The Mystic Ranger

hSenid Develops Expense Tracker for iPhone OS

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:58:55 +0000

The apple iphone is a ground-breaking mobile device, which revolutionized the cell phone industry with the concept of a “No keypad” mobile phone. In addition to being a great consumer product it is also an increasingly useful tool for professionals and businesses. With its state of the art features to assist the busy professional, the iPhone, has no doubt appealed to consumers throughout the world.

With the current economic condition demanding us to keep track of our daily expenses, hSenid Mobile is proud to have developed “hExpense Tracker”, an expense tracking application built for iPhone OS, with special focus on the business traveler. Through the “hExpense Tracker” a user can track his spending in real time entering receipts, checks, credit card and cash purchases, to keep constant track of his expenditure.

The System enables a user to track and monitor expenses ranging from an airline ticket to a minute expense such as a cup of coffee or a parking ticket. hSenid’s expense tracker facilitates all inbuilt features of the iPhone supporting multiple simultaneous taps, zoom in facilities and auto rotate options. With the support of extensive research, hSenid’s development team has been able to simplify the advanced technical features of the iPhone to provide the user with an easy to use, well defined, application. (User interface)

The “hExpense Tracker” helps keep track of multiple projects while at diverse destinations. Especially designed for the business traveler, the system records all expenses throughout a particular business trip. Be it a hotel bill, taxi charge or even a lunch out with clients. Once recorded, the expenses can be analyzed through a detailed expense report which is precise and straightforward. The expenses can be analyzed further through a system generated graph which provides the user with a simple clear-cut view of his expenses. Having recorded his expense details the system helps the user to email the expense report directly using the in built mail client of the iPhone, for reimbursement.

Surely, a piece of paper, pen and calculator can assist us in tracking our daily expenses. However, to remember the figure or save the piece of paper for more than a few days would be extremely complicated. The use of an expense tracking program provides a formal and systematic approach to Money Management. It helps you to identify expenses or categories of expenses, to make sure that the data you’re basing financial decisions are solid.

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NDISwrapper: Windows drivers on Linux

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 06:52:24 +0000

A common problem with Linux is driver compatibility. Although the number of drivers for linux is increasing most of these drivers are for older devices. The most common of these troublesome drivers are the ones for wireless network cards. This is where NDISwrapper comes in to play.

NDISwrapper simply allows you to use the windows version of the driver for that particular wlan card on linux. It works by implementing the Windows kernel and NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) APIs, and dynamically linking the driver to this implementation. All you have to do is point to the required .inf file of the relevant windows driver and NDISwrapper will install it into the /etc/ndiswrapper/ directory.

Although NDISwrapper initially came out with a comman line interface now you get graphical interfaces as well such as Ndisgtk and NdisConfig.

Convenient isn’t it?

ImageShack torrent service

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:39:34 +0000

This is new method of downloading a torrent. Basically what happens is the torrent is downloaded on to the imageshack servers and from there we could download the contents as a HTTP direct download link. This service is resume support enabled as well.

So how do you download a torrent using the Imageshack torrent service?

Download the torrent file from the relevant tracker/engine such as www.torrentz.com or www.mininova.org
Go to www.imageshack.us and create a free account (if you don’t already have one).
Sign in with your account and click on IS Drive (from within your profile page) or on Torrent Drive (from the main page).
Click on the Torrent via File tab, the Browse button, choose the torrent file and click on Go.
Next you will be taken to the screen where you could choose which contents of the torrent you wish to download.
Once you’ve chosen your files click on Continue.
Now wait till the torrent is complete and then click on the Download button.
You will be shown the list of direct links from which you could download your files.

The advantage of this service is that you could download speeds faster than you would normally be able to especially with a 512kbps internet connection. Imageshack downloads at speeds of greater than 50kBps and goes up to 500kBps (this ofcourse depends on the number of seeders as well). If you download the contents from the Imageshack servers using a good download manager (such as Internet Download Manager for Windows) you would be able to download the contents using your complete bandwidth which usually isn’t likely in the case of torrents.

There are a few flaws and drawbacks however which you would face as a free user.

