Dec 05 2011

USB OTG: Sharing the Charge!

Category: Mobile Phones,Nokiaksg91 @ 9:56 pm

When Nokia N8 was announced, people came up with different usage about USB OTG and showing different capabilities of this feature.  USB OTG can let you attach an external HDD, attach a USB mouse or keyboard, some attached barcode reader, etc. Nokia N8 and similar S^3 phones comes with the USB Charging. You may charge a phone using its microUSB port. I wonder, why nobody thought (or at least put attention to ) charging one phone with another phone using USB OTG and microUSB charging. I had this in mind since after I bought N8 but having no other phone to test it, just  left the thought. After having the Nokia E7 from @Nokia_Connects for trial, I finally got a chance to try it and test if this really works?

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Oct 09 2011

Creating Bootable Flashdrive of Windows 7 Manually

Category: Tips & Tricksksg91 @ 2:42 pm

When Windows 8 Developer Preview is already out, this post may look very outdated but every week many friends comes to me asking for a DVD of Windows 7. I don’t have DVD with me but I do have source of Windows 7 so I make bootable flashdrive for them. But this makes me tired, every time making them one bootable flashdrive, so I thought to blog about this.

There is already a tool available in Microsoft store for this. It requires you to select ISO file of Windows 7 and you are done. Well, I don’t have ISO file of Windows 7 but all files in a folder and so I use some simple steps to make the flash drive bootable.  Continue reading “Creating Bootable Flashdrive of Windows 7 Manually”

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