Linux 3.5 has been released on 21 Jul 2012.
This release includes support for metadata checksums in ext4, userspace probes for performance profiling with tools like Systemtap or perf, a sandboxing mechanism that allows to filters syscalls, a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), support for Android-style opportunistic suspend, btrfs I/O failure statistics, and SCSI over Firewire and USB. Many small features and new drivers and fixes are also available.
Read More: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5
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Facebook Is Less Trusted With Personal Data Than Others
Fewer Internet users trust Facebook with personal data than other Internet companies.
According to Harris Interactive Inc. Survey:-
- 1/3rd Internet users says that they are comfortable with Facebook’s policy of handling personal information
- 41% respondents trust Google to show ads based on past Web searches.
- 66% percent, are comfortable with Amazon using data on past purchases to recommend products.
Linus Torvalds Likes Nexus 7, Says “It Is Very Positive So Far.”
French Supreme Court May Order Google To Censor Few Terms
Google suffered setback in its case against SNEP the music industry group. French Supreme Court ruled that Google may be asked for censoring search terms like ‘Torrent’, ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’ from its Instant and Auto-complete services. Court argued that Google indirectly facilitates copyright infringement by not filtering these terms.
This new attempt from another court wouldn’t get rid of pirate sites. Pirate sites would just change their addresses in order to continue sharing activities.
Google opens Web Lab at London’s Science Museum…
Google opens Web Lab at London’s Science Museum, because ‘the internet is incredible’: http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/18/google-web-lab-uk/
Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps setting the web free…
Introducing Ubuntu Web Apps: setting the web free of the browser: http://blog.canonical.com/2012/07/19/introducing-ubuntu-web-apps-setting-the-web-free-of-the-browser/
YouTube Launched New Feature That Allows You To Blur Faces In Your Videos
YouTube has launched a new feature. Using this feature you can easily blur faces in your videos. It easily recognizes all faces in a video and you can blur them all in a single button click.
For using this feature: Select Video >> Enchantments >> Additional Features
Google Chrome Partnered With Tate Modern For Creating A Collaborative Art Project “This Exquisite Forest”
Google Chrome partnered with Tate Modern for creating an online collaborative art project “This Exquisite Forest” It uses modern web technologies like HTML5 Canvas and WebAudio API. You can create short animations, connect it with different others and this way you develop a collection of animated stories. Tate Modern Gallery would be displaying some of these selected stories through out the year.
Your WordPress P2 Blog Can Now Be A Full-Blown Issue Tracker
You can now have your WordPress blog as a full-blown issue tracker with Recently updated Resolved/Unresolved Posts Plugin. Test it live here in this post. Check Resolved/Unresolved button at the top right corner of this post.
- Green posts are resolved issues.
- Red posts are unresolved issues.
You also get a sidebar widget for quick overview of resolved and unresolved posts.
Source: http://kovshenin.com/2012/wordpress-as-an-issue-tracker/
Today Google Is Launching Updates To Google Maps
Google is launching updates to Google Maps with more detailed information on parks, coastlines, water bodied etc. These maps would be having accurate names, known locations with clearly labelled ferry routes. Updates to +Google Maps would be available for:
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Lesotho
- Macau
- Portugal
- San Marino
- Singapore
- Vatican City
Check Google Blog- More detailed maps in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia
Google Chrome Packaged Apps
Chrome packaged apps are safe and delivers an experience as capable as native app. They are more powerful and better than other web apps. Chrome packed apps are written in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.
[iframe][/iframe]Video Showing Quick Overview of Chrome Packed Apps
Ubuntu – Find Your IP Address
Sometimes you need IP address to solve some problems with your internet connection. May be you don’t know that you have two IP addresses:
- First IP address is of computer on the internal network. and
- Second IP address is of your computer on Internet.
Finding your internal IP address:
- Click the network menu on the top panel.
- Select Connection information.
- Note your internal IP address.
Finding your external internet IP address:
- Visit whatismyipaddress.com
- Note your external IP address
Browsing Files On Server Or Network Share In Ubuntu
For browsing files on a server you need to connect to that particular server/network share. After connecting to server/network share present on your local machine or in any external device you can easily download-upload and share different files with different users on your local network.
Browsing files over the network:
- Open File Manager
- Click Network in the side pane
- Now File manager will find all machines on your local area network which are having ability to serve files.
If you are connecting to an Internet server or in-case the machine you are looking for is not visible then you can manually connect to a server. Follow these steps:
- Open File Manager
- click File
- Connect to Server
- Enter address of the server
- select server type
- enter other information if required
- Click Connect
Details on server types are listed here:
Servers on internet usually use domain name
Computers on your local area network use the machine’s numeric IP address.
If any othe machine is running Ubuntu use machine’s internal IP address. Otherwise, check the help on that computer.
This will show you the files on the server. Now you are free to browse those files and folders easily.
Customize Your P2 Theme To Display Teasers On Homepage
For displaying post content WordPress uses: <?php the_content(); ?>
For displaying post excerpt WordPress uses: <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
Or use Advanced Excerpt plugin for WordPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/
Dell Has Announced Its Re-entry In Linux Based Laptops
Today Dell announced its re-entry in Linux based laptops. These laptops would be coming pre-loaded with Ubuntu Linux and the good thing is that there is no dual boot of Windows which increases the speed of your machine and you work in the best operating system. If you require dual booting then you would have to buy Windows version laptop and install Linux manually. The configuration of XPS13 Laptop has 4GB of RAM with Intel Core i7 processor and 256GB solid state hard drive.
