mobile.silence
a new gadget each day keeps the doc away

Managed to get hold of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic trial set. What set it apart from previous trials, this comes bundled with free MaxMobile Data plan! Now i can use my phone to surf net like nobody's business

My set comes with the following items

  • 5800 handset with stylus
  • Extra pen stylus
  • Stereo Headset, wired handsfree
  • 8GB microSD
  • Portable Stand
  • Video-Out cable
  • Installaion CD
  • Manuals + many promotional leaflets

Pretty much the same as those retails sets, less the stylus plectrum and carrying case.


The phone feels great on hand, and the battery cover has this rubbery feel that assure you it would slip off your hand.

Comparing Samsung Omnia with Nokia 5800, the latter has a longer, narrow screen.


Something interesting about the phone is the placement of the simcard slot and memory card slot. New users definately won't be able to locate them without reading up the manual. They are well hidden behind the volume buttons!

Open Sesame, buttons!


More about the phones in the next post :P

 

Chance upon this shortcut while i was surfing the Internet.

Basically, just highlight the sentence you would want to capitalize.
Press Shift + F3 to cycle through the format you want :)

You can change the format from all lower caps -> initial caps -> all upper capitalized.

 

Using a registry editor, go to the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink

Change the font under the [HelveticaNeue LT 55 Roman],[HelveticaNeue LT 35 Thin] two strings into the Chinese font you already used.

Make it simple, normally you should find a string named "Tahoma" in the same area, and the value inside is exactly the Chinese font that you use now.

Now save the changes, and soft reset the phone :)

 

Stress! Stress! Stress!
Everyone are getting stressed up recently. Especially during this period of time where lotsa assignments and quizzes clamping together.
2 suicides in NTU, and now the counselling centre decides to give a talk, "Sleeping Well with Pills" to help everyone.
They realise we need to pop pills to get some gd sleep now,
else more people heading west.

Okay, its obviously it should be without pills, but just cant stop laughing at this simple typo.

Even the counsellors are so stressed!

 

To change initial ringtone to loud instead of soft, go to the following registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/CONTROLPANEL/SOUNDCATAGORIES/INCALL
Change INITVOL from 2 to 4 and soft reset the phone.

Alternative solution:

Go to HKCU\ControlPanel\SoundCategories\Ring\AttenuationCategory and change the value to 1 and you are all fixed. No more annoying increasing ringtone. Set it loud and have it loud, set it low and keep it low 
There are 3 values that the AttenuationCategory can be set for. 

0 is no ringtone volume
1 is flat ringtone volume
2 is increasing ringtone volume

REMEMBER TO WAIT 30SECS THEN SOFT RESET.

Note that these 2 methods doesnt work for all handset... still trying to explore the reason behind it...