SKILLZZZZ!!!!
Friday, July 29, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Blink 4g
4G is now being pushed out in order to uphold the mandate given by TATT to TSTT to stop their 3G service. This means in many more areas across both islands you will get better reception and new coverage for your BOTG (usb) and IYP devices. 1.8mbps here we come!
About me
Name: Vextrini
Age: Unknown
Height: 6' 3"
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
Blood type: Lasagne
:-D ...i should probably start cutting back on the lasagne intake
Age: Unknown
Height: 6' 3"
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Brown
Blood type: Lasagne
:-D ...i should probably start cutting back on the lasagne intake
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Apture
An interesting tool, add a search box for all content in your page without leaving the page
http://www.apture.com/
http://www.apture.com/
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Vextrini visitor map
Thursday, July 21, 2011
NLCB results (play whe, pick two, cash pot, lotto plus, classic)
Click the link below for the latest results for Play Whe, Pick 2, Cash Pot, Lotto Plus, and Classic for all draws, morning/afternoon and evening.
http://www.nlcb.co.tt
http://www.nlcb.co.tt
Friday, July 15, 2011
Country with a single coloured flag
Libya is the only country in the world that has a flag with only one colour, solid green, no pattern.
Find a listing of all the flags here http://www.photius.com/flags/alphabetic_list.html
Find a listing of all the flags here http://www.photius.com/flags/alphabetic_list.html
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Microsoft Lifecam Studio vs Logitech c910 side by side comparison
Logitech c910 vs Microsoft Lifecam Studio side by side video comparison in the video review on this link
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/microsofts-1080p-lifecam-studio-review/
Update:
I have bought the C910 and I am very pleased with the purchase. The low light sensitivity is excellent and the image and sound is sharp. I am glad I bought it.
I have also installed a Logitech C260 for my aunt and I was impressed by it. The clarity was really good and the low light sensitivity was just as good also. I recommend getting at least the C260 if you are looking at the price, definitely aim for an HD cam!
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/13/microsofts-1080p-lifecam-studio-review/
Update:
I have bought the C910 and I am very pleased with the purchase. The low light sensitivity is excellent and the image and sound is sharp. I am glad I bought it.
I have also installed a Logitech C260 for my aunt and I was impressed by it. The clarity was really good and the low light sensitivity was just as good also. I recommend getting at least the C260 if you are looking at the price, definitely aim for an HD cam!
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Traffic Management In Trinidad
Incase anybody was under a rock in the last few days, there was a massive gridlock in the north western corner of Trinidad on Sunday 3rd June.. The stream of cars started as early as 4am and did not end until around midnight Sunday. People spent up to 6 hours in traffic- on the way in, and depending on the time they chose to leave, some spent 6 hours on the way back out. The attraction to the area was for a couple of reasons . One was the inaugural Redbull Flugtag event in the Caribbean. The event was free to the public and held at Williams Bay Chaguaramas. This was scheduled to start at 10am and go until the night time with a concert happening in the evening. The second was the annual St Peter's Day event in Carenage.
There was little the police could do with the man power assigned on the day and they had no excuse to say they were caught off guard as the event was publicised months and the police themselves did try to help with a plan to stop parking from Glencoe to Pier 1. Days before the event it was well known there would be people camping on the beach to see the Redbull event. I am wondering if an extra patrol put out to safeguard the campers. The reason why the campers went up the night before was to avoid the traffic jam on the morning of the event. Days before the event on the two main facebook events created there was an unquestionable indication of the scale of the crowd that would be attending, one page with 16,000+ and one with 31,000+ people saying they were attending the event. I imagine more than a couple high ranking police officers with the power to act on the situation, or to inform the right people were aware of these numbers.
On the day of the event were the dozens of cameras throughout Port of Spain and the highways monitored to see the volume of cars passing in the early morning? If it was being monitored and an alert was raised I think by 8 or 9 am the police would have stopped any more cars from going past West Mall. Whether or not anybody at the top posts were on duty or not and whether or not they had enough manpower to do something about the situation is irrelevant. The point of having the cameras and supporting software is to have a small team on duty 24 hours monitoring it and passing on the necessary alerts. Man power was not needed to call a few media houses and put out a bulletin on the tv and radio advising of the gridlock and to turn back. Manpower was not needed to put up a warning on the electronic billboards at the Aranguez overpass advising people to turn back.
