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FACEBOOK HAS ADDED SOMETHING NEW!!!! “NEWSFEED SETTING”

2015-07-12T07:00:00.004-07:00

Facebook is of recent unrolling new settings that will give users more control over what they see on the news feed.
CNET reporter Bridger Carey said “Facebook algorithm is a very strange thing and sometimes, it can be frustrating. “the way it works is you could be friends with 900 people, and Facebook has a computer that is really assuming what you think you may like based on what you’ve liked before you are really going to see about 200 of your closest friends”.

That is to say, previously, a Facebook algorithm was primarily responsible for whatever you see on the top of your screen.
Facebook, in other to increase its appeal is putting more controls into your hands.
The newsfeed settings are now available under settings on Facebook I phone app and will be available on in matter of weeks.

AFRICAN BILL GATE (Bill Gates of our time)

2015-07-12T06:54:00.003-07:00

Two young talents from Nigeria going by the name Anesi (16 years old) and his brother Osine (14 year old).
This firm called ‘Bludoors’ was started by the duo when they were 9 and 7 years old respectively (http://www.bludoors.com/). They were inspired to use the name “door” since Bill Gates used the name Windows. They started as early as there 9 and 7 year old respectively to learn computer coding.
The duo taught themselves coding on platforms available on the internet such as code academy.
After discovering there expertise, they decided to sit down and come up with their own lite browser with imaginations drawn from the mighty Google chrome.
Now there browser which they called “Crocodile browser lite” is available for download on Google play store/

GERMAN MISSLE SYSTEM HAS BEEN HACKED

2015-07-11T23:33:00.000-07:00

CREDIT: The Hacker News

This is something everyone should be afraid of; imagine that hackers possess total control of missiles!!

Gosh!! It will be an awful experience.

A German patriot anti-aircraft stationed on Turkish system borders was as reported, hacked, after which an unknown “foreign source” took over the controls who successfully explained unexplained commands.

Attacks on the patriot missile system where detected when “unexplained” orders were given to the weapons via two supposed weak spots.

Behorden Spiegi; German trade publication reported that the American made missile system was accessed through either a real time information exchange that provides communication between arms and commands or a computer chip that directs weapons guidance.

It was speculated by the above publications, that the hackers may have stolen sensitive information and accessed missile control that could result to a missile firing to an unintended target.
however, theses said allegations was denied by a spokesman for the general Ministry of defense on grounds that it lacks evidence and calling it ‘extremely unlikely’

US BACKDOORED WEAPONS TO STEAL NATIONS SECRET: a former M15 agent Annie Machon, told the RT that the highly secure US weapons could contain backdoors. In agreement with that, Edward Snowden leaks confirmed that the US government conducts nation states Cyber-espionage to steal sensitive nation’s secrets.

German in June, spent USD4.5 billion just to replace its patriot missiles with medium Extended Air Defense System used by the US an Italy.

HOW TO UNSEND SENT MAILS ON GMAIL

2015-06-27T05:05:00.001-07:00

Mistakenly sending a mail to someone you never intend to can be annoying sometimes. You may have hit the reply all button or even worst forgot to attach a file.

Good news to all Gmail users, Google of recent, released a new feature that allows you to amend sent mails by delaying the mail for about 30 sec after you hit the send button.

This gives you 30 whole sec. to un-send sent mails: this feature has been in the public beta for six good years and now goggle has finally introduced this “undo send” feature to the web version of Google Gmail services.

This feature for now is not available for the Gmail mobile app. For smartphone devices. There is still hope for smartphones users as the company is making plans to roll out this feature foe the mobile app soon

Once enabled, this feature gives a whole 30 sec to you to unsend a mail just in case you have changed you mind.

How it works
Go to the gear icon in the top right corner of your Gmail and click on settings on from the menu.

There in general settings scroll down to undo send which by default is disabled.

Click enable and select a cancellation period up to 30 sec.

Click on save changes there at the bottom.

Once this is done, a yellow dialogue will appear once you send a mail “ you message has been sent”. This provides you with an undo option once you click on it.

HOW TO RUN MORE THAN 200 TABS ON YOUR BROWSER AT A TIME

2015-06-17T11:53:00.002-07:00

You must have been having the same problem i had encountered sometimes back, when i need to run Facebook, twitter, blogs, Wikipedia, etc. all in on one browser which will incidentally force close as a result of much load on it.

But now i can keep 150+ browser tabs open at the same time without any complaint from by browser.

You will obviously agree with me that in as much as surfing the net is something everyone wants to do, the browsers themselves are one of the memory eaters, the more tabs you keep open, the slower your browser goes; feeding on your system memory and if the number of open tabs are not reduced, the browser may force close.

