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Drawing comes to skype for windows phone

Skype 2.24 released for Windows Phone (versions 8 and 8.1) which has a new drawing tool that allows users to send hand-drawn images and other personalized messages to recipients. Announced on their blog post, the drawing feature can be used


Why Facebook will never have the ‘Dislike’ button

Last month’s ‘Facebook Dislike Button’ scam caused some disturbance for those seeking to voice a wider spectrum of opinion than simply ‘like’. So this seems like a good time to look at whether an official ‘dislike’ button is ever likely


Apple releases iOS 8.1 with Apple Pay support for iPhone 6 & 6 Plus models

iOS 8.1 is now available for download in the Software Update section of native Settings app on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The most prominent feature, Apple Pay, is currently restricted to the U.S. only. Changes to Photos include


Facebook released first video ad for Messenger

Facebook just released their first video ad for Messenger. The palette of messaging apps continues to crowd up, its important for companies to convince users to stick with their own particular service. Social Media Giant did this in that line


Facebook Doubles Ad Code Bug Bounties

The holidays are coming up and that means shopping for presents. If you’re a whitehat hacker looking to earn some cash, Facebook might be able to help you out as Facebook has doubled the reward for developers who point out


‘Yovo’ protects your pics from screenshots

A new iOS photo sharing app, Yovo has introduced a new technology which successfully caters people’s privacy concerns by protecting pictures from screenshots. This is a breakthrough in privacy as other apps were vulnerable to screenshots. Popular photo sharing app


Facebook may overtake YouTube as video sharing platform of choice ?

Video streaming and sharing through Facebook are catching up fast with YouTube and the social networking site is likely to surpass YouTube in video sharing service through news feed, as per a report from researchers. An analysis has been done


Git for Beginners

GIT is a version controlled system which you can use to maintain code for your project. It helps you to save your project at different versions, so that you can retrieve a previous version of your project without any problem.


How to change default SSH port 22

You can change the default SSH port 22 of your server in order to make people difficult to access your server. Once you are logged in to the server as root we can begin editing the sshd_config file. 1. Open


How to Fix the “Network Unreachable Resolving” Error in CentOS

I got following error messages from /var/log/messages: Solution Login to SSH using as root user. Open the BIND parameters file in the text editor. Add the OPTIONS=”-4″ parameter at the end of the file. Save the file and restart BIND.