Making your Nokia E72 Wi-Fi work perfectly with your Wi-Fi Router

I bought my dream gadget last week - a Topaz Brown Nokia E72. I was thrilled to use it when unpacked, but unfortunately its Wi-Fi disappointed me a lot. The phone would smoothly connect to my Wi-Fi Router but after that browsing & downloading was almost impossible. I scanned numerous Net Forums & partly solved my problem.

The first solution was to go to the Advanced Settings of your access point & manually assign the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway & DNS Servers. But this too did not completely eradicate my problem until I found out the trick yesterday. I have a Netgear WGR614 Wi-Fi Router which has an option to "Enable WMM" which is supposedly to enhance Multimedia / Streaming experince on Wi-Fi devices. Unfortunately I suspect the implementation of WMM to be a little bit faulty either on the Router or on the Phone. So disabling it fixed my problem completely & I am just loving browsing, downloading & watching streaming links on my phone.

So here is the complete list of steps which you need to set to have a perfectly working Wi-Fi on your Nokia E72 -

1. If you have Protected Wi-Fi setup (WEP/WPA/WPA2) on your Wi-Fi Router along with MAC filtering, you then need to first determine the MAC address of your Phone. Dialing *#62209526# on your Phone's main screen gives your Phone's MAC address. Keep this noted.

2. Permit the above noted MAC address on your Wi-Fi Router for Internet access.

3. If required, assign a Static IP for your Phone on the Wi-Fi Router.

4. Diable WMM if enabled on your Wi-Fi Router

5. Now go to Menu->Control Panel->Settings->Connection->Destinations & add your Access Point under the Internet category. Open the Access Point settings & go to Adavanced Settings option. Now manually set the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway & DNS Servers on the Phone.

Voila!!! Your Phone is all set for an excellent Internet experience.

Think & Shop with Consumermate & ThinkDigit Shopping Portals

Consumer’s are in for a Double Dhamaka this monsoon with Consumermate.com & shopping.thinkdigit.com.

Consumermate.com provides expert buying advise for personal technology gadgets like Laptops, Mobiles, LCD/Plasma TVs, Digital Cameras & Camcorders. The best part about this portal is that you can shortlist your goodies by using the sliders & choosing the Price, Features, etc of your goodie. It is also unique in its segment for the quality of in-depth content it imparts through features like Expert ratings & reviews, Consumer Support, Expert Solutions, User reviews, Model comparisons & Interactive guides. Mobile Phones & Digital SLR cameras are big hits on this portal. You can check Mobile Phone Price & SLR Digital camera features & prices to get insight into the latest Mobile Phones & Digital SLR cameras. With the monsoon season arriving, Digital SLR cameras would be a hot favorite to capture your favorite personal moments or for nature photography.

You could also check out the latest Online Shopping Portal from India’s No. 1 Technology magazine – Digit. It is a full fledged online gadget store from where you can avail exciting launch offers too. The Digit Shopping Store has a larger collection of gadgets which you can explore sitting right at home. One of the distinguishing feature of this store is that it has a section on Appliances – Home, Kitchen, Personal Care, etc., which I found very interesting. The top section of this portal keeps advertising the latest schemes & discounts, so that you don’t miss out on any of those.

Blah, blah, blah….. lots more to speak on these lovely Online Shopping Portals. Its better you browse them, Shop online & get home your favorite goodie this monsoon.

Extracting & Printing data from Protected PDF's using Google Docs

How often that we receive PDF documents from people which are electronically protected in such a way that we copy text from document as well as print it. So whats the trick to get your work done?

Its simple, follow any of the 2 steps mentioned below -

1. Send the PDF as an attachment to one of your Gmail ID's. In your Gmail account select the option to open the document in Google Docs. OR
   
2. Open Google Docs & upload your PDF file.

Once the file is available in Google Docs, it gets automatically converted to HTML format. Though there would be significant loss in data formatting, you can still extract data from the file & print it as required.

Isn't this simple. Try it!!!

My Google Cheque of 100$

After 2-3 years of Blogging on Blogger, I was happy to find the cheque of 100$ couriered from Google. These earnings were a part of the AdSense program of Google.

Though the Dollar rate is hovering around INR 46, I received the amount at a conversion rate of INR 47 approximately. It's a very very exciting moment for me to receive this cheque as it is the reward of my creative work. Though its been more than a month or so that I haven't posted anything, don't get disappointed, I would be back soon with some interesting posts on Technology.

So look out for newer posts on this Blog & you too join the Blogosphere!!!