Thursday, September 23, 2010

The greatest ever spy car..!!!!

James Bond's iconic Aston Martin DB5

The Aston Martin DB5 driven by actor Sean Connery as James Bond (007) in "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" on display at Sotheby's in New York.

JB 007 on display before its October 27 sale at the Automobiles of London auction at Battersea Evolution, London.

The car is expected to sell for USD 5 million.

Don Rose, a car specialist with RM Auctions, attaches the "tire splitter" to the Aston Martin DB5 driven by actor Sean Connery as James Bond in the Goldfinger and Thunderball.

Controls in the center console for various devices attached to the Aston Martin DB5 driven by Sean Connery as James Bond.

A machine gun barrel is hidden behind a front light on the Aston Martin DB5 driven by actor Sean Connery as James Bond in the Goldfinger and Thunderball movies on display at Sotheby's in New York.

Revolving number plates on the Aston Martin DB5 from "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball".

Bond's eye-view: All the little bells and whistles that turned the DB5 into JB 007.

Another view of the centre console with various knobs and switches for attack and defense options. And, of course, the navigation system that we, today, call GPS...

The revolving number plates on one of the original Bond DB5s.

Rear bumber extentions and the machine gun fitted behind a tail light.

The intricate circuitry behind the gadgets that helped Bond get away on so many occasions.

James Bond's car phone,attached to the driver side door of the
Aston Martin DB5.

The 'Star' and the 'Stunt' cars make a rare appearance together.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

How to Stop Unwanted Calls and SMS?

Here’s a guide to stopping those blatant ad messages which you may receive. The service is maintained by the National Do Not Call Registry, a body under TRAI – the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

First, have a look at whether your number has indeed been registered. Click here. http://ndncregistry.gov.in/ndncregistry/search.misc
If not, you can register either by calling or sending SMS with keywords START DND to 1909. Telephone calls/SMS to this number are toll-free across all networks.
Once registered, it may take up to 45 days to get it activated.

If even after this, you are getting unsolicited commercial messages, you need to complain with your service provider within 15 days of receiving such a message/call giving details about called number and time. Insist on a reference number for the registration of the complaint. Your service provider is required to take action and inform you back within 28 days if the message has originated from his own network, 35 days if from others’ network. All telecom operators are quite strict about this now, and there has been little complaints on this one.

If your SMS has only a name starting with a 2-digit upper case character instead of a number, look at the table below to find its details.

So, if the message is from “AL-anyname”, it means the message has been sent through Airtel, Kerala.

First Letter		Second Letter
A	Bharti Airtel	A	Andhra Pradesh
B	BSNL	B	Bihar
C	Datacom	D	Delhi
D	Aircel	E	UP-East
E	Reliance Telecom	G	Gujarat
H	HFCL	H	Haryana
I	Idea	I	Himachal Pradesh
L	BPL	J	Jammu & Kashmir
M	MTNL	K	Kolkata
P	Spice	L	Kerala
R	Reliance Comm.	M	Mumbai
S	STel	N	North East
T	Tata	O	Orissa
U	Unitech	P	Punjab
V	Vodafone	R	Rajasthan
W	Swan	S	Assam
Y	Shyam	T	TamilNadu
		V	West Bengal
		W	UP-West
		X	Karnataka
		Y	Madhya Pradesh
		Z	Maharashtra