Now let’s get to the point

There is something that I am going to introduce to you that will make you fall in love with your chrome browser again.

There is this chrome extension called The Great Suspender.

This lightweight extension will let you manage as much tabs as you can handle by giving you the ability to put your tabs to sleep or suspend them anywhere from 20sec to 3 whole days!

With this, you can now happily run your Facebook, Gmail, yahoo mail and several others you may want to keep open with no fear of your system slowing down or your browser force closing/crash.

This extension something allows you to specifically allow you to suspend specific tabs that aren’t necessarily in use at that point in time. Not only will it suspend it, it lets you call it up any time by just clicking anywhere on the page when required. The Great Suspender also lets you keep suspended tabs available on your tab bar.

You can as well add any site to your whitelist; with will prevent them from suspension no matter what.

I know that there are a lot of extension out there, but this one in particular has been proved by me #winks# to be working fine

HOW TO REMOVE MYSTART EXTENSION FROM BROWSER

2015-06-17T11:49:00.001-07:00

This Incredibar rubbish can be very annoying; it is normally a browser hijack that can tamper with your normal way of surfing the net. Don’t think that the Mystart Incredibar is one that you can easily fire from your system by clicking the uninstall button, normally it is gotten from ads placed on sites asking you to download thing like system cleaner (your pc is getting low boost it now) if you have fallen into this trap ones, you should have this annoying browser rubbish by now; it makes you agree to certain conditions, gain certain access to your system and before you know it, you are in for the most annoying hijack of the century.

Let’s get into business:

Step 1:

Open your control panel

    Click the start button and select control panel from the menu, click on “uninstall a program”, for windows xp users, select add/remove programs. #make sure your browser is not open

·        For windows 8, press the windows key + X and select programs and features.

Step 2:

Look for incredibar and web assistant:

Most times, it may be installed as two separate programs. In any case make sure you remove all programmes related to it.

·        It can be called incredibar(games, music or essentials)

Step 3:

Uninstall the programs: select the program(s) and select uninstall/remove. This won’t still do, you will have to remove it from your browser

Step 4:

Remove the possible ads installed in the same spot; you will see things like (pricicheck, adblocker, saleeplus etc.) whatever the name is, they display ads on your browser automatically when you access the net.

Step 5:

Now it’s time to remove the rubbish from your browser:

We will start with INTERNET EXPLORER

Removing the search engine: click the gear icon in the top-right, select manage add-ons from the menu. In the window you see select search providers from the left frame. Remove MyStart search and Incredibar from the list. #make sure you remove both entries.

Get your home page back: click the gear icon and select internet options. In the general tabs, delete the MyStart from the home page, add a new one you want and save.

Delete your browser data: in the general tab of internet options, click the delete… button under browsing history to delete your cookies. (This will delete cookies in your computer that refers to MyStart)

FIREFOX:

1. Removing the toolbar: go to your firefox menu and select add-ons. Click on extensions, click on the remove button next to the entry to remove the MyStart toolbar.

2. Removing the search engine referring to MyStart: click the search engine icon next to the search fields in the Firefox window. Click on manage search engines from the menu. Go to the MyStart search and then the remove button.

3. Conquer your homepage back: click the firefox menu and select options. Select the general tabs; there you can change the adres in the homepage to whatever you wish.

4. Reset your preferences (this is very important) enter this address into the address bar; “about:config” and press enter. Confirm that you want to continue. Search for “mystart” in the search field that appears. This will show you a list of preferences that were manned by mystart. Right click on each and select reset.

5. Delete your browser data: click the firefox menu, go to your histories and select “clear recent history”. A window will appear for you to input the time range (set this to everything) and then make sure that the cookie, cache, and browsing history boxes are checked. Then you proceed to the clear now button and click.

REMOVING THE MYSTART SETTINGS FROM CHROME.

This will be the last browser we will discuss.

1.   Removing the incredibar extension: Go to the customize button in the top-right corner of the window (it looks like triple horizontal bars). Select tools, then extensions, look for the incredibar entry and click the trash can icon next to it to delete it.

2. Remove the search engine referring to mystart: click the customize button again and click settings, then you click on ‘manage search engines’. Select any other search engine and click on make default. Once mystart is no onger the default engine, select it and click the X button to remove it.

3. Delete you browser data: click the customize button and select history. At the top of the list click the “clear browsing data” button. Check to ensure that “delete cookies”, “clear browsing history”, and “empty the cache” are checked. Set the range to “the beginning of time”. Click the lear button to the bottom to delete all.