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What happens when you drop a cinder block on an iPad

Sure, it’s got a sleek design and a user-friendly operating system, but just how durable is the Apple iPad? We put the touchscreen gadget through three challenges to find out how much it can really take.


“World’s scariest selfie” on You Tube

Three students in Hong Kong have posted a stomach-churning selfie taken from the very top of a skyscraper. Billed as the “World’s scariest selfie” on You Tube, the video shows Daniel Lau and two friends atop a towering skyscraper eating


How to disable SELinux

We can use the setenforce command to disable SELinux The ‘setenforce’ command may be used to switch between Enforcing and Permissive modes To make it permanant, edit /etc/selinux/config file, run: Update the configuration file as follows: To quickly check SELinux


LG 32LN5650 LED LCD TV

Screen Size: 32″ Inch Resolution: 1366 x 768 Pixels Dynamic MCI (Hz): 100 (50Hz) Digital TV Reception: Terrestrial DVB-T Analog TV Reception: Yes(PAL?, PAL/SECAM BG/DK, NTSC M) BackLight Module: LED Resolution Upscaler (Plus/Basic): Yes (Basic) AV Mode (Picture & Sound):


Install uGet Download Manager in Ubuntu

uGet is an Open Source Download manager for Linux and Windows too. They are mainly focusing on Linux. But it can work on Windows and Android (beta) too. uGet is written in C programing language. Source code is available from


Tips to Write Blog Posts

Understand your audience You start to write, have a clear understanding of your audience. Consider what you know about your buyer personas and their interests while you’re coming up with a topic for the blog post.The headline, the setup, the


Google considering YouTube, Gmail accounts for kids

Google Inc is considering allowing online accounts for children under the age of 13 and give their parents control over how the service is used, according to media reports. Google has been working on a version of YouTube, its video-sharing


Rails error runtimes.rb autodetect Could not find a JavaScript runtime

When i run a test Ruby On Rails application on a Ubuntu Docker Image, i get following error This is fixed by installing Node.js On Ubuntu, run


Mail Server Problem – IP Blacklisting

IP blacklisting is mainly due to overall volume of mail coming from that server, or messages seem to have characteristics of spam in them. Another common cause is email forwarders. If you have [email protected] forwarding to [email protected], if [email protected] is


WeTransfer now allows Android users to send files up to 10GB

Earlier this year, WeTransfer launched its app for iOS devices, thereby allowing people to send files of up to 10GB for free without registration. Now, the app is available for Android devices too. While WeTransfer follows in the footsteps of