Sunday, 28 July 2013

Sounds weird but its True. Rat's phobia unveiled!!!



I happen to watch Ratatouille movie yesterday again. It was so entertaining to watch a rat doing stuffs with culinary aspirations. I started analysing this if a rat could ever start cooking or is there any phobias for rats in general to keep away from things used for cooking.

My mom is a good gardener. She used to make use of worn out pails for planting small herbs. One day she planted few sticks of Marsh Mint with roots after using the leaves for making an yummy chutney. It started growing healthily.

There is a frequent visitor to our house at mid night - a fat rat. We did all kind of stuffs to keep to trap it to keep it away from our house. But nothing worked. But to a surprise after few days, we found that we were not troubled by this rat for the past few days. We then realised that it is due to this pudina in the entrance of our house kept this rat away from entering in our house.

I wish if I had realised this before I could have saved a lot of household things from rats.

Now I found a perfect solution:
Plant Marsh mints(pudina) in your garden and keep rats away from your house!!!

Cheers!

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Huawei E5151 Mifi Review



Hi Guys,



I have been waiting for this device to hit the Indian markets so long. 

This is a small wifi modem, a self-powered dongle and a portable hotspot which can support wired
connections too. This device has a 1500mah battery in it for tethering the internet connection through
wifi to about 10 devices. It has a sim card slot in it which can support 3G sim card. An Ethernet port for
getting the internet connection from your wied ISPs and you can power up your wifi-only devices with
internet.  A micro USB slot for using it as a dongle to your computers which it also uses for charging its 
1500mah battery.


Battery Life:


I checked this device with a vodafone 3G sim card and used my tablet for about 9 hours. 
My friends were also using it simultaneously for few minutes. Its really amazing to see that it can even 
serve more hours if it is connected to only one wifi device. Despite the company claimed only 5 hours 
of backup power.


Wifi Reachability:


When I got this delivered to my house, I wanted to immediately check if its woring properly. 
So I activated gprs plan from my mobile and inserted the sim to it. When I powered on, it did not even
take 10 seconds to connect to my tablet. I kept this device to my neighbouring apartment and checked
its connectivity and found it to be perfectly connected to my device without any loss in the internet 
connection. The distance with which I tried will be around 10-15 meters.


Indicators:


1. There is a sim card single indicator:
Red if the sim card is not inserted.
Orange if the signal is poor.
Green if the signal strength is good.



2. Wifi Indicator:

To check if any wifi devices are connected.



3. Sms indicator:

Indicates that this device can support sending or receiving SMS. 
So you can activate any plans through sms without even removing it to place it in a mobile to do so.



4. Ethernet Indicator:

To see if the ethernet cable is connected to the device.



5. Battery Indicator:

Green if the battery is charged.
Green-Blinking if the device is charging its battery.
Red if the battery is out of charge.



The full specifications about this device can be found here.




I tried this in linux and found that it has an autorun.exe file. 

If you are able to run this file using wine in linux, then you can successfully connect this device to 
your system.

Recently I checked my 3G speed with this device using my vodafone 3g sim card. The result can be seen as follows;




Please post your doubts/comments. I can helpful to you :)