You are only given 5.0GB of diskspace on the server
On certain occasion when you try to start a torrent you will be displayed a message saying that servers are currently busy.

There is only one way (as far as I know) to overcome this problem. You have to purchase a premium account

Demonoid RETURNS!

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:13:25 +0000

All torrent seeders and leechers rejoice,

Our saviour hath retuned!

The vastly valued and ever so famous demonoid that was shut down very close to an year ago has returned. All the previously existing users may log in using your previous usernames and password and enjoy the goodwill of this tracker.

So three cheers to the Demonoid Team!!!

P.S. - I got to this wonderful news from my friend Mayura Wijeyaratne; so a shout-out to him as well

Virtual Racer X MACH 4

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:59:46 +0000

Have you ever wished you could have a racing simulation system at the comfort of your own home? Have you ever imagined being able to simply at the surrounding of your racing track without having to press a button and without losing complete visual of the road ahead? How about racing around with reality sound, vibrations, wind effect and the rest of the works? Well ponder no more my virtual racing enthusiast! VRX Industries has brought out yet another family to their great family of virtual racing products.

Behold the VRX MACH 4….

This system includes:

4 Copy’s Forza Motorsport 2
Xbox 360 Wireless Networking Adapter
Microsoft Force Feedback Steering wheel
3 Sharp Aquos 37″ LC-D62U 1080p HD LCD displays
Adjustable rear view Power Acoustik (PTM 750) 7″ LCD display
Bose Acoustimass 10 series surround sound system with subwoofer
Harmon Kardon AVR-144 Surround Sound receiver
1500 Watt Tactile Vibration Feedback System
1900 Watt Tactile Power Amplifier
Virtual Wind System powered by 2 dual Honeywell fans with chrome shroud
1″ CNC machined polished aluminum foot assembly that connects to the front of the VRX
Universal triple screen aluminum mounting bracket that excepts LCD displays from 20″ to 40″
Adjustable aluminum and tinted acrylic component shelves
On board power bar and unique wire way system conceals cables
Polished chrome chassis with powder coated wheel mount and pedal mount
CNC billet aluminum Speaker Mounts and Seat Wing
Front and rear non-slip aluminum vibration dampeners
3M automotive chrome trim concealed edges
Italian Sparco Monza racing seat (choice of Red/Black or Black/Silver)
Sparco automotive seat slider
Suspension seat base
3/D epoxy coated graphics
Velcro and machined rubber grip blocks “prevents wheel and pedal movement”
10″ diagonal and 8″ horizontal wheel adjustments
Polished Aluminum Speaker Mounts
LED Lighting effects
Beverage Containment System

The VRX is compatible with

PC
XBOX 360
PS 3
Wii

Source : http://www.vrx.ca/new_products.php

Microsoft Office 2007 Blue Edition

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:39:51 +0000

What exactly is Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition? A hacker group named DiGiTAL has released a software package named Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition, an edition of extremely popular 2007 Office Systems suite. The group claimed the Blue Edition as a secret edition that only available to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and not to the general public. It further claimed that the released Blue version is the copy from the original disk which is only accessible to technicians of Microsoft. That’s why probably you’ve never heard of “Blue Edition”.

Since ‘Blue Edition’ is only intended for OEMs and not for retail sale, you can accurately anticipate that it’s also the only version where there is no need for a serial, and do not need an activation. Other than this, the Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition resembles all the features of standard Office 2007 Enterprise Edition, the most complete Microsoft toolset provided for people who must collaborate with others and work with information efficiently, regardless of location or network status.

However, whether the “Blue Edition” actually existed is up for debate. The “Blue Edition” may be simply just a Office 2k7 Enterprise edition with integrated product key, thus eliminate the need to activate with crack, patch or keygen.

Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition consists all everything comes with Enterprise Edition, listed below:

Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office Groove 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Blue Edition can be downloaded with BT torrent, Microsoft.Office.2007.Enterprise.Blue.Edition-DiGiTAL.torrent which found in most torrent sites such as Demonoid. Once downloaded, unpack the file dgl-moebe.rar and then burn the file to CD or mount it in virtual CD-ROM drive to run the setup installation.

