Multiple part text selection for copy/cut in Microsoft Word 2010

Today I working on some text, and wanted to copy different sections of text from a single word page in one shot. I knew that such a thing did not exist in the past versions of word. So I thought it would nice if such a feature was there. It would avoid moving back and forth from editing document and the document being copied.
And then I gave it try to see if it exists, to my surprise it was there. All you need to do is hold Ctrl from the second selection of text.

Sadly though it only exists in Microsoft word but not in web browser or any other text editors. I believe it is nice to have feature in windows. Hoping that Microsoft implements in future.

Kindle 4 review(DOO1100)

One of my friend lately gave me Kindle 4 just for a few days. Wow man I'm amazed by it. Here is my review.

The display

The stunning e-ink display(480x800 px I guess) is crisp even though it's only a grey scale black and white display. Perfect for book reading! The background white is almost like paper. No stress on eyes what so ever, even in bright sunlight. Unlike the LCD/AMOLED displays which consume the bulk of the power, e-ink takes very low power. On top it these displays do not need power once the page is drawn on screen. Even if the display module is disconnected it continues to display last drawn image.
The only downside is its refresh rate is very low. Even with this downside I'm loving it to the core.

The battery

Kindle has an amazing one month battery life if you read it for half an hour to one hour daily. If you use it more often I would say battery life is still good and depends completely on number of page turns and dictionary lookups. If WIFI is turned on the battery life would come down drastically to may be 1 week, so make sure that you keep it in airplane mode when WIFI is not being used.

The browser

Kindle ships with experimental browser support, even though there is nothing great about it, it is nice to have feature.

New Photosphere on MTK 6575 or Karbonn A18

A few days back I came across a blog post on internet that said Photosphere, the latest feature only available on 4.2 Jelly bean android OS could be made to work on any phone with 4.0 or greater.

I have seen photosphere images on Google+ earlier, they were really awesome!! And I wanted Photosphere on my mobile right away. As described in earlier blog I followed every step and got it installed my phone.

Once installed I see that all features of the camera were working fine except the photosphere. :(

I also got to know that it works only on phones which have gyroscope sensor mine didn't have one.

Thats it for now.

Shutdown PC/Laptop at given time

Some times I would be working on some thing and I want my Laptop to be shutdown automatically at a given time. I know what you are thinking if you are a Linux geek, set a cron job entry like so:

$ crontab -e
10 10 * * * (shutdown -rn now)

Hmm ok... that was easy ! Now how about windows. You can either use task scheduler or you can use following command.

at 1:30am shutdown -s -f

Wanna learn Jquery? ... read on...

Few days ago I came across a site(http://www.codeschool.com/) which teaches computer languages(especially client side scripting). I completely enjoyed it to the core. The site gives you well organized content and nice lecturing about the topic followed by an exercise within the browser. I believe its pretty neat!! Just give it a try to find out more about it.

http://www.codeschool.com/