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Challenges of Azure Cloud Security and How to Meet Them
Microsoft Azure is amongst the top three cloud service providers. With cloud adoption come the risks of cyber threats, data breaches, and other security risks. No cloud platform is 100% safe, and there are many security issues with every platform. In this article, you will learn about the challenges of Azure cloud security and how…
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Facebook Gave Away Large Amounts of User Data to Device Manufacturers
Most recently, The New York Times published a report accusing Facebook of giving away too much user information to various device manufacturers such as BlackBerry, Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung. According to the report, over a decade ago the social media giant started collaborating with device manufacturers. It helped them create Facebook applications for their devices…
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Sharing a Photo Of a Cat Via PM Gets Your Facebook Account Disabled
Update: 03/10/16 Its been over a day since the bug has been fixed. All the affected accounts have been reinstated. Yes! You read the title right. Sharing the photo of a cat in a suit (via a private message) is all it takes to get locked out of your Facebook account. I did not buy…
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Use Resq to get notified when friends and family are reachable
Due to the rains and the flooding in Chennai, Anoram has built an notifier bot to notify if a family or friend is reachable by phone or by Whatsapp. This is a FREE service which can be setup by visiting help.anoram.com There are two ways to get notified when friends and family are reachable. Anoram…
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How to disable ads on uTorrent
Let’s admit it, one of the first softwares we install on a PC is a torrent client. It is either uTorrent or bitTorrent. We always look for the easiest method to obtain files. uTorrent has for long had options hidden deep into the settings menu that lets the end user get rid of ads without…
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How to use Whatsapp Web
Following the ban wave of Whatsapp Plus users Whatapp CEO Jan Koum posted a status update announcing Whatsapp for Web. The update is not yet live on the Play Store but you can grab the beta from here and install to start using Whatsapp for Web. http://www.whatsapp.com/android/beta/WhatsApp.apk Once you have installed the beta Whatsapp you will need…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 3: Remove Facebook Ticker
This is the third post on our ongoing series on Facebook Addiction Control – How to Remove Facebook Ticker. Have a look at the first and second post. The reason behind the massive success of Facebook that it has mastered the art of productivity-killing by being the best procrastination tool out there. Apart from News Feed…
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Facebook Messenger is now available for iPad
Facebook’s dedicated chat app, Facebook Messenger, is finally available for the iPad. The news comes three years after Facebook acquired group messaging app Beluga and later built that technology into Messenger. The iPad app looks almost exactly like the iPhone app, except that it’s formatted to fit the screen. The list of all your conversations with different friends…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 2: Clean Up The Facebook News Feed
This is second post in our on-going series of Facebook Addiction Control, see the first post here. In our last post we covered about the technique to completely get rid of your Facebook account instantly. We received a lot of messages and emails from the readers saying that they do are troubled by Facebook but…
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Facebook Addiction Control Part 1: How To delete Facebook account Instantly
So, you are fed up with Facebook? It is consuming a lot of your time and having a serious effect on your productivity? Do you want to delete your Facebook account right at this moment? Well, that’s not so easy, Facebook has made a lot of effort to make you keep using your account. 1.…
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Twitter Adds Support for Animated GIFs in Tweets
GIFs are being shared like never before, with websites like 9Gag and Imgur are filled with user created GIF’s. For a long time, the only major social network that support GIF’s was Google+, now Twitter has decided to support them. Twitter took to it’s official support account to announce its move to add support to…
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Facebook Officially Launches Slingshot
Facebook has officially announced Slingshot, one week after accidentally releasing an early version on Apple’s iTunes App Store. Slingshot is a messaging app that lets you send your friends an ephemeral photo or video. The app packs in all the usual standard messaging features, like options to overlay text or doodles. But there’s a catch — if you want to…
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Read faster than you have ever read before
Spritz has recently announced their new breakthrough technology which would allow people all over the world to read faster on all of their devices. The technology shows you one word at a time on your screen aligned to the center. As each and every word is occurring the same position, all you have to do…
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Vebbler: The Indian Social Network which aims to change the way we connect with people online
When I came to know about Vebbler, I was pretty excited for two reasons: One, it is an Indian Startup and Two, it is a social network which actually had a lot of people using though it is relatively new. Most of them on Facebook have over a thousand friends and might have meaningful conversations…
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Everything you need to know about the Facebook’s Whatsapp Acquisition
Facebook has a huge wallet and Zuckerberg likes spending money from it. The biggest news from today is that Facebook bought WhatsApp. The news has blown up, almost everyone knows about this now. It is not because of the acquisition, but the price. A lot of eyebrows were raised back when Facebook bought Instagram for…