Category Archives: Homeschool

Virtual Shopping Stores In Korea Combine Drawbacks Of Online Shopping With Brick And Mortar Stores

Korean Virtual Shopping Stores, where all the Shelves are just LCD Screens. You choose your items by touching the LCD and get everything packed at the counter when you finish shopping.

Although you can easily shop from home and it is a much better option already available. These virtual shopping stores use the same thing that you use while shopping from home i.e., smartphones, cards and codes and this proves that these stores are using an idiotic concept which wastes more resources including heavy waste of electricity and creates more complex jobs and you cannot say it a Virtual Shopping Store as it combines the drawbacks of online shopping with brick and mortar stores.

The only advantage of this is that it makes the store prone to shoplifting. But, looking into consumer’s side, it has big disadvatage, since you can’t touch nor smell the real product (unless you’ll go there with all the things you needed to buy already in your mind).

This system is not made to help customers. Yes, and that was a big mistakes. They must take into consideration if it really help the consumers since we are the end users here.

__Lliorka Bomberouge

If its virtual, why would you still make people walk around to find things(besides to buy more things)?

__Corban Anderson

How do you sell food through the LCD? How do I know I won’t get anything rotten?

__John Daniel

Russia adopted a law to shut web sites…

Russia adopted a law to shut web sites if they are “harmful to children“.

I think the site does not get a trial before it is shut. Of course, they won’t shut the web sites that do harm large numbers of children, by selling them toys and candy. But they might stretch this to shut political web sites. This is not as bad as SOPA, which was rejected in the US, but it is still unacceptable. Richard Matthew Stallman

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.

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:

  1. Croatia
  2. Czech Republic
  3. Greece
  4. Ireland
  5. Italy
  6. Lesotho
  7. Macau
  8. Portugal
  9. San Marino
  10. Singapore
  11. Vatican City

Check Google Blog- More detailed maps in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia

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:

  1. Click the network menu on the top panel.
  2. Select Connection information.
  3. Note your internal IP address.

Finding your external internet IP address:

  1. Visit whatismyipaddress.com
  2. 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.

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.

_____

Linus Torvalds Got His Nexus 7

After all Linus Torvalds got his Nexus 7. Although he has absolutely nothing to report. He updated his phone immediately upon getting it.

Linus spent all initial time just updating the one-time passwords he has for all his toys and browser sync etc. However he is sure that there is some smart way to sync two different phones with google authenticator. It’s somewhere in the settings, He bets but hasn’t got yet. So the “obvious” way to update 2-step verification was to disable and re-enable it, which seems to invalidate all old authentication tokens.

He kept his experience open to world since he ordered it. That is a very good thing about him and may be to nexus 7 also. Wait for more of Linus Experiences about Nexus 7.

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.

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

Download WordPress App

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.

Download Tumblr App

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.

Download Blogger 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.

Download Writer App

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.

 Download Disqus App

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.

Download Tape-A-Talk App

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.

Download GAnalytics App

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

Download Flipboard App

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.

Download Photo Editor