The organisers of the Flugtag event have called it a great success because they did accomplish what they set out to do, have a large turn out and a safe event. The problem though was the participants and organisers themselves were in the traffic and could not get to the venue. Boat owners made trips from the foreshore from as far out as Movie Towne POS to pick up people to go to the Flugtag. The organisers for the St. Patrick's Day event were not happy about the traffic jam either as it stopped people who really wanted to see just that. Two boys drowned due to an overturned pirogue which was over loaded. Thousands of accumulative hours were spent in the gridlock and a lot of people were frustrated and angry for something that could have been avoided. The residents as far east as St. James suffered the most because they could not get to or from their homes.
It took a few weeks but the cable barriers along the Solomon Hochoy highway has been tested a few times in recent days. One happened on a Tuesday and was repaired by that Friday, so well done to the repair crew. This was a blink of an eye relative to typical Trini timing. For the others there have been a couple posts replaced or new wires installed, but not tensioned. These barriers are designed for up to a maximum speed after which they are useless and only if they are repaired after a hit. A section of a few hundred feet is disable when one spot is cut. The grass between the barriers is cut with a tractor and the section under the barrier itself is sprayed with poison as the tractor cannot cut there. I hope the crew who is doing repairs keeps up the quick response to accidents involving the cable barriers. The guard rails are only replaced or installed perhaps once a year, almost never when an accident takes a piece out.
Each exit along all the highways should have an electronic billboard before it that is able to advise motorists of an accident and delays after that exit and to exit here if possible. The east-west corridor already has cameras but they are not used for traffic advisory to the public. Not all destinations have a second route but for people who have a choice they should be advised to use it. I have seen it myself and heard stories of people making u-turns on the new 'Police Monitoring' points that connect the north/south highway.
There is a woman I see almost everyday to and from work driving in the opposite direction. She has one hand with her phone to her ear and one hand on the steering wheel and happily chatting. When the law for not using cell phones while driving was passed she got a bluetooth headset and used it for almost 3 weeks. Now she is back to one hand on her phone to her ear, morning and evening. Maybe she lost her headset? It must be. I think I saw her just driving (not on the phone) only twice for the year so far. I see people struggling to make corners because they cannot turn the steering wheel properly with one hand. This includes drivers of SUVs and trucks, which are more dangerous and should have higher fines for using a phone while driving them.
I still see small children standing inside cars. The cars range from a 120y to Corolla, b14, Alteeza, 5 Series, to X-Trail, CRV, X5, Range Rovers. The drivers (parents??) are ofcourse wearing their seatbelts (I would not doubt only because modern cars have buzzers if they do not wear them). It is a little over a year now since we had a few accidents with children being ejected through windows and windscreens, not that it needed that long for people to forget the issue. Even while they were happening I remember seeing it and it has not let up. The safety features of cars are meant to work all assuming your seat belt is on. Even if you are the world's greatest driver the world's worst driver can hit you. If not a car, a new pothole might be around the next corner, a twitch of the wrist and out flies Billy...
The breathalyser test has allowed dozens of drunk drivers to be charged/fined/jailed, but look at the people coming out of the parking lot of any restaurant or bar... With the volume of cars on the road, their power, the high availability of alcohol, little to no enforcement or respect for laws, the lack of foresight from those in government for intelligent infrastructure or for using what is already in place, we have a grim picture for the future of our roadways.
There was little the police could do with the man power assigned on the day and they had no excuse to say they were caught off guard as the event was publicised months and the police themselves did try to help with a plan to stop parking from Glencoe to Pier 1. Days before the event it was well known there would be people camping on the beach to see the Redbull event. I am wondering if an extra patrol put out to safeguard the campers. The reason why the campers went up the night before was to avoid the traffic jam on the morning of the event. Days before the event on the two main facebook events created there was an unquestionable indication of the scale of the crowd that would be attending, one page with 16,000+ and one with 31,000+ people saying they were attending the event. I imagine more than a couple high ranking police officers with the power to act on the situation, or to inform the right people were aware of these numbers.
On the day of the event were the dozens of cameras throughout Port of Spain and the highways monitored to see the volume of cars passing in the early morning? If it was being monitored and an alert was raised I think by 8 or 9 am the police would have stopped any more cars from going past West Mall. Whether or not anybody at the top posts were on duty or not and whether or not they had enough manpower to do something about the situation is irrelevant. The point of having the cameras and supporting software is to have a small team on duty 24 hours monitoring it and passing on the necessary alerts. Man power was not needed to call a few media houses and put out a bulletin on the tv and radio advising of the gridlock and to turn back. Manpower was not needed to put up a warning on the electronic billboards at the Aranguez overpass advising people to turn back.
