I love James Bond spy stories. I have read all of Ian Flemings James Bond books and watched all the movies ever released. In my opinion, the reading the books provide a better experience than watching the movies.

The eternally sanguine face of 007 even in the face of death is a quality that has glamorized the world of spies and captured peoples imagination.

And speaking of James Bond, the beautiful ladies who play the role of either heroines or vamps in the movies cannot be ignored. Ever wonder what changes age has wrought on these beautiful ladies who acted in James Bond movies ? Look no further.

The following is the illustration of all the ladies that have acted in James Bond movies and how they look now.

Ladies in James Bond movies (Click on the image for an enlarged view)

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I love to take notes. A good note taking strategy will allow you to learn your subject better, in a smaller time frame. Good notes also help you to brush up your subject at a later date. There are lots of note taking tools available – free or otherwise.

MyNotex is a free note taking software that runs in Linux. It is available in the repositories of most Linux distributions.

In Ubuntu, you can install MyNotex from the Ubuntu Software Center, or from the command line as follows :

$ sudo apt-get install mynotex

It is  available in Fedora repositories too.

MyNotex Interface

MyNotex note taking software

The first time you start using MyNotex note taking software, you will have to create a new file, give it a unique name and save it to a location on your hard disk. MyNotex stores all the data in files of extension .mnt.

From then on, you can start entering all your data in the file.

MyNotex interface is simple to understand and require no learning curve. Each MyNotex file (lets call it a notebook) can contain any number of subjects. And each subject can have unlimited notes.

Notes within subjects have the following features – an appropriate title, a date of creation/modification, any number of tags (separated by commas), and text. Optionally, you can also attach files of any type to each notes.

The main area of the notes interface is where you enter your text. It supports limited rich text functions. You can change the color, font, and alignment of the text.

Unfortunately, MyNotex doesn’t yet support embedding images in notes. If you want to insert an image in your notes, you have to do so by attaching the image to the note.

More over, it is not possible to embed notes within notes or subjects within another subject.

MyNotex allows you to encrypt individual notes in your notebook file. This is a useful feature if, for instance, you have a note that contain sensitive information that you want to keep from prying eyes. Encrypted notes in the notebook are shown in red.

At a later stage if you wish to convert the encrypted note to a normal one, that is possible too with the click of a button.

Main Features of MyNotex

• Create multiple subjects in a single note file.
• Each subject can have unlimited notes.
• Rich text editing for text entered in notes.
• Tag support – Add multiple tags for each note, separated by commas.
• Attach any number of files to individual notes.
• Encrypt individual notes.
• Insert another MyNotex file as a new note in your MyNotex notebook.
• Moving a note with possible related attachments between subjects.
• Search within subjects and notes.
• Import notes from Tomboy, Gnote, OpenOffice.org, and LibreOffice.

As far as taking notes go, MyNotex looks really promising as a note taking tool. It sports a few features that many note taking applications still do not have such as encrypting individual notes. All in all, MyNotex is one fine, Free, note taking software in Linux.

MyNotex homepage – sites.google.com/site/mynotex/home.

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This is a review of a low cost, really nice, Acer LCD Monitor – the P166HQL which has a 15″ screen.

A few days back, my old LCD monitor started malfunctioning. So I decided to buy a new monitor for my PC. The one I eventually bought was Acer P166HQL LCD monitor.

Read on for the details.

Acer LCD Monitor - P166HQL

The monitor is sleek, good looking and light weight (1.52 Kg). Acer P166HQL is not a 17″ LCD monitor but a 15″ one.

This is what you will find inside the box.

The exact specifications of the LCD monitor are as follows.

P166HQL Specifications

Driving system – TFT Color LCD
Diagonal screen size – 15.6″ (40 cm)
Pixel pitch – 0.252 mm(Which gives it a PPI (Pixels Per Inch) of about 100.45).
Dot clock – 160 MHz
Max screen resolution – 1366 x 768 @ 60Hz
Display colors – 0.26M colors
Brightness – 200cd/m²
Contrast – 100000000:1 Max (ACM)
H-Frequency – 42-52KHz
V-Frequency – 52-68Hz
Maximum screen size – 344 mm (Horizontal) and 193 mm (Vertical)
Power consumption – 10W (ON mode), 0.46W (Sleep mode), and 0.35W (OFF/Standby mode).
No in-built speaker.

Acer LCD monitor details

The Acer P166HQL has 5 buttons placed underneath it; which can be used to adjust the brightness, contrast, and other monitor settings. Unfortunately, the buttons are not labeled.

Acer LCD Monitor - P166HQL underside.

The power button is conveniently located at the right side and has blue and amber back lighting.

The power button sports nice blue/amber back-lighting.

The monitor has a contrast ratio of 100000000:1 Max. Not surprisingly, the LCD monitor in its default setting was too bright for me. So the first thing I did was to reduce the brightness and contrast values to more acceptable levels.

LinuxAndFriends.com website as viewed in the monitor.

In the beginning, it took me some time to get comfortable staring at a shorter, rectangular screen because, my old LCD monitor (Benq FP567s), which is also a 15″ monitor, has a square shape and a much bigger screen height.

However, after a few days, I stopped noticing the difference. More over, because of the higher screen resolution (1366 x 768),the space on my Desktop virtually doubled.

Acer LCD Monitor Box mistakenly shows it as an LED monitor.

The Acer LCD monitor (P166HQL) is all plastic but the build quality is good. However, it has got a glossy finish and is a natural finger print attractor.

Linux users should feel happy as the Acer P166HQL is automatically detected in Linux. Ubuntu Linux detected it simply as an Acer Monitor and displayed the desktop at the correct default resolution of 1366 x 768. Fedora Linux however went one step further and detected the make (P166HQL) of the monitor as well. So this makes the Acer P166HQL LCD monitor Linux certified.

I paid for the Acer P166HQL LCD monitor a mere USD $78 -(Indian) Rs 3950. To my knowledge, LCD monitors don’t come any cheaper than this. In India, Acer offers a 3 year onsite warranty for this monitor.

Pros of the Acer P166HQL

• One of the lowest priced monitor.
• Decent build quality.
• Consumes less power – A mere 10W when running.
• Good brightness levels.
• True plug-and-play in Linux and Windows.
• Good resolution at 1366 x 768.
• Comes with 3 years onsite warranty.

Cons of the Acer P166HQL

• Glossy finish. Attracts dust and finger prints.
• May cause eye fatigue due to glare when used near an open window during day time.
• Many games do not occupy the whole screen because of the non-standard dimensions of the monitor.
• Brightness levels were a bit too high for my tastes.
• The buttons for adjusting the monitor settings are not labeled. So I had to figure out their functions by trial and error.
• The box incorrectly labels it as LED. But it is actually an LCD monitor.

Bottom Line

If you are looking for a budget friendly 15″ LCD monitor for your computing needs, then the Acer P166HQL might suit you well. Priced at under $80, this is one cheap bargain as far as LCD monitors go.

However, the glossy screen of the LCD monitor reflects light like anything. If you intend to use it at a place where lots of natural light streams in, then you might want to buy an anti-glare screen as well, to avoid eye fatigue. Or better still, buy another monitor – preferably one that is less glossy and with a square dimension screen.

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