Google+ Increased At The Rate Of 43.1% Reaches To 31.9 Million Unique Visitors
The June social network traffic numbers from Compete.Com confirms that Google+ got huge traffic increase in June. It got 31.9 million visitors in June whereas 22.3 million visitors in May, Increased at the rate of 43.1%. Google+ gained 14.2 million visitors this year. According to Experian Hitwise Google+ had 0.85% of the visits to US social networks in June, compared to 0.63% in May.
Since the year started, Google+ has gained 14,2 million visitors, from 17,6 million visitors in December to 31,9 million visitors in June. For the first time, according to Compete statistics, Google+ is now larger than Linkedin, who had 24,6 million visitors in June. Linkedin had a 6,5% decrease in visitors in June compared to May.
_____Morten Myrstad
Bypassing Social Reader Apps In Facebook
Many Facebook stories that appear on your newsfeed require Social Reader App to open access so you can read them. The main problem with the Social Reader App is that it broadcasts your profile activity to newsfeed of other sites hence each of your friend know what you are reading on Internet. If you don’t want your friends to know what you are reading then you should bypass the Social Reader App:
- In most cases Facebook offers cancel button whenever you click any link that require Social Reader App. Clicking cancel button redirects you to the article without publishing it on other networks.
- Some Social Reader Apps like Yahoo when posts links on newsfeed doesn’t give cancel button and immediately posts the link on your Timeline. In such condition move to: Privacy Settings >> Ads, Apps and Websites >> Edit >> Apps you use >> Edit Settings >> Select your App >> Click Edit And Now select “Only Mean” on Posts on your behalf . This manages who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook Timeline.
- Now the easiest way to read any article that requires Social Reader without letting anybody know is to copy the heading of that article and paste it on Google search and read it. Actually all those articles that require Social Reader on Facebook are open on the web so you can read them from somewhere else.
- If you need to block Social Reader App permanently then open App Menu present on your Facebook’s Homepage, look for Social Reader and click [x] to remove it.
How To Reset Your WordPress Site Password From PhpMyAdmin?
Managed WordPress and cPanel hosting options at SANGKRIT.net allow you to easily update your admin password. Another way of doing the same thing is phpMyAdmin which can also be used for resetting the password for any other user account.
Continue reading How To Reset Your WordPress Site Password From PhpMyAdmin?
10 Android Apps That Bloggers Should Have
1. WordPress
WordPress App for Android is available at Google Play Store. Using this App bloggers can maintain their blogs from their Android Device. This App is useful for both self-hosted blogs and blogs hosted on wordpress.com
2. Tumblr
If you maintain a Tumblr micro-blog then you should try this App. Using this app you can post content, read and write messages, schedule post activity, manage multiple Tumblr blogs and view contacts of Tumblr blogs in your address book etc.
3. Google Drive
It helps you to store all kinds of documents, audio, video, images, pdf etc in cloud and also sync all documents across multiple devices connected to your Google account.
Download Google Drive App for Android
4. Blogger
Try this App if you blog on Blogger. Functionality of this app is still very limited as compared to the WordPress App.
5. Writer
Writer is a simple text processor that provides you distraction-free writing environment on your smartphone which is very useful while writing long posts.
6. Disqus
Disqus commenting system for WordPress is getting very popular these days because its integrated community features brings people back and keep them engaged. Using this App you can access all commenting features of you blog from your smartphone.
7. Tape A Talk
Tape A Talk is a voice recorder App. Bloggers use this App for recording interviews etc. This App can upload audio-recording to many online services and blogs.
8. GAnalytics
GAnalytics is mobile version of Google’s famous service ‘Google Analytics’. This App gives a good account of your blog traffic, usage statistics and bounce rates etc.
9. Flipboard
Flipboard allows you to open Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams. Using this App you can browse your blog’s Facebook Page, social news, comments etc
10. Photo Editor
Using this App you can crop, edit, resize, add effects, texts and drawings to your photos before posting them to your blog.
Cloud Based Scripting Language For Light-weight Application Development In Google Apps Platform
Google Apps Script is cloud based scripting language for light-weight application development in Google Apps platform. It is based on JavaScript, gets executed in the Google Cloud and provides easy ways to automate tasks across Google products including third party services.
Google App Script is based on JavaScript like syntax. It uses Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for creating and displaying elements of user interface. GWT is easy to learn, and completely abstracts the complexity of AJAX/HTML from the developer. It is a Cloud based debugger for debugging App Scripts in the browser. It can be used for creating tools to perform simple system administration tasks etc.
Limitations: Currently it doesn’t allow connection to internal (behind-the-firewall) corporate databases, which is key to building business apps. Lacks other connectivity like LDAP connectivity and limits the level to which GAS can be used in the enterprise.
Linus Torvalds Bought Nexus 7 So Why Not You ?
If you are confused between Nexus 7 & New Samsung Galaxy Note Sporting 5.5 Inch Screen or any other smartphone and unable to take decision then you must know:
- Linus Torvalds pre-ordered Nexus 7.
- Linus Torvalds is checking delivery date of Nexus 7 again and again.
Now you would be saying that you don’t take your decisions by watching what others are doing. What do you think? You are wiser than Linus Torvalds? You think Linus Torvalds comes in ‘others’ category.
It is good if you don’t watch others and make your decisions but truly this is what you really do but you don’t know. You see adds, you watch movies and you buy stuff.
Many of you purchased Sony Xperia after watching Spiderman but are you really satisfied with Sony Xperia? If you say yes then you are very lucky because others who purchased it realized that the most important feature (seeing what they purchased Sony Xperia) actually don’t works. Hence it is much-much better to watch Linus Torvalds and buy Nexus 7 instead of watching Spiderman and buying Sony Xperia.
Everybody experiences some hardware-software conflict in such smartphones because developers are different. If you are willing to experience this conflict everyday then don’t buy Nexus 7.