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Wednesday, 7 February 2018
Five Ways to Stay Warm in Your Icy Office
Your office is freezing and you’re certainly not imagining it—office temperatures are set, year round, at a temperature that’…
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How to Dock and Undock Toolbars In LibreOffice
Modern office software suites can be unnervingly complicated. Like most of its alternatives, the free and open-source LibreOffice sticks its often-used controls above the content area in various menus. But most of the available tools are actually hidden by default—you’ll have to manually add the ones that aren’t visible out of the box. Here’s how.
How Hadoop 3 Adds Value Over Hadoop 2
Thank you to Vinod Vavilapalli and Saumitra Buragohain for contributing to this blog. Everyone is asking – What is the difference between Hadoop 3 versus Hadoop 2. What’s all this commotion and ruckus mean? What is Hadoop 3 paving the way towards? Where to start! Hadoop 3 combines the efforts of hundreds of contributors over […]
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How to Spot (and Avoid) Fake Android Apps in the Play Store
Fake Android apps in the Play Store are a problem. People create listings designed to look exactly like popular apps, often using the same icon and name, to trick you into downloading it—then bombarding you with ads (or worse, malware).
What Are Altcoins, and Why Do They Exist?
Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency out there, and it’s still the biggest—for now, at least. But, as we’ve explained before, Bitcoin has a lot of problems as a currency. The term “altcoin” refers to any other cryptocurrency that’s not Bitcoin—in other words, they’re alternatives to Bitcoin.
Niti Aayog led panel to help India counter China in the AI race
To counter China's commitment towards artificial intelligence, the Indian government has formed a high-level panel headed by Niti Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar to lay out a roadmap for India's research and development on AI and its applications.
How to Set a Repeating Alarm on Your Amazon Echo
The Amazon Echo can be used as an alarm clock, but you may not have known that you can set up repeating alarms so that you don’t have to keep telling Alexa every night when to wake you up.
Geek Trivia: In The 1980s, It Was Possible To Download Software From Which Of These Unlikely Sources?
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Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Announcing the 2017 Global Partner Award Winners
In case you missed it, yesterday Hortonworks announced the 2017 winners of the company’s second annual Global Partner Awards. These awards are part of the Partnerworks program, a global program to support and enable partners selling, implementing, and innovating with Hortonworks to deliver integrated customer solutions for the datacenter and in the cloud. The program […]
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Four Awesome Gadgets for Busy Dog Lovers
What’s better than seeing the look on your pup’s face when you give him a treat and you’re not even there?
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How to Use, Customize, or Disable AutoComplete in LibreOffice Writer
LibreOffice Writer bundles in a free auto-complete system, similar to the one you’re probably familiar with on your smartphone’s keyboard. But LibreOffice’s is a lot more powerful, and a lot more customizable—you can more or less tell it exactly which words you want to auto-complete, and which ones you don’t.
HDF 3.1 blog series part 2: Introducing the NiFi registry
Last week, we announced the GA of HDF 3.1, and to share more details about this milestone release we started the HDF 3.1 Blog Series. In this installment of the series, we’ll talk about a net new enterprise service we added to HDF: the Nifi Registry, powered by Apache NiFi registry. With the interactive command […]
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How to Buy and Listen to Google Play’s New Audiobooks
Reading is cool, but we live in busy times and not everyone has time to sit back with a book—and even if you do, you may not have enough time to finish said book in a reasonable amount of time. That’s where audiobooks can be great. And now Google sells them in the Play Store!
7 Gadgets Under $50 to Accessorize Your Coffee Experience
Your coffee habit is a perfect place to splurge a little and accessorize.
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How to Stop Your Facebook Page’s Notifications Blowing Up Your Personal Profile
If you run a Facebook Page with more than a handful of followers, your Facebook notifications can get a little out of hand. By default, any time there’s activity on your Page—likes, comments, new followers—you’ll get a notification on your personal account. Here’s how to fix that.
What to Do When Your Hard Drive Fails
Like every piece of hardware, hard drives can fail. Mechanical hard drives in particular have moving parts that can (and eventually will) stop working. Even solid-state drives, which have no moving parts, can fail. Every drive has a limited lifespan before it kicks the bucket.
The Best Ways to Stream Your Games on Twitch, YouTube, and Elsewhere
There’s never been an easier time to get started with streaming your PC gameplay online. Whether you want to share your gameplay with some friends or start streaming on Twitch, streaming tools are now built into everything. Here’s how to find the best tool for the job.
Four Creative Ways You Can Mount Your Echo Dot
Amazon’s Echo Dot is one of the cheapest ways to get Alexa into your home, but if you have it just sitting on an end table without much fanfare, there are better, creative ways that you can mount it.
Combat Modern Cybersecurity Challenges with Big Data and Machine Learning
“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Voltaire¹ As organizations harness the power in data to grow their business through initiatives like IoT, predictive analytics, single view of customers and more, now is the time for them to further exercise their corporate responsibility. This means that organizations need to safeguard data to protect their business […]
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Geek Trivia: Which Of These Film Directors Planted 500 Acres Of Corn To Avoid Using CGI?
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Monday, 5 February 2018
How to Prevent Videos from Autoplaying in Firefox
It seems like every news site starts playing video automatically these days. These are incredibly annoying, but thankfully, it’s easy to block in Firefox.
You Can Demo These Switch Games for Free Before Purchasing
Not sure if a Nintendo Switch game you’ve been eyeing is worth the purchase price?
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How to Manually Update Your Samsung Phone with Odin
Odin, all-father, rules the realm of Asgard as the supreme deity of the Norse pantheon. Odin, a piece of Windows software released internally by Samsung, is used to flash firmware images to Android-based phones and tablets. It’s important not to get them confused.
Rocketbook Wave Review: The Most Productive Way to Literally Cook the Books
Sometimes, the best way to take notes is with good old-fashioned pen and paper.
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The Ultimate Guide to Changing Your DNS Server
There are many reasons you might want to use a third-party DNS server, from parental controls and security features to speed and reliability improvements. You can change the DNS server for your entire home network on your router, or set it individually on a PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android device, Chromebook, or many other devices.
Are Location-Tagged Photos Really a Privacy Concern?
When you take a photo with your smartphone (or a modern digital camera), it logs the photo’s GPS coordinates and embeds it in the image metadata, or EXIF. This is how your phone is able to show a map view of your photo library.
Security updates for multiple Jenkins plugins
Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities.
For an overview of these security fixes, see the security advisory.
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