Windows Phone 7 shortcuts

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By Damian Koh, CNET Asia (click here)

Basic controls

How to	Shortcut
Unlock phone	Slide up on the locked screen to key in passcode.
Set ringing mode to silent	Press the volume button to silence the ringer; press the power button to silence ringer and switch off screen.
Set ringing mode to vibrate	Press the volume button and tap on the Ringer icon.
Display the status bar	Tap the top edge of the screen.
Return to home screen	Press the Start button.
Open a context-specific menu	Tap and hold on the screen.
Pin a Live tile on home screen	Tap and hold on the screen to bring up "pin to start" option. This works for applications, pictures, songs, map locations, favorite Web sites, OneNote notes and contacts.
Unpin a Live tile on home screen	Tap and hold on the screen to highlight the tile then select the unpin icon on the top right corner.
Rearrange tiles on the home screen	Tap and hold on the screen to highlight the tile then move is to desired location.
Do a voice search	Press and hold the Start button. Typical commands include "call name", "call phone number", "find search term" and "openapplication".
Access advanced options	Tap on the row of three dots at the bottom of the screen.
Quickly call someone from phone history	Tap the Call icon to call the person at the current number.
Jump to a letter in contacts	In People, tap any letter in the colored box and then the desired letter in the alphabet grid.
To bring up in-call options	Tap on the Down arrow to access the speakerphone, mute, hold and add call options.

Messaging

How to	Shortcut
Access common punctuation symbols	Tap and hold the period button and slide your finger to any of the /, :, ", &, + or - punctuation.
Activate onscreen cursor	Tap and hold the screen near the text you want to change.
Delete multiple emails	Tap on the far left of an email to bring up the check boxes.
To quickly add a period	Tap Space twice.
Turn on Caps lock	Tap and hold or double-tap the Shift key. Tap once more to turn it off.
Replace word you've type	Tap on the word to bring up the suggested list.
Send a multimedia message	Tap on the Attach button to pick a photo or start the camera for a new picture.

Web browser

How to	Shortcut
Zoom in/zoom out on Web page	Pinch/reverse pinch or double-tap to zoom in on a particular section.
Bookmark a Web page	Tap on the Star icon with a + sign.
Toggle between multiple windows	Tap on the multiple page icon.
Access common domain names	Tap and hold .com button and slide your finger to any of the .org, .edu and .net selections.

Multimedia

How to	Shortcut
Zoom in/zoom out when viewing photos	Pinch/reverse pinch or double-tap.
Share photos via email/SMS/or upload to Facebook/SkyDrive	Tap and hold the picture or tap More and select the Share option.
Access music playback controls	Press the volume key to bring up a mini player control.
Activate the camera when phone is locked	Press and hold the camera shutter.

Click here for The Guardian’s compilation of the WikiLeaks U.S. Embassy cables on India. The cables also include assessments sent by U.S. embassies in South Asia.

The Guardian's compilation can be accessed at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/us-embassy-cables-the-documents

Click here to download. (.7z can be unzipped using winzip)

Scientists from Germany claim that stemcell transplant can cure AIDS. But the viability of this as a mass treatment for AIDS is still doubted. 


Timothy Brown, 42-year-old, is an American who is living in Berlin, underwent a  blood stem cell transplant and chemotherapy in 2007, in order to treat her leukemia, after this condition was developed after he was diagnosed of acquiring HIV virus. Three years later, experts were been amazed that there is no any trace that he still has both of his illness. He was believed to be totally cured on both of his AIDS virus infection and cancer.


Experts believed that brown is the first person to be cured from acquiring HIV illness, and believed that the treatment may help them to develop a new approach to fight the virus in the future

On 28 November Wikileaks began releasing the first of its 2,50,000 leaked U.S. embassy cables. Almost immediately, a hacking attack known as a “DDOS” — distributed denial of service — attack tried to knock it off the net. These are the attacks that have followed in the succeeding days.
Sunday 28 November — Tech: DDoS attack hits WikiLeaks as first set of U.S. diplomatic cables is published.
Wednesday 1 December — Tech: Tableau Software, which offers free software for data visualisation, removes the public views of graphics built using information about the diplomatic cables. It is the first company to distance itself from Wikileaks, and admits that the reason was pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman, an independent senator with ties to the Democratic party.
Politics: Lieberman, chairman of the Senate’s committee on homeland security, calls for Wikileaks to be taken offline. “I call on any other company or organization that is hosting Wikileaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them. Wikileaks’ illegal, outrageous, and reckless acts have compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world. No responsible company — whether American or foreign — should assist Wikileaks in its efforts to disseminate these stolen materials.”
Tech: Amazon removes Wikileaks’s content from its EC2 cloud service, but later insists it did so because the content could cause harm to people and did not belong to Wikileaks ? and that it was not due to political pressure or the hacker attacks against the site.
Friday 3 December — Tech: Wikileaks.org ceases to work for web users after everyDNS.com, which had provided a free routing service translating the human-readable address into a machine-readable form, ends support.
Wikileaks shifts to a backup domain registered in Switzerland but actually hosted in Sweden, at Wikileaks.ch, though the cables are hosted in part by OVH, an internet provider in the north of France.
EveryDNS claims that the DDOS attacks against Wikileaks were disrupting its service provided to thousands of other customers. The company says it is “following established policies so as not to put any one EveryDNS.net user’s interests ahead of any others. Lastly, regardless of what people say about the actions of EveryDNS.net, we know this much is true — we believe in our New Hampshire state motto, Live Free or Die.”
Politics: French industry minister Eric Besson writes to internet companies warning them there will be “consequences” for any companies or organisations helping to keep WikiLeaks online in the country.
Saturday 4 December — Money: PayPal, owned by U.S. auction site eBay, permanently restricts account used by WikiLeaks due to a “violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy”. A spokesman said the account was suspended because “[it] cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.” You can still donate at Commerzbank Kassel in Germany or Landsbanki in Iceland or by post to a post office box at the University of Melbourne or at http://wikileaks.ch/support.html
Tech: Switch, the Swiss registrar for Wikileaks.ch declines pressure from U.S. and French authorities to remove the site or block access to it.
Sunday 3 December — Tech: The Pirate Party in Sweden says that it has taken over the hosting of the Cablegate directory of Wikileaks after the server in France at OVH, which had been hosting the contents of the U.S. diplomatic cables released so far, goes offline.
Monday 6 December — Money: Credit card company Mastercard withdraws ability to make donations to Wikileaks. “MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products,” the credit card outfit says.
Tech: Wikileaks’ servers in Sweden attacked by distributed denial of service attack.
Money: Postfinance, the Swiss postal system, strips WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool, accusing him of lying and immediately shutting down one of his bank accounts. The bank says that Mr. Assange had “provided false information regarding his place of residence during the account opening process.” Mr. Assange had told Postfinance he lived in Geneva but could offer no proof that he was a Swiss resident, a requirement of opening such an account. Postfinance spokesman Alex Josty told The Associated Press the account was closed Monday afternoon and there would be “no criminal consequences” for misleading authorities. “That’s his money, he will get his money back,” Josty said. “We just close the account and that’s it.”
Tuesday 7 December — Money: Credit card company Visa withdraws ability to make donations or payments to Wikileaks. “Visa Europe has taken action to suspend Visa payment acceptance on WikiLeaks’ website pending further investigation into the nature of its business and whether it contravenes Visa operating rules,” said a spokesman.
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