Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Please do this NOW - How to remove your Google Web History

On March 1 Google's new unified privacy policy is to be in-force. This means ALL your Google Web History will be shared among all of the Google products you use.

Be kind to yourself and do this to avoid embarrassment later -

HIT the URL - https://www.google.com/history/

If all is good, ‘No Thanks’ should be already selected.

ELSE refer below image (select the Remove all Web History link) -

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Further details are here - http://howto.cnet.com/how-to-remove-your-google-web-history/8301-11310_39-57382925-285.html

The privacy policy details are here - Google's new privacy policy

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Brainwashing – This is how our society is controlled by the medium.

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Although something which seems out of a sci-fi novel, Brainwashing is very real and very common.

As per Wikipedia, “Mind control or brainwashing / coercive persuasion / mind abuse / thought control etc. refers to a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated"

This post at life-hacker tells us about Brainwashing Techniques You Encounter Every Day (and How to Avoid Them)

Now you know why people you loathe, generally always succeed (in politics or whatever else).

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Want to manage/preview fonts? Get Nexus Font Manager!

The Nexus Font Manager should be your pick if you want to  -

  • Manage Fonts from an easy to use UI;
  • Search / delete duplicate fonts;
  • Access and display all fonts installed on your computer (default FONTS folder);
  • Also need to check out fonts from that other non-standard folder;
  • Easy interface for font installation and uninstall, copy / move etc.;
  • View the font charmaps to see all the font characters at one place;
  • and much more!

Nexus UI

The software can print the multiple fonts on your system easily and has both zip and portable versions for download.

But the best part is that although being an awesome application, it is FREE!

- Download link here

- Latest portable version here

Friday, February 10, 2012

And now, ALPHABET ANIMALS!

Alphabetimals ! Now this is how learning gets interesting! Alphabetimals is something the inquisitive young minds will love!

It matches each alphabet with the animal name concept, which while not new, is presented in a cute and easily identifiable way! It really should help dads and mums with pre-schoolers on board!

The main USP is flip book approach with animal sounds as well as pronunciation of animal names.

Although I am yet to try this with my own 2 year old, let’s hope you there (and him here!) have as much fun on this as I did!

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The Facebook page of the site offers posters and Flash cards which you can print for further offline fun!

Bonus Animal Alphabet video!

Now go ahead and have some quality time with your little brats!

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Mystery Cometh… - Russian Scientists Drilling into 20 million year old Vostok, the Antarctic Lake, Fall Silent….

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A team of Russian researchers in Antarctica from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) had been drilling for weeks to reach the 20 million years old subglacial water body.

Quoting io9.com:
“Vostok is thought to harbor conditions similar to those of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the discovery of life in the lake's inky depths would significantly strengthen the prospect of discovering life on either of these icy bodies.”

AND Now they cannot be contacted. They have been under radio silence since 5 days (and counting).

The scientists were on the verge of boring the two mile ice surface and breaking in the lake which is as older as the Dinosaurs.

It may seem as a plot of a 2012 sci-fi thriller…. but you never know…. 20 million years is a really long time.

I mean, what course evolution or natural selection took, considering the ecology of something as frigid as this, is anyone's guess.

Countless movies have been made, mystery science fiction has been written, but still we are constantly inquisitive and human curiosity always needs proof.

But now what actually has happened is but a speculation limited only by our deepest fears….

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