Thursday, January 1, 2015

How to Avoid Automatically Adding Shortcuts to the Home Screen for Installed Apps in Android


When you install an app in the Google Play Store, a shortcut is automatically added to the Home screen. This can be handy, making it easier to find the app once it’s installed. However, you may not want new shortcuts added to your Home screen.


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Rumor Roundup: What to expect when you're expecting 2015

Apple in Talks with Major Banks to Launch Apple Pay in UK During First Half of 2015 (MacRumors) Source: "People familiar with the matter" Chance it's true: 100 percent It makes perfect sense that the UK will be the next nation to see Apple Pay ava...

How to Change File Attributes with Attrib from the Windows Command Prompt


Windows offers a wide variety of tools that you can access using your command prompt window including the “attrib” tool which is designed to help you search for files by location and name then view and modify their file attributes.


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How to Automatically Reboot Your Router the Geeky Way


Verizon FIOS is great — the speeds are incredible, and the price is… well, kinda expensive. The real problem is that the terrible router they give you needs to be rebooted all the time, which is a royal pain considering it’s down in the basement. Plus I don’t want to get off the couch.


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Github among 32 other websites get banned in India

Internet has grown beyond measure and control. The growth has been a pain in the ‘you know where’ for the government agencies; who are trying day and night to have a watch over it and more often than not, control it.


The point that makes me ponder is; when they aren’t able to control the internet, they simply ban it! China had a recent shutdown of gmail after a long string of controversies between Google and the govt of China.


You would also remember when Google search angrily exited China over censorship issues, mostly because the government wasn’t able to control what its citizen can see on the web. And in 2012 when the Indian government brought Facebook and Google to litigation on charges that they didn’t censor objectionable content from their sites.


The point I want to make is; it is not even surprising anymore when the government tries to ban a particular site on the web. But the latest decision by the government of India, surprises me.


The Indian government has asked internet service providers and mobile operators to block access to 32 sites in the name of its censorship laws. The list contains 32 websites and includes some very familiar names such as GitHub, Archive.org, Imgur, Vimeo, Daily Motion and Pastebin.


The grounds on which the websites are banned is:




I understand that there are security concerns about the internet, its reach and its impact but sites like GitHub have over 8 million registered users worldwide; it may be that the contents of a single page from the site can be from ISIS and against India.


I believe that can be a possibility and it can be rectified. What’s not justified is the blanket ban on more than 30 websites on that pretext. It raises serious questions on the freedom of speech and expression that the world’s largest democracy boasts of on all global platforms.


The world moves by actions and not words and with actions like these the government of India is not painting a very rosy picture of companies and tech giants eyeing the market for investment.


P.S: As of latest reports, the ban has started being lifted and the websites adhering by the government standards would be live soon.


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