See through clothes with the new “Superman” Camera

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:33:50 +0000

A British company has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people’s clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry. The T5000 camera, created by a company called ThruVision, uses what it calls “passive imaging technology” to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays — known as Terahertz or T-rays — that they emit. The high-powered camera can detect hidden objects from up to 80 feet away and is effective even when people are moving. It does not reveal physical body details and the screening is harmless, the company says. The technology, which has military and civilian applications and could be used in crowded airports, shopping malls or sporting events, will be unveiled at a scientific development exhibition sponsored by Britain’s Home Office on March 12-13.

“Acts of terrorism have shaken the world in recent years and security precautions have been tightened globally,” said Clive Beattie, the chief executive of ThruVision. “The ability to see both metallic and non-metallic items on people out to 25 meters is certainly a key capability that will enhance any comprehensive security system.” The technology works on the basis that all people and objects emit low levels of electromagnetic radiation. Terahertz rays lie somewhere between infrared and microwaves on the electromagnetic spectrum and travel through clouds and walls. Depending on the material, the signature of the wave is different, so that explosives can be distinguished from a block of clay and cocaine is different from a bag of flour.

Source: Reuters

Intel Skulltrail D5400XS : The new generation of motherboards

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:00:53 +0000

Have you ever dreamed of a motherboard capable of handling two Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9775 processors? Have you ever dreamed of having an 8-core monster ready to run? Well, it’s now about to become a reality!

Yes! Code named as Skulltrail, the Intel D5400XS is the new and powerful generation of motherboards.

The following are some of the features available :

2 processor sockets
Four 16x PCI Express video card slots
Built-in support for SLI and CrossFire

For more detailed information check here.

First Glances at the Nvidia GeForce 9800gx2

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:41:36 +0000

The newest member to be expected in the GeForce family is the GeForce 9800gx2. It is to replace the 8800 Ultra (single GPU) in the next production lineup.

Specs

2 printed circuit boards (PCBs)
2 graphics processing units (GPUs) using 65 nm nodes
1 GB of memory (i.e. 512 MB for each GPU)
2 DVI outputs
256 Stream Processors Total

Although it is yet unknown whether it will support the Quad SLI configuration, it is expected to 30% faster than the 8800 Ultra and poses a definite threat to the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2.

Provided that the new solution by graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices offers performance of the GeForce 8800 Ultra, AMD’s new dual-chip graphics card will have to cost the same amount of money as the new GeForce 9800 GTX. Unfortunately, dual-chip configurations offer performance advantages over a single-chip ATI Radeon HD 3870 only in cases when its driver can take advantage of multi-GPU ATI CrossFireX technology. Therefore, in all other cases the GeForce 9800 GTX will be faster compared to ATI’s dual-chip solution, making it very hard for ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 to finds its place on the market.

Registry Trick – Automatic Logon to your Windows Account

~ Mystic Ranger ~ — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:50:15 +0000

First of all, I’d like to wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope everyone has a blast this year.

Now, moving on, I thought I’d share a registry trick with you which you might find both useful and neat. The first allows a particular user to login automatically at startup even if the user has assigned a password to his profile. I found this particularly useful when I was installing the drivers after installing Windows.

So here’s what you have to do:

Go to Start>Run (or press the windows key+r)
Type regedit and press the enter key or click on OK. This opens the Registry Editor.
In the registry editor go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>Winlogon
On the right pane of the registry editor you should now see a list of names and it’s values. Among these name check whether AutoAdminLogon, DefaultPassword and DefaultUsername are there. If they are skip on to Step 6.
If the above values aren’t there, then right click on empty area in the right pane select New>String Value and enter the value name such as AutoAdminLogon. Repeat this step for each value.
Once you’ve created these values double-click each value and enter the following value data for the particular value
1. Name : AutoAdminLogon Value : 1
2. Name : DefaultPassword Value : the pasword of the user profile
3. Name : DefaultUsername Value : the username of the account you want to log in to
Now you’re done!

P.S. – I have tried these only on windows XP and not on Vista as yet. But if anyone has tried it on Vista please let me know

Oh and let me know if you have any questions/suggestion. You can contact me on the.mystic.ranger@gmail.com