The organisers of the Flugtag event have called it a great success because they did accomplish what they set out to do, have a large turn out and a safe event. The problem though was the participants and organisers themselves were in the traffic and could not get to the venue. Boat owners made trips from the foreshore from as far out as Movie Towne POS to pick up people to go to the Flugtag. The organisers for the St. Patrick's Day event were not happy about the traffic jam either as it stopped people who really wanted to see just that. Two boys drowned due to an overturned pirogue which was over loaded. Thousands of accumulative hours were spent in the gridlock and a lot of people were frustrated and angry for something that could have been avoided. The residents as far east as St. James suffered the most because they could not get to or from their homes.
It took a few weeks but the cable barriers along the Solomon Hochoy highway has been tested a few times in recent days. One happened on a Tuesday and was repaired by that Friday, so well done to the repair crew. This was a blink of an eye relative to typical Trini timing. For the others there have been a couple posts replaced or new wires installed, but not tensioned. These barriers are designed for up to a maximum speed after which they are useless and only if they are repaired after a hit. A section of a few hundred feet is disable when one spot is cut. The grass between the barriers is cut with a tractor and the section under the barrier itself is sprayed with poison as the tractor cannot cut there. I hope the crew who is doing repairs keeps up the quick response to accidents involving the cable barriers. The guard rails are only replaced or installed perhaps once a year, almost never when an accident takes a piece out.
Each exit along all the highways should have an electronic billboard before it that is able to advise motorists of an accident and delays after that exit and to exit here if possible. The east-west corridor already has cameras but they are not used for traffic advisory to the public. Not all destinations have a second route but for people who have a choice they should be advised to use it. I have seen it myself and heard stories of people making u-turns on the new 'Police Monitoring' points that connect the north/south highway.
There is a woman I see almost everyday to and from work driving in the opposite direction. She has one hand with her phone to her ear and one hand on the steering wheel and happily chatting. When the law for not using cell phones while driving was passed she got a bluetooth headset and used it for almost 3 weeks. Now she is back to one hand on her phone to her ear, morning and evening. Maybe she lost her headset? It must be. I think I saw her just driving (not on the phone) only twice for the year so far. I see people struggling to make corners because they cannot turn the steering wheel properly with one hand. This includes drivers of SUVs and trucks, which are more dangerous and should have higher fines for using a phone while driving them.
I still see small children standing inside cars. The cars range from a 120y to Corolla, b14, Alteeza, 5 Series, to X-Trail, CRV, X5, Range Rovers. The drivers (parents??) are ofcourse wearing their seatbelts (I would not doubt only because modern cars have buzzers if they do not wear them). It is a little over a year now since we had a few accidents with children being ejected through windows and windscreens, not that it needed that long for people to forget the issue. Even while they were happening I remember seeing it and it has not let up. The safety features of cars are meant to work all assuming your seat belt is on. Even if you are the world's greatest driver the world's worst driver can hit you. If not a car, a new pothole might be around the next corner, a twitch of the wrist and out flies Billy...
The breathalyser test has allowed dozens of drunk drivers to be charged/fined/jailed, but look at the people coming out of the parking lot of any restaurant or bar... With the volume of cars on the road, their power, the high availability of alcohol, little to no enforcement or respect for laws, the lack of foresight from those in government for intelligent infrastructure or for using what is already in place, we have a grim picture for the future of our roadways.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
The Lyrebird imitating sounds - Adelaide Zoo
The Lyrebird can reproduce almost any sound it hears. Amazing!
Bad food
We don't have strict laws here and much less so for detection and enforcement. I am sure we have interesting stories going on here too.
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/110788/glow-in-the-dark-pork-is-a-new-low-for-chinese-food/
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/110788/glow-in-the-dark-pork-is-a-new-low-for-chinese-food/
Sunday, July 3, 2011
How to send money to another Bmobile(TSTT) phone
To send a Credit Transfer from your existing credit to another phone dial *131*868Person'sNumber*DollarAmount#
The service is free and the transfer is instant. The receiver can have any amount of credit, no minimum or maximum is required for this to work.
Note: You can use 'Credit Me' request if your phone is low and you want someone else to give you a top up/credit.
Dial *130*868Friend'sNumber*DollarAmount# , and your friend has to confirm the request.
For the above methods the sender must be on the local network but the receiver can be roaming. The receiver must have less than $2.00 TTD or else the transfer fails. When using a topup card while roaming remember to dial 800-1234 first. When transferring from prepaid to postpaid you will lose any prepaid money you have if it is not transferred out.
To put credit from a phone card(voucher) directly into someone else's phone:
Please note that the 'Bligh' feature takes $0.50 every time you send a request. For example if you have $1 credit remaining and send a Bligh request you will get the $10 top up, but if you send the request again you will receive a message saying you have not repaid the previous Bligh but you will be charged another $0.50 for the second request. The total you have to repay is now $11.
