You can easily resize, create, delete, and manage partitions of your hard disk with the free Easus Partition Master Home Edition.

You are partitioning your hard disk when you are dividing it into several areas called partitions. So when you partition a 160 GB hard disk into two equal partitions or areas, you would now have 2 disk drives each with 80GB hard disk space. You can then assign two separate drive letters for each (such as C: and D: drive letters)

Normally we partition hard disks before installing an operating system such as Windows. However, when we need to partition our hard disk when an operating system is already installed, we can easily do so by using the free Easus Partition Master Home Edition.

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Skype is an application that offers great communication services, and is available for free on your Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, & Motorola mobile phone.

The introduction of Skype to the iPhone has brought the services of Skype into the Apple mobile world. Skype offers the same services to the iPhone version which is free Skype to Skype calls, free instant messaging to Skype members, and cheap rates to call landline and mobile phones. You can get it here.

The services of Skype are also available in our Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, LG, and Motorola mobile phones using Skype Lite.

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With the PhotoFast CR-5400 you can save on memory stick costs by putting 2 micro SD memory cards in just one MS Pro Duo Adaptor.

We all know that the MS Pro Duo is quite expensive compared to the other memory cards in the market. This is the reason why many are making fake memory sticks and selling them cheap. These fake memory sticks have several disadvantages that I really don’t recommend using them.

A cheap alternative has come out to the market – the PhotoFast CR-5400. It is an MS Pro Duo adaptor which has two slots for Micro SD where you can put in two memory cards at the same time.

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I’m proud to announce that TechieChips now has a new look! I’m sure you’ve noticed this but we now have a revamped logo, a new format design, plus other new features.

Aside from the noticeable new logo, the subscribe and email update buttons are now at the top so you would have an easier time to subscribe to updates on new articles from this site.

The sidebar now includes a live traffic widget which turns on for a few seconds whenever you go to this site. The most popular posts, the most recent posts, and the most active topics are now shown in tabs format.

If you look at the bottom of the posts or articles, you would notice the improved comments section, article promotion section, and related posts section. I hope this encourages you to comment, promote, and read more of the articles here.

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How do you know or determine a fake Nokia N95 mobile phone from the real one? It’s easy.

My uncle briefly went to Germany for business matters. Unfortunately his mobile phone which he brought there got broken because he dropped it 2 stories high. (He said someone bumped him while he was using it) He was then forced to buy a new phone and told one of his personnel to go to the nearest store and buy him a Nokia N95 and if possible the 8GB one.

He returned and told him that the Nokia N95 8GB was unavailable but he was able to get a black one and at a cheaper price. Lo and behold he bought this:

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No gadget even the one we like best is perfect – and the iPhone is one of them. Pleasefixtheiphone.com has given us the chance to publicly air out our wishes for the iPhone.

 
I recently stumbled upon the pleasefixtheiphone.com and I couldn’t help but vote on their online polls. The website is basically about bringing together all the complaints on the iPhone and iPhone 3G and coming out with a list of what people would like fixed on the iPhone. In shorter terms, people’s wishes for the iPhone are listed there.

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A lot of gadgets today are capable of doing more than what it is expected to do. Consider perhaps the palm PDA that is everything but the ref. Laptops do a lot of wonders too. It is enticing that the prices of these multi-tasking devices are a steal. A second hand PDA costs only around $100 in eBay. Small laptops are only around $300 in malls. There sure are down sides though with jack-of-all-trade-gadgets. Mainly, as it provides everything, losing it means losing everything too.

We want, nonetheless, devices that are capable of different functions. In a recent get together I attended in SMX, I was annoyed I had to buy $3 value FM radio. It was used to hear language translations. Not that I am against Jurassic technology, but the thing is that there are gadgets that are more than just FM radios, and those are what I would prefer more. For instance, some cellphones have radio. I have Motorola L6 and it does not have it.

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With the success of “Everything but the Ref” article (subjective though), I thought of following up with something of the same level. I have been having particular liking to the word “optimizing” and I would like to share with you my thoughts on the matter. It is a broad topic in itself, but as we are into tech stuff here, I will zero in on my other device: the tiny PC in Eee. This article is about optimization of the Asus EeePC.

We talk about optimization when we want the most out of something. For instance, optimizing my palm pda, I use it as dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “optimize”. According to the Webster program in my zire, “optimize” means “to make as perfect, effective, or functional as possible”. A device then is effective, thus optimized, if it works with its full potential, if not more. We can actually speak here of 101% as I believe I am making my eee work more than it potentially is capable.

The desktop of my eeepc currently looks like this:

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Among the hated subjects in schooling is math. It is difficult and challenging. You need to be gifted to be good at it, or understand it easily. I may perhaps agree with the former, but I beg to disagree with the latter. Recently I found a very useful tool in making math easier to understand. It is among the fruits of technology, so my apology goes to the oldies- those who weren’t fortunate enough to have fruits available for harvest then.

Now for those who hate math, I would like you to meet Geogebra (merge of geometry and algebra), an application program designed to simplify matters concerning numbers and graphs. They say the best things in life are free. Geogebra is pretty much one of the best things- it is a freeware. You may download the program from this site: http://www.geogebra.org.

The program looks like this:

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In this fast-paced world we live in today, everything comes in instant. If you are hungry there is instant noodles for you (or the fast food). If you need money you get instant cash through the atm. If you need information you get anything with a few clicks via the internet. What is even more amazing is that you can get all the “instant” help you can get through something just about the size of the palm. And hence, we call it the palm pda. I call it the “palm wonder”.

I am a secondary school math teacher and technology has been my buddy in teaching since I acquired some of it. In this article, my objective is to showcase the wonders of the palm pda; how something as small as your wallet can do so much. I use my zire 72 (palm pda) in my math classes. I seldom use it nowadays though with my acquisition of a tiny pc in asus eee. But it still is and remains to be what I fondly refer it to my students: “everything but the ref.”

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