The iPhone Home button seems to be one of the biggest problems around – as users find it increasingly hard to press with wear and tear. I had to live with mine to the point my nails started to hurt from putting too much pressure on it!
If you’re having the same issue – this blog post will change your life
Did you know there’s actually a virtual Home button built into the iPhone itself? It’s extremely easy to turn on too!
On the iPhone, go to Settings > General > Accessibility > AssistiveTouch
Turn it on and there you go – instant access to a virtual Home button that follows you wherever you go.
Home is only one of the features available – there are also gestures, lock screens and volume adjusters.
Enjoy, and Happy New Year!
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In fact, a startup company, Narrative Science is already doing that.
The company’s software takes data, like that from sports statistics, company financial reports and housing starts and sales, and turns it into articles. To generate story “angles,” explains Mr. Hammond of Narrative Science, the software learns concepts for articles like “individual effort,” “team effort,” “come from behind,” “back and forth,” “season high,” “player’s streak” and “rankings for team.” Then the software decides what element is most important for that game, and it becomes the lead of the article, he said. The data also determines vocabulary selection. A lopsided score may well be termed a “rout” rather than a “win.”
After sweeping everything before them playing some of the most breathtaking football in recent memory, the interesting question for Barcelona would be – can they get any better?
Arrigo Sacchi, the innovator who coached AC Milan to a pair of European Cups, once declared that the next step in the evolution of football would be the conversion of the entire pitch to one midfield area. The teams at the vanguard of tactical rejuvenation would be able to count on players to line up in a range of positions on the field of play but actually function as midfielders; closing space and passing accurately within their sectors, using the ball intelligently, moving well off it.
In simpler words – an entire team of midfielders who know how to play the ball – on and off it. Away with “specialist” roles such as centerbacks or even targetmen.
Guardiola is gradually ridding the team of ‘specialists’, in a positional sense, and nurturing a squad who will treat the entire pitch as a midfield area. Rapid possession win-backs, quick passes, every man, potentially, the playmaker.
A delightful team to watch. And an even more exciting European season look forward to!
Hungry? Well you might fancy a POOP BURGER, created by – who else, a Japanese researcher.
The “meat” is processed from protein and lipids extracted from the excrements – then made more savory by adding soya and steak sauce. Scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda believes that at some point in time, people will be open to the idea of having a poop sandwich.
He admits that “some people” may have a psychological aversion to eating artificial meat made of their own poop at first, but thinks many would be open to personally completing the food chain. He also notes that the burgers are extremely low in fat.
Not covered in the article, however, is feedback from Mr Ikeda on the taste of the meat.
With the increasing popularity of tablets, it’s only a matter of time before computers and notebooks in the near future support touchscreen inputs.
Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, Windows 8 certainly points in that direction, and its look and feel represent a radical departure from existing versions that it might just change the Windows landscape, not unlike what Windows 95 did to 3.1 some 20 years ago.
It is touted as a “next generation operating system” that is designed for desktops, notebooks and tablets. See video demo below; it really does look impressive:
The Japanese gained admiration from the world over for the many ways in which the country and its citizens have reacted to the recent earthquakes and nuclear crises.
While other disaster-hit areas have often seen stealing, rioting and public disorders in the midst of chaos, the Japanese have shown impeccable civility by lining up for hours for food aid with virtually no cases of looting.
As the country continues to contain the fallout from its damaged nuclear plants, a group of senior citizens have taken the honorable ethos further: by volunteering to work at the radiation-contaminated plant of one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in history.
Up a narrow flight of stairs in a modest, non-descript office building, three retirees sit in a cramped room, hunched over their computers and mobile phones. They look like the planning committee for a neighborhood senior breakfast, not the leaders of a 250-member team attempting to defuse one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in history.
But that’s exactly what 72-year-old Yasuteru Yamada hopes his seniors group, the Skilled Veterans Corps, will do: help end the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The group, consisting only of retirees age 60 and up, says it is uniquely poised to work at the radiation-contaminated plant, as the cells of an older person’s body divide more slowly than a younger individual.
The nuclear power plant owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is thankful for the offer but insists that they already have enough workers to control the crisis.
Twitter recently implemented a new feature that sends an email notification whenever a user sends you a reply, or mentions you in a tweet. Needless to say, this results in a flood of emails which has raised the irk of many users.
Thankfully, there’s a way to disable the Twitter e-mail notification feature. Here’s how:
2. At the top bar, click on “Settings”. It is available as a dropdown menu:
Twitter Settings.
3. Click on the “Notifications” tab. Simply check or uncheck the options that apply. In our case, we untick “Email me when I’m sent a reply or mentioned”. Save and you’re done!
Twitter notification options. Uncheck those that apply.
You’re reading this, so one thing’s for sure – Judgment Day on 21st May 2011 didn’t happen.
The prediction was made by one Harold Camping, who owns a network of Christian radio stations in the United States and had effectively used it to preach the end of the world. According to Camping, massive earthquakes, which dwarfs even the ones in Japan recently, will destroy every country on earth at 6pm – according to timezones, of course.
Believers had spent massive amounts of their own money on rapture-awareness campaigns, by posting warnings on billboards and buying up full-page ads in newspapers.
You haven’t thought about what you’ll tell your followers on May 22 if the Rapture doesn’t take place?
I’m not even thinking about that at all. It. Is. Going. To. Happen. Because I trust the Bible implicitly, the Bible is God’s word — it’s not from a man, it’s not from an organization of some kind where there’s plenty of room for error. It is the word of God. When God speaks that it is going to happen, the Bible is a very factual book, and God gives many examples of how he has made prophesies and it always has happened in exact accord with what God has prophesied.
The team that raided Osama’s shelter reads like an all-star cast for a Hollywood summer blockbuster. They are Seal Team 6, the elite of the elite in the US army.
Seal Team 6, a unit so secretive that the White House and the Defense Department do not directly acknowledge its existence. Its members have hunted down war criminals in Bosnia, fought in some of the bloodiest battles in Afghanistan and shot three Somali pirates dead on a bobbing lifeboat during the rescue of an American hostage in 2009.
How do you even qualify to join the membership, you ask?
All Seal members face years of brutal preparation, including a notorious six months of basic underwater demolition training in Coronado, Calif. During “hell week,” recruits get a total of four hours of sleep during five and a half days of nonstop running, swimming in the cold surf and rolling in mud. About 80 percent of the candidates do not make it; at least one has died.
For those who succeed, more training and then deployments follow. After several years on regular Seal teams, Team 6 candidates are taught to parachute from 30,000 feet with oxygen masks and gain control of a hijacked cruise liner at sea. Of those Seal members, about half make it.
According to the latest figures, 31 percent of consumers who plan to get a new smartphone indicated Android was now their preferred OS. Apple’s iOS has slipped slightly in popularity to 30 percent and RIM Blackberry is down to 11 percent. Almost 20 percent of consumers are unsure of what to choose next.
On sales figures – 50% of the correspondents revealed that they had purchased an Android phone in the last 6 months. Only 25% bought iPhones, and 15% chose a Blackberry phone.
The perspective of the sales figures seem a little bit skewed since Apple only has very few iPhone models, compared to an entire market of Android phones by various manufacturers. But in terms of operating systems, it’s pretty much clear that Android has caught up with the market in a very short timeframe. Windows Phone 7 have a lot of work to do.
After sweeping everything before them playing some of the most breathtaking football in recent memory, the interesting question for Barcelona would be – can they get any better?
