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Reviewing the Cricket A600 RF Connector

Paul

359921 - Cricket A600 359921 – Cricket A600 Connector

I also got two types of Antennas for this connector, ARC-FR0803R30 and AA-012 – Dual-Band Mini Magnetic Mount Cell Phone Antennas. Thanks to Wpsantennas for the chance to review them. I’ve found them to help reception and increase the response to load website. I also gained easily 1 bar of signal but in some cases I could gain 2 bars of signal with the ARC-FR0803R30. This product is useful because it can be used as an directional antenna and if you know the Cell towers and you can aim it, that way you get better signal.

I used the AA-012 around my area while my wife was driving and it helped keep the reception steady and not make it sluggish when you move from on tower to another. All in all, I find the Antennas from Wpsantennas.com to help signals. They have a full range of Antennas to use and also they have Amplifiers that will boost your signal, in case your on the edge of Cricket Broadband. This would give you a better chance at getting on the internet. The AWS (1700-2100 MHz) amplifier available yet but they assure me that they will be the first one to have it. I can’t wait to go on a long Highway drive and check out the Aa-012 on the Highway. In case you would like to know where the RF connector is [intlink id=”3337″ type=”post”]just check out this post[/intlink]

Zango Shuts it doors for Good!

Paul

In a post I did a few weeks ago about [intlink id=”3303″ type=”post”]Zango and Mythbuster[/intlink],  I talked about how the site wanted you to install Zango but Now it looks like they aren’t doing that anymore.

[ad#cricket-right-ez]Although this isn’t unexpected by me because of the need to have a way to check the affiliates sites and installing some where even exploiting a vulnerability in Windows to install the software.   Some would call this a Notorious Adware Vending and I tend to agree in a quote from Computerworld:

Zango’s Smith saw it differently. “The bigger problem was that the vast majority of our installs received inadequate consent: the user technically had an opportunity to decline the install, but wasn’t presented with enough information to make an informed choice,” he wrote.

[Via Computer World]

In a blog Entry from Ken Smith the former Co-founder of Zango talks a lot about what was the prime reasons for the downfall of the Zango Name.  The Demise of Zango isn’t one that we will ever truly know the reason for the downfall but I am for one glad this Adware site is down for good and according Graham Cluely blog post so his.  Graham raises a glass and I say “Here here!!”

A look behind SmartEcard.COM

Paul

I saw that Graham Cluely Blog talked about the front page and How this ws used on twitter but Most people who did the IQ test still need to fix your Cell Phone account:

smartecardtest

If people didn’t scroll down in the other windows you would of never know there was something you need to watch for.  After you do the 5 questions , you will see this:

smartecard3

then you enter that information and hit continue and it comes up with this:

smartecard2

As you can see the people who put in there Cellular Numbers will want to send an text Message with STOP to short code 86455.  It looks like this is a Subscription service where you pay a monthly for something like this and that you don’t need it.   I would guess somehow someone is getting money for each and every person who signs up.  This is most likely a Commission based and the person tried to get people to sign up through the website by saying you have a Ecard or some other thing.

What would you do? No Electricy, No Phone, No Internet?

Paul

World Net Daily published an Article that really made me think.

What would you do with your website if we had no Electricity?  That is a valid question?  Would it pay for itself or would you loost your domain and all because you couldn’t pay the website bill because you had no way to pay?  Just like Discovery, Mastercard, and Visa credit cards would become useless because there would be no way to use them in today’s technology.

[ad#cricket-right-ez]If we had a Electromagnet Pulse explode over your country, there would be no clean water, no gas, no electricity, and you’d have to walk everywhere.   Plus this would cause industry to screech to a halt.   There would be no more food coming in for stores or packages being delivered.

It represents what MacGyver the show once talked about crippling the entire city.  The episode was Called “Easy Target” and was produced in 1989 quite a few years ago but still shows just how people have been talking about this for quite some time.

This all stems for the Doomsday Scenario, in which we all would have to struggle to live for several months or over a year.  Do you think you could survive that?  I ask these questions to make people think and come up with your own answers.  I’m going to buy the book and read it just because it is though provoking!!