Two months after the initial announcement of shutting down Ubuntu One file syn service by Canonical, the Ubuntu One team sent out the second notice, maybe the last notice, to remind all Ubuntu One users to migrate their valuable data from Ubuntu One server to somewhere else by July 31st, 2014, which is the official last day of the Ubuntu One service. As previously announced, the file services for Ubuntu One have been discontinued. Your data […]
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HTC One released software update and this update contains some good enhancements besides bug fixes. Here are some highlights of the update: Color coded theme. Finally there is some color, not just the dull black theme everywhere. A new Extreme Power Saving mode is added. You can manually turn the mode on, or configure it to turn on when battery level reaches a certain percentage you have specified: 5%, 10%, or 20%. When phone is in […]
One of the reasons that I decided to buy Google Nexus 10 instead of Sumsang Galaxy Tab last year was that I would get the Android update much faster on Google Nexus 10 than on Sumsang Galaxy Tab whenever there is new Android updates available, and the recent Android 4.4.3 update proved once again that I made a right choice. Yesterday afternoon when I turned on my Google Nexus 10, I noticed that Android 4.4.3 […]
Within weeks of the release, HP 7 Plus tablet was already sold out. HP 7 Plus running on Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 is a low-end tablet with low-end hardware, and some people criticized that this tablet is cheap and shabby, but in my opinion, with a price tag of less than $100, this tablet is very impressive and is a perfect gift for young kids: you will not feel so heart-broken when your kid accidentally […]
The official support for Microsoft Windows XP ended one month ago, and if you are still using Windows XP, then you really should either upgrade to Windows 7 or higher, or switch to another OS. You may have been recommended to switch to Linux, but the question is “are you ready to switch to Linux”? Linux is an excellent open source operating system and can replace Windows for sure, but Linux is not for everyone to […]
Among all the existing and developing authentication methods, the username/password combination is still the most commonly used and very effective way to authenticate user. You need password to access your email, your social media account, your bank account, your credit card account, etc. Among all the passwords of yours, which password do you think is the most important? In my opinion, the most important password is the password of your primary email account (if you […]
Open source software is built on the principle that the source code of the software is available publicly and the developers involved in the software are volunteers and build the software out of love and passion. A claimed advantage of open source software is its high security because the publicly available source code enables developers to discover and fix potential security bugs quickly. But the recent Heartbleed bug showed that it is not always the […]
After using BlogEngine.NET as my blogging application, I decided to abandon it and switch back to WordPress. Here are my reasons and I hope my experience will help you.
Now you can turn your Bing search credits into your airline flyer miles or hotel loyalty points.
Google AdSense now can track the visitors beyond the earth. After you login to your AdSense account, you will be able to see how many visits to your site are from the other planets and how much revenue those visits have generated. Unfortunately, my blog site is not that popular, so it didn’t attract many extraterrestrial visits, thus didn’t generate any revenue. How about your site?