If you’re bilingual, like me, and you work on your PC, Mac, or laptop with more than one language, you’re probably frustrated with having a single-language keyboard. I mean, you can easily download another language to your computer, but if you don’t know where the letters of the new language reside on your keyboard, you’re pretty much lost. This feeling…
People often ignore calls that do not display the caller’s number, usually in the hope that a message will be left to identify the caller. If this is not the case, the recipient of the call wonders who it was and why they called in the first place. The option of taking advantage of a reverse phone lookup service takes…
This article is intended to give engineers a brief overview of the SAE J1939 protocol and how J1939 networks work. For additional information, including source code, CPU benchmarks, protocol specifications, and a presentation on J1939, please visit our link at the bottom of this article. SAE J1939 is the standard communications network for sharing control and diagnostic information between electronic…
With mobile app trends dominating the market, more and more people are using their smartphones to access the Internet, thus eradicating the use of personal computers. According to a recent study, using a smartphone to make phone calls is the fifth most popular use of the device. So, if you are among those who still think that mobile phones are…
Have you heard of Facebook? By now, you are probably familiar with the popular social networking website called Facebook. According to Wikipedia, Facebook has more than 19 million registered users in 47,000 regional networks, related to work, universities or high schools. He was skeptical at first Initially, I was very reluctant to embrace the Facebook phenomenon. However, my friends kept…
We currently live in an increasingly busy and technology-dependent world, where many of us spend the day looking at screens in an enclosed space. In our major cities, people of today’s generations have become so cut off from the natural world that when they experience even simple things like tall grass or the musty smell of the forest, they react…
As a cyber user you cannot really judge from where or at what time a cyber threat may affect you or your online activities. To deal with such a situation, encryption is helpful. Working on core technology, the encryption process changes readable information (plaintext) into unreadable information (ciphertext), which cannot be easily traced. In the recent past, users have been…
This 42-inch Panasonic Plasma TV is an entry-level HDTV from Panasonic that has only the core technology and is offered without 3D and Viera Cast features. The standout features of this TV happen to be the 2,000,000:1 native contrast ratio, multiple connectivity options, and 100,000-hour panel life. Panasonic also keeps Viera Image Viewer and Viera Link technology in this plasma…
It’s always a great feeling when you’ve written an article and submitted it to an article directory. I get excited every time I see one of my articles published. Finding your name among the other authors is almost like seeing your name light up. Seeing your articles on the first page of search engines can also be very exciting because…
Before 2010, there used to be plenty of mobile apps on the iTunes store whose features were more than a little naughty. Apple, however, did not take the most exciting apps very well, and most of them were banned, much to the disappointment of many iPhone users around the world. Here’s a look at some really cool mobile apps that…