To send money from Debit and Credit Cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or PayPal - https://bmobiletopup.com/
Official site https://bmobile.co.tt/mobile/
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The service is free and the transfer is instant. The receiver can have any amount of credit, no minimum or maximum is required for this to work.
Note: You can use 'Credit Me' request if your phone is low and you want someone else to give you a top up/credit.
Dial *130*868Friend'sNumber*DollarAmount# , and your friend has to confirm the request.
For the above methods the sender must be on the local network but the receiver can be roaming. The receiver must have less than $2.00 TTD or else the transfer fails. When using a topup card while roaming remember to dial 800-1234 first. When transferring from prepaid to postpaid you will lose any prepaid money you have if it is not transferred out.
To put credit from a phone card(voucher) directly into someone else's phone:
- Type *135*Voucher PIN*Receiving mobile Phone Number#
Example: * 1 3 5 * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 * 8 6 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 # (no spaces) - Press SEND
Please note that the 'Bligh' feature takes $0.50 every time you send a request. For example if you have $1 credit remaining and send a Bligh request you will get the $10 top up, but if you send the request again you will receive a message saying you have not repaid the previous Bligh but you will be charged another $0.50 for the second request. The total you have to repay is now $11.
To send money from Debit and Credit Cards: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or PayPal - https://bmobiletopup.com/
Official site https://bmobile.co.tt/mobile/
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How to send money to another Digicel phone
OPTION 1
If you have a prepaid OR postpaid Digicel phone and want to send your own existing credit to another Digicel prepaid phone use the following code from the sender handset:
*128*ElevenDigits*Dollars#
where 'ElevenDigits' is the number you are sending TO (eg. 1868xxxyyyy) and 'Dollars' is the amount you want to send.
Wait for the confirmation message then dial *128*1# and press send to confirm or dial *128*2# and press send to cancel.
The transfer is instant and costs $0.45 per transfer. The sender must be on the local network but the receiver can be roaming. This works for Digicel phones from any country
OPTION 2
If you want to send a topup card directly to another phone, without first putting it into your account:
Step1 -
If you have a prepaid OR postpaid Digicel phone and want to send your own existing credit to another Digicel prepaid phone use the following code from the sender handset:
*128*ElevenDigits*Dollars#
where 'ElevenDigits' is the number you are sending TO (eg. 1868xxxyyyy) and 'Dollars' is the amount you want to send.
Wait for the confirmation message then dial *128*1# and press send to confirm or dial *128*2# and press send to cancel.
The transfer is instant and costs $0.45 per transfer. The sender must be on the local network but the receiver can be roaming. This works for Digicel phones from any country
OPTION 2
If you want to send a topup card directly to another phone, without first putting it into your account:
Step1 -
Dial *125#
Step 2 -
*125*ElevenDigits# press send\dial
*125*ElevenDigits# press send\dial
(eg. *125*1868xxxyyyy# ) where 'ElevenDigits' is the number you are sending TO
Step 3 -
You will get a popup saying to type
*125*VoucherNumber# press send\dial
*125*VoucherNumber# press send\dial
Voucher number is the code from the card you bought.
Step 4 -
You will see a message saying 'Voucher number stored. Recharge in progress...' then you will then get a popup and an SMS confirmation.
Be careful with this because if you send to the wrong number, you will lose your credit. The receiving number does not have to confirm to accept the credit. This is useful for sim cards in stand alone devices, like sensors or GPS trackers.
You can now check the remaining balance of your GPS by using a digicel phone and calling 100, then press 1 and listen, then enter the 7 digit phone number and listen, then press option 1 and listen. If the sim is not available in a phone then you must call in to Digicel to check the balance.
Official page here: https://support-jm.digicelgroup.com/hc/en-us/articles/115016056787-How-to-top-up-with-a-voucher-card
Note that you can also check the balance for any prepaid phone by calling digicel on 100 from a Digicel phone, then pressing 1, than typing in the number, then pressing 1 again.
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You can now check the remaining balance of your GPS by using a digicel phone and calling 100, then press 1 and listen, then enter the 7 digit phone number and listen, then press option 1 and listen. If the sim is not available in a phone then you must call in to Digicel to check the balance.
Official page here: https://support-jm.digicelgroup.com/hc/en-us/articles/115016056787-How-to-top-up-with-a-voucher-card
Note that you can also check the balance for any prepaid phone by calling digicel on 100 from a Digicel phone, then pressing 1, than typing in the number, then pressing 1 again.
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Send top up to another cell phone
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