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Ritot projects time and notifications onto your hand

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Smartwatches seem to be the latest gadget manufactures are pushing and are currently falling over each other to get their devices into the marketplace. However a new unique and very innovative projection watch as launched over on the Indiegogo website

Photoshop custom shape free download

Posted on July 26, 2014 by ramesh xavier

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Apple’s iPhone 6 could have biggest initial production

Posted on July 25, 2014 by ramesh xavier

Apple is ordering a combined 70 to 80 million units of two big-screen versions of its next iPhone, its largest initial production to date, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The company is anticipating large demand for

How to enable mysqli on WHM

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Sibi Antony

The MySQLi Extension is a relational database driver used in the PHP programming language to provide an interface with MySQL databases. To install mysqli using EachApache: 1. Login to WHM as a ‘root’ user. 2. Go to Software > EasyApache

Mobile phone charges in 30 seconds using new technology

Posted on July 25, 2014 by ramesh xavier

An Israeli startup company has developed a new product that can charge your smartphone from empty to full in 30 seconds. Dr Doron Myersdorf, from StoreDot, demonstrated the product, which uses nano-technology. But technology journalist Rupert Goodwins questioned how much

Facebook faces action over ’emotion contagion’ study

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Mini Soji

US privacy group Electronic Privacy Information Centre (EPIC) has filed a formal complaint with the Federate Trade Commission (FTC) over Facebook’s use of user data in its “emotion contagion” study. “The company purposefully messed with people’s minds. Facebook conducted the

Some Photoshop shortcuts to speed up your workflow

Posted on July 25, 2014 by ramesh xavier

Fill a layer – Alt+Delete (foreground) or Ctrl+Delete(background) This command will fill an empty later with the current foreground or background colour. Merge visible Layers – Ctrl+Shift+E This command will allow you merge all your existing layers in order to

Use Your Smartphone as a Breathalyzer With Breathometer

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Sibi Antony

A simply device with the potential to save lives. The choice is yours, but make the right choices with Breathometer, your personal alcohol breathalyzer. Breathometer is a smart investment, along with your smartphone, you can monitor your alcohol consumption, get

‘Google Street View of Galaxies’ Developed by Astronomers

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Australian astronomers have developed a home-grown instrument based on bundles of optical fibres that gives the first ‘Google Street View‘ of the cosmos. Developed by researchers at University of Sydney and Australian Astronomical Observatory, the optical-fibre instrument called SAMI can

How to manage a wired network on Ubuntu Desktop

Posted on July 25, 2014 by sherly

Ubuntu Desktop, a separate GUI program called NetworkManager is responsible for configuring network settings (e.g., wired network, wireless network, proxy settings). However, on a fresh installation of Ubuntu Desktop, your wired network is NOT managed by NetworkManager. So if you