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301 Permanet redirection using .htaccess

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

301 redirect is a permanent redirect from one URL to the other. This is the cleanest way to redirect a URL. Quick, easy, and search-engine friendly. Remember htaccess stuff is for Apache servers only. You can use following code to

Play Angry Bird with a robot soon

Posted on July 11, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Get ready to play popular game Angry Bird with a robot as researchers have paired a small humanoid robot with an android tablet that can help kids programme a robot to learn new skills. Researchers envision the robot-smart tablet system

How to turn Off the Shutdown/Restart confirmation dialog box in Ubuntu 14.04

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

By default, Ubuntu is configured to always prompt you with a confirmation dialog box with two choices when you want to shut down or restart your computer. The same thing happens when you log out of your account or lock

How Smart Are Your Tweets?

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Time magazine created a pseudo-scientific tool that measures how “smart” your tweets are. It uses a “commonly used reading comprehension survey known as SMOG, or ‘Simple Measure of Gobbledygook’ (gobbledygook being a word of three or more syllables) to assess

CentOS announces the general availability of CentOS version 7

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Red Hat derivative ‘The CentOS Project’ has announced the general availability of Linux CentOS version 7, the first release of the free distribution based on the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7. It’s also the first major

Flipkart sells 1 million Motorola phones in 5 months

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Motorola has sold a whopping million plus smartphone handsets in the five months since it started selling in India again. And all of that through the one exclusive distribution network that it chose – India’s e-commerce poster boy Flipkart. “We

Check Internet speed from the command line on Linux

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Vineesh Mohan

When you are experiencing slow Internet access, you may want to check the Internet speed of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) as part of troubleshooting. For that matter, Speedtest.net is probably the most widely used broadband speed testing website. Underneath

Microsoft to end support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Microsoft is warning customers that the end is soon coming for Windows 7 in much the same way it came for Windows XP earlier this year. Microsoft will end free mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015. That

How to Park a Domain in cPanel

Posted on July 9, 2014 by Annie

Parked domains are additional domains which you host on your account. Login to cpanel and click the Parked Domains icon Enter the domain name you want to add, in the Create a New Parked Domain section. Then click the Add

Airtel launches Wi-Fi enabled 3G dongles

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Sibi Antony

Bharti Airtel has launched its 3G Wi-Fi dongles offering download speeds of up to 21.3 mbps speed on 3G. Powered by HSPA+ technology, Airtel’s 3G Wi-Fi dongles will be available in telecom circles such as Mumbai and Andhra Pradesh in