the phone is held in the way majority of the cell phone users hold. This is actually very annoying because no matter what all the functions modern phones are capable of. A phone is a fail if it does not fulfil the primary feature of making and receiving phone calls. I’m not saying iPhone 4 is a failure. All i’m saying is the cover up answer made by Steve jobs for the signal reception problem was highly absurd and something that has left users with an ‘exclamation mark’ in their mind.

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Steve Jobs covers up the issue by saying:

Gripping any mobile phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.

This is totally in contradiction with what is shown in the phone’s advertisements:

iphone 4 advert contradiction
Not!

Seriously, who will fall for such cover up? Lets hope Apple comes up with a “real solution” before it’s too late. If the the reception problem is software related then, it will be fixed very soon but if it’s hardware based then it will be interesting how Apple will deal with it.

Multimedia and Data Via: Gizmodo, iFixYouri, Reddit, AppleInsider Forum and Engadget

Retweet: Twitter Tells Users To Go Fu*k Themselves

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Twitter spokesman, Mark Logan responds candidly to some of the common issues faced by users on Twitter.com

The ‘Fail Whale’

Twitter has been in news for crashing down recurrently. With too much weight of traffic, tweets and re-tweets, twitter.com seems to be tumbling down often. Some users are complaining about too much spam and claiming that twitter is ruining English language. Well, Twitter has heard all these complains and has responded with an answer.

Oookay… It’s not really a response by Twitter, but a  hilarious video made by Comedy.com portraying how Twitter would have reacted (hypothetically) with those issues floating around their mind.

Watch it:

(You need flash player installed to watch this video)